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Chapter 237 is worth the price of admission!
Without further ado, Yuan Xiangshi and Wan Wei walked straight into the theater without any popcorn, cola and snacks.

The opening scene of "The Detective" sets the tone of the film and reveals the character of the main character Matthews.

Matthews, played by Huang Baiyou, investigates the case by "becoming" the murderer and "becoming" the deceased, a dual experience.

A pig is hung up and stabbed into the dead pig in the same manner as a murderer, with a dagger in hand.

Or, huddle yourself in the suitcase and let the police officers under you push the suitcase down with you.

There is also a close-up shot of Matthews, played by Huang Baiyou. One second after stabbing the pig, he covered his face in pain, as if he regretted killing someone. The next second, he dismembered the dead pig expressionlessly. In the first three minutes, the audience had a feeling for the protagonist. The intuitive understanding is that he is an "epilepiac"!
"Why did he cut off his own ear and give it to his retired boss?" Wanwei asked.

"Maybe it's an imitation of Van Gogh's story of cutting off his ear and giving it away to reflect the unstable mental state of the protagonist Matthews." Yuan Xiangshi replied to his wife in a low voice.

"It's really crazy. He is a completely mentally unstable person. Jiang Yuliu was also crazy in the later period of Nanhai Thirteenth Lang, but they are two completely different things." Wanwei said in a low voice. Crazy can perform so many different performances, which is very powerful.

Master Yuan Xiang agreed, and Wanwei didn't say that Huang Baiyou looked exactly like the Xiangjiang actor.

It is always easy to distinguish between actors from Hong Kong and mainland actors in a film. It may be due to the difference in the shooting environment.

Huang Baiyou was perfectly integrated into the movie, and most of the audience in the theater were very satisfied with the prologue of the movie. This is the feeling of "everything is overdone, everything is crazy".

The plot of "Detective" is divided into two lines. The first line is that Matthews was considered to have a mental problem because he cut his own ear and was suspended from work for a long time. The other line is that the police officers Gao Tong and Wang Shangzhu squatted in the middle of the night to guard the thief who stole the manhole cover.

As a result, they chased the thief into the woods. The next day, only Gao Tong came out of the woods. His colleague Wang Shangzhu disappeared. Also missing at the same time was the policeman with his gun.

In the following days, several armed robberies occurred on the streets of Xiangjiang, two of which resulted in deaths.

After comparing the bullet marks, it was determined that the firearm that fired the bullet was from the missing police officer Wang Shangzhu's weapon.

He Pingan was responsible for investigating the case. After half a year of investigation, he found no clues at all, so he asked Detective Matthews to help.

The main storyline of the movie begins, and when He Ping'an invites Matthews, Huang Baiyou's non-physical performance blocks the non-existent wife, which is also an eye-opener for the audience.

To be honest, Huang Baiyou's acting skills feel like they are overflowing from the screen, and they are so good that ordinary people can see them with the naked eye.

The audience's praise could be faintly heard in the theater.

In the first line, in addition to showing Matthews' suspension, he also showed one of his powers "the ability to see the dirty things in people's hearts."

Therefore, when Matthews saw the suspect Gao Tong for the first time, others saw Gao Tong alone, but he saw seven people.

"Ju Xilei is really a genius in writing scripts. Do the seven dirty things refer to the seven deadly sins?" Wan Wei sighed.

The screenwriter writes well, the director shoots well, and the combination of Wei and Ju is great.

Matthews deliberately provoked Gao Tong in the toilet and was beaten to a bloody head. There is also a black humorous scene in this plot. Because the embodiment of Gao Tong's dirty things representing "lies" was played by an actress, the actress stood up Shhhhhh...

"The investigation is completely reckless and will kill you sooner or later." Wanwei whispered.

She was watching the plot, but Master Yuan Xiang beside her was watching the acting. The two of them had different focuses when watching the movie.

However, sometimes the focuses can intersect.

Matthews, played by Huang Baiyou, used his finger as a gun and pointed it at the clerk, "Take out the money."

Matthews was imitating a robber, reenacting the entire process of the robber entering the store and shooting and killing. "Bang" Huang Baiyou also dubbed himself, simulating the sound of a gunshot.

"How is this achieved? Why can Huang Baiyou perform special abilities?" Wan Wei felt strange, "His performance made me believe that Matthews can really see through other people's hearts, and the movie has no special effects to assist."

Many movies in which the protagonists have superpowers, even if the special effects are full, the actors feel no different from ordinary people, and it is not impossible to watch... But how did Huang Baiyou do it?
As a first-class actor, Yuan Xiangshi immediately replied: "Because Huang Baiyou's performance is extraordinary and ordinary at the same time."

Extraordinary and ordinary, what a convoluted thing, Wanwei's eyes express "Speak to me in human terms".

"You didn't notice just now. The extra actor playing the clerk's face was confused. I guess this confusion was not staged, because Huang Baiyou was so 'arrogant' just now. From entering the store to simulating shooting, there was no real clerk in his eyes. .”

Master Yuan Xiang thought for a while and simplified what he just said.

"A few more scenes were inserted in the post-editing, and we know that his eyes were 'looking' at the former clerk who was shot dead in front of him."

"It seems true. In the previous conversation with Gao Tong, it was obvious that Huang Baiyou's eyes were always looking past Ning Jie and behind Ning Jie." Wan Wei recalled that she didn't remember the character's name when she spoke, so she called him more familiar. The actor's name is, "The eyes are misaligned with reality. This technique is not bad and can be promoted."

Even though Wanwei has been an agent for more than ten years and has a good handle on the crew, she is not an actor after all. She thinks this method is not very technical and can be promoted... But Master Yuan Xiang couldn't help but twitching at the corner of his mouth after hearing this.

