Qin’s Predicament and Others——Impressions on "Jing Ke Assassinating the King of Qin"

Catharine 2022-01-23 08:02:38

In 1998, I don't know what kind of brushwork will be used to exaggerate and describe what happened this year in the eyes of future people. The world we live in always walks through historical fragments that have happened. Like when I was sixteen, I gave the best time of summer vacation to the library: At that time, I and the curator's daughter were good friends, and I spent almost every day among the towering bookshelves in the library.
That kind of old-fashioned bookshelf, underneath is a lockable cabinet, this cabinet tends to have an extra piece of it than the upper bookshelf, about 30-40 cm, but it just allows me to lie down when I’m tired from walking. On top.
Picking up a few thick brick-like foreign language dictionaries under my head, I held Jules Verne's small format book on my head by the sunlight projected from the high glass windows, and often fell asleep like this. When I woke up, countless dust particles were flying in the golden light, and the light separated by the window purlins formed a shadow. The shape of the entire window was enlarged into a trapezoid and printed on the bookshelf, me, and the ground in turn.
There was no sound of those small dust, but it was no less noisy than any busy city. I was so tenderly wrapped by them, and the wrapping made me dizzy; that kind of feeling, like the soft clock in Dali's paintings-I always think he must have had a similar experience: people created by the sun Time and space leave a trajectory, which can be abstracted into a fold line that rises like a step, or it can be a soft time pie that is too thin and full of desire and the fear brought by this desire—— In the final analysis, this desire still comes from the sun and must be returned to it.
I was standing in the light dancing with countless dust, seeming to be in the library, and I seemed to have just returned from Captain Nemo's submarine.
In 1998, like a retrograde video tape, played back from the 2008 film, watching this film after ten years, brought me back to the summer vacation of 16 years old, standing in the library under the imaginative pane, faintly The shadow was slightly yellow, and it printed on the concrete floor the scaly waves that can only be found on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
Regarding the version of this film, there are two popular versions, one is the Japanese version of "The Assassination of the First Emperor", and the other is the domestic version of "Jing Ke Assassinating King Qin". I first looked at the former. It is also because after reading the former, I wonder why it was so overwhelmingly criticized at the beginning, and it can even be said to be verbal criticism, so I looked for the domestic version. Usually it’s a release plan. It’s understandable that there are different versions of the same movie, but they were cut so unrecognizable that they can even be said to be two movies. So far, I have only seen this one.
After reading it, I was relieved.
Either "Assassin of Qin" or "Hero", the dilemma that has not been overcome in the past ten years is the root seedlings that have been planted since the Qin Dynasty.
So Ruan Ji cried bitterly when he was poor, while Lu Xun spent a lot of words talking about the wrong path of literature and politics. These two are actually confirmed by the two versions of this film. And what the former proves is the wrong way.
Try to compare the two versions, apart from Lu Buwei's treatment, some other unique special pornographic festivals in the domestic version.
First, when the Qin eradicated Zhao, the children of Zhao Kingdom jumped down from the city wall one after another to show that they would not surrender when the city of Handan was broken. One scene focused on describing a soldier of the State of Zhao under the siege of Qin Bing, holding his child from the wall and shouting: "The State of Zhao will never surrender."
Second, the portrayal of Zhao Nu. A line between her and Qin Wangzheng outside Handan the day before Zhao was destroyed. When Yingzheng stated that the city was about to be attacked, Zhao Nuv said: "I'm so stupid. I thought that with you, the people would not have to bleed anymore. But I saw along the way, it was your army, hanging people from beams, hanging people, tied to pillars and shot them to death. Raised the village to the ground and the city burned to ruins. You did this, you and the kings. What's the difference?" Ying Zheng said, "But this is the country of Zhao, and the country of Zhao is different." Zhao Nuv: "You promised me to help the people of the world. Look at my face, do you remember it now?" Ying Zheng yelled "Zhao country is different." and stated the humiliation that Zhao suffered as a hostage before, Zhao's daughter said: "But your mother is from Zhao, Zhao Guo, someone helped you when you were suffering. You. The past name was Zhao Zheng. Your Majesty, as long as you have resentment in your heart, you will not be the king of the world. The king of the world must love the people of the world. The people of the world, no matter which country you come from, are your subjects King Zhao has ordered that Zhao’s children should be killed. If you rescue them and stop killing innocent people, you will still receive the love of Zhao people, the love of people in the world.” Yan Bi Zhao’s daughter Xiang Ying Zhengyi Kneeling and asked: "Do you promise me?" Ying Zheng helped her up and said: "I promise you."
Third, Handan city broke, and King Qin held a child to play the drum, and the children who can't jump to the city in the future, let Wang Jian let them go, and then bent down in front of a child of Zhao Guo, trying to give him a drumming drum, but was slapped on the face by the child. Ying Zheng got up, laughed, went out, and called: "Wang Jian. When I returned to Qin with the first king, King Zhao sent a chariot to chase after him. He was afraid that I would get revenge." He lowered his head and shook the drum, still laughing, and said: Now, I am also afraid." So the remaining children were all murdered. The previous day's promise was broken by his own hands, which directly led to a line in Zhao Nu's mouth, which was also repeatedly emphasized in the film: "Heavenly Killing Ying Zheng". And this line has already hinted that Jing Ke will lose.
