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The Brothers 1979
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Brothers is a 1979 Shaw Brothers gangster film directed by Hua Shan, starring Anthony Lau Wing and Danny Lee.Lau and Lee plays the Zhang brothers, Zhang Zhi-gang and Zhang Zhi-qiang, raised in the slums by their single mother. Growing up and hoping to make it big, Zhang Zhi-qiang joins the police and was promoted to Chief of Police, while older brother Zhang Zhi-gang, after failing his business, ends up joining the local triads where he slowly rises within their ranks, becoming their chief enforcer and a powerful mob leader, unbeknownst to his family...This movie is the Ur-Example to the Heroic Bloodshed genre that dominates Hong Kong later in the 1980s; it is the inspiration behind John Woo's classic, A Better Tomorrow, and a blueprint to numerous gangster-themed films revolving around the triads released afterwards.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Big Fancy House: Zhang Zhi-gang purchases a mansion for his mother and brother after making it big in the mob, lying to them about how he obtained all his wealth from being the CEO of a shipping business. He ends up dying in the hall of that same house, after being accepted by his family once more. | |
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Badass in a Nice Suit: Zhang Zhi-gang when he became an enforcer for the mob. The suit he wears on the poster above is featured prominently throughout the film. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Zhang Zhi-gang's entire motivation is to provide a better life for his mother who raised the Zhang siblings all by herself. He ends up suffering a Heroic BSoD when his mother finds out his source of income is through illegal means by working for the mob, and she subsequently disowns him as a result. | |
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Anti-Hero: Zhang Zhi-gang, a triad enforcer, gangster, yet an honourable man to the code of the triads, a dutiful son and dedicated to his brother. | |
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