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Some time ago, Carp recommended to you ten action movies about handsome killers. Today I will introduce to you a few movies about beautiful killers. Although Carp has always liked watching such movies, I also think that the character of the beautiful killer is actually a paradox. Of course, it is better for a killer to be as low-key as possible and not attract attention. A graceful, sexy and sultry beauty is the focus of people's attention wherever she goes. As soon as she comes up, she loses the opportunity to sneak in low-key.
Of course, everything has its own advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of a sexy beauty is that everyone loves to watch her. When the pervert’s target hormones are high, it is definitely a perfect opportunity to kill. After all, everyone still likes to see beautiful women. As for whether it is reasonable, I don’t know about others. Anyway, Carp himself doesn’t care at all.
"The Naked Agent"
directed by Cheng Xiaodong, starring Maggie Q and Daniel Wu, released in 2002. When this movie was released that year, it definitely had a magical cast, with an ace action director, a golden boy starring, and a storyteller named Fatty Wang as the screenwriter. It's a pity that the story and action scenes of this film are inferior to similar films from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema. More than ten years later, the only things that can impress people are the unforgettable beauty of Li Meiqi and Daniel Wu at their peak.
A mysterious killer organization kidnaps girls and sends them to an isolated island to train in various killing skills. The killer organization uses the cruel Darwinian laws of nature to conduct an elimination trial training. The trained members kill each other. The strong survive and the weak die. In the end, only three members became qualified killers, and all the remaining girls died at the hands of their companions.
Three female killers who graduated from the army appeared in the world and became famous, attracting close attention of the police. Jack, the commander of the CIA task force, has fought against the killer organization many times, and many of his companions have died in the action. In the process of tracking down three female killers, Jack gradually develops a love for one female killer. If this female killer wants to get rid of the control of the organization, she must join forces with Jack to have any chance of survival.
Daniel Wu and Maggie Q used to be a couple, but they had broken up when the film was filmed. The two had a long and passionate performance in the film, which was considered one of the main selling points when the film was announced. The story setting of this film is quite good, but it’s a pity that Hong Kong movies at this time are more impetuous than they were more than ten years ago. With Fatty Wang's screenwriting skills, if this story is developed in depth, the effect will be better. The decline of Hong Kong movies can also be seen in terms of actors. With Cheng Xiaodong in charge, the action scenes in the movie are still very mediocre. No actor is born to fight. Sure enough, none of the actors in this movie later became action superstars.
"32 Degrees Celsius"
directed by Tony Leung, starring Wu Qianlian and Liu Qingyun, released in Hong Kong in 1996, an early work of Galaxy Image. Many young movie fans are not familiar with Wu Qianlian. Starting from her collaboration with Liu Tianwang in "Love in Heaven", Wu Qianlian was once a hot ace heroine in the Hong Kong film industry in the 1990s, and had roles opposite all first-line male stars. . In the early days of Galaxy Image, Wu Qianlian played the female lead in both this movie and "Horror Chicken". Both movies were very well done, and Wu Qianlian also contributed extremely superb acting skills. Unfortunately, everyone who has watched both movies has Not many, it is a neglected and unpopular film.
Qing, played by Wu Qianlian, looks like a taciturn ordinary woman, but is actually a lone cold-blooded killer. The constant brutal killings made Qing feel physically and mentally exhausted. After eating a bowl of hot noodles at a noodle stall on the street, Qing felt warm and relieved. The boss of the restaurant, played by Liu Qingyun, became fond of this mysterious woman when he greeted Qing, and Qing also had a subtle feeling for him in her heart.
During an assassination operation in South Korea, Qing Qing killed the target neatly.As a bodyguard, Cui felt huge frustration when his employer was killed, and regarded this as a lifelong shame. In order to avenge Cui, he tracked him all the way to Hong Kong. Qing, who had already begun to think about quitting, had to fight with him to the death.
