This "Tekken 2012" (hereinafter referred to as "Tekken") is directed by super hip-hop star RZA for the first time, with Eli Ross as the screenwriter, and the producer is the Oscar-winning Quentin Tarantino. Many friends who are unfamiliar with Hollywood may hear the names of these producers, indicating that the clouds are cloudy and foggy, and they do not know why. That's okay, because maybe after watching this movie, you won't want to remember who the hell would pay for such a nondescript "American" & "Chinese" movie. But in a responsible attitude, and also to prove that I really have a purpose, I still have to briefly introduce these three big coffees here.
RZA, a famous black hip-hop star in the United States, "Tekken" is his first director. In fact, as a foreigner, he is willing to spend money to make such a film that promotes Chinese culture. This alone is very admirable. He himself said that the film was made to pay tribute to Shaw Brothers films. Friends who follow Hong Kong movies should know that Shaw Brothers has stopped making movies as early as 1987, but the previous "Martial Arts" and "Meteor Butterfly Sword" are the first Chinese martial arts movies to enter the American market. RZA has been fascinated by China for a long time. His music group "WU Tang Clan" came from watching "Shaolin and Wudang", and then look at his later music albums - "Into Wudang", " The World of Wudang. It can be seen from the film that he has been immersed in Chinese culture for a long time and has a certain foundation and attainments, but there are many fatal flaws in this film, even the basic scenes such as the most basic hanging wire and volleyball in Chinese martial arts films. They are all very clumsy, believe me, it is really clumsy, even Feng Delun's "Tai Chi" is more reliable than him. It is reasonable to say that it is produced by Hollywood in the United States, and such a low-level mistake should not be made. This is really incomprehensible.
Ellie Rose, as long as this name is mentioned, I will think, "Bang", "Bang", "Crack", "Bang", "Ow", "Ah", "Oh", "Wow", what "No Bones", "Human Skin" Inn", "2001 Perverts", every time I see the promotional photos of the movie, I can spit out the meat I ate this month, it is really bloody enough. But all the movies he wrote are the same routines, bloody close-ups, shredded muscles, broken nerves, white and miserable, exposed bones, and squirts that are bigger than fire hydrants. Hot blood, this is also in the United States, if it were in our big China, the SARFT decisively cut the film to only one opening and one ending. The main line, story structure, and character setting of the film are extremely imprecise and chaotic, with obvious commercial film characteristics: after a meal, the visual effects satisfy the American audience's consumption of popcorn fast food, what story, what content, I guess no one remembers it either.
Producer Quentin Tarantino should be regarded as the most professional and powerful one of the "Three Musketeers" in the creative team. Maybe many people will be unfamiliar when they hear his name, but when it comes to the movie "Rescue" directed by him. "The Tango", "Pulp Fiction", "Inglourious Basterds", etc., many people must still have some impressions. In particular, "Tango Rescued" just won the 2013 Oscars for Best Picture and Best Screenplay. I don't know what kind of thinking Quentin Talen had in investing in such a film, or whether he achieved the huge box office he expected (I guess it would be a miracle not to lose), but The super-luxurious cast he paid for, I think this guy is really willing to spend money, or he said: "rich and powerful", this is it, I have money, please invite a group of big stars, throw money, whatever you want Write a story, make money, cut it into 90 minutes, watch it live, it doesn't matter if you make money or not, the key is brother's willingness.
Well, after ranting about the behind-the-scenes team, the next step is our lovable and lovely actors in front of the stage who hate my teeth. This movie brings together a lot of heavyweight and powerful stars: Russell Crowe, RZA (director), Lucy Liu, Daniel Wu, Zhu Zhu, Lau Ka Fai, Yin Ziwei, Chen Guantai, Lian Kai, and some are familiar to you. The second- and third-tier actors who are not well-known, the overall performance of the actors is not satisfactory, because after all, they can be regarded as acting schools, no matter how unreliable the script is, no matter how the director will not find the camera, the actor's acting level will not suddenly lose, the role There are very few dance scenes. However, the terrible makeup, styling, sets, and English lines make you feel like I want to kill the director every moment.
Ok, let's get to the point. Next, let me complain. If you don't give me this chance, I think I will die.
The story is actually very simple: at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a very powerful "Lion Gang", and the court gave them a huge sum of gold in order to recruit security. , the second-in-command killed the big boss ruthlessly. But this big boss also has a son who is in a bunker. Lao Tzu was killed, and the son decided to avenge his father, leave the woman he loves, and then kill, kill, kill, go to bed, kill, go to bed again, kill, kill. Transform, kill it~~ It's over. During this period, all kinds of monsters and monsters began to show up gorgeously in fancy clothes.
Let’s talk about this hairstyle and clothing first. It really offends anyone, and don’t offend the stylist. Although the story is in an overhead era, the premise is that it is located in a certain period of time in the Qing Dynasty. The rest of the leading actors, as long as they have lines, are all handsome and beautiful (actually, they are really ugly, especially those from the Lion Gang, who escaped from the refugee camp, and Head & Shoulders used it) Is it too much, the whole thing is like a bird's nest, it has no aesthetic feeling, the stylist should be dragged out and shot for five minutes), if it is watery, it is not braided, you can't help me. Regardless of the background of the times, this is very similar to a Japanese animation "China Little Master" many years ago. It is important to know the background of the artwork, which can give the audience a reasonable introduction to the idea before the story begins. For example, when we say that this is a story that happened in the Qing Dynasty, then we can understand why the emperor is always so cowardly, why does he always eat turtles, and why does the country always lose wars? As soon as it is said that this is a matter of the Tang Dynasty, then we can understand why women show two big meat dumplings, just like poor people without fabrics. If you tell the public that this is the Qing Dynasty, but everyone is wearing a veil and walking like mopping the floor, how can you not let people dance? How can you not let people complain?
