In fact, Hong Kong people call bento "takeaway" or "bento". When shooting an evening show, the crew usually provides a box lunch. If someone dies early in the movie, they can leave early and get their lunch in advance, so they call being killed "getting lunch" in the movie.
I remember working with the staff before. At that time, making a movie cost only tens of dollars a night, but there was a box lunch, which was a kind of rice food and was called "rice roll" here. Once, because many people left early before the box lunch was delivered, I ate six or seven box lunches at a time until I ate it down my throat.
In Infernal Affairs, Chen Han has the same appetite as me. The plot in the film is that he was taken by the police to the police station for investigation and ordered a box lunch to eat.
Later, because of a disagreement, I also knocked the box lunch on the table to the ground, which was particularly aura.
But in the sequel, he ate with relish from the beginning.
I really doubt whether Ceng Zhiwei likes lunch boxes very much. In another movie "Brother Xiao's Rebellion", his uncle Ye Fu (who plays the Zhengxing Society) also has the plot of eating a box lunch.
As a gangster, the usual ideal is of course big fish and big meat in restaurants. But how full the ideal is, how skinny the reality is. If you are talking business with someone, of course you will go to a restaurant. If you just eat normally, you will often eat home-cooked meals.
However, it should be noted that our normal families cook at home, and most gangsters are a group of big men. How can I have the habit of cooking by myself? At this time, ordering takeout is the best choice. You don't have to cook by yourself, and you don't have to wash dishes after eating. It's simple and easy.
Therefore, in the plots of many movies, things like ordering takeout and delivering takeout are written into the movies as an important part of promoting the development of the plot.
For example, in "king of comedy", an old audience, played by Ng Man Tat, sat in the undercover position of the police, asked Yin Tianchou to deliver the food, and took this opportunity to take the bedbugs to the hut where a group of gangsters were hiding.
During this period, there was a gun battle because Yin Tianchou was caught by gangsters, and the delivery of box lunch became a major turning point in the film.
At the end of the film, Yin Tianchou knows himself more clearly and understands that there is still a long way to go to be a good actor.
In fact, if it is a group of fugitives, but it is a gangster who avoids the police and waits for an opportunity to commit another crime, then it is very reasonable to order takeout for three meals.
For example, Jet Li's Letter to Dad also takes eating a box lunch as an important plot. At that time, his gangster brother Fu Guang had seen through the undercover identity of Gong Wei, the hero played by Jet Li, and deliberately consolidated his son and caught him in front of him to show his true colors.
The little black played by Ke Shouliang is a good man. He wrote the word "bad guys" on the lid of the unified lunch box to remind him that there were a group of bad guys around him.
Later, in order not to reveal his identity, Gong Wei deliberately strangled his son, but in fact, both of them practiced group qigong, and only by consolidating their group spirit can they deceive the gangsters.
Mark in Hero lost his leg and his position in the gang because of an accident, so he had to be a security guard.
In this movie, Mark's box lunch is bitter and helpless, and Chow Yun Fat's super acting even makes it possible. A box lunch can eat a bleeding disaster, eat one meal and eat another, so eating a box lunch is too important.
But eating is a shameful thing after all and cannot be abused.
For example, in Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang's brilliant image was completely eaten by a bowl of rice when he appeared, making this role the most severely criticized by fans in the film.
In addition, what needs to be said is that the takeout in Hong Kong is delicious.
(Movie Rotten Tomato Editorial Department: "Hot Blood and Dan Xin")
Seeing this question, I suddenly remembered something I did during the period of "killing Matt", which should be used to explain why the gangster boss in the movie likes to eat cheap lunch boxes.
I remember a few years ago, perhaps because I just entered the society, I became cynical and felt that the world was full of malice, so I immersed myself in the world of novels every day, watching Jin Yong and reading fantasy, and felt that the world described in novels was a "perfect world".
During that time, I was really decadent and my temper became very grumpy. My parents' good words about my discipline are torture to me, and I will be furious with them. It seems that there is only myself in the whole world, and no one wants to get close to me, let alone any friends.
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I didn't recover until I saw him ~ Mr. Jigong, out of the dark.
Because I have always felt that the film and television dramas filmed today are not as chewy as the classics I watched when I was a child, watching old TV dramas and movies became something I often did during that time. When I see Jigong, I want to know why he can eat so delicious.
