After waiting for a year, "Detective Chinatown 3" arrived with the audience in the Spring Festival slot of the Year of the Ox. "Detective Chinatown 3", which grossed nearly 900 million yuan on the first day of release, is undoubtedly the most anticipated movie in the Spring Festival file, and there is no one.
In 2015, "Detective Chinatown 1" was released, in 2018, "Detective Chinatown 2" was released, and in 2020, the derivative work of "Detective Chinatown" was broadcast, and now after the release of "Detective Chinatown 3", it can be said that the Tang Detective Universe has been initially built.
Detective Chinatown 3 poster
First of all, director Chen Sicheng is really greasy and bold. Dare to tell a secret room murder case in Benguet Reasoning Country Japan. He can also skillfully use the Japanese actor team to complete a Chinese New Year movie, and create a decent reasoning universe.
To be honest, the greasy Chen Sicheng is really talented.
Don 3 stills
First, let's talk about the day, the establishment of the Tang Detective universe.
So far, the Tang Detective series has left the audience with two biggest suspense.
First, who is Q, the number one Q on Crimaster Crime Master?
Second, will the protagonist Qin Feng be blackened in the end?
The so-called Tang Detective Universe is the confrontation between the light represented by Qin Feng and the darkness represented by Q. As well as the stories of other detectives in Crimaster Crime Master. For example, the protagonist of the web drama version of Detective Chinatown is Lin Mo, who ranks fourth. Chemistry teacher Lin Mo relied on his unusual sense of smell to solve the two cases of "Rose Name" and "Mandala Dance".
The male protagonist lin mo in the Tang Detective network drama
Who is the number one Q? Detective Chinatown 3 already makes it very clear. In order not to spoil, I will not go into detail here.
The villain Rose in the web series
Chen Sicheng recalled that one day running through Bangkok's Chinatown whim, there was a famous detective Conan in Japan, and Holmes & Watson in Britain, if Only China could have a pair of detective combinations. So the Tang Detective series was born.
The Tang Detective series adopts a double protagonist mode, the genius teenager Qin Feng + the obscene uncle Tang Ren.
Tang Ren and Qin Feng
Qin Feng is responsible for appearance and INTELLIGENCE, and Tang Ren is responsible for force and funny. Such a fresh combination has indeed created a unique suspenseful and funny style of Chinese films.
Tang Ren was a poor man. In "Detective Chinatown 1", Tang Ren's background in Thailand is very clear. On the wedding night, the wife who had not yet caved in the room actually cheated on the groomsmen. After this scandal was known to the whole village, Tang Ren also became the object of ridicule in the whole village. In desperation, Tang Ren left his hometown and became a frustrated person.
Qin Feng was a reasoning teenager with a super high IQ. Has a super memory and insight. His father was arrested and imprisoned when he was very young, and when he grew up, Qin Feng aspired to enter the police academy. And his purpose in entering the police academy was to complete a perfect crime.
A genius teenager who superficially pursues a crime to solve a crime, but is bent on pursuing perfection. Hidden under the face of justice was Qin Feng's desire for original sin. Song Yi once asked Qin Feng if you were a man or a beast.
Nietzsche said that when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes at you.
Let's talk about the blackened Qin Feng from "Detective Chinatown 1" and "Detective Chinatown 2".
At the beginning of Tang 1, from the suspenseful mystery novels on Qin Feng's bookshelf, it is not difficult to see his love for reasoning. In Tang 2, after Qin Feng went to New York, the first thing he wanted to see was Quinn's manuscript. (Quinn is one of the three great mystery novelists, and the book "The Tragedy of Y" is one of the most classic mystery novels.)
Qin Feng's bookshelf
The blackening of Qin Feng is reflected in two points. The first is the desire for the perfect crime. The second is to deliberately release the real culprit.
In Tang 1, the ostensible murderer is the adoptive father played by Pan Yueming. In fact, the final murderer is the seemingly harmless young girl Si Nuo. (In fact, from the beginning of the bookshelf on Keigo Higashino's "White Night", it has been implied that the murderer is Snow.) At the end of the film, when Qin Feng reveals that Si Nuo is the murderer. Snow showed a classic evil smile. Snow's hand was holding a copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Don 1 smiles in Si Nuo
Qin Feng asked rhetorically: "Individual lives are different, but the total amount of good and evil in this world remains unchanged." Everyone is destined from birth to play their own role, some good and some evil. ”
This is the first time in the Tang Detective series to ask Qin Feng, good and evil, what role do you play?
If in the first part, the reason why Qin Feng let go of Si Nuo was because of insufficient evidence. In the second part, Qin Feng let go of Song Yi on purpose. The evidence that Song Yi is the murderer is conclusive. The bodies that were not disposed of in the trunk, as well as the fingerprints of the chalk, are evidence. Qin Feng, on the other hand, gave the evidence to Song Yi. Under the flashing of the police lights, Qin Feng's face was half exposed to the light and half into the darkness, looking very vicious.
