the story is so well told

Rosalee 2022-04-21 09:03:34

I don't really have high expectations for movies. A movie, if it can tell a story well, let people escape, experience something different, or let people learn something, let people think out of the routine, it is very good. This king's man is quite satisfying to me.

The script is really good. The street juggling entered the palace, and the palace changed because of this. The king fell in love with the actor, and the actor hesitated between the head of the squad and the king. . The story is smooth and engaging. It's not easy to tell a good story in two hours. Just ask Lao Zhang and Chen to know that living and Farewell My Concubine are good-looking. The most fundamental thing is that Yu Hua and Li Bihua's scripts are well written. There is room for other talents to develop.

Korean history and street juggling are also interesting. Court grievances seem to be the same everywhere. But their palace buildings, furniture, decorations, pomp, stage for street operas, costumes, makeup, and props don't seem to be on the table, they are thousands of years behind us, and several grades lower. Especially the street juggling itself, it is really primitive and vulgar. I thought Xiaoshenyang's two-person turn was vulgar enough. It seems that there are mountains beyond the mountains, and people should never be underestimated. The Korean people don't seem to want to whitewash it, and they're not afraid of your jokes. Just a few actions and a few words will make you dirty, lively, and not concealed at all.

But the actors are really good. Lee Jun Ki really played the weak, handsome and kind Kong Ji to life, how can a big man be a woman more than a woman? It's mind blowing. If there is some background in the front and some psychological transformation in the back, this character will be perfect. Changsheng is even more of an actor. He is not tall and looks like a passer-by. But in the end, his bravery, his open-mindedness, his domineering, and his true feelings, how do you feel that no matter whether he is on stage or off stage, he is a person A king who is willing to follow in life and death? At the end, I no longer criticize their rudimentary stage, their vulgar plays, or their cottage, because the truth is always shocking in ancient and modern China and abroad.

The director is very smart and is very good at telling stories with the camera. He didn't have much of the same-sex relationship between Mokongji and Changsheng, there was no unnecessary entanglement and twisting, and there was no intimate words and actions. Also liked the final bright ending, the rebels rushed in, no melee, no killing, and no end of the poor and hateful king, only Kong Ji and Changsheng took a brave leap on the high rope, and everything came to a close. end. happy.

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The King and the Clown quotes

  • Jang-sang: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ahhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

    [From subtitles]

    Jang-sang: You have the wrong man. I wrote it. He's innocent. The audacity of it has my signature all over it. After all, it was by audacity that I got in the palace.

    Nok-su Jang: You're making this up!

    Jang-sang: Well, well.

    [Stands up defiantly in front of the King and Nok-su]

    Jang-sang: A whore and her tongue's work is never done.

    Nok-su Jang: How DARE you!

  • Pal-bok: [From subtitles] Isn't she the King's Consort?

    Chil-duk: Sure is. What on earth is that woman doing?

    Pal-bok: People say, she a lady now but she still shits like a horse. So then the rumors were true after all!