Let’s talk about the characters first. They don’t look like they’re in a movie, they look like they’re on stage, playing a Shakespeare play. The actors are all exaggerated, and the characters are all crazy. This style of setting is obviously from the director, but each actor's acting skills are different, and the effects presented are also different.
In comparison, Li Xuejian may have the best acting skills, so Qin Shihuang is the most unbearable. The voice was loud and quiet, the pitch was high and low, the speed was fast and slow, anyway, he never spoke well, and used every tone to express his heart. Through the appearance of the forty or fifty-year-old uncle, I can clearly see the soul of a twenty-year-old young man. This contrast is really painful.
Sun Zhou, always howling in a shrill voice, didn't look like a real person from beginning to end. On the other hand, Prince Dan is stupid, cowardly, cruel, strong in the outside, and despicable and shameless. It concentrates everything you can think of, and the characteristics of contradictory negative characters. Prince Dan can be a bad guy, but can he not be so superficial and messy?
Wang Zhiwen, with a sly smile on his face at any time, takes the leakage of yin qi as his responsibility at any time, and it is unbearable at any time. The first half shows the insidiousness of Ai at any time, but I never imagined that at the end, Ao was a naive idealist, and Ao and the Queen Mother are still in true love. Can you tell me how the Queen Mother fell in love with her?
Zhang Fengyi was dumbfounded. Well, he is playing an assassin, and it's normal to stay for a while. It's not too abrupt when he suddenly jumps and jumps out of energy at the assassination scene. The performance is still acceptable, but the behavior and motivation arranged by the director for Jing Ke are incomprehensible in many places, which will be discussed in detail later.
Gong Li's performance is not so exaggerated and speaks like a normal person. This may be because her acting skills can't meet the director's requirements... As for the role of Zhao Nv, it is a complete failure, which not only lowers the IQ of the whole movie, but also makes the whole story without foundation. I don't know if it was because of box office considerations that such a heroine was added. Very bad character.
The whole movie, the scenes are unreasonable, and the plot is illogical. There are simply too many places. Here are just a few simple words that I remember:
At the beginning of the movie, Qin Wang Yingzheng is about twenty, neither has a pro-government nor a big marriage. He actually went into battle in person to charge and kill the enemy generals. A rather arrogant brother, he could become a corporal! Whether it's reasonable or not, this plot is outside the plot, and it doesn't seem to be of any use. Show that King Qin's martial arts are strong, and he loves soldiers like a son? Besides, Qin State was the aggressor, and most of the "good soldiers of Qin State" were forced out by severe punishments. They showed such a positive performance. Is this a violent Qin or a righteous Qin?
When Lu Buwei went to see the Queen Mother, Concubine had a firm look on her face that she would never bother about political affairs, and then she talked again, saying that the Prime Minister would be useless after destroying the Six Kingdoms. This statement itself makes no sense. Qin has destroyed the six kingdoms, but Li Si is still the prime minister. But everyone laughed, maybe they felt that the slap in the face was really happy. Since the empress dowager and the prime minister obviously did not object to Connie's discussion of state affairs, why did he slap himself in the face?
The part about the conspiracy against the old woman is even more useless. Let’s talk about the scene first. Ao Su led the doormen to the left and right, and then was surrounded by Qin Jun in a place the size of a basketball court. The Qin army shot arrows from all around. I know that Qin Jun is good at archery, but I don't know that they are still immune to teammates' damage. The director's setting is too high-end! The entire battle process is highly abstract, like a Peking Opera program. If the director has no money, it’s fine to make a stage play, but isn’t it too much of a joke to make a movie like this? Is it difficult to design a realistic fight with a decent martial artist?
Let's talk about the plot. After being surrounded, Ai stubbornly held his neck and refused to surrender. Later, after being shot to death, he surrendered immediately. He even said confidently: "If you don't kill my followers, I will surrender!" This line left me speechless. It can be said that Auntie is so naive, does the director know? When he kills, he kills righteously, but when he is killed, how does this righteousness come from? He only thought about the death of others, did he not think that his own people would also die? Did he take the treason as a play?
