The film combines adventure, action, love and other elements. The screenwriter of Luc Besson, as well as the handsome young Vincent Perez and the Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz, showed the French romance, enthusiasm, desire for freedom, and unremitting pursuit of ideals. Very high viewing.
In addition to the super star cast, this movie has a lot of highlights worthy of attention. The film fully demonstrates the beautiful scenery in France with the characteristics of the 18th century. In the beautiful pictures, snow-capped mountains, blue seas, quaint towns, and grand palaces come into view one after another. The scenes involving martial arts have better retained the French flavor. The ancient swordsmen with long hair swayed their long swords smoothly like a dance. Both fencing and riding have become very artistic and pleasing to the eye. In addition, more than 600 sets of gorgeous costumes are used in the film, and some of the finely crafted costumes can even be rated as "cultural relics". The combination of classic style and stylish feel makes the film visually stunningly refined and perfect.
From the opening narration, "Fanfan la tulipe" is destined to be very different from Hollywood-style entertainment. It is a combination of sharp and spicy wisdom, a comedy tradition handed down from the Molière era. A nation has the characteristics of a nation. The elegance, romance and cynicism of the French are destined not to be learned by others. However, Penelope Cruz's performance in the film is not very "French", but more like a gypsy girl-perhaps this is what the film wants.
Although the film is not the best work among them, it also reflects that French filmmakers are consciously taking advantage of the world's best films. In Fangfang's first appearance to fight against the farmers, he sometimes used farm implements as nunchucks to repel the opponent, and sometimes, like Jackie Chan, created countless jokes in the intense action. This kind of "inclusive" style has a faint bearing with Hollywood.
Fanfan la tulipe is a French legend in the 18th century, Zorro in the eyes of the French, a happy hero that everyone yearns for. Fangfang in the film "Fanfan la tulipe" is more like a tramp. The characters, narrative and values of the film are all very close to the tradition of European hobo novels.
In the film, Fangfang does not have the lofty spirit of the hero in the epic. He is in the same vein as the hero of the vagabond novel. Fangfang is "cynic", he joined the army only to escape marriage, his heroic act was not for the so-called national justice, but only to save his beloved woman. Fangfang is not restricted by traditional morality, is not bound by the army, is not afraid of imperial power, and does not take worldly glory in her eyes.
The film is the carnival of the homeless, which inherits the tradition of European homeless novels and promotes the spirit of freedom and romance in France. However, this is not a particularly tasty dish. The film inherits the tradition of literature, but in the comical banter, it loses the depth of social criticism and satire. Everything is on the surface, the surface mockery, the surface carnival, the surface noise and laughter. This kind of performance obviously cannot carry the tradition of a nation and the legend it loves.
