Text|Three thousand years old
"Historical Records" contains: Qin Wang said Ke said: "From the beginning, take the picture held by Wuyang." Ke has taken the picture and sent it, and the picture is poor and you can see it with a dagger. Because the left hand pulls the sleeve of King Qin, while the right hand holds a dagger to fight it. Before reaching the body, King Qin was shocked, and he started to stand up. Draw the sword, the sword is long, and the room is mixed. Resentment is anxious, the sword is strong, so you can't stand up. Jing Ke chased King Qin, and King Qin walked away. The officials were shocked, and the pawns were surprised and lost. However, Qin Fa, those who attend the palace of the group of ministers, are not allowed to hold foot soldiers. All the lords in charge of the army were His Royal Highness Chen. When Fang was in a hurry, he couldn't call his soldiers, so Jing Ke chased the King of Qin, and the soldiers were anxious and couldn't beat Ke, but they fought together with their hands. At that time, Xia Wu, the attendant, lifted Ke with the medicine bag he was given. The King of Qin's Fang returned to the post, and his soldiers were anxious and did not know what to do. The left and right sides said, "The king bears the sword! The king bears the sword!" When Jing Ke was abandoned, he used his dagger to mention the King of Qin, but he didn't hit the middle post. King Qin attacked Ke again and was wounded by eight. Knowing that things are not going to be done, Ke laughed while leaning on the pillars, scolding and saying: "Those who do not succeed in the matter must be killed, and they will get a contract to repay the prince." As soon as the left and right cut Jingke, the king of Qin was dizzy for a long time.
The story of Jing Ke's assassination of King Qin has long been well-known. King Qin was tyrannical and intended to unify the six countries. Other forces were obviously inferior to that of Qin, Ruyan, who sent assassins to try to assassinate Qin Shihuang in order to end their troubles. I didn't expect that the assassination of Qin would not succeed, but it accelerated the demise of Yan State.
This article does not want to research history, and there is a clear record of historical data. During Qin Shihuang's administration, he was often assassinated. This historical framework is accurate. It should be said that there was a group of assassins who assassinated Qin Shihuang from varying degrees. Zhang Yimou's "Hero" is also based on this, formed a shooting concept.
What attracts me to the movie is that the creation of historical characters has the director's own philosophy, or it is a bold breakthrough and reconstruction, showing the audience some richer and fuller silhouettes of historical people. Through exaggerated expressions and slightly colloquial lines, we have a new understanding of the image of historical people.
King Qin wins politics
Qin Shihuang played by Li Xuejian, the old opera bones, is really amazing. It is the most distinctive one among all the movie works I have seen.
Zang Jinsheng in "Myth", Jiang Wen in "Song of Qin", Lu Shuming in "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors", Chen Daoming in "Heroes", Jet Li in "The Mummy 3" and other interpretations of the King of Qin are far from my imagination. There is a distance.
Feng Xiaogang said: Chen Daoming is born with an aristocratic temperament that cannot be replicated. Jiang Wen is also his favorite director and actor. But in shaping the role of Qin Shihuang, I voted for Li Xuejian.
The film adopts a unified caliber for all character images: spoken lines, slightly neurotic expressions, and slightly exaggerated body language. Chen Kaige portrays the character of the characters and presents the argument that the water overflows when the water is overflowing. This gives the historical person the real, three-dimensional, and full image, which is impressive.
Pick a few lines:
Benevolence! The Qin State is benevolent and righteous, and the people of the Qin State can only put their horses in Longdong, as they did five hundred years ago! When the widow was a child, he was free, and the widow was a hostage. Qin was a hostage in Zhao! Zhao Guo did not do justice to me. There is a little cook in Zhao Guo who urges me to walk a single-plank bridge every day. Below is an abyss of ten feet. If I don't leave, I won't give me a meal. It's very cold in Northland! I didn't dare to raise my head, I just listened to her yelling over there: Come here, come here, what are you afraid of, what are you afraid of! You will be the king of Qin in the future! That's it, I passed, she is my benefactor. I am now the king of Qin, and I will be the king of the world in the future!
I was born a hostage, who helped me? Zhao Ren spit on the face of the ancestor, and whip on my body, where was the Qin then? Where are the princes of the past? Without food, without clothes, what did Qin give me? This person took care of me, took care of the first king, and brought our family to Qin. I sat on his lap and he taught me the first word, and the first word was Wang. He taught me how to be a king. I can't kill him! No one can kill him!
