Unlike many Japanese samurai movies, movies like "Hundred People Killing Girls 2" are about assassins. If samurai is the mainstream of Japanese history, then ninja is the wild history of Japanese history. If samurai stands in the light of society On the other hand, ninjas stand on the dark side of society. Speaking of the understanding of ninjas, it comes from Gu Long's martial arts novels. In his martial arts novels, this group of assassins from Fusang is full of mystery and weirdness, and there are all kinds of thaumaturgy of the emperor. The film specially designed the duel between the two major genres of ninjas, Koga and Iga.
I remember watching a movie about ninjas before, "Owl City", which was adapted from the novel of historical novelist Shiba Ryotaro by master Shinoda Masahiro. Compare these two films about the same Iga ninja, and you will find that the styles of the two are completely different. The historical background of this film is set in the era when Tokugawa Ieyasu took over after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while "Owl City" is based on the era when Toyotomi Hideyoshi dominated the world after the death of Oda Nobunaga, all revolving around the Warring States Period Before and after the late Toyotomi Hideyoshi era. Both films have descriptions of ninja thaumaturgy. For example, "Hundred People Killing Girls" relies heavily on special effects to express these pictures, which is quite fancy. And "Owl City" is more realistic in expressing these moves, and every move and every style is quite dependent on ninja culture. The different focuses of the film are also derived from different original works, one is adapted from comics and the other is adapted from famous novels. Naturally, there are different requirements for the form and content. The director of "Owl's City" is about the same level as Yamada Yoji. They pay great attention to the inner nature of culture. In their works "Twilight Seibei", "Hidden Sword and Ghost Claw" and "Owl's City", they can It can be seen that there is a meticulous pursuit of the characteristics of the historical and cultural era. However, "Girls Killing a Hundred People" doesn't pay attention to all the details. He just wants to create an anime-style idol drama suitable for young people's tastes, including the protagonist's clothing has a strong sense of fashion, and the film has more energy Mainly focus on the performance of those action scenes, gorgeous knife skills, splattered blood.
In such a fashionable movie, the girl killer An Yun is like a deadly blade. From the very beginning, her destiny is destined to be combined with the murder mission. An important member of the killer organization under Tokugawa Ieyasu The chess piece, for Tokugawa Ieyasu to remove Toyotomi Hideyoshi's remaining party. These Iga ninja killers are so dedicated to the ideal of avoiding war in exchange for peace. Everyone knows that this is just the reason for the grandeur of the big man. However, the killer organization that believes in this ideal is a bit like the Mohists during the Warring States Period in China. They assassinate and help fight everywhere for the ideal of peace, and they have the style of Xingxia. Trained to be an indifferent murder weapon since childhood, the young girl An Yun is as calm as water on the surface, but her heart is shaking. Especially when she met Yinjiao, who looked similar to her childhood sweetheart companion, her heart was strife. Just like the point, An Yun is in a conflict between love and mission.
The movie wants to show An Yun's pain and contradictory psychology, but the portrayal of the characters is still mostly superficial, and there is no digging, and more focus is still on the action picture. A common problem with ordinary commercial films. All in all, many of the vocal characters in the film look very dull and have no sense of life. Those boy and girl killers, even if there is only a little bit of humanity, are just blindly killing, growing up in the blood and rain. Including those lines are very mechanical and straightforward, it seems that such a film lacks thinking, or does not need to think at all.
The action scenes in the film are a little bit tense, especially the shots of the villains Koga Ninja Six Waves and the Earth Spider, which are quite creative and visual effects. The whirling knife and the spider silk array are indeed eye-catching. Among them, the CG technology is in It's used a lot and it's beautiful. But maybe it's because I've watched a lot of movies, and I don't like such empty visuals and mentally retarded movies more and more. If you want to see how the movie is shot, Xu Ke is better than the Japanese. The story of the film hardly requires us to activate our brain cells. The girl killer An Yun was sent to assassinate Masako Sanada. Unexpectedly, the other party first attacked the nest of the assassin organization. Then An Yun saw the ghost, killed the ghost, saw the Buddha and killed the Buddha, and finally fought hundreds of people to achieve the goal, and then left.
What I am particularly dissatisfied with the film is its disregard for ninja culture, just blindly playing its own video game, the mystery of ninja culture is all gone. As an assassin, he hides in the shadows, looking for opportunities to achieve his goals, and the assassination of Iga girl An Yun is like a duel of an upright samurai, how can there be any ninja flavor. Moreover, I was very interested in the duel between Koga and Iga, and in the end I found out that Iga has no masters at all except for the protagonist Angu Yun, which is really one-sided and strange. As An Yun, he only has a knife in his hand, blindly using quick moves to kill the enemy, and there are not many other ninja stunts. Look at the many ninja skills such as dungeon, smoke, darts, formulas and many other ninja skills shown by Iga Ninja Shigezo, played by Nakai Kiichi in "Owl City", and you will understand what a ninja in "Hundred People Killing Girls" is. something happened.
There are no eye-catching performances in this movie. Ueto Aya's performance is simply pretending to be cool to cater to the tastes of boys and girls. These days, as long as you have good looks and are cool, you can become a star. Another Kuriyama Qianming Xie Xie's cuteness is very eye-catching. It is basically the same as her performance in "Kill Bill". It can also be remembered differently. Maybe this age-appropriate performance is better than acting Unnatural styles are more appropriate. Such a weird movie mixed with girlish beauty and bloody violence has the selling point of making young people crazy. I think it's just not suitable for people like me.
Text: Between the eyebrows
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