Don 2
End of Don 2
Song Yi asked Qin Feng whether you were a god or a beast, and reminded Qin Feng not to stare into the abyss for too long.
In "Detective Chinatown 3", Qin Feng faded her gentle cuteness, more indifferent and decisive. Rapist Akira Murata left a puzzle for detectives to solve. How do three hungry people, with only one knife at a time, make two loaves of bread egalitarian. Neither detective Jack Jia, who ranked ninth, nor Hao Noda, was able to complete the mission.
At this time, Qin Feng's eyes were cold and determined, and he chose to kill a hungry person, so that the two pieces of bread were divided equally between the two people. Qin Feng said that this was a necessary sacrifice.
Don 3 poster
Making a choice is often the process of sublimation of the protagonist. In The Matrix, Neo needs to choose between a red pill or a blue pill. In Tang 3, Qin Feng was also faced with whether to push down Murata Akira. It can be said that the choice of Qin Feng will affect the direction of the vein.
Stills from The Matrix
In the world of reasoning, the protagonists of one good and one evil tend to have greater charm. Because human nature is inherently complex.
In The Silence of the Lambs, the heroine Clarice is able to find the perverted murderer "Buffalo Bill" because she asks Dr. Hannibal. And Hannibal is a perverted murderer with a super high IQ. This truth tells us that it seems that the solver and the criminal are originally two sides of the same coin.
However, at the end of Tang Detective 3, director Chen Sicheng also gave the audience an answer. After experiencing the darkness, Qin Feng chose to stand on the side of the light.
Stills from The Silence of the Lambs
Second, let's talk about reasoning.
"Detective Chinatown 1" Douban score 7.6 "Detective Chinatown 2" Douban 6.7 points, to "Detective Chinatown 3" Douban score of 6.1. I believe that with the reasoning of time, the score of Tang 3 will continue to decline.
The Tang Detective series can be described as high and low.
The "Golden Murder Case" in Tang 1 is a typical chamber murder. And the real murderer is actually a seemingly innocent girl. This setting is very flattering and eye-catching. In the case of few Chinese suspense reasoning genre films, the appearance of Tang 1 is exciting in the audience. It's childish, but it's full of expectations.
Tang 1 Si Nuo and Qin Feng
In Don 2, the main line of the story becomes a New York serial killer. In fact, the serial killer itself is very attractive. Like Jack the Ripper. Why did the murderer kill? Is there a relationship between these five people? It's a lot of suspense in itself. Unfortunately, the story setting of Tang 2 is too similar to the film "Double Pupil" directed by Chen Guofu in 2002.
Tang 2 murderer forensic doctor
The Five Elements of Murder, the Scene Charm, the Taoist Temple in the Louzhong Building, and the Murderer's Purpose are Taoist Cultivators.
It can be said that the main line and details of Tang 2's entire reasoning are extremely similar to "Double Pupil". Zhu Yu is in front, which is also doomed to the low score of Tang 2.
The Katsumi Watanabe murder in Tang 3 is also a typical murder in the secret room. But the whole criminal method and the real murderer are not very surprising and reversed. Even many viewers guessed the answer from the beginning.
Holmes once said, "Everything in the world has been done by predecessors, and nothing is new." ”
Treat others in the way they are. Let's talk about reasoning from John Dixon Carr's "Three Coffins" in the mouth of Qin Fengkou in Tang 3.
John Dixon Carr, along with Agatha Christie and Ellery Quinn, also known as the "Three Greats of the Golden Age of Reasoning", was known for his conception of the Chamber of Secrets, and designed more than fifty different types of Chambers in his lifetime, known as the "King of the Chambers".
Don't say that "Three Coffins", published in 1935, became the pinnacle of impossible crime fiction in the history of reasoning with the classic "Chamber of Secrets Lecture Notes" and "Double Chamber of Secrets", which is still difficult to surpass.
In the seventeenth chapter of "Three Coffins", "Lecture Notes on the Chamber of Secrets", the author has stated that the so-called chamber of secrets kills people, but there are only a few methods.
1. The case is not murder, but a series of coincidences that cause an accident that looks like murder. For example, the Coen brothers' "Ice Storm", Locke Holmes's "Hunchback", and Gaston Leroux's "Secret of the Yellow Room" can be classified as such.
Ice Storm
2. Poison gas is released in the secret room, resulting in hallucinations and suicide.
This technique is common in horror movies, such as "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", which leads to suicide through the water in the drinking water pool.
3. The case is indeed murder, and the murder weapon is a kind of mechanical device buried in the room in advance, hidden inside the furniture, which seems to be completely different. The first story of "Detective Chinatown Web Series" is "Mandala Murder", in which a husband kills his wife in this way.
4. The case is a suicide, but it is deliberately disguised as murder. The deceased stabbed himself to death with an icicle, and after the icicle melted, the murder weapon could not be found in the chamber, so it was judged to be murder. For example, Anna Catherine Green's "Abbreviation of Names".
