Today we will continue to talk about Jiang Wen’s movie "The Devil Is Coming." This movie has been introduced before, but an excellent movie is worth watching repeatedly. If you watch too much, you will find something difficult to discover, and then maybe it’s Will understand why the classics are classics.
Lotus root due to lotus
We started talking with a couplet. When Ma Dasan entered the door, I found a couplet, which was a bit broken, but it should be literally guessed that it is "the lotus root is due to the lotus, and there is no plum for apricots."
There is an allusion to this couplet: Cheng Minzheng, the servant of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, was very smart and famous since he was a child. Prime Minister Li Xian wanted him to be his son-in-law, so he invited him to dinner. Lotus root (why do you have a spouse)?" Cheng Minzheng confronted the Xianlian "Apricots do not need plums (fortunately, no media is needed)".
This couplet confirms the relationship between Ma Dasan and Yu'er. They are "free in love" and there is no matchmaker. Yu'er is a young widow. There is a few-year-old child who is very small. Ma Dasan and Yu'er should not be together. It's reasonable, but the folks almost acquiesced. Crazy Qiye scolded Yu'er: "I'm not your father, a shameless mother-in-law." Grandpa Fifth Uncle said: "It's not a day or two for your daughter-in-law and junior year." Maybe this couplet was written by Grandpa Fifth Uncle.
I guess that few people will notice this couplet, so I dig this pit to say that the crew has done so serious and meticulous in this kind of detail , and it is admirable to hide the elegance behind it . This is the film can become a classic. One of the reasons. Regardless of whether the audience can see it, there are some details that the director does for himself. This is an attitude.
Speaking of couplets, Jiang Wen's movie "Furong Town", which became famous as an actor, also has a very famous couplet.
"A black couple, two dog men and women", horizontally criticized: "Ghost Den". "Furong Town" is a masterpiece directed by Xie Jin. 23-year-old Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing, 12 years older than him, play a couple. The two wanted to get married. Because the composition was not good, Qin Shutian, played by Jiang Wen, asked the leader for instructions. There is a famous line in this movie: "Live, live like an animal", this detail must be remembered forever by Jiang Wen.
Bold beast
Next, let's talk about the animals in "The Devil Is Coming". Jiang Wen often uses some inexplicable "vulgar" shots, which are interspersed with very important plots. If you can understand it quickly, you will understand what a "surprise" is. If you don't understand, you may lose your appetite.
Ma Dasan and others sent Hanaya Kosaburo back to the Japanese military camp. The Japanese army commander was a little confused, and Ma Dasan’s donkey rode on the imperial army’s horse.
This lens was once recommended to be modified by the official, the reason is that it is vulgar.
How can a director who is careful and meticulous in an optional couplet take a vulgar shot at will? Of course he wanted to do this deliberately. Regardless of whether it is for humans or animals, Jiang Wen is happy to show some particularly absurd plots.
What is mapped here is actually the psychological activity of Japanese army captain Inoyoshi Shizuka. Hanaya Kosaburo is a hometown of Captain Inokichi. Hanaya has been missing for half a year. The Japanese army confirmed his death. His name has been engraved in the "Yasukuni Shrine". How can I know that he is back again, and he was imprisoned under the imperial army. For half a year, Captain Inogee's mood at that time was "it's a dog." The horse of the imperial army was mounted on the donkey of the peasant, which means that the dignity of the imperial army was insulted by the peasant.
At that time, Zhu Ji was already "angry from the heart, evil to the gall." It is not surprising that he killed Ma Dasan with a knife, but he endured it. He had a bigger plan. The dignity lost by the flower house was not his personal. It was the dignity of the imperial army, which had to be retrieved by Hanaya. Therefore, he wants to reward more food and come to an army and navy party. Inoyoshi does this, and he also blames the navy army for insight into Nagano Nomura.
Therefore, at the party in Guajiatai Village, Zhu Ji only tolerated the drunk Liuwang's shoulders and patted his head again and again. In this way, he stimulated the flower house, which had been fed by the villagers for more than half a year, until the flower house regained the Japanese army. With his animal character, he killed Liuwang with a knife, and Zhu Ji became excited all of a sudden, yelling "Don't let go of any of them." Then I have to stimulate Nonomura. Because he often gave the children candies, Xiao Lulu ran behind him to hide. Zhu Ji mocked Nonomura and farmers for too long, so Nonomura drew his sword and killed him. Xiaolulu.
Because of these detailed descriptions, the image of the Japanese in the movie is very three-dimensional, and their thoughts and behaviors can be justified. Therefore, Japanese talents admit that this movie is "a Japanese that cannot be made by a Japanese." Some people might say, I understand the truth, why do we have to use a donkey to mount a horse? Jiang Wen personally answered: "Do you know it"!
All beasts
We went on to look down, and there were many animals in the back.
Ma Dasan hacked and killed a few Japanese soldiers and was arrested for public trial. The camera suddenly cut a small donkey and put it under the female donkey's belly. Perhaps because he wanted to feed, the female donkey gave it a hoof.
This is a typical "metaphorical montage." Ma Dasan is a Chinese, and Japanese talents are the invaders. The Japanese army slaughtered the village of Guajiatai after learning the edict of the Emperor's surrender. This is the real heinous crime. Ma Dasan and a group of farmers Just like the little donkey that only needs to feed on milk, they need protection, and the national army "this female donkey" not only has no protection, but actually has to kick it.
Then the little donkey kept appearing behind Ma Dashan. The soldiers of the national army pulled off the cloth and let Ma Dasan speak. He made a series of donkey calls. The brother-in-law of the four cousins on the side said, what is the long whistle to the sky, which is called the long whistle to the sky.
Next, the national army general Wu Dawei announced the verdict against Ma Dasan. He just called the name of Captain Zhu Ji. An idler watching the excitement fell from the high slope, ran away with a gray head and gray face, and then a pig entered. In the field, this series of shots are not serious like gang-bang shots. In fact, what the author wants to express is that this trial is illogical, and the person named Zhu Ji may not be a "pig", and those moralistic countries. Generals are the real "pigs".
Then Captain Zhu Ji heard that he was asked to shoot Ma Dasan. He was surprised and asked "really"? When Inokichi was allowed to use the knife, he gave the knife to Hanaya Kosaburo. He was injured by an axe cut by Ma Dasan before. In this way, the murderous butcher knife came into the hands of Hanawu dramatically, making the invader, a brazen robber, who the villagers could not bear and dared to kill, hacked to death the benefactor who had supported him for more than half a year. The storyteller outside the wall sighed that this story was really good, and he wanted to write a "journey of taking people" when he went back.
What is a classic, this is called a classic.
Jiang Wen's movies may have deep connotations, but they are all hidden behind you. You can't find out if you don't study it, or maybe there's nothing at all. It's just that we think too much. On the one hand, it is domineering and revealing, on the other hand, it is hiding delicate things behind it, which seems a bit contradictory. My understanding is that Jiang Wen was still trying to show off his talent at that time, but he did not expect to use too much force. , In the case of unanimous praise abroad, the domestic ban.
From the beginning to the end, the only person who is always correct is the "Crazy Seven", the old man who shouted "I strangled two with one hand", and once yelled at Ma Dasan: "The whole village will die in your hands sooner or later. "Li", this sentence was also fulfilled. When the Japanese slaughtered the village, this disabled old man fired the only shot and fulfilled the promise of "suffocating two with one hand." Why is Qi Ye a crippled lunatic? It is always a very small number of people who master the truth, and they are definitely an alternative among the crowd.
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