＂Negotiation Expert＂： Liu Qingyun VS Wu Zhenyu, who is the ＂mouth＂ strong king

1905 movie network feature Speaking of "Negotiation Expert", you may think of Hong Kong movies, you may also think of Hong Kong dramas, and there is also a "Negotiation Expert" to meet the audience during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday.

The film "Negotiation Expert" is produced, written and directed, and starred in. The film tells the story of negotiation expert Zhuo Wenwei (Liu Qingyun, played) who is framed as a suspect in the murder of a police comrade. He realizes from various clues that he is falling into a trap. In desperation, he struggles to resist and escape. In the process of investigating the truth, he takes hostages and appoints former negotiation expert Xie Jiajun (Wu Zhenyu) to talk to him. The two masters who "convince people with their mouths" staged a battle of words and words.

"Today’s Film Review" invited Su Yabin, a professor at Communication University of China, to talk about whether the movie "Negotiator" is the best choice for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Localized adaptation, fresher than previous Hong Kong films

As for the completion of "Negotiation Expert", Su Yabin gave a 6.5-point rating: "Overall, director Qiu Litao completed this sketch-style work in a short and straightforward way."

"Negotiator" is a remake of the American movie "Ace to Ace". The story content and direction are basically "respect the original". The original version got a high score of 8.5 on Douban, and also won the top position on the list of unpopular crime films in Douban. Compared with the original version, the localization of this Hong Kong version has advantages and disadvantages.

First of all, the completeness and complexity of the movie story, as well as the rationality and internal logic of the reversal, are all very good. It can even be said that the "twists, turns, richness, completeness, and interest" of the storyline embodied in "Negotiator" not only exceeds that of Qiu Litao’s previous works, but also "kills" 95% of the previous Hong Kong police and gangster films.

In addition, director Qiu Litao in the film deliberately strengthened the attention and sympathy for disadvantaged groups, such as Andy Lau’s mentally disabled husband, who went to take hostages just to retrieve his children, because he thought their children were stolen by the welfare department.

The selection and inclusion of social issues can be said to be a very effective strategy for the director to localize the film, and in the past two years, many films in Hong Kong have begun to pay attention to social issues, and "Negotiator" also has an inherent echo with them.

It is undeniable that there is a certain gap compared to the original "Negotiation Expert". Director Qiu Litao shows a lack of confidence in this film. He knows that if he can’t do better than the original film, he should shoot it in its original condition, so there is almost a replica of the original film for more than an hour.

In addition, in the original work, the police elite was suddenly framed by a traitor and fell into a desperate situation. The confrontation between good and evil was full of tension. However, in "Negotiation Expert", the two protagonists were modified to resemble a hero who cherishes the hero. Without the sense of confrontation and tension in the original work, there was actually a loss.

The starring cast of "Negotiators" is still the familiar Hong Kong stars, most of whom are over 60 years old, and the cast is too tired.

When the original American protagonists were confronted, the sharp eyes, rich body language, and lines conveyed a very strong inner emotional state, while almost everyone in "Negotiator" felt a little tired, so the tension of its atmosphere, tension, and oppression did not come out.

The Dragon Boat Festival is the best movie viewing option, worth seeing

For the Dragon Boat Festival schedule, is it still a good choice to go to the theater to watch "Negotiator"? In fact, there has been a very obvious change in the audience’s viewing habits in the past two years, with a focus on holidays. Even a relatively small holiday schedule like the Dragon Boat Festival is very dominant.

Therefore, in such a schedule, when a commercial blockbuster without major investment is released, a well-made genre film like "Negotiator" is required.

The director Qiu Litao is a famous "Kuaishou" in the circle. Those who shoot better than him are not as fast as him, and those who shoot faster than him are not as good as him. He respects the laws of the market and will not affect the quality and schedule of the film because of his personal creative expression.

Therefore, in this small period of the Dragon Boat Festival, "Negotiation Expert" is undoubtedly the representative work of the head, and its overall box office is over 100 million. There is no problem. When the poisonous-tongued robber Liu Qingyun meets the mouth of the negotiation expert Wu Zhenyu, what kind of wonderful confrontation will the two collide, it is worth going to the cinema to find out.