After watching "Shadow", the emotions in my heart are very complicated, because this is a film that has an aftertaste but is not able to be summarized. It is like you have eaten a dish, but when you recommend it to others, you end up only Can say two words: delicious.
Zhang Yimou has always been known as a national teacher. He has done too many big scenes of crowds and tactics, and even added a lot of color to the Chinese in the Western world. He was the first cover person I interviewed in a fashion magazine. I was nervous at the time. , He is cautious.
As a leading figure in the fifth generation of directors, his first directing work, "Red Sorghum", won China's first international film festival award-the Golden Bear Award.
From that time on, the shots in his works are inseparable from color.
When the fifth-generation directors are striding towards commercialization, he seems to be better than others, and he seems to have no shortage of box office, style, and overseas recognition.
And it is rumored that he always makes a commercial film, a literary and artistic film with a personal plot, but no matter what he shoots, color is almost an indispensable melody in his work.
But this time, regardless of the color or the battle, he put it down.
There is no gorgeous, no high saturation color, the whole film is not even black and white, it is a high-grade gray, just like a drop of thick ink dripping into clear water, which transforms into different shades of ink. I used to hear Chinese painting teachers say that ink points Jiucai, I didn't understand it before, but I only understood this time.
The pictures in the whole article are very artistic, and they are of Chinese style. I can't guess why he did this. Wouldn't I worry about being too high and too small? Will there be box office pressure?
Or in other words, in fact, he is also looking for a milestone and a watershed for his work. After being colorful, he finally chose the ink style.
I believe that this time, whether it is from the picture or the story, it will be a challenge to Zhang Yimou itself. This is the mission of all creators.
Innovation itself carries risks. Of course, I am more willing to believe that he is bidding himself a farewell to the past and the opening of a new era.
Because sometimes letting go, it means it will be a new beginning.
"Shadow" has a strong style orientation. Don’t think that the ink painting is just graceful and graceful. Some of the action scenes can really afford to look like a dragon, Deng Chao and Sun Li’s partner. In a long knife vs. Pei umbrella showdown in the film, I really achieved a unity of heart and mind. The flashes of a few movements, coupled with the fluttering of the large sleeves of the toga, suddenly came up with a kind of trashy writing and ink pen. Feel. very beautiful.
Here I would like to give a thumbs up for Brother Chao. At the beginning of the scene where the three of them played together, I actually didn’t see that he played the two roles alone, because there were a lot of their opponents in the camera, until the close-up was enlarged and it became obvious. I had to admire his split-level acting skills. Since "The Scorching Sun", I have always felt that Deng Chao is a particularly capable actor.
But I personally guess that if this kind of heavy part is played too much, it may be easy to make him unhappy.
He always seems to be playing a happy and happy self, so he is more willing to use this method to make people remember. I guess the role can be classic, but for actors, acting is actually a difficult process.
In this play, there are not many bitter scenes, but after crazy fitness is crazy weight loss, one is a handsome captain, the other is the dying man who is dying after being injured, the other is a loyal servant, and the other He is a pretentious conspirator. Switching between the two, Deng Chao gave an extremely satisfactory answer.
What's more worth mentioning is that before the battle, the fear and tension of the shadow of the avatar huddled on the ground, and the decisiveness at the time of the final blackening, I feel that Deng Chao has almost played four roles. Two has been trained all the year round, as well as the high-spirited captain played by the shadow who can face the Lord Gang, and finally experienced betrayal and conspiracy, and decided to replace it.
Oh my God!
In the part of the actress in the film, except Sun Li, who gave her acting skills above the pass, it is said that the part of playing the guqin in the play was completely the result of hard training by real people. I always thought it was a substitute, but later found that the fingering and the sound melody match. It fits too well, so I think I should have played it myself.
There is also Guan Xiaotong, the actress who makes people’s eyes shine. I didn’t recognize it at first. As M Lu’s designated dog food girlfriend, Guan Gege’s acting skill was Duo Lei. Everyone should have been hacked. In this drama, people will really see surprises.
I really want to give the director a compliment. The expressiveness of the actor is almost the skill of the director.
Because I am a fan of Super Brother, I automatically ignore the performance of other actors.
I personally give four stars for the film, one for Zhang Yimou's own courage, one for Deng Chao's acting skills, one for the ink flavor in the whole picture, and one for the completion of the whole work.
This work is different from any of Zhang Yimou's previous works, so if you are here for a crowd of people, it may not be here, if you come with a colorful impression of the past, it may not be here.
I feel that this place has the Chinese flavor of the impression series that Zhang Yimou has made in recent years, but it has removed the human factor. It is a very artistic work, so if you like fast-paced and gorgeous styles, you may want a Lower expectations at the beginning.
It is not coffee or tea. It is more like a jar of wine. It is soft before the entrance, but warm after swallowing it. It has a long aftertaste and is full of stamina.
Lao Mouzi was born in 50 years and is now considered to be 68 years old. In the impression he was thin back then, he usually chats very cautiously. He only talks about movies and his eyes shine. After this year, he will be 69 years old. I hope that this glass of wine will match the age of nine, and be able to return to one, showing us the next stage of Zhang Yimou's life.
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