But how dangerous it is to have expectations for a star-studded, over-hyped literary and commercial blockbuster (yes, only Wong Kar-wai can combine these two antonyms). Sure enough, the smoky vines were completely burned by a fire—two hours later, I slumped on the luxurious Huaxing imax seat that I bought at a high price of 90 yuan, vomited three liters of blood silently, and left.
I should have known that I was wrong when Liang Yingdi appeared in a black-clothed seat without a beard and a beard and still appeared as a pure boy. 2046 is already a matter of 2004. It took eight years for a generation of masters to shoot, and Mr. Electric Eye ran five years earlier. Wong Kar-wai was finally praised by a small freshman and was held in the Temple of Literature and Art. The running red cotton jacket is also in countless international scandals. After that, it turned into an international chapter. Yes, the Emperor of Literature and Art is still there, just like in "Dong Xie Xi Du", "the more you drink, the hotter the water is, the more thirsty you drink", the footless bird in "The True Story of Ah Fei", and in "The Light of Spring". Like He Baorong's sentence "It's better for us to do it all over again", this eight-year piece still produced countless golden sentences enough for fans to talk about it. But this time, the Emperor of Literature and Art was obviously a little too hard, and the golden sentences were too densely distributed, three sentences one post, five sentences one post, and finally became a mix of mottos.
When fans see this, they must say "you don't like it because you don't understand". Yes, I don't understand. Looking back, I watched all Wong Kar Wai's dramas for ten years. Before, I thought I understood every detail, every background setting, every time the characters raised their eyebrows and turned around. After ten years, I suddenly don't understand. After thinking about it for a long time, I can barely figure it out. I used to be too young, and I thought it was the most wonderful literature and art when I saw the shallow and near romance. In fact, it was just because my vision was too shallow and I saw too little. For example, Xiang Ling's favorite poem is "Heavy If the curtain is not rolled, the fragrance will last for a long time, and the ancient inkstone is slightly concave and gathers more ink." Now that the white horse has passed the gap, the concubine's heart is iron, and the meager Lu Qi Annie has so many babies, and the strong medicine is onslaught, and finally completely immune to the specious romance. You can say I'm old, or you can say I'm vulgar. To say something that is not afraid of others thinking that I am hanging silk or fifty cents: compared to this, two out of every three sentences are looking up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, and the words come out one by one, for fear that the audience will not be able to copy the literature and art with a small book. Blockbuster, I suddenly miss Feng Xiaogang or Guo Degang so much.
After watching this film, there is another realization: anything is not good if it is delayed for a long time. The original fresh intuition has long since ceased to exist, and the agility of the earliest talent has also been blocked by the ingenious carving. This film is so fragmented—the common phrase in the literary theory is “Qibao Loutai, dazzling, broken down, not fragments”, probably because the shooting time is too long. Oil paintings can be accumulated layer by layer, and the mistakes of the previous brush strokes are used as the background. Even so, it is not advisable to paint too many layers, otherwise it will become a mess; the same is true for movies, too much too much, too elaborate There are too many desires to be loaded into it, and the final appearance is blurred. Is it a martial arts documentary, a literary film or a kung fu film? The silence of the majority of the audience at the end of the show may have answered everything. That's right, the meager generation of grandmasters has a very comprehensive interpretation, and Director Wang has really been literary and artistic for many years, but after all, not every audience will enter the theater with a grandmaster's viewing guide or Wong Kar Wai's dictionary. Ordinary audiences are looking forward to more, maybe just a story of love, hate, love and hatred, rather than a mix of martial arts chronicles, ambiguous romance, and revenge martial arts.
Speaking of screenwriters. In the previous Wang-style movies, the script was not prepared in advance, and the screenwriter was not found. One’s own thoughts could be consistent and improvised according to the state of the actors. There were many states of agility, vigor, and freshness in it. This time there are screenwriters, and there are two of them, both of whom are senior literature and art practitioners in mainland China. Tangerine grows to the north and turns into citrus. The taste of Hong Kong in Wong Kar-wai's films was originally too strong to be dissolved. As soon as this issue is discussed, it is necessary to discuss the dilemma of Hong Kong films as a whole going north to seek development. Big names such as the King of Sunglasses can't get rid of this dilemma in the end.
