wrong effort

Ola 2022-04-20 09:02:39

I watched "The Proposal" yesterday.

I often wonder if the impetuousness and slowness of our times are really so destructive, and people who are engaged in art creation will also become a group of insensitive people. When Zhang Yimou was a fool a few years ago, we Not vigilant enough, thinking that it was just the small peasant's consciousness that ruined everyone else, then Chen Kaige planted it, Jiang Wen tried to suckle, but the result was still planted, saying that they have big ambitions may be an unreasonable reason, but the honest and heavy Gu Changwei can also The production of such a strange and dirty "Peacock" can only show that the film practitioners have suffered from a relatively serious infectious disease.

Going to Ang Lee, planting on Zhang Ailing's works is not wrong, and I am completely at ease - Ang Lee is so high-level, it shows that Chinese movies are really sick, and one of the root causes is that they seem to be Completely out of touch with life, when describing ordinary living beings, it is often far from the real reality (such as "Peacock"), and when I want to hold back a little fairy, I don't have that imagination (such as "The Sun Also Rises") . Crying for father and mother, but it doesn't move, squatting and not being cool, and everyone who understands is confused and tired. Ang Lee tried to stand on Eileen Chang's shoulder and look into the distance, but unexpectedly, he stepped on the air and didn't even understand what the work was saying.

So I don't have any hope for "The Name". After reading it, there is almost nothing I want to communicate with people - not bad, not good. And the gate of life is again: always talk about reason and reason, but in fact use the wrong force for both emotion and reason, and eventually become eccentric, not tragic, and not delicate.

At its root, it is nothing more than imitating the current understanding of certain emotions to imitate the stories of different eras, saying a word "righteousness", but this meaning, the director's understanding is also the model of Hong Kong's Hongmen—— The so-called background and scene differences are ignored in the slightest. As a result, many things cannot be explained more clearly from both subjective and objective perspectives. Borrowing the general background of the times is not only unhelpful to express the theme of "righteousness", but also confuses many related concepts and can only confuse people.

When it comes to the director's understanding of "righteousness", it is not even the level of "Underworld", at most the level of "Young and Dangerous". Therefore, in the face of the complex historical environment, I started to talk nonsense. Pang Qingyun’s inner confession when he killed Zhao Erhu was the pinnacle of nonsense. I won’t go into details about the flaws in this person’s consciousness, but only talk about the bugs in the background of the movie era. :

The Qing Dynasty's annihilation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a special historical period. The struggle between the enemy and the enemy was extremely barbaric and cruel. The Qing army often executed all the long-haired demons even after they lured them into surrender. Like Zhao Erhu, they captured the city to promise the enemy's life. The "faith" of the public is extremely painful, and the brothers turn against each other. In a modern city such as the underworld in Hong Kong, it may be a bit touching, but in that war environment, it must be a brain water.

Moreover, in the big battlefield, hundreds of thousands of troops are often confronted, one side is the long hair blessed by the "Heavenly Father", and the other side is the cohesive local armed Hunan army. Small, corrupt officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty, but the official system and military system are still strict, not like in the movie, just a loose shelf, any gang of rural bandits turn the clouds into the rain. It seems that it is not easy to imagine in the Qing Dynasty that the refugees tried to build military achievements and mixed their backgrounds. Not to mention that Pang Qingyun escaped for two months before returning after the entire army was wiped out.

Casually speaking, it is not the fault of picking history for a movie, so it is easy to be refuted. I just want to express that history can be used to play, but we need to use the scene to express the theme. At least it won't use the wrong force and make it cancel each other out, which is inexplicable. Using historical condiments to make stories, Jin Yong is a master, and Xiao Feng's story is a successful example, both romantic and credible. There is no way to do this. Jin Yong is a scholar. He has read books thoroughly, and is very familiar with natural materials. It's like "Famous Name", which is completely incapable of focusing, and the story is confusing. When it comes to the root, middle-aged artists like Chen Kexin still have no cultural losses, and they don't have the attitude of sinking their hearts and doing a good script.

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The Warlords quotes

  • General Pang Qingyun: Remember my face, so you can seek vengeance in the next life.

  • General Pang Qingyun: to Zhang Wen-Xiang: Let them eat. It's their last meal

    Zhao Er-Hu: But I promised to spare their lives!

    General Pang Qingyun: Winning is all that matters in war!

    Zhao Er-Hu: A man who breaks his word is a beast!