I watched "Ode to Qin" first. Jiang Wen played the king of Qin, and Ge You played Gao Jianli. Gao Jianli was from the country of Yan, and he was somewhat familiar with Jing Ke. King Qin was trapped in Zhao State as a proton since he was a child, but in this film, the screenwriter adapted King Qin in the State of Yan, and made King Qin and Gao Jianli as close childhood friends.
In the desolate and lonely childhood, Gao Jianli's piano sound and Gao's mother's nursery rhyme were the warmest solace in Ying Zheng's heart. At the same time, the screenwriter arranged Xu Qing to play the role of Princess Yueyang, the daughter of King Qin. From the perspective of the actors' age, the princess and King Qin are the same generation. From the age set in the movie, King Qin and Gao Jianli are young again. In this case, the screenwriter still Arranged the passionate drama between Gao Jianli and Princess Yueyang, the "candor" between the words is quite sturdy under the strict control of speech.
This kind of artistic creation, which only uses history as the background, can add characters or even change the place of birth of the characters in order to express the main theme, and arbitrarily arrange the relationship between the characters and the development of the plot, which made me very playful. Ge You's own comedy aura makes him have an unconscious comedy reversal even when he plays the tragic character Gao Jianli.
Although the whole play is full of King Qin's violence, cruelty, self-will, as well as his shrewdness, ruthlessness, and determination as a statesman, but in the face of his daughter and a child, he shows no bottom line of love and patience. Going down to the altar, trying to show the design of the emperor's inner emotional conflict, makes me feel that this joke has some kind of truth instead.
In the end, Princess Yueyang wanted to die, and Gao Jianli also resented attacking the King of Qin with a lead-filled building. King Qin, whose family and friendship no longer existed, walked alone to the palace built on the pile of bones, and the back view only saw people's loneliness and sorrow.
The King of Qin in "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin"
Let's look at Director Chen's "Jing Ke stabs the King of Qin". The King Qin played by Mr. Li Xuejian has a completely different style from Jiang Wen. When Mr. Li played the role, he was already in his 40s, and the age of King Qin in the play was probably less than 30. Such an age difference It is also said that in the past, it is just that he looks too mature (it looks like fifty or sixty is not an exaggeration). The actor who played King Qin's mother, Zhao Ji, was in his early fifties at the time, and was well maintained. King Qin shouted one after another, which was a little awkward.
Fortunately, the actors are really good actors, and the plot also respects historical records. King Qin and Prince Dan of Yan State were childhood friends. King Qin's father was detained in Zhao State, and he fell in love with Zhao Ji in Zhao State and gave birth to him. After the King of Qin, Prince Dan was sent to Zhao State by his old father. After Qin State grew stronger, Prince Dan was sent to Qin State by his own father to be a hostage. The two "Prince Princes" were really fateful.
The entire film is nearly three hours long. The scenes, costumes, props, and lines are all designed according to the stage play. The narrative is even more straightforward with the structure of chapters. , Jing Ke stabbed Qin, the most core link used a lengthy foreshadowing, and it takes a lot of patience to read it, such a big event as Jingke stabbed Qin is also a heavy stroke in Taishigong's writing. Necessary.
When the six kingdoms were unified, the weights and measures were unified, the county system was established, and the emperor who burned books and scolded Confucian scholars appeared in front of me so vividly, my inner emotions were more complicated. Probability is a ruthless, rational, and emotionless character. However, the characters shown in this film awakened the emperor who was sleeping in the text, which was more vivid and real, and was full enough to support such a heavy history.
King Qin has been carrying the mission of the dynasty since he was a child. The political fate of "Have you forgotten the great wish of the Qin Dynasty's predecessors to rule the world" throughout the movie chose him, and his experience and character also made him. But his inner drive to rule the world is obviously not something that can be sustained for so long by the roar of a historian. He inherits the throne at the age of thirteen, and he must accept the gift of fate before he reaches puberty. What does he rely on to digest it?
Minister's assistant? Lu Buwei, who spent all his time investing in him, was by his side, but he did not expect that the emperor developed a strong self-awareness when he became an adult, and was no longer willing to continue to be manipulated by others. Director Chen played the role of Lu Buwei himself, and also added a scene where King Qin was suspected of recognizing his father and son and had to die, which was interpreted by many audiences as being designed by Director Chen to denounce his father's atonement when he was young.
Mother's comfort? The young and widowed mother came from Zhao State. Lu Buwei once sent her to King Qin’s father, and then gave her Ao to him to comfort her and make her a tool person. She was designed all her life, and so was her son. Lu Buwei's investment product is so nakedly used as a political tool, how much maternal tenderness can she give to this seemingly inhuman son?
Women's understanding and support? Director Chen Kaige added the role of Zhao Nv, played by Gong Li, either for commercial success or for the development of the plot. This is King Qin's childhood partner, close friend, and even confidant in Zhao State, making politicians full of strategies There is a slight flow of emotion in the life of killing.
Zhao Nv couldn't understand King Qin's massacre at first, but she was also moved by his impassioned speech in front of the four seas. Heroes always have good reasons to get the rationality of their actions. Zhao Nv even planned for him. The legitimate reason for the crusade against the State of Yan was that the assassin was just a bait for sending troops to the State of Yan.
