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Introduction
" Seven-player band " was initiated by director Johnnie To . The original purpose is to pay tribute to the Golden Film era of Hong Kong movies.
movie original name "Eight and Half" , invited eight famous directors ( Sammo Hung , Ann Hui, Wu Johnson , Tan Jiaming , Yuan Heping , Johnnie To, Lin Lingdong , Tsui Hark ) , draw lots to select different eras, and shoot eight independent short films. The story is set from the 1950s to the future.
Finally, due to physical problems of director John Woo, had no choice but to withdraw from the project, and "Eight and Half" was renamed "Seven-player Band".
also lacks stories from the 1970s. The seven story styles of the seven directors are very personalized, and is not like the previous "My" series. The movie
is very pitiful, and the box office on the first day was only . and Cantonese dubbing is very few, and it should be one on weekends in my city.
Although the levels of each part are different, I still hope that fans and audiences who like Hong Kong films and have Hong Kong film plots can support them.
1, practice
The first short film is directed by Sammo Hung and starring Sammo Hung's son Hong Tianming .
"Practice" is simply practicing, it can be said to be Sammo Hung's biography. is too boiled water, simply recalls the past.
shots give the young actors hard practice time and time again, and sending young junior sisters to monitor and take things tricks and be lazy can still make people laugh. It's a pity that it ended so dullly in the end.
Hong Kong Martial Artsman is the heyday of Hong Kong movies. Now with capital leaving Hong Kong, the director goes north to make money, and the martial artsman is completely silent.
The one you can watch recently is Chen Musheng The last work of director "The Furious Case" is also a fighting scene that is still a literary drama. "Serious Crime of Anger" also won four awards at the 40th Academy Awards. Although it was criticized for being too sentimental, it can still be said to be a masterpiece of .
If you are really interested in martial artists, you should go and take a look at "Dragon and Tiger Martial Artsman" .
2, principal
The second short film is "Principal" directed by Ann Hua , telling the story of an ambiguous and obscure love hidden behind a serious principal in the 1960s.
Principal Wu Zhenyu Always serious and implicit, but late at night I saw a new story about the tortoise and hare racing. Facing the naughty trio, it is also gentle and appropriate to deal with it.
Director Ann Hui's works pay great attention to literary nature. The letter that Principal has been writing constantly mentions "pine, plum, bamboo and chrysanthemum".
I think in the eyes of the principal, the pine, plum, bamboo and chrysanthemum are not as beautiful as the wild grass alone in the corner - the female teacher. This wild grass blooms gorgeously one day like Epiphyllum .
At the same time, there are many small details of old Hong Kong film-style . The flowers that the female teacher has been taking care of; the sweet soup of naughty children is the baffle brought to the teacher; the rice that the female teacher adds to the principal.
More than a year later, teachers and students reunited, and the principal was hunched over and leaned on a crutch.The former students have also become adults. After a long time in society, they have not seen the female teacher.
The story between the principal and the female teacher is hidden in the principal's silence. The cause of the female teacher's death is in the words Panyu on the tombstone.
is still the familiar Anhua Xu. Those who don’t like it will probably find boring.
3, Farewell Night
"Frewell Night" director Tan Jiaming, the main player of the Hong Kong New Wave. is also the strangest one among these seven directors.
"Don't Go Night" is the most tangled among the seven short films I have, and I can't say whether it's good or bad. The good thing is the movie voice, and the bad thing is the actor's performance.
In the 1980s, a young couple was forced to separate because the woman immigrated at home. The story is very consistent with that era. I don’t know what the future will be on the eve of my return, and the relationship between the two people faintly reflects the relationship between the mainland, Hong Kong and the UK.
Story stage is placed in an empty room. I like the green wall design, which forms a strong contrast with the pink color of the subsequent girls' room. ’s favorite thing is that two people lean against the wall separately, divided by the lines of the threshold wall.
lustful performance is bold and enthusiastic, It’s a pity that the acting skills and lines of the two actors are really awkward. Just rely on the director's ability and photography skills to set off the atmosphere.
Two people rushed out of the closed space station rooftop, and their emotions reached their peak. The plane passed by the top of his head, leaving behind the two people with their ears and their love and desire. The quarrel before
was thrown behind and ended at this moment in the long roar of the ambulance.
This is the first and last time. After leaving, I will soon not remember Hong Kong. The metaphor of Director Tan is all in my opinion.
4, return
ye Yuan Heping This part directed by the eighth master is called "Return". It is the most straightforward part of the seven short films.
yuanhua an old kung fu master, like eat beast practice kung fu. Granddaughter likes to be either called her English name to eat hamburgers.
The two grandparents are bound to interact with each other, one teaches kung fu and one teaches literacy in English. In the end, it failed and the granddaughter left Hong Kong.
Three years later, Yuanhua no longer has strong crutches. The granddaughter and his family of three suddenly returned.
Put aside the complex Italian form of expression and transform regional selection and cultural identity into family affection to show.
