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A Comparative Analysis of Infernal Affairs and the Departed Lihang Tang Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 497 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020) On the Embodiment of Urban Culture in Film Creation ——A Comparative Analysis of Infernal Affairs and the Departed Lihang Tang ICUC, Communication University of China, Beijing, 10020, China [email protected] ABSTRACT With the rapid development of the world economy, culture is increasingly globalized. Movies attract more and more attentions as an important cultural communication and output device.This brings opportunities for film and television practitioners, but also brings more challenges. The audiences in the global vision are not satisfied with the monotonous routine of the port, so it is the general trend that themes and creative techniques break through the shackles and limitations of urban culture, which is better illustrated by the prevailing remake of transnational films and frequent borrowing of cross-ethnic themes. Although the trend of the story is basically the same, it is not as simple as the "fetch doctrine". Diving into various topics and adapting to cultural differences encourage movie makers to improve themselves.Therefore, analyzing and understanding the influence of urban culture on film creation and drawing on the techniques and experience of film and television creation of various countries can help film and television practitioners in the new era to better adapt to local conditions and create different themes and styles of film and television works. This article compares and analyzes two films from China and the United States, "Infernal Affairs" and "The Departed", to explore the creative characteristics and effects of different cultures as well as the impact of urban culture on graduation project "Trust", and use for reference and integration in creative techniques. Keywords: Urban culture, Film creation, Infernal Affairs, The Departed underworld. Later, Liu Weiqiang joined the underworld to 1. INTRODUCTION do another line of undercover in the police station. The orientation of Infernal Affairs also changed. At first, the Each city's culture has its own unique local characteristics. It movie script focused on fighting wits between police and is a product formed through a long history and integrated with bandits. Later, the elements of gangster or hero films the regional environment. The related things will be branded became strong. Infernal Affairs won 16 nominations in the with its cultural symbols in the aspects of tradition, custom 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards, and won 7 awards, and ecology. Film is no exception. As the saying goes, one including best film, best director, best actor, best side of the soil and water nurtures the other side of the people. supporting actor, best original film song, best screenwriter The films created by film and television practitioners bred in and best editing; 13 nominations in the 40th Taiwan different cities naturally have their own cultural Golden Horse Awards, and 6 Awards including best film, characteristics in story themes, narrative methods, visual best director and best film voted by audience. In addition, effects and language styles. In addition to human factors, the it also won the third Chinese Film Media Award, the most objective urban environment will also affect the style and popular film by audience votes, and the best foreign temperament of the film. Therefore, this paper will compare language film at the 46th Japan blue ribbon film awards. It Infernal Affairs and infernal walker from Hong Kong, China is regarded as the peak that police and bandit movies can and Boston, USA, from the aspects of script creation and not surpass. In 2006, Martin Scorsese, an American visual interpretation, to analyze the embodiment of urban director, bought and remade the script.In 2006, American culture in film creation. director Martin Scorsese bought the script and remade it The inspiration for the creation of Infernal Affairs comes into the Hollywood movie inferno. The background was from the movie face changing directed by John Woo. The changed to Boston, and the protagonist was replaced by bridge of "face exchange" in the middle is impossible in the Irish gangster. The drama also continued the essence reality. Mai Zhaohui wants to tell a story to exchange the of Infernal Affairs, and explored the ethnic and police identity and heart of the two characters. At first, the script internal culture and contradictions. But it's just as only has the story line of police undercover in the attractive. After the release, the first weekend box office Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 100 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 497 grossed $27 million, making it to the top of the box office country of immigrants, of which native Indians account charts and setting Martin Scorsese's personal record. The film for only 1.2% of the population. Besides, most of them won four awards in the 79th Academy Awards for best come from all over the world. The conflict among ethnic director, best adapted script, best editing and best film; five groups has become one of the major social problems in nominations for the 64th Golden Globe Awards of American the United States. Boston continues this characteristic, film and television, and two awards for best director and best and its largest Irish ethnic group, as the first group to screenplay; and the best villain award of MTV golden immigrate to Boston, has been bullied. In order to live a popcorn award. stable life, the Irish gangs came into being. From the Both films are successful and typical. The former reflects the perspective of the Irish Mafia, the infernal Walker urban culture of Hong Kong films at that time, and the latter narrates the conflicts and conflicts among different ethnic reflects the urban culture of Boston during the old Irish ethnic groups in Boston, thus strengthening the authenticity of period, which are very representative. It is the same story the world outlook of the story. The documentary pictures theme, created in different cities, so it is worth comparing full of racial discrimination and ethnic conflicts also and analyzing to study the embodiment of urban culture in reflect the complex security environment and unique the film and how it affects the film creation. immigration culture of Boston, which are more easily accepted and understood by American audiences. Therefore, from the gang struggle in Infernal Affairs in 2. THE HETEROGENEITY OF DIFFERENT Hong Kong to the ethnic struggle in The Departed in the URBAN CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS IN United States, we can see that the theme of the play is influenced by localization. SCRIPT CREATION 2.1.2. Regional values of plot 2.1. The content of the story combines the background of the place where it happened People growing up in different regional and cultural environments will form different values, which are different in identifying things, distinguishing right and 2.1.1. The localization of theme types wrong, and likes and dislikes. And these will moisten things silently in the story. The so-called localization refers to the changes made by a For example, the plot of the Hong Kong version of thing in order to adapt to the new environment. If a film Infernal Affairs is mainly romantic and aesthetic. It is wants to enter into the new national customs from a certain because of the regional characteristics of China's farming city with ethnic customs, the first thing to do is to adapt the society that Chinese people have formed the habit of theme of the story to local conditions and make local expressing emotions in a small range and feeling beauty changes to conform to the cultural history and customs of in a non publicized way. Therefore, the romance in the the place where it takes place. Otherwise, it will show up eyes of Hong Kong people is the embodiment of one's with two pieces of skin. The audience can't identify or even inner beauty. It is like seeing Liu Jianming after the death understand. Therefore, the theme type of the play should be of sergeant Huang that he began to discover his changed in localization. conscience and want to be a good man. After Chen The theme of Infernal Affairs is a typical Hong Kong Police Yongren's death, he killed another undercover of Han and bandit film, because its story takes place in Hong Kong, Chen who was placed in the police station, which also a tiny place that was once under British colonial rule in the reflects Chen Jianming's strong subjective attitude of 1970s and 1980s, when it was highly populated and capital yearning for the ideal world. intensive, and social order was chaotic. Those at the bottom Compared with the romantic Infernal Affairs, the who are unwilling to be eliminated try to make profits in the violence in Infernal Affairs is more obvious. For "grey" area. In order to solve the shortage of strength, they example, after seeing the death of the police officer, the gradually grew into community gangs. At that time, the male leader interspersed with reminiscences and sad more famous ones were triads, Xin Yi'an, 14K, etc. In this music surrounding the slow-paced gunfire to set off the context, gangster films have become a trend in Hong Kong, expression of the male leader's calm appearance and his and police gangster films are the sub types of gangster films, inner grief for the death of his boss. In order to show his following the violent struggle among gangs[1].
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