As we get older, our memory is not good, and we always forget what we said, but the memory that Zhou Xingchi left us is lingering like first love. The one-and-a-half-hour "Mermaid" made us relive our first love. The humour of the star is the same as before, which makes people smile. When the screen turns black and the subtitles rise, we know that the story is over. I cursed in my heart, F, it's as short-lived as first love, and it doesn't have an orgasm either.
Zhou Xingchi is a very good actor, talented and amazing, but he is not a master of storytelling. In his early films, he had a good group of storytellers behind him. Just as the director and screenwriter of "Journey to the West" are both Liu Zhenwei, Liu Zhenwei is a storyteller. There are many good actors in China, but without a good story, or without a good storyteller, a good actor will look silly.
It cannot be said that the story of "The Mermaid" is not good, but obviously, such a story is too simple, as simple as a fairy tale. Let me dismantle its basic plot:
1. The rich Liu Xuan bought Qingluo Bay, and the real estate peer Ruolan (the second female) and others came to congratulate. At this time, the mermaid Shanshan (the first female) appeared, and all kinds of flattery and leave a phone number.
2. Along the line of Shanshan, explain the tragic situation of the mermaid family and its revenge plan. The real estate development and reclamation project involved using sonar to drive away fish. The sonar was so strong that fish such as mermaids lost the ocean and hid in a broken boat. The mermaid family discussed a crappy plan, with Shanshan in charge of the beauty plan to seduce Liu Xuan, and then gang up to kill him. So far, it's a revenge mode.
3. The beauty plan is to set an impossible task for the heroine. But such a task was unexpectedly completed under the influence of various accidental factors, which is a typical fairy tale mode. The second female lead became the vicious queen, and the female lead finally got the crystal slipper, and through various mishaps and mishaps, the male lead, who was looking for defeat, saw true love.
4. Then the male protagonist was successfully kidnapped by the mermaid family, and then of course the female protagonist must save him for true love. After the male protagonist came back, he told the vicious queen where the mermaid was hiding (isn't it a bit too fast?), which made the conflict between the vicious humans and the mermaid family heat up rapidly. Humans shot the mermaid, and Shanshan was among them. , just when Shanshan was about to be beaten to death, the male protagonist fell from the sky (my favorite is an unparalleled hero), rescued her and was almost beaten to death by the vicious queen of the female No. Yes, think about poor Joe Gangmaster). The police always come at this time and take the bad girl number two.
5. The male protagonist donates all his property to environmental protection agencies and lives happily in the sea with the female protagonist.
All of the above story bridges should be said to be familiar to everyone. Such a story framework obviously cannot meet people's growing demand for brain supplementation. Therefore, it is foreseeable that Star Lord will be spit on again, or spit. I really can't blame him for this. No matter how good a plasterer is, he can't be a designer. I believe that the light on Xingye's body is too dazzling, which will make him think that he can tell a good story, so it is conceivable that the storytellers around him will probably be He scolded and cried.
Fairy tales always say that the prince and the princess live happily together, and then nothing. In fact, for a good story, this place should not be the end of the story, but the beginning of the story. If you want to tell this story well, then Master Xing must be willing to give up the light of the past and not be too nostalgic. If you can cut off those branches in the previous story, you can probably leave one-third or even half (extended to two hours?) time for the later story.
What's the story behind?
Hey, ok, now it's my turn to run wild.
The premise of this story is that it is assumed that there is such a creature as a mermaid in this world. Hollywood has too many models like this: assuming there are aliens, assuming aliens, assuming superpowers, assuming vampires, assuming dinosaurs... All the tricks have been basically played by them. In the previous films of Xing Ye, I also liked to play assumptions: suppose there is the Tathagata's palm, and there is the No. 7 Yangtze River. Both "Kung Fu" and "Changjiang No. 7" are actually better than this one, because "Kung Fu" adds martial arts elements and cuts into the world of Chinese knights, while "Changjiang No. 7" has underlying concerns.
In other words, bad stories, stereotyped templates, if you want to elevate it, you have to stick it in one direction, you can't rely on it. If it is pushed in such a way, one of the major themes of "The Mermaid" is environmental protection. Humans kill whales, kill mermaids, pollute the environment, and reclaim the sea greedily, leaving no place for fish. This seems to be a big theme, but Zhou Xingchi is not Hayao Miyazaki after all. Think about how Mr. Hayao Miyazaki handles such a grand environmental issue. He will never stop at the simple scene of being killed by humans. "Princess Mononoke", think of "Nausicaa", Hayao Miyazaki's relationship between man and nature is not simply preaching, but it is extended in depth in the way of stories, showing us a mysterious and open world.
So, when a person joins the mermaid family, what will happen to him? This is where the real texture of the story begins. As human beings living in 2016, we should have our own questions. Humans should run into trouble after killing the mermaids, and this troublesome setting can be a disaster. The plight of humans and the plight of mermaids will resonate only when humans are brought down to the same life and death line as mermaids, and it's a very stupid idea to comedy and treat mermaids as a poor object that should be protected. , is also a very LOW spiritual realm. Suppose there is a higher civilization, from whom we look like worms, what qualifications are there to describe the fish as weak and sympathize? Just a frog in the same pot.
Therefore, in the second half of "The Mermaid", human beings should have a disaster, or a partial disaster, to make the story grand. It also makes murlocs and humans on the same starting line. At this time, humans can choose to slaughter mermaids and continue to do research to solve the plight of human beings, or they can choose to build a home with mermaids. I don't know if Xingye's main creative team has given him similar advice, but if Xingye continues to play some small productions like this, play tricks on his little feelings, and greet him, it will only be a starless night. As someone who owes him a lot of movie tickets, I still hope to see him return with the King of Colorful Clouds one day.
Of course, from another angle, why not assume that saving the mermaid is also another mistake, welcome to make up your mind.
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