The script is actually well written (although some of the lines are too literary), but the actors—and the directors who don’t teach plays—are almost the ones who fail. With the exception of Zhang Ziyi, the main characters' speeches are all messed up, and I'm not referring to the hodgepodge of southern and northern dialect Mandarin mixed with overseas Chinese from all over the Taiwan Strait, three places, and overseas Chinese - I've heard this for a long time, and I've done it because of this (the worst? ) mentally prepared. No, the problem is not that the actors have too many accents that shouldn't be there, but that there are too many things that should be there, the voices are expressionless, and the rhythm of the dialogue is completely wrong. I really don't know what they're in a hurry for, it seems that as long as the entire line is finished as soon as possible (before the screw is eaten?), the subtle pauses between sentences and even between words disappear completely, and the text does not Breathing space, the interaction of characters becomes blunt, and the rhythm and texture of the scene cannot be brewed and stretched. These are of course related to the actor's own qualifications and skills, but it is also something that the director should and must consider and require, and Ang Lee failed in this regard.
In all fairness, Zhang Ziyi's voice and expressions are not necessarily outstanding, but the bright role is very suitable for (and highlights) her, not to mention that it stands out compared to other people who are underperforming; the seasoned Chow Yun-fat plays a repressed and decent hero, on the screen In fact, it is quite overwhelming (I often call it gravity, for example, Tony Leung is an actor with such gravity that is almost close to a black hole), and the pronunciation can also be seen to be hard work, but unfortunately it is still not at the level he should have; Michelle Yeoh's performance is mediocre, and her non-rotating Mandarin is the most lethal to her (and her appearance is too old and gray, although Yang is indeed not young and Yu Xiulian is mainly used to set off and compare the green leaves of Yu Jiaolong in the film, but there is no need to make Let's look like an old lady... and then think of the bright shape in "Tomorrow's Empire", for example, it's hard not to secretly feel shocked or even cry for her.) When Lang Xiong played Lord Baylor, the natural feeling that Jiang was old and spicy was disproportionate, as if he was here to show everyone a "performance standard demonstration"; and Zheng Peipei's blue-eyed fox is actually a very intriguing character, only It's a pity that there are too few scenes to do more. (As for Zhang Zhen, I don't want to talk about it at all, not half of Taiwan's actors under the age of 35 can "speak"!)
Tan Dun's soundtrack is gentle and resonant, which seems to be in line with the "moderate way" that Ang Lee has always upheld; At the end of the film, Coco Lee's singing voice was too vulgar to listen to when running the credits list. It was obviously an arrangement based on purely commercial considerations - this also seems to be in line with another kind of "moderate" that Ang Lee has always had?
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