It doesn't matter this review, this emotional rush is hard to control, especially when I just got goosebumps from "Red Cliff", I have to shout: Chen Kexin, Niubi!
I remember "If Love" 3 years ago, it was really not very good, no matter the plot, scenes, and performances, they were quite bad. I remember that the expectation before watching came from the deep impression of "The Homecoming of the Three Watches", and the expectation was so deep that the disappointment was even deeper. At that time, I wrote:
"The kind of absolute and unreasonable love, maybe that It's not love anymore, it's a kind of despair and fear, apart from keeping your body and talking to you day and night who can no longer respond, how can I have the possibility and necessity of my life. The scene of Dawn's running in handcuffs is a In the end, the melancholy burst into a sadness, and immediately followed by the far-off shot of him being knocked away, and then in the coffin, the corners of her eyes, which had been closed for many years, also burst into tears. Perhaps there is more to him. The great sadness of life, and at least at this time, if I had developed lacrimal glands, I would have been unable to resist this person who had already forgotten about life and death, and actually changed life and death again. "Going Home" not only made me appreciate Dawn's acting skills including Zeng Zhiwei again And the beautiful body of the heroine also reminds me of Chen Kexin's name."
Then, watching "If Love":
"...The result of the discussion between brothers and sisters, if love, is indeed abusive, but since Chen Kexin can shoot sweetly Going home, then I would rather trust him, but under the pressure of the market and capital, I made such a nondescript film.
Moreover, I would rather believe that in the film, Chen borrowed Jacky Cheung to express his depression. The thing is This: Jacky Cheung told Zeng Zhiwei as soon as he came up in the film that the director felt that in this script, A has no reason to fall in love with B, B is not really in love with C, and C has no reason to be jealous of A and B... Then Zhang took a bowl of hot and sour again. Facing the ubiquitous and superfluous Chi Hezhen, I said, am I a good director?
Chen Kexin is not bad at filming, but not attentively. Then, let us look forward to his next time in a few years. …………”
Unexpectedly, I actually got it right. Three years later, he gave me such a "Certificate of Voting".
Jet Li's ideals and ambitions for economic prosperity, Andy Lau's love and righteousness, and Kaneshiro Takeshi's hot-blooded youth image (Jin's temperament and image are really only suitable for this kind of character who lacks brains, but is genuine and sincere, and was actually cast for the role. Zhuge Liang, hey hey... It's really a disaster for the director, the actors, and the audience), Xu Jinglei's breath of beauty can't be concealed by wiping her face... and so on. said.
The struggle of human nature, life is like chess, you can't help yourself, and so on, needless to say, I still remember that it was the first time I went to Hong Kong some years ago, and I bought a book called "TOM New Vision" at the airport. Sight", on the cover, with a brown background, a man with half-length gray hair, taught me to remember this Hong Kong man named Chen Kexin. Since that cover, I have believed that he is a man with a melancholy nature, and the great sadness of life is in his chest. I still remember an interview that he usually doesn't drink, but when he does, he gets drunk and his head is clear. There is indeed such a type of person. If you write gossip, you can write a great sadness like "A Dream of Red Mansions", and when you make a movie, it must be a great sadness that teaches people to cry without being able to cry.
The movie has been released for more than half a year, and I re-watch the DVD. The front is all foreshadowing. In fact, I want to say that it is purely a technical problem of the film, especially when the next episode of "Red Cliff" is still available, I really should remind Director Wu to come and learn. !
In fact, there is only one serious war scene in "Famous Name", that is, the battle of Shucheng in which 800 people disturbed 5,000 people and made Shanziying famous. The three men have their own reactions. Jin is very ruthless, but his head is ruthless, even cute. Yang Gun is currently rushing with a shield made of a dustpan. It's too late to be afraid, it's the kind of perseverance that is like a fool; Liu is very fierce, like a real man, and he has tricks, which are the survival skills of farmers. , the person was about to die, so Li rushed out half a sentence of "prepare", in fact, he was blindfolded by himself, not knowing how to be timid; and Li was fierce, fierce and resourceful, and the last few horses and a few people rushed hard. The artillery formation is gambling, but I also know clearly that Lu Dashan (the one who said "my soldier, only to help you", and later became Li's confidant) is still a warm-blooded person, and he won't really like He Kui. The soldiers are self-respecting, and I know that Lu Dashan actually needs a victory, and there are not many soldiers who can be self-respecting, just to find a way to stimulate him and show his courage, and this method is Li himself desperately to kill. Fighting, this is not his bravery, in fact, he has already arrived.
