Fortunately, "House of Flying Daggers", as always, has inherited certain styles of Zhang Yimou's films, such as beautiful pictures, such as music, such as Ye He (but this time, the handsome guy Jin had done it a few times before he got Zhang Xiaomei to do it. I'm a little impatient). This made me finally stick to seeing the end.
After watching it, I couldn't think of a suitable word to describe this film for a while. Suddenly I remembered the words of Lu Xun's old man: "Even if it is a nameless swollen poison, if it is born in a Chinese, it will be 'red and swollen, as beautiful as peach blossoms; when it is festering, as beautiful as cheese.'"
"House of Flying Daggers" is a " Yan Ruo Peach Blossom" nameless swollen poison. Its picture is very successful, and the effect is no worse than "Hero" or any of Zhang Yimou's films. I personally think that some places may be better, such as those described by Russian writers such as Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy. Zhang Yimou has photographed the forests and grasslands of Eastern Europe countless times, as well as the bamboo forests that others have used. The music is ok too, except for the drum beats of Jin Shuai and Zhang Mei escaping for their lives in the woods, which is reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa. And, I thought, "House of Flying Daggers" had better fighting designs than "Heroes" and had more tricks in fighting.
But we go to the cinema to see a movie, not a concert or a photography exhibition.
The screenwriter's incompetence once again destroyed those beautiful pictures. Strictly speaking, the story of "House of Flying Daggers" is more compact than "Heroes". But that's not the writer's job. But because they chose to chase and escape such a story type. This kind of story type, as long as the movie is not over, we will all look forward to it, because maybe the next moment will be a good show where the fish die and the net breaks.
One of the screenwriters was on TV after "Heroes" came out. When someone asked if "Heroes" is more about form than content, the person actually said that we want this effect. When someone asked again, the person seemed extremely impatient and annoyed. At that time, I was dumbfounded. A screenwriter found a problem with the script, but was unable to fix it, saying that we would like to do this. Would a doctor say that after diagnosing a patient's condition?
The problem of concept first in "Hero" reappears in "House of Flying Daggers". It's just that "Heroes" is about the world, and this time it's love. Clinging to concepts leads to thin stories. The sudden change of many plots in "House of Flying Daggers", as well as some unreasonable bugs, may be the result of the director focusing too much on the picture and concept.
The writer is too eager to tell the audience something. However, for people like me, in real life, I have to listen to the earnest teachings of teachers, leaders, parents and colleagues, and finally escape to the cinema. I just want to watch a good story, and I don’t want to listen to anyone’s lessons. . However, this film has everything, but does not have an exquisite story. It seems that our filmmakers still have a lot to learn from Hollywood and even Koreans.
If a beautiful woman is described as a peach blossom, we will think it is a bit vulgar, but it is acceptable, but when someone uses it to describe a nameless swollen poison and disgusts us, then we can't blame us for throwing rotten eggs. .
If it may be a bit mean to describe "House of Flying Daggers" with the swollen poison of a peach blossom, then I will use the buddy who is completely different in the ancient fable. When the original intention and goal of making the film have been deviated, the more efforts you make, the more mistakes you will make. Even the forests and heavy snow in Ukraine cannot bring Zhang Yimou out of the ambush.
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