When it comes to the most terrifying killer in the world, who do you think of? 47? Master Assassin Ezio? Or the famous Mrs. Yoel some time ago?
And I’d probably vote for John Wick.
Recently, “Chase 4” officially released the first official trailer, and once again confirmed the set date, the male god Keanu Reeves (
Representative works “The Matrix Series” Neo, “Cyberpunk 2077” Johnny Silverhand
) played the long-haired killer Wick in a suit and leather shoes, and is about to return to the king after three years of silence.
The plot of the fourth part follows the ending of the previous one, telling the story of John Wick, who is wanted globally by the killer world, betrayed by his allies, but still survives the disaster, and plans to set off revenge against the organization’s high-level High Table (High Table). I will continue to follow this man’s perspective, go deep into the mysterious and huge killer world view of the series below the sea level, witness his new legendary road and more severe challenges ahead – such as the most anticipated and kung fu by domestic fans. The rival play of the superstar Donnie Yen.
As an R-rated action movie, “Fast Pursuit” itself has a certain viewing threshold (even so far it has not been able to introduce domestic theaters), but it does not affect the number of fans around the world. In the past, its trilogy has set a record of 150 million US dollars. Less than investment in exchange for nearly 600 million US dollars at the box office, a veritable applause and hit.
If the unpretentious rhythm and neat and violent action scenes are the cornerstones of its success, then Mr. Wick, the protagonist who “can kill three people with just one pencil” and the “killer” who is intertwined with grievances and grievances behind him. “Jianghu” is the exclusive secret recipe that makes this series stand out.
Throughout the ages, the killer theme has been occupying a place in the fields of movies and games, and has contributed to many classic works of the immigrant population. Death is the eternal motif of literary and artistic creation, and killers are occupations based on “death”. They often collect money to do things, believe in the impermanence of life, and have a special view of life and death when they live in the world. It is this kind of disconnection from normal human society. It is the sense of alienation that makes this genre irreplaceable.
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It is said that the killer is one of the two oldest professions in the world.
It was born in the midst of the endless disputes that have existed since the history of mankind, and it is the most savage and unadorned manifestation of the evil side of human nature.
They are the executioners in the shadows, the knives in the hands of the powerful, and the restless elements of your peaceful life. The killers shoulder the will of the employer, go through fire and water for them, eliminate business competitors or carry out tasks such as silence. Although they usually receive a high remuneration afterwards, correspondingly, all the consequences in the process need to be borne by themselves. , Injuries, arrests, and even death are commonplace and receive no mercy.
Aside from the particularity of murder, the killer itself is also a rather contradictory existence: it thrives due to the development of society, and is needed because of interpersonal conflicts and interest frictions that commonly appear in society, but because of the anti-social nature of the profession itself. It cannot become a legitimate job in society, and has to be reduced to a marginal occupation lurking in the shadows.
If you want to paint a slightly deviant adult-style work, a shameful career like a killer must be a good entry point. It may be thought that the martial arts rivers and lakes, which are full of swordsmanship and blood, happiness and hatred, and the way of survival of the killer have a natural affinity. Many martial arts novelists such as Gu Long are very keen to describe the story of the killer.
His classic works such as “Meteor·Butterfly·Sword” and Wen Ruian’s “Murderer Tang Zhan” are all unusual, with killers rather than chivalrous heroes as the protagonists, the dark and depressing tone of the whole piece is like a heavy black The fog shrouded people’s hearts, which can not help but arouse readers to think more deeply about “justice” in addition to the traditional romantic feelings of martial arts.
Meng Xinghun, the protagonist of “Meteor, Butterfly, Sword”, is an orphan who was born in a chaotic world where soldiers and horses cannibalize.
Although his talent as a killer is unmatched, he himself is extremely disgusted and disgusted with murder. Every time he completes the task, he will return to his cabin to vomit and repent. Forget the gloom for a short time, and so on and on, live as numbly as a walking dead.
The killer’s life reflects the sadness of the times, and is also the epitome of the entire Jianghu. When the bloody facts are brought to the fore, the onlookers will suddenly realize that there is no romance and chivalry in Jianghu, Jianghu is nothing but life and death, and interests come first. .
