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One is the originator of China New Year films with a strong mass base, and the other is king of comedy Xiaogang Feng and Stephen Chow, who have supreme status in the hearts of fans. These two "big bosses" in today's film industry are about to stage a box office war at the end of 2004. On February 9th, 65438, Xiaogang Feng's world without thieves was first released. On February 23rd, 65438, Stephen Chow's kung fu, which took three years to practice, was officially unveiled. When the two top teams meet, there will be a battle. However, is it really "two tigers struggle, and there must be a wound"?

■ stunts: dazzling skills VS nonsense

In world without thieves, Xiaogang Feng used many special effects in the film for the first time. For example, Andy Lau, the thief, mingled with the tourists who were worshipping outside Labrang Temple, flew out a small blade, instantly cut the tourists' pockets, and the tourists' mobile phones slipped out. Before falling to the ground, Andy Lau caught the mobile phone with the instep, and with a touch, it flew into his sleeve. The contest between thieves on the train also staged several dazzling stunt scenes, such as jumping, drilling caves, ripping off the roof and drilling under the car.

The stunts in Kung Fu are all nonsense colors of Stephen Chow, and the creativity is mixed with humor. For example, if you punch in the past, your opponent's body will sink in, or if you kick your opponent, the kicked person will fly farther and farther and fly smaller. Liang Xiaolong plays the evil God of Fire Cloud. In order to prove that he is the fastest man in the world, he held the shot put with two fingers. Many scenes have animation style, such as people's legs turning into wheels when running, being bitten by poisonous snakes, sausage mouth swelling and so on. It ensures that this film is worth seeing as a comedy of action scenes.

■ star: collective strength VS personal heroism

In world without thieves, several actors, such as Andy Lau thief, Rene Liu thief, Ge You thief Wang and Li Bingbing thief girl, broke through the past. Andy Lau looks like a tramp, dressed in dirty clothes and speaking poor Mandarin. But the "thief" is very agile, and the action of stealing things is like the moves of martial arts masters and the dance of dancers. Another highlight of the film is the wonderful performances of supporting actors, the funny performance of Zhong Feng in the robbery, the appearance of Fu Biao being blackmailed, and the dialect use of the two thieves, which makes the film full of jokes.

Kung Fu still depends on Stephen Chow's personal charm, and Xiaogang Feng, the biggest supporting actor, also adds a lot of color. Different from the tragic fate of Master Xing, he is the leader of the crocodile gang, and his image is extremely ugly: full of fangs and weak limbs. At the beginning of the film, his aunt was arrested for spitting in the police station, so he led his men to make a scene in the police station. The inspector had no choice but to turn to the Tomahawk gang, and the crocodile gang was wiped out after a big war. Xiaogang Feng, who didn't know the situation behind him, shouted, "Who else?" Then he shouted at the axe gang leader: "Let you see the power of the crocodile gang leader!" Only to be knocked down by the axe gang bosses. In just a few minutes, he showed his good acting skills, which was quite like a stroke of genius.

■ trick: stealing secrets VS traditional kung fu

World without thieves is arguably the most subversive film in Xiaogang Feng in recent years. From the content, world without thieves involves Buddhist themes and philosophical thoughts, such as "the great good and the great evil" and "the good will win the evil". In character modeling and environmental performance, it also broke through the previous style. The film has the beautiful scenery of Labrang Temple, a holy place of Tibetan Buddhism in Gannan, and the unique features of the town railway station. Andy Lau's prodigal model, Rene Liu's pregnant woman image, Ge You's easy transformation, Li Bingbing's coquettish, everyone has a strong charm, each with its own characteristics.

The thief's kungfu performance in Xiaogang Feng can be said to be one of the secrets of stealing skills, such as stealth stealing, stealing with a blade, turning the hair clasp into a weapon, and the thief has done a lot of plastic surgery ... Linguistically, there are Putonghua, Henan dialect and Gansu dialect, which are very lively.

Kung Fu expresses Stephen Chow's respect for traditional national kung fu films. Stephen Chow was born in an ordinary citizen's family in Hongkong. When he was young, he dreamed of becoming a kung fu master. Bruce Lee, a great master, is the idol of his life. Watching kung fu movies in the corner of the cinema has become a great pleasure as he grows up. Stephen Chow especially appreciates the plot that all kinds of little people struggle hard and eventually become a generation of masters, and these childhood dreams are his original intention and inspiration for creating this film. In the film, Sammo Hung, the earliest action director who joined the crew, made a lot of contributions. Although he left the league halfway, many China martial arts schools remained in the film. Stephen Chow's Palm of the Tathagata is a tribute to China's earliest kung fu film, and his offensive and defensive posture in the film is quite similar to that of Bruce Lee in Crossing the River. In addition, Goro Bagua Stick, Twelve-way Tan Legs and Hongjia Tiexian Boxing, which are usually only conceptualized, are faithfully reproduced in this film.

After watching world without thieves, I watched Kung Fu. The stunt is mysterious and really wonderful, but it lacks the proper storyline and the wisdom and humor that Stephen Chow once had.

I began to find that director Feng actually did a good job.

In 2004, the film industry in Chinese mainland should be most proud of the director Xiaogang Feng. World without thieves's box office breakthrough 1 100 million. Although I lost to Stephen Chow's Kung Fu in absolute revenue, I would like to believe that the winner is world without thieves.