黑色江湖:类型中的对话 后九七香港强盗片研究

Glum Underworld: Exemplified Dialogue——Gangster Movies post 1997

强盗片是指20世纪30年代开始在经典好莱坞发展时期发展而来的一种电影类型,80年代末这种影响在东方好莱坞——香港形成了潮流,并分别经历由神话到传说再到平凡发展的过程。后九七香港的强盗片仍然是类型制作的延续,在与原有类型对话的基础上,拆解了类型的含义,并对之重构。九七之后,港人在经济上遭遇了东南亚金融危机,也并未获得如预期那么强烈的归属感。香港电影中江湖原有的意义被摧毁,它所代言的类型也在形式的瓦解之后被重新结构。与以往飞扬的自我相比,香港强盗片最大的变化莫过于情绪的低落、影像的阴郁、风格的黑色。香港强盗片进入了黑色江湖的时代。

Gangster movies refer to a type of film developed in Classical Hollywood periods from 1920s to 1930s. It became a hot film trend in Hong Kong, the so called ＂East Hollywood＂, in 1980s, which went through the stages of fairy tales, legend and natural development. Hong Kong Gangster movies made in post 1997 years are, by and large, the continuation of the same film type. However, while keeping the norm, it deconstructed and reconstructed its original connotations. After 1997, people in Hong Kong did not get a strong feeling of ＂returning home＂ as they had expected, due to the East Asian economic crisis. Compared with the former gangster films in praise of self-centered egos, the new changes are seen in the type of movies with low spirits, gloomy images and cold and glum styles. With it, Hong Kong gangster movies have entered a dark era.