The creative style of Galaxy Image's early works is not yet mature, but this one has begun to approach the author's film, which is obviously different from most Hong Kong films at that time. There is an obvious difference between female killers and male killers in movies. Most of the female killers in such movies engage in a career of licking blood with the tip of a knife because they are forced to do so, and how to withdraw from the world is also the protagonist's goal. I don’t know if it’s because in the director’s subconscious mind, men are born with an aggressive killing instinct, while women are more motivated by helplessness.
"Girl Killer Amo"
directed by Kitamura Ryuhei, starring Ueto Aya and Oguri Shun, two films were produced in 2003 and 2005. Another translation of the movie, "A Hundred Men Kill the Girl," seems more domineering, with a bloody atmosphere. Among Japanese directors who advocate violence, Ryuhei Kitamura is not as well-known as Sonoko and Takashi Miike. Most of his works are B-level plasma films, and he is the number one figure in the niche subculture circle.
The background of the story is set at the end of the Warring States Period. The Edo shogunate established by Tokugawa Ieyasu is about to unify Japan and end hundreds of years of chaos. However, some princes with different ambitions are still ready to fight for fame and wealth, and may reignite the war at any time. The former samurai Kohata Tsukisai was determined to stop the conspiracy of careerists. He adopted nine boys and one girl and ten children, and trained them in the mountains to form a group of assassins, waiting to one day assassinate the daimyo who disturbed the world and complete the great cause of saving the world and bringing peace to the people.
After years of hard training, ten children have accomplished their skills and are about to go out to perform the mission. The teacher Obata Tsukisai divided the ten people into two teams and ordered them to catch each other and kill each other. Only those who survived would be qualified to become the real killers. The girl Amo took the life of her senior brother with her own hands, and realized that endless killing was a fate that she could not escape. The five surviving people accepted the order to kill three famous generals of the shogunate.
The Japanese are probably the most superstitious nation in the world about assassins. This may have a lot to do with Japan's retainer system during the Warring States Period. The highest military commander in ancient Japan could command his generals, but he had no authority over his retainers. In other words, as long as the leader of a family is killed, the stance of this armed force may change dramatically. This is also the reason why assassinating one person may be the key to turning things around.
There are many famous assassinations in Japanese history, such as the deeds of the Forty-Seven Heroes and Loyalists who have been legendary; the Tenchu, Jinzhan, and Shinsengumi during the Tokugawa period; and during World War II, there were assassinations by fanatical low-level army officers. The crazy actions of Navy Minister Isoroku Yamamoto and Prime Minister Keisuke Okada. And these assassinations, without exception, hold high the glorious banner of justice. If a country completely changes its national policy because one person is killed, it should be a systemic flaw no matter how you look at it.
Assassinating one person has minimal influence on the direction of history. Ahn Jung-geun, who was deeply influenced by Japanese culture, successfully shot and killed Ito Hirobumi in Harbin, but he could not liberate the Korean Peninsula. Even Jing Ke, the strong man in the hearts of the Chinese people, could kill with one blow when he saw the dagger, but he could not change the outcome of Qin's sweeping of Liuhe. The death of Ying Zheng would delay the outcome for at least a few decades, and it would definitely not exceed a hundred years.
"Assassination"
Directed by Choi Dong-hoon, starring Jun Ji-hyun, Lee Jung-jae, and Ha Jung-woo, it is an anti-Japanese action film released in South Korea in 2015. In the 1930s, various factions of the Korean independence movement joined forces to sneak back into the Japanese-ruled Korean Peninsula and assassinate pro-Japanese traitors. In recent years, South Korea has produced many anti-Japanese-themed films, all of which are very entertaining. There are not many realistic films, but they are all masterpieces full of romanticism.
An Yuyun, a female sniper of the Independence Army who was sentenced to death, was secretly released and assigned an important assassination mission. She returned to the Korean Peninsula ruled by Japan with two comrades with special skills. The spies lurking within the organization secretly reported this information to the Japanese military. Japanese agents laid a dragnet, waiting for An Yuyun and his party to fall into the trap.