He may not be able to even promote it.

People have subconscious reactions, just like there is a person standing in front of you. It takes a certain amount of practice to completely ignore it, not to mention achieving such an obvious visual effect as Huang Baiyou.

"This guy's performance is so solid, and he is also hard-working. I don't believe that Huang Baiyou hasn't trained dozens or hundreds of times for these scenes." Master Yuan Xiang thought to himself, and wanted to cough again. I covered my mouth to swallow half of the sound, it was quite uncomfortable.

But Huang Baiyou's performance... was really not in vain!
The plot enters a "honeymoon period", because Matthews investigates useful clues, and He Ping'an believes in this former detective even more.

Even in the restaurant, He Pingan tried to say hello to his invisible sister-in-law.

Xiang Baorui's acting skills are also completely OK. He greeted Matthews' imaginary wife as if he was talking to a ghost... I hope the other party will give feedback, but I am afraid that there will be feedback.

Audiences who are familiar with Ju Xilei's scripts know that his police-themed movies do not end well, and the so-called "honeymoon period" is just the accumulation stage of the plot's downward dive.In the next scene, Matthews and He Pingan came to the grove where Wang Shangzhu disappeared.

Because Matthews "saw" Wang Shangzhu was dead and wanted to track down the location of the body, he asked He Ping'an to bury himself alive and experience the victim.

He Ping'an wanted to experience the detective's method of solving crimes and proposed to bury himself alive.

His behavior was also foreshadowed in the past. He Pingan admired the detective Matthews very much, and even the gun he wore was Matthews's gun.

The result - the process of Matthews burying He Ping'an alive was the process of experiencing the murderer. Matthews saw another clue and left directly following the clues.

He Pingan, who was buried alive, was obviously forgotten.

After struggling hard, He Ping'an was almost buried alive. He angrily came to Matthews' home and met Matthews' ex-wife.

The ex-wife explained that she and Matthews had divorced a long time ago, and the latter couldn't accept it, so he fantasized about having a wife. She also said that Matthews was mentally ill and would not return to the clinic or take medicine.

This incident dealt a heavy blow to He Pingan's trust in Matthews. Seeing the pills thrown over by Matthews' ex-wife, it could even be said that his faith collapsed.

What followed was a scene that was enough to make Huang Baiyou a god.

"Miss, shark fin."

"Steam a grouper."

"Half fried chicken."

"Add a bowl of white rice."

Matthews, played by Huang Baiyou, repeated Gao Tong's actions when he came to the restaurant over and over again, from smoking cigars to how to eat, he repeated it five times in total until he vomited it out because he was so full.

"Okay!" Master Yuan Xiang couldn't help but cheer, but his voice was very low.

"?" Wanwei looked at her husband doubtfully, "Is the reason why I am so praised because of my dedication? I ate so many things in succession for filming."

"You'll know this later when you watch the highlights." Master Yuan Xiang said.

Watch the behind-the-scenes to find out how uncomfortable it is for the actors to eat so much?In fact, there is nothing to boast about with this kind of money, not to mention that Master Yuan Xiang hurt his waist while filming a horse riding scene before and continued filming. Isn't this more dedicated?

Anyway, Wanwei thinks her husband Yuan Xiangshi is better.

The plot of the movie takes a turn for the worse. Gao Tong realizes that someone is investigating him and lays a trap. He Pingan, whose faith has collapsed, throws himself into the trap.

When Matthews met again, he saw something bad appearing in Hepingan.

Another showdown between two movie kings——

"Give me back your ID, give me back your gun." Xiang Baorui walked out of the darkness tremblingly.

"Why? What happened?" When Huang Bai said why, the audience felt that he had become "shorter" out of thin air.

Because the juniors who are optimistic about them also have bad things in their hearts.

Matthews, previously played by Huang Baiyou, has always transcended his true nature and directly talked to the bad things in people's hearts, including stopping a little girl from stealing things at the beginning of the movie.

But this time, Huang Baiyou's eyes were fixed on the original body, with regretful and anxious eyes... But Wei Zhuang was very cruel. The true body of He Ping'an, played by Xiang Baorui, was not shown in the camera, only the bad things in his heart.

"I was almost beaten to death." He Pingan cried, his voice trembling.

"Don't mess up! I told you a long time ago that this case has been solved." Huang Baiyou's words were mixed with anxiety in his firm scolding.

The look he looked at He Ping'an completely conveyed to the audience, "Hold on, don't be defeated by bad things."

"I was pushed to the ground and a gun was pointed at my head."

It's useless, it's useless anymore. Once something bad appears, Mathews's eyes and words will no longer be able to touch the body.

Once there is something bad in the soul, He Pingan will no longer be the just policeman.

This scene is extremely rich in both its surface presentation and its inner meaning.

Because it had to go through censorship, the film was shot in two versions of the ending, the Cantonese version and the Mandarin version.

The ending of the former where the gun was changed made the theater scene exclaim. Gao Tong and Matthews were both dead. The only one alive, He Ping'an, kept changing guns and fabricating lies that were beneficial to him. Every adjustment represented his blackmail. change intensified.

The ending of the latter is not so dark, because He Pingan is always a policeman who cannot be bad to the end.

Yuan Xiangshi and Wan Wei watched the Cantonese version. After watching it, they wanted to stand up and applaud, but they gave up this action considering that this was a cinema, not a film festival.

　I wrote another chapter before twelve o'clock. I had trouble sleeping and stayed up all night and only managed to write three thousand words. I was also convinced.This is yesterday's update, and writing another one is just an additional update, not today's.

　　
　
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