The green pearl hairpin of the heroine Xiaobai is the soul character of the film. If she can have lines, she should have more lines than Miss Xiaoqing. How did such a first sister in the prop industry accomplish important scenes through unique and interesting settings?
When you see Xu Xian in this life finally picking up Xiaobai's green pearl hairpin on the broken bridge, what is the first image that pops into your mind? In theory, it should be some kind of love-related image. However, under the beautiful picture of the sky blue waiting for the misty rain and I am waiting for you, the shriveled faces of the monsters who were sucked up by the pearl hairpins appeared in my mind. . . Why is this happening?
In "White Snake: Origin", the green bead hairpin of the heroine Xiaobai is set with very complex attributes and has a lot of close-up shots. Through the unique setting of an object prop and the use of visual language such as close-up to express the emotions of characters or promote the plot, it is widely used in many movies (for example, the book Audiovisual Language Course by Li Ling in 2016). This is discussed more fully in ). After all, in a movie with limited time, if you can give some props a unique meaning and let them carry the emotions of the characters, you can express a mood that is better than a thousand words through a close-up picture at a specific time.
So what kind of setting does the green bead hairpin as the first sister of the prop in "White Snake: Origin", and what are the important junctures at which it appeared to promote the plot and convey the emotions of the characters?
Several major appearances of pearl hairpins
The highlight of the first pearl hairpin is at the beginning of the film, when Xiaoqing returns the pearl hairpin to Xiaobai to help her recover her memory and get rid of the torture of her lost love.
When Xiaobai held the pearl hairpin in his hand, peach blossoms immediately floated, a lot of peach blossoms, perhaps implying that this is a three-life three-life, ah no, some kind of memory about the origin of the peach blossom debt. So, Xiaobai opened up the memories that had been sealed for 500 years.
Here, Zhu Chai presents a first-level setting , a stack with first in first out for storing and retrieving memories . I want one!
The second time, 500 years ago, Xiaobai took the pearl hairpin to assassinate the national teacher.
Here, the pearl hairpin has a second layer of settings, weapons. However, the attack value of the pearl hairpin as a weapon is very scum! The assassination ended almost before it began. Xiaobai used the pearl hairpin to duel with the national teacher and the coquettish apprentice of the national teacher successively, all of which ended in rapid failure. It turned out that Bai Suzhen, who was invincible in my mind, was also a scumbag 500 years ago.
The third time, it was Ah Xuan and Xiao Bai who were in danger on the edge of a cliff.
Just as Axuan and Xiaobai were holding a small paper umbrella together, they were blowing and blowing proudly and indulgently in the back mountain of the picturesque Snake Village, when suddenly Axuan stumbled and fell off a cliff. At this critical moment, the pearl hairpin suddenly appeared in the crevice of the rock, and Ah Xuan also asked, what is this? But, whatever, he just grabbed the bead hairpin stuck in the rock and saved his life. illustrate:
1. Ah Xuan reacts very quickly
2. Ah Xuan's biceps, triceps and abdominal muscles are very good.
After reading it again, I found that the sudden appearance of the pearl hairpin was because, when Xiaobai was defeated by the national teacher and fell off the cliff, the pearl hairpin made his own decision, bounced out with a bang, and got stuck in the rock. . . So when Ah Xuan fell off the cliff, he happened to fall here and grabbed the pearl hairpin stuck in the stone! After discovering this truth, I didn't know what to say for a while. . .
Then, there was a peak of the whole film's bizarre plot. Zhuchai suddenly exerted power, and Xiaobai suddenly lost consciousness. The mysterious power of Zhuchai lifted Xiaobai into the air and threw her off the cliff! ! However, after landing, Xiaobai did not hang or was injured, but fainted, and happened to be discovered by the soldiers of the national division, and recognized that she was the assassin. It's really a bead hairpin with elbows turned out! He even took the owner and cast himself into the net.
A scene here caused a strong cognitive conflict in me, and I pondered over and over again, what the hell is going on! Why did Xiaobai faint? Why did Zhuchai take her down the cliff? How could she be found by the soldiers as soon as she landed? I finally thought of a possibility that Zhuchai was marked by the coquettish apprentice of the national teacher, and the global automatic The location system tracks and automatically transports Xiaobai for them to discover. Not great!
So, maybe the pearl hairpin has a hidden setting: it can cast spells independently, and engage in some high-altitude transportation operations.