Hawaii Pistol, played by Ha Jung-woo, is a bounty killer who can kill anyone for only three hundred dollars. The task he accepted this time was none other than An Yuyun and the others. People from all walks of life are caught in a complicated fight. An Yuyun was even more surprised to find that she and the assassination target's daughter looked exactly the same, making the success of the assassination operation even more confusing.
Like most Korean commercial films, this one has a tight rhythm and is completed in one go. Six consecutive assassinations push the plot of the film to climax again and again. As for the bugs in the details and the obscenity of the historical background, they are within the acceptable range. The action and appearance are both very good, and it is a movie that has beauties and handsome guys, and is beautifully shot.
The ending of the movie is meaningful. The warriors fighting for national independence sacrificed their lives for the country one after another. After the founding of the Republic of Korea, the former pro-Japanese and North Korean traitors were still powerful, which is lamentable. There is no need to get too entangled. After all, within the framework of the US-Japan-ROK alliance, the pro-Japanese faction has become the pro-alliance faction, and it is not surprising that they are favored.
"Assassin Nie Yinniang"
directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, starring Shu Qi and Chang Chen, released in 2015. When I first heard that Hou Hsiao-hsien was going to direct this film, the biggest suspense for Li Yu was not the content of the film. What I was most curious about at the time was how to shoot a martial arts film with a long lens with a fixed camera position. Or will Director Hou completely change his style in order to make a martial arts film? After the movie was released, I discovered that I had made a mistake in a key concept. This was not a martial arts film at all, but a literary film.
After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the feudal vassals and towns attacked each other, and the war continued and the people were in dire straits. Nie Yinniang, the daughter of General Nie Feng of Wei Bo Town, was taken away by a Taoist nun when she was a child. She was accepted as a disciple and taught swordsmanship. When she grew up, she became a female assassin with unparalleled martial arts skills. The master was ordered to return to Weibo Town to take the life of Jiedushi Tian Ji'an.
After Nie Yinniang returned to Weibo Town, she gradually realized that killing one person to save ten thousand people as the master said was impossible to achieve. Even if Tian Ji'an is killed, the people of Wei Bo will only fall into more painful dire straits.
In the troubled times of the middle and late Tang Dynasty when the feudal towns were separated, there were many real-life stories of assassins. The feudal towns often sent assassins to sneak into Chang'an and Luoyang to assassinate the ministers of the court and central government. But the actual situation is that the more killings, the more chaotic it becomes. It is absolutely a paradox to kill one person to save ten thousand people. They killed Wei Bo's Jiedushi, as well as the towns of Fanyang and Chengde. The three towns in Hebei have always united to fight against the imperial court, which is equivalent to a country within a country. Even if Jiedushi died unexpectedly, he would find a successor by himself and would never accept an airborne appointment from the imperial court. Killing one person has no effect at all. On the contrary, the vacuum period when the boss is dead will cause fierce internal strife. The price of the struggle for power must be rivers of blood, and the people who suffer the most are the people.
After all, killing a powerful opponent can make the enemy temporarily weak, but it does not make itself stronger. As for the few weird emperors in the later Tang Dynasty, even the few beardless eunuchs within the palace confinement couldn't handle it, so why talk about cutting down the feudal vassals and quelling the chaos to unify the country.
"Wanted"
directed by Timo Bekmanbetov, starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie, released in the United States in 2008. Timo Bekmambetov, a Kazakh director born in the former Soviet Union, directed "The Night Watch" in 2004 and the two-part "Day Watch" in 2006. They are the most impressive Russian fantasy blockbusters so far. ."Wanted" was also a huge success at the box office and very famous among movie fans. It is said that one shot a hundred, the bullet can turn.
