Unfinished product, there is still a lower part... everything was ruined by procrastination

Jess 2022-03-22 09:02:18

The screening starts at 20:30, about 2 hours long, and comes out at 23:00. I started typing this review after I got home from the theater with groggy steps... It's really unpleasant, this procrastination narrative. While I was still awake, I was muttering how the font of the words "Chibi War" was so ugly, and it was written in such a big title style, but it finally reached a climax. Decomposition", the fluorescent lights in the theater snapped on, and the audience got up one after another and walked out as if they had been prepared. Leaving me, who didn't know it, and a few confused viewers, stared blankly at the series of subtitles on the big screen, and the ending song played... I don't know if I fell asleep and dreamed...

Although the movie is divided into different parts The release of two episodes can be regarded as two movies, and they should each have a complete story line. A story that can be told at any rate, the cause goes through the end. But this last episode only had a beginning and a process, but the climax and ending were cut off for the next episode, so the last episode can only be regarded as an unfinished unfinished product, okay? Why should it be released as a separate movie? . The director seemed to be saying, "Since you've been paying so much attention and are clamoring to watch it, there's really nothing you can do, so I'll give you some relief first." Moreover, I really don't understand, it took more than 4 hours to make it clear what there is to say in this film... Everything in ORZ was lost to procrastination.

The beginning is really fascinating. The country is picturesque, the heroes are like weaving, the war is raging, and Zhao Zilong, played by Hu Jun, is a martial artist who saves his son by himself. A bit appeared, can not help but make people's blood boil. And the fight scenes are great. In fact, the whole movie has always highlighted the position of the action scenes, and the action scenes did not disappoint. Many actions are impressive, and the sound effects are also well done, which pulls the audience into the atmosphere of warring states disputes and heroes. . The actors are also well-chosen, at least in line with the image in my mind, especially Hu Jun, who is the man to play. Needless to say, Zhang Fei is too typical, Guan Gong's appearance and eyes are very good, just don't open his mouth, I think his voice should be thicker and lower.
I am very satisfied with the actors, except for the roles of Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung, and Zhang Zhen. Jin's Zhuge Liang is really... too tender. Emotions and anger are mixed, nervous, grateful, admiring, sad... Emotional changes are all written on his face, he does not have the feeling of Zhuge Liang's deep and open-minded, mature and open-minded, but like a young man wearing a youth suit, a fledgling, full of enthusiasm. ... On the contrary, Liang's Zhou Yu feels too much like Zhuge Liang. In my mind, Zhou Yu should be talented but very self-respecting, and should be a more delicate, cold and sharp type. And Zhang Zhen, who plays Sun Quan, has a lot of temperament in this regard... Maybe you can try changing the roles of Zhang Zhen and Tony Leung...
----> The above is just a comparison with the character image in my mind, and I don't agree with a smile. It's good to pass


, but, no matter the actors are good, the pictures are beautiful, the play is wonderful... everything is ruined by procrastination! In some places, it seems that the director does not trust the audience and is afraid that the audience will not understand his good intentions. The dialogues and shots are repeated over and over again, and the close-ups are repeated over and over again. For example, the part where Sun Quan hesitated to join forces was shown in the initial meeting with Zhuge Liang, and later he devoted a large paragraph to writing about how he was conflicted and entangled, and how he finally got out of the haze and unsheathed his sword... Just click on a few actions and dialogues, but poor Zhang Zhen was led into the woods by himself to beat a tiger, the tiger's face turned into Cao Cao's face again, and Sun Quanxin flew out with an arrow... This part is indeed true The plot plays an important role in promoting, but the audience is not a fool, and the director is not a teacher to teach the audience. In many places, the writing and ink are too wasteful and long-winded, including the fighting scenes. Although it is exciting, the people who fight for too long are not annoying. The people who read it are still too tired, and their enthusiasm is gradually consumed... The

adagio part is also not measured, it seems that one person writes the text, and there is no style. It is good to combine rigidity and softness. The question is where to focus. Argumentative essays are also lyrical, and prose is also argumentative, but argumentative essays are still like argumentative essays, and prose is still prose. The lack of style and style seems to be a common problem with domestic blockbusters. Repeated conversations, dangling shots in front of human faces, and the unintelligible "tenderness drama"...
However, the overall rhythm feels wrong. The average Hollywood commercial film can at least grasp the rhythm. The plot is very vulgar but very compact. It does not miss any of the warm scenes and bed scenes. It can still grasp the key points and make the audience enjoy it. It's not so important that the audience feels sleepy when watching a fight scene, and impatient when watching a warm scene...
In fact, the real warm scene hasn't come out yet, because the climax is stuck in the next episode...


In short, I can't understand it at all Why does a good film drag on like this? Is there anything in the last episode that was really unclear in more than two hours? If the two episodes are shortened into one, the story will be much more compact, then such a film that already has actors, stories, actions and pictures, I believe it will be very successful.

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  • Cao Cao: I never guessed I'd loose to a gust of wind.

    Zhou Yu: Because you don't understand the will of heaven.

    Cao Cao: I never dreamed I'd be defeated by a cup of tea.

  • Zhou Yu: [surveying the battle field] There is no victor here...