The fourth time was at Baoqingfang.
The fox girl NPC will introduce the past and present life of the pearl hairpin baby. From her mouth, we know the third-level setting of the pearl hairpin, that is, the secret of the pearl hairpin is to absorb the cultivation mana and possibly the memory of the owner.
Moreover, the fox lady said that the original owner of the pearl hairpin was the big python teacher. However, in the subsequent plot, Zhu Chai carried the feelings of A Xuan and Xiao Bai, so why is it set to be the item of Teacher Big Python? No solution. . . In short, when I just entered this big part of my memories 500 years ago, I felt that the rhythm of the whole film was chaotic and bugs were spread widely.
The fifth time, the tower was broken in the rain.
Before the two were drying firewood in the broken tower, the pearl hairpin on Xiaobai's head witnessed everything. The setting of the pearl hairpin here is to witness the "momentary happiness" of the two. I thought that I could give more close-ups of the pearl hairpin here, emphasizing that it is a witness.
The scene where the two suddenly drove in the small broken tower on the rainy night, Xiang Yan is Xiang Yan, but the emotions in front do not seem to pile up to the point where it is worth driving. A bit sudden. and. . . Xiaobai knew that sister Xiaoqing was waiting for him outside in the rain. . . But here to be happy alone? This kind of setting, let me later have a sub-theme of this film is to show a bi-how to complete the final choice between the same sex and the opposite sex through one night stand. . . As Xiaobai said, "It feels different to be with him", hum.
The sixth time, it was the coquettish apprentice of the national teacher who came to sneak attack.
At an extremely critical moment, Xiaobai and the coquettish apprentice held the pearl hairpin at the same time, and suddenly, the star-sucking Dafa started. The coquettish apprentice's demonic energy was drained and turned into a demon, and Xiaobai became Dabai. Compared with the previous situation when nothing happened when the national teacher was assassinated on the ship, it seems to be saying that the enemy and us must contact the pearl hairpin, and the star sucking method can be activated.
The seventh appearance is a duel with the national teacher and the big python teacher .
Xiaoqing inserted the hairpin deeply into the back of the national teacher. When he turned around inadvertently and turned his back to the big python master, he was sucked away by the big python and turned into a second demon! It seems that the pearl hairpin can also be remotely operated by our side when it is inserted into the enemy's body to absorb the demonic energy.
The eighth time, it was in the lock demon formation.
The pearl hairpin has a fourth-level setting here, that is, Xiaobai uses the pearl hairpin to bind Ah Xuan's soul, so that he will not lose his soul . However. . . The first time I saw it, I thought that Xiaobai sucked like this with a hairpin, and Ah Xuan, who had turned into a demon, was about to become a fertilizer to increase Xiaobai's mana, and became the third demon. . . And here, A Xuan's body has been wiped out, so the pearl hairpin can actually be sucked without touching the body? Then, when sucking the national teacher and the coquettish apprentice before, why can't you suck in the air? It seems that this suction method is very knowledgeable.
The ninth time, at Broken Bridge.
On the broken bridge, Qing and Bai deliberately left the bead hairpin. 500 years later, Xu Xian in this life picked up the bead hairpin and wanted to return it to the two girls. There were obviously a few female passers-by around, but he only asked Qing Bai, who was destined and the magic power of the back killer.
Potential problems with rich setting of pearl hairpins
Interestingly, at the end of the film, when the 500-year-old love affair begins, as soon as I see the close-up of the bead hairpin, the image of the sucked-up national teacher and the coquettish apprentice suddenly appeared in my mind. . . If we take a closer look, we will find that in the previous eight important appearances and features, only the first, fifth, and eighth are related to love. And, strictly speaking, the fifth, under-emphasized and characterized, is easily overlooked. That is to say, before the meeting of the broken bridge at the end, before the pearl hairpin resumes the leading edge, the audience spends three-quarters of the time watching the weapon setting of the pearl hairpin, the attack attribute and the monster-inhaling attribute. There is a great possibility that the audience will establish a conditioned reflex between the bead hairpin and the sucked-up monster. As a result, when I saw the pearl hairpins in the romantic atmosphere of the particularly beautiful music and the sky blue of the broken bridge, the first thing that came to my mind was the faces that were sucked dry. . . The pearl hairpin also failed to fully play the role of activating the audience's memory of the love clips of the hero and heroine and the emotional experience of love through the close-up pictures. It is a pity.
