Since I want to make a film review, let me express my feelings about "The Golden Armor of the City".
Expectations outweigh the results!
All kinds of media have long been hyping up the "Golden Armor in the whole city", and people who know the music production company of the Golden Armor will have some expectations for the brilliance of the Golden Armor. Later, I saw the promotional pictures of the Golden Armor on the Internet, and I thought it was worth watching those pictures in the past. Look at the cast again, Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Liu Ye, Jay Chou. . . . . . Listening to such a combination always makes people feel an impulse. I also heard that this is Zhang Yimou's last film before the Olympics. It sounds like a good film that will be made with great care.
On the 17th, when I went to Huaxing Studios, there were a lot of people queuing up. It seems that many people are as interested in this movie as I am. Before I came back, I read a news on the Internet that the box office of the Golden Armor on the first day was 15 million, so I was even more looking forward to it. But after watching the movie, I didn't get a kind of satisfaction, and I didn't get the so-called shock. It should be said that my expectations were much greater than the results.
"The city is full of golden armor" = the ancient version of "Thunderstorm"
In terms of the depth of content, Zhang Yimou is obviously going for a coincidence. The filming of "Heroes" and "House of Flying Daggers" has already denounced Zhang Yimou enough, and now the filming of blockbusters will be criticized in terms of plot, so it is a good way to choose a famous book for adaptation. This is true of Feng Xiaogang's "The Banquet", and even more so in "The Golden Armor in the City". However, Zhang Yimou used more pure, basically "Golden Armor" = 85% of "Thunderstorm". The eldest son had sex with his stepmother, and then had sex with his half-sister; after the father found out, he kept asking his stepmother to take medicine, and even the plot of persuading him to take medicine was similar to the original. There's nothing wrong with the plot itself, but the question is does such an adaptation make people feel a bit out of luck? The plot basically did not exceed the imagination of people when they started watching. Many people think of "Thunderstorm" when they watch it, and when it ends, they think of "Thunderstorm" even more.
Actors perform at different levels.
Chow Yun-fat : The role should be regarded as a villain, and there is nothing to say about the acting skills. If you are picky, the fly in the ointment is to act too much like a gangster boss instead of an emperor.
Gong Li: I think Gong Li is the best performer here. Without Gong Li's character, this movie would have basically lost its soul. I think Gong Li's performance is just right, basically I approve of her.
Liu Ye: Maybe the jokes in the audience are basically concentrated on Liu Ye. However, in terms of acting skills, he is still qualified, but some of his lines are rather funny.
Jay Chou: I think Jay Chou here is basically a vase. I'm a fan of Jay Chou, and I like how he feels. Many people said that his first film "Initial D" was not very good, but I really liked it, because I think Jay Chou should be like that. In this play, Jay Chou basically has no personality of his own. I can understand that this is a plot need, but I don't like this kind of plot need. If the actor has lost his own characteristics and personality, what can he see? Obviously, Jay Chou has studied more about his "acting skills" in this play, but he has forgotten that what everyone expects from him is not his acting skills but the continuation of his own style.
Other actors: The other actors are basically the green leaves of this movie, and the most conspicuous green leaf should be the Three Princes. His accidental assassination is slightly far-fetched from the plot. To be honest, basically, I think this child is too precocious, and he added his role in an understatement. In the end, a pig eats a tiger. If you analyze it in detail, it is still a little far-fetched.
Unluxury behind luxury
The film promotes itself as a blockbuster from its positioning, so it must show its own luxury everywhere on the scene. From the perspective of visual effects, Laomouzi still thought of a lot of ways, and the visual and color effects also showed the luxury of the court. But I still found some problems when I watched it, and I think it is a small regret. The first is the corridor, which is the corridor to walk around, and the beams are also very low. I don't know why this is the case. It looks very luxurious in terms of color and decoration, but in terms of the width of the corridor, it seems very narrow, especially the first scene where the queen drinks medicine, basically two people are facing each other. It's very crowded when walking, maybe this is a detail. Second, I think in the last confrontation scene, when Jay Chou led the Golden Armored Army into the Chrysanthemum Stage, there were thousands of any and many mechanical devices blocking their way, and they were finally wiped out. And after all these things disappeared quickly, which basically had to make people feel too fake. How can the palace hide so much any equipment, where to hide it? This traitor can't be seen, especially Jay Chou, who is in charge of allocating people, doesn't know it, which has to make people feel a little fake. Speaking of chrysanthemums, many chrysanthemums were used by public eunuchs to rearrange them after the bloody battle. But where are so many flowers placed? To take so many flowers requires so many people, and they have to be prepared in advance. From the scene, there are many people and flowers, which is very luxurious, but when I look back, how could there be so many people waiting for Songhua? ? In the end, I think the most fake ones are the "Japanese ninja"-like assassins. I think they are the Chinese version of "Spiderman" or "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and they are on call, and there will be many more killed, I am thinking that since Laomouzi decided this movie is a blockbuster, there will be many people It's natural, but no matter how this person kills, there are still new people coming out. If he can't kill him, he can't help but wonder where the palace came from and hides so many people? The golden armor expresses luxury everywhere, but these unpredictable plots make people have to feel that there is no luxury behind the luxury. Maybe, Laomouzi wants everyone to forget about it as soon as possible after watching it and not to scrutinize it. Basically, it is similar to Zhou Xingchi's funny and nonsensical style. Laomouzi is called luxurious and unreasonable, which means that when you see this picture, you will only have visual effects. , and all the plot and reasoning are not very important here, as long as you know that a blockbuster is a blockbuster.
Talk about the post-processing of special effects in the CG part
Movies of this type have faced great challenges since The Lord of the Rings. First of all, let's talk about the large-scale battle scenes. Basically, there is no way to watch them, and the effect is very poor. Of course, if it is much better than "The Promise". But spending so much money to do it abroad is really inappropriate to achieve such an effect.
The scene where all arrows are fired is really difficult, but I think it's not as good as "Hero".
The Spider-Man-style computer stunts of the "Japanese Ninja" assassins made me feel really boring. They didn't have Chinese characteristics, and they were too exaggerated to express the effect of this aerial acrobatics.
The last paragraph of the Queen's Poisoning is a classic. The performance of the fluid in the air is very similar to a Siggraph entry last year, and it is also very similar to the XSI software package screen. If you guess correctly, it should be made by Xsi.
In short, the special effects of the movie are not very real, that is, compared with the films that have been shot in China, it is still unsatisfactory. However, if there are many realistic directors in the United States, Laomouzi is already good, at least he is already using it, so it is still worthy of praise, but I hope that the money will not be burned abroad next time, because I think China has the power to make such a move. special effects works.
To sum up
, "Golden Armor in the City" is very popular. You have to wait for 2 hours to buy a ticket to watch it. The ticket price is 70 yuan per person, and there are so many people watching. Saw the hope of the movie. But the mode of blockbuster is becoming more and more suspenseful. People watch blockbuster like a drug addict who needs opium to satisfy their physical and psychological needs. I really don’t know if a blockbuster is a feast or a fast food? I hope that our films are really entertaining the public, and that we can really produce some well-known blockbusters. Blockbusters and commercial films that are made with money will not be kept in the hearts of people. The great thing about "Golden Armor in the City" is that it makes people remember "Thunderstorm" once again.
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