From Enthusiastic Police to Muscle Interpol： On-screen Changes of Mainland Police Image
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1905 movie network exclusive feature The police is a charming artistic image, which has the power to exercise justice and the shortcomings of human feelings and humanity. This dual attribute makes the police become a complex contradiction. However, this contradiction is not "contradictory" in previous mainland films, but often appears thin, and this year’s Qingming file has completely changed this situation. On March 31st, it was released on the same day as three gangster films, and three different styles of policemen competed on the same stage on the big screen, which should be the first time in the history of mainland film.
The complex attributes of the police themselves and the audience’s different perceptions of them are the creative basis of the changeable image of the police. There are all kinds of policemen active on the screen all over the world. However, this vigorous image has emerged from the thinness and one-sidedness in mainland movies in recent years. Looking back at the changes of the police image on the screen, you will find that it is not easy for mainland police films to go to the present.
Poster of "Today is My Day Off"
From warm-hearted police to flesh-and-blood police
Police, in the context of the mainland, seems to be a relatively neutral word. In the past, mainland movies preferred to use "police" — — This appellation with class color. Before China films entered the commercial era, mainland police films mainly showed the police and the people, such as those in 1959, 1994 and 1995.
Zhong Xinghuo plays Ma Tianmin, a young policeman, in Today is My Day Off. He is too busy with his work to care about his personal feelings. Every time he goes on a blind date on his rest day, he will always be delayed because he wants to help such people. I believe many viewers have seen this creative technique, and it is still used in TV movies starring Tang Wei in 2004 and Fan Ming in 2008.
Movies involving criminal investigation police are mostly related to external forces, such as 1980′ s, which is still catching spies who undermine socialist construction. The police in these movies are both wise and brave, and they can always defeat the enemy’s shocking conspiracy, and they also put on a serious face with righteousness when dealing with the enemy — — Of course, class enemies cannot be treated equally with the people.
Stills of "Xi Feng Lie"
The film released in 2010 changed the strong image of police officers in China. Four mainland policemen (Duan Long, Dahong Ni, Jason Wu and Zhang Li) were crushed by two professional killers (Wu Zhenyu and Yu Nan), and the final outcome can only be described as a tragic victory. The image of the mainland police in the movie is more realistic. Not only did they lose their marksmanship, but they also believed in drug lords (Louis Koo), which led to "total annihilation".
"The West Wind is Fierce" and "Drug War" can be said to have brought the image of the mainland police back to the ground to some extent, but the police in these two films are still very traditional positive images. A further breakthrough has been made, and the police are no longer selfless. Zhang Zili, a policeman played by Liao Fan, finds that Wu Zhizhen (Kwai Lun Mei) is the mastermind of the serial murders, and takes her to the Ferris wheel where she can see the daytime fireworks hotel, so as to induce her to have sex with herself (deleting the passionate fragments from the film), but finally reports the latter. The justice of this injured retired criminal policeman is tainted justice and incomplete justice.