Although it is a post-90s generation, a name like Zhang Che is still not negligible for Hong Kong film fans for many years. Zhang Che’s movies are still very good looking at them now. Classics such as "Sting Horse" and "One Arm Sword" are now Still must see. Zhang Che’s influence is unparalleled in the Chinese film and television circles. Wu Yusen, the deputy director of "Sting Horse", filmed "Blood on the Street" in the 1990s to pay tribute to Zhang Che. A tribute to "Sting Horse", not to mention the tribute and remake of "One Armed Knife" by everyone in the film and television industry.
So, how could Quentin, a Hong Kong fan, forget to pay tribute to a master like Zhang Che!
Kill Bill, first of all, is a revenge film, a typical hero film of the "One Armed Sword" type, and the whole story is structured as a typical Zhang Che-style hero revenge story. At the beginning, the protagonist (hero) is at a disadvantage, close to death. The difference between Quentin is that what is directly shown to the audience is a naked disadvantage. The bride is abused in an improper manner, plus the perverted words of the villain (actually a lover). With a bloody shot in the head, we don't play up how the villain bullies our protagonist, don't play up the resistance of the heroes, and some are just desperate, and this kind of opening is undoubtedly more powerful.
Then the heroes survived a catastrophe and had to meet an expert for help. However, our protagonist is not so lucky. Although the catastrophe survives, but she is the police without mercy. The next thing waiting for her is the hospital staff using her body to make money and let those sex-hungry men satisfy them. Her own desire, this is not enough, the one-eyed woman still has to come to him to make up for him, but she is not given the opportunity to make up for the knife, she wants to make her life worse than death. Quentin couldn't compare to Zhang Che's at the beginning when he exaggerated the protagonist's weak position. However, in any case, our hero still survived, relying on his own will. And with the help of an expert, the Japanese expert Hattori Hanzo broke his vow and cast the best Japanese sword for the bride, and then this Japanese sword showed amazing lethality. Of course, in 2, there are still masters who help the bride. The masterful martial arts taught by the Chinese master Baimei played by Liu Jiahui helped the bride finally complete his revenge.
Of course the climax part is the revenge part, which is also the hottest part of the movie. After the bride has learned martial arts, she has peerless weapons in her hand. Of course, she has to take revenge one by one according to the list. The first person to die is too weak. Of course, I don’t need Hattori Hanzo’s sword. The Japanese female killer played by Liu Yuling is the first biggest BOSS, so the rendering of this part is great, of course, this time as a port. The fan of Quentin did not forget to pay tribute to Bruce Lee. The bride was dressed in yellow and faced a group of Japanese gang elites. She had to remind people of Bruce Lee who crossed the river by the Raptors. The difference was that Bruce Lee relied on Chinese kung fu and the bride relied on it. It's Hattori Hanzo's treasured sword (Take Kitano must be dissatisfied when he saw it, how come the Japanese gang elites are so dished and beaten by an American girl). The next revenge is even more dangerous, but I still like the duel with Liu Yuling the most.
In order to pay tribute to Zhang Che, Quentin specially invited Yuan Heping to be the action director, and also invited Liu Jiahui, the younger brother of Liu Jialiang, who was very popular in the 1970s. As a Chinese Kung Fu expert, many location shooting styles are also typical of Zhang Che.
Of course, if Quentin just paid tribute to Zhang Che to make a Hong Kong action film acted by an American, Quentin would not be Quentin. No matter what type of film Quentin shoots, he must add his own style. He only shoots Quentin's style, which is his own violent aesthetics of Quentin.
Violent aesthetics, the first time I heard that this term is Wu Yusen, the little Ma in "The True Colors of Heroes" has endless bullets, and of course flying pigeons. Compared with Wu Yusen, who is also a disciple of Zhang Che, Quentin is undoubtedly more Violence, of course, also has its own set of aesthetics.
Quentin’s violent aesthetic is indispensable to music. If there is no classic soundtrack, Quentin’s violent aesthetic is just violence. Without the rendering of the soundtrack, no matter how dangerous the plot is, it will not be so attractive. When Quentin was young, he not only watched a lot of movies, but also listened to a lot of music. The soundtracks in the film are classics, but they are not tailored for the film.
The one that impressed me most was the whistle when the one-eyed girl "California Mountain Snake" appeared. This whistle was the soundtrack of the same name in the movie "Twisted Nerve" in the 1960s. The Chinese name is Devil Angel, and it shows the devil angel. The same "California Mountain Snake" is used just right.