The little brother Wesley played by Zhan Yimei is a very depressed and decadent ordinary clerk who lives in confusion all day long. After a mysterious and sexy strange woman named Firefox appears, his life will change drastically. It turns out that Wesley's father was once a famous killer of the mysterious organization Assassin's League, and was brutally killed after being betrayed by a traitor. There is a powerful killer gene in Wesley's blood. The Assassin League found him and wanted to train him rigorously to become a peerless master to avenge his father.
Under the careful training of Firefox, who is also a teacher and friend, and a group of mentors with their own strengths, Wesley's killing instinct began to awaken little by little. As Wesley learns more about the organization, he has doubts about the mysterious boss Sloan played by Morgan Freeman, the voice of the League of Assassins. By chance, Wesley discovered a huge conspiracy within the organization, which put him in a dangerous situation.
"Wanted" is a comic book adaptation. As mentioned before, even bullets can turn, so there is no need to be too strict about the logic. The story and action scenes of this movie are pretty good. Angelina Jolie's tattooed bare back is extremely tempting. The character setting, which is both good and evil, is also full of mystery. The story of a sexy senior sister training a young junior junior will always make the audience think about it.
"Anna"
Written and directed by Luc Besson, starring Russian young model Sasha Ruth and "Queen" Helen Mirren, it will be released in 2019. This film has a bit of a feminist tone. It is a story about two generations of KGB female spies, one old and one young, who join forces to resist the oppression of the patriarchal society and escape from being manipulated.
Sasha Ruth is a troubled girl on the streets of Russia. Her good personal qualities were taken advantage of by the intelligence organization. After committing a serious crime, the KGB came to the door, and Anna had no choice but to join. After rigorous training by her mentor, Anna became the ace assassin within the organization.
After completing tasks outstandingly again and again, the organization tore up the previous agreement and refused to give Anna her freedom. At the same time, the CIA is also eyeing Anna. The crisis is approaching step by step. Anna must fight to the death if she wants to escape.
The action scenes in the movie are very popular. The scene where Anna rushes into the hotel alone during the trial. Luc Besson's camera position, composition and scene scheduling are all at a master level. They are the most classic among action movies in 2019. One of the bridge sections. There are few breakthroughs in plot and character settings, and many of the movie's plots can be found in the works of director Luc Besson. As for the story of the oppressed heroine rising up to resist, this one is not as exciting as "Super Body" from the previous two years.
Luc Besson may be the one who likes killer themes the most among today's first-line directors. The latest one is not bad, but it cannot surpass the previous ones "The Killer Is Not So Cold" and "Nikita", but then again In the past twenty or thirty years, there have been very few works that can compare with these two.
"Nikita the Prisoner"
Written and directed by Luc Besson, starring Anna Parillo and Marc Delet, it was released in France in 1990. From today's perspective, this film seems to have nothing to do with the concepts of avant-garde and rebellion, but the time point was thirty years ago. At that time, it was definitely a work that made the audience's eyes brighten and shocked their hearts. This is for European and American audiences. explain. This film was introduced to the mainland very early. In the early 1990s, the film's melancholy, lonely and depressing atmosphere definitely had a very shocking effect on mainland movie fans who had not seen much of the world at that time.
The story has many similarities with "Anna" thirty years later. Nikita is a troubled girl who was imprisoned after a robbery and murder.The intelligence organization found her and trained her to become a killer, and then lurked as an ordinary person. During this period, Nikita fell in love with an ordinary man. Under the squeeze of dual identity, Nikita fell into the pain of difficult choice.
For the younger generation of viewers in the Z era, the heroine's situation is too constricted and her character seems tangled and melancholy. It is not as fun and enjoyable as the later Anna playing the KGB and the CIA. This has a lot to do with the era in which the work was created. After all, the awakening consciousness of women thirty years ago cannot be the same as it is today. I think Nikita's character setting is the most realistic female killer in the movie. Before the identity of the killer, she is a woman, not Iron King or Ultraman.
