Long-form analysis and complaints about the plot & villains

Winifred 2022-01-28 08:28:32

Various spoilers below.
Probably the point of view is some superficial knowledge of script writing.


As a commercial film, "Tai Chi 1: Starting From Zero" can definitely hit the G-spot of all kinds of homesteaders.
The video game scene, the game map, and the story of fighting monsters and completing the ultimate mission are very pleasing. In addition, there is Yang Ying who is really beautiful regardless of plastic surgery. But it seems like that's what the director wants to do, keep pulling you out of the story and keep you from immersing yourself in the plot - the director just wants to make a fun movie that makes you laugh while watching it with the people around you Tucao...

The first half of the story is considered a pass, and the director doesn't seem to have much ambition, just wants to tell a simple story.

Therefore, the plot is very straightforward. The hero pursues his dream all the way, and moves forward steadily according to the scriptwriting technique in Robert McKee's "Story", without deviating one step, and fully in line with the plot of various theories, such as the setbacks encountered in childhood, his Dreams and needs, his weaknesses, the setbacks he encountered, and the protagonist's style characteristics that become more and more courageous, the mysterious and unpredictable long-term uncle who appeared around him constantly gave him suggestions to better fight monsters, etc. (This reminds me a bit of Linghu Chong vs. Tian Boguang...)

Then the village suffered a huge disaster. This disaster and the death line of the protagonist arrived almost at the same time. The design is actually very good, but Liang Jiahui's lines are too plain and should be a little subtle. Just a little bit, directly saying "What kind of Chen Jiaquan do you still learn when the village is gone?" This kind of line makes the audience a bit stupid, because I'm afraid everyone doesn't understand the logic of it orz...
and obviously it is to persuade the male protagonist Yang Luchan's behavior to fight for him is a little shameless.

In short, the village is about to be destroyed, and the protagonist Sanyang Ju is in danger. The destruction of the village and his death are actually in the same line, and he must survive to save his life. Speaking of this, I suddenly found that the protagonist has no growth line, because she has almost no growth, and is completely a Forrest Gump-style protagonist, but obviously this film can't be too fantasy, can't let him continue to be stupid and successfully get everything done, so this requires a risk The idiot-like protagonist must be surrounded by a wise old man. The director chose the seemingly awesome so-called uncle of long-term workers to wait for him silently. The uncle of long-term workers seems to be very willing to help him, but it is very annoying that he always hesitates...

Speaking of Harry Potter, Dumbledore Is your grandfather like this too? Not only did he only say half of everything, but he also secretly calculated Harry Potter. Harry Potter thought it was a violent thing he decided to do, but it was actually promoted by him. It seems that the uncle of the long-term worker is really similar. Grandpa Dumbledore, it's just that the lines are a little too direct. If you can speak the language of Yunmen's Zen machine, it is estimated that Uncle Chang Gong will look much more handsome.

Ahem, digress, in a word, just like Hermione gave Harry Potter all kinds of stimulation, Baby also gave Yang Luchan all kinds of stimulation, but this part is actually the progress of the protagonist, if we use the story structure method to set all these things. Belonging to "Progress & Games", the protagonist has made some progress in this part, as if the days are already promising.

When the protagonist's life is slowly looking forward, according to the theory, the villain will stretch out his claws. This is also very consistent with the normal development law of a complete story. Yang Luchan is still stupid. Fang Zijing has sold his color and returned to a robot monster. He has no feelings for the villagers who have lived with him since childhood. Fang Zijing showed it to everyone. Destroy the machine!
(Fang Zijing's character is completely unknown, so I will complain later)
And at the moment, the protagonist Yang Luchan is in a coma, so he has no idea of ​​the villain's approach. I rushed over to solve the problem, and I was stunned that the robot monster was solved in one fell
swoop ... Damn, it was solved in one fell swoop, the long-awaited man-machine battle is over!

Hey hey, it's like I just got in and shot right! This is not premature ejaculation, but what is premature ejaculation? Although the trailer at the end let me know that there is still a second episode of this film, and the climax of higher, higher and higher is probably there, but after all, this is a complete movie, okay? Even if it is divided into 20 episodes, Each of these episodes can't be without a real climax!

This is how to solve the steam monster that looks like a big trouble, and then 10,000 musketeers will fight with them. Seconds are extremely exciting, extremely touching, extremely heart-warming and useless, dear!
I've already ejaculated prematurely, and I can't return to the previous feeling if I touch it a hundred times and try to tease out some enthusiasm.

But the climax was premature ejaculation, and the ending was very delicate. At the beginning of the chapter, Fang Zijing and Baby appeared together like a golden boy and a beautiful girl, but after a while, people with discerning eyes could see that Fang Zijing was so dark and dark, and it must eventually become "My ex is the best" , so immediately began to look forward to the development of Baby and Yang Luchan.

But the male protagonist Yang Luchan and Baby obviously have no special emotional development line. The male protagonist is a fool, it is impossible to actively pursue the female protagonist, and it is difficult to actively find out that he likes the female protagonist, and the female protagonist has just experienced some emotional trauma. It is impossible to be so fast Falling in love with other people, so the director abandoned all kinds of unrealistic ideas and forced them to be together: Yang Luchan is a good person, he destroyed the robot monster, so he can't just be abolished from martial arts, after all, Baby has a good heart and is right Yang Luchan felt a little vague, so she made up her mind to marry Yang Luchan and make him the "Chen family", so the problem solving in the ending part was quite satisfactory. And look at the preview of the next episode, Yang Luchan still has a long way to go to climb onto Baby's bed!

