You are electricity, you are light, you are the only myth.
Jiang Wen launched such a work. It is not strange, but it is because everyone rushed to buy tickets to watch him show narcissism. In fact, this is where he changed as mentioned earlier. The first one is clipping. This is a domestic film with the fastest editing speed I have seen in at least the last year. After careful calculation, there should be a lot of shots. And there are very few parallel or logical montages, at most cross-cuts, and generally just speeding up on a line. This actually looks very tiring, especially when the lines are full of information, there is almost no transition between several scenes, and I jump to the bottom in a flash. The result of this is that the rhythm of the play is chaotic. At best, it breaks the traditional narrative structure, and at worst, you have no idea where the climax is. If I had to change someone else, I would have been scolded to death for doing so, but Jiang Ye always played cards out of common sense, and doing so became a characteristic or even a stylized sign. Judging from the editing of Jiang Wen's previous films, this man doesn't even understand this truth, but now cutting fast is king. Anyway, the story itself is very simple. My trick is to accelerate more than a soothing long mirror. audience's appetite. And playing like this is actually more in line with the core commercial value of this film, that is -
come here to listen to Jiang Ye's jokes
Rather than saying that Jiang Wen wanted to talk about a legend in the West this time, it would be better to say that he planned to have a Goose City Story Party. This is a movie composed of countless paragraphs. In short, there is no water word, and almost every sentence or every few lines is a paragraph. This is the best part of the script. These days, anyone who goes to the wine table will post two jokes. No matter how bad it is, there are also a few colorful text messages. But Jiang Wen's jokes are different. It is a bit poor but a bit tougher than poor. You are thinking about space. Countless high-level jokes, after the speed-up of the above-mentioned quick cuts, the indifferent audiences were also bombarded and stunned. Compared with the previous work "The Sun Also Rises", although the plot and lines are often designed in a cloudy and foggy manner, but after a careful review, there is actually a clear logic line, but "Let the Bullets Fly" is completely in a state of fragmentation. , there are trees but no forests. It's a simple story anyway. Rather than being the main line patiently, it's better to simply pile up jokes and enrich the film with jokes. This is the victory of the jokes, but it is actually the tragedy of the script. In this process, Ge You played a crucial role. He is like Xavi of Barcelona, he rarely breaks through brilliantly, rarely scores brilliant goals, but he revitalizes the whole. Between the too hard-hearted and mad brother, Ge You, like a hard-working earthworm, has made the original rigid pile alive. The role of Jiang Yefa brother may be in place if someone else plays the role, but the position of Uncle Ge is impossible. Replacement.
Speaking of which, who can say that Jiang Wen has not compromised, the above two are Jiang Wen's adaptations, but his compromise looks more like a willful move: You are not saying that I am boring art, well, I cut you a thief Hurry up; didn't you say that I'm pretending to be compulsive, yes, brother and you are vulgar. Watching this film, it is obvious that Jiang Wen focused most of his energy on making up jokes, and the film was shot—at least, compared to "The Sun Also Rises", it was much rougher. The most unpleasant thing is -
my sun, rising again?
Joe Hisaishi is very good, and the theme music written by Joe Hisaishi for "The Sun Also Rises" is really good. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the best performance in his previous cooperation with Chinese filmmakers, but Jiang Wen, you can't be because of This thing is good, just use it again! Why did you change the tone a little bit, where you can even use it in the same position, just let it go. Although emotionally speaking, the theme sound of "The Sun Also Rises" is good at the beginning, but tailor-made and wearing your own father's clothes are two different things after all, and your film is a work of nearly 100 million investment, so What is the difference between reusing music and stalls? Isn't that smashing your own brand? The most immediate impression is that of doubts about the production level. There's no way, maybe Jiang Ye's mind is spent on working with the screenwriter and other leading actors to make up the collective creation, so that -
Jiang Ye, I usually know you best: no, I'm just too lazy to serve
this movie . What I am most disappointed about is that Jiang Wen's directing skills show the worst side of the author and director - his own way and mediocre methods. It doesn't matter if you put it on others, if you can shoot a few scenes smoothly, everything will be fine, but you are Jiang Wen! Take two scenes as an example: one is women's drumming when they enter the Goose City. The scene itself is both imposing and weird - there are not many scenes of women playing drums like this in history, not to mention a group of women who are at least dressed in petite jade. But Jiang Wen's handling was nothing new. He was just a quick close-up of the bandits and the drumming women, and he didn't show much momentum and subtle emotions. I need to praise Lu Chuan here. They are also drummers hired from Japan. Compare the part of entering the city with this part. Even if the former is changed to color to reduce the impact of pure color, a few elevation angles and close-ups are still tense. Full. Jiang Wen's handling was obviously hasty. As for the highlight of the Hongmen Banquet, Jiang Wen's handling was simpler. He set up a loop, three machines took close-ups of each person, and occasionally inserted the curtain caused by the dead to spurt blood. This kind of surround shooting is okay to do it twice occasionally, but it is quite boring to do it all the time. This paragraph can be seen as a concentrated expression of the shooting style of "Let the Bullets Fly": I don't sculpt the shots, I rely on jokes to win.