At the end of the day, killers are nothing but tools, weapons, pawns of the big players on the chess table, and “things” that can be used and discarded even if the task is successfully completed. They don’t even deserve to have their own thoughts, and they can only fight each other with blood for those huge chains of interests that are invisible but real. At certain moments, they seem to be able to glimpse the undercurrents under the peaceful surface of the world…
Tang Zhan’s story is even bloodier and crueler than “Meteor, Butterfly, Sword”.
Tang Zhan, whose name is Zhan—judging from the name alone, this man seems to be the embodiment of some kind of sin, destined to step into the “inhuman” realm.
He is a powerful killer in a situation where the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party are fighting each other. He is indifferent and ruthless, cunning and sophisticated. In order to seek power, he can treachery and constantly change positions without any guilt. Jianghu people call him “one-knife-cut”. The world in Tang Zhan’s eyes has no love, only life and death. As a killer, his strongest weapon is not his martial arts, but he is not confused. Killing Buddha – Tang Zhan knows that only killing is his only mission and redemption in this life.
It is rumored that Wen Ruian had suffered a disaster before writing the book, and he was in a depressed and angry mood. “The Killer Tang Zhan” inevitably vented the ugly thoughts in his heart, so the atmosphere of the whole book was strange and dark, and the world of the murderer was vividly described. Every character in the book is caught in a whirlpool of desire, betraying each other because of fame, fortune or status, intriguing each other, looking at each other, trying to do everything possible to kill each other, beauty, friends, intelligence, trust… everything is available for them. object of use. Here, the brilliance of human nature has long ceased to exist, the law of the jungle has been interpreted to the extreme, human life is regarded as a child’s play, there is no place for love or justice from beginning to end, only insidious and violent assassinations and more insidious and violent anti-assassinations. Intertwined with each other, forming the only main theme – in the end, the lower skill loses to the higher skill, the loser falls to the ground, and the winner climbs to a higher position step by step on the opponent’s corpse.
The killers seem to be free and unrestrained, but in fact, “people are in the world and cannot help themselves”. Everyone is bound by their own destiny, just like dandelions flying in the sky, they have neither a safe destination nor do they know when they will land. box.
They walk on the edge of society and do the most dirty and sinful work for others, but their lives are like weeds on the roadside, inadvertently disappearing with the wind. The meat eaters behind the scenes drive them wantonly, enjoying the vested interests covered in blood, and they are glamorous; while the final fate of most killers is to become the unknown corpse on the road of Huangtu’s hegemony.
I don’t know who will be the ghost of my own sword today, and I don’t know if I will become the ghost of someone else’s sword tomorrow. It is as enchanting as a cherry blossom — and it is fleeting like a cherry blossom. The killer’s life is short and fiery, just like Gu Long in ” The introduction written in Meteor·Butterfly·Sword:
“Although the light of a meteor is short, there is no star in the sky that can be more brilliant and brilliant than it!
When a meteor appears, even the eternal constellation cannot take its light away.
Butterfly life is fragile, even more fragile than the brightest flower.
But it always lives in spring.
It’s beautiful, it’s free, it flies.
Its life is short but fragrant. “
The unique tragic aesthetics wrapped around the killer profession is destined to shine in the field of literature and art.
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Because of professional reasons, killers generally deliberately keep their hearts cold and restrained in order to deal with any unexpected situations that may occur – this cold sense of self-restraint just hits people’s pursuit of abstinence aesthetics, coupled with killers ” Despising the law and being unrestrained by general morality” and the instinctive worship of “force”, this profession seems to be born with a sexual tension that spreads from the inside to the outside, so it is often written in In all kinds of middle school or romance and pain literature.
When modern people are frustrated in life or emotionally, in order to revive themselves, they will imitate the imaginary killer’s stern appearance and say the last sentence: “I am a killer with no emotions.”
A qualified killer is always required to obliterate his emotions and learn to be as precise and ruthless as a machine, but the human heart is a thing of flesh and blood after all. An experimental subject with similar experiences to himself.
Killers are by no means emotionless – on the contrary, because they were once repressed, the emotions they inadvertently revealed were more sincere and pure than ordinary people’s.
So the “killer’s feelings” has become a part worthy of a special book. Among them, the R-rated crime drama “Léon” directed by Luc Besson is the best under this theme. Not Too Cold” is more well known to Chinese audiences.
As the title says, the protagonist of the film, Leon, is a killer who can handle his own role, and his heart is not as cold as it looks on the outside. By chance, he rescued the little girl in the neighbor’s house. From then on, the two equally lonely souls began to cling to each other and became each other’s only light in the world.
