But don't worry about this movie at all, because Chen Kexin and Chen Desen know what kind of plot will make people worry, and they also know what kind of plot can incite people's hearts. Revolutionaries take righteousness into benevolence, and unrecognized righteous people sacrifice their lives to serve the country. When a movie has feelings like nation and country in it, it becomes relatively easy to move people's hearts. Because in the end, it is not the film itself that moves the public, but the feelings contained inside and outside the film. Last year's "Ip Man" was like this, and this year's "Wind" is even more so. And this "October Siege" is a synthesis of the feelings contained in the first two.
This is actually a very tricky approach. "The Sound of the Wind" only added a sensational monologue by Gu Xiaomeng at the end of the film, which sublimated a movie that was originally just a thriller and suspense to another level. With such an idea, it is like adding a sharp sword to the box office battle. It may not be the magic weapon for winning, but it is definitely the key to winning. In contrast, the martial arts disputes in "Fengyun 2" are too illusory, the tomb exploration in "Thorn Mausoleum" is only suspenseful, and "Three Guns", Zhang Yimou himself said, this time he just made a movie easily, only Happy everyone. After some sorting out, "October Siege" has already won the first place with this idea alone. Although it has entered the era of national entertainment, the vast majority of audiences will still surrender to this compassionate family and country feelings, which has been verified when "Nanjing Nanjing" was released.
It can be said that "October Siege" can already resonate with the widest range of audiences just in terms of the plot, and all the director has to do is how to deal with these plots in order to make this feeling believable. This is not an easy errand, and if it is not handled well, it can easily become a fake and empty type film. The storyline of "October Siege" revolves around the incident of Sun Yat-sen, the founding father, coming to Hong Kong. The Qing court sent killers to get rid of him, while the revolutionary party sent righteous men to protect the founding father. Of course, in the handling of these righteous men, the film has a breakthrough compared with previous films of the same type, that is, these people who protect Sun Yat-sen in the film are not authentic revolutionary parties.
Because if they are set as simple revolutionaries, these characters will often be deified into non-ordinary characters. Even if the directors try their best to make them mortal, they already have such a mindset in the eyes of the audience. And when the identities of these righteous people are replaced by the lower-level people who may appear around you and me at any time, their fate will be more close and tragic.
Take a look at the righteous people of "October Siege", Ren Dahua is the troupe leader, Donnie Yen is a gambler, Bartel is a hawker selling stinky tofu, Nicholas Tse is a driver, and Liming is a beggar. When such a group of people formed a group of righteous people, it has subverted the general imagination of the audience. No one would have imagined that a group of disciples of the three religions and nine-rates would accomplish such a feat of righteousness. And their idea of protecting Sun Yat-sen is not all to subvert the revolutionary ideal of the Qing court. Ren Dahua is to take his daughter back to his hometown in Tianjin in the future, Li Yuchun is to avenge his father, Nicholas Tse is to repay the kindness of his father for proposing a marriage, and Liming, only wants to die... The reasons are complex but more simple than the revolutionary ideal Devotion is more believable.
The first 60 minutes of literary drama in the film is to explain each person's past and past. Here are the most tender episodes of the entire film. Of course, we know that the more tender you are in the front, the more tragic the sacrifice will be. When the coachman played by Nicholas Tse frequently mentioned that "I will marry Ah Chun after tomorrow", this familiar passage lets us know that he will definitely not be able to marry Ah Chun after tomorrow. Even though this kind of plot design has made the plot predictable, when we saw that these righteous men of the three religions and nine rhythms embarked on the road of sacrifice without any accident, we still compromised, surrendered, and burst into tears. Because most audiences have no resistance in the face of such feelings.
"October Siege" is a film prepared by director Chen Desen for ten years. The twists and turns experienced in the middle can only be experienced by the parties involved. In the end, when the film was released, the efforts of four generations of Hong Kong filmmakers were gathered here. Chen Desen said that this is an unprecedented cooperation in the Hong Kong film industry, and the success of the film is related to the future of the Hong Kong film industry. For producer Chen Kexin, this film is the pioneering work of "everyone", and it can only succeed and not fail. Many behind-the-scenes efforts we can't see have made such a "October Siege".
To sum up, "October Siege" is a film with feelings, content and sincerity, and such a film not only has the ambition to win the box office and word of mouth, but also has the ability to make the ambition come true.
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