Teacher Benchang You plays Jigong, with wine gourd in his left hand and dog meat in his right, lying under a tree, sipping wine and meat, which is a comfort. As a vegetarian, the first time I had the urge to eat meat was because I watched a TV series, and I also wanted to experience how cool it was to help the public.
So I took money from home, went to the deli to buy a chicken leg, secretly poured half a glass of wine from grandpa's house and ran to the park near my home.
It was noon, the sun was shining, and most people went home for dinner, so there was no one in the park. I was not afraid of embarrassment, so I found a big tree to enjoy the cool, leaned against it and learned to help others. Holding a glass in his left hand and a chicken leg in his right hand, he tried to empty his mind while swallowing water, looking intoxicated, then took a bite of meat and drank a sip of wine.
As a result, I was directly vomited by spicy food ... I didn't eat it later, so I took the chicken leg home and gave it to my brother.
How can Jigong eat such terrible food? It seems that all this has something to do with performance. Later, a few years later, I happened to know that the dog meat that Mr. Benchang You ate in that scene had gone bad, and I admired it even more.
After that, let's talk about why the "black boss" in Hong Kong movies always eats cheap lunch.
1, because it looks delicious, didn't he eat the same box lunch as most people did? If you put a big table of abalone and food that most people haven't eaten, and he still eats very well, you will definitely be a lot stranger when you see this.
Just like Jigong, if he didn't eat dog's legs, but went to a big restaurant to order a table of dishes, then I wouldn't watch myself drool to do that imitation show.
2. The "black boss" in Hong Kong movies, just like Chen Han in Infernal Affairs, climbed from the bottom to where he is today. He has long been used to eating lunch boxes, and the story of arranging "black boss" to eat lunch boxes can also highlight this point.
3, seemingly eating a box lunch, actually eating a gas field. This technique is often used not only in Hong Kong movies, but also in movies around the world with the theme of "black society".
For example, in The Fast and the Furious, the car exploded behind him, but the protagonist walked by the camera without looking at it, smoking a cigarette, and looked like "I am the most handsome". The car in this photo is equivalent to a "box lunch".
For example, in the well-known "Shanghai Beach", Xu Wenqiang lit a cigarette, then threw a lighter back and looked at the camera with a face of "I am the most handsome". The lighter here is equivalent to a "box lunch".
There is also our "Su Daqiang", who used to be the "black boss" in the movie. The house behind him is exploding, but he still smokes cigars calmly. Cigars here are equivalent to "box lunch".
The bosses didn't eat lunch boxes! Not a box lunch! Not a box lunch! Although it is packed in a box lunch, it is a takeaway from a restaurant! Restaurant takeout! Takeaway! The boss's mentality is sometimes similar to that of the nouveau riche. Even if he doesn't have time to eat in a restaurant, he certainly won't eat 23 1 lunch!
In fact, the box lunch in Hong Kong is not that bad. Like many mainland takeout boxes, it's really bad. Even the box lunch on the high-speed train is really expensive and unpalatable. But in the 1990s, I saw those office workers holding five or six boxes of lunch boxes on TV, about 100 yuan.
Many friends have also said that the box lunch in Hong Kong is very conscientious, and all kinds of roasted meat, goose and roast chicken with Shajiang are delicious, which is completely higher than the box lunch in the Mainland by several grades. So even if the boss eats a box lunch, the taste is not that bad.
It makes sense for the boss to eat lunch boxes. They are just bosses, not bosses. The big boss talks about things in high-end hotels. Many gangsters in Hong Kong movies like to eat hot pot together and eat by themselves, instead of going to places like hot pot restaurants. This is also a kind of "gangster culture".
What I understand is that these bosses are also made from the younger brother's period, and eating lunch boxes is also a habit.
Just more inclined, these lunch boxes are not filled with those twenty or thirty lunches, and some high-end restaurants will deliver meals. It makes sense for the boss not to go to the restaurant for lunch, but it also makes sense to order takeout in this restaurant. It just looks like takeout visually.
These bosses always enter the station, and it is more reasonable to eat lunch or deliver food in restaurants!
It's simple. Many dark bentos in Hong Kong are delicious. Just like our favorite instant noodles. Now children's parents don't allow them to eat instant noodles, so they think instant noodles are very delicious and eating instant noodles is very prestigious among their classmates. A truth.
The best black pepper chicken steak rice I have ever eaten was in the food court on the first floor of an unknown factory in Youtang. That food court is a bit scary. The lights are dim and there are no windows on all sides, just like a shooting studio. Generally, only dockers eat here. I didn't know this place existed until my colleague took me to work nearby.
