Shanghai Film Festival Second Brush

Rhea 2022-03-21 09:01:44

I don't remember when I first watched this film. After watching Alexander's long and short life across the computer screen, I was very shocked. It's just that the memory is not clear. A few years later, the Shanghai Film Festival will show the final cut version, and I can't tell where the new scenes are added. Maybe this should be the original appearance of the film.

Before I officially start, I have to spit out a groove: it may be that my drawing is broken, but in my life so far, I have never seen a worse than Alexander the Great screened at the Shanghai Film Festival Daguang Cinema. The subtitles of the film are almost unprecedented. Not only are there many translation mistakes, but the timeline is basically inaccurate. This makes people with poor English ability to watch the movie? What do you guys do with subtitles? Did you just randomly download subtitles from a third-rate subtitle group from the Internet to fill the scene? ! In contrast, Jia Fan's masterpiece is simply heaven!

Rewind to the movie. The director's grasp of the big scene is quite good, and the two battles are like twin towers echoing back and forth on the entire timeline. The scene of thousands of troops lined with spears does not look ordinary on the big screen. The brutality of the battle is also one of the large-scale performances of the film. I remember a scene where the head was cut off with a knife. At that time, I heard a girl gasp behind me = = Other large-scale places are shown in my dear Ah, although there is no problem with my ability to accept it, but when I think of watching an epic calcium film with hundreds of people in the audience, I feel like it. . . Kind of weird. . . cough cough. . . I can hear yoooo snickering in the back row every time Alexander and Hephaistion get close!

Speaking of which, I have to mention the cast. Although the interaction between Jon Lin and the girl is very cute, I still think about it. . . 囧林's own villain temperament is too heavy, more like a mountain king than a monarch, and his eyebrows are too dramatic, I don't know what the effect will be if Pete plays the role. . . If Pitt came to play him, he would be the first person to play the ancient Greek film. . . As for girls. . . Originally, it was said that Hephaistion was a Greek god-like figure, taller and more beautiful than Alexander, so the Persian princess recognized him as Alexander, but the girl obviously suffered. . . 【enough

Not so good for other actors. Xiao Qiao is so beautiful, so beautiful that I gasped in front of the big screen, but unfortunately the director didn't cut a few more shots = = Lorenzo and Elliot Cowan from Da Vinci's Devil actually played Ptolemy, I recognized it in retrospect Now, the hairline, which has been dangerous for so many years, has not developed much, but it has become a lot more rounded. And the boy who was taken by Alexander's father Philip and then assassinated the king because of love and hatred [Big Fog] is Johnny in rocknrolla! ! ! In addition to my wet and dead strong uncle, my favorite is Johnny in that movie ah ah ah ah! ! ! This Toby Kebbell is so soy sauce everywhere! ! ! ! ::>_<:: Ca

n't stop and pull it back = =

Alexander and Hephaistion are platonic in this film, the emperor slept with a lot of men and girls, but he didn't have a passionate scene with Xiao He, this is all the director The arrangement makes the relationship between two people transcend the body and become the spiritual support for each other. In fact, the director's understanding of the character of Alexander has a kind of polarity. He elevated Alexander to the status of a liberator, and made him a great man whose mission was to integrate the nations and cultures of the world—a dream so advanced that he was always alone; more than anyone else went He is far away, and others can't keep up and don't want to keep up with him, maybe only his beloved can understand him. But at the same time the director also reduced Alexander to a human level, portraying his pain and fear, as well as his failure. He paints Alexander as a man torn apart by dream and reality, a thread that wraps the film so tightly that it's all the more poignant because of the concentration. In the last battle, Alexander rode his horse and stood up against the Indian elephant soldiers at the same time. It was not only a shock on the screen, but also a great as Alexander was so insignificant in the face of fate. Then the slow-motion filming of the falling horse was really good. The lion was killed and the eagle broke its wings. When I watched it, I almost cried.

Then Hephaistion's reaction was to rush over immediately, as always, as if Alexander was humiliated at the wedding banquet of the Macedonian king nine years ago, he was the first to rush up. Hephaistion has always stood by his side for so many years, even when the army has fallen apart and his dreams have been shattered. Think again about what Grandma Mary wrote in the Persian teenager, Bagos may be a flower, a clear spring, and Hephaistion is the whole sun and the sea - Xiao He, you are my male god ah ah ah ah ah kneel down. In the end he really died before Alexander, as he said, and it didn't take long for the greatest monarch in all of Greece to follow him. They may have all turned into stars in the sky, next to the greatest heroes of their mythology, looking down on the world they once fought for. They once shed tears and blood on this land.

At the end of the movie, the lights were still dimmed, the two uncles on my right got up and left, the two people in front put away the flashing mobile phone screens, and the two eldest sisters on the left began to discuss the matter of taking a taxi.

I sat alone in the middle and clapped when the subtitles came out.

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Extended Reading

Alexander quotes

  • Cleitus: How can you, so young, compare yourself to Heracles?

    Alexander: Why not? I've achieved more in my years. Traveled as far. Probably farther.

    Cleitus: Heracles did it by himself! Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? I mean, who planned the Asian invasion when you were still being spanked on your bottom by my sister? Was it not your father? Or is his blood no longer good enough?

    Alexander: You insult me, Cleitus. You mock my family, be careful.

    Cleitus: Never would your father take barbarians as friends or ask us to fight with them as equals in war. Are we not good enough any longer? I remember a time when we could talk as men, strait to the eye, none of this scraping and groveling. I remember a time when we hunted, when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. And now you kiss them? Take a barbarian, childless wife, and dare call her Queen?

    Alexander: [deeply insulted] Go quickly, Cleitus, before you ruin your life.

    Cleitus: Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer? This army's your blood, boy! Without it you're nothing!

    Alexander: You no longer serve the purpose of this march! Get him from my sight!

    Cleitus: What was I serving but to save your puppy life at Gaugamela? What if I left you to die in the dust?

    Hephaistion: [holding Alexander back] Alexander... Alexander!

    Alexander: Arrest him for treason! Who's with him? I call father Zeus to witness! I call you to trial before him! And we'll see how deep this conspiracy cuts!

    Hephaistion: In the name of the gods, get him out of here!

    Cleitus: Now look at you! Great Alexander! Hiding behind his guards! Are you too great to remember whose life was saved by me? I am more man than you'll ever be!

    [Cleitus is dragged out of the room]

    Hephaistion: He's gone. He's gone, Alexander, gone! Alexander!

    [Cleitus fights his way back into the room]

    Cleitus: What a tyrant you are! Evil tyrant you've become, Alexander. You speak about plots against you? What about poor Parmenion? He served you well! Look how you repaid him! Have you no shame?

    Alexander: You ungrateful wretch! No one, not my finest enemy has spoken like you to me!

    Hephaistion: Please, Alexander...

    [Alexander stabs Cleitus]

    Hephaistion: NO!

  • Parmenion: I pray to Apollo you soon realize how far you've turned from your father's path.

    Alexander: Damn you Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo! War was in my father's guts! It wasn't over ripe and reason like yours.

    Parmenion: He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals! The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.

    Alexander: I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed! Old man, we're in new worlds.

    Cassander: Alexander, be reasonable! Were they ever meant to be our equal? Share our rewards? You remember what Aristotle said. An Asian? What would a wedding vow ever mean to a race that has never kept their word to a Greek?

    Alexander: [throws Cassander against the wall] Aristotle be damned!

    Hephaistion: Alexander!

    Alexander: By Zeus and all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? Better than you really are! In you and those like you is this!

    Hephaistion: [pleading] Alexander...

    Alexander: What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. It's your contempt for a world far older than ours!