In such a war scene, the fight is a knife and a gun. It is not only solid and heavy, but also light and skillful. For example, Li's big knife was grabbed by seven or eight, and he was swept across it and swept away seven or eight soldiers. For example, Jin took a padded back and cooperated with Li, attracting the attention of the enemy generals, and the flying knife between the electric light and flint took the general's head directly.
Just such a scene, to make it clear that it is 800 people against 5,000 people, without any gimmicks of 800,000 troops, but it is very compact, very full, full of tension, from succession and transformation, when the two armies took over, the Shanzi Battalion broke the gun formation, broke The battle of the artillery formation was ruthless. Some Taiping troops surrounded the mountain-shaped battalion in large numbers, but they were in disarray. The remaining Qing soldiers gathered up their courage and entered the battlefield as a new force. From prosperity to decline to prosperity, the explanation was clear. , and the characters and characteristics of the three protagonists are also clearly explained. "Red Cliff" ah "Red Cliff", what? Only Guan Zhang Zhao's solo fight to the fullest SOLO......
What's even more amazing is that after the Battle of Suzhou, Nanjing was captured, because there was a montage-style shot before explaining the 5 years of siege and looting before the Suzhou Station. When I got here, I was placed in the general director's place. , It's a big scene of Nanjing's offensive and defensive battle, and it's easy to go to Waterloo. Not to mention too much money, CG special effects may not be as good as it is, and there are so many good movies before, how do you shoot them? new ideas? And when the movie is here, it is no longer necessary to rely on war scenes to stimulate people. Li Liujin plus Xu and the whole bureaucratic system behind him are full of contradictions and layers of elbows, which are enough to form dramatic tension. What's more, Nanjing's offense and defense have been protracted in real history. The two major battalions of the Qing army in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, the Hunan Army and the Huai Army, two emerging local forces, finally conquered Nanjing. If the movie suddenly made it take a year to even fight Suzhou. A lot of tired teachers, bringing 10 days of food, will take Nanjing down by one gram, which will make the historical textualists very upset. So, the film was shot here, and the problem was very serious.
At this time, Chen Kexin, who is said to be the director of a literary film, showed his extraordinary control ability: a montage of the drama of "Thorn Horse" and the siege battle! ! ! ! ! !
Niubi, it's like flowing clouds and flowing water. This is my impression of the most light-hearted example of dealing with war scenes and movie plots. With this example before, I really don't know how Director Wu Da used arrows and burned boats in "Under the Red Cliff". To come up with some fame.
Others should also take into account the tone, soundtrack, costume, and details of the performance: please pay attention to the three protagonists' beards, long, short, long, and cut, which match the various paragraphs of the plot. ; That despairing bandit stockade, the scarlet land around the three arches, the sentence "There is no food in a radius of 100 miles", with that scene, the immediate despair is very real; the green curtain and the red curtain, Xu Zaiming When he was about to die, the performance of pretending to be calm and Zhang Huang's confusion and disbelief intertwined with complex emotions; also, in terms of screenwriting, Liu did not fall into the cliché of the entanglement of brotherhood and husband and wife. ...
This time, Chen Kexin took it with all his heart. In "If Love", he laughed at himself, and in "Famous Name", he easily laughed at Chen, Zhang, Wu, the shoddy creators of Chinese epic action blockbusters. In fact, A so-called director of literary films has at least read a lot of books, and read a lot of personnel affairs.
To make a blockbuster, it is not enough to be able to direct group gymnastics and train white pigeons!
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