The CCTV Spring Festival Gala will at most move out stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Jackie Chan and Li Rengang's "Spring Festival Gala" will bring out Oscar winners, Hollywood stars, hundreds of Roman soldiers and props from Western epic films, using border gates and desert dust storms as the stage. In order to make the layout complete and comprehensive, Jackie Chan even did not hesitate to dilute his personal heroism (compare "The Zodiac" is also a group show, how Jackie Chan shines from the beginning to the end), when the Romans take care of their own family affairs, be a good East who is struggling righteous. With the courage to let Xian and Shimei, this "Spring Festival Gala" has a detached scale and temperament. If CCTV's Spring Festival Gala can keep pace with the times like this, He Chou's ratings will decline year by year, and it will be reduced to a comparison with the Super Bowl.
Huo An, played by Jackie Chan, is a military general, and his skills are more like a literary soldier. He is proficient in various dialects and foreign languages, has a good singing voice, and has excellent public speaking skills. In terms of the processing mode of multiple languages, this film could have been like last year's "White Ghost: The Escape", with everyone matching the same language and using artistic authenticity. Anyway, the aliens all speak English these days, and the audience doesn't care. I don't know if I was stumped by "adapting from real history", but Li Rengang used the most stupid method. Everyone honestly said his own way. Jackie Chan was also a half-hearted translator. In ancient times, if he wanted to be a civil servant, he should also pass the language level. Take the exam. To be honest, the disadvantage of Jackie Chan's poor English has become an advantage here. The ethnic minorities babbled and murmured, which was particularly ethnic and exotic.
Of course, the most exotic are those foreigners in Roman armor. John Cusack has played a lot of middle class in Hollywood, with a loyal face and less murderous eyes. He is a Confucian general, and this gentleman is slightly paralyzed and always has a bitter hatred. The one who held up half the sky in Rome was Adrien Brody, with a huge hooked nose, eyes like a tiger, a ferocious frown and a smile, a chilling breathing sound, like Alexander when he was arrogant, and like Hamlet when he was melancholy. Looking down at the world, the air permeates the rainbow. Brody's skill is admirable, the agility and courage to block the sharp blade with his bare hands, the neatness and agility of swinging the knife to cut off the enemy's arm, the swirl of the volley and the slashing downwards, the killing energy that is about to burst out, the sense of strength that is like a broken bamboo, and the domineering domineering. The vertical and horizontal moves are like Yu Huatian in "Flying Armor", Achilles in "Troy", and Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises", making people forget for a moment that this person is a heinous villain. That is the momentum of a conqueror who is absolutely confident. Even if he only appears halfway through the stage, the actor is the actor. The corner of Thebes rises like lightning, falls like a meteor, and the scene where he is seriously injured and cannot seek a weapon is comparable to " The heroic character of the Water Margin" Lu Qian's dying crown. To a certain extent, Brody is a "failure" in the cast, a dignified Oscar winner, his acting skills are already crushed, his martial arts are still so defiant, and he dies so powerfully, how can other characters play. If Huo An doesn't hang up, he really doesn't know how to win.
Li Rengang is the head of the fifth-generation martial arts films. His description of martial arts is already higher than reality. He is better at showing the generals fighting swords in front of the battle, the bow and arrow battle between the stairs and narrow alleys, and the 38th Army mixed in the wilderness. The war, in the form of an epic movie, is more than enough for a layman to watch it, but it is not enough for an expert to show a strategic analysis like "The Battle of the Five Armies". Compared with "Gladiator", it is closer to the violent aesthetics of "Spartan 300 Warriors", which uses history and logic. This film is produced in mainland China and Hong Kong. All foreigners belong to the "Thirteen Hairpins", such as Bell, who is purely foreign aid. You can see Roman weapons and battle formations in pure Chinese films. Take "Rome", " The rigorous comparison of Spartacus no longer makes much sense. What should be gratifying is that it adds another vivid example of the cultural integration between China and the world. Began to actively reproduce Western history and culture, and use Chinese capital to make "co-production films" and "Hollywood films". The significance in the field of literature and art is more rewarding than the blending of Han and Rome. What's interesting is that Jackie Chan's western films ("Rush Hour" and "Around the World in 80 Days") all have the shadow of Hong Kong films, but this pure Chinese film is more Hollywood than Hollywood.
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