5. The case is indeed murder, and the murderer uses magic tricks and transfiguration to make him suspicious. For example, the door was watched, and everyone thought that the victim was still safe and sound, but they did not know that he was already in the room. The murderer disguises himself as a victim (or his back is mistaken for a victim), hurriedly enters the door, immediately turns around and removes his disguise, and quickly walks out of the room in his original form, giving the illusion that he is passing by others when he goes out. The alibi was then established because the time of the murder was presumed to be the fake 'victim' after entering the room. The Bangkok Gold Murder in Detective Chinatown 1 is such a tactic.
Don 1
6. The case is indeed murder, the murderer attacked outside the room, but it caused the illusion that the murderer must be in the room at the time of the crime. For example, in episodes 198 and 199 of Detective Conan, "Cursed Masquerade's Sneer". The murderer kills through a mask.
Melville Davidson Post's The Mystery of Domdorff, the culprit of long-distance murder, is the sun. One of the bottles that Domdorff had placed on the table contained unprocessed methanol, and the sunlight shining through the window of the chamber shone on the bottle, which served as a focus of the convex lens, igniting the detonator of the gun hanging on the wall, and the disgusting fellow on the bed was blasted to the chest.
The greatest value of Tang Detective is that different detectives can solve all kinds of strange cases.
Third, let's talk about the setting of Q.
From the answer given in "Detective Chinatown 3", the setting of Q is unexpected and seems to be reasonable. Whether it is Song Yi played by Xiao Yang in the second part or Rose played by Zhang Junning in the web drama, it is related to Q. Regarding the details of Q, for the sake of the movie experience, the audience should find the answer on their own. I won't go into detail here.
Q is not a person, but a vast organization similar to the Knights of the Twelve Round Tables.
This setting is very middle two, a proper Japanese manga style. It made me think of the "Dawn" organization in Naruto, the "Void" legion in "Death", and the dark organization in "Detective Conan".
At the end of the film, Chen Sicheng threw out another suspense. Snow is not a member of Q after all.
My answer is, yes.
Tang 3 middle girl Si Nuo
The reason is the kind of paper that stands up. In Tang 1, Si Nuo once asked Qin Feng how to stand up a piece of paper. Qin Feng folded the paper in half and erected it in front of Si Nuo. In Tang 3, when Qin Feng and the others went to look for the Tanaka police, they found that on his desk, there was a vertical paper stem that only Qin Feng and Si Nuo knew. Obviously, Snow is also Q.
Many viewers will wonder that since the Q organization cannot get Qin Feng, it threatens to destroy Qin Feng. If this is the case, if Si Nuo is Q, why should he help Qin Feng?
I think this question is well understood, the undercover of the "Xiao" organization is Uchiha Ferret. Belmode in the Dark Order also knows that Conan is the new one, but has been hiding it from the organization. Snow may play a role similar to that of an undercover or a watchdog.
The biggest charm of the Tang Detective series is that it has shaped a group of detectives in China. For example, Qin Feng and Lin Mo.
The background of Qin Feng and Lin Mo's growth is very story-like in itself. Detectives with different encounters encounter all kinds of strange cases to unfold all kinds of wonderful reasoning!
When Qin Feng cracked the puzzle, the posture of folding his hands was also a gesture to pay tribute to Sherlock Holmes's decryption. Holmes said, "There is no really perfect crime in the world, but the truth has always been before our eyes, but it has not yet been discovered." The so-called reasoning is just to enlarge important details." It is also the mantra of Qin Feng.
We can tolerate Conan's pit length, but also have more patience with Chinese reasoning. Although naïve, it is growing.
If Wen Ziren created the "Soul Summoning Universe", Marvel created different superpowers, the story of the Journey to the West has been repeatedly put on the screen, and Nezha and Jiang Ziya on the list of gods have staged various stories.
Why can't we expect Chen Sicheng to create a Chinese detective universe?
Detective Chinatown is a good example of the serialization of Chinese films, and also enriches the genre of Chinese Chinese New Year movies.
Detective Chinatown suspense + reasoning + nonsense. Every murderer has a past journey that cannot be looked back. The process of reasoning and decryption is also decent. Some of the bridges in the movie also make people laugh. For example, Tang 2 and Tang 3 have alternate bridge sections. These bridges are full of bad taste, but they do have "laughing" results.
Don 2 Women's Wear
Don 3COSPLAY
With the design of some bridge sections, it is not difficult to see that Chen Sicheng has been able to skillfully control the elements of comedy.
For example, misalignment. For example, the two Japanese gangs in Tang 3 mistakenly believe that each other is a hospital staff who humbles each other. So the audience finds it interesting from God's point of view.
For example, corpses. The sudden awakening of a person who is not dead will bring a lot of comedic effects in itself.
Chen Sicheng's understanding of comedy is to exaggerate the reasonable plot points to the extreme.
Chen Sicheng has created China's Marvel detective universe, so that the audience has reason to expect the performance of the rest of the detectives on the Crimaster Crime Master. And the final great showdown of light and darkness.