The picture was drawn by the two of you? Well drawn! Are you from Qin country? Your Majesty, they are Korean. That's it, Korean! South Korea is about to perish. You are weeping for your country, because your king wants you to take out one million taels of gold, 30 million taels of silver, one hundred thousand horses, and one million strands of silk for Qin. Country as a gift. You are good people in South Korea. I don't want the things of the Korean people. These things should be used by the Korean people themselves. South Korea is going to perish, but you will have a bigger and much bigger country. The Qin Kingdom and the Six Kingdoms, both visible and invisible, have become one country. The people of the world are the people of this country, and this country has only one king, a good king, and this king will rescue the people and people there when the six nations are all destroyed. He wanted everyone in the world to speak the same language, write in the same script, and establish counties everywhere, letting clean and honest officials manage them. The land is full of Hexa, so the people can live and work in peace, build the gallop to the frontier, and build the Great Wall far away. When the Huns and Siyi invade, they will block their horseshoes. Then the stone stele was erected on Mount Tai, and the stone sword was erected on the seashore to commemorate the unity of the world. At that time, you can call me Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
Why do you want to kill me, do you know what I want to do?
It’s easy to say this line, but it’s not a level to match the body language and facial expressions. Due to the time-consuming and labor-consuming specific image collection and material arrangement, the specific pictures are not published here.
Assassin Jing Ke
After talking about Qin Shihuang, it's time to talk about Jing Ke. The image of Jing Ke, an assassin, was still a bit worse than that of Li Xuejian. However, in the overall profile of the characters in the movie, they complement each other.
The key to a tall and mighty martial arts superb is that the assassin Jing Ke is not afraid of death. In the long river of history, we cannot see the full picture, but in the movie it presents a down and down image with dull and sluggish expression. This is a reverse deconstruction. If Li Xuejian is in the outward direction, Zhang Fengyi is inward. This kind of image creation with a distance from the character's midline is exactly where the movie "Jing Ke Assassinated the King of Qin" succeeded.
We were deeply infected by every character in the movie, and we got an experience never seen in historical materials. The artistic proposition of the film is to always have a grounded foundation, first of all, a living person, and secondly, our sense of image design and subjective judgment.
嫪毐
The movie "Jing Ke Assassinate King of Qin" has two roles that I like most, one is Qin Shihuang played by Li Xuejian, and the second is Lai Xiao played by Wang Zhiwen. I can't help but admire Chen Kaige for the awesome selection of these two characters and actors. I thought it was these two people who supported the whole movie of "Jing Ke Assassinate King Qin".
Of course, Wang Zhiwen's acting skills are absolutely top-notch. The sound texture is a characteristic of the industry, which makes up for the lack of image and physical expression. We have seen too many images of eunuchs, and our minds have already formed the inherent thinking of dealing with this kind of people. However, Wang Zhiwen seems to have performed new ideas, neither mother nor rigid, and the scale he grasps is just right. In addition, the lines are the icing on the cake.
Pick one of the most classic lines:
Queen Mother: "I'm sorry, the children are dead." Lai Lai: "Also, it's clean." Lai Lai: "I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for the two sons. Now things have failed, people will think that I am greedy for wealth and wealth, so I get killed. In fact, it’s just that you want to be my woman, I want to be your man, and live like a husband and wife. If you want to be among the people, why not?! It’s hard for you to be a queen. …The next life.” Lai Ming: “Don’t cry, cry, it’s like we were wrong.” “Take care.” To Yingzheng: “How do you know the loneliness of motherhood...”
There are also Zhao Ji played by Gong Li, Qin Wuyang played by Ding Haifeng, and Gao Jianli played by Zhao Benshan are slightly mediocre, so I won't introduce them one by one.
The most annoying is Lu Buwei, played by Chen Kaige himself. I don't know whether it is because of the lack of space for the role or the problem of acting. Li Xuejian and Wang Zhiwen are both in the show, you shouldn't. (You can pretend not to see it)
Chen Kaige's choice of historical data in the movie "Jing Ke Assassinated the King of Qin" is excellent. The historical framework based on the intricate relationship structure of Qin Wang Yingzheng and Zhao Ji, Lai Lu, Lu Buwei, Yan Tai Zi Dan, Jing Ke, etc. is extremely accurate and has a high degree of historical restoration. In my opinion, this restoration is also manifested in the character image. I once thought that the real Qin Shihuang and Lai were like this. Some people think it's a bit too much, in my opinion it's just right.
In my opinion, this highly forced restoration from movie characters to historical characters is a clever breakthrough and reconstruction. It is rare and valuable not to make people feel abrupt, and it is also an important reason why the film has become a swan song.
I personally think that Chen Kaige's best movie is not "Farewell My Concubine", but "Jing Ke Assassinate King Qin".
Written on January 9, 2018
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