But the black pepper chicken steak rice is really delicious. After dinner, my colleagues also recommended the silk stockings and milk tea from the stall next door. The same taste is unforgettable. My own feelings are not much higher than Cui Hua's.
This is the so-called dark cuisine!
Take me to dinner, the implication is to give face! :)
First of all, the box lunch in Hong Kong can't be compared with the box lunch in some of our construction sites. Sometimes we can see that some websites have that kind of cheap 5 yuan 10 yuan box lunch.
It just says a little meat, a little pepper, a little shredded potatoes, bean sprouts or other vegetables, and rice is also very cheap. In a word, it tastes terrible. After all, 5 yuan's box lunch and 10 yuan's box lunch, what else do you want to eat?
Lunch boxes in Hong Kong start at least HK$ 35, and most of them cost HK$ 35-68. For example, at 35-42 yuan, there are meat fried rice, ham fried rice, roast chicken rice, curry chicken rice, tomato sauce fish fillet rice, tomato sauce steak rice and raw fried beef rice, tofu fish fillet rice, hibiscus fried rice and Chinese cabbage beef rice. To tell the truth, they are all high-quality lunch boxes with fresh materials, exquisite cooking and good taste.
If it is 68 pieces of boiled chicken rice, there are many pieces of chicken, vegetables and goo goo meat, which is very delicious and rich. At the same time, in the sixties and eighties of the last century, when the black society was prevalent in Hong Kong, in fact, the income of most social friends was not high. In fact, raising a group of foals for a long time is a loss-making business. It is understood that generally speaking, the employment fee in Ma Zi is about HK$ 100 to HK$ 200 at a time, and it can reach HK$ 500 on important occasions, which does not include meals, transportation expenses, medical expenses, lawyer's fees and settling-in expenses.
Nowadays, in Hong Kong, large-scale "gang warfare" organized by "underworld" rarely happens all the year round, and it is generally changed to "drying horses" and rarely turns into a firefight. After all, if you really fight, you may go bankrupt, and most organizations can't afford to spend money.
A real boss with 100 employees will pay his employees 2-3 million yuan a month even if it is a decent income. This does not include all kinds of meals, accommodation and transportation expenses, as well as daily activities and entertainment expenses, family expenses for fighting, injury expenses and bonuses.
How much business does it take to maintain a monthly expenditure of several million? How much does it cost to show the venue to an entertainment venue a month? What's more, this kind of job of watching a venue is rare. Eat out every day Any good morning tea costs five or six hundred yuan for two or three people.
Can you correct me? In Hong Kong gangster movies, bosses don't always eat lunch boxes, but they also have side stoves, coke, beer, milk tea and instant noodles ... So there are so many foods, why do they only see lunch boxes?
Eating hot pot with Li Choi Wha in the ice room in Kowloon.
Well, why do bosses in Hong Kong gangster movies always eat lunch boxes? Let me fill in this question.
First, grow in the market.
Most people who mix gangs are students, hooligans, unemployed, powerless and brought up on the streets. Choosing a box lunch is very close to these people's lives.
Second, habits
In many Hong Kong gangster movies, we can see that the underworld profession is not only open all year round, but also requires to be on standby at any time. Obviously, box lunch can better meet the requirements of stopping while eating. Another point is that some friends say that Hong Kong's box lunch is delicious. I beg to differ, because it's really not delicious. If you meet a delicious Hong Kong box lunch, please treat me to a meal. I don't mind hitting my face.
Third, advance the plot.
In Infernal Affairs 1, eldest brother Chen Han was taken to the police station. In front of the major crimes unit, Chen Han ordered a box lunch and ate it in full view.
If Chen Han had ordered hot pot at that time, it might have been a little difficult for people. Relatively speaking, the box lunch is more in line with the scene at that time-you are a prisoner and there are so many demands. Are you tired of living?
However, Chen Han ate a box lunch, not because he was poor. After eating, Chen Han took out a towel and wiped her mouth. This towel belongs to Hermes. In Infernal Affairs 2, Chen Han is still eating a box lunch, which may be some kind of inheritance.
Secondly, in the movie "The True Color of Heroes", Mark, who is down and out, pushes a car to eat a box lunch in a small parking lot. The box lunch in Mark's hand speaks volumes about the current situation-Mark, who lit his cigarette in dollars at that time, is now down and out.