Finally, the actor. Wong Kar-wai's films have always been known as successful actors, but this time the actors were still good actors, but they didn't receive a good book - I don't know how many drafts have been revised in the past eight years. The international chapter is always ruthless, and the white clothes for funerals in the snow are also very interesting - a girl should be pretty, and a filial piety - but in 2046, the fragility, hesitation, and true temperament are all gone, and every action has no effect. flaw. Since it is seamless, and affection is not allowed to enter, Zhang Meirenmei has become a sharp blade, how can people believe that she "had you in my heart". Liang Yingdi is also not in the state at all. There was no spark eight years ago. At this moment, he is sitting on his arms. When Ye Wen looks at Gong Er, his eyes are always unavoidable and smiling. Fourteen hands, all of which are thousands of golden sentences that Wang Dao reminded and reminded, literary and artistic posture.
Last but not least... I didn't spit out the spit, and I still have nothing to say. Let's talk about a few tragic big-name dragon sets.
One of the big tricks: Little Shenyang master and apprentice. It is not surprising to me that this pair of mentors and apprentices joined together. Wong Kar-wai was asked in an interview a long time ago why he always used the most popular stars, and he said frankly "because only stars have box office appeal", but this This time, he still made the wrong bet: Xiaoshenyang's master and apprentice are popular, but it is suitable for appearing in rural love and laughing rivers and lakes, and it is not suitable for the aura of Wang-style literary films. Zhao Benshan is okay, he's an old showman, and a few clichés are slow and ruthless; Xiaoshenyang's acting as a thug who collects protection fees is so exaggerated, how can people not play? Even if the audience laughed, it was not a heartless laugh at the comedy, but a surprised laugh of "How could he be here, how could he act like this?"
The second big dragon set: Zhang Zhen. This national Bajiquan champion who finally achieved after practicing for eight years has become one of the great publicity stunts of the film - is Mr. Zhang, who has not studied art in his 30s and lacks the skills of a boy, really a martial arts genius? The first line of heaven he played in the play made me even more confused. First, he really wanted to open a barber shop to cosplay a sexy clerk and take a small Shenyang as an apprentice, so he has been practicing dog days in summer and sanjiu in winter for eight years! Second, the appearance of the first line of heaven has nothing to do with the theme of this movie! After thinking about it for a long time, I finally realized that Zhang Guanjun's contribution to the box office is all in the publicity outside the play.
The third big dragon: Song Hye Kyo. Considering that Qiao Mei can't speak Chinese, and Ye Wen's "the way of husband and wife is that silence is better than sound", just a pretty face can barely contribute to the international box office. However, because there are no lines, she is not as smart and beautiful as Xiong Dailin, the sister-in-law of the king.
The fourth of the big dragons: Zhang Zhilin. Alas, Director Wang is such a good actor that he can't run out of arrogance and extravagance, and the musicians who play the huqin have to find a white-faced niche, even if they show a small face, they can run out. It's a pity that it's neither good-looking nor good-sounding, whether Xiaosheng should be angry or not, I really don't understand how each other thought of working together.
The last, the last, the last... Turning around and thinking about it, "The Grandmaster" is still very good. It actually aroused my eloquent desire for expression, and evoked my nostalgia that stretched like a river, reminding me that I used to be obsessed with "Spring Comes Together", "The True Story of A Fei", "Evil in the East" and "2046" It also reminds me of Ah Fei, Su Lizhen and Li Yaohui who accompanied me through adolescence. There is one sentence that Director Wang said: Celebrities will always have the most box office appeal. Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau and Faye Wong have made a generation of legends together. It’s a pity that his brother passed away. Wong Kar-wai, who held the altar of literary and artistic films, finally lost his last bit of sincerity in storytelling.
There is another possibility that Wong Kar Wai is always the Wong Kar Wai who was isolated from the world by sunglasses, but the post-70s and 80s who used to be obsessed with literary and artistic accents, finally grew old in the baptism of real life firewood, rice, oil and salt.
It doesn't matter, teenagers love Wong Kar Wai. The new generation of post-90s and post-00s will come one after another. They leave a message behind every criticized old man's Weibo: You don't like Wong Kar Wai because you don't understand. You don't like a generation of masters because they are too vulgar. Yes, we don't understand, just like we don't understand that there is nothing new under the sun. No matter his age, he is always hypocritical.