In the beginning, there was only a single whistle. The whistle is brisk and humorous, like a wandering person wandering around, and the picture also happens to be the "California Mountain Snake" walking in the air: the lens goes from the back to the heel, and then from the heel to the umbrella handle, and finally the front face is photographed. , Every switch is as crisp and brisk as a whistle. At this time, except for the blindfold on the face of "California Mountain Snake", there is no sense of horror. Subsequently, the synthesizer accompaniment sound was added, and the time was stuck at the moment when the "California Mountain Snake" moved out of the lens and the picture was moving along the empty hospital corridor. At this time, the accompaniment sound and the whistle sound are not harmonious: not only the pitch and rhythm are not harmonious, the accompaniment sound also has a sharp and cold protruding over the whistle sound, which echoes the oppressive feeling formed by the dimming light in the corridor, and a sense of horror. Began to enter. After that, the picture is divided into two, one half is the face of the bride in the ward, and the other half is the preparation work of the "California Mountain Snake" before the murder. The whistle and accompaniment sounds like two streams converging together, together with the two halves of the camera. They also gathered together to set off the sense of horror, and reached a kind of slightly restless fear of Xiaoju's momentum. Suddenly, the whistling sound and the accompaniment sound split again. The accompaniment sound fell sharply and stumbled, while the whistle sound was as smooth as before. Looking at the camera again-it happened that the "California Mountain Snake" was using a needle to extract the poison used to murder the bride.
In the end, the whistle gradually ceased and replaced by a large ensemble of various orchestral percussion, which came together and then spread out. At the same time, the "California Mountain Snake" was ready, she was wearing a blindfold and holding a poisonous needle. With the tray and the hideous face, in the messy roaring music, he walked towards the camera and walked to the bride's ward-the unconscious bride sits and waits to die.
Quentin’s violent aesthetics is unique in the film and television industry. It has its own distinctive style. It has a great relationship with the soundtrack he uses like a genius. Every piece seems to be handy, and it is really seamless and even irreplaceable. This It's Quentin's ghost.
Of course, Quentin's subversion of Zhang Che is not only in the perfect violent aesthetics, but also in the theme of the movie and love. Zhang Che’s films have always been masculine, focusing on pleasure and enmity. Women have very little weight in the film, not to mention love. They focus on the portrayal of brotherhood (of course, it’s hard to say in the eyes of a rotten girl), while Quentin directly Subverting this point, not only the hero is a woman, but the theme of the film adds love and affection to children. Undoubtedly, "Kill Bill" is even more of a romance.
Of course, Quentin spent four hours to render revenge, and the lack of time for the rendering of love is pitiful. At the end, the bride used "five thunders in the palm of his heart" and it turned out to be more concise, with almost no emotional rendering. Of course, the lack of love that can be expressed does not mean that there is no love, but a stronger love. It is just that although our protagonist is a daughter, he also has the masculinity of Zhang Che’s movie. Except for the part of crying in the toilet at the end, he hardly expresses love. But this kind of love, which can be turned into a remembrance, is even more heartbreaking.
At the beginning of the story, when the bride hysterically shouted "The child I am pregnant with is yours", when the perverted murderer said "It is not you who are being abused and guilty at this moment, but myself", they should suspect this period of revenge. There is definitely a deeper story. Quentin didn't use much pen and ink on the clues of love, but he would never omit it, so he always looked forward to knowing their love, but Quentin didn't give a chance.
"Before the test strip turns blue, I can jump from a motorcycle to a high-speed train, for you. But after the test strip turns blue... I am no longer the me I used to be, not anymore. Because of me I'm going to be a mother...Do you understand?" said a female assassin to a lover who had shot her in the head.
What else can this be besides love?
The favorite part of the dinner in the last part of the second part is also the climax. The last part of a revenge movie is so sweet. Although it is inevitably a tragic ending, it is ultimately less bloody. The conversation between the bride and Bill at the last moment is estimated to be familiar to many lovers, but it is just a quarrel between lovers. Generally speaking, if you go to coax the next day, you will be able to reconcile as before, but it is very dangerous for two people with Hattori half treasure knife to quarrel, not to mention one person will thunder and thunder.
It’s a pity that they, who have read infinite good times, when one party disappears, the other party frantically looks for each other. They all value each other so much, but in the end they can only lift up the deadly Hattori Hanzo swords. They all do the most cruel to each other. All the things, revenge frantically, in their love, there is no patience. But they are the most familiar with each other, so they will put a knife in the place where each other is most vulnerable. It seems that only in this way, their love will last forever. How can men and women in love use common sense to understand, or how to gently tell each other the power of the five thunders and then die under the five thunders.
Perhaps, as Jian Zhen said, affectionate is a tragedy, which must be read in a sentence of death.
Finally, together with Quentin, pay tribute to Zhang Che. While paying tribute to Zhang Che, pay tribute to Quentin, who paid tribute to and subverted Zhang Che.
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