There are too many characters to tell the story and the only list of "The Founding of the People's Republic". It is easy for viewers with a little lack of knowledge of modern Chinese history to be confused and can’t wait to watch a movie while on the search engine; the atmosphere is full of actor tension, but the logic is not enough. "Sound of the Wind", although the final theme (Zhou Xun's monologue) has its own power, it is an overhead story after all. But more importantly, I always feel that the so-called justice and stance of the two films can't escape the choice of "each one is the master", and it is really difficult to stand on one side and blame the other. And the democracy pursued in "October Siege" is purer and more unique. There is no second possibility when it is either or the other. It is more suitable for what Zhou Xun said at the end of "The Wind": I am so ruthless to you, just because the nation has reached the end of life, my generation can only work hard to save it in case.
There are 3 scenes in "October Siege" I like very much.
One is that Nicholas Tse used a car to pull Wang Xueqi across the street. The bell rang through the door of Zhou Yun's photo shop. The little lovers smiled at each other; to catch the coins thrown by Wang Xueqi passed the street by the beggar Dawn. Buy opium cigarettes for Young Master Luopa. In just one scene, we have fully shown the familiarity of the action, and we can know that this gesture is used to doing it. It should be like this every day. Only when Wang Xueqi and Nicholas Tse have completely exuded a tacit understanding without having to talk, it has already been enough foreshadowing. , For Wang Xueqi to come to Zhou Yun for Nicholas Tse to propose marriage to Zhou Yun, to redeem the son of Fallen Soul to return home to pass the iron fan, and ask Dawn to come out of the mountain to explain. At that time, the wind and rain had just revealed its clues, but the sky was clear and vigorous, and the foreshadowing had already been made without deliberately.
At a turning point in history, probably no one can stay out of the matter, as Wang Baijie, who plays Master Chongguang, said in the play: All China has been (revolution) involved, can I avoid it? ! But in order to protect Mr. Sun Yat-sen, who has never met before and has nothing to do with his entire destiny, let alone historical needs, ordinary people in the play can't feel it. What they can feel is the love and pain of their relatives, which is for The choice of the dearest relatives, so they did not hesitate to use the most ordinary flesh and blood to complete a seemingly simple but difficult task.
For example, General Fang Tian, played by Ren Dahua, was wronged by the court and brought 300 soldiers from Tianjin to Hong Kong. He waited for a shameful opportunity, and finally waited for the task of protecting Mr. Sun Yat-sen, but was besieged by the Qing army on the eve. When Qing Bing descended from the sky, he already knew that he had a bad heart and asked his daughter Li Yuchun to protect Liang Jiahui. However, after Liang and Li were separated, he forced his daughter to a corner, knocked her out, and used burlap two or three times. Wrapped up, tied with a hemp rope, suddenly thrown out the window, before landing, first stabilize it, and then throw it lightly, the linen cloth falls softly to the ground, and the small archway is gently pressed on it, which is the best protective film. Not afraid of death, not afraid to wash the revolutionary dignified general with blood, and the only thing in life and death is to save the life of the little girl, and I hope she will be unscathed. The daughter, who was cared for by her father, was buried under the torii of the troupe. She was in a coma. Although it was only a scene with no people, she felt that it was one of Li Yuchun's most touching performances. Under the background of the Great Revolution, we still don't forget this affiliation, which is more precious than any great truth.
In another example, Chongguang Wang Baijie won the life and death lottery and became Sun Yat-sen's stand-in. The seventeen-year-old master has nothing but enthusiasm. He was not afraid of death in principle, but when he took the place of Mr. Sun Yat-sen on the road, his face was sweaty and trembling, he was very scared. Along the way, he heard endless fighting in the car, tears on his face and fear in his heart, but he also endured the huge fear and tried to finish the hour of death. When he was facing life and death with Liang Jiahui and the Qing army general Hu Jun, both sides are now unmanned. Hu Jun is a superb martial artist. Liang Jiahui is a scholar who sees blood and faint. Wang Baijie sits in the car and raises the pistol that Liang gave him before. , That was his last move. However, the rickshaw was going backwards down the stairs. Liang Jiahui could not resist the slippery of the car. Faced with Hu Jun's angry victory in sight and fear, the rickshaw quickly descended on its own without grasping it. The panorama was like a helpless rickshaw. The stroller on the Odessa Ladder Massacre Ladder slides level by level, while Hu Jun is chasing forward in a slow motion excitedly. The pistol slipped and fell to the ground, his face was panicked and he couldn't hide it. Finally, the car hit the stone pillar and fell to the ground. The camera was aimed at Wang Baijie and suddenly turned over. He was tortured all the way backwards. He was tortured from shooting with hope to falling. , The pain and fear of being unable to control the speed of the car, and knowing the calamity after the car turned over, is very well-interpreted and very real. The mental journey of these few seconds is like a certain air crash mentioned on TV. The plane was tumbling from the sky and plunged into the water within a minute. The people on the plane, except the captain, had shoulder belts. The seat belt around the waist is not enough to fix them in position, they can only writhe all the way waiting for the coming of death. Because of the terrible torture before his death, the court sentenced the airline to pay huge compensation, and the airline went bankrupt. Young Master Chongguang played by Wang Baijie, the mood of retreating all the way from the stairs is probably similar to that of a plane flipping into the water. Hu Jun chased after the car overturned, using the bamboo to click, click, and then again, the slow motion can make a sound, describing him inserting The process of Wang Baijie in the dead car. The lens also didn't bring Wang Baijie to Wang Baijie, but at that moment, everyone felt like a bamboo stick, and together with him, he endured this terrible deadline.
