Li Changsheng himself was smuggled from the mainland, so when he shoots similar subjects, he must not portray the main characters he represents as criminals, but rather describe them as a group of people who are forced to be helpless and very pitiful.
When filming the "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" series, Li Changsheng told the main creators to reflect more on how difficult life is for the mainlanders who come to Hong Kong.
Don't reflect the sins of the inland people, but more to show their helplessness, and let the aboriginal people in Xiangjiang sympathize with them.
Knowing the origin of the boss Li Changsheng, the following directors, producers, and supervisors who shoot similar themes will be very careful.
They tried their best not to expose the crimes of the big circle boys, and more reflected their forced helplessness, how pitiful 797 was.
"A Year Like Water" is about Hong Kong people returning to their hometowns, while "The Flag Soldiers of Hong Kong and Province" is about leaving their hometowns and going to Hong Kong. Every time they go and come, they have different perspectives and styles.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many women could not bear the hunger or the impact of sports, and risked their lives by smuggling from Shenzhen to Xiangjiang.
When the wave swept across the land of China more than ten years ago, Tang Shuxuan, the senior director of Xiangjiang, once filmed the famous "Goodbye Zhongying", reflecting this period of history, but it was banned by the British Hong Kong authorities.
Some people escaped from Hong Kong and climbed over the barbed wire fence, (agci) more people swam across the Shenzhen River with two table tennis bats or a tire and went to the free world, so they were collectively called the big circle later.
The original identities of the big circles are different. Farmers, cadres, and educated youths mostly survived with their crafts or coolies after arriving in Xiangjiang.
There are also some who are brave and ruthless by nature, and seem to maintain the fighting spirit of smashing and looting in the past, forming gangs, burning, killing and looting.
Representative figures such as Ye Jihuan, Zhang Ziqiang and other well-known bandit kings are chilling with their ferocious methods.
Mark Dangxiong, a keen-sighted director of genre films, is best at grasping the pulse of the times, and he aimed his camera at the group of big circles.
In the early 1980s, the stormy sports had gone, and behind it was a new era of changing course. In front of us was the rich and prosperous Xiangjiang land.
Distressed livelihood and broken love all turn into helpless elegy in the cruel and absurd reality.
The film reflects the psychological estrangement between the people of the two places, which has not been eliminated in the following decades of vicissitudes.
Mark Dangxiong used a large number of non-professional actors with mainland identities, without any popular stars, and his cold and realistic techniques were extremely shocking. "The hot and exciting gun battles ensured commercial entertainment.
The rhythm of the story is crisp, the language of the shots is concise, the action scenes are vigorous, the group portraits have their own characteristics, and the final ending is tragic.
Although the theme is not so deep, it also reveals the humanistic feelings of pity in the criticism.
This film shows Mark Dangxiong's powerful control. The way of hand-held photography in the Jiulong Walled City is his innovation. The real scenes in Guangzhou come from his 8mm camera candid shots.
His style of unscrupulous pursuit of realistic effects has been well known in Li's many years ago. Many scenes in the film, such as street gun battles and gasoline burning cars, are quite dangerous when filming.
Shen Wei escaped from the scene of the fire after filming the actual scene of the burning, and chased and beat Mai Dangxiong angrily. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film, claiming that he had sacrificed his life for the award when accepting the award.
Mark Dangxiong himself also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director.
After "Province and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", three more films were filmed, and the overall level still maintained a good standard, becoming a very representative series of Hong Kong-produced genre films. .