For Leon, a girl named Matilda suddenly broke into his life like a deer lost in the forest, which added a fresh maroon color to his dark life. Leon taught her herself However, she was always reluctant to let her hands be covered with blood, and finally even at the cost of her life, she took revenge on the black policeman who destroyed her family; for Matilda, the encounter with Leon changed her life. In her whole life, compared to her family members who exist in name only, this uncle who looks mature but has an unexpectedly childish side can make her feel the warmth of family affection more.
Filmed in 1994, the film is an unsurpassed masterpiece in film history. The love between Lyon and Matilda, which crosses the boundaries of age and life and death, is as pure and immaculate as Plato is still praised by people. Talk about beauty.
Explained from another angle – the imperceptible emotions revealed by the killer’s impeccable appearance may be similar to the smile of the three no girls in ACG’s cute attributes.
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For more than a century, the killer profession has inspired a slew of drama and action films, revered for its mystery and in awe of its disruption of order.
Two great filmmakers, David Griffith and Jean-Luc Godard, famously said, “To make a movie, all you need is a gun and a girl.” True, violence, death, and sex are The ancient needs of mankind, the magical chemical reaction between them, is undeniably the password that brings wealth, but the success of works such as “Quick Pursuit”, “The Killer Has No Vacation” and “The Mechanic” has revealed to us that the killer The infinite possibilities contained in the subject matter itself.
The most obvious advantage of a killer movie is that you don’t have to spend any extra time setting up, finding the right twist, or arranging a reason enough to move the plot smoothly and get the protagonist into the center of the chaos—because the killer himself That is the fuse that can subvert everything and destroy everything.
The “Fast Pursuit” series follows this “simple is the best” strategy. It abandons all unnecessary literary dramas, and does not pretend to discuss the philosophy of life with you in a profound way. The focus is left to the protagonist of the big kill, allowing the audience to enjoy the thrill of adrenaline surge while being convinced by his invincible and slaying the enemy… Even the first plot is so simple and rude that it can be summed up in one sentence End: “Someone stole my car and scattered my dog, so I ended up raising his whole family.”
At the beginning, the honest and law-abiding citizen Wick, after less than 20 minutes, became furious and turned into a killer who could make people cry with just his name, and then put on a poker face and used his consummate gun skills and gentleness. He killed more than 80 people in the dozens of minutes of film, and redefines what a “shooting action movie” is by himself.
It was just released a few days ago, and “Killer Hurricane”, adapted from Kotaro Isaka’s novel and released by Sony Pictures, is obviously well versed in this. Its storyline is simple, yet compelling: Five killers on a speeding train from Tokyo to Morioka discover that their missions are actually connected.
Just like the avatars will attract each other, and then start the JOJO adventure, the encounter between the killer and the killer will naturally produce a bizarre story-letting a group of killers with unique skills and their own ghosts stay in the same confined space , is there anything more exciting than this?
The same is true in the gaming world. When you play the killer in the game, the core gameplay is 80% simple and clear like “where to go, who to kill”, and it leaves you a certain space to exert your personal initiative, don’t worry about “playing the game will be played by the game” ”, just get rid of distracting thoughts and concentrate on the pure pleasure of killing.
Imagine – you are a hooded assassin, flying over the walls of the city’s buildings, using the open terrain to search for targets, you blend in with the crowd and approach quietly, and finally jump in the air, swiping the opponent’s tender with your hidden sword. Throat pipe, “Everything is false, everything is allowed”; you, a bald head with a barcode printed on the back of your head, disguised yourself and sneaked into the venue, and obtained key information by eavesdropping on the waiter’s conversation, so you took it into consideration and dressed up. Cheng bartender called out the target’s favorite wine and put a deadly poison in it. Taking advantage of the riot caused by his death, he left leisurely, hiding his merits and fame.
Epilogue
It is said that many people have fantasized about being a killer, some out of whimsy in the middle school period, and some out of powerlessness and resentment towards the real world. But no matter what, the essence of a killer is still a criminal, and some people romanticize it, which just shows that we are in a peaceful era.
If you still think it’s cool to be a killer, but you can only think about it, don’t imitate it, otherwise you will most likely be sitting in prison.
Please also distinguish between virtual and reality, and do not embark on the road of illegal and criminal.
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