Well, let's talk about the villain Fang Zijing played by Eddie Peng.
Fang Zijing was ridiculed for his dark personality because foreigners could not practice Chen Jiaquan since he was a child, so he went straight to the path of "I want to prove myself to you". There is actually no problem with the setting here, but... Director, you should give it to your childhood. The scene of being bullied and mocked! That's the kind of memory he should have given on the night he showed the railway suffered a light bulb explosion! Otherwise, the scene of dropping the gramophone is completely incomprehensible! ! !

I analyzed it like this. His possible experiences as a child are:
1. I can't learn boxing and kung fu, so my physique will be much weaker and weaker than children of the same age. Humanity is Pan Lv Deng Xiaoxian, we can't say for sure);
2. There are other people who like Baby, and they are very angry that Baby is going to marry this useless little white-faced "milk donkey", so they bully him and bully him. After that, I complained that his JJ was useless and so on;
3. Baby gave him a lot of attention when he was bullied, but it made him feel "I can't rely on you for everything", and love for Baby turned into love and hate Plus, being protected by a woman can only prove his incompetence, but his incompetence is not his fault, it is entirely because of the rotten feudal system of the Chen family, and they do not teach Chenjiaquan to foreigners, so this is all from Chenjia Village. wrong!

In the final analysis, Fang Zijing's mentality is actually too diaosi, because he is dark and inferior, so he also makes the worst guess about the kindness of others, and automatically makes up for passers-by's thoughts and becomes moody with passers-by's comments (ouch and me). It's like), it's not uncommon for such a person to eventually become a villain...

but the problem is! ! ! ! ! ! This is not shown in the movie at all! ! ! ! ! These are all reasonable explanations I added to his behavior and psychology, but in the movie, there are only a few words, and nothing is said at all! ! ! The male protagonist inexplicably patted his chest and promised that "Chen Jiacun (many people hate me) will be done in ten days." He knew that he would be able to deal with these things more easily by marrying Baby, but he refused and had to rely on himself. , the first thing he did when he failed on his own was to instantly smash the gramophone he gave to his beloved woman! Inexplicable! ! ! ! What are you thinking! ! ! ! !
I can't see how eager he is for this to succeed! ! ! ! To show that he is eager to succeed in this matter, he must show how frustrating his previous life was, so that he has the right reason to want to show his face in front of everyone! ! ! Without this contrasting emotion, no matter how he expresses his depression later, it is useless! ! ! ! !

Eh, and then there is the kiss between Fang Zijing and Yang Niu. There is no relationship at all. I didn't give any hint that he has a foreign girl in the UK. You even let him open a letter with Baby on his back and take a peek at it. There is no problem with taking photos. If there is no time to show these, even if one or two foreign girls look at Fang Zijing's camera with affection, it is fine. As a result, when the audience had no expectations, the director actually asked the foreign girls to directly tell the plot. I read it out...

I'm a big rub, this absolute force is a big taboo in the script, I always remember "don't use lines to tell stories" when writing cartoons, you not only use lines to tell stories, but also go On the road of no return "the director has the final say"! The director has the final say, so Yang Niu expresses her love for him without warning. The director has the final say, so Yang Niu must say what she wants to confess at this time. ...

Hey, Fang Zijing, what kind of feelings did you have for foreign girls before? According to the context, I tend to think that Fang Zijing has some feelings for foreign girls, but when kissing foreign girls, he still has the feeling of taking advantage of foreign girls. He is right I really don't understand Baby's feelings, and the director gave too little information... In short, I feel Fang Zijing kissed her in the mood of taking advantage of a foreign girl, but at the moment he doesn't have any guilt or entanglement. What's going on with Baby's feelings? Is his love all fake? Have these feelings that grew up together since childhood have been worn out? Can't see it at all! ! !

At this point, we may be able to return to him and continue to use Yang Niu,
but Yang Niu actually died like this... Hanging up... Hanging up...

In fact, I understand the director's purpose of letting Yang Niu hang up, so that Fang Zijing can be pushed a step further on the road to the final villain, and the villain's humanity will be completely wiped out, which will be more reasonable. However, this process is too hasty, right? It's so hasty that I can't even get back to God! And hurriedly let Yang Niu hang up, Fang Zijing and Yang Niu's feelings have not been laid out, Yang Niu was shot, not killed by Fang Zijing's gun (it is estimated that the director originally wanted to do this, but Yang Luchan has already told the heroine I've played it, it's not good to have the same plot here), Fang Zijing is still in agony, how can he have such deep feelings, if it's guilt, it's not so, after all, he hasn't shown that he loves foreign girls before. , a person he didn't love died in front of him for various reasons, wouldn't he have to kill all the fathers and elders in the village where he grew up? What the hell is going on with this mental journey...

Alas, in fact, every time I feel indignant about such a film, because of an old saying that theorists like to say, "It's obvious that it can be made better. "Yeah, look, there are so many ideas, so many attractive stars, and the soundtrack is so good, why is the whole story just a little bit worse? I am really anxious for director Feng Delun.

However, despite all the complaints and dissatisfaction, I still have to go to the cinema to watch the second part. After watching it, I will continue to complain. At the same time, I will continue to look forward to Director Feng Delun. After all, he is definitely a handsome guy among directors. ! ! ! >▽<

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