html In the early 190s, Hollywood set off a wave of shooting "agent action movies".
994, "Real and Lies" directed by Cameron made this "agent action craze" quickly swept the international film industry. "Mission: Impossible" and " Brave to the Deadly Island " that followed have made the film theme of "agent action" the mainstream of creation in the international film industry at that time.
Under the influence of this "agent film trend", Hong Kong film creators in the 1990s also began to try to integrate the "agent elements" into Hong Kong film works.
994, affected by the market influence of "Real and Lies", Stephen Chow started to create "agent themes" and filmed a nonsensical comedy work - "Domestic Lingling Paint".
Although this "Domestic Lingling Paint" is covered with the cloak of "agent film", it is still a Hong Kong nonsensical comedy model in its bones. After the film was released, it achieved good box office results, but it failed to create a "special agent action film" creation craze in the Hong Kong film market.
Time came to 1996. In this year, Tom Cruise 's "Mission: Impossible" swept the global movie market with its excellent quality.
At that time, the new director of the Hong Kong film industry, Chen Desen , was also inspired by "Mission: Impossible" and created a movie titled " The Spy Movie " .
With the release of this work, a wave of creation of "agent action movies" was officially launched in the Hong Kong film market in the late 1990s. The unknown young director Chen Desen also became famous with the film.
In this issue, let’s talk about this "Hong Kong version of Mission Impossible" directed by Chen Desen and starring Takeshi Kaneshiro , Chen Xiaochun , Yang Caini -"Spy Shadow" .
This "Spy Shadow of the Spy" was invested and filmed by " Jiahe ".
As a new director with no representative work, how did Chen Desen gain the trust of the Hong Kong film giant "Jiahe" at that time, get investment, and start filming this "Spy Shadow"? The answer to the question of
cannot be avoided by one person, that is - Jackie Chan .
Jackie Chan and Chen Desen are old acquaintances.
html In the early 180s, Chen Desen was an assistant to Jackie Chan. At that time, Chen Desen always had a directorial dream in his heart, thinking that if he followed Jackie Chan, he would have the opportunity to enter the set, learn film knowledge, and become a director assistant.
Unexpectedly, Jackie Chan only needs a living assistant. Under the gap between reality and imagination, Chen Desen chose to leave Jackie Chan and enter the film industry to pursue his own movie dream.
According to Chen Desen, Jackie Chan is a person with relatively conservative thoughts and strong clan concepts. Jackie Chan's real name is " Chen Gangsheng ", so he takes special care of his colleagues surnamed Chen. Chen Desen naturally cannot avoid this "special care".
After resigning from his position as assistant, Jackie Chan introduced Chen Desen to Jiahe and became a scene recorder on the set.
990, Chen Desen officially took the position of director and filmed his debut work " My Wife Is Not a Human HTML ". However, the effect after the film was released was not ideal. Chen Desen's directorial journey also fell into silence after the film.
993, when Jackie Chan was filming " Crime Team ", he did not forget to take care of Chen Desen, who was in a low position in his career, and arranged for him to participate in the screenwriter of the film.
When filming this movie "The Legend of the Spy", Chen Desen was able to gain the trust of "Jiahe" and successfully obtained the investment, which naturally was inseparable from the care of Jackie Chan.
It is worth mentioning that although Jackie Chan has given Chen Desen a lot of help in the film career, Jackie Chan's attitude towards Chen Desen in life is extremely cold.
It was not until 2000 when he collaborated on " Spy City " that Jackie Chan and Chen Desen successfully "break the ice". According to director Chen Desen, the reason why Jackie Chan treats him coldly in life is very simple, because Chen Desen took the initiative to resign, making the arrogant Jackie Chan feel embarrassed.
Back to the topic, in 1996, after Chen Desen obtained investment from "Jiahe", he began to create "Spy Shadow".
html In the mid-190s, Takeshi Kaneshiro quickly rose in the film industry with "Chongqing Forest" and "Fallen Angel", and Chen Xiaochun quickly rose in the film industry with " Young and Dangerous " and " Stormtrooper's Rage Street ".
In this "Stattood Spy", Chen Desen also took a fancy to two new film stars, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Chen Xiaochun, and let them play the protagonists of the film. At the same time, the gold medal action guide of " Hongjiaban " was also brought in Dong Wei to design the action scenes for the film.
The story of "The Legend of the Spy" revolves around an organization called "ATM".
Jackal (played by Takeshi Kaneshiro) and Cash (played by Jordan Chan) are affiliated with a "commercial spy" organization called "ATM". The organization has 4 members, and four of them perform their own responsibilities.
Jackal and Cash are responsible for the operation, Titan is responsible for the collection of intelligence, and Sam is responsible for the operation. Because of the special nature of the work, Titan and Sam have always been hidden behind the scenes and have never appeared. In the entire organization, only Jackal and Cash know each other.
After an operation, Jackal and Cash were arrested by the "police officers" of the Security Department and met Stanley (played by the Security Department Intelligence Department Director" by Fang Zhongxin ).
Stanley not only caught Jackal and Cash, but also caught Titan (played by Wang Hexi and ) and Sam (played by Yang Caini).
Jackal and Cash saw their other two partners for the first time, but they didn't expect that it would be under this situation.
Stanley straight to the point and told his purpose of catching everyone. It turned out that a "counterfeit banknote group" of Iran came to Hong Kong for trading with two " pound counterfeit banknote boards" with a simulation level of up to 99%. The result was intercepted by the agent of MI5.
However, this agent wanted to fill his bags, and the "Security Department" wanted to protect the electric board, but it was not convenient to confront the MI5 agent head-on, so he wanted to use Jackal, Cash, Titan and Sam to grab these two electric boards.