Appendix Line Comments:
1. It's my luck to meet you at the best time, but unfortunately I don't have time.
Comments: Introduction... seems like a sick sentence?
2. Saying that there is no regret in life is a prank. If you really have no regrets, how boring life would be!
Comments: The truth seems to be the same. But where is the point of the golden sentence?
3. All encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence.
Comments: I find more and more that Wang Jiawei's end is the true biography of Gulong. It's all the kind of sentence pattern that seems reasonable at first, but if you think about it carefully, "all xx is xx". Probably because I'm getting old, I'm starting to doubt the world, and I don't like judgment sentences very much.
4. Rather, think ahead, don't stop.
Comment: This must be a golden sentence provided by screenwriter Xu Haofeng, right? People who have practiced in martial arts schools are just different.
5. I choose to live in my years.
Comments: It is also vernacular + sick sentences.
6. My play, no matter whether there is applause or not, can only go on like this!
Comments: Ibid. Play is not wine, how can you just go.
7. Kung Fu, two words, one horizontal and one vertical. Wrong, fall; right, stand. Only those who are standing are qualified to speak.
Comments: Alas. Like the hemp bandits in "Let the Bullets Fly", stand and earn money! Domineering side leak ah.
8. If you don't forget, there will be echoes.
Comments: I admit that I appreciate my incompetence again. What's so good about this nonsense sentence?
9. People live in the world, some live to gain face, and some live to become lizi, all of which are dictated by current events.
Comments: This sentence Uncle Benshan said is okay. If you remove the last six words, it's quite homely in the Northeast.
10. I grew up watching my father fight with others. What I heard the most was the sound of broken bones. My father often said that a person like me can become famous by singing and become a monk, because I will be obsessed. In my father, what I see is not a trick, but a meaning.
Comments: Seeing a lot is really knowledgeable. Let me add another sentence of Miss Gong Er's golden sentence: "Practicing the three-level realm of martial arts, seeing yourself, seeing the world, and seeing all beings." Is this the martial arts version of Wang Guowei's three realm theory? That's not something new.
11. Flowers were hidden at the bottom of the leaves for a time, and I stepped on snow several times in my dreams.
Comments: Barely reaching the average lyric level of Song Ci. Still far from the most classic.
12. The newcomers are going to come forward, so we have to give them a chance, right?
Comments: Yes, yes, what you always say. You are so touching.
13. Lang Xin has his own feet, and there is a future through mountains and rivers.
Comments: This show is very showy, but the combination of the two actors' rivalry can only be regarded as "passing through thousands of flowers, and no leaves will stick to the body". Talking as much as you like, but without love, is it the actor's sorrow, or is it the fault of the editing in the later stage?
14. Why is martial arts called Kung Fu? Kung Fu is actually time.
Comments: … Okay. A new way of saying one minute on stage and ten years off stage? Been taught a lesson
15. As soon as a thought comes out, the mountains are unimpeded.
Comments: It's still a husband and a man, and Wanfu can't open it. This level of lines can generally be achieved by authors of time travel novels.
16. There is a saying in martial arts: if you have a breath, light a lamp, and if there is a lamp, there will be people.
Comments: Some people are some people, some of you are people.
17. People say that martial arts are thousands of years old, and victory and defeat are fleeting. We don't care about every move, we care about the whole martial arts.
Comments: It is true that the merit is in the contemporary era, and the benefit is in the future! The world is too public.
18. The way of husband and wife is that silence is better than sound.
Comments: As a married person, I strongly disagree. Husband and wife do not talk, do they just sleep? ps: Qiao Mei has few lines, is it really because she can't speak Chinese? 19. When making soup, you
must pay attention to the heat. If the heat is not enough, it is difficult to swallow. After the heat is over, things will burn.
Comments: Why do you have to say some old clichés that are not new? Will you die if you speak well, dear! ! !
20. Why do knives have sheaths, not to kill, but to hide.
Comments: Yes, yes, it is easy to scratch if you don't hide it. Even if you can't scratch your hand, it's not good to cut flowers and plants.
——That
's all. There are already too many, and fans have already said, "You don't understand."
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