Twenty years after its release, Infernal Affairs has influenced the world film industry!

1905 movie network news The 4K restored trilogy was officially released in China and Hongkong on December 12th. When I mention this classic series, I believe that everyone still remembers the famous lines of the boss standing on the rooftop:"It is clearly agreed that three years, three years later and three years later, three years later and three years later, it will be almost ten years soon …"

Time is fleeting, indeed. From 2002 to 2022, it has been twenty years since Infernal Affairs was released. Known as the light of Chinese films, it still symbolizes the top of Hong Kong films.

From movies to TV series, from lines to bridges, from characters to the core, from the mainland to the United States and then to Japan and South Korea, it has been imitated, saluted, adapted and remake or regarded as a source of inspiration.

As early as 2006, four years after the first infernal affairs was painted, it was adapted by Hollywood, directed by and starring.

Compared with the Hong Kong version, the American version retains the original characters and important plots, but its aesthetic style is more bloody and violent. In the most eye-catching rooftop game scene, the police undercover played by "Little Plum" directly fought with his opponent to the death.

In 2012, Japan adapted the script of Infernal Affairs and made it into a series of Double Face, which was divided into "Sneaking into Search" and "Disguised Police", directed by and starring.

The Japanese version has a heavier "replica" than the Hong Kong version. But fortunately, while trying to restore the original, the film also focuses on depicting more details. For example, it enriches the confrontation and intersection between "Liu Jianming" and "Chen Yongren", which also makes the total length of the two editions exceed three hours.

The Korean director has publicly stated that the inspiration for his directing is Infernal Affairs, which revolves around the three-way wrestling between the police, undercover and gangster. As "New World" has not actually obtained the copyright of the original remake, the specific plot is quite different from the former.

Based on the outline of police collusion and undercover psychology, the tone of the film is slightly depressed. Undercover, who has been a hidden gangster for many years, plays "Li Zicheng" on a road of no return that is completely different from "Chen Yongren".

What is rare is that the three editions of Infernal Affairs in the United States, Japan and South Korea have a good reputation.

Neverwalker won four Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Douban’s 8.9-point "New World" is regarded as one of the best movies in Korea.

Looking at the Chinese film industry, although there is no direct remake of the original works, this does not prevent the creators from paying tribute to them with classics.

Being nurtured and grown up by Hong Kong films, there is no lack of "Hong Kong-style humor" in "Cheating" directed by China Taiwan Province. Having a special liking for Infernal Affairs, he specially asked to play the role of "Lao Yang", paying tribute to Tony Leung Chiu Wai’s classic style in the film with a black leather coat and an oblique hairstyle and a hand with white plaster.

Other directors who are also deeply influenced by Hong Kong films are those who made a "dark horse" last year.

In an open interview, he admitted that the front part of the film paid tribute, and some lines in the middle used Infernal Affairs. When the civilian policeman "The Sea" played insisted on tracing the truth in the face of threats, he slowly spit out a sentence "Sorry, I am a policeman", which is the reappearance of the same golden sentence.

Make a name for yourself is Liu Xunzimo’s directorial debut, but it is not his first work to pay tribute to Infernal Affairs.

As early as 2013, in the mini-short play Report to the Boss, Liu Xunzimo personally went into battle, and together with his partner, he restored the classic scene of Infernal Affairs and Tony Leung Chiu Wai’s confrontation on the rooftop.

In other dramas, the rooftop drama in ipartment is hilarious with its humorous expression. In "Full-time Master", one person even decorated two corners to restore the confrontation between the two heroes in "Infernal Affairs"; The undercover played by Lin Feng in the Hong Kong drama "Mobile Force" also used his lines to pay tribute to the classics. ……

Looking back on the past 20 years, Infernal Affairs, which stands out from the crowd, has influenced the expression of many film and television works. What is worth looking forward to is that the new film series Infernal Affairs, which is produced by Andy Lau, is in full swing.

The vitality of classic IP is still unfinished. …..