In the second half of this year, Zhang Yi, who was in the limelight, rushed to the market with three movies.
These three movies are "Priceless", "The Tip of the Knife" and "The Three Teams", and they are all spy and suspenseful themes, and the team he works with is very powerful.
Of course, among them, "The Tip of the Knife" has attracted more attention.
Not for anything else, because "The Tip of the Knife" is a spy war movie jointly created by the famous spy war **, and even the writer Mai Jia, who is also known as the precedent of spy warfare**, and Gao Qunshu, the co-director.
From the fifties and sixties of the last century, Feng Zhe, Wang Xingang, Wang Xiaotang, Sun Daolin, etc. starred in "Yangcheng Dark Whistle", "Wildfire Spring Breeze Fighting Ancient City" and "The Eternal Wave" have been well received by the audience.
It's just that there was no box office in that era, but since the release of "Wildfire Spring Breeze Fighting Ancient City", it has become a consensus for men to watch Wang Xingang and women to watch Wang Xiaotang.
At the end of the seventies of the last century, the box office of the movie "Gunshots of the Secret Bureau" shot by Changchun Film Studio reached 100 million, and the starring Chen Shaoze and Xiang Mei quickly became popular all over the country.
Especially Xiang Mei, who participated in the two films "Women's Basketball No. 5" and "Red Women's Army" directed by Xie Jin in the fifties and sixties of the last century, but it was tepid, and the female star who was nearly forty years old was even more radiant.
Moreover, she starred in a spy war theme "Blue File", although the box office is not high, but it is also very popular.
By the late nineties of the last century, spy war movies were in decline.
At the beginning of the new century, a movie called "Secret Calculation" made spy war film and television dramas popular, and also made actor Liu Yunlong and writer Mai Jia popular.
The two are known as the fathers of spy warfare.
Mai's ** "Secret Calculation" was filmed into a TV series in 2007 and won the Mao Dun Literature Award in 2008.
However, we can't help but believe that Mai Jia** has become an inexhaustible source of spy war-themed film and television dramas, and many film and television dramas adapted from Mai Jia** have emerged in an endless stream, and even Hong Kong and Taiwan directors Mak Zhaohui and Zhuang ** have bought the copyright to shoot the movie "Listener to the Wind".
And there are several versions of his ** "The Wind", among them, the film "The Wind" co-directed by directors Gao Qunshu and Chen Guofu won the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, starring Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, Zhang Hanyu also won many awards, and even Huang Xiaoming, who played the villain, also took off his greasy hat to show his excellent acting skills.
The partners of the Mai family and Gao Qunshu, plus Zhang Yi, can be described as the trump card of this movie.
Especially Zhang Yi, who has become well-known since "Soldier Assault", plus "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", "Chicken Feathers Fly to the Sky", "Red Sea Operation", "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", "Man Jianghong", "On the Cliff", "Man Jianghong", "Ten Thousand Miles Home", "Hurricane", and the popularity continues**.
Therefore, in the eyes of the audience, it is simply unreasonable for this movie not to harvest billions.
It's just that this movie has been released for more than ten days, not to mention more than a billion yuan, it is very difficult to even break 100 million, and the box office is still hovering at 60 million.
Everyone is confused, if it is forgivable that the box office of "I Love Dunhuang" or even "I am a Mountain" is difficult to break 100 million, but the theme of spy war is difficult to break 100 million, which makes people unable to figure it out.
The problem is **?
I checked on the Internet, and it turned out that "The Tip of the Knife" was once filmed into a TV series, in 2017, and the starring role was still Zhang Yi, this is fried rice.
Looking at the Douban review again, there is a comment that is very simple, but it reveals the crux of this movie.
"I wanted to watch a spy war Infernal Affairs, but it turned out to be a spy family. ”
One more comment"There is no comparison with "The Wind", it is too old, too fragmented, too loose, and too messy......None of the characters can stand, and a bunch of subtitles with names at the beginning are deadly."
Lao Gao is really planning to go back to the mental hospital, don't you look chaotic in this film?
The characters are called a fast, fortunately, they are all actors with names and surnames, otherwise they don't know who is with whom and who is who!The bloody violence in the first half, the various emotions in the middle of the eyes, and the godlike shootout at the end, where is this!
I won't continue to excerpt comments, but it can be seen that Zhang Yi's acting skills are not problematic, it's just that he is indeed a tool person.
The story of the movie "The Tip of the Knife" can be summed up like this.
In 1940, many forces were entrenched in Nanjing, **Jin Shenshui (played by Zhang Yi) circled between the Japanese military, Wang Puppet** and the military commander all day long, as if walking on the tip of a knife, he and another **Lin Yingying worked together to complete their arduous task.
At the beginning of the movie, Zhang Yi used narration to explain the story.
A Kuomintang cryptographic expert named Bai Dayi was arrested by Japanese spies, and the military commander ordered the ** organization in Nanjing to assassinate him, in the process of assassination, the matter was revealed, one of the ** committed suicide, before committing suicide, shouted: "Bai Dayi, you listen, if you dare to betray the party-state and be a lackey of the Japanese, your family will be executed by our brothers." ”
The words of the ** shocked the male protagonist, he felt that the words of the ** were for them, and he knew the vicious methods of Dai Li, the military commander of the army.
