At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 360 "Cruel Street"

After Yinhe Impression was established, Johnnie To had his own team, coupled with his creative power, he gradually gained the air of a great director.

In fact, it is true. He won the Best Director of the Golden Image Award three times and the Best Director of the Golden Horse Award twice...

No matter how you count, he must be among the top ten directors in Hong Kong!
Shen Xudong actually broke up with him?

But facing the media, Shen Xudong did not explain, but said: "It's not a discord, it's just a cooperation that didn't work out."

"...In this world, some people are worthy of association, and some people can only nod. I am not RMB, and it is impossible for everyone to like me."

"But that's Johnnie To..."

"Different ideas... let's stop this topic..."

Hehe, stop if you say stop?

What do the media like to cover most?
XX does not match with XX!
And what era is it now?
05 years!

Leaving aside Johnnie To, just any Hong Kong director, Hong Kong's second-rate star can enjoy the treatment of the star-studded version in the mainland.

Even the little master of poetry and A Mou had to find them to play the leading roles in major productions!

What are you, Shen Xudong?
Small writers and screenwriters from the Mainland, are they not compatible with Johnnie To?
What qualifications do you have to disagree with others?

Therefore, the reports are basically "Shen Xudong offended Du Qifeng", "Offended the great director, Shen Xudong may have to restrain his temper if he wants to go south"...

Uh, it seems to be neutral, but it is actually criticizing Shen Xudong.

This is still the report of the paper media, and there are all kinds of complaints on the Internet...

Something like "Shen Xudong is not worthy of carrying Du Qifeng's shoes" or "You have different ideas, what are you?"...

I can't see it!

Of course, there were those who stood up to Shen Xudong, but unfortunately, people were so soft-spoken that they were quickly overwhelmed in the face of the overall situation.

It's normal, Johnnie To's status is here - the last great director of the Hong Kong film era.

But Shen Xudong doesn't care...

It's going to be June soon, and when Super Girl comes, who cares about these shitty things?
And... Along with the public opinion, the popularity of "Cruel Street" has increased significantly.

……

Zhao Linhai didn't ask Chang Xiaoxiang this time, but watched a movie with Zhao Xin.

Invited by "Watching a Movie"...

Both of them have set up special issues in "Watching Movies", and occasionally write a film review, movie talk and so on.

To earn a little money, the most important thing is to break into the circle of film critics.

Recently, there are quite a few movies on May [-]st, but the ones worth writing about are "Sanchakou" and "Cruel Street"...

"Sanchakou", their evaluations are very similar.

Zhao Linhai thinks: "The story has a good foundation, but it's a pity that it vacillates between suspense, action and love, so none of it is enough",
Zhao Xin thinks: "The theme is good, but the clues are too many and scattered, and the handling is not rigorous enough, which weakens the appeal of the story." '

Because of the sense of responsibility of film critics, even if you want to praise "Cruel Street", you have to watch it first!

Five-star recommendation without watching?
How to write a review?
'This is the most awesome Spring Festival movie I've ever seen, really, emo, you deserve it! '

After "Youth in Youth", the prince made another self-breakthrough. He is only 22 years old. When other idols are still enjoying the bonus of youth, he can already play a rough guy in the army so attractive. , really amazing!It can be called the acting ceiling of artists of the same age. '

Forget it, the two of them can't do such an embarrassing thing.

Anyway, movie tickets can be reimbursed, bought two tickets, and the two walked into the "Cruel Street" screening hall.

It can also be regarded as helping the fourth child - various criticisms of Shen Xudong on the Internet, accusing him of disrespecting his seniors, etc., they both intend to say something, but first, they are soft-spoken, and second, they don't know what happened...

And Chen Xi told them, "If you don't respond to this kind of thing, there will be no voice after a while." '

Then just wait and see!
The two of them entered the venue at one o'clock in the afternoon. Logically speaking, the screening hall should be sparse...

As a result, the attendance rate was not bad, half of the seats were filled.

Most of them are young people in their 20s.

Well, today is April 4th, the weekend...

Accompanied by familiar music, at first it was a black background screen, then a red rectangle, followed by bang!boom!boom!Four bangs flashed out one after another, forming a square, and then the word Jiahe appeared one after another...

Zhao Linhai suddenly got a little excited and took a picture of Zhao Xin. The latter understood this feeling, just like the feeling when the Bayi Film Studio logo appeared in the opening title of "Take the Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom"...

Of course, the main thing is to watch movies...

……

"Cruel Street" is very cruel. The film takes the protagonist Zhao Bingdou's growth process as the main line, and attaches the friendship line with the director's friend, the love line with the heroine, and the family line with his mother, younger brothers and sisters, creating a sufficiently three-dimensional The "underworld member", through this underworld member, showed the audience the so-called underworld-the friendship between gang members is worthless in the face of interests.

Any words or deeds related to friendship, in retrospect, are all hypocrisy.

And the code of conduct of the underworld: people who have no value will be replaced by people with value;
The daily life of the underworld: beating and being beaten, killing and being killed.

Bingdou, who started as a rogue-like collector, has gradually acquired a property and a game hall. Except that his income may have increased, in fact, what he does is the same as the beginning-fighting and killing.

And it reveals the tragic side of gangsters:
Huge distress to those around me; including not limited to family members who are worried, couples who are frightened, yes, and myself...

Treating my younger siblings with emotional and violent education methods, beating is the only education method!
And the movie is very ironic. Byung Doo is a gangster with ideals. He tries to spread his "Tao" through dictation and let members recite the regulations, creating a different gangster environment.

But the facts prove once again that people can only adapt to the environment, but cannot change the environment.

Whenever he sums up a "Tao", there will be reality to slap him in the face.

He told the members that even if you are going to starve to death to be a gangster, you must have dignity.

Immediately afterwards, he went to someone's house to collect debts in his underpants, begging his elder brother on his knees for money;
He said that the seven mouths we eat together are family members, but in the end they were killed by the knife of the "family".

Also, the protagonist Ganto is very contradictory, and the director magnifies this contradiction!
On the one hand, Zhao Bingdou is attached to the gangsters, but on the other hand, he still thinks that he is a normal person on the psychological level.

Trying to build a wall between the underworld and normal life, separating the two identities.

However, the identity of the underworld is always at every turn, destroying his normal life and engulfing him-even when he proposes, he is chased and killed by the enemy the next second just after giving the ring...

At the end of the movie, Zhao Bingdou wanted to take over the mountain with all his heart. He wanted to get his own 300 million, and then he went home and quit.

But he forgot the rule he set for his younger brother: one hand must be left behind when you quit!

When you are useless, why should the boss give you 300 million?

Afterwards, the little brother killed him and took the position smoothly, so it will be a matter of course...

At the end of the movie, his director friend became the director who made a film for the gangster, and the younger brother replaced Byung Doo as the eldest brother, and Byung Doo was buried in the ground, as if he had never appeared...

It was a very sad movie, and then there was an easter egg at the end. Zhao Bingdou, played by Edison Chen, appeared again, and told his director friend, that is, Yu Wenle: "Be sure to shoot the essence of gangsters!"

Then, he squeezed his eyes towards the camera...

Zhao Xin suddenly felt a little courageous - this sentence is obviously a map shot!

(End of this chapter)