I like those two scenes very much, probably because Fang Hong and Chongguang are weak. The children of sixteen or seventeen, under the protection of their father, are living innocently while stunned, and the weak are doing things they can’t reach. When it is time, it is easy to move people. They have very little chance of success. When they lose the protection of their father’s wings, they use the wings of a young eagle to face the dark unknown, and overcome the strong fear in their hearts and the inherent fear of retreat, which is to overcome the suffocating tension. To stand in front of the storm. The steely will of the high-level characters who are not afraid of death can make people stand in awe, but those who are still fighting hard in fear can arouse compassion and empathize more.
The Shaolin monk Wang Fuming played by Battelle is also very distinctive. His giant will and unspeakable intimacy add to the plot a lot. He survives hard fighting. When the tall figure appears in the mist, there is indeed a will to make people boil. The taste of the hero's reappearance, this figure has more meaning than it should be. The clothes are fluttering in the last fighting scene at dawn, which has a special sense of beauty. This play mentions various emotions, Nicholas Tse and Zhou Yun’s little lover’s love, Fan Bingbing and Donnie Yen’s repressive past with kindness and love, Liming’s bitter love for Li Jiaxin, Wang Xueqi’s friendship with Liang Jiahui, and his love for her son. With eagerness to protect, Liang Jiahui would rather give up the contradiction of "birth is equal", and everyone has their own weaknesses, and made the most difficult choice when there is no balance between love and justice. The screenwriter did not miss any possibility, and the lives of the characters were fully revealed.
This drama is very natural, because it does not force, it does not force everyone to be a hero by birth, everyone is an ordinary person, there is a past, a pain, a past that cannot be faced, and a future that is unfamiliar, when they face the torrent of history Shi made the same choice, but each person has a person to protect and a demons to face when carrying out the task. The reason is maintained and the affection is reached.
In the bombardment of blockbuster films, the frequent appearance of celebrities seems to have become a single and only guarantee of sales, but "October Besieged" returns to the essence of the film: telling a story, telling a beautiful and moving story, a fictional simple and flesh-and-blood story. It follows the principle of the movie: there is an ultimate goal, so there are foreshadowing and construction in front, there are conflicts and climax points in the middle, and the priorities are different. There are plot points before and after, and the final climax ends. It follows the technique very rigorously, and uses the actors appropriately. You can follow the progress of the plot and keep worrying about it. After the curtain ends, you can't relax your heartbeat for a long time. It is a very rigorous movie, but it does not forget the human nature, and a few pens have given insight into the world.
Probably I am not very resistant to the movies that Nguyen Shisheng shot. The fly in the ointment is that the subtitles of this movie... actually have three typos. The production is already so costly, why can't you put a little effort into subtitle proofreading? You don't need to be careful to see the difference: how to "get" and how to be "longitudinal"... It's a bit unreasonable.
Hong Kong may be due to its inherent deficiencies and the history that can be told is really limited. It is difficult to survive in the cracks of commercial blockbusters, but as long as it is given a background, their ability to tell stories is really no worse than other places. Heroic spirit is not difficult to create, but the warmth in the heart of heroes (heroes evolved from ordinary people)—"I don't understand what great love and what era, and the sorrow that has lost you buried me in my chest"—is not a human being. Anyone can dig it up. Everyone wants to grow old with their beloved and beloved ones, so it is admirable to sacrifice one's life for justice, so every one of "October Besieged" is not a hero, but all of them are heroes.
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