And the military commander ** organization lurking in Wang Puppet** decided to get rid of Bai Dayi, who may be a traitor, to continue the operation, and when Bai Dayi and the actor Jin Shenshui played by Zhang Yi were connected, and the two sides exchanged passwords, Bai Dayi was killed by a sniper hiding in the shadows.
The question is, why did Jin Shenshui, who was obviously lurking in Wang's puppet regime, connect with Bai Dayi and take the code book, wouldn't that expose Jin Shenshui?
Now that Bai Dayi has been arrested, how can his codebook be on his body?For a cryptographer, shouldn't passwords be in his head?Even if you have a codebook, can't you hide it?
Also, a cryptographic expert, isn't the secret service of the military command well protected?Let him run around and let the Japanese catch him, even if the Japanese don't arrest him, aren't they afraid of being protected by the underground organization of the Communist Party?
He was caught, could he have been able to defect?If he is suspected of treachery, and he still asks Jin Shenshui to contact him and take his code book, isn't that handing him over to the Japanese?
Moreover, if the Japanese search for a code book on him, then what is the password called, clear code.
As a result, when the two handed over the codebook, a bullet was fired from a corner, which just hit Bai Dayi's head, and Bai Dayi fell to the ground on the spot.
So, the Japanese suspected that there were internal ghosts in Wang Pseudo**, so they began to screen the internal ghosts, the traitor played by Sha Yi, the deputy captain Ma Ren played by Li Shiwu, the director of the Anti-Special Division, and the deputy director of the Confidential Division played by Jin Shijia, Qin Shishi, found a Kuomintang deserter and tortured him, wanting to turn the beating into a trick and end the case as a substitute for the dead ghost.
So, Lu Jingyu, the director of the Security Bureau played by Huang Zhizhong, the deputy director played by Gao Jie, who is also the director of the police station, Yu Zhiren, and the secretary of the bureau played by Lang Yueting, Lin Yingying, and the Japanese liaison officer Takeda came to the interrogation room to observe the interrogation, of course, the main thing is to expose the inner ghost.
As a result, the spy war drama became an office workplace drama, all the staff began to intrigue, a burst of bloody torture, coupled with all kinds of fanning the flames, Li Shiwu played by Sha Yi received a box lunch, and the deserter was also cannon fodder, it was actually the Japanese officer Takeda who helped ** enforce battlefield discipline.
It's just to highlight the brutality of the Japanese, otherwise, Takeda Fan doesn't want to let a **deserter get a box lunch?,After all,It's good for them to betray **,Strange.,Shouldn't he be a typical example of shaking the anti-Japanese forces?
Jin Shenshui and Lin Yingying, who are covered by the protagonist's aura, successfully passed the level.
Jin Shenshui's code name is Yuhuatai, and Lin Yingying's code name is Mochou Lake, they are all under the orders of Ge Lao, who is codenamed Jiming Temple played by Cheng Taishen, and they are all ** of the Kuomintang army living in Nanjing.
They also have Ge Ling, the daughter of Ge Lao, codenamed Confucius Temple, Chen Yao, codenamed Niushou Mountain, and Liu Xiaoying, codenamed Xuanwumen.
In the first execution of the assassination of Bai Dayi, there were two ** sacrifices, they were called Zhonghua Gate and Qinhuai River.
In this organization, except for Jin Shenshui played by Zhang Yi and Lin Yingying played by Lang Yueting, who held important positions in Wang Pseudo**, the others were all covered by social occupations in Nanjing.
And Lu Jingyu, the director of the Security Bureau played by Huang Zhizhong, has another identity, he is a high-level figure who directly obeys the orders of the military unification, and has the right to dispose of those who are not firm in the military unification and those who have red tendencies.
The actor Jin Shenshui saved the day, and he still got the trust of Wang Pseudo**, including the Japanese.
Moreover, according to the arrangement of the military command, he was in love with Shizuko, the widow of a Japanese soldier, which made the military commander ** Chen Yao very dissatisfied, he knew that he might be sacrificed, and even let Jin Shenshui marry Liu Xiaoying.
However, Jin Shenshui certainly disagrees.
In fact, he fell in love with a Japanese woman, but he had great pain in his heart. This was not only ethnic hatred, but also he watched the Japanese invaders kill his wife and children.
It turned out that Jin Shenshui originally had a happy family, his wife and children were complete, and his family was well-off, but one day, he took his wife and children to Xuanwu Lake to play, and the Japanese devils shot his wife and children.
And Lin Yingying's original name was crazy, oh no, Feng Diandian (Is this the name of a lady from a big family?Mai family, you should learn from Aunt Qiong Yao and Uncle Jin Yong Xi, name the girl), her family was also wiped out in Nanjing, leaving her a lonely girl, and the second brother she knew depended on each other, and the two organized a group of hot-blooded men and daughters to set up anti-Japanese forces to fight against the Japanese invaders.
With her new identity as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy businessman in Nanyang, she asked her second brother to move her into Wang Pseudo ** through a relationship, and had contacts with the military command secret service, and also became the secretary of Director Lu Jingyu.
In Wang Pseudo**, she is like a fish in water, because she is young and beautiful, although it has aroused the jealousy of many people, but she has a strong protective umbrella, so no one helps her.
It's just that her crisis still quietly came to her.
To be continued).