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I have no expectations for the movie, nor do I expect Zhang Yimou. Since I was going to record a show that weekend, as part of my job, I took the plunge and watched it.
Although I gave it a bad review, I must point out: it still has a certain joy index.
For example, Jing Tian said the first sentence of English, for example, Zhang Hanyu received a lunch box for the soldiers to sing "Qin Shi Ming Yue Han Shi Guan", such as the COS Titanic on the tens of meters diving platform, such as the drum team's trick drum performance...
In the time period when there are no monsters in this movie, many of the interior scenes - including the final arrival of the Imperial Palace, it does not look like a war, without the tension of a bloody war.
It's not surprising that those blue Detachment of Women, who are too white and tender, don't look like they came out to fight. There are other military branches of color that can run away, hide far away, and die quickly, and they don't look like organized and coordinated elite troops at all. Except for the close combat in the haze section (probably the best shot in the entire movie), there are hardly any hand-to-hand attacks in the film.
This is a film suitable for aerial camera positions and big vistas for TV broadcast.
Since it's 3D, I also have to make indiscriminate deductions.
So, where did "The Great Wall" begin to crumble...
1 casting
"The Great Wall" is claimed to be a monster movie that combines Chinese and Western, made for foreigners.
From the formation of colorful combat troops to the lifelong wish of chasing Akira Kurosawa.
"The Great Wall" is always playing some embarrassing pretense, ignoring the most critical production link of a movie. Many people made fun of Jing Tian. I think she might have been the biggest highlight of the film.
So, let's not talk about the script, let's start with the casting director of Hollywood's industrialization. The configuration of this movie is not like a group performance or a price tag for Xiao Xianrou, but it is more like a movie universe configuration for creating a super heroine.
A talented actor like Huang Xuan, Peng Yuyan, who led a group of exposed meat teams to work hard at the gym, and Zhang Hanyu, who always looked at the situation with a smile, looked like my political commissar and cadre. In the eyes of the audience, they are all relatively good movie actors, but what are they doing in the movie? They will be made into such an embarrassing, embarrassing, and dumb human background.
Maybe more people will mention Chen Xuedong. Of course they made the same embarrassing ramblings, and I don't think there's any need to criticize them specifically. Including this Zheng Kai, as soon as he came out, he danced in TV dramas.
If a movie has completely turned the cast upside down, then it has already shown that acting, styling or rhetoric are completely unimportant in this movie.
Once this is the case, if you can't get into the show, it's a normal viewing reaction.
2 people
I don't see people in this movie. Characters that have individuality, angularity, and characteristics that can be digged from historical and retrospective perspectives.
In a group gymnastics performance, the people who make up the square and larger squares are important, but at the same time they are the least important. The least need for individuality, the closest to the uniform machine action but must be a human role.
Zhang Yimou knows this.
The mystery of Jing Tian's identity in the movie is exactly the same as her mystery outside the movie. She became the commander-in-chief inexplicably, but there was no evidence that she was the strongest in combat, the most heroic in decision-making, or the most tactful.
You might say because she has the biggest boobs.
Peng Yuyan expressed dissatisfaction.
On the other side of foreign friends, they also rely on dryness. It is simply a common routine in all kinds of monster alien movies to recite their own life experience, and they are eagerly waiting for the young oriental woman to solve the maze of life.
The brilliant Andy Lau looks like he has survived from the era of "Ink Attack" to the present, and is going to run for the next HK Chief Executive. The weathered Willem Dafoe seems to have not yet stepped out of the shadow of the art film, hiding in the corner to figure out his scheming.
Some people disagree. The script setting of "The Great Wall" has long been said: looking for black gunpowder, and finding out the dark human nature.
But unfortunately, in the end, I couldn't convince me at all with arguments such as greed or lethality.
3 monsters
For Zhang Yimou's films, man-eating monsters may be the brightest new plaything in "The Great Wall".
I don't know how many people will be like me. I imagine that after the first battle, there should be several waves of attacks, chariots, mechanisms, more gorgeous displays of the black achievements of civil science, and even big and tough monsters next to the hand-torn beastmaster. violent aesthetics.
