Chapter 360 "Cruel Streets"

After the establishment of Galaxy Impression, Johnnie To had his own team, coupled with his explosive creative power, he gradually gained the aura of a great director.

In fact, it is indeed the case. He won the Academy Award for Best Director three times and the Golden Horse Award for Best Director twice...

No matter how you count, he is definitely among the top ten directors in Hong Kong!

Shen Xudong actually broke up with him?

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

"...In this world, some people are worth dating, 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 concepts... Let's stop this topic..."

Haha, you said you should stop?

What is the media’s favorite thing to cover?

XX and XX don’t get along!

And what era is it now?

2005!

Not to mention Johnnie To, just any Hong Kong director, Hong Kong's second-rate stars can enjoy the treatment of the star-studded version in the mainland.

Even the poetry-reciting master and Ah Mou had to find them to play the leading roles in big productions!

Who do you think you are, Shen Xudong?

He's just a small writer and screenwriter from the Mainland, doesn't he get along with Johnnie To?

What qualifications do you have to be inconsistent with others?

Therefore, the reports are basically "Shen Xudong offends Johnnie To", "Offending the great director, Shen Xudong may have to restrain his temper if he wants to go south to develop"...

Well, he seems neutral, but he is actually criticizing Shen Xudong.

This is still a report in the paper media, and there are all kinds of complaints online...

Something like 'Shen Xudong is not worthy of carrying Johnnie To's shoes' or 'If you don't share the same ideas, who are you?'...

It’s impossible to watch!

Of course, there were those who stood up for Shen Xudong, but unfortunately, they were so quiet that they were quickly submerged in the face of the overall trend.

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

But Shen Xudong doesn't care...

It will be June soon, and when Super Girl comes, who will care about these nonsense?

And... along with public opinion, the popularity of "Cruel Streets" has increased significantly.

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Zhao Linhai did not make an appointment with Chang Xiaoxiang this time, but watched a movie with Zhao Xin.

Invited by "Watching Movies"...

Both of them have opened special sections in "Watching Movies", and occasionally write movie reviews, movie talks, and the like.

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

There are a lot of movies on the May Day holiday recently, but the ones worth writing about are "Sanchakou" and "Cruel Street"...

"Sanchakou", their evaluations are very similar.

Zhao Linhai believes: 'The story has a good foundation, but it's a pity that it hesitates between suspense, action and love, so that none of it is enough.'

Zhao Xin believes: '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. ’

Out of a film critic's sense of responsibility, even if you want to praise "Cruel Streets", you have to watch it again first!

Five-star recommendation without watching it?

How to write a review?

‘This is the most awesome Spring Festival movie I’ve ever seen. Really, emo, you deserve it! ’

'The Prince achieved another self-breakthrough after "Young You". At only 22 years old, while other idols were still enjoying the dividends of youth, he could already play a rough guy in the army so charmingly. , really amazing! It can be called the acting ceiling for artists of the same age. ’

Forget it, they can't do such embarrassing things.

Anyway, the movie tickets can be reimbursed, so they bought two tickets and walked into the screening room of "Cruel Streets".

It can be regarded as a help to the fourth child - there are various criticisms on Shen Xudong on the Internet, accusing him of disrespecting his predecessors and so on. The two of them wanted to say something, but firstly they were indifferent, and secondly, they didn't know what happened...

Moreover, Chen Xi told them, ‘If you don’t respond to this kind of thing, there will be no sound after a while. ’

Then just wait and see what happens!

The two of them entered the theater at one o'clock in the afternoon. Logically speaking, the screening room should be sparse...

As a result, the attendance rate was actually pretty good, half full.

Most of them are young people in their twenties.

Well, today is April 30th, the weekend...

Accompanied by familiar music, it starts with a black screen, then a red rectangle, and then 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 photo of Zhao Xin. The latter understood this feeling, just like the feeling when the Bayi Film Studio logo appeared at the beginning of "Taking Tiger Mountain"...

Of course, the main thing is watching movies...

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"Cruel Streets" is very cruel. The movie takes the protagonist Zhao Bingdou's gang growth as the main line, and also adds a friendship line with the director's friend, a love line with the heroine, and a family line with his mother, younger brothers and sisters, creating a sufficiently three-dimensional story. "Gangster", through this gang member, shows the audience the so-called gangster - in the face of interests, the friendship between gang members is worthless.

Any words and deeds related to friendship are completely hypocritical in retrospect.

And the code of conduct of the underworld: people without value will be replaced by people with value;

The daily life of the underworld: beating and being beaten, killing and being killed.

Bingdou started out as an unknown person who collected money like a rogue, but gradually developed an industry and a game arcade. Except that his income may have increased a bit, in fact, what he did was the same as at the beginning - beating and killing.

And it reveals the tragic side of being a gangster:

It causes huge trouble to the people around you; including not only worried family members, frightened lovers, and yes, even yourself...

Treat your younger brothers and sisters with emotional and violent education methods. Beating is the only education method!

And the movie is very... ironic. Bingdou is a gangster with ideals. He tries to promote his "Tao" and create a different gangster environment by dictating and asking members to recite regulations.

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

Whenever he sums up a "Tao", reality will immediately slap him hard in the face.

He told the members that they should have dignity even if they starve to death as a gangster.

Then he went to someone's house wearing his underwear to collect debts, and knelt down and begged his eldest brother for money;

He said that the seven mouths we eat together are family, but in the end we died under the knife of 'family'.

Also, the main character is very conflicted, and the director magnified this conflict!

On the one hand, Zhao Bingdou is attached to the gang, but on the other hand, he still thinks that he is a normal person on a psychological level.

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

However, the identity of the underworld is constantly trying to find opportunities to destroy his normal life and swallow him up - even when he proposed, he had just given the ring, and the next second, he was hunted down by his enemies...

At the end of the movie, Zhao Bingdou wants to close the mountain. He wants to get his own 3 million, and then go home and quit.

But he forgot the rule he set for his younger brother: leave one hand behind when you exit!

Why would the boss give you 3 million when you are completely useless?

Later, the younger brother killed him and successfully took over, and it was a matter of course...

At the end of the movie, his director friend became a director making movies for gangsters, and the younger brother replaced Bingdou as the eldest brother. Bingdou was buried underground for a long time, as if he had never appeared...

It’s a very sad movie, and then there’s an Easter egg at the end. Zhao Bingdou, played by Edison Chen, appears again and tells his director friend, Yu Wenxuan: “You must film the essence of the gangster!”

Then, he winked at the camera...

Zhao Xin suddenly felt a little brave—this sentence was obviously a map cannon!