香港回归20周年：经典港片回顾[1]_时事

香港回归20周年：经典港片回顾[1]

在广播电视发展初期，许氏兄弟的名气迅速攀升，他们留下了许多令打工阶层深感共鸣的喜剧港片。《半斤八两》堪称编剧兼导演许冠文的最佳作品之一，这部电影的开场让人印象深刻。片头在播放演职人员字幕的同时，没有对白，只有不同人物的脚走来走去。一名私家侦探穿着一双破破烂烂的鞋子跟踪目标对象，没想到一只鞋底掉了下来，这时他的光脚正好踩到一个乞丐的碗，然后又踩到一个烟头上。许冠文饰演一个爱从员工身上揩油的厚颜无耻的吝啬老板兼三流侦探，他有两个忠心耿耿的帮手，一个是会拳脚功夫的老实学徒（许冠杰饰），另一个是口吃的蠢蛋助理（许冠英饰），助理负责帮老板测试炸弹。伴随着许冠杰和他的莲花乐队创作的放克爵士乐，电影用一连串喧闹的插科打诨唤起了人们的集体意识，从小鸡健美操到面粉和香肠乱飞的打斗场面（洪金宝设计、灵感源自李小龙）。

A Better Tomorrow 英雄本色 (1986)

“I’m not showing them I’m the best. I just want to tell them I can take back what I’ve lost.”

“我并不是表现给他们看我是最牛的。我只是想让他们知道，我能拿回我失去的东西。”

To understand how this particular John Woo-Chow Yun-fat collaboration – instead of their more stylistically accomplished The Killer or Hard Boiled – captured the imaginations of a generation is perhaps to chart the history of cinephilia in Hong Kong. With a Chinese title that translates as ‘the true nature of heroes’, Wu’s seminal heroic bloodshed movie has indeed combined the best of several (movie) worlds: as a relatively faithful remake of Patrick Lung Kong’s The Story of a Discharged Prisoner (1967), it is further spiced up by the principle of brotherhood and the honorable code of yi stemming from martial arts epics of yesteryears – especially those by his mentor Chang Cheh, for whom Woo had previously served as assistant director. While deliciously pitting Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung’s brother characters against each other as mortal enemies on opposite sides of the law, the action classic is also exponentially enhanced by Chow’s charismatic portrayal of Mark, who could forget the sight of him lighting a cigarette with a burning banknote? His cockiness is exceeded only by his loyalty and heroism; in our approving minds, Mark is us.