Pang Qingyun, the eldest brother played by Jet Li, is a man driven by desire. Since he can pretend to be dead and survive on the battlefield where all 1,600 brothers died heroically in the opening film, he has already practiced his friendship with these brothers under his feet. In the abandoned hut, I cried to Xu Jinglei: My 1,600 brothers! It's just my own failure and the difficulty of making a comeback, not the life of others. So, don't be surprised when his second sworn brother was assassinated in Suzhou City, and he could rekindle his old love with Xu Jinglei in the trenches outside Suzhou City. His tears and painful preaching are mostly used to buy people's hearts, and less for himself. He was really despicable by trapping and killing Erhu, and he deceived people to the point of death. If there is true love in his sacrifice of wine, it is also because he knew that he killed a brother who was thinking of him until his death. I haven't watched Jet Li's film for a long time. Such a role is a breakthrough from his previous martial arts role.
The two tigers played by Andy Lau are reckless and loyal. To rob a beloved woman and become a bandit is a thrilling and reckless act. It's just that his life was bad, and the woman who exchanged his life for his wealth didn't love him much; and the brother who received the death penalty sent him on Huangquan Road. It is probably just an evaluation of being unkind, and a hero meeting a traitor by mistake. Even death is unclear. I don't know the betrayal of the woman, I don't know the killing of the elder brother. However, the appearance of the wild hero is a plus for Andy Lau.
Takeshi Kaneshiro's Wuyang came from the clue of the finale of revenge. He is simple, sunny and transparent, but he is still a bandit. If it weren't for that, he wouldn't be able to kill his sister-in-law, nor would he be able to kill the big brother he had always trusted. "Anyone who messes with my brother will kill him; if a brother messes with my brother, he will kill him." At the end of the film, he seems to be a sign of revenge.
The advantage of Chen Kexin is that he is not limited to the grievances of the three brothers. Folks say that the death of Ma Xinyi, the prototype of the thorn horse, is related to Zeng Guofan. Ma had no background and had little merit. He was appointed governor of Liangjiang, which was a pawn for Cixi to weaken the Hunan army. After Ma was killed, Zeng Guofan came forward to take care of the mess, and Cixi never dared to move the Hunan system. Therefore, in the movie, Pang Zhong was shot in the back first, and was stabbed by Wu Yang later, which is roughly in line with the original story. That's why a strategy like Pang Qingyun's strategy is just a piece on someone else's chessboard. As soon as the game changed, it was abandoned. However, the good thing is that they are willing to each other and have no sincerity. If someone says that Pang Qingyun believes that the court acts like this, I don't believe it. So he didn't have to complain until he died. He also had a chance to win, but this time it was just a losing bet. But Pang Ruo thought of this long ago, and knew that killing Erhu would cut his arm, and he wouldn't die if he didn't kill Erhu. I don't know if he will have remorse in his heart when he dies? Therefore, if you live in the world and follow some basic principles, such as being gentle, kind, respectful, thrifty, benevolent, righteous, courteous, wise, and trustworthy, sometimes you can safely pass through some dangers that cannot be calculated by strategy.
Finally, let's talk about the love scene that I am most interested in. As soon as the play came out, many voices said that Xu Jinglei was just a vase. Also right and wrong. What's right is Director Chen's positioning of Xu Jinglei's role. The vase is obviously more real. Just as the cause of the Battle of Troy may not be the beautiful Helen, the cause of the stabbing may not necessarily be Erhu's wife. A man wants to kill, set fire, or start a war, and just use a woman as an excuse. It's better to listen to and look good than to show the world his intentions to attack the city and increase his rank. However, I don't think Xu is necessarily a vase. Although she is not the cause of the stabbing case, she is a microcosm of the women in the massacre of the war. From this point of view, it looks pretty good.
Even more beautiful is the background that Chen Kexin added to her: Yangzhou Thin Horse. The thin horse is the concubine in ancient times and the mistress of the present. At that time, mistress breeding was prevalent in Yangzhou. At the age of seven or eight, girls from poor families were sold to families who raised skinny horses, trained in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and were promiscuous in every possible way. When they grew up, they were sold to rich families as concubines. worth as much as 1,500 taels of silver. There are also those that cannot be sold, and they end up in Fireworks Lane, prosperous and famous for the prostitutes in Yangzhou. And these girls are thin and weak, and they are raised every day without enough food to cater to the alternative tastes of those wealthy businessmen. In the film, Xu Jinglei is a slightly thin plain noodles, which is generally consistent.
Of Xu Jinglei's love, among her few lines, these two lines before her death are the most appropriate. "I've never seen such a good curtain before. The red ones look good, and the green ones look good. I want to be red this year, and green next year..." For her, Erhu may not be disliked, Pang said. Qingyun has a good heart again, so he can't decide. Erhu kidnapped her back when she was fifteen years old and became a bandit. Erhu doesn't know, she has changed. A seven- or eight-year-old girl grew up in a family who raised skinny horses. She saw prosperity and vanity, and learned about romance. She has long been two different people from Erhu. So, she kept running away. But why does she keep coming back? Come to think of it, Erhu Zai is always a sincere man and a hero. Who can she meet when she runs out? People who have been with heroes will not be content with ordinary people. So she can only come back. But coming back was not the life she wanted, so she continued to run away. Until she met Pang Qingyun. It was inevitable that Xu fell in love with Pang Qingyun. On the first night when Pang met Xu, he said to her, "It's a pity that he (Erhu) doesn't know that you have changed." Erhu and Xu Jinglei were playmates when they were children, and they have been married for many years, but their understanding of Xu is not as good as the first time. Meet Pang. Pang Qingyun was from a general, Erhu was a poor man and a bandit. Pang should know better about the style of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and painting that Xu learned since he was a child. Ordinary women should be content when they meet either of the two, so Xu is even more determined, and has wandered between these two men from now on.
Erhu loves her, but it's not because she doesn't go to war. And the thick line Erhu didn't even discover her affair, but Wu Yang discovered it first. So, no wonder she is lonely. Pang Qingyun also loves her, otherwise he would not touch his brother's wife with his scheming, but he would not kill Erhu because of her. Therefore, rather than saying that Xu Jinglei's role is a kind of vase decoration, it is better to say that a woman's love and a man's war are a kind of vase decoration. Let the man feel that he is still alive (the night Xu and Pang Qingyun first met), and let the man feel a touch of warmth (the two tigers said to Xu before entering Suzhou City), but this kind of love cannot change anyone, nor can it change Anything, even in the end, is handed down to a man's brotherhood. However, even Wu Yang misunderstood, he didn't even know if killing Xu would be useful, but he killed it anyway. This is the sadness of Xu, even death did not change anything, even Pang Qingyun heard Wu Yang shouting outside the door: I killed my sister-in-law! Pang just frowned, not even a single tear.
Therefore, Xu Jinglei, with a vase-like role and a trivial lace love, interprets the meaning of women to men in war, and even a little more, before fame and fortune. From this point of view, the role is successful.
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