Chapter 365: What is "Kowloon Walled City" about
Zhang Chen returned to the company.
At this time, the company was extremely deserted. Most of the employees had already gone on vacation, and there was not even a front desk in the company.
The capital is similar now. The closer it gets to the New Year, the more deserted it becomes. Workers are going home one after another, and the roads are no longer congested. During the New Year days, the number of people in the capital will be reduced by half.
When Zhang Chen arrived, everyone else had already arrived.
Without a front desk, Chen Xi had to pour tea by himself: "When did you come back?"
"Last night."
Zhang Chen took off his coat and put it on the back of the sofa, then took Chen Xi's tea and took a sip. He felt cold and hot alternately, and suddenly shivered.
"Let's go, they are already waiting in the screening room."
The reason why I came here today is because Lu Yang invited him to watch the finished film of "Kowloon Walled City". There were some glitches when the film was first shot in Hong Kong, but everything went smoothly afterwards.
In the small screening room, several people greeted each other and took their seats.
The staff were all on vacation, so Lu Yang controlled the equipment by himself.
Not many people came, including Zhang Chen, Dong Jianqiang, Chen Xi, Lu Yang, plus Lu Yian and Xie Miao.
Xie Miao is a standard one who starts high and goes low. When he was a child, he worked with Jet Li, but when he grew up, he has always been tepid. Not to mention movies, he couldn't even get good resources for TV series.
This time Star Entertainment asked him to be the leading actor. It was probably his last chance in his life. If he succeeded, it would be a success. If he didn't, he might not have another chance.
The same goes for Ruian. "Kowloon Walled City" is the second movie he participated in, and he also guest-starred as the final boss - Mad Dog.
A familiar title appeared, the factory logo of Star Entertainment.
The plot of the movie moves very quickly from the beginning.
The police team received a tip and knew the exact location of the drug dealers hiding in the Kowloon Walled City. However, the Kowloon Walled City was a place outside the law, and the Royal Police had no right to enter and enforce the law.
The captain wanted to take risks, sneak in, rush in and out, but he didn't know that they were discovered as soon as they entered the walled city.
The moment the alarm sounded, the Kowloon Walled City moved, and a large number of community members rushed to the location of the police officers from all directions.
The police officers hurriedly fled into a building, only to find members of the society stopping outside the building. It was obvious that there was something in the building that they were afraid of.
Sure enough, everything that happened next fit perfectly with the police officers' guesses.
The people in the building are all felons, guys even more vicious than the members of the society outside.
Their favorite thing is to kill the police.
Huang Ziyang, Wu Yijiang, Zhou Billy, An Zhijie, these familiar ‘bad guy faces’ are all mini-bosses.
Semyon's team members were constantly injured, and they could only hide everywhere. The felons were like a pack of wolves searching for them everywhere in the building.
Outside the walled city, police support arrived. The high-ranking police officer who came anxiously was played by Zhong Liti, but they were stopped outside the walled city.
A large group of young and Dangerous boys stood in front of them with a smile on their faces.
As long as they are still wearing this uniform, they cannot break into the walled city.
Zhong Liti negotiated terms with the boss of Chengzhai, and the boss of Chengzhai just said jokingly: "As long as they can get out of that building, I will let them leave alive~"
In fact, everyone knew that no one made it out of that building alive.
At the same time, police officers in the building were being tortured and killed.
They were picked out from all over the building like chickens, and countless prisoners rushed up, knocking one down, and then another.
The movements designed by Ruian are really good, with punches that hit the flesh, no exaggerated sound effects, and no effects of kicking people away, just very real.
Many times it looks like a real fight.
Use your head to compare the hardness of a cement pillar, use your thighs to compete with a baseball bat...
There aren't many bloody scenes, but they all look brutal.
Lu Yang used montage here to contrast the scene of the police confrontation at the gate of the city with the scene of the police officers being unilaterally massacred in the building, mainly to show the brutality of the police officers and the arrogance of the young and Dangerous boys.
The background music is "Light of Friendship", which is also a song that police officers like to sing when joking~
Xie Miao led his team members to escape and kill all the way. The small bosses were killed one by one, and his men were also reduced one by one.
Finally, after the last team member died in front of him, he went crazy.
Self-blame and regret made him exhausted both physically and mentally. The psychological and physical injuries tortured him too much at the same time.
He was no longer prepared to live and decided to die here, accompanying his team members.
But before he died, he asked to kill as many as he could.
Xie Miao no longer evades, but takes the initiative to look for the opponent. If he can't beat him, he will fight. If he can't, he will be injured in exchange for his life!
You Dou, use the complex environment in the building to ensure that you will not be surrounded by enemies.
The most famous fight scene in the bathroom in "The Raid 2" was used here by Lu Yang.
Using the bathroom partition, although Xie Miao was blocked in the bathroom, he only had to deal with up to three enemies at the same time.
