Film review :
"And "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has no obvious protagonist and no obvious emotional tendencies, and the director has always stood from a relatively neutral point of view To narrate this story makes the film appear calmer. Even in the final tragic ending, there is not too much emotional catharsis, and the audience may feel that it is not easy to enter the play, but such a perspective allows us to avoid "don't know the true face of Mount Lu, The embarrassment of only being in this mountain provides a convenient way to see the deep meaning behind the story, and you can only know the taste by looking at the rivers and lakes with a cold eye. Furthermore, the story clues in the film are also different from ordinary martial arts works, which are endless good and evil. The battle, the conflict between Li Mubai and the blue-eyed fox is indeed about good and evil chivalrous, but this conflict has been simplified and is no longer the whole center of the story. On the contrary, the conflict between Li Mubai, Yu Xiulian and Yu Jiaolong has become a very important clue. Behind this clue is actually the collision of two concepts of Jianghu: Li Mubai has experienced the world and vicissitudes of life, and he knows that Jianghu is not a place to hide from the world, and he can't give up his sword, but Jade Jiaolong is a newborn calf and regards Jianghu as a A place to escape from reality and rejoice in enmity, this difference directly led to the tragedy that I did not kill Boren in the end, but Boren died because of me. It also seems to imply that "obeying the rules of the rivers and lakes" is not a cliché, but is a kind of wisdom.
Therefore, Ang Lee's martial arts perspective is not in chivalry, but in Jianghu. His intention is to describe, display, and analyze Jianghu as a special social form, and adopting a neutral narrative perspective has become a necessity. In Jin Yong In many of his works, there are also profound revelations of social conditions, but the situation of the two is different. The former is writing novels, and he has enough time and space to expose deep-seated contradictions under the appearance of chivalrous and righteous characters. In a movie, Ang Lee must give up the sidelines and go straight to the theme. Therefore, the righteous actions of the knights are no longer the focus. The joys and sorrows of their shuttle between the world and the world are the focus of their thoughts. Moreover, The director does not always focus on the development of contradictions and conflicts. He often crosses the main line of the story with the secular society and the customs of the people at that time, so as to provide an imaginary for finding the inextricable connections between them. space. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" does not have the arrogance of ordinary martial arts films. Instead, it is a kind of deep thinking and subtlety that seeks the humanistic connotation of Jianghu. This is Ang Lee's unique talent and style, and I believe he can also harvest it. The real reason for a golden man. "After
reading this passage, I feel very touched. The most interesting thing in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is "a deep contemplation and subtlety of the humanistic connotation of rivers and lakes". This rivers and lakes may be like the world we live in. It is inevitable that they will be in it, and some people will definitely pursue this kind of peace in the grievances and grievances of the rivers and lakes. Although it is rare, it is very precious.
"There are crouching tigers and hidden dragons in the rivers and lakes, isn't it true that people's hearts are not? "This line is the best footnote to this film.
Ang Lee:
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I yearn for "Bourgeois" martial arts. I want to make martial arts films, in addition to fulfilling my childhood dream, it is actually a kind of fascination for "classical China". The biggest attraction of the martial arts world to me is that it is an abstract world. I can express and concretize many emotional scenes in my heart. The action scenes are like choreography, which is a very free and unrestrained form of film expression.
What I yearn for is the chivalrous world of Confucian chivalrous men and beautiful women, a world where Chinese people once pinned their emotions and dreams. I think it's very bourgeois.
These can still be found in novels, but in the martial arts films of Hong Kong and Taiwan, they are rarely related to real emotions and culture. For a long time, they have remained at the level of sensory stimulation and cannot be improved.
However, martial arts films and kung fu action films have become the best channel and even the only way for foreign common people and the new generation of overseas Chinese, including my son, to understand Chinese culture. However, they are exposed to the vulgar and inferior Chinese culture. part. I've always been brooding about this, but there's nothing I can do about it.
As the saying goes, "poor literature is rich in martial arts", if a martial arts film is to be played well, the production cost cannot be saved, and the literary drama must be sacrificed when the budget is limited, but the literary drama is also related to the artistic conception. Yuan Heping often asks, "Do you want to fight or artistic conception, do you want to travel long distances to take pictures of landscapes, or do you want to spend time fighting? There is only so much money, what exactly do you want?" Martial arts type of love-hate entanglement. "
I'm not a saint or an expert, and I'm not qualified to determine the vulgarity or essence of culture, but we, like Ang Lee, can discuss and express our own ideas. I agree with Ang Lee's statement: "However, what they contact is The vulgar and inferior part of Chinese culture. I've always been brooding about this, but there's nothing I can do about it. "I think if we do something, maybe it will bring bad results, maybe there will be something right, but if we don't do anything, there will be no chance for right, and there is no so-called essence and beauty. movie, I saw a real feelings, a kind of Chinese culture conflict, struggle, compromise, return to calm track, perhaps a kind of silence, one that does not force alone.
