To be honest, although I knew the quality of this film was not very good after reading the ratings of foreign media, I was a little surprised in the first few minutes. Watching a few adventurers being chased by barbarians (later known to be Khitans), this tried-and-true approach to the opening is very nostalgic. Later I learned that this is actually the most realistic part of the film. The reason is because there is no "Chinese". Later, the protagonist and his friend who was born to death meet the "Chinese", and the whole movie becomes inexplicable.
I would say here that a lot of people have been deceived by the Chinese elements in The Great Wall, which is actually a pretty standard western adventure movie. An experienced and young adventurer; a loyal, capable and intimate partner, two people ventured in a foreign land and strayed into a tribe full of exotic customs. This tribe often had to face a great difficulty, and the adventure Home and Companions finally settle the matter and leave under the affectionate gaze of the tribal chief's daughter.
You see, from this perspective, the "strangeness" of "The Great Wall" can be diluted by at least 50%.
However, "The Great Wall" is still a strange movie. Even if it is diluted by 50%, "The Great Wall" is still a strange movie.
Because the race "Chinese" in the movie is so weird!
This is the strange "race" I've seen, set in movies, shows and games like "Star Trek", "Star Wars", "Dungeons and Dragons", "World of Warcraft", "The Lord of the Rings", etc. Many humanoid races are far from human in appearance, and you can still feel the human touch, and even unconsciously fantasize about being one of them. The strange thing is that the "Chinese" in the movie doesn't give people this feeling at all. Even as a Chinese audience, it is difficult to understand this race with the same label as himself.
For example, the strange aesthetic of this race. Every time they played, it was like a group exercise in a Chinese junior high school. They wore five-color armor, shouted slogans, and died in an orderly manner, looking like a pile of checkers discarded from the city wall.
For example, the strange combat efficiency of this race. Although every combat action is neat and uniform, the efficiency is particularly low. They walk in a neat square formation, and the military parade is normal, but they often cannot withstand a single attack by monsters; they beat their shields to make a neat sound, and the shields are tightly stitched together. The defense is not going in the right direction. Their female soldiers wore bright blue uniforms, and they jumped down as gracefully as Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing, and then they were surrounded by monsters and gnawed to death.
The most terrifying thing is that this race seems to have no individual consciousness. The four basic expressions of human beings are "emotions, sorrows and sorrows". These strange races with black hair and yellow skin can't express them, let alone others. I mentioned those female soldiers who died inexplicably above. In the middle of the film, the female soldier leader and the male protagonist develop a relationship. Under the cliff, there is a bright blue body of a female soldier. The female soldier leader is actually a little sad. There is no emotion at all, but after watching the movie, you will know that this female soldier leader has no expression all the time. When you say "smile", I think it is more believable to be interpreted as muscle twitching. This female soldier leader is the most intrigued character of the "Chinese" race. Every audience realizes that the representative of this "Chinese" has no appetite - the most delicious food is obviously the protagonist and his good friends. , No emotion, no sexual desire - It is said that in the beginning of the script, there was a plot of the adventurer and the chief's daughter that everyone likes to see in this type of movie, but it was deleted, probably because of the conflict with the "Chinese" race. , I'm a little curious about how this race was produced.
The leader is still like this, and the soldiers are even more terrible. The way they speak is "unanimous". They shout slogans together, applaud together, and sing together. I doubt that the soldiers of this race do not have the ability to express themselves. Since there is no ability to express, this race does not care about the individual sacrifices of this class. In the second half of the movie, the capital of the "Chinese" has fallen, and the soldiers on the Great Wall have to go to rescue the car, and can only use Hot air balloon, but this hot air balloon is not reliable, and it is accompanied by the collapse and screaming of the hot air balloon along the way. But we can only hear their screams and see their whereabouts.
One soldier is an exception. When this soldier appeared on the stage, it seemed that he had no ability to speak as an individual. With the inspiration and encouragement of the Western male protagonist, he finally mastered the ability to express. This is also a very common plot in this type of film, where the Western adventurer passes on the value of the individual to a young man in the tribe. But I thought about it carefully, and found that this man is not an ordinary soldier, otherwise I can't explain the thousands of people on the Great Wall, why he is the only one who washes the dishes.
If there are still a few screams from the soldiers, the civilians of this race really have no shadow at all.
It is said that the capital of this race, "Bianliang", has a population of two million, but when the Janissaries died at least 99.9% of the time before they came to Bianliang, we did not see a single commoner. Of course, why only the hot air balloon that the protagonist rides is so good, this is another question, maybe because there are two senior leaders of the Guards Leader and the Guards Staff. Of the two million people in the legend, none of them have seen it! However, the palace in this city is splendid, and there are shivering race chiefs, high-ranking officials, the chief's concubines and so on.
The chief of the race "Chinese" - the chief of this race should be called the emperor - made a meaningful speech: "My Guard and the people have been eaten up by those monsters!"
In the eyes of this chief, it was obvious that , the Praetorian Guard is more important than the people.
I'm not saying what the Chinese are like. Obviously, in this film, there is a difference between "Chinese" and real Chinese, a very strange and unreasonable race.
