2. It is estimated that Mr. Jean-Jacques Arnault is familiar with the young Chinese artists because of the "Lover". By discussing the academic question of whether Mr. Liang Jiahui’s butt is worse than foreigners, we have a more in-depth understanding of the director’s vision . And more ordinary people know him, probably because of the "Bear Tale." He is more famous for photographing animals than for photographing people. This time, he shot the wolf. But he specially asked people to tame wolves for two years, and he wanted to shoot wildness. As a result, there is some inevitable twisting. Those wolves did play a role, but they lacked murderous aura. I don't know if this is the reason for too much contact with people. But it is very rare to see such a scene.
3. The most outstanding part is one of the chasing scenes of wolves and horses, life and death are on the line, blood is smashed, this kind of effect is only on the big screen, the last time I saw such a burst scene was Tsui Hark’s "Take the Tigers Out Some shots in "Mountain" are much wilder this time than the former. After the horses were slaughtered, the corpses were trapped on the cold lake like ice sculptures the next day, almost the most shocking scene in the entire movie. Unfortunately, as a commercial movie, this desperate scene has been compressed into a very short time.
4. The above is almost all the excellent links of "Wolf Totem". The rest has a revealing background color. It seems that all of Jean-Jacques Arnault’s energy is only directed at the pack of wolves. He just finished filming those animal scenes seriously. As for the story line of people, there is a sense of disgust that “it’s my business”. .
5. At the moment when the storyline turns from the explosive animal hunting field to the human being, there are always a lot of soothing shots. Whenever the wind blows over the prairie and there are wolves strolling leisurely, I always worry that Teacher Zhao Zhongxiang is vigorous. The voice will be melodious, "Spring is here, and the animals are in the mating season..." This problem arises because of improper breath transfer.
6. Although Feng Shaofeng and Dou Xiao both appeared on the posters in order to win the box office, in fact "Wolf Totem" is a one-man show, and if Dou Xiao's characters were cut out, there would be no problem. I don’t know if he offended the brokerage company. He specially arranged such a role for him. Is it to warn him, "Look, you can shoot this scene without you!" What’s more terrifying is that, compared with that, there is no sense of existence. Dou Xiao plays the role of a normal person. Feng Shaofeng is basically a little warm man, fresh and animal conservationist who traveled back to 1967. If he left it now, he would put on a face of Madonna and ran to the highway to intercept. The dog cart.
7. Well, when the male version of the Madonna Feng Shaofeng appeared on the grassland, you knew how this role would fail. This kind of role setting incompatible with the general environment requires the actor to have a strong ability to control himself, and the screenwriter needs to set a narrative line for him from alienation to integration but still maintaining a higher level of independence. These two, None of this movie is available. As a result, Teacher Feng Shaofeng completely turned into a secondary disease patient. Every day on the grassland facing life and death problems, he sometimes pouted and cried, and frowned as a young man with a coquettish and cute expression.
8. In the original work, Feng Shaofeng’s character Chen Zhen is also an intellectual, actively avoiding the noisy Beijing to go to the grasslands, but he has a much more calm aura than Feng Shaofeng, and has the most basic speculative consciousness, not like The second-hand character in the movie is like a tourist who goes to the grassland to wash his soul. The film made a young man who jumped into the line alive into a white-collar worker taking annual leave. So that every time Feng Shaofeng holds the little wolf pup, I am especially worried that he will take out his mobile phone to take a selfie.
9. Speaking of the original work, mention the relationship between the novel and the movie. As a best-selling book "Wolf Totem", needless to say the commercial value, but as a novel, it is not qualified. I don’t mention the writing at zero. The book lacks the most basic ability to tell a story, and it tells the truth in a large space, which is related to the author’s own experience. The use of scenes in the movie has effectively avoided some problems, but it has further promoted the problem of reasoning. This is reflected in the rivalry between Mongolian Old Abba and Feng Shaofeng. Their dialogue is not at all lines between movie characters, but a pair of teacher-student replies. It always makes me feel like the kind of training class where the elites of the CEO go back to Xuanzang Road. The two people face the vast grassland and force some questions. Four or six philosophical topics, and then come up with some solutions. Feng Shaofeng always looked innocent and innocent and asked some "book-like" young teeth problems imagined by the screenwriters, and his father answered questions with a kind and stern expression on his face. However, in the original work, the definitions of nomads, agricultural civilization, Genghis Khan's influence on China, Europe, and the world, as well as the definition of civilization and barbarism, etc., are all slightly ignored. Those things are very dangerous. Movies are screened in a strategic way, understandable, but you have to bear the consequences. Now, Old Abba and Feng Shaofeng have jointly planned a prairie version of "Hundred Schools Forum". As viewers, we can only endure pots of spiritual lamb soup that exudes a prairie smell.
