If you have to find a highlight worth mentioning in Zhang Yimou’s new film "The Great Wall", it is that from the beginning of "Hero" to the present, Lao Mouzi is still sparing no effort to repeatedly use the almost exaggerated way of perseverance... In addition, I tried my best to find any bright spots that can be used in the whole film... Unfortunately, I didn't get anything!
As for the special effects blown to the sky by the navy, in addition to the old routine of repeatedly poking the eyes that brings discomfort to the viewer's perception and experience, it is to win by a large amount of CG... Sorry, this really can't be called a bright spot!
To put it bluntly, "The Great Wall" is the worst of all Zhang Yimou's commercial blockbusters! Rotten "Ambush on Ten Sides"! Rotten "Golden Armor"! Don't worry about commenting! Next, the editor will talk to you in detail about this epic bad film, which has been severely polarized in word-of-mouth before its release!
Role: In addition to facial paralysis, it is the background board "The Great Wall". The biggest gimmick is undoubtedly a set of luxurious celebrities who blow to the sky. Before the release, many fans were skeptical about the acting skills of several characters in the film. Next, let’s talk one by one:
Peng Yuyan & Lin Gengxin & Zheng Kai & Huang Xuan & Chen Xuedong believe that many media describe the cast of "The Great Wall" as luxurious, mostly because of these "5 major background boards".
Judging from the number of shots and the number of lines, Lin Gengxin's drama is considered to be the most in the "5 background boards", followed by Zheng Kai. But these two are at best just like a dragon-like character. If you yawn and get the wrong eyeballs on the other few, you might really miss out...
The most unfortunate thing is Peng Yuyan, who has very few dramas and only 1-2 lines, so his presence is extremely low. But Yuyan Peng’s fans don’t worry, because Huang Xuan and Chen Xuedong can basically be described by the background board. If I hadn’t scanned the cast when I was writing this film review, I really didn’t know that there were two of them... ashamed and ashamed... …
For many movie fans, Andy Lau & Zhang Hanyu, the appearance of these two movie stars can be regarded as acting in the cast of "The Great Wall".
But compared with Andy Lau's too plain performance, Zhang Hanyu's role received a lunch early, which disappointed the audience in the theater. In general, the performances of the two movie kings are not flawed, but they are not brilliant... Jing Tian has a lot of English lines this time, but now they are mostly recorded later, so the English lines are almost like junior high school. Reading English text aloud is so rigid. Andy Lau also has a lot of English lines, which sounds much more comfortable than Jing Tian! Of course, Andy Lau has a foundation in English after all, so this is excusable and cannot be regarded as a black spot.
However, everyone is most concerned about the problem of Jing Tian's facial paralysis, and it is a pity that it has not been greatly improved! However, compared with Lu Han and Wang Junkai in the same group, the acting skills are already very strong! Lu Han & Wang Junkai This time Lu Han has a lot of scenes, more than Zhang Hanyu Andy Lau's two movie kings combined! The first few scenes of the film's first battle felt that Lu Han was quite satisfactory, and he clearly felt that with the help of the director, he had made some progress compared with before. But because there are so many scenes, the more you look back, the more you get back to the original state, the acting skills are really not flattering.
Let's talk about Wang Junkai. I vaguely remember that a certain radio entertainment news interviewed the crew members before the show, and they all praised the kid's great performance! After watching the feature film, although he doesn't have many roles, I just want to use the word "disaster" to describe it. I don't want to spend more time on this actor. Matt Damon & Pedro Pascal & William Dafoe are looking at the fans of "The Great Wall" at Matt Damon. You may be disappointed. Damon's facial paralysis can be said to be completely absent from beginning to end. Change, but for many fans, Damon is enough! The performance of William Dafoe, an old drama player, did not have many highlights, but it was still quite satisfactory.
It is worth mentioning that Pedro Pascal can be said to be responsible for acting and funny for the entire movie. If you say which character in this movie impressed you the most, Pedro Pascal definitely deserves it. However, his outstanding acting skills are also based on the contrast of all the characters, so it seems more embarrassing... Details: A serious ignorance of Chinese etiquette, Lao Mouzi’s commercial films have always done okay in details, but In the movie "The Great Wall", it can be described as "perfunctory".
The first is Lao Mouzi's personal persuasive way from "Hero" to the present, which is also used repeatedly in "The Great Wall". If the 2002 "Hero" can make everyone's eyes shine with the exquisite photography and the magnificent landscape scenes. From the later works such as "Golden Armor" to "The Great Wall", it can only be described as cliché, middle two, and long-winded. If you keep playing like this, the audience is tired of watching...
However, unlike "Heroes" and "Golden Armour", the "Great Wall" this time in terms of army formation, although it is also the usual routine of "creating momentum with numbers and creating force with bright colors", it is not at all in the previous works. On the contrary, it seems like a group of mobs... If Zhang Yimou's film only has the only bright spot of "building momentum", then it can only be said that Lao Mouzi is already out of skill.
There is also a very small detail. Maybe many viewers were busy yawning and didn't notice. If I didn't omit it, there were 3 gestures in the whole film.
Zuoyi is a traditional etiquette of the Han nationality, hand-off is a common etiquette in ancient times when guests and hosts meet. Push forward with palms in both hands and bend slightly to show salute. When the left hand is up and the right hand is down, it is respectful, and vice versa is disrespectful.
The first two appearing in the first half of the film, Lu Han and Matt Damon had a scene where Lu Han was on the right hand, while Matt Damon was on the left. Appeared for the third time in the final part. The courtiers paid a visit to the emperor. One of them made a gesture when he spoke, and his right hand was still up...