Duanzi is more of a language art, but a movie can't be just a storytelling field. The combination of better shots and jokes is not without it. Like that scene where Zhang Muzhi pretended to take a stand with the county magistrate's wife, Xiaoguo was scattered by one pull, and this was handled very well. As for the subjective long mirror at the funeral of Xiaoliuzi, it is so precious to pierce the eyes in this movie.
If you count the special effects, it's even more disappointing. Even someone like me who doesn't pay attention to special effects can see how fake the train in the pool is, so you can't shoot it in a different way, or, to put it more clearly, is this film really short of money? It's not there yet.
In fact, it is still willful
. Judging from the box office this time, Jiang Wen is about to make a fortune, but from the perspective of investors, the big sale of "Let the Bullets Fly" does not show much Jiang Wen's "repentance". Meaning, it continues to make people feel unsafe.
First of all, his narcissism has not changed, and this narcissism directly harms the character setting. In "The Sun Also Rises", although his character is very male and powerful on the surface, he is very weak in his bones - his wife was abducted by a child. In this series, Zhang Muzhi has almost become a perfect person - it doesn't matter if he is a perfect person, if there is an opponent like the clown in TDK, the play will be just as good. However, Huang Shilang's current settings, coupled with Fa Ge's slightly overdone performance, made Zhang Muzhi too strong. Again, thank you Uncle Ge.
Second, he still likes to dwell on redundant details. These things, if you are shooting a low-budget art film, you can play as you like, but for such a large-scale commercial production, there is no need to play too much in some of the sidelines, and it is easy to become obsessed. It's just like arranging Fa Ge to show a small face at the end (found by Yu Feiyu), do you need to stuff your daughter-in-law with so many uninteresting scenes? It's okay for Sister Nursery to make a cameo appearance, but why should she be an eight-year-old and play a Ma Ke by the way? Don't pay attention to the excessive explanations of some literary and artistic youths, Ge You's two unspeakable secrets and the "!" and "?" are just Jiang Wen pretending to be coercive. You said that the big riots that you really should spend some effort on are not well filmed, and you spend all your time on punching holes, is it really interesting to tease the gang of literary youths?
Third, Jiang Wen still does not make commercial films. Jiang Wen can't make commercial films? I do not believe. Look at "The Devil is Coming", how well done the narrative rhythm. Jiang Wen disdain to make commercial films? I see OK. Although Jiang Wen is more low-key than in the past this time, he may still be laughing badly in his bones. People have said that he will not kneel to make money. I will definitely want the money, and I will definitely not bend my legs. Who is it? -
Zan Yi Zan Ma Ke
It is indeed worthy of being the producer who created "Dwelling". If it wasn't for Ma Ke and Jiang Wen to check and balance and successfully operate the publicity this time, the box office of "Let the Bullets Fly" is hard to imagine. This is reminiscent of Chen Guofu's "The Wind". These people may be bored by the director, but there is no doubt that their operation can better reflect their commercial value.
I seem to have seen you
3 years ago. "The Sun Also Rises" made me very excited. The sun on the screen scorched the Yili Daqu, which had not been decomposed in my blood, and made me feel extremely hot. Infect. I watched "Let the Bullets Fly" today, and although I was laughing constantly, I felt that the whole story was just a magnification of "your dad's gun was so long, then it was so long, and it was so long in the end". The blood was still warm as usual.
The bullet flew too long and was soft.
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