
Hong Kong Noir: Starting at Kowloon Walled City
港综从九龙城寨开始
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- Completed
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- 1.7M Words
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- Urban
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- Urban Life
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- 4mo ago
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- Qidian
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My suggestion is to try not to use Hong Kong-style dialogue in it. The Cantonese words about "catching grass" look quite dramatic.
No original heroine
Don't create an original heroine. After all, people who watch Hong Kong TV dramas only watch the plot and the heroine.
Book setting
First, there is no system. Secondly, there are no extraordinary plots such as gods, ghosts and Buddhas, and the highest combat power is the martial arts masters such as Ip Man and Zhang Tianzhi. Third, the timeline deviation is within five years, starting in 1977.
Figures
Cartoon Characters
Explanation on whether the Longcheng Gang has any fan involvement
Some book friends have read "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" and they were concerned about Chen Luojun snatching a bag of powder from the big boss and entering the walled city and encountering a group of powder smugglers. There was a dispute, which led to Xinyi to come forward and rule that there was doubt whether the tornado group was involved in powder! The original comic "Kowloon Walled City 2", Volume 44, Page 3 is posted here as evidence. Tornado has not been involved with fans since the establishment of the Dragon City Gang. As for the fact that Xinyi can arbitrate the conflicts between Fan Tan and Chen Luojun in the movie, my personal understanding is that the movie adopts the setting of the comic. The Dragon City Gang is dominant in the Walled City and can come forward to arbitrate the contradictions and conflicts that occur in the Walled City. Please believe me as a person and a book writer The bottom line is that in the last book, Wu Shihao's role was so outstanding and he was the second brother of the protagonist Ding Yunfeng.
As a reader, my thoughts on this book
After seeing the single chapter about Riwan published by the author, as a reader, I would like to express my personal opinion. In this book, the author actually has no big problem with his writing style. The main problem is that the plot and main line are not clear enough. It can be seen that the author consciously wanted to string together various cases through foreshadowing, but failed to do it well. It just feels like the protagonist doesn't know what he's doing all day long. How far has his strength developed? Can't tell. There is no relatively clear route and plot for the development of the police force. There are too few plots for female characters, resulting in a lack of excitement. Hong Kong drama is actually very similar to fan fiction. Familiar characters and plots appear, and everyone has a basic impression, but the setting of a more exciting plot still tests the author's skills. For example, Cheng Yiyan's part of the plot is actually very exciting when written. But the plot foreshadowing is obviously not enough. The force behind the Nanyang Consortium turned out to be Guan Zu's mother, which was a bit confusing. Also, the protagonist is clearly on the side of his hometown, but the ancestral family is almost indifferent to the protagonist and allows him to cause trouble. This is not reasonable. It is normal to have all kinds of black hands behind the scenes. Looking at the movie Chill and the situation in Hong Kong in the past few years, it is impossible for Little Britain not to be a troublemaker. But the description is insufficient on this point. This saves a lot of plot conflicts. In general, the exciting points: recruiting girls, showing off, and the development of power and wealth are too little described after the protagonist enters the police force. Instead, the cases in many classic Hong Kong movies drag the plot forward. As for solving the case, the protagonist knows the original film, which makes the plot relatively boring. Generally speaking, the author's book has made a lot of progress compared to the previous one, but he still needs to put more effort into the plot arrangement.
After reading more than 200 chapters, this book is basically not enjoyable. The story is very stiff and the protagonist's thoughts are used to advance the plot of the story. The author updates it very quickly, a few chapters a day. The speed is too fast and must be a bit rough. There are some small problems that I personally think, such as who will succeed the three dragons (I suddenly thought Can't get up) To hold a banquet, it only costs 20 million in cash, not counting other gifts. Comparing it with the 500,000 left at the settlement of Longcheng Village, there is no one left compared to Dongxing's poor eldest son. Then they find a reason to hold a banquet (of course it is impossible not to organize more), they should have some small money, how can they still be so poor. The above is just a deeper impression. There may be some other minor issues as well. The protagonists in the author's works are not very smooth in dealing with things. They feel that their emotional intelligence is very low and very stiff. Many times they feel a bit condescending and give orders in a stiff and imperative manner, such as "I want you to check someone out." Maybe the author designed such a character for the protagonist from the beginning, or maybe the author is not good at describing this part. That's all. There are so many complaints above, so I can mention some advantages. The author works very hard and updates several chapters every day, which is very fast. I took a look at the monthly ticket data for this month. The data is quite good. There are eight to nine hundred monthly tickets. The author's writing style needs to be improved.
It's boring. It gets worse and worse the more you look at it. I have no interest in writing about politics now. It just so happens that many Hong Kong dramas end up liking writing.
The author has a poor view of the overall situation and trusts small people. Those who advise you not to use Cantonese are just making trouble. Shouldn't writing about Hong Kong drama fans focus on readers who really like Hong Kong dramas? Those who really like Hong Kong dramas can only speak Cantonese.
Let me go, you want all three routes of Hong Kong gangsters, business, and police joining politics. Tsk