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Chapter 699 Double Identity!

Hong Kong.

"Infernal Affairs" set.

In filming, Li Zhifan usually doesn't add scenes randomly, and those who have been with him for a long time know this.

Moreover, the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy itself does not have a single extra shot, and superfluous additions will disrupt the rhythm of the story.

Li Zhifan would occasionally let the actors add their own scenes. Anyway, the editing is in his own hands. As long as the changes are not major, there is usually no problem.

But this time he made an exception, adding drama to the role of Yang Jinrong, and even changing his nature.

During the filming process, Jiang Hai, who played Yang Jinrong, became the most shining member of the whole crew.

Most of this is due to Jiang Hai's years of calm training, and he was already past the frivolous age when he became popular, so not only did he not swell, but he took advantage of the opportunity to strictly control the script and the main creative team. The drama has become popular and there are many appointments, and they will accept everything in order to make money and traffic.

Especially for some obviously bad movies, but because there are so many celebrities participating in the show, the invited actors also joined the group with other purposes.

When Jiang Hai chatted with Li Zhifan before, he accidentally mentioned that when he got the script of "Infernal Affairs", the role he most wanted to play was Chen Yongren.

Speaking of reasons, Jiang Hai mentioned three points.

One is that Chen Yongren has huge flaws in his personality.

Especially in the script of the second part, it can be clearly reflected that because of the death of the Ni family, Chen Yongren shouldered a lot of self-blame. He is a policeman, and the starting point of everything he does is justice. He proved himself and did a lot of things, but it indirectly led to the destruction of the Ni family.

Chen Yongren has collected a lot of evidence over the years. When Ni Yongxiao was arrested, it was only Ni Yongxiao who was shot or imprisoned for the rest of his life. He had been undercover for his family members for so long. Except for Ni Yongxiao, the rest of the family members were doing good deeds. Even if they wanted to kill relatives for justice, they He is innocent, Ni Yongxiao dies and the Ni family is finished.

This is also the biggest reason why Chen Yongren saw a psychiatrist in the first play. The many years of undercover career is not the most fundamental reason, but because of the death of the Ni family, and even after the death of the Ni family, because of "the duty of the police" He had to work under Han Chen as an undercover agent. This kind of contradictory and conflicting human nature caused great psychological defects.

The second is that the role of Chen Yongren is very difficult to play, and it is also the most difficult role in this drama.

From Jiang Hai's point of view, although Li Zhifan is not a young boy with a handsome face, he is still a young man of literature and art.
On the contrary, Jiang Hai has this ability, because he can shape both decent and villains.

But after the first part of "Infernal Affairs" was released, Jiang Hai was dumbfounded. He didn't feel it when he was on the crew, but when he got on the big screen, he was moved again and again. He admired Li Zhifan's plasticity and the ability of the crew's stylist. Sexual performance, not a sense of drama, but very harmonious, and exudes a sense of assimilation of Hong Kong local actors, I don't think there is anything wrong with him, a mainland actor, acting as Hong Kong's undercover agent.

Another difficult thing to act is that Chen Yongren is essentially a policeman and a good guy. If he is not careful, he will be outmatched by the acting skills of the villain. In a sense, it is easier for the villain to perform better than the good guy, because the bad guy is easier to act. Exaggerated facial expressions, body movements, etc.

Fortunately, Li Zhifan chose Chen Guanjun to play the role of Liu Jianming, and besides being handsome, Chen Guanjun was completely overwhelmed by Li Zhifan in terms of acting skills, especially his various eyes, which are enough to support a play.

Although Chen Guanjun is good enough, as a villain undercover, his acting skills are still slightly inferior.

Although Jiang Hai wanted to play Chen Yongren very much, after getting the role of Yang Jinrong and thinking about it carefully, he was even more excited, because this character is very important and mysterious. The script did not clarify his identity at the beginning, but Li Zhifan added scenes for him Even if his identity is revealed, it will directly push the plot to another climax.

The third part is actually divided into two scenes. The first half is the scene six months before Chen Yongren's death. Although Chen Guanjun has integrated into the rhythm and plot, it is better than when he filmed the first part. In terms of improvisation and emotional outbursts, the third original version has added scenes specially for him, and he also performed well.

Compared with the previous two films, although Li Zhifan was only in charge of the first half, he also became Chen Guanjun's supporting role. The role of this supporting role is still slightly better than Chen Guanjun's.

