Zhang Yimou is a person who pays attention to the sense of form. The arrangement and combination of colors, the neat and uniform movements, and the grand and expansive scenes are the focus of visual impact. In "Golden Armor", whether it is a palace maid, eunuch or a warrior official, they are all carriers of "sense of form". Their neat movements and neat voices form a neat and uniform beauty, like the gentle flow of water, and the gradual ups and downs of the keys, like a Hollywood dancer. The group dance of Billie's thighs. One movement and one stillness, one movement and one relaxation, one tightness and one slowness, one pitching and one tilting, all of them "conform to the dance of "Sanglin", which is the meeting of "Sutra". Zhang Yimou likes to use the same color in blockbusters to create a strong visual impact. "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Terracotta Warriors" is plain white, "Red Sorghum" is bright red, and then the red becomes a whole, overwhelming and extravagant. In "Golden Armor", the blockbusters are full of violent vermilion, golden yellow, and countless colorful colored glazes, which are arrogant and dazzling, filling all the spaces, with no blanks, and they are indescribably domineering.
The extreme pursuit of formality makes Zhang Yimou even disdain to make up a new story, but just scribbles some fragments of ideas into the ready-made story structure, which is an arrogant gesture. If "Red Sorghum" and "My Father and Mother" still have a bit of national perspective and a bit of local sentiment of people's livelihood, then "Golden Armor" completely raises the perspective to the level of royalty and even God. The director is completely in the Looking down, looking down and away from beings. Countless plots that are too far away from history and reality and a large number of computer post-production instructions have only become a symbol for the director, even the royal family. It is the need to bring the plot to the extreme and the need to highlight the "spiritual core".
What does "Golden Armor" focus on? I can't think that Zhang Yimou is a pure businessman. When the form is greater than the content, I think he must still have his own ideals. What is this ideal? It's a flamboyant emotion. It is the ferocity of doing everything to the extreme, the thrill of one-knife death, and the domineering overlord of the world. Therefore, more and more violent spirits appear in his works, whether it is the secret affairs of the palace or the love between children, they are all hot and vicious. At the same time when all the unfounded publicity is rising, people will see the crampedness and emptiness below the beauty. The story structure of "Golden Armor" is taken from Cao Yu's famous drama "Thunderstorm". However, he took away the humanistic care and realistic background of "Thunderstorm". In the modern film and television city of Hengdian, it is inevitable to enlarge a little ink mark to the whole sky. It creates a feeling of "form over content". "Thunderstorm" is about the fragility of human nature and the ruthless manipulation of fate, so what about "Golden Armor"? Human greed leads to destruction? Breaking through the bottom line of morality and jurisprudence, will fierce contradictions arise? If this is the case, then the overly luxurious and massive form unfortunately squeezes a little bit of thought into pieces, making it difficult to find.
Fortunately, the audience has understood what they are looking for more than ever-after sweeping away the terrifying domestic "magic blockbusters". In the theater, I found that, except when the prince found out that the queen was conspiring, Liu Ye's excessively forceful performance led to laughter. Basically, the audience kept quite calm and restrained. When the lights at the end came on, the short lines were like a group of horses running through my mind, except "Since the chrysanthemum has been embroidered, it will bloom once again", "What I give you is yours, if you don't give it to you, it will be yours. I can't remember anything other than that.
How many makers of literary and artistic works know what they want? How many people actually got it? If you can't get it after trying hard again and again, who should be reviewed? Now that the movie is shot, it will always bloom again. Now that the work is done, it must be publicized. However, "What I give you is yours, if you don't give it, you can't rob it" -- for Zhang Yimou, and even for all directors and artists, if they want to get the applause of the audience and the praise of the industry, this sentence is The best epigram.
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