Although it is not possible that foreign actors understand better than Chinese actors, and may just be casual, it is enough to show that the ladies and all the Chinese people in the entire crew seriously ignore this detail, which reflects the crew’s unprofessionalism and serious recognition of Chinese etiquette. Missing. Maybe I'm picking faults, but the only difference between a good movie and a master movie depends on the minutiae. If you don’t even pay attention to the most basic etiquette gestures, how can you talk about other... Plot: There are so many slots that are almost mentally handicapped. The next part may be suspected of a lot of spoilers, and friends who want to go to the movie can choose to skip it. However, I think the plot of this movie is almost brainless, so it seems embarrassing if the drama is not spoiled...
At the beginning of the film, Matt Damon and his party were chased by a group of Huns. Basically, in all the scenes outside of the Great Wall in this film, you will encounter a group of mad dogs chasing you to death for no reason...
First of all, the motives of the Huns were not explained at all, so I endured it. But throughout the film, there are monsters outside the Great Wall, so the Huns are also outside the Great Wall. How did they survive? ? ? ! ! !
On the Great Wall, a group of well-equipped and well-trained troops were beaten by monsters seventy-eight; outside the Great Wall, a small wave of Huns rushed into a rampage. Isn’t it cool... funny? The Huns must have a way of avoiding monsters or subduing monsters. Just grab one and torture and torture. It took 60 years... Friends who have watched movies may say, "The Huns may be within the Great Wall!" That's good. Well, since they are within the Great Wall, why do Matt Damon and his party have to run outside the border in order to find Chinese black powder? That Matt Damon and his party encountered monsters at night, the patrolmen were also within the Great Wall? ? Such a serious injury directly and nakedly exposed that the problem with the screenwriting technique is quite serious, and it simply cannot withstand scrutiny!
Known as a super-powerful army of five kinds of animals, let’s not say anything else, the one who wants to complain most is the crane army led by Jing Tian, which is simply an army born to "feed the monsters". In the face of the vast army of monsters, the bow and arrow troops and bombardier troops on the wall have a large area of damage, so it is normal. But the role of the soldiers of the Crane Army is to face the enemy under the city wall, swing down with a rope and use a spear in his hand to kill 1 monster, pay attention to only 1! Then swing back to the city wall, take a spear and swing down again, this cycle...
Hilarious! ! ! You don’t eat or drink or rest. With the number of monsters dominating the screen, just sit there and let you fight. You can’t finish it for a year...not to mention that many girls who sway are directly caught by monsters. It was torn apart, it was just a group of troops used to make fun... In the second battle, the big horn that appeared several times in the trailer, I thought it was a mysterious weapon that used the sound of the beast to fight the monster. It was originally used for Listen...Listen if there is a monster on the other side.
Your speaker is so big, the radio must be very good! But needn't it be three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry! Well, you said that you put so many big speakers to monitor all aspects, I believe it! In the end, wasn't it still being touched by the monster directly at the foot of the Great Wall without making a sound, and hitting the humans by surprise... Together, the big horn is another troop that is used to make fun...
In the second half of the film, the army on the Great Wall will use aerial flying units to reach the capital. The military officer played by Andy Lau speculated that there was a downwind from the wind direction. I thought it might be an ancient glider-like thing resembling a kite.
However... it is actually a super large Kongming lantern! ! ! As soon as this shit came out, I was embarrassed by the late stage cancer! We all made Kongming lanterns when we were young. Every Chinese knows how slow this thing floats and how rigorous the craftsmanship is. If you actually magnify this thing countless times as a flying tool, you will be convinced! ! !
There are so many clichés and mentally handicapped parts in the plot of the film, so I won't list them one by one. For example, if you click the dynamite primer, you must delay the detonation and wait for you to check it before you explode. Bring a small number of soldiers and horses out to patrol and you will definitely get a lunch. The character A who uses each other will let the character B go to a high place to see that he must betray... etc. At the beginning, you know the stages of the plot development, there are too many to enumerate... The so-called powerful Hollywood creative team, I check it carefully, but it is just a patchwork of miscellaneous teams... This kind of grooves are extremely rough. The script is simply an insult to the audience's IQ! ! ! Talking about the movie "The Great Wall" outside of the movie, it can be said that whether it is from the movie or the movie, it is the worst I have ever watched in 2016. The problems of the movie itself are mentioned above, but in movie theaters, due to the poor quality of the movie, the viewing quality of many viewers is very poor.
There was a woman in the row behind me who took out her mobile phone and flashed photos from time to time; a group of students chatted unscrupulously in the party; some people in the front rows repeatedly ate snacks and made "mouse-like noises"; there were a few spectators around at first. I planned to watch it well, but in the end I was in the alternate action of yawning and watching the phone time; people walking around to the bathroom 3-4 times... In today's movie theaters, this kind of chaos is like The sight of a vegetable market is extremely rare! PS. The editor has booked the show at around 19:30 after work. It is a fairly well-equipped theater in the center of Beijing. The audience is mostly working-class white-collar workers.
Let’s talk about the last few movie-watching experiences. Whether it is the introduction of "Billy Lynn", "Blood Battle at Hacksaw Ridge", "Captain Sally", or domestic "Hundred Birds and Phoenix", "Donkey Gets Water" and other films, everyone will watch the movies quietly. , None of the above happened. Not only does the quality of the movie itself keep you from getting distracted, but it also comes from the audience's respect for excellent works. However, in this movie-watching experience of the movie "The Great Wall", I didn't get anything...
Regarding the next trend of the movie "The Great Wall", it is easy to think of the plots are all kinds of word-of-mouth attacks on the street, all kinds of water soldiers on the Internet, all kinds of media use money to create momentum, and all kinds of box office fraud (possible). Next, the film crew should say, this is not for you to watch, this is built for the audience in the North American market based on Hollywood standards! Then I will wait for the box office situation in the North American market and wait for you to get slapped in the face!
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