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 film, they can go first and get their lunch in advance, so they call being killed "getting lunch" in the film.
I remember working with the staff before. At that time, a movie cost only tens of dollars a night, but there was a box lunch, which was a kind of rice food, and it was called "rice rolls" here. On one occasion, because many people left early before the lunch boxes were delivered, I ate six or seven lunch boxes at a time and ate them 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 knocked over the box lunch on the table, 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, Rebellion with Laughter, his uncle Ye Fu (who plays Zhengxingshe) 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 about business with people, of course you will go to the restaurant. If you just eat a normal diet, you will often eat home-cooked meals.
But it should be noted that our normal family cooks at home, and most gangsters are a group of big men. How can I have the habit of cooking by myself? Ordering takeout is the best choice at this time. You don't have to cook by yourself, and you don't have to wash dishes after eating. Very 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", Ng Man Tat plays an old audience sitting on the floor. As a police undercover, he asks Yin Tianchou to deliver takeout food and takes the opportunity to take the bug to the hut where a group of gangsters are 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 realizes himself more clearly and understands that there is still a long way to go to become an excellent actor.
In fact, if it is a group of fugitives, but it is a gangster who hides from the police and waits for an opportunity to commit another crime, then it is very reasonable to order three meals.
For example, Jet Li's "Letter to Dad" also takes eating a box lunch as an important plot. At that time, Fu Guang, his gangster, had seen through the undercover identity of Gong Wei, the hero played by Jet Li, and deliberately tricked 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 box lunch to remind him that there are 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 did they fool the gangsters.
Mark in Hero lost his position in the gang because he accidentally lost his leg, so he had to be a security guard.
In the film, Mark's box lunch was bitter and helpless, and Chow Yun Fat's superb acting even made eating possible. Lunch box can eat a bleeding disaster, eat a meal, eat a meal, so eating lunch box is too important.
But eating is an indecent thing after all and must not be misused.
For example, the glorious image of Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms was completely eaten by a bowl of rice as soon as he appeared, which made 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 Kill Matt, which should be used to explain why the gangster 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 fantasy, and felt that the world described in novels was a "perfect world".
During that time, I was really decadent and my temperament became very irritable. My parents' kind words about my discipline are torture to me, and I will be furious with them. It seems that I am the only one in the whole world, and no one wants to be near me, let alone 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 saw Jigong, I wondered why he could eat so delicious.
Teacher Benchang You plays Jigong, left-handed wine gourd, right-handed dog meat, lying under a tree and sipping wine and meat, which is a kind of 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. He took a glass in his left hand, a drumstick in his right hand, swallowed water, tried to clear his mind, looked intoxicated, and then took a bite of meat and drank a mouthful 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? Looks like it's all about acting. Later, a few years later, I accidentally learned 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 meals that most people haven't eaten, and he still eats very well, you will definitely become 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, 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, in fact, eating a gas field. This technique is often used not only in Hong Kong movies, but also in movies with the theme of "underworld" all over the world.
For example, in The Fast and the Furious, the car exploded behind him, but the protagonist walked by the camera without looking, smoking a cigarette, and looked like "I am the most handsome". The car in this shot is equivalent to a "box lunch".
For example, in the well-known "Shanghai Beach", Xu Wenqiang lit a cigarette and threw the lighter back, looking 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 a cigar calmly. Cigars here are equivalent to "box lunch".
Big brothers don't eat lunch boxes! Not a box lunch! Not a box lunch! Although it is packed in a box lunch, it is a restaurant takeaway! 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 the 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 rail 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 goose, chicken and ginger 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 hot pot restaurants and other places. This is also a kind of "gangster culture".
And 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, but some high-end restaurants 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.
It's more reasonable for these bosses to go into the station, eat lunch boxes or deliver food in restaurants!
It's simple. Many dark bentos in Hong Kong are delicious. Just like our favorite instant noodles. Nowadays, parents of children are not allowed to eat instant noodles, so they think instant noodles are delicious, and eating instant noodles is very prestigious among 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 industrial factory in Youtang. That food street is a bit scary. The lights are dim and there are no windows around, 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 chicken steak rice with black pepper is really delicious. After dinner, my colleagues also recommended the silk stockings and milk tea from the stall next door. The same taste, 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, a 5-yuan box lunch, 10 yuan box lunch, what else do you want to eat?
Lunch boxes in Hong Kong start from HK$ 35, and most of them are HK$ 35-68. For example, at 35-42 yuan, at this stall, there are fried rice with meat, fried rice with ham, fried rice with roast chicken, sausage, curry chicken rice, fried beef rice with tomato sauce, fried beef rice with tomato sauce and steak, fried fish rice with bean curd, fried rice with hibiscus and beef rice with Chinese cabbage. To tell the truth, they are all high-quality lunch boxes with fresh materials, exquisite cooking and good taste.
If it's 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, when the underworld society was prevalent in Hong Kong, the income of most members of the society was not high. In fact, keeping a group of ponies for a long time is a loss-making business. It is understood that under normal circumstances, it costs about HK$ 100 to HK$ 200 to hire in Ma Zi, and it can reach HK$ 500 on important occasions, not including meals, transportation expenses, medical expenses, lawyer's fees and settling-in expenses.
Nowadays, in Hong Kong, the massive "gang warfare" organized by the "underworld" rarely happens all the year round, and it is generally changed to "basking in horses" and rarely turns into a firefight. After all, if you really fight, you may go bankrupt, and most institutions can't afford to spend money.
