Costume war movies have always been my favorite. It can be said that it should be the heart of everyone who likes to be curious about human history.
We often talk about taking history as a mirror. There is nothing new under the sun. Indeed, yesterday’s history has created the present, and the present will become the history of tomorrow. The history of mankind is inseparable from war, the climate of the earth, the environment of the habitat, and other animals and plants, and other human populations. To understand what is happening now, you must go back to history.
The ancient war films we can see can be almost divided into two cultures and civilizations, the East and the West.
1. Chinese Oriental Costume War Movies
Movies such as "Mythology", "Heroes", "Red Cliff", etc., "Three Kingdoms", "Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "New Water Margin" and other TV series
2. Korean costume war movies
Because there are few actors, most of them find some actors to see the big from the small, the scene is not too big, the history will not be too restored, but the emotion is full and the performance is lively. Such as "Samurai", "The Strongest Weapon·Bow", etc.
3. Western costume war films are divided into western mythological costume war films and western costume war films based on history.
There are many former, such as the "War of the Gods" series (partial science fiction), "Hercules", "Moses", "Samson" and other mythological stories, and more are the latter. The latter is divided into the eight immortals of various western countries who crossed the sea to show their magical powers. The wars of various western periods were filmed, such as the "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" series, "Troy", "Kings of Heaven", "Robin Hood" and "Centurion". "Gladiator", "Season of the Witch" and "Spartacus" TV series. The "Legend of the Vikings" series, "Legend of the Vikings" and even the overhead "Game of Thrones"
4. In recent years, there have been war films depicting the clash of civilizations between the East and the West, such as "Heavenly Commander", and even this "Queen Tomelis" has a similar meaning.
5. Because of India's history and land area, I have to mention the rather weird + sci-fi + hard-opening Indian war film "King Baholi". To be honest, I have not watched it, mainly because I have no courage to watch a few clips. . .
It can be said that the costume films of various countries strive to restore the historical background and environment at that time, and give the historical significance of the war in the film and TV series. What’s interesting is that in "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" and "Queen Tomelis", the villains are all Persians, and I estimate that in TV series such as "Huo Qu Bing", the villains are most likely to be nomads. ,Huns. And where did the Huns finally get driven by Huo Qubing? It is the current countries in West Asia.
Every nation has its national sentiments and national characteristics brought about by its war history. The smelting technology of various countries has been continuously integrated and updated during the war. In this movie, the Persian refugees brought swords to the queen couple. It can be imagined that it was the "Damascus steel" sword that was talked about at that time and even now. Damascus steel was originally produced in India and was sold to Damascus by Persian merchants to make swords with special craftsmanship, which were sold at home and abroad. It even spread eastward to China and became Wu Song's "iron and iron" sword. When passing westward, they encountered pirate Vikings who traded eastward and became the main material for high-quality Viking swords. Not to mention the Persian Damascus scimitar handed down locally in Persia, which ranks among the three most famous knives in the world in general.
As an important tool of ancient warfare, cold weapons represent a country's scientific and technological productivity. The formulation of tactics and strategies affects the battle, the outcome of the battle, and the rise and fall of the nation and the country.
In ancient wars, the interests, contradictions, conflicts, languages, cultures, systems, and civilizations of both sides are violently colliding and merging. This collision continues to this day and still fundamentally affects and controls our lives.
The stories of Western mythical wars and the works filmed based on actual Western wars are actually some Westerners' reflections on Western values, but to a greater extent they are the output of Western religions, political systems, and values. The ancient war works of China and the East are more of a reflection on the political system and a reflection on the relationship between heaven and man (dao and man), and their artistic conception is actually deeper than that in the West.
As a person who is curious and wants to understand the differences between Eastern and Western civilizations and cultures, watching and understanding its historical and cultural background at that time, Eastern and Western war movies are undoubtedly a medium for experiencing the integration and confrontation of ancient Eastern and Western civilizations through the eyes of contemporary people. And means.
For many things, you can easily understand their actual behaviors and judge their future behaviors more easily if you understand their historical roots.
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