10. Another reason why Feng Shaofeng has become a secondary disease and a young freshman is the lack of foreplay. In the original work, he had already laid out too much content before he wanted to adopt a little wolf pup, and the movie completely cut all those out. So, Feng Shaofeng became just because he saw the furry little wolf and couldn't bear to be thrown down the mountain by the herdsmen, so he decided to hide one secretly, as if he was a relative who had been separated from the wolf for many years. This kind of trying to make friends with beasts at one end of their food chain is a typical sign of some small freshness, and they are willing to personify beasts. There are a lot of these kinds of videos on the Internet, such as kissing a lion, they need to show that they are particularly "love". In the end he became a contemporary version of Mr. Dong Guo, and let the wolf take a bite. It belongs to the scene where one mouth extinguishes the small fresh air.
11. Shooting beasts is good. At most, we can only feel the shot and atmosphere. We can't empathize with the beasts. If you need to involve our feelings in a movie like this, you must shoot character stories. But the characters in "Wolf Totem" basically don't have a story. I'm really puzzled. You are all masters and firmly believe that only light and shadow can explain the world, right? What I regret most is that there is Lu Wei in the screenwriting team. He is a very sober screenwriter. I don't know if the emotional line remaining in the movie was written by him. It is one of the few who has something to do with people. The story is up. This movie was originally like the chirping prose poems on Midnight Radio, one piece from the east to the west, you lack the main line of the character story, and you will inevitably get tired when you see the second half of it. Feng Shaofeng and Old Abba pretended to talk like Confucius and a student, not a story. Then there is only one and a half that is barely a story. A kiss scene and half-court match. Before that kiss scene, Feng Shaofeng and the female herders had been foreshadowing the feelings, from scratch from weak to strong, and finally slipped to despair. If this line can be written well, perhaps a deeper metaphor will appear, the human world The combination of middle farming and nomadism responds to the sheep and wolves in the wilderness, but this line appears and changes extremely abruptly. Feng Shaofeng's innocent face is a small piece of meat that is only useful for causing trouble to the herders. Why should a stout female herder suddenly have you not marry? Can you explain it decently? When you learned that she was going to remarry, you still acted like saving the common people, doing women's liberation work, and promoting the independence of marriage? Do you mean you are a youth of the May Fourth Movement? This passage is written like this, it is really not as interesting as the wild ensemble in the half of Dou Xiao's performance. The moment when he lifts his pants in panic, it is full of vitality.
12. When screenwriters appear as a team and mix and match crooked nuts, the plot will almost inevitably form such a split situation, unless they have an unusually strong first author, but at present, it seems that they are basically playing each other. For each, the director is responsible for the last process using the paste. Some people are responsible for writing the battle scenes of wolves, some are responsible for dragging people’s emotions, and some are responsible for interspersing the distortion of human nature in that special era. Finally, this movie is finally formed. The classic version of "Animal World" is a mix and match of special effects. "National Geographic", mixed with a little bit of scarred literature and supplemented with the grandeur of the prairie outdoor scene "Hundreds of Forums". In the end, the team chose to use a wolf-shaped white cloud in line with the aesthetic appeal of the beaming audience as the end that it considered to be unique and meaningful. If we say that "Wolf Totem" is not only visually shocking, even if there is a little spiritual reminder, it is also a spiritual call for freedom. You build a stable nest for a wolf whose blood desires freedom and provide three meals a day, but at the cost of depriving the wolf of its freedom, the wolf will eventually run to freedom. You understand. Of course, dogs in pastoral areas are another option.
13. Due to the Spring Festival schedule, except for "Where is Dad", it is a set of variety shows such as "Running Man". Due to special circumstances, Mr. Jackie Chan's film can't borrow his son's story to become more popular, so look at it in a comprehensive way. , "Wolf Totem" is really the worst choice. You can only use the method of elimination to watch movies in your country’s cinemas. Eliminate the least things you can’t watch, and watch whichever is left.
(By Yang Shiyang)
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