The movements designed by Ruian for Semyon did not have any superfluous moves at all. It could knock down a person in at most two moves and make the opponent lose the ability to fight at the same time.
Bang bang bang~
The movie is filled with the sound of fists hitting flesh all the time, but the people watching just feel their mouths are dry.
They have completely sympathized with the protagonist, they don’t know how to think, they only know how to kill and kill...
The final big boss is Uncle Dog himself, played by Ruian.
Crazy, gorgeous, lose-lose~
Uncle Gou's strength is very strong at first glance. He has a muscular body, sinister eyes and messy hair. With his look, any audience will worry about whether the protagonist will be beaten to death by him. Xie Miao was injured all over his body.
His only advantage is that he is willing to die and is ready to die together.
After a fight, Xie Miao was indeed no match for Uncle Gou and was beaten badly.
There was already a gap in strength, and he was covered in injuries and his physical strength was almost exhausted.
The attacks he launched were easily dodged every time.
And he took all the attacks from Uncle Gou for real.
I can't beat him. I really can't beat him. I'm going to die here...
Xie Miao was about to lose consciousness, and Uncle Dog had no interest in continuing to play.
Dragging Semyon to the window, Uncle Gou prepared to strangle his neck in front of the police below.
However, just before Xie Miao's neck was strangled, he suddenly got up and hugged Uncle Gou, smashing through the glass, and died together from the fourth floor.
It was just his last resort.
Close-up~
Close-up of Uncle Dog’s panic expression~
Close-up of Xie Miao feeling relieved~
Uncle Gou still wanted to struggle, but Xie Miao hugged him tightly. As he was falling, he glanced at Zhong Liti not far away, with a smile on his face.
There was a muffled sound of ‘bang’~
Under everyone's attention, the two of them fell hard to the ground, like a burger that had been thrown down, the juice inside being squeezed out.
The people below were stunned!
They couldn't believe that the most vicious person in the walled city actually died in front of them.
The police officers were full of grief and anger, but in the end they failed to save these colleagues.
Staring at the two people stacked together, two lines of tears slowly flowed down Zhong Liti's face...
But suddenly, the person above moved~
Zhong Liti couldn't believe it, and then, the person above moved again...
Then, Xie Miao slowly got up.
Ruian's flesh pad blocked most of the impact for him, and Semyon was still alive.
Xie Miao glanced at the people at the door, then at the building behind him, and showed an extremely ugly smile.
But no one dared to laugh.
Xie Miao staggered towards the entrance of the city wall. It was obvious that he was so weak that he might collapse at any time, but no one dared to stop him on the way, and the crowd automatically opened a passage for him.
The soundtrack given by Lu Yang here is "Fresh Little Girl", a very soft song, but it is very suitable for the situation when used here.
The film ended here, and the small screening room was quiet for a while, and then burst into applause.
“Nice photo~”
"Ruian's movements are designed very well, and Xie Miao's performance is also good..."
“They are all very good~”
Everyone praised him without hesitation.
The plot of "Kowloon Walled City" is very simple, but as an action movie, who will watch the plot depends on whether the action is good or not.
Are the plots of Jet Li's movies very profound? Many of those old gangsters are Jet Li's fans. Do they watch Jet Li's movies because they like Chinese culture?
"After this movie is released, you will definitely become famous, you will all..."
Zhang Chen's affirmation made everyone present very excited. In fact, Lu Yian was already popular.
After "The Rescue", I don't know how many people came to ask him to be the action director, but he refused and directly joined the filming of "Kowloon Walled City".
To put it bluntly, this is also a smart man, and he knows exactly who gave him all this.
Lu Yang scratched his head: "Is it too bloody? I showed it to Teacher Fu and Director Tian Zhuangzhuang two days ago. They didn't say anything else after reading it. They were just worried that they wouldn't pass the trial..."
Of course it won't pass the trial.
It's so violent, with hands and feet cut off at every turn, or hitting your head with a hammer. Even if you are a China-Hong Kong co-production, you will definitely not pass the trial.
At Zhang Chen's request, this version of "Kowloon Walled City" is not as bloody as the original "The Raid", but it's not much different.
Just that sound of bones breaking has been heard countless times in the movie.
"What should we do?"
Lu Yang and Xie Miao became anxious when they saw everyone's expressions as if they were sure they would not pass the trial.
Seeing that Lu Yang was really anxious, the other people burst into laughter.
Dong Jianqiang patted Lu Yang on the shoulder and said with experience: "Don't worry, there is a way."
"What can I do? You don't want to delete it anymore, do you? I've already deleted it many times~"
Directors are definitely reluctant to discard every shot, but sometimes there is no way. The length of the movie is limited, and sometimes it is necessary to discard it.
"No, just hand it in. I'll teach you a trick on how to deal with the review. If you want to get 60 points, then what you hand in must be 100 points. The review team also has KPIs, which must be used by others. Space~”
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I’ve been really busy lately, and I’ll resume normal updates from tomorrow
(End of chapter)