During the Warring States Period of Japan, the heroes were divided, and everyone wanted to occupy Kyoto to dominate the world. Among them, the most powerful ones were Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Among them, the strongest and most formidable is Takeda Shingen. When the Takeda family surrounded the Tokugawa family's Noda Castle, Takeda Shingen was injured by a sniper. Before his death, he warned everyone that if he died, the news of his death must be hidden from everyone, and the Takeda family had to stay put for three years before they could be saved. After his death, in order to hide the news of his death, his younger brother Takeda Shinlian made a thief who looks exactly like his elder brother play the real Takeda Shingen, thus becoming Takeda Shingen's "shadow", and thus concealed the enemy's constant spying on the military along the way. spies. When he returned to the mansion to accept his grandson, the heir to his career, the young grandson said in front of everyone that this person was not a grandfather, which made the cronies on the spot panic, and the cronies hurriedly coaxed him into saying that it was because it had been a long time. There is a slight change in appearance and the main character is injured. The witty shadow called the grandson in front of him to let him take a closer look, and he put his helmet on the grandson's head in a hurry, making the grandson happy. Only then did the grandson say, "Really, my grandfather has changed, I'm not afraid of him anymore", which caused everyone to laugh and thus survive the crisis. Then in the evening, accompanied by his wife and concubine, when he was having dinner with his younger brother Xinlian, Shadow took the initiative to ask his wife and concubine whether his appearance had changed. The wives and concubines looked at him and said that his appearance had indeed changed, and his voice had also changed because of his illness. , and the tone of speech also changed. Shadow said in a long and meaningful voice, "A serious illness has changed even my heart." The wives and concubines continued to observe him carefully, and the shadows were stared at and panicked, thinking that they might have been seen through, so they took the initiative to say that they were shadows, bought by Xinlian to pretend to be the master. It caused the concubines to laugh, but instead fooled the past. When he was about to go to bed, Xin Lian was afraid that the concubines would see through the identity of the shadow, so he forbade the lord from overwork because he was recovering from a serious illness. At this time, the shadow showed displeasure, stood up and left. Later, the son of Takeda Shingen secretly sent troops to attack Noda Castle again, and was forced to the battlefield by the shadow of the war. I learned from my grandson before that the "wind, forest, fire, and mountain" four-way army of the Takeda family means swift as the wind, quiet as the forest, fierce as fire, and steady as the mountain. And I am a "mountain", so I need to be as motionless as a mountain on the battlefield. When I first arrived on the battlefield, I saw corpses all over the ground and smoke everywhere, and the timid Shadow felt a little drum in his heart. At night, under the attack of enemy musketeers, people kept falling around. Shadow was visibly fidgeting in position in the face of bullets that he didn't know would come out of there. And the guards around him repeatedly told him not to move like a mountain. When he saw piles of soldiers dying for himself, he understood the responsibility on his shoulders Ren was so moved by these true samurai spirits that he decided to sit there like a mountain. When the enemy soldiers and horses approached, he was shocked by his steady king's momentum, and left sadly. At this time, accompanied by the magnificent and majestic soundtrack, the shadow shouted "Don't move" and he was really Takeda Shingen.