"even if the fall in the darkest Place, my love, will not make me a lonely soul forever. ——Li Mubai's "
feelings:
"Because I was most interested in this female role, I didn't pay much attention to the male role at that time, because the novel did not provide any material for this aspect. Even Li Mubai was originally a small character, but the more he was filmed, the more deeply he fell into this role unconsciously. I think it may be someone who is middle-aged and has a block in his chest to express himself.
In ordinary martial arts films, when the hero faces temptation or moral challenges, the plot will naturally help him solve it. But in this film, forgive me a bit unpleasant, I hope to see the hero really face the struggle of human nature and the conflict between martial arts and martial arts. Originally, I didn't expect any affection association between Yu Jiaolong and Li Mubai, but I changed it when I met Zhang Ziyi. At that time, Zhang Ziyi was a very delicate girl, and she couldn't make Yu Jiaolong the "yin-yang symbiosis" I originally imagined. She The characteristic is that she is sexy, she can't see the masculine side, at most she can act a little fierce, and she will play a spoiled and willful girl.
Because Li Mubai was played by Chow Yun Fat, I changed the original plan. Towards the development of emotional drama. If it was Jet Li, it might be according to my original plan, and the emotional drama would focus on two women. I will ask myself again and again, in Li Mubai's heart, what exactly is Yu Jiaolong? Are these entanglements the "hidden dragon"? Is a "self-destructive" force driving him behind? ! When he saw this girl, he knew that something ominous would happen, just like the word "Ming" in "Qingming Sword", it was horrifying to look at. People just have a tendency to "self-destruct", which is very similar to "romantic", that is, "sensibility". For Li Mubai, it was like an unbearable excitement of walking the rivers and lakes, and it also led him to the final tragedy. "
People just have a tendency to "self-destruct", which is very similar to "romantic", that is, "sensibility". It seems a little enlightening, but I can't tell, people are so complicated, I don't know what I'm thinking. As Li An said, I didn't expect any emotional association between Yu Jiaolong and Li Mubai, but when I met Zhang Ziyi, I changed it. It's not clear about the relationship, and the relationship is also unclear. People have become sensitive. I think Yu Jiaolong and Li Mubai both have two people hidden in their hearts. They are very real feelings, so Li Mubai will not be a lonely soul. Yu Jiaolong also set up this relationship at once. Their destination is the same. It's very good and beautiful! The two of them started on different paths, but they are both primitive in nature. Unfortunately, they did not go together. Fortunately, they are no longer bound by morality and secularism. Many people have this experience for a lifetime. I haven't had any experience, and many people are pure jade, I hope not to waste their talents.
Actor:
Chow Yun-fat's eyes
Chow Yun-fat looks very good, a hero, and awe-inspiring. He is not tall but agile, but he is full of posture. Just wearing a robe, he is chivalrous and simple in shape. The strength lies in his eyes, which are extraordinary. After the filming, I don't think anyone in the entire Chinese film industry has such an air. The screenwriter Wang Huiling is particularly fond of his eyes. She said: "His eyes can look at the enemy or the lover."
Li Mubai, a person who can't avoid grievances, can't escape desire, and can't find peace in the rivers and lakes, It was expressed drippingly by Brother Fa, and I recall: the Confucian scholar on the small bridge in the field, who was holding a horse and bowed his body, after leaving the customs, the brow that was struggling and confused, the flickering when he first saw Yu Jiaolong accepting his apprentices. The eyes, the graceful smile on the top of the bamboo branches, the sparks when the bamboo forest and the jade dragon cross each other...
Michelle Yeoh's innocence
Michelle Yeoh agreed to play this play without reading the script. A lot, but I told her, "I'm going to do a martial arts version of Sense and Sensibility that tells the story of two women. You play Emma Thompson!" In terms of acting, she's one of the ones I've seen A special case, I have been in the movies for many years, but I haven't acted in any good dramas, so they are already big stars, but there is still that innocence. I think she seems to have been waiting for the role of Yu Xiulian all her life.
Michelle Yeoh did act in a lot of bad movies, which made me have a bad impression of her, but Michelle Yeoh in this play has a kind of power. She and Li Mubai are both people who are looking for peace in the rivers and lakes. Unfortunately, when that share When peace is in front of them, they are all unlucky to enjoy. Fortunately, as a person who found peace in the rivers and lakes, she survived and gave people a hope... This role is really suitable for you, thank you!
·Zhang Ziyi's
Diligence I have filmed many actors for the role of Yu Jiaolong, and Zhang Ziyi is a very good spokesperson. In fact, I missed it the first time, because she had a foundation in dancing, so I asked her to try again. After a makeup test shoot, I found that there are many possibilities.