Cash doesn't want to get into this muddy water, and even sarcasticizes Stanley.
However, Stanley has mastered all the evidence of the "ATM organization" and has also frozen the bank accounts of four people.
Stanley said that as long as the four people are willing to cooperate, everything is easy to say. Otherwise, they will be in business and prosecuted the four people for their "commercial crimes".
In order to save his life, the four had to agree to Stanley's conditions.
In order to ensure that the action is foolproof, Cash also found Phoenix (played by Li Qihong ) who tracked and countertracked to join the action. After strict deployment,
people successfully grabbed the electric board from the MI5 agents.
However, when five people came to the agreed location and met Stanley, an accident happened. After Stanley got the electric board, he wanted to kill five people with a bomb. In the explosion of
, Phoenix died on the spot, while Jackal, Cash, Titan, Sam jumped into the water and escaped.
After an accident, everyone in ATM decided to find Stanley to avenge Phoenix. However, after some search, everyone found that Stanley suddenly evaporated.
After in-depth investigation, four people found that Stanley had recently booked a plastic surgery surgery at a plastic surgery center. So the four suspected that Stanley wanted to avoid the investigation through plastic surgery, and then flew away with the electric board.
According to the clues, four people from ATM came to the plastic surgery center where Stanley had plastic surgery to see if they could find some clues.But it turned out that all the people here were killed.
In the plastic surgery center, 4 people encountered a mysterious killer. After a fight, the four people got an important clue from the killer.
It turned out that the agent of MI5 grabbed the electric board from the "counterfeit banknote group". In order to regain the power board, the counterfeit banknote group bribed Stanley of the Security Department. As a result, Stanley set up a trap and used Jackal, Cash, Titan and Sam to regain the power board.
Now, Stanley is going to trade with the leader of the "Counterfeit Banknote Group". Jackal, Cash, Titan and Sam also decided to go to the trading location to regain the phone board and kill Stanley.
While Jackal, Cash, Titan and Sam were tracing Stanley, MI5 also sent a large number of agents to investigate the "electric board robbery".
Jackal, Cash, Titan and Sam came to the transaction location, successfully killed Stanley after disguised, and also grabbed the phone version. On the way back, Sam suddenly arrested Jackal, Cash and Titan with a gun, and contacted the MI5 agents.
It turns out that the real Sam has died in the pursuit of the security department. Now Sam is an agent from the Security Department "A Yang".
At the beginning, Ah Yang followed the orders of his superior Stanley, pretended to be Sam, and mixed into the ATM team to supervise the "electric board grabbing plan".
But unexpectedly, everything is Stanley's trap. In order to prove his innocence, Ah Yang decided to assist the MI5 agents to retrieve the phone board and redeem them.
A Yang and the agents of MI5 came to the security department with the electric board and Jackal, Cash, and Titan, and reported everything in detail.
However, the new director of the Security Department arrested Ah Yang. It turned out that the electric board brought back by A Yang was fake. After being arrested, Ah Yang realized that the Stanley he had killed at the trading location before was fake, and everything was a trap. The real Stanley had already taken "fake death" on the pretense and flew away with the electric board.
Jackal, Cash, and Titan also realized that the previous action to kill Stanley was too smooth, and it felt like everything was arranged intentionally.
To find the real Stanley, avenge Phoenix. Titan lied that he knew the whereabouts of the real electric board, so he waited for an opportunity to hijack the director and escaped from the security department with Jackal and Cash.
and Ah Yang also fled with the three. During the escape, Titan died by accident.
Seeing Phoenix and Titan die one after another, Jackal and Cash decided to find out Stanley's whereabouts and avenge the two.
When A Yang sorted out Phoenix's relics, he found that Phoenix had installed a tracking device on the electric board during his lifetime. So the three people found Stanley in Budapest according to the instructions of the tracker.
In Budapest, the three people started a fierce gun battle with Stanley, and finally successfully killed Stanley and regained the board. At the end of the movie, Ah Yang sent the electric board back to the "Security Department", while she herself cooperated with Jackal and Cash to form a new "ATM group".
Although the plot structure of this "Spy Sword" imitates the design of "Mission: Impossible", the compact story arrangement and excellent suspense atmosphere still make the film love a large number of movie fans.
The big stunt action scene designed by Dong Wei for the film also stimulated the visual nerves of many movie fans.
1997, this movie "The Legend of the Spy" was released in the Hong Kong film market, achieving quite good box office results and market reputation.
After "The Legend of the Spy", the Hong Kong film market has sparked a "agent craze" .
998, Chen Musheng and Jackie Chan joined forces to shoot the high-cost agent movie " Who am I ". Ma Chucheng 's "Phantom Agent", " Tokyo Strategy ", Lin Chaoxian 's "G4 Agent ", Ye Weimin 's "BadBoy Special Attack", Ye Weixin 's "The Next Generation of the Thief", and Cheng Xiaodong 's " Naked Agent 's also appeared on the big screen of Hong Kong films at that time.
This "Spy Shadow" not only set off a "spy film creation craze" in the Hong Kong film market, but also created the rise of Chen Desen's film industry.
Before filming this film, Chen Desen was just a poor young director in the Hong Kong film market. However, with the popularity of the film's reputation and box office, Chen Desen's directorial name has officially begun in the Hong Kong film market.
After "The Legend of the Spy", "Jiahe" invested in and filmed a "special agent-themed work" " Purple Rain Storm " for Chen Desen. His outstanding performance in this work also gave Chen Desen a nomination for "Best Director".
After "Purple Rain Storm", Chen Desen began to be respected by "Jiahe" and in 2001 he collaborated with Jackie Chan to a large-cost agent film - "Spy Mystery".
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