Chen Kaige was born in a famous family, but a literati was arrogant and did not listen to opinions, and made "The Promise" into a gorgeous empty shell without substance. Feng Xiaogang was born as a screenwriter, he knows the importance of stories, and he understands the tastes of the Chinese people. This is naturally inseparable from the small circle that has long ruled the imperial city. Director Feng is not like Director Chen. He brainstorms, and insiders include Wang Shuo and Liu Zhenyun Juncai, there are always a lot of good ideas in gossip. After long-term immersion, Lao Xu became a talented girl, and Jiang Wen made his own way. Feng Dao was smart for a lifetime, but Huayi Brothers was a businessman, with a high output every year. After all, he is not Woody Allen, and he will always be exhausted. "If You Are the One" made a profit, and it was logical to make a sequel, but it turned out to be a tasteless work that relies on lines to promote the plot, and the story? That year, Jiang Wen won, he insisted on the importance of the story, and he told the story of a goose city with interesting ups and downs for three days.
Laomouzi is also a great master of the generation. "Alive", "Raise the Red Lantern", and "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" all try their best to dig out the brilliance of human nature in the context of special times. He has a background in photography, but he has a unique vision in picking scripts. He chose the works of Yu Hua, Sutong and others, and then gave the visual art of the scheming loess red building, which made him a hero for a while. So the hero began to write his own script, and it was a matter of course to make a "Hero", which was as golden and jade as "Golden Armor". As soon as a person has an identity, he becomes cautious in his words and deeds. What about Laomouzi's courage to expose the darkness of society and dig out human nature?
Fortunately, today, Laomouzi has returned. Cultural works themselves are regional, and Feng Dao does not understand, but his films in Hong Kong Waterloo can only blame the Hong Kong audience for their low level of appreciation. Laomouzi understands that Li An's success is inseparable from his background of growth. "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" selects the works of Yan Geling, who passed the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. Li An and Yan Geling have lived overseas for a long time. , proficient in using Chinese and foreign languages to create, and also knows the tastes of foreigners, so it is easy to be recognized. This woman has experience as a war correspondent, and has a certain skill in describing war scenes, supplemented by delicate and sharp strokes to depict a group of small people seeking human redemption in an irreversible tragedy, which just caters to the aesthetic habits of ancient Greek tragedy in the West, so this film International reputation has a solid foundation.
But as an audience member walking into the theater, sitting quietly in front of the big screen, holding his breath, waiting for the director to tell a magical story, what are you most looking forward to? For "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", I am most looking forward to Christian Bale and the Thirteen Hairpins. Bale, a British child star who was excavated by Spielberg in those years, made up for the lack of story with accurate interpretation under the narration ability of the director of "American Psycho". You have the character, and the charm of a man in his twenties and thirties is vividly displayed, which is enough to kill a group of Japanese and Korean idols. The strength of this Nolan's queen's male role has long been obvious to all. What makes this man outstanding is that his expression is rich and can be changed at any time, but the transition is easy and natural. This time, he played the funeral director Miller, a prodigal son who was greedy for money, infatuated with jade ink, and only for his own selfish desires. After experiencing everything, he was transformed into a hero who saves the common people and redeems himself. The transformation of his character is also related to The story is integrated step by step and progresses naturally. From a commercial point of view, with his vigorous joining, the film's international attention has also been greatly improved.
Another expectation is the thirteen hairpins that have been mysterious and unpredictable. I heard that the thirteen hairpins are almost all blank sheets with no drama experience. Fresh faces will not make the audience feel the same visual fatigue as "58 in the same city". The premise is that Laomouzi does not need to rely on celebrities to guarantee the box office, and boldly uses newcomers It's always been his style. "Lust and Caution" introduced a beauty named Tang Wei, but now "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" has launched a group of beauties, and they are a group of fresh and mysterious beauties. At this time, the looming off-scenes in the trailer are playing a prominent role. People are always attracted by novelty. Men will always have no resistance in front of fresh beauties, and they still hold their lutes and cover their faces. I don't know if the filmmakers deliberately used the deformation strategy of hunger marketing. From the early stage to the publicity, the thirteen hairpins have been tightly wrapped, for fear of leaking the slightest rumor. Since the new faces that no one knows about are enabled, they are simply mysterious to death, keeping the freshness until the last minute before the movie starts, so that the curious audience can enter the theater obediently to reveal the mystery of the Thirteen Hairpins.
The thirteen hairpins are the focus of this play. They are the force that pushes the whole play to the climax and ending, and everyone is undoubtedly focused on Yu Mo. Some film critics said that Ni Ni will replicate Tang Wei's miracle. Yumo in the film does have an irresistible charm, mysterious and firm, just like Wang Jiazhi back then, but she has a quality that is better than Wang Jiazhi, that is, her facial features are not as delicate as Wang Jiazhi. Different from Tang Wei's round and full face, exquisite facial features, and a natural beauty embryo, Ni Ni has slender single eyelids, a pointed mouth, and a sharply cut face with water chestnuts. The traditional elders seem to be somewhat unlucky. But it is such a pair of unflattering facial features, but they are very personal when placed together, and the special taste that is different from the public beauty is vividly displayed in the smoky look, which makes people unable to help being attracted by this atypical beauty with obvious characteristics. The aesthetic standards of the Chinese and the West are similar, and the difference may be that the Chinese prefer to be soft and harmonious, but the beauty of harmony is not lost; while the West pursues distinctive features and contains a certain degree of conflict. In fact, this difference can also be reflected in clothing. Most Chinese people prefer to dress themselves harmoniously and naturally, which is a protective dressing style that is easy to hide. Too bland, and they will always be paired with a standout color or gadget to create a strong clash of colors without being too boring all over. There is no right or wrong in the difference itself, but Laomouzi wants to hit the Oscars with this film. Obviously, a woman like Ni Ni, who has personal characteristics without losing oriental beauty, will not lose domestic audiences, but it is more in line with Western aesthetics. .
Having said that, international fame seems to be a certainty, but at the last minute, the story is still the most important. As the screenwriter of this film, Geling Yan has a certain guarantee in telling the story. The story is set in a big background of troubled times, but the protagonist is placed on a few low-level characters. This is a good starting point. The highlight is that the character creation subverts the traditional established model of prostitutes. The prostitutes who are at the bottom of the public image have a poor reputation and sacrifice their lives for justice. In the end, the ending of Phoenix Nirvana makes the story itself more conflicting and dramatic, and the characters are more three-dimensional and flesh-and-blood. , creating a new character image. At the same time, the highlight of this film is that, in addition to the sublimation of the funeral director Miller from a small self to a big self, the church students also hated prostitutes from the beginning, disdain their words and deeds, and gradually developed respect and shared weal and woe with them. Both fully depict the evolution and infinite possibilities of human nature.
Perhaps, in the era of cross-flow of desire, the big screen is full of modern movies with all kinds of big scenes and special effects, Laomouzi can honestly and calmly tell the extraordinary story of an ordinary person outside the war scene. It was doomed to be extraordinary from the start.
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