Originally, Confucius said that you should do what you want to others. If Brother Fa really understood the true meaning of fraternity of sages and sages during the filming process, he would not be able to make fun of the host on a CCTV program and not be able to get off the stage. Although many people think that person deserves it, if the sage Kong opens his eyes again today, he will shake his head. It's a shame, it's a shame, and the people who teach etiquette, righteousness and integrity are bowing their noble heads and kneeling to thank the audience, but they are not using maxims as pointers to beat hypocrisy. disciple. Helpless, Brother Fa only learned three steps and nine knocks, but he didn't learn the noble character of the sages. Whether it is this movie or the propaganda before and after, it has become an out-and-out superficial article.
Of course, what I want to talk about is not Brother Fa, but this movie. I have never understood the real intention of Hu Mei to make this movie. Is it to warm up for the later movie version of "Dream of Red Mansions"? In all fairness, this "Confucius" has nothing to do with it. There is also a big generation gap between the mediocre writing and the current entertainment landscape, and listing such life stories in two hours will inevitably become a cup of warm water. In particular, Hu Mei is used to filming slow-paced TV dramas and does not know what the audience in the theaters want. This is also one of the reasons for the collapse of the film. She abandoned the process of Confucius cultivating books and establishing a school and chose not to. The description of the recognized life events also almost reduces the style of the film.
Of course, Hu Mei also put a lot of thought into the script and also lacked courage. At least it restored the characteristics of "people" under the halo of sages. The first half of the scheming emerged, and the second half was like a lost dog, which is equivalent to stripping the altar, but this is the treatment The method audience may not buy it. At least Confucius has long been mythicalized by literati for two thousand years, creating the phenomenon that the saint "suffered his mind and starved his body and skin". At the end, it was a pitiful gesture to welcome home with a jade ring. This invisible change in perspective also explained. The creator is thinking about the confusion and doubts expressed in this film. In terms of narrative strategy, it also follows the common problems of domestic blockbusters: pale, bloody, sensational, logical, scattered plot... It is normal for the audience to be annoyed by the horizontally inserted jokes, since John Woo can let Xiao Qiao cross Jiangdong , then Hu Mei can also let Zhou Xun be the uncle control, which is considered a woman not to be a man.
During the Spring Festival, the crew of "Confucius" went to Qufu, Shandong Province to worship Confucius. If it is as great as they thought, then there is no need to put the plot of Lin Xiangru's meeting in Mianchi on the head of sage Kong. After all, even Sima Qian would not be satisfied by doing so, and said Hu Mei in disguise. It has almost been reduced to plagiarizing the stories in the elementary school textbooks to piece together the plot. Isn't it a big cup? And Yan Hui's death is also a tampering with history. Anyone who has read the book knows that he followed the sage Kong back to the state of Lu to preach and teach, but in the movie, he exchanged his life for the works of the Kong family. Some people are tearful, but they have never explained the importance of those scriptures.
Since the creators can't grasp the narrative focus of the film "Confucius", they are simply reduced to a behavioral game of splicing aphorisms. In the first half of the film, the sage Confucius hesitated to reform and innovate, eager to achieve success and became an ambitious Politician, but once deported and exiled, he believes in the thesis of inaction, but he is comparable to a fugitive. During this period, the situation was changing and the world was impermanent. The sage Confucius kept sighing in his heart and kept popping out the words and phrases of the "Analects of Confucius", which made him seem a little pretentious. This even reflects the most fundamental Chinese spirit of Ah Q, the most representative of which is Yixian. The scene of being a meal, no matter how serious you look, has become a joke. When the disciples shared the horse broth for the last night, it was obvious that they were looting regardless of etiquette. At the end, they all danced together happily to celebrate the last supper.
The roughness of the story means that the technology is useless no matter what. Bao Dexi has worked on Chen Kaige's "The Promise". This time, in addition to bringing the dignified color, he also brought the thunder. The scene of the falling arrows has the texture of "Heroes", and the scene of Qi Jun encountering the bullock cart is very characteristic of "Wuji". The bird's-eye view shot has been used many times, but the shooting is fragmented, which is bound to be estimated that the film is elegant It is not advisable to make a big deal of blood in the temperament, and the big scene just ended hastily. Movies with culture as the theme should not have too much ambition, and "Confucius" failed because it was too ambitious, and its operation was tied up, until it fell into a complete fall. You can attribute it to Hu Mei's inexperience in filmmaking. After all, she is one of the most storytellers in the TV industry, but she seems powerless to come to the big screen this time.
Nowadays, domestic blockbusters are becoming more and more unsightly and indiscriminate themes. Originally, they were expected to rely on historical thickness and cultural accumulation to achieve Chinese-style productions, but now they find that it is a dead end that does not work. Perhaps being loyal to history isolates the audience, tampering with the truth and distorting it, but between the dilemmas, there are those bigwigs who have mastered the important resources. It is really a strange situation in the Chinese film industry. Is there nothing to do except for this kind of yin and yang costume drama? Maybe a spy movie like "The Wind" or a comedy movie like "Crazy Racing" is a feasible way out, and shoddy movies that play with history and accent are really more terrible than tigers!
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