A real boss with 100 employees, even if it is a decent income, will pay employees 2-3 million a month. 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 millions of dollars a month? How much does it cost to go to an entertainment venue for 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 dollars 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 many foods, why do they only see lunch boxes?
Eating hot pot with Li Caihua in Kowloon Ice Room.
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 and powerless, and grew up on the street. 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 the year round, but also requires to be on standby at any time. Obviously, box lunch can better meet the requirements of eating to stop. 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, 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, it would 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, it is not because he is poor that Chen Han eats bento. 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", the depressed Mark pushes a car and eats a box lunch in a small parking lot. The box lunch in Mark's hand can tell a lot about the current situation-Mark, who lit a cigarette with 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, the light in his eyes didn't know whether it was the joy of reunion after a long separation or the disappointment. ...
Also in the Rebellion of Laughter Fruit, the gang held a joint hearing and ordered a box lunch to comfort themselves during the break.
When I was young, I thought the most delicious thing in the world should be instant noodles. However, after seeing the box lunch, I don't think so. 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 Stephen Chow and Chow Yun Fat, we saw a small fortune in our busy life; In Ceng Zhiwei, we saw the high spirits of the big boss. At the same time, because of this small box lunch, the characters in the film become fuller and more three-dimensional. This little detail is far more convincing than a gold watch diamond ring.
The 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 them more grounded and more in line with the characters and scene settings.
First of all, some 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. What's more, the big men in the play actually eat packaged restaurant food, which is to highlight the extraordinary status of the big men, and the emphasis on food is 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.
Third, 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, "Stop it", many people in Hong Kong are actually very insecure. Convenient to eat, low-cost box lunch has become the best choice for the general public to eat quickly and simply.
Lunch boxes in Hong Kong are generally full of meat but little vegetables. A common one is cooking, that is, all kinds of barbecued pork, roast chicken, roasted goose and boiled chicken. One kind of roasted meat is cooked alone, two kinds of mixed meat are cooked twice, and then one or two dishes 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 the play, rich people check millions at any time, because they are too far away from themselves and don't feel much. Only when I think things in Hong Kong are so 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 1990 s, parents' salary was only a few hundred yuan a month. In those years, 100 yuan was definitely a big order. Boy, how many boxes of lunch boxes do they have120,231box? In order to expose my hometown, our tofu pudding rice used to cost 35 yuan a bowl and we could eat whatever we wanted. It's shocking. I thought there was a mistake in dubbing.
More than 20 years have passed, and now the general price of box lunch in our major cities has also risen, and 10, 20, and 30' s box lunch has finally been eaten. Only then did I feel that, um, dubbing was honest with me.
Come uninvited, personal opinion, for reference only.
The reliable reason is finished by the friend who answered the question in front. 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 to eat lunch boxes (food stalls) for the following reasons:
"Food stalls" rose in Hong Kong after World War II and reached its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, which became the collective memory of that generation!
The familiar words such as "food stall", "food stall" and "packaging" appear very frequently in Hong Kong films. This is closely related to the food culture in Hong Kong.
According to the timeline of Infernal Affairs, Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai were both around 199 1 when they were selected to be undercover, which means they were both born after 70. By analogy, Huang () and Cheng () should both be after 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. So 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, being fat is the fantasy and memory of most people in that material shortage era.
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.
To sum up, the "gang boss" likes to eat box lunch, which is the embodiment of Hong Kong films "grounding gas" and "not forgetting roots" and is determined by Hong Kong's unique catering culture.
Compared with the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the pace of life in Hong Kong is only fast, not slow. Life is so fast, 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 synonymous with low-end fast food. High-end dishes, after packaging, will also become "box lunch". And there are many high-end lunch boxes in Hong Kong, and the prices are not cheap.
Remember TVB's heirloom cock bowl?
If netizens hadn't discovered this "heirloom", Le Ge didn't notice it at all. TVB has used a flower bowl for 20 years!
How to evaluate? Hey? Lazy? Don't know how to change it?
I don't think these are the most fundamental reasons, just like Mark ate a box lunch. After decades, 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, and 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 it together!
I think the subject must be a fan of Infernal Affairs series, because in this series, there are many scenes of Chen Han, the underworld boss, eating lunch boxes. What impressed me most was that Chen Han ate lunch twice at the police station. 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 them.
Watch other Hong Kong movies with similar scenes and find one thing. It's not that the gang bosses 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 movies made in Tianjin.
Looking at other movies in Hong Kong, we can 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 and 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 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 it also has 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 eating lunch in various Hong Kong movies, because eating lunch is a normal behavior in Hong Kong. Since it is normal behavior, it is not surprising that there are often clips of eating lunch in Hong Kong movies.
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!
And delicious lunch boxes! 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 vivid. This is how Ceng Zhiwei's image is reflected.
Eating a box lunch at the police station and directly smashing the table without saying a word is simply a direct representative of domineering. A vicious scare made no one dare to move!
Inside the fuse, the three brothers came out to sell drugs and arms. When talking business with several bosses, the second one ate the simplest instant noodle box lunch, which was simple but scary. Several people here are very scared, because such people do things directly and fearfully!
Everyone's first impression of bento is "bad" and "cheap". A few dollars or even ten dollars of box lunch is already a day, and the taste is super bad.
The box lunch in Hong Kong is very impressive in terms of quantity and quality. Barbecued pork is big, and the food is fresh and delicious.