Fourth, Ying Zhengfu knelt in front of his dying mother and said: "My son has returned from Zhao, and my son has killed all our enemies. Take revenge." His mother also slapped her face and said: "You goddamn it." Then he breathed.
Fifth, the camera flashed back to Zhao Nu and Jing Ke. Zhao Nu’s words to Jing said: "Find the assassin to go to Xianyang. All this is arranged by me and Yingzheng. I have already told you that at that time, I was him. A woman. When we were young, my dad often drunk and lay on the snow, and Ying Zheng carried him home. He was only a teenager at the time, so how could he carry it? He was very filial to his mother. That’s fine. The children around him liked him. He was good at that time, but he was different at that time. Ying Zheng knows everything, you have gone..." Not necessarily, Jing Ke said, "But I can’t let him kill the children of Yan Guo. , Kill the children of the world." So the Zhao woman was moved, and the two embraced.
Sixth, in the follow-up plot, except for the assassination section of the hall, the two versions are basically the same. The more plots in the domestic version are:
1. Prince Dan, Jing Ke, Zhao Nu, and Qin Wuyang performed the assassination. After success Jing Ke returned to the room alone, and the camera depiction revealed his inner activities before his determination to assassinate: In addition to the suicide scene of a blind woman played by Zhou Xun, it was more of the chaos of the people running around and the children of Zhao when the city of Zhao was broken. The standing scene;
2. King Qin was in the palace, sitting on the unified map of the country and the mountains, calling the kneeling guards: "Come here and sit with the widow." The guards leaned forward, and then raised their heads, not daring to look at each other. . Ying Zheng asked about the age of one of them. After learning that he was fifteen years old, he said: "Once you are an adult, you can do big things. The widow is in Zhao country, but you are younger than you. It was good at that time. He didn't have enough food and didn't wear warm clothes. I just want to be the king. The little girl, my little girl said I can be the king." Paused, muttered to himself: "It's good then..." At this time, an elder said that the envoy of the Kingdom of Yan had arrived and asked him what he saw. Still missing. Ying Zheng said he had seen him, and when he learned that the envoy named Jing Ke was capable of swordsmanship, he said: "He is to bring the sword, but you have to prepare it." So
far, the main themes of the two versions have been separated.
The Riying version is based on Jing Ke's decision not to kill anymore after she lost herself in killing the blind girl, and then was inspired by Zhao Nu to decide to help Yan kill people. Yingzheng is in it, more like the monarch depicted in Shakespeare's works, and he is ambitious. Driven to kill and slaughter the city and become nervous. In the domestic version, the historians of the two generations of young and old kept reminding King Qin, "The king Yingzheng, have you forgotten the great wish of the king of Qin to rule the world?" King Qin replied, "Yingzheng will not forget for a moment!" Among them, "Godkill" was repeatedly used to emphasize the unsubversive nature of kingship. The narrative angle is completely different, resulting in Zhao Nu’s image, although she is also a spokesperson from the civilian perspective, innocent and simple and deceived by the royal power, in the Japanese version, it becomes a reasonable existence; in the narrative context of the domestic version, it is completely redundant. And clumsy. What can we do if we don't end up in poverty?
But the story of Assassin Qin is not over yet, and afterwards there is "Hero", which makes people speechless and speechless. It turns out that in the eyes of the king, all the meaning of life lies in how you die. And Chen Kaige was split by Assassin Qin. On the one hand, it resembles the style of Shakespeare's drama and the mirror image of Kurosawa Akira, on the other hand, he has tried to arrange a lot of shots to repair and justify himself. Poor, seeing everyone so tired, finally deconstructed the murder of Assassin Qin with a bun like a Hu Gezhe.
Looking back at Zhao Nu (in the Japanese version), she should be the representative of the commoners who were fooled earlier than the simple and ridiculous and even sad villagers in "The Devil Is Coming". The difference is that Zhao Nu was fooled by the king, and the villagers were fooled by more kings. If everyone knows that Zhao Nuv's lines (domestic version) are not true, who are they meant for? I don't know, I only see a deep chasm, lying in the middle of the stage of a big show, making people speechless.
The actor's performance is so wonderful that it can be described as lamenting. Needless to say, Li Xuejian, Wang Zhiwen is a genius at all, and Chen Kaige himself also acted so well. As for Zhou Xun's scene, if you are interested, please watch the Japanese version. That is the real finishing touch. A few lines will win countless more than Gong Li. And ten years later, these people will never get together again. When will the next assassination of Qin be? How many years will it take for this group of heroic characters to reappear? This is indeed a tragedy that has been too long, so heavy that the narrators are on the verge of being spurned and criticized.
Close "Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea", turn off the flashing fluorescent screen, say a deep sigh, and land in the 16-year-old library. Time is always like this, forget some and think of some. The reason for thinking of it is actually some very small things, such as: the movie I watched yesterday and yesterday; an old person I met by chance at some time and place. Being in this huge dilemma, singing with a stick, and walking calmly, and pondering, and thinking. Although the Japanese version is good, in the end Zhao Nu was pregnant with Jing Ke's baby and left with a big belly and a smile. The wreath placed on Xia Yu's grave is just a hypothesis to comfort the injustice. Those who are innocent and credulous like a Zhao woman will inevitably die for Qin in the end.

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