The scene of Mark eating a box lunch was seen by Tommy Tam. When Mark looked up and saw Dillon, he didn't know whether the light in his eyes was the joy of reunion after a long separation or the unsatisfactory chaos. ...
Also in The Rebellion of Laughter, the gang held a joint hearing and ordered a box lunch to comfort themselves during the break.
When I was young, I thought the best thing in the world should be instant noodles. However, after seeing the box lunch, I don't think it is. From instant noodles to box lunch, it has always been there. It's not that it's not delicious, but that we have grown up.
A small box lunch, in the busy life of Stephen Chow and Chow Yun Fat, we saw a small fortune; In Ceng Zhiwei, we regard high spirits as big bosses. At the same time, because of this small box lunch, the characters in the film become more full and three-dimensional. This little detail is far more convincing than the gold watch diamond ring.
Bosses eat lunch boxes mainly to match the plot. In addition, Hong Kong box lunch also occupies a place in Hong Kong cuisine.
The director arranged for the bosses to eat lunch boxes and talk about business in order to make the bosses more grounded and more in line with the characters and scene settings.
First of all, some of them are to show that even if the big bosses are in charge, there are still some habits and cognition of the little people at the bottom, such as eating lunch boxes, hanging big gold chains, and talking loudly. More importantly, the bosses in the play actually eat packaged restaurant food, which is to highlight the extraordinary position of the bosses and their concern for food, all of which are to shape the character image.
In addition, there are some special scenes, such as police stations and prisons. In this place, the big boss often goes and only eats lunch boxes, which meets the requirements of the scene.
Thirdly, prepare some action designs to promote the plot. For example, if you are angry, throw away the box lunch.
Life in Hong Kong is very fast, and most people are very busy. There are many waiters in their fifties and sixties in the restaurant. In their words, it means "Stop it", and many Hong Kong people's lives are actually very insecure. Convenient and low-priced box lunch has become the best choice for the general public to have a quick and simple meal.
Lunch boxes in Hong Kong are generally more meat and less vegetables. The common one is cooked rice, that is, all kinds of barbecued pork, roast chicken, roasted goose and boiled chicken. One kind of barbecue is single-cooked, two kinds of mixed meat are double-cooked, and then one or two vegetables are served. The other is two for three, that is, ordinary home-cooked dishes are put together.
For me, it was the box lunch that showed me the price level in Hong Kong. When I was a child, I watched TVB's plays. In TV series, rich people check millions at any time, because they are too far away from themselves and have no feeling. Only when I think things in Hong Kong are expensive, the takeaway brother in the play carries a bag of lunch boxes, about four or five boxes, and the opening is "120 thank you".
In the 1990s, parents' salary was only a few hundred yuan a month. In those years, one hundred yuan was definitely a big bill. Boy, how many boxes of lunches do they have120,231box? In order to expose my hometown, we used to have a bowl of tofu pudding rice in 35 yuan, so we can eat whatever we want. It's shocking. I thought there was a mistake in dubbing.
More than 20 years have passed, and now the general price of lunch boxes in our major cities has also risen. The lunch boxes of 10, 20, and 30 have finally been finished. Only then did I feel that, um, dubbing was honest with me.
Come uninvited, personal opinion, for reference only.
Reliable reasons are completed by friends who have answered questions before. Brother Le flipped through his stomach and found some unreliable reasons. Don't take it seriously
Le Ge believes that in Hong Kong's "gangster" movies, bosses like bento (food stalls) for the following reasons:
"Food stalls" rose in Hong Kong after World War II and reached its peak in 1950s and 1960s, which became the collective memory of that generation!
The familiar words such as "food stall", "food stall" and "packing" have a very high appearance rate in Hong Kong films. This is closely related to the food culture in Hong Kong.
According to the timeline of Infernal Affairs, when Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai were selected to be undercover at 199 1, they were both around 18, which means they were both born after 70. By analogy, Mr. Huang () and his brother () should be born after the age of 50.
It can be seen that the birth years of the two bosses are basically the same as the prosperity years of food stalls in Hong Kong. Therefore, in the memory of their generation, lunch boxes and food stalls have become indispensable elements. Just like many post-50 s old people like to eat fat, fat is the fantasy and memory of most people in that era of material shortage.
We further divergent thinking, lunch boxes and food stalls are the collective memory of directors and actors born in that era, and also the collective memory of Hong Kong audiences.
In a word, the "young and dangerous" like to eat box lunch, which is the embodiment of Hong Kong films "grounding gas" and "Do not forget your initiative mind" and is also determined by Hong Kong's unique catering culture.