But Zhao Nv was too young after all, how could she understand that the emperor wanted to unite the six kingdoms, and how could the love of his children be on his list. King Qin, who had promised not to kill the children of Zhao State, turned his head and said to the general, "When I went back to Qin with the previous king, the King of Zhao sent troops to chase after him. He was afraid that I would take revenge." He bowed his head and shook the waves. Drum, still laughing, said, "Now, I'm also afraid," and the rest of the children were all slaughtered. The promise and warmth of the day before, in the consideration of his politicians, was a humble existence.
Who can comfort such an emperor's heart? Naturally, he didn't realize him, how lonely he was, just how glorious he was.
Jing Ke in "Jing Ke Assassinating the King of Qin"
Jing Ke's story line is also very exciting. He dared to be alone (Qin Wuyang, a coward, ignore it) and risked his life to assassinate the King of Qin. He really had the mentality of a hero, but before he became an assassin, he was also a rogue and was suspected of killing innocents. In the play, it is designed to let him put down the butcher knife and reform his new life. A blind girl played by Zhou Xun is pure and innocent, making it difficult for a red-eyed killer to bayonet. This plot design is also very dramatic.
Later, she was chosen as an assassin by Nv Zhao, and Nv Zhao accompanied Jing Ke through a period of depression, comfort and encouragement. Later, the two cherished each other. Nv Zhao gave the dagger that King Qin had given her to Jing Ke, and the assassin as a tool became emotional. The King of Qin thought that what Zhao Nv sent was just a flower fist and embroidered legs. Who would have thought that he saw his affectionate gift in "Seeing the Dagger in Pictures".
A Qin King and a Jing Ke, if they want to properly describe their mental journey, it is beyond the scope of more than two hours of film to cover, what's more, Director Chen's ambition is not only this, he is not a brief presentation. The inner conflict between Lu Buwei and the King of Qin, the conflict between the King of Qin and the Concubine and his mother, the conflict between the King of Qin and the Prince of Yan, there are also quite a few spectacular war scenes. limit.
The emotion in the last scene was even more climax. Jing Ke didn't stab the King of Qin, which logically shouldn't have happened. Did Jing Ke waste his sword practice because he was with Zhao Nv? Of course not, alone, although there is a desire to sacrifice one's life, no one can avoid the physical tension. There is also a pig-like teammate Qin Wuyang, who always has the heart to die, but he may not be completely sure of success.
What's more, King Qin had been prepared for a long time. In addition to seeing the familiar dagger, his heart was slightly touched, and his vigorous walking and dodging were also impressive. Teacher Li may be a little old, but King Qin was in his prime at that time. King Qin Around the column, dodging Jing Ke, grabbing the medicine box and smashing it at Jing Ke, but none of the surrounding ministers and guards stepped forward to stop him. Finally, the King of Qin pulled out the guard's sword and stabbed Jing Ke in the thigh. After a few sentences about the motive for the assassination (this is also a plot arrangement with a stage effect), Jing Ke finally laughed and died.
Looking at history is also a period of self-discovery
Looking back at the intersection between myself and history, the most likely one was in high school. Under the reform of the college entrance examination 3 + major comprehensive + 1, I chose history without hesitation. At that time, history was a thorough liberal arts, which meant that This is a subject that requires a strong enough memory to get a high score. As for the emperors and generals in history, the change of dynasties, political reforms, literati tragedies, etc., with the end of the discipline and the end of the college entrance examination, they have been scattered in the depths of memory step by step.
When I was young, I thought that the textbook knowledge I learned was equivalent to the truth of history, but I didn't know that the variables of people were the most difficult to fix through writing. As objective as Taishigong, it presents enough rich historical figures for our taste, and readers will be in a trance when they see these historical figures with the growth of age and experience.
The murderous tyrant who kills everywhere has a sad childhood and an unresolved conflict in his heart. The grand narrative of the historical book and the dramatic treatment of the film, the truth and the false, the unreal and the unreal, on the contrary, made me, as an audience, become more curious about the self-righteous truth. Different directors choose to make completely different adaptations of the same history. Behind this, and the director's own life experience, it is a matter of continuous editing and chaos.
Faced with the question I asked at the beginning, I seem to have the answer. Art, in my opinion, always provides a perspective that we are not very good at everyday, to guide us to observe the world that we are accustomed to ignore, or arrogantly think we understand, whether it is the past, the present or the future of.
Perhaps it is because I think I am too familiar with the grand historical narrative, and rudely think that the grand envelops everything, and the individual cannot show his true personality under such a grand proposition, so I unconsciously have a sense of the grand narrative (the main drama of the historical theme). an instinctive resistance.
But when the human side of emperors and heroes was expressed by the director from the grand narrative, the history in my memory suddenly took on a little warmth. These great figures who determine the course of our history also have the unavoidable pain, struggle, conflict and loneliness in human nature. Even if they are as great as them, they can be written down and have a cultural status that will be remembered for thousands of generations, but they cannot be seen all. Not to mention the countless living beings scattered in the depths of history with no name and no surname.
Fortunately, in the current era, we have enough carriers and space to go back to the history we think we are familiar with, break our self-prejudice, and reconstruct our historical cognition. In this process, the narrow and extreme self is seen, accepted and Update, this is the author's film after the author, and then the reader.
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