This work had a huge influence on subsequent movies of the same type, and its shadow can be found in many movies. The 1991 Hong Kong film "Black Cat" starring Leung Chan and Simon Yam basically copied this plot. Because of its good box office results, a sequel "Black Cat II: The Assassination of Yeltsin" was filmed in 1992. The people of Hong Kong are so quick to adopt the idea of appropriation. I wonder if there was any need to give royalties to Luc Besson in that era.
"Killing Eve"
Starring Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, it premiered in 2018 and has been aired for three seasons this year, and the fourth season has been booked. Originally, in this list, I just wanted to recommend movies, but since we are talking about a female killer, I have to leave a place for this female neurotic no matter what. The character creation is so successful and interesting.
Eve is a civilian employee of MI5. She originally wanted to become a super spy like 007, but unfortunately things went against her wishes and she could only live a boring life facing piles of old papers every day. When the extremely bored Eve was organizing documents, she connected seemingly unrelated murder cases around the world, and based on this, she inferred that there was a super female killer who killed many targets with weird and weird techniques. .
Villanelle is exactly what Eve calls a super killer, a female neurotic who pays attention to the ritual of killing. She kills people with a variety of gorgeous moves, and then enjoys life with elegance, chaos and luxury. The police from various countries have been confused by Villanelle's elusive and jumping thinking, and they can't find the connection between the various cases at all. Eve's information about connecting the cases excited Villanelle, who had never had an opponent, and the air-to-air duel between the two women began.
A cruel and mysterious female killer, and a naive female civilian agent. The dual heroine setting of this series is very attractive to the audience. The two heroines, Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, have excellent acting skills in this drama. The humor elements are just right, and the mixture of violent and bloody scenes gives the audience a veritable feeling of surprise and joy.
Unlike most European and American soap operas, the story of this one is wild and does not follow routines. The audience has unexpected reversals one after another. As long as the audience is not mentally ill, they cannot predict the female neurotic's thinking mode. It doesn't matter if she's mentally ill. It's hard to be on the same page as this female. Normally, mental patients will never be as crazy as she is.
"Kill Bill"
Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu, the first episode was released in 2003, and the second episode was released in 2004. This can be considered an exploitation movie about female killers. There are female killers from all walks of life, including Bruce Lee's version, sexy female nurse version, uniformed schoolgirl version, Shura Xueji version, all gathered together to celebrate the carnival.
A female assassin of the Viper Assassination Group is tired of her bloodthirsty life of fighting and killing. She wants to wash her hands and withdraw from the world after Fengzi gets married. On the day of the wedding, the leader of the group led many killers in a bloodbath at the wedding venue. The bride luckily escaped and woke up after four years in a coma. The bride regained her sanity and began a bloody road of revenge.
This is a masterpiece of Quin-style violence aesthetics. The crazy slashing and slashing makes people dazzled and dazzled. Quentin is a self-taught wild boy. Unlike academic directors with a professional background, his directing skills come from talent and practice. His lack of theoretical training also makes him more arbitrary in his directorial style. As far as this film is concerned, Ruffian Zikun must have had a lot of fun, mixing the film elements he is obsessed with in a messy work and releasing it. After being recognized by the audience, it will give the director a huge sense of accomplishment.
When he was working as a salesperson in a video rental store, the huge amount of film reading undoubtedly provided abundant nutrition for Quentin's later career as a director. The movie contains a lot of tributes to the B-movies of the 1960s and 1970s, which is enough to show that these films that Ruffian Kun loved had a huge impact on his creation. In addition to "Kill Bill", Quentin and Rodriguez collaborated on the two-part "Grindhouse" package in 2007. The two deviant directors expressed their nostalgia for that era more directly.
I don’t like red clothes but I like armed weapons. I’ve introduced ten movies about female killers to you. I hope you will like the sexy and thrill of killing.
