"Mr. K, can you stop you from reading the letter for 18 seconds? If you agree that people need to dream, can you give me a handwritten reply, just one letter..."
The day after watching the film, I watched Mr. K's work on CCTV6 The interview was about the process of filming Tai Chi Man. The approximate content is:
- The natural male protagonist of this play is Chen Hu, there can be no one else - Chen Hu served as a martial arts finger in Matrix, mixed with some clips of Chen Hu's appearance in Matrix 2, and Chen Hu was injured and still insisted Not off the line of fire, so and so;
- Lingkong Taiji is fictional, but the charm of Taiji in it is real;
- The final fight with Chen Hu in Lingkong Guan is the most difficult part for Mr. K.
So my understanding of the film is as follows:
- The hero is Chen Hu, a tailor-made character. The fate of the male protagonist reminds me of "Devil's Advocate" starred by Mr. K. It is also a story of being tempted, trading with the devil, and finally awakening to achieve self-redemption. As for Chen Hu's inability to keep Sassoon's head, look fierce at the goddess, and look owed money whether it is a courier boy or a martial arts event, it is another matter.
- This is a movie that Mr. K wants to make. In addition to the above-mentioned repayment to Chen Hu, it also contains a lot of understanding of Tai Chi. The last duel personally felt very unreasonable. The big boss had to travel thousands of miles to the away game for a challenge with a very low win rate. It seemed that his IQ was too low-but since it was fighting for the sake of fighting, he accepted it leniently. .
- The content of the Hong Kong police (Mok Wenwei, Tang Wenlong, Li Cansen, Ren Dahua, etc.) has very little overlap with the clues of Mr. K and Chen Hu - if I remember correctly, it is only Karen Mok and the two who have played against each other. It can be seen that the part of the Hong Kong police is It belongs to the practice of parallel shooting and reconnection. Those bugs such as Chen Hu's unimpeded back and forth between Beijing and Hong Kong, and Karen Mok driving a few somersaults without dying, are not surprising.
As Mr. K’s first directing, compared to other directors’ debut films (a big-eyed female director who tried to introduce a lot of details, but was helpless due to lack of capacity, the film went out of control and collapsed, a self-righteous, bland but hypocritical character) The dwarf and big-headed writers who made the story and the content of the story failed a lot. Although there are still many immature places in the script, process control, and protagonist setting, at least there are some things that can be seen:
1. Choose one Although there is no novel or interesting story, the advantage is that it is relatively simple, and it is easy to shoot a smooth and self-consistent plot. There have been a lot of thunder films recently, and now after watching "The Man of Tai Chi", I feel like I'm returning to the normal world. The Hollywood-style popcorn story at least has a high degree of completeness. Even if you forget it after reading it, you will not be struck by lightning and vomit blood for a few days.
2. The use of the lens is a lot of work, thanks to Mr. K's understanding and mastery of the basic lens. After watching the whole film, the audience may not find anything special, but at least the shots of this film are diverse, skillful and planned. Most of its shots are well-composed, with the right movements or viewpoints in the right plot, and a little bit of editing in some places. The better ones are the promotional videos reviewing Chen Linhu's "growth" process, and the 1 VS 2 fight before the opening.
I personally estimate that "Man of Tai Chi" will not have a high box office, because the movie has not enough selling points and no gimmicks. In these years, other directors can't make good movies, and they all struggle to the level of weirdness, but "Man of Tai Chi" is not even enough to talk about, and the box office is really difficult to be optimistic. However, I still appreciate Mr. K's serious attitude towards this movie. Even if he didn't take the film course systematically, he must have watched a lot of Hollywood movies to imitate. This alone is worthy of later learning.
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