If "Farewell My Concubine" is the highest peak of Chen Kaige's Dao Ling, then when you are already standing on the highest peak, you must not ignore the peak beside you that cannot be overlooked-"Jing Ke" Assassin.
The Japanese have a strong sense of monarchy. When it was released, it was called "The Assassination of the First Emperor". Europeans prefer to consider the comparison of the fate of big and small people, so the name is "The Emperor and the Assassin". The Chinese are too familiar with this story written by Tai Shigong. The four words Jing Ke stab Qin are enough, Jing Ke = assassin, one of the most famous assassins in Chinese history, Qin = emperor, the first true emperor in Chinese history, a thorn, tells us that what is about to happen must be two characters There was a fierce and dramatic conflict between.
Chen Kaige has never relaxed his portrayal of characters, just as Lao Mouzi has always been a good "pervert". Every time you watch a movie of Chen, there are always many faces in your mind. When you eat and sleep, they are not idle, and they pop out to let you catch. It doesn't matter if you accidentally catch some paradoxes of human behavior. Come, make people panic all day long. After watching "Jing Ke Assassinating Qin", I have always had such a few characters in my mind:
King Qin (Li Xuejian), this casting has been criticized the most, the seven kingdoms belong to Qin, and Qin returns to Yingzheng, what a famous character, However, Li Xuejian has made him wretched and mad and subverted. It is too subverting the tradition. It is said that the role was originally planned to be played by Jiang Wen (I am very much in favor of it, and I should look at Jiang Wen's performance in "Song of Qin". In fact, Li’s appearance is very much in line with Chen Tao’s painstaking efforts. A childhood mentality has a shadow. Afterwards, although he was ambitions to benefit the world, his humanity was distorted by power a little bit, so that he finally assassinated Qin in Jing Ke. Zhong Zhong was contrasted with wretchedness by an assassin. Ying Zheng’s role is most in line with Director Chen’s ambition to make a Shakespeare-like historical drama. He is sometimes a certain king with aspirations higher than the sky, sometimes like a beaming clown, sometimes as innocent and cowardly as a child, and sometimes as cruel as he is. Bloodthirsty, Li Xuejian's acting is impeccable except for his figure.
Jing Ke (Zhang Fengyi), Zhang Fengyi’s performance is still wonderful, Jing Ke once killed the sword maker's family without blinking, but the fortitude of the last blind girl put him on the torment of conscience, so that he was hidden in the city since then. When rescuing orphans who were arrested for stealing, a generation of assassins were willing to suffer the humiliation (this scene reminds me of Zhang Fengyi’s humiliation under the crotch of Han Xin in the TV series "Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin", that was when I was a child The historical drama I was most impressed with, I really liked Zhang Fengyi at that time. After that, even though Han Xin had Liu Bang’s promise of "Three No Kills", he was still killed by Lu Hou’s design. I cried so much that it made me understand what was the first time. Calling the bird to hide the bow, the rabbit to die and the dog to cook, what is the hypocrisy of human nature, um, digress ~ continue to read this), the arrogant Jing Ke, always retreat and forbearance, or pretend to be crazy and mock the world. This character's magical pen is at the end of the scene of assassinating Qin. He knows that King Qin knows that he is an assassin, but he still only wears his body. A generation of knight Jing Ke made a fool of himself like a clown in the Qin Temple, but his funny appearance is not to be ignored. The ridicule of King Qin made people admire even more. He would use his tricks to show his identity at the moment, which fully demonstrated Jing Ke's wisdom. Zhang Fengyi's performance is entirely in dialect, which is funny and cowardly on the surface, but in fact it is both intelligent and courageous. Both of these can be expressed in Jing Ke's every move and even a single expression. It can be called a perfect performance.
Zhao Ji (Gong Li), whether it is "Farewell My Concubine", "To Live" or this "Jing Ke Assassinated Qin", Gong Li cannot be a play without Gong Li. It is sincerely sigh that half of the sky in the 1990s of Chinese films belonged to Gong Li. Her acting skills were too superb. If the best actress in Chinese film history is selected a hundred years later, she will be the most powerful competitor. Gong Li in this play, acting in a proper manner, steadily acts as the bond between the many characters in this movie. It is not so much that she is the heroine here, but that her existence is for the king of Qin, Jing Ke and several other important characters. A mirror is provided, and only when they look at this mirror can they see the other side of their humanity, and it just so happens that we are standing next to this mirror. Someone might say that Gong Li performed the most brilliantly in that film from time to time, but it is his stability that makes all the actors who play with him will not appear obtrusive no matter how prominently they perform. Just imagine Gong Li's performance. In any film, if you change someone else to play her role, Leslie Cheung ("Farewell My Concubine", "Wind Moon"), Zhang Fengyi ("Farewell My Concubine", "Jing Ke Assassin"), Ge You ("Farewell My Concubine", "Farewell My Concubine", Living”), Jiang Wen (“Red Sorghum”), and Li Xuejian’s starring in their respective films is likely to no longer be regarded as classics, but will be regarded as a neurosis in their bones.
In addition to these three main characters, the most notable character in the film is Lai Lu (Wang Zhiwen). Wang Zhiwen's performance in this drama is so brilliant, he really managed to make the audience cry for him because of his laughter; blindness Female (Zhou Xun), although she played for a short time, I believe everyone remembers her desperate eyes. Yan Dan (forgot who...) the drama is too heavy, maybe this is what Director Chen wants Yes; Gao Jianli (Zhao Benshan) heard Zhao Benshan say "The wind is sluggish, but the water is cold, the strong man is gone and never returns". I always feel like listening to two people. Zhao Benshan’s sketches only look at his role in the movie. The director’s expectations of the audience are too high. The most tragic curtain call has been exchanged for bursts of laughter. Alas, the jailer played by Pan Changjiang is also the same, but he executed Jing Ke. A shot against a wall is really daunting.
On the whole, "Jing Ke Assassinated Qin" cost 80 million RMB, which was the highest in China that year, but unfortunately, at a bad time and encountered Waterloo at the box office, Director Chen went a bit far, but now it looks just right:) better than "Wuji" good
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