The audience's consciousness and Lao Wu's illness

Brett 2022-04-21 09:02:51

After looking up a bunch of examples of the application of the Chinese character "meng" in ancient books, I still haven't found any ambiguous relationship between it and the "land of Jingchu"... I have to admit that this is a joke beyond the control of the script bridge section. And in my opinion, it is a very non-Chinese technique, which is more common in Japanese anime. [My mistake was corrected by a dear netizen on the first floor]

Mainland movie fans and friends who grew up drinking wolf milk now not only firmly control the voice of the Internet, but also gradually affect the sloppy style of the Chinese film industry through laughter--- Although their wisdom is still used by relevant departments and filmmakers to hype up huge box office. After years of baptism in Hollywood blockbusters, they are already familiar with the gameplay of movies. They understand what is a clever narrative, what is a smart casting, what is a delicate scene, and what is a good line with a hint of edge, so they are good at finding Lei Dian is good at making fun of mentally handicapped dialogues, digging out the pale lectures under the brocade clothes, and scoffing at the mediocre big scenes. Under the high standards and strict requirements, any one, even the master of the heartthrob of the year, can easily capsize, and the audience grows into a huge multi-legged sea monster. Tiger's national treasures, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, can be easily swallowed. I would like to call it "the victory of the common people".

In the Shaw Brothers era, the slogan "Shaw Brothers must be a good film" is always used at the end of the film. Wu Yusen is not Kubrick, but at most Guan Gong, there are always times when he goes to Maicheng.
Old Wu's biggest problem is that he is not good at controlling war movies. When the bully who makes violent movies is bound in Danwan Hong Kong, he can only allow the gang to fight to the extreme. This is its strength, but it may also be a person's limit. However, every guy with lofty aspirations, the ultimate violent scene in his dreams, must still be on a vast historical battlefield (such as Quentin, it is rumored that the next film will be a remake of "12 Iron King Kong"). However, as early as in "The Wind Whisperer", I clearly felt Mr. Wu's weakness, and could only break down the war scenes into a series of small-scale conflict scenes. It was like doing modern warfare at the time, but now it's still not progressing in the ancient Three Kingdoms. Repeatedly using a bird's-eye perspective and clumsy computer stunts to increase the aura is actually a video game-level level. And what I have called "extreme" judgment is more conclusive, which is the climax of the horse-infantry battle in the upper part of "Red Cliff". The tortoise gossip array is actually not arrogant, but cunning to facilitate his routine. After the enemy army is divided into pieces, the single-player heroes who fight Roshan on foot will go out---whether it is Gan Ning (called Gan Xing in the movie, where is the word "Ba"?), Guan Erge or Zhang Sanye , it's all the usual Xue Kui style (Zhao Yun is slightly better). From this point, we can also see a problem. Not only is Old Wu limited in his ability to control war dramas, but even the personal martial arts design that should be emphasized when he is forced to transform himself into a kung fu film has not been considered very deeply. As Zhang Che's direct descendant, this point I really can't stand it. In addition, I would like to criticize Yuan Kui, a Hong Kong-made martial arts and kung fu film director, who easily confuses "vigor" and "calm" when dealing with militarized battle scenes. On the whole, the fighting scene is really not as good as the old American "Spartan 300".

In fact, after reading the above. In my heart, Old Wu still intends to make a fuss about the friendship between men. However, the passages such as playing the piano and discussing the art of war are too subtle, and even a little procrastinating. Or to put it this way, in the play of Chibi, it has never been Wu Shu's turn to be cornered. This means that there is no such thing as an explosion of emotional scenes such as the so-called turn of life, so it is difficult to force the emotions of the audience all at once. What remains in our minds is the life and death of the pony buddies, and Zhou Lang, who embraces beautiful women, and Zhuge Liang, who is used to swinging his fans, always feel fluttering and jumping out of the circle. At this point, the focus has been lost, and everyone has little fun left. They can only dig out amazing and shocking lines, find fault with actors, or sigh about mediocre martial arts. Old Wu is guilty of his own sin.

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Red Cliff quotes

  • Cao Cao: General Cai, I see many grammatical errors here, I hope your military strategies are not as poor as your command of literature.

  • Cao Cao: [subtitle version] When a loser join forces with a coward, what can they accomplish?