In fact, the closest example of this setting is "Pacific Rim", which ran from the bottom of the sea to destroy big cities. Big fists beat big monsters.
The gluttonous eaters in "The Great Wall" will also be upgraded, they can use radio, and they can run thousands of miles in one day. However, the opposing Chinese troops gathered on the stage of the Great Wall to perform some flashy stylistic programs. The combat power can only be described by spicy chicken.
Recalling the image of the monster in the movie, from beginning to end, it is ferocious, roaring, or moving his eyes, opening the router without saying a word, and the touching appearance of the Beastmaster being guarded into blooming chrysanthemums.
I can't say it's fake, it does meet or exceed the level of Lu Chuan Hongjian. However, the size, size and attack methods of the monsters are completely the same. After thousands of PS copies, they used massive and intensive fear tactics to compete with the group gymnastics on the Great Wall. No matter how you think about it, they are all boring, lacking technical content and respecting science. bad scene.
4 colors
The concept of five armies combat is very good. But the red, blue, black, yellow, and purple armor colors are cartoony and stupid.
After watching the movie, my impression of the characters and colors was the same: fragmented. Just remember the uniform blue of the stewardess, the black brick walls of the Great Wall, the warrior blue of the night, the charming gray of the haze, the bronze green monster, the golden emperor yellow, and the colorful nine-story demon tower of the ultimate battle, the gunpowder explosion?
I have no doubts about Zhang Yimou's ability to identify and filter colors. Just like the Danxia landform that he particularly loves, the yellow sand is all over the ground, it is Chinese yellow, and it is his love for this land. He also showed foreigners an ink-and-wash effect [Impression·Taotie], just like the whole "The Great Wall" is also called [Impression·Monster].
However, "The Great Wall", as a CG flagship movie, becomes a color battle instead of taking it from nature, and it will present a false, exaggerated and unreal collision feeling. This feeling, in fact, we also encounter when watching blockbusters: unreal. You don't care if the characters live or die, it's all fake anyway. Made up nonsense.
In a movie, in addition to creating a unique environment, color is more used to assist the audience to understand a character's heart, motivation and background. "The Great Wall"? I can't see it.
5 Great Wall
If you dare to use "The Great Wall" as the title of the film, you have to carry the posture of "China", "Forbidden City", "Qing Dynasty", "Da Ming" and so on. If it is for foreigners, it is also to catch up with "Kung Fu" and match "Dunhuang".
But in this movie, the Great Wall was handled by CG as a line of defense that would combine activities but was extremely stupid. The beacon tower is full of smoke, and it looks more like a prop, or a slogan that we are going to start CG.
There are no fortifications under the city walls, regardless of reality or rationality in the film, just to shape a visual image of the Great Wall.
It blocked the monster, but the monster didn't seem to run to bite the Khitan. As you won't understand, why do monsters go all the way to bite the emperor and the people of the capital, just because the little fresh meat is delicious?
The most terrifying argument I see is this: If "The Great Wall" was filmed during the "Hero" era, how shocking it would be. To be honest, I think the reason why "The Great Wall" will be pushed against the wall is precisely because Zhang Yimou has abandoned the crucial production link that a movie must consider.
Just think about the protagonists of "Heroes", which one is not responsible for acting or action-maybe fifteen years later, it is still not out of date.
The one closest to "The Great Wall" should be "The Heroes from Heaven" starring Jackie Chan and defending the peace of the Silk Road. Li Rengang, who dared to play with the flying saucer hat, did not dare to let the meteorite hit the earth and the monster overturn the Great Wall.
If we want to say that the Great Wall that stretches across has any warning significance to our real life, it is that there is also a Great Wall in reality - a wall that prevents us from freely surfing the Internet.
As for the action drama of the beauties fighting monsters (Jing Tian VS Tao Tie).
Chinese audiences can also watch two films starring Jing Tian this year: "King Kong 2" and "Pacific Rim 2".
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