If I want to choose my thoughts on movies of genres like "Li Wang" between two emotions of like and no feeling, I am more inclined to the latter. Violent aesthetics and decisiveness. This is the trend of the classic Hong Kong comics. This is the revenge story of Wang Dao. Without specific feelings, it would be difficult for me to become interested in works of this specific era. However, Li Wang did it. .
The overhead worldview gave me an inexplicable feeling of wasteland. At the beginning of the 21st century, the prison was privatized by a consortium, and the moral system of mankind was destroyed and oppressed. Although it was not as ruinous as the Beidou Shenquan written by Yuan Zhefu, Napa The hidden silverfishes in the Beta have already eaten the entire giant building to the ground.
However, the actual experience after watching the movie was not satisfactory. Fan Shaohuang’s acting skills caused quite a failure in characterization, and his emotions were erratic; poor group performances and special effects made people often appear in plays, although this is limited to the times and the development of Hong Kong films and their own funding. The problem should not be too harsh; the director's narrative ability needs to be strengthened urgently. The narrative mode of running accounts, outdated lines, and sudden scene changes make this movie inseparable from the inferior taste of the B-level film.
So I tried to read the comics, wanting to see how the original works explain some excessive and unnatural scenes in the movie. I have to say that this kind of comics did not appeal to me at all, so that after the plot of the second volume of the movie was over, I had no interest in reading it anymore.
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Fan Shaohuang’s acting skills can be said to have ruined one-half of the overall film perception, but this may also be an indispensable sacrifice made to extract the movie plot from the original. In the original book, King Li was supposed to be a taciturn, but with a benevolent and righteous man in his heart, and the six-pointed star and the swastika on his right hand pierced a huge line, allowing him to endure the humiliation and enter the prison. However, the movie never thought of continuing the line, and the bitter and deep hatred of King Li was a bit less, and Fan Shaohuang’s rather impetuous character creation made the inner drama too revealing in many scenes. If it were not for the director, The entire script is maintained within the framework, and the role is almost completely reduced to a reckless man who dictates.
However, it has to be said that several characters cast the roles to live, including Fan Meisheng, Oshima Yukari, and Sugisaki Koichi, who made the characters that were not obvious in the original work more vivid. Especially Oshima Yukari's Huangquan, which is simply out of the comics, the reverse is very well done.
Finally, I have to compliment Liwang for his degree of reduction, or is it a manifestation of the director's incompetence? Almost copied the original comics from the original plot lines to the storyboard. It is no wonder that the final film look and feel is like a running account. After all, the 90-minute movie experience and the reading of the comics are completely different.
Finally came to the conclusion that the director is left-handed.
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