"Flying Swords of Dragon Gate": Movies are cruel art

Mozelle 2022-01-23 08:04:06

I posted this at three in the morning because it is very personal and I am afraid that someone will show off the story behind it. The world is cruel, and only those who succeed are qualified to tell the bits and pieces behind it, and I just want to record, for my attention for more than a year, for the things I have collected, for whatever I write, in order to give myself an explanation.

So, just treat it as my self-talk, and I will post it here too.

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Movies are cruel art, and Jianghu is a cruel place.
It is actually very exciting to use a cruel art form to shoot a cruel world.

We see the 3D effect of Dragon Gate is very good, many people compare Dragon Gate with Transformers 3, and even with Avatar. But no one would think that the cost of a Transformer can make several Dragon Gate flying armors. I would never know that Tsui Hark had quarreled with the people of the special effects company excitedly, and blamed them for being too expensive; if you didn't listen to Yu Dong, you wouldn't know that Tsui Hark had cut his salary by half. No one knows how old Monster Xu is having fun. He once asked Li Yuchun on that dirty and broken work car: "Do you know why we are slow?" He pointed to the two pieces hanging on the monitor. Picture-the face of a camel, a blower said, "Because the camel and the wind drum! So I want them to post it to the public!" After a week, when Li Yuchun saw the monitor again, the picture was still those two pictures. It just says "It's none of their business"!

We watched the movie and thought the actors in it were amazing. Some people like to see Li Yuchun’s Gu Shaotang. The martial arts figure is too beautiful, but they don’t know that she bumped into a horse, fell off the horse, was frozen and cried, and fainted; some people are obsessed with Chen Kun’s The haughty Yuhuatian rushed down from the boat, but he did not know that he actually had a fear of heights, nor did he know that he was spitting out during training; some people think that Zhou Xun’s Ling Yanqiu is calm and atmospheric, but no one Knowing that she used to make several facial expressions for martial arts more than NG40 times, which almost collapsed a professional actor...

Some people like the scene in which Chen Kun was slapped by Li Yuchun and Gui Lunmei in the movie, but they didn’t know that this scene was shot nearly 10 times. The directors thought that Li Yuchun played too softly and softly, and Chen Kun said that Xiaomei’s beat made him cry. . But he still insisted on letting them really fight, and told Li Yuchun "You must have the heart to hit me continuously." But what they may not know is that this is the first time Li Yuchun slapped people in or out of the scene. . People on the earth may know that Li Yuchun has many first times in the drama, but not everyone knows. Tsui Hark described her as "the calm and calm", how difficult it is for her to perform Gu Shaotang's personality, and the emotional drama is also Well, whether you slap your face or dance a big sword, it has nothing to do with experience, but a "dare" and "dare". Regarding the

actors and directors, you may or may not know the
following things, except for those involved, I think I may know.

Hello, Longmen Feijia, I have been following you since May 2010. I have known you for a year and seven months. I have written countless scripts in my mind for you. I have written a lot of plot analysis for you. You have collected countless materials that you don't know yourself. I think you may, but don't know.

If not, they are all perverted with curiosity like me.
No one knows that once in the crew, there was a trivial scene and the wallet was taken away. Those thousands of dollars were very important to him; no one knew that there was a girl who issued notices in the crew. She complained that the master did not Working day and night Regardless of everyone’s life and death, she still does not want to give up a movie dream; there is also a girl who encountered the most painful memory in her life during the filming of Longmen. She lost her loved ones, forgive me. I can’t make it clearer; there is also a group of staff members who call themselves literary and artistic youths every day, making fun in hardship...

There are some group performances in Sandu, Baiyangdian, and Tianmo, leaving pictures of silly smiles, recording their runaway years. Most of them are film academy students with movie dreams and those from the North Drifters, they know Longmen is a big production, nothing more. On the way they follow the movie dream, Longmen will not be an opportunity, just like their pictures, it will be a landscape, that's all. And there used to be a slightly smaller crew. They would be adjacent to the Longmen crew each time, and they would be robbed of the venue by Longmen each time. They could only complain, and envied the Longmen crew for having RVs and Wi-Fi.

