Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Qingming

Alex 2022-04-23 07:05:57

I love the motion design of this movie and the close-ups of some of the details. In terms of action design, coherence, smoothness, lightness and weight coexist, the display of martial arts movements is sticky and intriguing, making people understandable, and very cool; at the same time, the close-up of some movements continues the style of martial arts movies. Style, relying on details to express the swiftness and strength of force. But what I want to say is that it's a lousy movie! ! !
Personally, I think there are many failures in this film, such as the weak conflict of the film, the confusion of the film structure, such as redundant close-ups, and the failure of characterization. As for the movie "filter" that everyone is complaining about, I once thought that I was not good at choosing a position, and the suspicion of bad glasses will not be repeated, and the embarrassment of the dubbing accent will no longer take time to express, look. I regret the movie. The following is the specific "discussion" (spit) that I personally think it fails ~
First: the conflict is weak and unattractive. For the plot of the movie, in addition to simply telling the complete story, it also needs opposing people and things to show the tension of the movie, but this movie did not do it. On a broad level, the film tells about the affairs of the world. Righteousness and evil are the most stereotyped and conventional oppositions. The film does not make it clear in detail. Whether it is the righteous side represented by Xiulian or the evil represented by Dai Yanwang, the film is righteous. There are very few evil descriptions. Although it is understandable that as the second part of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the explanation of the righteous side can be less, but how can there be less foreshadowing of Dai Yanwang's evil? The only descriptions are that the movie is about to end, Dai Yan Wang killed a small sect, and Xue Ping (Ping) told Wei Fang that Dai Yan Wang killed Wei Fang's mother, and the latter is more of a personal hatred-like confrontation, which is not enough to build The evil that opposes the entire martial arts. What's more, it's too late. I believe that many viewers, like me, do not understand why Dai Yanwang is the big villain in the movie in the first 50 minutes of the movie, thinking that there is another big bad guy hiding. Therefore, the film did not establish a real opponent for the justice party in terms of opposition, and without a strong opponent, it is difficult for people to feel the importance of justice in the film!
In a small way, it is the conflict of human feelings. To put it simply, one is the relationship between Xiulian and Meng Sizhao, and the other is between Wei Fang and Xueping. The former woman insists on following the traditional concept of three obedience and four virtues. Li Mubai insists on tradition by not marrying Xiulian. The opposite is Meng Sizhao's escape and "letting." Love for a bastard? There is no good handling, and time is wasted on flirting, but there is not enough time left to sort out the relationship between the characters, resulting in the conflict between the characters weakening into the ambiguity of young men and women...
Second: the pattern of the film confusion. The main point of the movie is to protect a sword, is it really the protection of a sword? Of course not, it is to protect what the sword carries. What is that thing? Lord Baylor thought it was the status and dignity left by his father! Xiulian thought it was the legacy of the deceased! Jianghu people think it is the peace and stability of Jianghu. So, I want to know what is it? You want to tell me a lot of things, just talk about it together, don't talk about it one by one, I'm all confused, I don't know what you want to say! What's more, the Chinese martial arts spirit does not belong to one person, not a family, nor a small group of people, but all Jianghu people! In terms of layout, let’s start with Lord Baylor, which always makes people feel that the reason for guarding this sword is a bit far-fetched; when it comes to Xiulian, for the sword, it is more about following the memory, thinking of the dead, too much. Personal feelings did not deepen to the feelings that Li Mubai placed on the sword (abandoning grievances, killings, etc.); but when it came to Meng Sizhao, who represented the entire river and lake, the reason we got was to repay the grace and benevolence of the Baylor family for guarding the rivers and lakes~, but This is a martial arts movie! Chivalry! We want to see chivalry, chivalry in Jianghu people! ! !
Third: extra close-ups! Not to mention the rest, let's just say that Dai Yan's subordinates attacked the Baylor Mansion at night, Xiulian and Meng Sizhao joined forces in the fight scene, and the two frequently stared at each other, it really disgusted me, not to mention the boys I asked to watch together, you It's not disgusting or disgusting, just one is enough, let's fight, it's better if the fight is more exciting, why are you so hungry and thirsty when you fight, keep looking at each other! ! ! ! Negative Ratings!
Fourth: the failure of characterization. The villain, Dai Yanwang, has very little playing time, the evil villain, you always have to come out and do something bad, show your strength, pull a hatred value, let your subordinates come out and run around and beat yourself for ten seconds Zhong, stay in it, can you wait until you come out and die at the end? tease me?
And Wei Fang, who doesn't say you are a good person or a bad person, just says that people just say who your mother is, and you can believe it when you make up a story, which makes me suspect that you are so old, you must have never read a book! So simple to do air. Heroism is not ruthless and unrighteous. I don't want the master who raised you. I want to kill the villain boss... Director, your husky ran out, oh, sorry, you are making a movie! ! !
I don't want to continue typing on my mobile phone, this movie is just disgusting and bad baby! So aggrieved! ! ! ! !

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny quotes

  • Yu Shu Lien: Honor, duty, excuses for bloodshed. That is why I left it behind, all those years ago.