"Red Cliff": a half-pushing half-assistance

Germaine 2022-03-30 09:01:12

"Chibi" is not the "Red Cliff" we are familiar with. From the very beginning of the movie, from the moment when Zhao Wei's version of Sun Shangxiang stuck his head out of the haystack, it was no longer. Even after so many years, even if Zhao Weiyu's hands need to be peeled off in the close-up, Xiao Yanzi's soul is still attached to Zhao Wei's body. When you come out, you always have to pay it back. For Zhao Wei, playing Sun Shangxiang as the Little Swallow in the Three Kingdoms version is her collapse, and it is our collapse. Fortunately, it is not the collapse of "Red Cliff".



In this film, except for Zhao Wei and Tong Dawei, who are responsible for nonsense and funny tasks, everyone else is normal. These two resolute actors are still struggling to return Zhugege. Although, the Jin Chengwu version of Zhuge Liang and Tony Leung's version of Zhou Yu had two affectionate dialogues with the tip of the nose less than 10 cm, and the duration was more than three minutes, although we are very worried that they are like Tang Bohu and the opposite in "Tang Bohu Points Autumn Fragrance" "Can't help it" like that, but fortunately, they managed to hold on to it after all, and they didn't linger into "Spring Comes Together". However, in the two of Jin Liang, we can still see the feeling of "Chongqing Forest", and we have been worried that Tony Leung will speak to a piece of soap in the next second. Fortunately, there was no soap at that time, and Leung Chaowei expressed his inner drama through sword dancing, but without Lin Chiling's commentary, "Heroes" would be slag again. Therefore, Lin Chiling's existence is still very necessary. The task of "Chibi" becoming more literary and stripping it of heaviness.


Although out of the trouble of the baby voice, Lin Chiling's performance in the film is still very "cute", and this "cute" has also sublimated from the individualism and bourgeois sentiment towards a pony in the previous episode, and became With the brilliance and fraternity of motherhood, when Xiao Qiao shed tears to the soldiers on both sides again and again, we really suspected that a light circle would suddenly appear behind her head. But as Cao Cao said, "Don't make trouble", Lin Zhiling didn't make any big noise in the end, but we have to express our admiration for her great achievement in trapping Cao Cao with a cup of tea. How could "Red Cliff" be won by Yu Liang? It was simply that Xiao Qiao's hands stroked out. Even a woman would admit that when Lin Chiling was doing the tea ceremony, the gesture of wiping the towel several times was really beautiful. As a man, Cao Cao would be completely understandable to drink that cup of tea regardless of the army of millions. If Xiao Qiao also undressed in front of everyone like Sun Shangxiang did, Cao Cao would basically be carried directly to Hua Tuo. This is the difference between Zhao Wei and Lin Chiling, I can't be envious.



However, fundamentally speaking, although Lin Chiling is dazzling enough, she still has not resisted the light of fat guy John Woo. This is still a John Woo movie, not Liang Chaowei's, not Jin Chengwu's, let alone Zhao Wei and Zhang Zhen's. Apart from the traces of John Woo everywhere in the movie, such as the white pigeon, the violence that sees the flesh, the big scenes of fire, and even the confrontation between good and evil in "The True Color of Heroes", which uses swords instead of guns at the end of the film, the tone and thought of the whole film are all It's John Woo's. When Gan Ning, played by Shitong Nakamura, rushed to the enemy camp with a cup, we really thought he would shout "Freedom!", but he didn't, but John Woo had already shouted to us. Although "Red Cliff" is not "Horse Whisperer", Liang Chaowei is not Nicolas Cage, but John Woo still shows his ideas of justice, anti-war, equality and humanitarianism in the film. Even the scene of the decisive battle is also the leading soldier we once knew in "The Lord of the Rings", and every big shot is a Saint Seiya with a combat power of 10. Although Takeshi Kaneshiro leads Mengmeng to drift away, the closing long shot of ink painting is enough for China, but what Woo brings to us is still the mainstream Western thought and the values ​​of freedom and democracy. The Chinese elements in the film are not so much a necessity for the film, but rather an embellishment to accommodate the domestic market and flatter the foreign market. Between Chinese-style brotherhood, monarch, ministers, humanistic ethics and Western modern thought, John Woo chose a path that he wanted to refuse and welcome. Therefore, it also resulted in the half-rejection of "Chibi" as a whole. This is also the big name The biggest reason for being stupid and wonderful in performance is that the only one who couldn't be saved is Zhao Wei. She is too deep in Xiaoyanzi's world, and we have to forgive her.

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