What's more, the pretentious posture in "The Lion of Heaven" talks about world peace and so on. The political speculation is too strong, and it also disgusts the viewers. It's just that the cast of "Lion of Heaven" is stronger, better publicized, and the schedule is better, which won a good box office. The story of "Legend of White Ghosts: Fateful Escape" is purer, more rounded, less preaching, and justified. But unfortunately, the time is not right. The era of costume action movies has passed. Even the higher-level "Xiu Chun Dao" and "Sword Rain" have not been able to get the box office they deserve. Want to come to "Legend of White Ghost" under the attack of "Ace Agent" and "Fast and Furious 7", coupled with the vigorous impact of "Wolf Warrior", wanting to sell, it is estimated that it is difficult.
The so-called "Legend of the White Ghost" means "Legend OF the White Ghost", and "White Ghost" means "White Ghost". In Guangdong, foreigners are often referred to as "ghosts". Blacks are "black ghosts" and whites are "white ghosts." In the past, they are all "ghosts". From the perspective of the name alone, the perspective of "Legend of White Ghosts: Escape" is based on the Chinese. Unfortunately, it is still a POV (Point-of-View) story with white people. Can't get rid of the story of white people going deep into colored races and playing the role of God, saving the persecuted weak and other nations. Such a framework, as early as 1990's "Dancing with Wolves" has already performed this theme to the extreme. After more than 20 years have passed, watching "Legend of White Ghosts: Escape" will naturally feel very unnew.
In fact, "Legend of White Ghosts: The Last Escape" turned into a rescue story set in China. It was a fatal misunderstanding and a commercial mistake. The script of this story was originally intended to tell a story that happened in the UK 1,000 years ago. On the British mainland in 1000, the Nordic people headed by Denmark had invaded Britain for nearly 200 years, and it was at the end of the period. In the land of England at that time, King Knut the Great of Denmark and his successor Edward the Confessor (Saint Edward) successively became the monarchs on the British Isles, and then the rule of William, Duke of Normandy of France (descendant of the Danish Vikings) came. Suddenly, the head of the city changed the Great King Banner, and the entire British continent was in chaos.
During this period, as middle and lower-level samurai, some people may not know why they are fighting for whom. Some self-conscious people will break away from the command of the lord and become an outcast. The English name of "Legend of White Ghosts: The Last Escape" is "outcast", which tells the story of these wandering warriors. (In addition, the samurai who lost the lord is the Ronin in Japan. The samurai has a lord and the Ronin has no lord. The difference between the two lies in whether the hair on the top of the head is shaved, and the one who keeps the hair is the Ronin.) Garan and Jacob are originally the same. For the masters and disciples, in the senseless killings between politicians, they finally got tired of the war, chose to leave and became wandering warriors. Jialan slowly developed a small force of his own. He went up the mountain to be king and became a group of green forest robbers, like Robin Hood men. Jialan was also known as the "white ghost." While Jacob wandered alone, he was involved in a dispute in another kingdom, and happened to save a court coup there. The prince and princess who failed and fled, met Jacob on the road, and the latter led them to escape all the way, and smoothly merged with Garan. The two forces merged and defeated the court in the coup. The usurper of the U.S. has achieved another heroic career.
This story was placed on the British Isles, which was originally reasonable, but the operator of the script chose China, and wanted to graft such a story into the Chinese environment, and wanted to create a co-production in the name of a co-production. A legend comes out. As a result, the "white ghost" who thought he was smart picked up a rock and hit his own foot. As a result, Chinese people don't like it, and Westerners don't catch colds. They don't touch it at once, and they feel sick to themselves, and they even lost their cleanliness.
Originally, on the British islands of that period, the Anglo-Saxon nation was being developed, the language was becoming more unified, and direct communication between different regions was basically possible. But put this story in the context of China, and turn the story of the Vikings invaded Britain into the background of the Crusades, and replace it with China's Song Dynasty, or a little earlier, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. At that time, China was indeed in chaos, but it was always impossible for the crusaders under Christianity to communicate with the Chinese without any barriers. Because China's area is so big that it can be compared to a small island in England. This is also the most criticized aspect of the whole film. In particular, I read the original English version. It is really surprising that all Chinese people in Song Dynasty can speak English fluently regardless of their level. Moreover, during the journey of fleeing, it is very unreasonable to switch between the deserts in the north and the mountains in the south. Moreover, the war between the court army and a cottage was too sloppy. At that time, the British, a king's personal army, may really be not much different from the military power of a cottage, but China is not like that. There are too many unreasonable factors, and the collection of one BUG will turn into a huge BUG, which makes the story seem too blunt and makes people directly reluctant to read it. No matter how good your story is, it is useless. Unfortunately, the "Legend of White Ghosts: Fateful Escape" fell into this quarrel.
Therefore, even though "Legend of White Ghosts: Escape" has a good story, it still fails to arouse the desire of the discerning Chinese audience to watch the movie.
In fact, from the perspective of white people, there are still some good movies that tell stories that happened in China, such as "Empire of the Sun" and "The Veil", which are all excellent works. Westerners have penetrated into Chinese culture, and movies that tell Chinese stories, such as "The Last Emperor" and "Wolf Totem", are also good. Others, like "The King of Kung Fu" and "Kung Fu Dream", are based on the visual perspective of Western whites, telling the fate of Western children, entering the Chinese cultural atmosphere, and then returning to the Western world. The story routines and "Alice "Sleepwalking Wonders" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" are almost the same, like a lie, the weaving is OK, at least winning at the box office.
The story of "The Legend of White Ghost" is really good, but it is too blunt, just like "Returning to Twenty" in South Korea’s "Strange She", it also seems very blunt, but "Returning to Twenty" Relying on humor and novelty, Years of the Year still won a good box office. And "White Ghost" is not too much praiseworthy. As the starring Hayden Christensen, in fact, since the "Star Wars", the star journey has not been too smooth, and there is a tendency to go all the way down. The performance in "White Ghost" is not too brilliant, and does not leave an overly distinctive impression. On the contrary, Uncle Nicholas Cage, who has fallen into the quagmire of the film in recent years, does not have too many scenes in the film. On the contrary, he leaves some good impressions and becomes one of the few highlights in the film. . Jialan played by Cage is nicknamed "White Ghost". Based on his performance, the title of this film with him as the title of the movie is pretty good.
It’s just that this movie is really out of time. It was 10 years before the Chinese movie was released. If this movie appears, it should have a good response, and it may even become a classic. At least, this story is much better than "Jade Warrior". If "Jade Warrior" is released today, 10 years later, it will surely make people shout "What the hell?" However, at that time, "Jade Warrior" still made some noise, and Zhang Jingchu became an international movie star with this film. And Liu Yifei's image of a Chinese princess does not exist in "White You Ling". Without Zhang Ziyi, the performance in "Samurai" is far worse. Only Nicholas Cage, who was already not very attractive, barely supported the scene, but it was still not enough.
To put it simply, "The Legend of White Ghosts: The Last Escape" is a self-defeating work of a bunch of ghosts. The rock raised high, originally intended to smash into a big hole, ended up hitting his feet. Just go to the corner and cry yourself.
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