Here, I'm going to talk about the specific difficulties encountered by this tribe that Western adventurers strayed into. Legend has it that a long, long time ago, the chief of this tribe was too greedy, and the gods descended on the gluttonous monster to punish the chief. This kind of monster, which is not interesting in design, rages once every sixty years, and a section of the Great Wall is to defend against them. And Western adventurers are lucky, just in time for this monster to be rampant. As for why such monsters don't eat the emperor, but the common people, I don't know.
This kind of monster also has a social structure. It is mainly divided into three types, which are almost the same as ants. One is the "worker ant", which is responsible for birth and death and brings food to feed the queen; the other is the "soldier ant", responsible for protecting the "queen". ; The last one is the "Queen of Ants", which uses a special means to issue orders. Only the Beastmaster, that is, the ant queen, has autonomous thinking, and other monsters just follow its orders unconditionally.
Don't be confused when you read this, I am talking about the social structure of gluttonous food, not the social structure of "Chinese".
In addition to the inexplicable setting of the "Chinese" race, and the gluttonous setting has no bright spots, the plot is also very strange. The strangest thing is two points:
The first strange thing is that the Great Wall in the movie did not resist the attack of monsters. It was just a feint of monsters in the front, and the other monsters had already hit the tunnel and went straight to Bianliang. The Great Wall can be described as an important symbol of China in reality. It is a "symbol of the will, courage and strength of the Chinese nation". The lyrics of the Chinese national anthem "March of the Volunteers" include "Let us build a new Great Wall with flesh and blood", which is very popular. The theme song of "Huo Yuanjia" sings "The Great Wall will never fall, and the Yellow River is surging for thousands of miles". Such an impregnable building was broken through by a monster whose IQ is not as good as that of a human being. Do you still have the nerve to call it "The Great Wall"?
The second strange thing is that the checkers guards on the Great Wall have always called themselves "defending the family and defending the country", but after they fell and killed many people along the way, their first reaction was to see the chief first. Could it be said that the home they protect is the home of the chiefs, and the country of Wei is also the country of chiefs? And this chief is a person who is greedy for life and fears death, and he can't even speak well. He feels that his IQ is similar to that of Emperor Hui of Jin in Chinese history.
The more I think about it, the more wrong it is, who wrote the script for this movie?
Does the screenwriter understand Chinese, how can they write Chinese as such an inexplicable race? Does the editor understand the status of the Great Wall in the hearts of the Chinese people, has it been broken through so confusedly? As for other problems, such as the rhythm is completely wrong, the protagonist has not grown up, these are all trivial matters.
When I go home and check, the story and screenwriting lineup are quite luxurious: for example, there are Max Brooks who wrote "World War Z", and Edward Zwick who participated in "The Last Samurai" and "Shakespeare". , Tony Gilroy, screenwriter of the "Bourne Bourne" series...
No way, so bad writing?
This is obviously not doing things with money, and it is also a sign that the three monks have no water to drink.
Two things came to my mind. One is the "Legend of Magic Strings" that will be released in China recently. This animated film not only pays homage to famous Japanese paintings in almost every scene, but the main staff take the initiative to learn Japanese craftsmanship and culture: "Deborah Cook of Styling learned the famous folding technique of modern Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake; lighting photographer Dean Holmes watched a series of documentaries framed in the East; The samurai armor structure, 90-year-old dance artist Zhong Xisha Tachibana, led the dancers to complete the festival dance in the film... ("Legend of "Magic Strings" Must Know Before Watching the Movie") "
Compared to Underneath, although "The Great Wall" is desperately stuffed with various Chinese elements, it still makes people feel empty and vain. The Japanese origami, sanxian, etc. shown in the former are all interesting for foreigners to understand; but other than the Chinese, who can understand "The Great Wind Song" and "Out of the Great Wall" in "The Great Wall"? Does anyone want to practice Wu Qin Xi? The scene of Kongming lanterns is very beautiful, but unfortunately the sky lanterns are now characteristic of Thailand.
Too careless! I dare say that the person who wrote "The Last Samurai" was perfunctory when he wrote about the Chinese background.
There is one more thing, that is the CCTV headquarters building, also known as the "big pants". Although it was rated as an architectural miracle by a foreign media, there is a saying that the inspiration for this building is a man wearing fishnet socks and pouting his butt. The lower body of the girl, and the auxiliary building is a towering phallus. This is actually a joke made by the designer. Although this claim was denied by the firm that designed the building, Lenovo's box was opened and could never be taken back. Later, when everyone passed this building, all they thought of when they saw this building were the puffed buttocks of beautiful women.
Remembering that foreigners have always been uneasy and kind to our China, how can someone who can write "World War Z", "Shakespeare's Qing History" and "The Bourne Bourne" write such poor quality scripts?
The more I thought about it, the more wrong it was.
It's not that foreigners are bullying us again. For example, for decades, they thought we were some kind of "three-color ants", and it's not just irony that they came up with a checkers team this time. And...
After thinking about it, a burst of anger burned in my chest, I opened the drawer and started rummaging for the U-shaped lock.
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