The proud shadow felt that he had become a real "mountain", and when he wanted to ride Shingen's mount, he fell off his horse. When the wives and concubines hurriedly checked his body, they found that there was no trace of Xinxuan's previous injury on his body. recognized him as a fake. And when everyone realized that he was fake, only the little grandson still called him "Grandpa". In this way, in the rain, he was thrown out of the Takeda house by people throwing stones. After that, Takeda Shingen's son took over the Takeda family, and immediately launched an attack on Oda Nobunaga, which brought the Takeda family to destruction. In the movie "Shadow Warrior", we will find that almost all people live in the power and majesty created by Takeda Shingen personally. And this right and majesty is in everyone's heart. At the beginning of the movie, the shadow of Takeda Shingen, Takeda Shinren, Shadow, and Takeda Shingen appeared on the screen in a fixed shot. Wearing the same clothes, in the dialogue we can know that the shadow is sitting at the lowest position next to the candle, slightly
On the far left of the taller sits Takeda Shinren, who used to play the role of his brother's stand-in, and Takeda Shingen sits in the middle of the picture, and Takeda Shingen's shadow is slightly higher than Takeda Shingen. From the high and low positions of the three people, distinguish the status of the characters. And Takeda Shingen's shadow is obviously higher than the other three. When Takeda Shingen left with a knife, the shadow was elongated and became taller. The director is here to imply that "knife" represents power and strength, and "shadow" symbolizes identity . All of them succumbed to the strength and power that the identity of Takeda Shingen represented. In this scene, the director also left another hint for us. Takeda Shingen's sword is placed on his right in the picture. And everyone else's knives in the movie are placed to their left, which has always marked the later shadows as fake. All the others don't have what the king, Takeda Shingen, really has. In addition, Takeda Shingen said when he left, "As soon as the weather is cold, my old wounds will hurt," indicating that he is not in good health, and it also implies his death. There is also a close-up of the character's shadow in the movie, that is, after the shadow is not allowed to sleep with the concubine, the huge shadow cast on the roof when he gets up and leaves. Here it is revealed that the shadow lives under the identity of Shinxuan, and this identity is like this huge shadow pressing on him, and he can only live under this "shadow". In the movie, only the little grandson and the horse saw through the identity of the shadow from the beginning. The child was simple-minded and did not understand the horror and majesty of power, so he dared to really face Xinxuan so he could see through the shadow. But under the confusion of the adults, he slowly accepted that this was his grandfather. And even if adults are told that they are fake, but they are afraid of power, they will think this statement is absurd. After everyone has been deceived, only the horse can still see that the shadow is fake. The concubines and subordinates failed to see through the shadow because of their fear of power, and the enemy failed to see through the shadow because of suspicion. And the horse without the heart is always the same. It can be seen that people's hearts are complicated and easily deceived, just like the saying in "Zou Qi Satires the King of Qi", "My wife's beauty is my personal self; my concubine's beauty is my own, and I am afraid; I want to ask for anything.” Under the package of power and identity, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the true from the false. Why did the Takeda family fail? On the surface, the film is the result of Shingen's son not obeying his father's last words and the persuasion of ministers. And there are other points in this defeat: 1. Xinxuan's son did not understand the meaning of "Fenglinhuo", just like everyone knew at the beginning of the final battle that it would be a defeat, because "people come, The mountain moved." This is why Shin Hyun The reason why the place is given to the grandson and not to the son is that the meaning of "Fenglinhuo" was also known from the grandson's mouth at the beginning of the movie. It can be seen that the grandson's understanding of this point is more thorough than the son's; 2. With the development of the times, The traditional "Fenglinhuo" combat method can no longer keep up. The "foreigners" and "red wine" in the movie represent new weapons and the power of the new era. Because Oda Nobunaga also came into contact with these, he finally had a powerful musket, and the Takeda family's "Fu Lin volcano" was finally destroyed in his hands. This also implies that the old samurai era will be destroyed in the new era. This is why at the end of the film, it strongly implies that this battle will be lost, giving the audience a feeling that they want to save but are powerless, because this is the inevitable result of the changing times. 3. The image of "Takeda Shingen" as a symbol of power has been shattered, and the true "mountain" is no longer there. "Fenglin Volcano" has been unable to form an organic whole, and it is bound to be defeated.
In the end, the shadow also died in this battle. He was injured and died in the water when he saw the flag in the river that read "Swift as the wind, quiet as the forest, fierce as fire, and fixed as the mountain", and was washed away by the river. . Like the last defender of the samurai spirit, he died in the water, washed away by the torrent of the times. The flag, accompanied by a tragic soundtrack, is still fluttering in the clear river water. It reveals the passing of the samurai era, but the samurai spirit still remains clearly in the memory of history.
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