Blue Eyes Long Zhun Xiaoqin Empress——The Battle of Gengzi from a Novel Angle

Adalberto 2022-02-25 08:01:05

It's really rare movie information. Such a shocking theme and big production are actually unknown. I've seen some western movies, but I haven't seen this one in many melon manuscripts. I just got a look at it when I accidentally encountered it. To see Queen Xiaoqinxian played by a Western woman, one was surprised and the other was delighted.
It's not that the film was made well, but that it provided a rare perspective for foreigners to see the Gengzi National Revolution, and I wanted to see it as soon as I heard it. After Xunlei downloaded it, I watched it that night. After the other movies, I was still in a number of folders, waiting to turn over the sign when I was in a good mood.

A compliment. Actually, the studio and set are well set up. Xun is a large-scale production, and there is a faint old Beijing atmosphere. Outside the city wall is the most similar, with a close shadow of the tower, and the deserted loess and shallow moats, where people come and go. Next is the close-up view in front of Zhengyang Gate. Although Shi Wengzhong has rotated from the Ming Tombs and Yunhui Yuyu Square from the Summer Palace to this point, there is no harm in creatively borrowing the scenery. There is a short comment that says that most of the mainland films in the late Qing Dynasty are not as good as this one. The purpose is to say-it should be said that with the exception of the few films made before the 1980s, such as Chengnan Old Story and Luo Tuo Xiangzi, other mainland films The exterior scenes of late Qing films are nothing more than the scenes of a film and television city. There are brand-new blue brick streets with ashlar floors, vigorous and nourishing extras, and no trace of the muddy, dirty, decadent, numb, and sluggish scenes in the old photos. The realism is far less than that of this film.
In the era of this film, most of the city walls and towers in Beijing were still there. Even the real-time shooting had a hardware foundation, but politics prevented them from coming to China. Nowadays, the framing of co-produced foreign films is loose, and the old city no longer exists, so I sigh. Among the remaining half-remaining ancient cities, Pingyao Guangfu is too small, Jingzhou Suzhou is too small, and Xi’an and Nanjing are too modern. Only the Datong city restored in the early Ming Dynasty can have that pattern.

The main roles are played by Westerners, but the lineup is also neat. Empress Xiaoqin was highly loyal, but the spirit of killing, courage and perseverance were in place, and the majesty was sufficient, and the envoys of the Western envoys were also scolded into the house. The ideological realm and actions are not far from the real Empress Xiaoqin in history; the Qing Dezong is very absent. There is a sense of existence. Westerners don’t understand the principle of the emperor's law, so they probably don’t think it is necessary to add a puppet character and keep them simple; Duan Wang and Rong Lu run out like the Scorpion King, with cunning and wicked faces. The real King Duan is a foolish and absurd person. As an emperor, his vision is equivalent to that of a group of gangsters. He advocates the deification of fighters who have long been identified as Shinto and teaches them. The actor's appearance is too sly and smart, and he is similar to Duan Wang. The ignorance is clearly incompatible.
The perspective is generally flat, and there is no such thing as ugly and insulting China that we suspect. Hua has no sophistry about the armed criminals on the general trend, and the film is also justified and speechless. Of course, I have touched more on the details of the Chinese, but the real situation of barbarism and backwardness, active provocations, and barbaric exclusion from foreign countries is not as good as the ignorance of the Boxers described by later generations.

In the end, the scene of the bombardment of the Zhengyangmen gate was heartbreakingly realistic. The wood chips flew around where the shells hit, then collapsed and burst into flames. After Xiaoqin in the palace dressed up as a peasant woman to prepare for western hunting, everything was consistent with the notes of Cen Chunxuan and others, and the Qing Dynasty was about to end.

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  • Cecelia 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    The story of the Eight-Power Allied Forces fighting against the Boxers and the Qing government.

  • Vita 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    It is not impossible to film the Gengzi Incident from a western perspective, but the film is full of meaningless YY plots, which does not reflect the sacrifice and martyrdom of missionaries and Chinese Christians in China.

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