"Warrior of Yellow Sand": Slashing the plane with a knife

Luther 2022-02-07 14:56:45

If a movie could have another genre, I would call it a popular movie. This genre will not become popular when it is made, but shoot whatever is popular and shoot it desperately. It’s like seeing other people eating delicious food. Steamed buns, hot pizza, when you see it, you drool and ask if it is delicious. They say that it is not only delicious, but also very popular. The people who buy it are lined up, so you just use the pizza. Sa wrapped the buns and made a puddle of shit.

Of course, watching a movie is not that painful, and 100 minutes of forbearance is over. If you really don’t want to watch it, you can do something else. It’s fun to watch a movie when you’re tired of playing. "Samurai of Yellow Sand" is such a movie that you can watch after you are tired from playing in the theater. It is embodied in the scattered perspective plot of the whole chapter, that is, there is no plot in the whole chapter. No matter where you start watching it, you will always see it. Can go on, I think this may be the trend of future popular movies.

Since it is a popular film, of course it is all-encompassing. You say that it is a martial arts film. It is like a Japanese samurai movie. You say it's a samurai movie. It's obviously a Tang Dao, and the protagonist is Chinese. You say it’s a Western, it’s true that there are wilderness and dirty drunkards in Westerns, but it’s not right to look at it. The protagonist suddenly travels from ancient times to modern times and goes directly to the United States from the East. The audience exclaimed, I understand , this is science fiction. For the rest of the time, the audience was even more sure of their judgment. The audience was full of long knives against long spears, cold weapons against semi-automatic rifles, and even nearly wiped out the Yankees with real guns and live ammunition. Fighter plane, this is only in science fiction movies. Attentive audiences will find that no, this is not an ordinary sci-fi film, there are dark lines in it, the great director Lee Seung-moo is alluding to politics, and Dong Gun's victory does not just indicate that the East will definitely win in the battle between the East and the West. O West, suddenly realized. The director's ideology is deeply ingrained. Looking at the American scenes he performed, he all relied on CG technology. The oversaturated sky made people nauseous. Can you say it was the director's fault for such a strong feeling? Of course not, the director is emphasizing the unreality of the Western world, indicating the inevitable destruction of capitalism.



This movie can't help but think of a movie "Looking for the Dragon and Treasure", which was just released. The similarity between the two movies is not the use of special effects, nor is it the twisted English in the Oriental population, but the shooting intention. Obviously, such films are all trying to seek certain development in English-speaking countries, so they abruptly incorporate what they think they like to watch into the film, which is a kind of pseudo-cultural film. This is like China during the Republic of China, which was a mixture of Chinese and Western cultures. Such an intention is terrifying. Not only does it fail to save the image of local films in the eyes of foreigners, but it also hinders the recognition of local culture in foreign countries. The immediate result is that the impression of Chinese Kung Fu in the eyes of foreigners is only limited to the memory of Bruce Lee's strange shout.

Also the idea of ​​having special effects prop up a movie is ridiculous, do you think you're James Cameron? Too many stunts make the film frivolous. When the film truly becomes an "imagined signifier", the film is no longer called a film. It is called imagination, which is separated from the soil of the real world and the birth meaning of the world of photographic recording. The truth of the picture is not only the truth of the appearance, but also the truth of the feelings. The movie is not a prostitute but a wife. The camera picture leads us to our feelings, and our feelings lead us to our thoughts. Everyone knows this sentence. It tells us the real life and the serious filming.

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The Warrior's Way quotes

  • Colonel: I'll see you in hell, little girl. Wear something nasty.

  • Saddest Flute: You came to me to be strong, I have made you the strongest.