But I didn't have the chance to support the box office of Xu Laogua's good movies in the past, so I chose to watch it this time as a way to pay off my debts.
However, after reading it, I still feel a little better.
How to say it, this film is indeed too weird in some places, such as several emotional scenes in it, which are all headless and confusing.
Let's talk about the pseudo-triangular relationship between Lu Yi and Zhang Jingchu and Donnie Yen who was added later. At the beginning, Lu and Zhang were like Ximen Qing and Jinlian. The speaker hugged each other and said, "Last night, we almost did. ..." It was a blast, and when Lu came back from Tianshan, he suddenly turned into an ambush, but unfortunately Zhang was already fascinated by Zhen pretending to be cool, and Lu didn't succeed! No wonder Lu Bajian danced like a beacon wheel.
Come again, Liming and Yang Caini went back and forth to learn and exchange swordsmanship a few times, and the next scene fell together, and they said that no matter where they go, I will never leave your sour text. It's too legendary! Here I have to criticize Yang Caini's Hong Kong Mandarin. When I heard it for the first time, I couldn't help but have a cold war. Really, the quality of the dubbing in the mainland is good and cheap. Why didn't Tsui Hark consider it.
Of course, Tsui Hark also said why he used so many dialects in order to reproduce the reality of the rivers and lakes. I have no problem, but you can say that in the Qing Dynasty, there was a female compatriot from Hong Kong who came to the northwest of our country to grow up?
Oh, and finally there is the most bizarre triangular relationship, Donnie Yen and Lu Zhu and the deformed love affair. Lu Zhu was first resisted by the wind and fire and left, and then let the wind and fire nibble on her back, only the roast suckling pig in front of her eyes was left, and then she was resisted by Donnie Yen and left, and suddenly realized that everyone was Hometown, so Brother Zhen taught Luzhu a lot of life principles, such as how to be independent, and don’t think that you are a slave for the rest of your life because you have engraved the word slave (I think the relationship between Luzhu and Fenghuo is a bit “Stockholm Syndrome”) . Then the two of them caught fire in a cave. Next, after the passion, Lu Zhu told Zhen the secret of Feng Huo, so Zhen, who was very unintelligent, went alone with Lu Zhu, who had no martial arts, and ended up in an ambush. Then there is mutual suspicion and death.
And I was still wondering at the end of the film, why did Lu Yi and Yang Caini go to the Tianshan Mountains, watch a meteor, and when they woke up, they were recognized as one of the seven swords by an expert with dead branches in their hands, and then they became swordsmen !
I can only think that these seven swords are powerful, basically they follow the routine of using swords to control people, but later on, why did Yang Caini get it wrong, so why did the second senior brother Li Ming teach you? Maybe everything is because Yang Caini changed to get closer to Senior Brother Liming.
In addition to the emotional attraction, there are also many flaws and bugs in the plot part, which I can't say for myself.
For example, in the ambush, whether Luzhu was a spy or a prophet, and how did Xiao Zhen, who has always been handsome, suddenly become so stupid; For example, which prince of the Qing Dynasty got a peerless sword (so I believe this is for the purpose of making a sequel) and so on.
Of course, I believe in everything Xu Ke originally had a very clear reason for it. Didn't it mean that his initial sketch was 4 hours long, but in the end, he was forced to cut it into the current version of about 2 and a half hours.
And Tsui Hark is different from Ang Lee. Ang Lee cuts out the action scenes to ensure the smoothness of the plot, while Tsui Hark sacrifices the plot to ensure his action scenes.
So, let's look forward to the day when the DVD of the 4-hour director's cut version will be released. Maybe the above questions will be answered.
Let's talk about the performance, as a multi-protagonist drama, the performance is very demanding, and as a result, the brilliance of basically all the positive characters has been overwhelmed by the storm.
Not to mention why it is more clever to play the bad guy now.
Basically, I have a good impression of Sun Honglei after the film is over, except for the slightly pretentious drama (but we even put up with Hong Kong Mandarin, we don’t care about that), everything else is good, such as his fancy clothing habits, such as his convulsive laugh Laws, such as a bad joke from time to time.
The biggest failure is that after the whole film, I have a yin and yang head on that one (this look is indeed too eye-catching), and I don't know if it is a male or a female with the same surname. The memory of Lian's subordinates is even deeper than that of Qijian!
But why do I still say that the Seven Swords are good? Wouldn't it be a utter rubbish just like what I wrote above?
Because I think this film shows a different arena, different atmosphere!
Although there are some problems and deficiencies in the specific details, I feel very good after watching the whole film!
Ever since Tsui Hark's own Xiaoao Jianghu, the new school of martial arts has been seeking change. Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a change, and then Hero and Ambush went astray.
Now that Tsui Hark has stood up and said that he wants to change, he is no longer flying around, no longer you have science, I have magic, let's make a documentary martial arts film, let's let those heroes, heroes Ah, the swordsman has returned to the position of a mortal.
So we see, all the seven swords are ragged, all the swordsmen are often unkempt, the only cool donnie Yen still makes him look like a madman at the end, and the beautiful Yang Cai Ni is dressed in neutral clothes Don't say it (here I want to say that Tsui Hark seems to like to make actresses male or neutral, and sister Qingxia is the best representative), and when he appeared on the stage, he played out of the way and made a mess.
So we saw that, instead of flying around, down-to-earth punches and kicks, swords and swords, of course, because of the actors, the action scenes were edited quite messy and sharp and impactful!
Therefore, we can hear twice that "Heaven and earth have righteousness, and under the manifold, the river and the mountains are the sun and the stars are called Haoran." Lao Xu always wants to express his will.
Seven Swords Tsui Hark is planning to make six films, and what I have seen now is only the beginning, and everything has just begun. So at present, some are foreshadowing, some are harbingers, and some are paving.
The real evaluation is that all 6 parts are finished, and it is not like the current cut version.
I sincerely hope that Tsui Hark can find investment to fulfill this real Jianghu dream for us!
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