Compared with the exquisite scenes and special effects in the movie, these things seem to be more pyrotechnic and closer. During the four months of shooting in Longmen, these events were repeatedly staged. The fringe events in these movies could not even be remembered by the parties involved. What's more, it’s just a curious bystander like me. It was just a curiosity journey of a person like me. There was no transcript, and I wrote down these fragmented things completely by the sensory stimulation of the brain. I can only think back to this, not without regret, there will always be incompleteness. This is something I can know, and there are many things I don't know.

These difficult, happy and interesting behind-the-scenes stories, the difficulties of the directors, the hardships of the actors, and the hardships of the crew are actually the only way for every movie. It seems that in every movie, it can be said to be a thousand. The story of Zero One Night.

And because the movie is a cruel art, compared with the cruelty of other movies, in a large production such as Longmen Feijiao, the director's funding is short, the actors are suffering, and the pressure of the crew seems to be insignificant. Some. After all, the sensational effect, the attention that followed, and the box office that fluttered like snowflakes as soon as a big-production movie came out on the street might comfort everything.

Isn't that the case, so some people say that movies are becoming more and more like market transactions. But isn't the movie a business? Do you want to make a commercial movie, don't you want to have the result of selling it?

In the past few days, most people went to see Flying Armor of Dragon Gate, perverted inquirers like me, who cares about these things that we don't know.

Ordinary audience: I just watched it, good-looking or not good-looking? Which actor's performance do you prefer? Whose looks good? Which scene was touched by?
Deeper point: What does the movie express? What is the feeling of the movie? Or is it traded?
Professional point: This is true 3D! How about IMAX 3D? How is the depth of field and aspect sense? How about CG special effects? Is modeling good? What about fixed lenses and long lenses? How is the composition?
Audiophile point: How about the martial arts scene? How about the big scene? What is the rhythm of martial arts?

Therefore,
film is a cruel art, which only respects and only recognizes the results. ——This sentence Lu Chuan said, I do not agree with him, but I agree with this sentence.

Therefore, since film is a cruel art, it is not so easy to surround every aspect of film.
So how can we let this cruel movie art result respect and recognize ourselves?

This cruel art is actually just like what Longmen Feijia’s lines say: only talking about trading, not about feelings

. What you buy from watching a movie are feelings and connotations. It is feelings that
make a movie and sell it. It is also feelings and connotation. Feelings,

but when buying and selling, I just can’t talk about more surrounding feelings. If you get a “sympathy point” and
sell a feeling, you will naturally gain a feeling, a feeling, and a respect and recognition of the

movie. Only when the transaction is successful can we stand up straight and talk about the "suffering and pleasure" of "want to be in the past", otherwise everything will only turn into irony.
I am sure of Longmen Feijia's success, so I dare to write down the "things you don't know" above in this early morning, not complaining, not sensational, but just a record, a kind of pride and ease of looking back on the past as a relief. "Flying Armor of the Dragon Gate", which records my being with me for one year and seven months, is just as a curious bystander.

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Extended Reading
  • Korbin 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    Using modern technology to tell traditional martial arts stories, the Longmen Inn far away from the secular, the indifferent chivalrous girls, and the weak scholars on the sidelines are full of the taste of Hu Jinquan, and the soundtrack is even more impressive. It's been a long time since I saw such a wonderful commercial blockbuster. PS. Gui Lunmei wins over everyone! So handsome! In addition, what is going on with Fan Xiaoxuan's role? I do not understand. .

  • General 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    The Longmen Inn is still here today, and the proprietress of the past is nowhere to be seen. IMAX’s visual effects are great and the story is quite proper. It has a Hong Kong-made martial arts tune in the 90s. It’s just a new bottle of old wine. Technically 3D is definitely an advantage. However, the slow mirror used for 3D and 3D is empty but lacks action. The blood is boiling, and in some places I even feel that it is fake. Chen Kun's performance was very good and he was able to retract and rewind freely. Jet Li has a subordinate who resembles Chen Guantai.