Well, maybe it's this story, he was relatively independent from the beginning, and the place of occurrence was limited to one village (the county magistrate dressed like an emperor), although the emperor also appeared in a flash, but the background of the times is really not too big. Influence, we first forgive him for this.
However, I would like to ask, in a Chinese village, there is a black blacksmith, how can no one question it? How can a brothel be called "Fenhualou" (it's really not much better than a name like "Li Goudan", it's a movie anyway, it's as uncultured as a web novel)? Suddenly, a big white man came to town, how come there are no onlookers (it really doesn't fit the character of my Chinese people)? Why did the lady boss collude with the Lion Gang? How did the county magistrate collude with the Lion Gang? Why did the county magistrate have a grudge against the big white guy? How did the black blacksmith resurrect with full blood on the spot, just like opening a plug-in, killing the ultimate monster that couldn't be killed a second before? How did all the prostitutes suddenly become "black widows" with unfathomable martial arts skills?
There are so many, I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out, this is a philosophical question that I will spend my whole life trying to understand.
As the director and starring RZA plays a blacksmith who has muscles, but the cerebellum is not coordinated and does not speak. Relying on his own hands, he believes in the party and the government, and finally creates a sky of his own. He had his arms cut off by someone. It didn't matter. He turned around and freed up two pure steel mechanical arms. He fought back and evolved into an invincible warrior. There are only ten lines in the whole film. He has been hammering the iron, saving money, and visiting brothels. He is a completely unnecessary character.
The actor of the white killer is the veteran movie star Russell Crowe (the works include "Life Is Beautiful" and "Gladiator"), and his acting skills can be regarded as one of the few highlights in this film. Maybe the peak has passed, or else I I can't believe how the actor who won the 2000 Oscar for Best Actor and whom Sharon Stone admires, would condescend to play such an unpleasant role. The biggest highlight of his film is that in the "Fenhualou", one against three, on the flower bed, with three brothel prostitutes, overwhelmed by clouds and rains, so unhappy. (Look at an island country, what is old and strong!)
The prostitute of "Fenhualou" is played by the famous Chinese film star Liu Yuling. I personally like Liu Yuling very much. I feel that she has both the meticulous appearance of traditional Eastern women and the capable and sexy personality of Western women. Personally, I think she was at the peak of her acting career during the "Charlie's Angels" period. After that, she was reduced to shooting some second-rate roles that needed oriental faces. I watched her new TV series "the element" recently, and I couldn't help sighing that "you were no longer my goddess in the past." The charm still exists, but it is not as good as before. I think her costume style in "Tekken" this time is very beautiful, whether it's the maid's style as the proprietress of Fenhualou, or the leader style of the black widow boss, she is very beautiful, and basically she won't let dance dramas. , at least it won't make people think this is a piece of shit.
Wu Yanzu, the white hair style of this perfect sportsman, is also a highlight of this film. After all, seeing how ugly a handsome guy looks ugly is a blast, but that's all there is to it (it's really ugly, mainly because the stylist is amazing), and the lines add up to only ten sentences like RZA. At first, he pretended to be like a mysterious boss, but when the big white man came, the two met each other, and they were very jealous (the lines seemed to be not shallow from the two big brothers before), and at the beginning they made a symbolic fight twice. , and was decisively KO'd and turned into a pile of meat. Thinking of such a peerless and beautiful man, who only played for ten minutes in total, and ended up with a dead body in the end, I can't help but want to say "Come on" (hehe, come on in my dictionary = swear words)
In the end I want to Talking about the biggest highlight of this film, it is indeed the harvest beyond the surprise: Zhu Zhu (the title is very convoluted) who plays the lover of the son of the big boss of the Lion Gang. She is not a professional, and she rarely gets electrocuted on the big screen. Although she likes her hosting style and dress on weekdays, I really didn't expect her screen performance. As a result, as soon as this little girl came out, she was dressed in a flowing white dress, with long hair like a waterfall, and a pair of waves of light flowed around her eyes, pressing down on countless rouge and vulgar powders with heavy makeup and light makeup. As a supporting role in the play, she has only one scene and few lines, so she has limited room to play, but the look in her eyes when she parted with her lover really broke my heart, "People are not wood and stone. Everyone has love, it is better not to encounter the beauty of the city.”
As for the other characters and lines in this film, we can ignore them, because they are not important, the important thing is "kill", "kill" and "kill". This film is not well-known in the mainland, and I also embarked on this road of no return that I regretted for the rest of my life because of chance and coincidence. I think I have been writing for a long time, but because of such a movie, I couldn't bear it anymore, and I had to complain a little. After watching this movie at that time, my mood was basically the same as when I watched Cecilia Cheung's "The Female General of the Yang Family". There were countless alpacas in my heart, and I only had a few words in my subconscious that I wanted to say to everyone:
This is all shit Ah, let me die, let me die~~~~~
Therefore, artists, like doctors and teachers, are professions that can profoundly affect other people's lives. I hope there will be more harmony and less thunder in the future.
Dayang
2013.05.17 00:40
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