film shows the killing of the warlords. To be fair, during the period of the Republic of China, the warlords in the melee were chaotic, but not so unbearable. The outcome of most battles is that the winner will be the loser and become the younger brother. Feng Yuxiang... I'll tell you later); either the winner will send the loser to go abroad, euphemistically called "study abroad" (such as Ji Hongchang, remember the "I am the one who demolished" in the elementary school textbook? Of course, the mustache is regarded as a Japanese by the ghosts); After all, most of them have received a little orthodox education from the previous dynasty, and they have a little bit of Confucian rules. Moreover, taking a step back, many people are basically still under President Yuan Da, and they still have a little comradeship. Of course, there are a few exceptions. For example, Feng Yuxiang, who is known as the former Christian general of the Republic of China and later a good friend of XXism, is a famous one.
The melee between warlords sounds tragic, but in fact, most of them put on airs, and after eating opium, they will have a long live charge or something. The one with a higher momentum will win, and it will be more time to pretend than to fight. After all, no one wants to work hard. There is no cost to bullying the common people, but fighting a war will cost you your life. Besides, who are you not messing with? In the period when rituals and music collapsed, people were all confused. Without belief, they would have no moral concept. The first thing they thought was to live well in troubled times. Let's talk about the rules of the game, we can still play together. It's really troublesome when it comes to playing. Therefore, the Beiyang factions have not been able to unify China, but the revolutionary army of the Northern Expedition can succeed, on the one hand, Lao Jiang can fight, on the other hand, the old rules meet new rules.
Let's talk about character prototypes.
The Shaolin Temple was destroyed several times in the history of war, and it was indeed burned down by the warlord Shi Yousan during the Republic of China. It can be said that the film is adapted from real history. So do the main characters in it also have prototypes? My subconscious reaction was to use Nicholas Tse and Shi Yousan in the movie, and the leadership of Nicholas Tse and Shi Yousan. Don't tell me it's really similar.
Let’s talk about Xie’s leader Liu Dehua, and Shi’s leader, Feng Yuxiang mentioned earlier. Feng Yuxiang is one of the few people who has been active from the Beiyang period until later, and the more he lives, the more exciting he is. What does he rely on? He has a nickname, "Defection General". Wu Peifu, who was regarded as a close confidant of Wu and entrusted with a heavy responsibility, suffered the second direct war with a sap behind his back, which led to the collapse of the entire line of the direct line. Then, it is completely unreasonable to take refuge among various warlords and various beliefs. Most of the generals who treasoned during the Anti-Japanese Period were his subordinates (there must be his generals if there is a commander). However, this person did not come down to the sun, which is also a bright spot in his life.
Hou Jie, played by classmate Liu, is very ruthless and savage. He kills people without hesitation. Tyrants are always timid and good at hiding their true emotions by being irritable. Classic lines, when killing opponents, "You're not dead." , I can't sleep", blaming Nicholas Tse for not killing the monk, "Why didn't you shoot just now and be merciful?" "If you don't eat him when you are strong, he will come to eat you later!" The only bright spot of the image of a warlord with a guilty conscience is that he has a bit of national integrity and does not allow foreigners to enter China to build railways. Of course, his reason is that the Chinese territory belongs to the Chinese. In my opinion, it is just an excuse for his own ignorance. He didn't show the characteristics of frequent "defection", so he turned against his eldest brother once, and as a result, Xie classmate Huang Que was behind.
Shi Yousan, once voted for Feng Yuxiang, voted for Jiang to betray Chiang, voted for Zhang to betray Zhang, voted for Japan to resist Japan, allied with the Communist Party to oppose the Communist Party, and then voted for Japan. When he was in Feng Yuxiang's department, because of the war with Fan Zhongxiu, Fan defeated and retreated to the Shaolin Temple. After Feng Shengli, in order to vent his anger, he burned down the Shaolin Temple.
Xie's performance of Cao Man is also very good. He is very sinister and evil, and because of his power, his eldest brother's family is destroyed. But then again, all this is also a disaster that Hou Jie buried. I believe that Cao Man was very loyal to Hou Jie at the beginning, but because of Hou Jie's repeated "teaching" and his distrust of Cao Man, Cao Man's rebellion, a person who would kill even Big Brother Yi, How can I expect not to be cooked by him.
Tyrants are always afraid of ministers coming to usurp power, and the more afraid they are, the more prepared they are; ministers are always afraid that the tyrant will have no future troubles, and the more afraid they are, the more they will attack first. Then it's who gets to do it first. "If you don't die, I won't sleep" "How can the beam of the couch allow others to sleep soundly", so the most indispensable thing in troubled times is the story of countless betrayals.
The story is quite tragic at the end. The Chinese beat the Chinese, and then the ghosts came to take it. Just like the ending of the old China, the orthodox old warlords disappeared in the crushing of each other, and a group of soldiers were replaced. The new warlords, and later, are unscrupulous proxy wars, and later, they are gone.
I remember the words at the beginning of the movie, "When you come and go, you go sad. If you walk in the world, it is better not to come and not to go, neither joy nor sadness." All troubles are caused by greed and ignorance.
As a digression, the music is very nice, the atmosphere is solemn, I like it very much
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