Secondly, I just watched the Chinese "striking blockbuster" "Warring States", and suddenly wanted to talk about this Japanese "Warring States". The views below are my own.
Since the death of Akira Kurosawa, Japanese movies have been powerless for big scenes. One of the features of this movie is a lot of CG, such as the scene construction and action design of the game "Warring States Warriors". This actually avoids some problems to a certain extent, but at the same time it also makes the film blurred as a whole. Because the movie is not for reproducing the game after all, it is not that the players of the game do not like the video, but the requirements for the video are not so high. In the logic of the game, the impact of the player's inoperable graphics on the narrative will never be decisive. The reason why the problem of entangled scenes is because China's "Warring States" sells well, but it is lackluster, and many scenes in "Rogue Ishikawa" are very fake, but they are relish. The visual style of comics is of course also a style, but this is not a complete anime, so the visual level will inevitably affect the narrative and overall feeling, and how to integrate is a complex proposition, obviously the Japanese are here. aspects are not adequate.
This film is an action film, but the rich content and unique perspective are very interesting. Those who are familiar with the history of the Warring States Period in Japan will find many interesting things in this film. There have always been many theories and interpretations about the change of Honneng Temple. The way of interpretation of this film is not new. It is one of them. The important thing is how to tell the story and how to turn the whole story into an epic that belongs to one person. This story is about a rogue's love/friendship/dreams and loyalty (of course there are a lot of extras), that's all, but isn't that enough, what a movie can do, what it can say, in fact How many are there?
To put it simply, the whole movie is a story about loyalty. It's a bit arbitrary to say that, as I would say, Farewell My Concubine is also a story about loyalty. If I say this, I actually mean that I want to discuss this aspect, not that it can only be read in this way, and it is not that there is nothing else. Loyalty is actually difficult to define. As far as Goemon is concerned, he is loyal to his master, loyal to friendship, and loyal to love. Loyalty is never giving up. Loyalty is doing your best. Loyalty is repaying with death. But to put it another way, all of Goemon's loyalty is to be loyal to his true self. Being yourself is the hardest. He has also been shaken, but the important thing is not whether to shake, but how to choose. He finally chose his own path. I am not alone, but I am destined to be alone. If a person cannot have his own dreams, then he can still implement the dreams of others, which is also admirable and lamentable. Goemon has not reached this level, because he also has vague dreams. I think it's boring to talk about childhood memories, but this is the beginning of his life. Throughout his life, he looked at the world in chaos, war, poverty, disease, the strong prey on the weak, and those who take the world as the authority see no charcoal creatures. He suffered misfortune in childhood, and once lingered among the lower classes, so he was well acquainted with this troubled world. Surviving in troubled times is difficult, but it is even more difficult to change its heart, and even more difficult is to try it even though it cannot be changed. This idea is the heroic ambition of generosity, and it does not originate from the Japanese "servants", but from the Chinese "scholars".
With Goemon as the object of discussion, one is Hideyoshi and the other is Caizo. Each of them is his master. However, loyal ministers do not serve as second masters. It's not stupid, it's called integrity. Integrity is not necessary to be implemented, nor can everyone have it, so it is the most noble. It’s not that you have to have the world in your heart, and no one demands that you have to be one and the same. There is a song called "According to the situation", which sings: "Even if you can't be a hero, you have to be a hero." There are all kinds of heroes, but not everyone is a good man. It is a hero who realizes his personal ambition, and he who fights to protect his family is also a hero. But they both gave up something for it. Goemon also died in the end by the sword of his original servant, which means that he was the only one who was loyal from beginning to end. Loyalty has become relative to everyone else, with the realization of his creed or survival as the highest, only he refuses to change in this direction. I don't think he doesn't understand. Like Tan Sitong said, someone has to go, and I have to stay. There should be both those who leave and those who stay.
I once saw a post with an antique poem in it. There are two sentences written in this way, urging you not to take the history of Dongying lightly, and some people in Dongying do the same. What is "also"? Because Dongying's righteousness and Dongying's loyalty all come from me, Yangyang Huaxia. Before Kongming Liu went out of Qishan, he would like to fill the sky with one hand. Xin Qiji said, "Look at the hands and make up the cracks in the sky." Xiao Feng "teachs Shan Yu to break arrows, break up the Six Armies, and fight for heroic anger". In the pre-Qin period, there were two brothers who, because they refused to eat the grain of the enemy country, went to the mountain to pick up weeds to eat, and finally died of starvation. Can the sky be repaired? Don't they understand? They understand better than anyone else. They want to be the ones who stay and stick to it. We are not unfamiliar with the stories of "Xia" and "Qi". We have had to leave, we have had Jing Ke, we have had Zhu Hai and Hou Ying, there have been many dead people in China since ancient times, how generous and elegiac people! How many years did these people predate Goemon? Japan's Warring States period is equivalent to our Ming Dynasty, let's do the math. But in the stories of Sun Bin and Pang Juan, I only saw a slightly heroic beauty holding two dazzling silver knives. It is hard not to think of Legolas in The Lord of the Rings, while Goemon holds two dazzling silver knives. The blade of the sword divides friendship and memory, carries Nobunaga's dream of deploying martial arts in the world, and bears the responsibility of protecting Miss Chacha. So how could he throw away, he couldn't throw away his memories, that is to say, he couldn't throw away himself. At the end of the film, Goemon wears Nobunaga's red body armor in the sunset. Although tens of thousands of people have gone, he does not just want to achieve the unfinished business for Nobunaga, but also to all the chaotic ministers with a persistent attitude. Thieves, unscrupulous princes and numb people in troubled times declare that there is still loyalty here.
In addition, I also want to say a little bit, that is, deploying martial arts in the world is not the highest realm, the highest realm should be holding a long sword and not fighting. So now chewing on "Hero" again, there will be emotions. "Hero" is a movie about chivalry. A scholar dies for a confidant. But shi not only die for confidants, but also for other things. For the heaven and earth, for the sake of life, for the people, for the sages of the past, and for the sake of peace. Although the truth is big, who said that a film like this movie can't be told? Chinese filmmakers should think about how this is not how to copy individual heroism, but how to explain history and show a wonderful story. What's more intelligent is that people don't think you're being reasonable at all. This does require real skill, but it is also a matter of attitude. Movies leave a lot of space for creators, even those who are increasingly impetuous.
Are there any dog butchers of the past?
Yangtian smiled and burst into tears.
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