In the second half, Chen Guanjun, Jiang Hai, and Zhou Shilei played against each other. As soon as Zhou Shilei came up, he volleyed above the two of them. Including Zhou Shilei, who also played a very important role in the first half, he was still superior to Li Zhifan and Chen Guanjun. .

The remaining Chen Guanjun and Jiang Hai are on the same level, because Jiang Hai's role limits his scope, and Jiang Hai's interpretation seems to be the middle-aged policeman who is the protagonist in Japanese and Korean movies, the actor-level interpretation .

In the original version of the plot introduction, the description of Yang Jinrong is: the young superintendent Yang Jinrong, with his great achievements, is on his way to the top of the police force at the age of less than forty.

——The term “young superintendent” can be used when you are under 30 years old, but if you are under 40 years old, you can only be regarded as a young superintendent, and Jiang Hai’s promotion of the character image to a young and middle-aged person is actually the most correct.

During the filming process, Li Zhifan actually had new ideas on the editing of "Infernal Affairs 3". The original version feels like it's segment by segment, with constant flashbacks, so he knows everything.

In fact, the clue person is not clear, because the real clue person in the third part is Shen Cheng.

If the third part is edited from Shen Cheng's perspective, or according to the order of Shen Cheng's appearance, then you won't be confused.

In the original version, Chen Daoming, a mainland actor, played the role of Shen Cheng, and the director wanted to play a time-space staggered flower board. Get up messed up.

After all, movies are art for the public to watch, so it is natural to take care of all audiences.

There is actually no problem with the editing method of the original version. From an artistic point of view, it is completely Quentin’s feeling, but after all, not everyone is smart. Playing tricks, and there is no thought of watching it a second time or a third time.

Moreover, "Infernal Affairs" has a huge network of relationships and situations, and it is not a simple story of a person committing a crime or amnesia. Editing with flashbacks in time and space can easily create a feeling of "a collection of tidbits".

In addition, the biggest suspense in the third part is that Han Chen set up five undercover agents. Liu Jianming was the first and number one undercover agent. The second one was Lin Guoping who was beaten to death by Liu Jianming in the first elevator. Jun, the fourth one is a police officer under Officer Liang, and the fifth one... didn't show up!
It should be that the director of the original version forgot, but there is a clear hint in the third part, it is very likely that it is Yang Jinrong.

Because there are two scenes in the play that have already explained the situation.

The first scene was in the police station. Chen Jun, Yang Jinrong's subordinate, pointed a gun at Yang Jinrong and said, "Sir Yang, we all work for Brother Chen. You should help me, otherwise you will not have a good life."

When the camera was shown on Yang Jinrong, his expression was calm and unchanged. After a gunshot, Yang Jinrong walked out of the conference room, but his subordinate Chen Jun died.

This shows some of the relationship between Yang Jinrong and Han Chen. Even if it is an information exchange personnel arranged by the high-level, it is impossible to blatantly let a Han Chen's inner ghost know. It is enough to show that this Chen Jun knew Yang Jinrong and knew Yang Jinrong and Han Chen very early Therefore, the point of this acquaintance is likely to be when Han Chen arranged to enter the police academy as an undercover agent.

On the other hand, Yang Jinrong killed people without blinking an eye, without any panic and calmness to the extreme, which shows that his character is unscrupulous, even more cold-blooded and ruthless than Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming, but it also shows that he is hard to distinguish between loyalty and evil.

There is also a scene where Liu Jianming loses control of his mind when he hears the recording being played. He points at Yang Jinrong excitedly and says, "He is Liu Jianming. Liu Jianming is right there. Why don't you arrest him!"

Schizophrenia is just abnormal for normal people, but from various theories, mental patients have their own set of logic. The original drama design such a scene may imply that Yang Jinrong's identity is the same as Liu Jianming, but it's just that It is a more sophisticated kind of infernal affairs - double undercover.

So the only scene that Li Zhifan added to Yang Jinrong was when it was discovered that in the tape left by Han Chen, there was a recording of Yang Jinrong that was different from the record——Yang Jinrong, as a senior inspector of the security department who was instructed by the senior police to exchange information with Han Chen, In fact, it was Han Chen who inserted himself into the police station, but after a turn of events, he was finally beaten to death by Liu Jianming, and the senior police officers informed that the dead Yang Jinrong was actually the same as Chen Yongren, and unexpectedly he was sent back by Han Chen as a pawn. The high-level simply pushed the boat along.

