I've watched it several times on and off over the years, and I just watched a segment when I accidentally tuned the TV. Today is the first time I've watched it from start to finish.
In my impression, the label of the Golden Armor has always been one of the "three bad films in China". The other two are Night Banquet and Wuji. These three bad films should have a large enough production lineup in order to be crowned with this name. Qualifications to scold. I really didn't look into Promise, and Ye Yan also watched it several times for Brother Xun and Zhang Ziyi, and it was quite similar to Golden Armor.
All of the plots have relatively fatal loopholes, and the further you go, the more bloody you get. In fact, I really like the first half, the oppressive feeling of the surging tide is well shaped, the resentment and conspiracy are intertwined, and the love and hatred of several people in the dynasty family is intricate. I was looking forward to the contest between the king and the queen. They all know each other's plans like the back of their hands.
King: "I know what you're going to do"
Queen: "I know you know"
Queen: "I know what you're going to do too"
King: "I know you know too"
? ? ? What do you know? ? ? Amazing.
The foreshadowing is so interesting, it seems that they are still holding back for the other party's "knowing" after taking a deep breath. As a result, they just know and have no backing. He held his breath for too long before he could cry out in an earth-shattering manner.
There were so many eyes and ears in the palace that the queen glanced at it and someone reported it to the king. The queen brazenly prepared 10,000 chrysanthemum veils, as if she not only wanted to tell the king that she was going to rebel, but also gave the king how much of her troops were. Report the number. And she has a plan, but we know in the end that she has no back-up. I know that the king knows it, and I know that the king will secretly arrange defensive counterattacks, but she has no countermeasures, and she insists on going against it. The explanation for this in the film It was Liu Ye and Chow Yun-fat's line: "You are really a lunatic." So the director meant that the queen's plan was that there was no plan, the movement had to be big, and the result was not important, because this woman had been subjected to years of deformed marriage and a suppressed life. It makes sense, but he still has his own son, Prince Jie, in the middle. He didn't discuss the process of planning the rebellion with his son. The day before the rebellion, he suddenly appointed his son as the core figure of the plan. This rebellion is really true. It's a bit too arbitrary, would anyone really let their son risk his life to participate in a coup that she doesn't even know what she's doing?
The role of Prince Jie and this line are arranged very out of line with the plot, which makes me think that the national teacher just added a character for Jay's box office appeal, or half the protagonist. Seeing his mother taking medicine and twitching, he promised to help the rebellion. In this movie, rebellion is defined as simple as a family meeting, without discussing the substance of the plan, setting up a backup plan, or even clarifying the facts and cause and effect. Today, I say rebellion. , will go to the battlefield tomorrow with a big knife. He didn't want to figure out why his father did this to his mother, and he didn't do anything after being appointed as the core character. Maybe his role in the plot was set like this, pure filial piety, but if that's the case To explain, the character of Prince Najie forms a strong contrast and conflict with everyone else in the family. Even a child as young as Yuancheng can do things like killing his own brother in such an environment. Prince Jie's simplicity is a bit too simple. As mentioned earlier, it gives people a feeling of being out of touch with this movie. , like putting Shui Bingyue in the midnight bell to fight Sadako, it is not a person from the world.
The personal style of the national teacher has been established since then. It is grand and grand. It is a bit off the ground. In layman's terms, it is a bit garish and unrealistic. Looking at the later Great Wall, the shadows are all the same, and the fighting scenes are all well-designed. Sense, but the practicality is a lot worse. So his films are always divided into two parts, the beginning to the middle is meticulous, the contradictions and conflicts, the psychology of the characters are all in the eyes of the characters, the emotional expression is very subtle, the more it goes to the back, the more like a drama, the emotional tension is getting bigger and bigger, more and more Exaggerated, the plot setting is becoming more and more dramatic, the rapid transition from realism to impressionism will make many audiences overwhelmed, if the beginning is dramatic and full of tension, this play is an absurd court drama, it will not cause Discomfort, but this kind of polarized change will make the audience unclear in the second half, and it will feel very abrupt if they cannot quickly switch to another story style.
But I complained so much. In fact, the original purpose of writing this article is that I don’t think the Golden Armor is as bad as the wind commentary. There is no success. The plot and rhythm of the first half of the Golden Armor are not only not bad, but also have a very precipitation texture. The plot direction, the setting of the scene, the atmosphere, the costumes, lighting and music are all remarkable, especially I want to write this film review. Yes, Gong Li and Chow Yun-fat's performances are simply fairy-like acting, every look, the slight twitching of the muscles on the face, the hatred, pain, distortion, struggle, and despair in the characters' hearts are vividly displayed, and they don't even need too many lines. Explaining and explaining you can make up a long story from their eyes. The anger of Chow Yun-fat about to burst blood vessels in the scene of Yuan Cheng killing his brother and the hatred in Gong Li's eyes are too contagious and too strong, except for The two of them, Liu Ye and Qin Junjie (that's actually Qin Junjie), were not bad at acting. Liu Ye's reaction when he found out that he had had an incest with his own sister was also very good.
So the Golden Armor is actually not that bad. On the contrary, it has many details worth scrutinizing and amazing performances. It’s just that the second half was discouraged and the light of the first half was completely covered up. One of the short comments said that he hoped that after many years Someone can rectify the name of this movie. It has been many years. I don’t know if this 5.4 rating is considered a rectification. According to my standards, if there is only the first half of the movie, I would like to give it a 7.5, but of course the movie cannot be viewed separately. Yes, so I don't know if this rating is objective or not.
But like the banquet, for Gong Li and Chow Yun-fat, I will still look it up in the future.
In my heart, Gong Li is the benchmark and standard of Chinese actresses, English rose Kate Winslet, French rose Sophie Marceau, Italian rose Monica Bellucci, if China wants to say who can afford such a name, I think it can only be Gong Li.
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