Let's talk about Jing Ke. Jing Ke was a killer and killed many people until he met a blind girl. The blind girl is very beautiful, very smart, and very dignified. Her life suddenly ignited Jing Ke's conscience, and suddenly made a killer feel that it was wrong to kill, so she changed from a killer to a saint. I don't know if anyone is moved by this kind of plot, but I think this plot is very bloody. A killer's conscience? I haven't seen it except in various made-up stories. Killing for money has already broken through the bottom line of a normal person's conscience, and once it is crossed, it is impossible to return.
Taking ten thousand steps back, Jing Ke found his conscience. But a person with a conscience, should he pay a price for the person he once killed? Don't say that the pain in his heart is the price, unless you can accept the law: those who suffer after murder can be exempted from punishment. Are those who are not very beautiful and smart, or who have no chance to show their dignity, just die in vain? Jean Valjean could go from thug to saint because his sins were atonement, and he wouldn't even allow an innocent man to be brought to court in his stead. Has Jing Ke's sin been atonement?
In the refreshment shop, the director asked Jing Ke to be humiliated by the crotch to save people, which is even more unreasonable. Why did Han Xin suffer the humiliation of his crotch? Because Han Xin couldn't escape and didn't want to die. But Jing Ke can dodge, and he is not afraid of death. Jing Ke had just experienced the blind girl incident at this time. He felt that he was a sinner, who deserved to die but didn't die, lived in a daze, and didn't run away. Later, he was arrested and tortured by the jailer, and he did not show any signs of resistance or fear, which showed that Jing Ke was already a living dead. But a living dead person doesn't care about his own life, why would he be so eager to take other people's lives so seriously? What's more, it's just a thirsty thief, far from life-threatening, maybe the shopkeeper hangs him for a long time and puts it down. But Jing Ke didn't care, he was as eager as a girl in love, he would rather be humiliated by the shopkeeper's crotch and give the thief a drink. Even if he is a saint and cares about everyone, his kung fu can easily push the shopkeeper away, but he doesn't have to. This tangled logic makes people depressed.
After Jing Ke drilled past, the plot took a turn for the worse, from Han Xin's humiliation to Yang Zhi selling knives. But the plot is similar, but the reasoning doesn't make sense. Niu Er plays with green skin, that's because he is a rogue who has a cheap life. The shop owner has a big shop anyway, and it has something to do with official estimates. He may be insidious and cunning or tyrannical and vicious, but he will not send his neck to the knife. The son of a thousand gold, you can't sit down in the hall. This is not a code of conduct, but a natural response.
Besides, Yang Zhi, the green-faced beast, was such a useless person that he would kill Niu Er if he wanted to kill him. It was definitely not a manslaughter. Why? Because Yang Zhi is a master, he has absolute control ability in front of Niu Er. In the same way, Jing Ke is also a master. When killing people in front of him, he was neat and tidy, but in the refreshment shop, he was pushed and shoved. How could he be a master? Even if he hates himself and wants to forget all his kung fu, he can't forget it if he wants to. The body's natural reaction is there. You are a master when you kill people, but when you don't kill people, how can it be so easy to be an ordinary person? Guo Jing and Xu Sanduo said that they couldn't do it. The two sides couldn't be entangled, and one side made a mistake to kill. Song Jiang might be able to do it with two knives, but a master like Jing Ke could not do it. At this time, Jing Ke was just a puppet caught by the screenwriter, who created this scene for the later plot.
Jing Ke was reluctant to be Prince Dan's disciple at first, then Prince Dan wanted to kill Zhao Nv, then Jing Ke agreed, and Zhao Nv came back, and then everyone was in harmony. In this process, Jing Ke is like a arrogant little shou, not really not following, just needs a little fun. King Qin killed people thousands of miles away. Jing Ke was very concerned about it and wanted to assassinate him; Prince Dan also killed people, and he killed people who Jing Ke cared about a lot, and used it as a threat. Jing Ke happily obeyed... With this logical reasoning It seems that Jing Ke should persuade everyone to obey the King of Qin, so that the King of Qin will not kill people. This is the true meaning of a harmonious society!
