"Confucius": Hu Mei made a TV documentary instead of a movie

Fay 2022-04-20 09:02:40

On January 22, "Confucius" was released, and more than 2,500 copies were distributed worldwide to commemorate Confucius more than 2,500 years ago. On January 23, I watched "Confucius" at the UME International Cinema in Beijing, and the attendance rate of the theater was less than 30%. After watching it, I was inhuman and did not shed any tears. I felt really sorry for Brother Fa.

In 1997, Hu Mei spent 44 episodes telling "The Yongzheng Dynasty", and the episode hit a peak in CCTV ratings that year; in 2003, Hu Mei spent 58 episodes depicting "The Emperor of Han Wu". According to this logic, Hu Mei should The older the historical figures are, the longer it takes, but this time she finished the "Confucius" in just 2 hours, and the consequences can be imagined.

The film opens with the 73-year-old white-haired Confucius sitting in front of the insincere landscape special effects and looking back on the past, and then the camera jumps directly to Confucius' peak of his career at the age of 51. Famous for his erudition and many apprentices did not mention a word, it can be seen that Hu Mei's threshold for the audience is not low. Poor me, I have a very poor memory. I only remember that Confucius has always had several labels of "thinker, educator, old man", but I don't know why he was labeled with these labels.

And the movie did not give a good explanation next, because Hu Mei said in an interview that she hoped to make Confucius an ordinary person. Therefore, this ordinary person can be promoted from a commoner to Xiaosikong, Dasikou, and Xiangshi within a year. It can be seen that he is not ordinary at all, and the film uses two scenes to explain: the "Parliament" advocates the abolition of human sacrifice. The eloquence at the time of the ceremony, and the Jiaguhui alliance with Qi State won the victory without a single soldier and won back three cities to establish merits.

This suddenly inspired the courage and determination of Confucius to govern, and proposed to demolish the fief and city walls. From then on, the state of Lu became a family. As a result, it angered other noble colleagues and triggered the rebellion of Wufugongshan, so there was a grand scene of Wuzitai's rebellion. The war scene is the climax of the film, but it also exposes the director's masturbation climax because of the clumsy special effects and the false assumption that the arrows flying wildly miss the protagonist.

Confucius' ideal of governance came to an end, and then Ya abandoned the abandoned son and left the state of Lu to start a 14-year journey around the world, which triggered a group of apprentices to blindly follow the trend, abandoning his wife and wandering the world together. Then came the splendid appearance of Zhou Xun, who was widely publicized earlier. After the two flirted with each other, Confucius couldn't help but say, "I have never seen such a virtuous person as a lustful person. Who would have expected Nanzi to suddenly Next sentence: People in the world may easily understand the pain experienced by the Master, but they may not be able to comprehend the realm that the Master experienced in the pain. This has also become the most proud of the director's words, and Confucius has also completed the image creation of "good argumentation", "wisdom and courage", and "excellent thinking", but in order to make Confucius more humane, the director arranged "Yan Hui" "Death" of the corruption bridge, to reflect the deep feelings between the master and the disciple.

In the film, after Yan Hui was frozen to death in order to save the bamboo slips that fell into the glacier, Confucius hugged Yan Hui's body in grief, clinging to Yan Hui's face more sadly than his dead lover, and finally catered to countless rotten female hunters. psychology. But it is said that Yan Hui actually died of illness. After his death, someone asked Confucius to sell the carriage to Yan Hui to buy a coffin, but Confucius cared too much about his carriage and did not agree. He also said: He lived such a simple life before death. It doesn't matter if there is a coffin in the future.

In the end, when Confucius returned to the State of Lu, Hu Mei only arranged for him to kneel at the gate of the city to complete the transformation of the Master from human to saint. The film then returned to Confucius when he was white-haired. After instructing his disciples to sort out the "Spring and Autumn" was presented to Duke Lu, and he faced the setting sun and passed away. Before his death, he left a sentence inexplicably: "The world understands me because of this book; misunderstands me because of this book." And what is "Spring and Autumn", and why he said it like this is not at all. Therefore, people who do not have a deep understanding of Confucius should not expect to understand this person and understand why Confucius is so highly regarded through this "Confucius".

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