Moreover, we will find that there are some other problems with the setting of this important prop.
1. The function of the pearl hairpin is too complicated. The first layer of the function is that the owner actively stores and retrieves the memory through the bead hairpin; the second layer is the weapon, which absorbs the demonic energy of others for his own use; the third layer is that the bead hairpin absorbs the owner's memory, and the memory is passively stored. The fourth layer, binding the soul. As well as the hidden fifth layer, it casts spells autonomously and completes high-altitude transportation operations. There are so many settings that I didn't notice so many when I first watched it. The second brush only found out, oh my god. . . so much. . . Maybe dig a little more, and there's still more. However, these function to narrative and teaser. . . Are they all necessary? Or just make people look a little dizzy. There is a feeling of, wow, the pearl hairpin is omnipotent. If we can't think of how to advance the plot, let's send the pearl hairpin on the stage.
2. The triggering method of the pearl hairpin weapon attribute is not clear. If we say that the origin of the white snake is an action movie, and the pearl hairpin is a weapon, we don’t care about love or not. Then, in the six very important descriptions of the weapon attributes of the pearl hairpin, the method of the pearl hairpin's power is not clearly explained. Some very basic questions are still very vague and self-contradictory. For example, under what conditions can a pearl hairpin absorb the opponent's demonic energy? Do you need physical contact? Is it far away? Does it have anything to do with the power of the practitioner? And, how to decide when to suck the demon energy and when to bind the soul? If these issues are not clarified, it will be difficult to move the audience through the appearance of pearl hairpins at a specific time.
I think when I watched it for the first time, I thought with all my heart that in the lock demon formation, Xiao Bai finally took the pearl hairpin and used his last strength to inhale, and he was going to eat Ah Xuan's demonic energy. . . Because the previous plot has been paving the way for pearl hairpins to absorb demon energy and make Xiaobai become Dabai. But it has never been mentioned that the pearl hairpin can be used to bind the soul. So, even though it was a touching scene, I kept thinking, wow, no way. . . Xiaobai is really cruel. . . Will you be destroyed if you don't get it? But if there was a function of foreshadowing and binding the soul before, I could have been more moved!
3. The portrayal of the love attribute of the pearl hairpin is very weak. If it is said that the origin of the white snake is a movie with the theme of love, and the pearl hairpin has a special meaning for the love between the two, and the end of the film does use picking up the pearl hairpin as a bridge to continue the front, then the pearl hairpin is The one who shoulders the task of representing love. However, of the eight major appearances at present, only two are slightly related to emotions, which are almost negligible compared to the intense rendering of the weapon attributes of the pearl hairpin.
Therefore, is it possible, in the setting, to separate the love attribute and weapon attribute of the important prop of the bead hairpin. For example, the bead hairpin is simply set to represent love and memory, while the weapon attribute is completed by other items.
One possibility that can be thought of now is that if Xiaobai cannot complete the task of assassinating the national teacher, he will be executed by the master. And her assassination was unsuccessful, not because she didn't want to, but because she didn't dare. She has just been cultivated into human form, and she cannot recognize this non-snake and non-human self, neither has the courage, nor can she use all her abilities. Therefore, you can set the pearl hairpin as that it was Ah Xuan who went to Baoqingfang to save Xiaobai's life, asked the fox to use the damaged life as collateral, ordered the pearl hairpin injected with his own energy, and gave it to the Xiaobai gang. She completes the task. It is equivalent to Ah Xuan using the pearl hairpin to exchange his own life for Xiao Bai's life.
In this way, Zhuchai's help to Xiaobai can not be by inhaling demonic energy, but by passing on the energy that Ah Xuan injected into the pearl hairpin, giving Xiaobai the courage and strength to know himself. But Xiaobai didn't know it, and Axuan didn't know how much life expectancy he lost. At the moment when the task was finally completed, it was the time when Ah Xuan's life came to an end. . . In this way, Zhu Chai does not need to inhale demon energy and become a demon, nor does Ah Xuan need to become a demon. After all, there is another major potential bug involved in Axuan becoming a demon, why can "demon Axuan" be reincarnated. . . Become "Human Xu Xian"? If shemales can be reincarnated with each other, Xiaobai will die once, then he will be able to grow old with Xianggong after he is reincarnated as an adult~
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