Why is Yang Jinrong's double identity an undercover agent sent by the police?
Because marksmanship exposes everything.

When Lin Guoping killed Chen Yongren, he shot him in the head.

When Liu Jianming killed Yang Jinrong, he also shot him in the head.

When Chen Yongren, Yang Jinrong, or Shen Cheng shot, they never hit each other in the head.

Even when Chen Yongren and Shen Cheng shot each other, one was shot in the hand and the other was shot in the foot.

This is because they are all real policemen. There is a lesson in the police academy that when facing gangsters, they should not be shot to death, but knocked down. Therefore, no matter what the circumstances, these three people will not shoot their heads. Because of this rule It has become a conditioned reflex.

But Liu Jianming is not, he has always been a thief, and he also thinks that he is a thief in his heart. He wants to be a good person, and whoever blocks and kills.This allows us to see the difference between soldiers and thieves.

And Yang Jinrong was shot to the head, like Chen Yongren, first of all, it echoed the first part, and once again proved that Liu Jianming was a thief.

Yang Jinrong took over the role of Chen Yongren in the third part, and was finally shot by Liu Jianming. This was also the last step of Liu's falling into Infernal Affairs, which revolved around the Buddhist scripture in the film: receiving body and never dying, longevity is the greatest in Infernal Hell robbery.

In this way, at the moment when Yang Jinrong's final mystery was deciphered, the plot was pushed to a climax, followed by the final ending.

In this way, the role of Yang Jinrong won't be felt that the addition of the role has no beginning and end, or even feels a little abrupt.

In addition, another character that can make people feel awkward is naturally Shen Cheng.

The original version also did not specify Shen Cheng's identity, nor did he explicitly say that he is a mainland policeman, but he is also in the arms business, and he is a local tyrant, and he is mixed with Han Chen. In fact, his identity should not be difficult to guess. He is just a donor, but he is a white glove doing things for the country, so he calls himself a shadow. When he came to Xiangjiang after the reunification, he also did some unspeakable things. In short, it is a big deal.

Even if this character is placed in this world and this era, it still cannot be clearly stated, otherwise the movie will not pass the review.

In all domestic films, arms donors are villains, illegal, and cannot be affiliated with the government.

Therefore, "Infernal Affairs 3" still left such a mystery as Shen Cheng in the hands of Li Zhifan, and his behavior seemed to be completely a bug.

To give Shen Cheng a clear ending, unless the script is drastically changed, and the script is applied to the military or the Ministry of Public Security for reference, then "Infernal Affairs 3" becomes another "Operation Mekong" style movie, Also lost its meaning.

……

After two weeks of continuous struggle, it was mid-March, and "Infernal Affairs 3" was officially completed.

This trilogy has been filmed for nearly half a year, and everyone in the crew has not passed the year, and has been sticking to their posts.

Especially Li Zhifan, who has been completely separated from his family for the past six months, only Zhou Ke will come to Xiangjiang for two days a week, and then return to Los Angeles.

So the first thing Li Zhifan did after wrapping up was to buy a plane ticket to Los Angeles.

And he also brought all the materials for the filming, and he is preparing to carry out the post-production of the second and third parts in the United States.

……

Los Angeles.

As soon as he got home, Li Zhifan couldn't wait to see Little Cherry.

By June of this year, Little Cherry will be three years old, and she is already a big baby who can run and walk.

"Little Cherry, look what Dad brought back for you!"

As soon as Li Zhifan entered the room, he took out the gifts he had prepared. There were many kinds, all of which were purchased from Xiangjiang. There was a set of picture books suitable for 3-year-old children, puzzles, hairpins, bracelets, and several sets Tutu.

Little Cherry chose among several items, picked up the hairpin and put it on by herself, saying, "I like this!"

Li Zhifan stared: "Speak so fluently?"

Zhou Ke on the side smiled and said, "During the video call, it's not like you haven't talked to her before, so why make a fuss."

"No, that's not so fluent!"

When the father and daughter are videoing, Little Cherry can also speak a lot, but she gnaws and speaks intermittently, and there are many times when she can't speak and just speaks some strange languages.

Little Cherry now goes back to the early education center every day, but this is different from domestic kindergartens or parent-child kindergartens. She just takes her to play for a few hours and then comes back. Although there are some games to develop intelligence, they are not particularly difficult. On the contrary, children I'm quite happy, maybe it's through this kind of contact that I learned some strange languages!
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