"War with Criminals: The Heyday of Bad Guys" director Yin Zhongbin handed over a story similar to the Korean version of "Water Margin". Although this story of hoeing the strong to help the weak to maintain justice is old-fashioned, full of American and spaghetti westerns, and the first half is a bit slow, the contrast and costume action design are still worth watching.
The movie took nearly an hour to describe the process of Shishi's transformation from a butcher to a thief, and the growth process of the villain Zhao Yun interspersed in the middle was only twenty minutes. It took a longer margin to describe the changes of the stone. It seems that the focus is on the stone. In contrast, it is found that Zhao Yun has become the most outstanding character in the whole play. In addition to Jiang Dongyuan's wonderful performance, the contrast with the group of thieves is also a major reason for Zhao Yun to break through.
The most conspicuous of them is the clothing. The first time we met, the stone was a butcher, and his clothes were ragged and dark in color. If you look closely, there are flies around, but Zhao Yun, dressed in white, picked up the teacup and put it down leisurely, even if it was talking about a murder mission It is also like reciting poetry and contrasting black and white. In traditional dramas, white faces represent insidiousness and cunning. The clothes are not masks, but white is used as the first appearance of the clothes. It looks elegant and pure, but it highlights Zhao Yun's brutality. In the middle of the attack on Peach Blossom Spring, the civilians were all dressed in gray, only Zhao Yun, who showed a dazzling green in the mess and a sea of fire, and the red decoration on the female archer's bow and arrow, the contrast between red and green, the civilians who were killed Like ashes burnt out by fire, Zhao Yun in green picked up the baby and became life in the ashes, bringing the remaining glimmer of hope to his desperate and hateful life. The survivors led by Stone in the back section are basically in khaki, while Zhao Yun's clothes are dark blue with a contrast of yellow and blue. Zhao Yun looked at the baby's tearful eyes, and the last dark blue was like a longing, an unreachable ideal, which also made him finally set foot on death to complete the redemption of humanity in order to protect the baby.
In addition to the costumes, a lot of effort has been put into the action design. The elegant and stable movements and steps of the sword dance are not so much a sparring, but more like a dance, especially the indoor sparring with the stone in the middle and the bamboo forest at the end. In one battle, the roughness of the two knives and the slenderness of the saber complement each other. And Zhao Yun's long hair after being cut off by Dai Hao's bun is even more shocking. This is of course thanks to Jiang Dongyuan's beauty. Although Zhao Yun is a brutal villain, the root of this curse has been planted since he was a child. He is said to be a lowly child and is not valued by his father. He thought that if he got rid of everything around his father, his father would see his existence, and gradually He wanted to be recognized as a monster until he finally killed his father, but unfortunately, the father who had a grandson naturally still couldn't see him, and even lost his last hope, Zhao Yun had to accept his fate and hold the baby in his arms. Is it the will of God or the will of the lotus to give birth to a white lotus in a dirty place? Maybe it was God's will, even God couldn't even see this smart boy who had turned into a monster, but Zhao Yun seemed to be able to find what he used to be in the eyes of a baby. This baby, pure as a white lotus, washed his heart that had turned black with tears, let him regain his long-lost conscience, let him end this unfortunate life and remove this extremely evil existence for the common people.
In contrast, the portrayal of group thieves has become mediocre, because there are too many characters, failing to highlight the characteristics of each person, and can only turn them into functional group portraits purely serving the plot. The fourth collaboration between Yin Zhongbin and Ha Zhengyu, many people think that Ha Zhengyu "has been tricked" after reading it. In fact, it can't be said that he was tricked. It's just that the character was portrayed too blandly, although the whole main line of revenge has fallen. On the stone, and Ha Zhengyu also used a more comic-style performance to interpret the role of the stone to make it more vivid. The bald head shape and double knives also added persuasiveness to the role of the stone, but as a very evil The stone on the opposite side of Zhao Yun is not convincing enough. The vulgarity of the stone can contrast with Zhao Yun's elegance. If he fails to assassinate Zhao Yun's sister-in-law, it can only show that he is inherently good, but it cannot be a representative of extreme goodness. Monk Liu Shi asked him to try to escape the grievances and grievances around him and cut off all his troubles. Although he had cultivated for two years with his heart down, he still did not deal with it calmly and rationally when he encountered the enemy again. Although in the end, the cannons appeared to save everyone and also killed Zhao Yun to eliminate evil for the people and become the new leader of the group of thieves, but that was
just the happy ending that everyone wanted to see where the evil could not prevail.
Although the actual feeling of this drama is lower than expected, but Cao Yingwo's soundtrack is very good, and those soundtracks that pay tribute to Ennio Morricone's spaghetti westerns will not be surprised if they are included in this Korean group thief story ,, and this witty soundtrack creates strange chemical reactions with the plot from time to time, and the contrast produced is extremely harmonious. In addition to the soundtrack, those suddenly zoomed close-up shots are full of Quentin's shadow, but there are not so many in the play. plasma.
In general, "Group Thieves" can be regarded as telling a complete story, but the shaping of the characters is not perfect, and Jiang Dongyuan's powerful character halo is enough to make other characters become foils. It can only be said that it is a summer masterpiece with high expectations but a little disappointment. Although there is a masterpiece of Mingliang, it is not bad to reach the profit and loss point.
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