The so-called scarcity principle is that the rarer something is, the more valuable it seems to be. The origin of this principle is that people are much more sensitive to what they have lost or will lose than what they have gained or possessed.
"Hero" is such a movie that can use the scarcity principle to prove that it is a good movie.
The first is the original intention and sincerity of the film production. After the martial arts movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" came out in 2000, won 4 Oscars and gained international fame, a group of well-known directors and filmmakers in China have publicly stated that they have had a martial arts dream since childhood. Either romantic or tragic, or aesthetic or realistic, the splendor varies from person to person, but they have a common small goal: to reach the Olympics.
my country's first film for the Olympics seems to be "Love on the Yellow River" in 1999, and its national characteristics can be described as distinct, but "Love on the Yellow River" did not win any Oscar awards. And "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which is covered with a martial arts movie and a Western humanistic core of "Sense and Sensibility", made the Olympic athletes suddenly enlightened. It turned out that there is "no artistic value", "Pinch your nose to watch it", "Ridiculous" Unrealistic" martial arts commercials are so popular with foreigners.
In this case, let's start with martial arts films -- at least that was the idea of many directors and producers at the time.
The production lineup must be luxurious, not only behind the scenes of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but also more luxurious than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Jet Li, as well as a large number of outstanding and well-known artists and masters, such as Xu Kuanghua, a famous guqin master, all came to me.
Director Zhang Yimou applied all the film aesthetics accumulated in his life to the pictures of "Heroes", such as the Populus euphratica forest in the Qin Palace desert, the chess hall Yadan Jiuzhaigou, a large number of long-range shots, and Chen Xiaodong's poetic martial arts design. The pictures are not only beautiful, but also shocking. , which greatly inspired the audience's love for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
In order to complete an ideal shot and get an ideal picture or shot, the crew of "Hero" will wait patiently, waiting for the beauty of the sky, waiting for the lake to be silent, and waiting for the actors even if they are famous as international movie stars and queens Repeat over and over again to come up with the state the director wants.
Therefore, the barrage is full of emotions such as "they won't act in the future, what are we going to watch?" "All the dramas are played in person, and the stars now know how to cut out the pictures." "The actors today can't act that way. ." "This lineup is really a newcomer."
Rather than complimenting the seniors for their dedication and professionalism, it is better to say that we are afraid of losing them and we will face the terrible loneliness, emptiness and coldness.
"Hero" is director Zhang Yimou's bold attempt to implement artistic transformation, and it has opened the curtain for the era of Chinese blockbusters. It has created a commercial blockbuster model that can be replicated. Although Chong Ao failed, the box office was extremely high, realizing economic benefits and industrialization. Double harvest of chemical experiments. Compared with the large number of failed cases of big directors switching to big IP and small IP, how rare and precious is the box office success of "Hero".
What's more, "Hero" spared no effort to show the splendor of ancient Chinese civilization. Director Zhang's heart is full of fists. At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it can be proved that when we look back and watch "Hero" again, we will sincerely thank Zhang What the director planted in "Heroes" is the core of a national sentiment, not the seedlings of Western culture.
After praising so much, does it mean that the audience should slap their face and stamp their approval that "Hero" is a classic film of high quality?
Naturally not.
Needless to say, the plot is weak and can't last for 90 minutes. It looked like this in the past, and it still looks like this now.
From "The Big Red Lantern" to "The Lawsuit of Qiu Ju", it is not difficult to find that director Zhang Yimou is best at telling stories with a single line, the kind with a strong sense of personal substitution, multi-role entanglement, multi-line Weaving together a wonderful story, this way of speaking is not what Director Zhang is good at. Even if there is a strong literary foundation in "The City Is Full of Golden Armor", the star-studded "The Great Wall", and of course "Heroes" and "Heroes". "House of Flying Daggers" does not score high on the artistic value of the film. This year's "Shadow", although the governor and the shadow are two people, is actually still one person who is stubbornly stubborn, just like Zhang Ziyi in "My Father and Mother", Wei Minzhi in "No One Can Be Missed"...
And the scene in the movie where Can Jian writes calmly in the face of Qin Jun's brutal killings does not appear to be calm, on the contrary, it seems very pretentious. Literally, is it the behavior that a chivalrous righteous person should do?
There is also an anonymous one-night stand between Changkong and Feixue. I know that you are trying to deceive Zulong, but please, who is Feixue, the remnant sword in the sky, in the film? How could a hero who has attracted worldwide attention, someone who even the King of Qin praised, and an unnamed Wuming who is equally unparalleled in martial arts, could use such a vulgar story to belittle them? It seems that we ordinary people will not "smear" a great man of noble character.
Of course, you said that this is to highlight Qin Wang Ruizhi and see through the nameless scam at a glance. I have nothing to say.
In the film, the world of King Qin and the world of the Wuming Four are divided and parallel. Is King Qin's destruction of the Six Kingdoms cruel or great, King Qin cherishes Wuming but why did he kill him, and why did the Wuming four stab Qin with one heart? The video doesn't make it clear. Chinese audiences are familiar with China's history and understand the plot without any difficulty, while Western audiences are confused and understandable.
There are also some grotesque things that affect the perception. First, the voices that Zhangkong and Wuming shouted when they were fighting, and the wretched appearance of the king of Qin's civil and military officials when they gathered together. .
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