Shanghai Film Yonghua Cinema, "Red Cliff (Part 2)" has six rows and seven seats in front of the main hall. The war scenes that Wu Yusen spent a lot of energy and money on were all accepted visually and audibly. It can be said that I just watched the last The grand scene of setting the boat on fire, this film is already worth the ticket price, and if you watch this film without the interference of the previous Three Kingdoms and "Chibi (Part 1)", then "Chibi (I)" Next)" is a very good entertainment film.
I still admire John Woo very much. Just from the plot structure of the two episodes of "Chibi", I found that this is a bold and careful man. Whether it is the performance part of the plot or the most crucial action scene, the next episode is much stronger than the first episode. Divide this film into two parts and show it first. Of course, if you do it well, you can make a lot of money, but in case If the release of the first episode is not satisfactory, the box office of the second episode will definitely be affected, and even the release will have problems. In the movie "Red Cliff", Sun and Liu's combined army was desperate to win this impossible war, and John Woo, who made the movie, was also desperate to win this arduous box office war. Master Wu, who didn't get along well in Hollywood a few years later, with the combined box office of the two "Chibi" films, he can still be in the circle of first-line Chinese film directors for a few more years.
Many people were shocked when they watched "Chibi (Part 1)", but after the next episode came out, they still flooded into the theater like moths to the flames. Why? Have fun! "Red Cliff" has a very good and powerful entertainment. If you really let go of the dream of looking for the great pony, let go of the historical facts of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, let go of Yi Zhongtian's Hundred Schools Forum version of the Three Kingdoms, and reduce the figure of the Three Kingdoms to If Showgood talks about the Three Kingdoms and Cai Kangyong's version of the Three Kingdoms, Chibi has undoubtedly accomplished the task very well.
An entertainment blockbuster, with the most handsome and handsome man Takeshi Kaneshiro among Chinese movie stars and the most beautiful beauty Lin Zhiling (there is a very interesting phenomenon, women basically scream when Takeshi Kaneshiro comes out, Lin Chiling doesn't take it seriously when she makes an appearance, but men are basically the opposite) , Liang Chaowei, who is recognized as the most popular at the box office, has the most familiar storyline to the Chinese, the current first-class special effects production, the super-hot explosion and war scenes, the world-class photography and costume props, and many other acting skills. Sending actors to support the field, the older generation of audience can watch Zhang Fengyi, children can watch Zhao Wei, and even the little white-collar worker who has just watched "Struggle", Master Wu also prepared a Tong Dawai, how caring! Not to mention the classic lines that Guan Er Ge has only two sentences in the whole film, but it can definitely bring laughter. As an audience, in the face of such an entertainment blockbuster, what else do you want to do?
After watching the last episode, I was still a little worried about how Master Wu managed the rhythm of the next episode. After all, the biggest scene in the last episode was just a gossip array with more than 2,000 people. Everyone was watching the Three Kingdoms Heroes PK Little Soldiers. All traditional The key parts of the story of Chibi, Jiang Gan stealing books, borrowing swords from grass boats, offering sacrifices to the wind from Qixingtai, burning chain boats, Huang Gai's bitter meat plan... None of them were involved in the previous episode. Will such a plot arrangement make the next episode? The structure is too heavy and the pressure is too high? After watching the next episode, I found that my worries were unnecessary. Master Wu began to join the film industry before me and most of the people who read this text were born. Wouldn't he know how to control the rhythm of films? He just wanted the last episode to attract the audience who liked various stars, so as to keep the bottom line of the box office, so that in the next episode, he could explode and be singled out as much as he liked. , it is worth applauding "Chibi".
The plot is definitely mixed, but the key is how to compare it. If "Red Cliff" doesn't respect historical facts, then "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" does? If "Chibi" doesn't respect "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the problem is that Wu and other screenwriters did not say that they want to copy "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? We all know the story of the Three Kingdoms. Currently, it is recognized that the most consistent with historical facts is Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms", the "Empty City Strategy" in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Three Gu Maolu" may be Luo Guanzhong's "Romance", why our ancestors Allow Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we will not allow Wu Yusen's Romance of Chibi?
Film critic Roger Ebert said that no director wants to make a bad film when he comes, as long as he is sincere, it is a good film. Is Chibi sincere? The director spent more than ten years accumulating preparations, the production company made a high-risk investment decision, and the writer and director fell out over the script... Do you think the film produced in this way is sincere?
Many negative influences on Chibi are influenced by our thinking inertia. Suppose, if Chibi is not about the Three Kingdoms, but an alternate historical story, and the director is not John Woo, but an unknown newcomer, will we still be crazy about this movie?
Many times we deliberately depreciate certain people and things in order to reflect our shrewdness. Of course, movies are the easiest thing to belittle, because it often has nothing to do with the actual people and things around us, but we are also easy to ignore, A movie often carries the dreams of many people, and it should not be easily depreciated and denied. The ancients can accept "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", modern people can accept the Hundreds of Forums version of the Three Kingdoms, can accept Cai Kangyong's "Happy Three Kingdoms", can accept Showgood's "Three Kingdoms", and even the comic version of the Japanese Hengshan Guanghui. The glorious game version of the Three Kingdoms, why can't we accept John Woo's "Red Cliff"?
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