"Fifteen days , is it possible?"
After the work came out, no matter if you watched it in theaters, bought a DVD, or watched it on TC because of the inability to swipe on the net, there were far more complaints than those who watched the movie.
Chinese movie fans have a very bad habit of first looking at the real history, then looking at the actors' likes and dislikes, then the props are accurate, and then they retain the right to complain, and finally the plot design is good, whether the shots are beautiful, and the story is not touching.
The result is according to the five-point system:
Yanmen Pass is not Yumen Pass, there is no regular script in the Han Dynasty, and Rome is a republic, minus one point;
Jackie Chan’s last movie agreed, the heroine was not beautiful enough, and the actor was deducted one point for overdue;
there was no Momo in the Han Dynasty . A point for knives, no shiny armor, and a bronze fortress;
I'm just gonna take another point for ranting.
In this way, this movie should really be satisfied if it can get one point.
The problem is, if no one spit out all kinds of historical actor prop slots before you, just let you prepare this knowledge in advance for this movie, and then let you spit it out...
fifteen days, is it possible?
In terms of war scenes, the Chinese director's specialty is scenes like "Three Battles", but in the battle of cold weapons... I won't say anything...
And for "Heaven", the battle with the Roman legion in the Thirty-six Kingdoms , When the legions charged from the valley, I seemed to see the shadow of the battle of Helm's Deep before my eyes, and even so, because of the good layout, such a battle did not seem abrupt at all.
In terms of fighting scenes, Chinese directors are good at flying over walls and suppressing one-sided forces, while the real hand-to-hand combat is slightly weaker against the gun.
But when Mr. Brody took on Jackie Chan one-on-one, I seemed to see a philosophical gladiatorial fight, like the tragic battle between the usurper Caesar and Maximus in "Gladiator".
When it comes to hustle and bustle scenes, Chinese directors are good at small teahouses, storytellers and bustling hustle and bustle.
However, when the instruments of the Western Regions (mainly Persian instruments) sounded, and then the little prince led the Roman legion to sing a solemn military song, this kind of handling from the noise to the solemnity has to be said to be extremely appropriate.
Based on these three scenes alone, this movie can already be ranked in the upper-middle level. What's more, this play still has enough philosophical thinking to make people think, whether he is preaching or not, at least it is moving towards "taking thinking seriously and taking movies seriously".
When Lixuan was built, Jackie Chan recalled the sentence: "Today you make a friend, tomorrow you will lose one." Only when we stand up to maintain peace and fight for justice can we make the world become enemies and coexist.
This is the Chinese philosophy, at least the contemporary Chinese philosophy, and "The Lion in the Sky" shows this philosophy concretely.
Of course, this work still has many shortcomings, but I believe that it will be better in the future, at least I am looking forward to such a work appearing on the screen again.
Maybe the next one will be in fifteen days, maybe?
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