Compared with cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the pace of life in Hong Kong is only fast but not slow. In such a fast-paced life, it seems a luxury to sit in a big hotel and waste a few hours eating and drinking together. Therefore, under normal circumstances, all kinds of box lunches such as barbecued pork rice, bacon rice, clay pot rice and curry rice are the first choice to fill the stomach.
The same is true of filming. Speaking of eating, box lunch is the first choice for props.
Of course, box lunch is not completely synonymous with low-end Aauto Quicker, while high-end dishes, after packaging, will also become "box lunch". Moreover, there are many high-end bento boxes in Hong Kong, and the prices are not cheap.
Remember TVB's heirloom cock bowl?
If netizens hadn't discovered this "heirloom", Brother Le didn't notice it at all. TVB actually used a flower bowl for 20 years!
How to evaluate? Hey? Lazy? Don't know how to change it?
I think, these are not the most fundamental reasons, just like Mark ate a box lunch, and decades later, Cheng Ge is still eating a box lunch. The more times a scene appears in a Hong Kong film, the audience will feel a sense of identity and intimacy. The director doesn't need it, but the audience is not used to it.
Brother Le found some unreliable reasons to explain that all the big names in Hong Kong movies like to eat bento. I hope that my friends will have more unreliable reasons. Let's discuss them together!
I think this theme must be a fan of Infernal Affairs series, because in this series, the scene of Chen Han, the underworld boss, eating lunch boxes appeared many times. What impressed me most was that Chen Han ate lunch boxes at the police station twice. Judging from the state that Chen Han eats lunch boxes, he really likes to eat lunch boxes, but these lunch boxes are bought by people in the police station, which means that he doesn't always eat lunch boxes.
Watching other Hong Kong movies with similar scenes, I found one thing. It is not that the gangsters in these movies have a soft spot for bento, but that eating bento is more popular in Hong Kong, just as eating pancake fruit is more popular in Tianjin. If the film and television industry in Tianjin is so developed, I believe that there will always be scenes in which various characters eat pancake fruit in the films filmed in Tianjin.
Looking at other movies in Hong Kong, we can also be sure that eating box lunch is indeed a popular behavior in Hong Kong. For example, in the movie "king of comedy", box lunch appeared many times. At the end of the film, Yin Tian, played by Stephen Chow, and undercover played by Chou He Ng Man Tat pretend to be a box lunch deliveryman, which shows that the box lunch industry is quite popular in Hong Kong.
Then, why was bento popular in Hong Kong at that time? It depends on the pace of life in Hong Kong. The pace of life in Hong Kong is very fast, and the take-away box lunch will naturally be favored by everyone. After entering the 2 1 century, with the rapid economic development, the pace of life in many mainland cities has also accelerated, so the take-away industry has become popular in the mainland, and now we also have a special liking for selling box lunch.
In short, it's not just gangster movies that have lunch clips. It can be said that there are clips of having lunch in various Hong Kong movies, because it is a normal behavior to have lunch in Hong Kong. Since it's normal behavior, it's not surprising that lunch clips often appear in Hong Kong movies, is it?
The above are purely personal opinions and are for reference only.
Those who eat box lunch are definitely more ruthless and more fighting than those who eat big meals! Because he understands that simplicity is the last word!
Besides, being a boss is not easy and expensive! Many gang bosses in Hong Kong are gangsters in their school days. Know what kind of food comes from reality!
There is also a delicious box lunch! It's not the cheap box lunch you think!
The biggest reason is that film and television dramas are based on effects! The simpler and more direct life is, the more terrible it is. For example, if you see a boss eating a box lunch and drinking coke, a strong sense of mystery will give you the illusion that this person is "hidden", so that the image of this gangster will become more three-dimensional and vivid. This is how Ceng Zhiwei's image is reflected.
Eating a box lunch at the police station and directly lifting the table without saying a word is simply a direct representative of domineering. A vicious threat made everyone dare not move!
The fuse was that the three brothers came out to sell drugs and arms. When talking business with several bosses, the second child ate the simplest instant noodle box lunch, which was simple but scary. A few people here are very scared, because such people do things directly and fearfully!
Everyone's first impression of bento is "not delicious" and "cheap". A few dollars or even ten dollars of box lunch is already a day, and the taste is super bad.
The quantity and quality of box lunch in Hong Kong are impressive. Barbecued pork is big, and the vegetables are fresh and delicious.