Innocence is one of the strengths of a newcomer. She has not yet experienced too much social and acting skills. When she makes an expression or action, she is really powerless. If she wants to meet your requirements, she is sincere, and that innocence is enough. .
Yu Jiao Long is a collection of everything I like and dislike, but it is a classic that integrates many aspects and keeps looking for itself. She came into the world with an identity that was incompatible with her dreams, and seized the opportunity to bravely embark on an adventurous journey. Maybe she was destroyed in the rivers and lakes like many girls, but she was blessed by God. Chong has the opportunity to find her dream along the way. She needs to live a free and free life and a peace worthy of her talent. Like Yu Xiulian, she is also a person who is looking for inner peace. It's just that such a woman is too charming. Without passing through the rivers and lakes, she is just a stone buried in the deep mountains, but stepping into the rivers and lakes and being able to achieve the goal with her whole body, she has become a piece of peerless beauty that is admired by the world! Of course I don't have the ability to like such a piece of rough jade, and I don't have any talent to come up with a good solution, but Li Mubai may be a way, she needs a teacher, a wise person, someone far above her talent to inspire her, All she needs is inspiration, not a professor. Li Mubai let her see Bole. Although Yu Jiaolong is not a maximalist who has made great achievements, in the world of art and beauty, she is definitely a peerless treasure worthy of excavation! No matter how the outside world criticizes Zhang Ziyi, I still like her very much. I am not a saint. I can only guess that this is also a piece of rough jade, which is worth exploring!
Music:
"In "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the most fascinating is the martial arts design, the most exciting is the dialogue, and the most touching is the music.
The opening of the film is the theme music "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Yo-Yo Ma plays the cello The melancholy and deep melody played throughout the film since then. Yo-Yo Ma's cello playing is the most important part of the whole music. Listening to this movie soundtrack album, I always naturally think of the movie In one line, Li Mubai said to Yu Xiulian: "I did not have the joy of attaining the Tao, on the contrary, I was surrounded by a sadness of silence. This sadness has haunted me for a long time, making it impossible for me to continue (retreat practice)". The whole music presents a "deep silence" just like the film. In
a costume martial arts film, Ang Lee's performance is endless Loneliness and disappointment, and Tan Dun's music is the same. Even in the song "The Eternal Vow" (Eternal Vow), after the short-lived happy and jumping Xinjiang-style music, the continuation and development is still "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" of soothing and sadness.
In order to express to Yu Xiulian the deep love that he had suppressed for many years, Li Mubai did not hesitate to use his last breath of true energy; while Yu Jiaolong felt disillusioned with life after a series of blows, and threw himself off the cliff. The music for the two film parts is "Sorrw" (Sorrow) and "Farewell" (Farewell). After the brief intense and tense beginning of "Sorrow", the cello slowly enters, creating a bleak space together with the symphony; while the "Farewell" cello enters from the beginning, revealing a sad mood. Yo-Yo Ma's performance is admirable, the cello is full of tears, especially at the end of the music, the fading sound of the cello pulls the listener's heart even more strongly.
The soundtrack of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" makes us feel that Tan Dun's music has not become westernized because of his years in the United States. On the contrary, his works reveal a deeper oriental music culture. Tan Dun's music expresses the confusion and helplessness of life with a typical Chinese complex: a soothing and beautiful melody, a melancholy and sad life. The sadness in the music is like a sigh for the life of the Chinese who are burdened with too much pressure.
Li Mubai said: "What we can touch is not forever." There is no "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the soundtrack album "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but it is very sad and moving. "
Art is sometimes influenced by business. This sentence can be understood as art is the slave of business, but I would rather say business is an inspiration for art. Many coincidences have made a classic, making this film and music blend together. so perfect. Available for download the next hearing, the spirit of enjoyment, sometimes far more than substance.
[OST]
Yueguangairen
I woke up
sleeping in the moonlight
waning moon
makes me think you
do not want to wake up
who understands the
fear eyes open
you do not
love heart
sunk in the sea
to take me to
get it back
Please love me
a thousand years
with love
(love is a gift of moonlight)
(I'm waiting for the angels love letter)
(Say you love me)
I am willing to love sleeping
do not wake up in
eternal which
in not
blame my heart
can not relax
Polaris
take me away
do not hiding
to find out love
I love you
every night
I wait (waiting for you)
my heart
to love
to sleep in Yuezhi Hai
lonely I
miss anyone
who understands
(I cry in the moonlight)
(I also moonlight sleeping)
( no regret)
wait for the person I really Wen Xing
(I sleep in one day)
(also in the memories of the year)
(say you love me)
I am willing to love to sleep forever
10 years ago, or 10 years, this song It's still good, but now, I can read the lyrics better and understand the sad sigh...
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