The eighth master who served as a martial artist all his life did not have time to shoot kung fu, but to shoot family affection. I still want to find an answer to the identity of Hong Kong and Hong Kong people.
Your burger is not bad, my kung fu is not bad, understands each other so there will be no barriers in the future.
5, all over the world of gold
around the world of gold》 At first glance, there is some taste of Johnnie To director " deadly gold " , and there are many dangers buried under the opportunities of the times.
Hong Kong is an important financial center in the world where conflicts and converges between China and foreign countries, and it is no exaggeration to have gold everywhere.
The three male protagonists in "The Deadly Gold" were originally not very related, but were entangled with greed, and in the end was a mess. And the story of the three protagonists in "Golden World" has a lot of warning and motto .
Three students who have just graduated and worked were discussing whether to borrow money in Lexin Bing Room , and occasionally witnessing the fluctuations in the boss's wife's floating losses. At the end, by accident, the dish number was misreported into stock number, and they smiled bitterly and went out to separate.
When the three met again, they made an appointment to buy a house by collecting a bureau. After many years, the three of them still did not change much and were still small employees.
As the news screen is broadcast, the background of SARS has been revealed. House prices fell on the other side of the microphone of the real estate agent, and finally the homeowner was called on the quarantine bus.
3 SARS period nervousness and anxiety flowed out through the silver screen. In Hong Kong since watching new crown , is just like that moment.
At the end of the film, the store owner shouted and asked the suspected family to leave. The picture is so full of Director Du's flavor, the three of them are familiar and alienated.
"Are we too scared?" 's sentence seems to be correct. After the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, the Hong Kong stock market, as mainland companies went public in Hong Kong, had a complete V-shaped rise of more than 30,000 points at its highest. The real estate market also ended after SARS, Hong Kong's tourism boomed and housing prices continued to rise.
The story of "Gold everywhere" also originated from the stories around Director Du, who is also an old stock investor. The three classmates did not repeat the mistakes of the protagonist of "The Deadly Gold", and Director Du wanted to bring some comfort and hope to Hong Kong people. Toughness and optimism are part of the Hong Kong spirit, and they love Hong Kong.
is just a irony, because the current situation is turbulent, the Hang Seng Index has now cut in half, because the new crown tourism industry hit housing prices hard like a salty fish, without any regrets.
6, Lost
"Lost" is the closest short film to the present, expressing director Lin Lingdong's sincere feelings for Hong Kong.
月有李有新方 seems to be still alive in the past. The past and present of Hong Kong are intertwined and confirmed that modern cities are developing upward to swallow the sky, while traditional Hong Kong remains in the fishing village.
Ren Dahua, who can't use his smartphone, runs on the complex streets of Hong Kong. When asking for directions, passers-by talks and tells the way Mandarin . My son used WeChat to send a positioning to his father, but he still couldn't find it.
Simon Yam, who returned to the fishing village, received the new Hong Kong people passing by, told the past of the ancestral home, and looked up at the portrait of his father still there, as if it was the past.
Lin Lingdong did not sigh when he was memorializing the past, "How can we make progress without development? Young people, the future is your world, and it is up to you to dominate."
In the end, I couldn't help thinking in other directions. Simon Yam is an old Hong Kong, and his son is an international new Hong Kong, but Hong Kong is no longer the Hong Kong of the past. The former special status was weakened with development, and Hong Kong rioters who were not grateful intended to destroy Hong Kong.
7, In-depth dialogue
Xu Laoqian 's "In-depth dialogue" is really crazy. The whole film is teasing the other directors involved in "The Band of Seven".
Old monster or old monster played with the flowers in the topic composition. I originally thought it was just a simple doctor-patient identity exchange.
It didn't take long for the plot to reverse, and the doctors and patients seemed to be crazy. Everything in the picture seems to be outside the one-way glass.
finally reversed again, and Ann and Xu Laoqiu appeared on the scene, which is actually the play in the play. The short film is also the most laughter on the scene, and the jokes about classic elements satisfy Hong Kong film lovers.
8. Where can I go to Hong Kong movies? ?
"Band of Seven" was mistaken for the coincidence of the release time and was mistakenly considered to be one of the "My and Me..." series. In fact, it is not. The corners of the cameras of the seven directors in the last episode of the story were smaller, and the methods of interpreting the story were different.
But in fact, behind the camera, the seven stories still tell the story of Hong Kong people's Hong Kong story, is still the former Hong Kong spirit, Hong Kong filmmakers still love Hong Kong.
Hong Kong filmmakers’ achievements in going north in recent years cannot be said to be satisfactory, and the sound of the golden age of Hong Kong films has passed is rampant. But I think things are developing, and Hong Kong films need to find their own way out in the changing times.
Film is not here, Hong Kong movie updates. Finally, I would like to recommend "Seven-player Band" to have very few screens. Can you watch Cantonese version or Cantonese version.
