Alternate view of cold and hot "Red Cliff"

Rigoberto 2022-04-22 07:01:42

I was invited to watch "Red Cliff" with Nathan and my sister Xiaoxin. I felt pretty good. There were no holes in the big scenes I imagined.

Maybe it’s because I’ve watched too many movies, and it’s hard to fully integrate into the plot. There are always 10% of me watching from the sidelines and finding some deliberate or original arrangements made by the director. As expected of a famous director, he has extraordinary aura, a majestic formation (why not invite him to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games?), and the subtleties are just right: the soldier's slightly frightened eyes are highlighted in just the shooting of the ring wearing a jingle. Cao Cao's domineering and self-respecting domineering, the restrained voices of the doctors, the anxiety of the birds (Xiaoxin's sister said that the kind of bird is called "Tai Ping", the director is careful?), the curling smoke when cooking tea, the expression is calm but The clenched fist that betrays the mind...

Music is definitely an indispensable element. The melodious ancient music, the Qingyue shepherd's flute, the decisive and magnificent zheng sound, the vigorous drum beat (comparable to "Hero", but not the same, since "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" drum beat seems to have suddenly increased), Sometimes it blends in with the background, sometimes it jumps out, leading the development of the plot, which vaguely responds to the saying that "the army is impermanent, and the water has no constant shape".

The film is really star-studded, and even Dr. Kong Rong (an old mainland actor whom he likes both publicly and privately), who was sacrificed to the flag within two minutes of his appearance, is also an old mainland actor. The look of the handsome guy Jin is much better than that in "Famous Name", and his voice lacks the taste of Hong Kong and Taiwan. Zhang Zhen's performance is also surprising. Many close-ups of his eyes are completely different from "Wu Qingyuan". Even the Cuju boy is also played by the popular niche student Tong Dawei in mainland China (although Nathan reminded him in advance, he still couldn't see it with his eyes wide open).

I have always been skeptical about Comrade Hu Jun playing Zhao Zilong (I thought Gu Tianle's return to white was the best choice), but it turned out that according to the plot, Zhao Zilong was not much worse than Husir. I saw the interview before and said that there is no styling and the clothes are very ordinary. If you design it like the plot, it will be a waste of time if you have styling: you are always chopping melons and vegetables like crazy killing people, and getting hit twice from time to time, even if the styling is just a haircut It's more messy, the clothes are torn and some blood is sprinkled. Why waste your makeup artist's effort?

I first met Comrade Hou Yong in "Out of the Amazon", and then I glanced at a certain theme film, in which he starred as an anti-drug captain, all of whom were resolute and positive characters, but unexpectedly played Lu Su who was a half-pistachio. It may be that the arrangement of this role is too obvious in Hollywood, but it does not find it very funny.

The happiest laugh is when there is Liu Bei. How can this person look like a village cadre (also inherited our army? Party? The fine tradition of playing straw sandals), speaking in a CPC style, sincere and sincere, how can he teach people not to have tears in the corners of their eyes?

Of course there is no ambiguity in being a brother. Whenever the Qinglong Yanyue Knife appeared, I saw a person rushing towards the camera and swiping the ground to pose. The first thing to be seen is the feet (of course wearing shoes), and then the upper body. The second brother's original red face was sallow.

Mang Zhangfei is just like the stone man in the Hollywood movie Fantastic Four (Chinese translation of "Fantastic Four"). That expression, that movement, that running route, and even the things that were hit were the same (although one hit a horse and the other hit a car, they were all means of transportation). Looking at the fun, while thinking about the shape of Zhang Fei wearing a stone armor...

In fact, after listening to the lines, I know that Director Wu's ambition is not small. Li Jifeng, gags, and also takes care of national unity (I exclaimed, "I really look like a Japanese pirate" as soon as the hero who was surrendered from Soochow appeared on the stage, and later learned that the actor is indeed a descendant of Japanese), and the world's cultural integration (A war for a woman sounds like the Trojan War and the beauty of Helen), refuted the "useless theory of reading", showed the flash of feminist ideas, and by the way, kindly mocked our douchebag, The king of football, who has raised the blood pressure of countless fans.

Of course, knowing that it is Director Wu's film, naturally you can't miss the white dove scene. This time, Da Dao Wu went even further. Although he did not reach the level of hearing willow poems wherever there were wells, white pigeons were common in the eaves and sheds. Finally, there is a pigeon-view ending, which is really painstaking.

PS The air conditioner is sometimes absent during the viewing process, but whenever there is a shot of Xiao Qiao, it is always cold or sour, and the effect is long-lasting, which is enough to resist the interruption of the air conditioner.

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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?