Zhang Yimou has made films like "Hero" (2002) that understand the concept of "the world", and also made films like "House of Flying Daggers" (2004) that understand the concept of "freedom". But they all misunderstood.
The reason behind it may be that he has a screenwriter who can write scripts like prose and poetry. I don't know if this writer was also involved in "House of Flying Daggers". But he does have such a screenwriter, yes. The screenwriter understands martial arts as prose poetry. But unfortunately, his lines are not as good as Wong Kar Wai. Not much dialogue, but very saliva.
"The world" tells that Qin Shihuang and his old man killed because there was a "world" to manage, otherwise, the people would be in chaos. Therefore, as an assassin, I would rather die.
"House of Flying Daggers" is about the fact that although the official government and the anti-government government are opposed to each other, and the insiders also penetrate each other, they both suppress their personalities in an organized way. "Let's go together".
"Hero" is a kind of nationalism, "House of Flying Daggers" is a kind of individualism.
But on the whole, it is a kind of wishful thinking of Chinese-style liberal literati. The former one is to say that people like us with superior force are fighting back and forth for what is not the common people live a peaceful life. Then, Qin Shihuang is such a person. At present, he is the only person in the world with such force. Sweeping the Six Kingdoms to unify the world, then we can't justify any more willful chaos. What is said here is that the remorse of intellectuals, the moral foundation of remorse lies in the world.
The latter is to say that the government is a bit corrupt and degenerate and the people are not living well. We finally had a specious love, don't you yearn for love? Do you understand the entanglement of love? Isn't this the most touching place, someone can die for love, although there is some hesitation, but the precious always turns back after hesitation. Don't get involved in organized fights, this is "going with the wind", this is freedom.
The story structure in House of Flying Daggers is actually a bit complicated. The first is the undercover and anti-undercover lines: Andy Lau sent Jin Chengwu to the brothel to investigate the top girl, and then let Jin Chengwu who felt the beauty rescue the little girl who was imprisoned, and used this layer of kindness to win over the little girl in order to find the Flying Knife Gang. Laochao, Jincheng Wudu thinks he has his own way along the way, but later, in order to save the little sister, the headhunters who must kill his accomplices gradually get deeper and deeper;
The younger sister is from the Flying Swords Gang (what is the deep hatred to ambush a few fast and general arresters?), and even Andy Lau is a member of the Flying Swords Gang, he accepted the instructions of the Flying Swords Big Sister to arrange the undercover affairs of Takeshi Kaneshiro, This may mean that the Flying Knife Gang will ambush the entire Fengtian County to capture the head. That is to say, the catcher is looking for the old nest of the Flying Knife Gang, and the Flying Knife Gang is also looking for the catcher. So, does this mean that the two factions are looking for an opportunity to directly confront each other?
The love line is double-layered: first, Andy Lau loved the little girl three years ago, and the little girl was noncommittal. Therefore, the little girl was known to Andy Lau in the brothel. Andy Lau caught the little girl and acted with him as "The Immortal Guiding the Way", which was considered to be flirting with the stunt with a flying knife, at least in Liu's heart, and the little girl suddenly used a sword against him, Letting oneself be taken away is also an abacus along the way. Liu loves the younger sister, but the younger sister is the trump card of the undercover Liu in the eyes of the eldest sister - taking advantage of his feelings for the younger sister. Therefore, even if the little girl really has feelings for Andy Lau, she will be ignored by this calculation.
Followed by Jin Chengwu's romantic drama little girl, and then went undercover to save the little girl bravely. The little sister asked, are you "true or false". From a business point of view, Takeshi Kaneshiro was flustered, but from a personal point of view, Takeshi Kaneshiro was caught up. And since the younger sister had long known that Takeshi Kaneshiro was an undercover agent, these repeated questions had some emotional meaning. But where does this feeling come from? Since the younger sister has long known that Takeshi Kaneshiro is an undercover agent, it is also something she is well aware of to act bravely. Even if Takeshi Kaneshiro kills one of her own people, the younger sister will sneer and say, you continue to act, continue to act, not " You've done enough this time," and went up to kiss him. So, there is something wrong with this emotional line.
The eldest sister asked the younger sister to kill Takeshi Kaneshiro, stabilize Andy Lau, and continue to be a good pawn in the organization. The little sister has self-awareness, not killing Jincheng Wu, but also doing Jincheng Wu. Takeshi Kaneshiro used "with the wind" to point the question, let's go with me, just the two of us. Why don't you think so, little sister? So in the end she rode on a galloping horse and walked in the direction of Takeshi Kaneshiro. ——What is this, this is just the "elopement" of literary youth.
Andy Lau killed the little sister in the middle of the robbery: If you can't get your heart, others won't want to get your person. When Jin Chengwu looked back, he fought with Andy Lau. This world's chief hunters gathered in the Zizhu Forest, apparently for the final battle with the Flying Knife Gang. Snow in June. Take down plateau snowfields from alpine meadows.
The little sister suddenly stood up and said to Liu, if you kill Takeshi Kaneshiro with a flying knife, I will kill you with the flying knife in my chest. Obviously, when the little girl pulled out the flying knife on her chest, she would immediately lose blood and die, which was equivalent to the ending of a series of three deaths. As a result, Andy Lau threw the knife, but didn't actually throw it, and the little girl immediately drew the knife and flew out. As a result, the knife did not fly to Andy Lau, but to an unrelated tree, which was startled by snow.
What does it mean, it doesn't mean anything, it's just to create a little surprise.
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