Jing Ke decided to assassinate Qin, what was his purpose? --To make life meaningful? Jing Ke is not a boring taxi driver. --To stop the war? Can killing the King of Qin stop the war? During the five hundred years of the Warring States Period, did the war ever stop! The State of Yan himself almost destroyed the State of Qi. Are there fewer people who died in the war without King Qin? --To avenge the children of Zhao State? Have all those killed by Jing Ke have their revenge?
Jing Ke wanted to kill the King of Qin, but he even went to Fan Yuqi for borrowing. Zhao Nv had long said that this was a conspiracy arranged by King Qin, and Jing Ke could see it when he went to King Qin empty-handed! Does Fan Yuqi owe Jing Ke a lot of money?
The director asked Jing Ke and Fan Yuqi to fight like two children, but let Zhao's children go to justice one by one. Two big men, not too small, how could such a move be possible? Excluding Jing Ke as sb's factor, it's fine for the two men to just trust each other with righteousness.
As for those children, they look like children, but if you look closely, they are marionettes, tied up by the director as martyrs. This kind of plot simply challenges the bottom line of human intelligence and emotion. It's disgusting! The city of Handan was destroyed, and the king of Zhao gathered the children of his own country together. The soldiers then fought desperately, just to give the children time to jump off the building. I really don't understand the logic of which species this is. I think that there is such a king with no IQ, which is the reason for the demise of the Zhao Kingdom. Isn't Zhao King more responsible for the death of Zhao's child?
Finally, let's talk about Lady Zhao. Zhao Nv has no objection to reunification, but yearns for it, and has no objection to destroying the six kingdoms, as long as there is no war and death. In fact, the two are the same thing in the first place, so it's okay if her IQ is low and she can't think of it, she's honestly staying in the palace of the King of Qin. From Ying Zheng's point of view, Zhao Nv is the warmest and softest part of Ying Zheng's heart. If Zhao Nv was by his side and treated him better, he would be more gentle to the whole world, and people might die less. But Zhao Nv didn't, she had to think that Yan couldn't be destroyed without her own Ying Zheng, and she went into battle naked as a spy, and she didn't care whether Prince Dan was a friend of her since she was a child, and she didn't care that if she attacked Yan Guo, no one would die. What are you saying she's making a mess?
Zhao Nv, as a native of Zhao State, did not have the consciousness of being loyal to Zhao State. No problem from a historical point of view. The so-called Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period are nothing but the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, all of whom are loyal to the Emperor of Zhou. Li Si was from Chu State, and Lu Buwei was from Wei State. No one said they were treasonous when they became officials in Qin State. But the director doesn't know how to show his brains. He insists on arranging for the people of Korea and Zhao to cry or sacrifice their lives for the demise of the country. Is this to express that Zhao's daughter is not patriotic or to express the ignorance of the people? Values are so confusing!
If Zhao Nv wanted to kill Ying Zheng, she would be enough by herself, go back to the big kitchen and do something casual. If it was because Ying Zheng was the man she loved before and couldn't bear to do it by herself, then why did she bear to take on Jing Ke? That's the man she loves now. If Zhao Nv didn't want to kill Ying Zheng, why did she fully support Jing Ke's assassination of Qin? Use your brain and think about it, it's all contradictions.
Before I knew it, I wrote so much, which was unprofessional and a little long-winded. There are many places that have not been expressed, but I will write it here. I can see everyone here, thank you!
In the end, I sincerely suggested Chen Kaige not to mix the script with the film, because his ability is not in this. The Taoist priest going down the mountain is already a very good story, don't look for all kinds of motives for the characters in the play, you don't make it well.
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