Jin Yong's novel plot arrangement
To put it in a more professional way, it is a tramp novel. It is the most common in Jin Yong's novels. Even the complicated and tightly structured masterpieces such as "The Eight Dragons and the Proud Jianghu" are like this kind of tramp novel on the surface. It comes out from the third-person perspective, but it is actually the first-person way of proceeding, coupled with the theme of finding the sage’s stone, which is similar to the sunflower treasure-like treasure, as long as the army, local forces, and Hermon Cruz in the film The multiple forces such as Ishuba and Ishuba are replaced by martial arts schools. At least two-thirds of the plot in the front can be regarded as a good-level martial arts novel. But why is it 2/3 and the remaining 1/3? Don't underestimate this 1/3. Although from the perspective of accepting aesthetics, the author hangs up after finishing the work, but how much a work can be elevated by readers has a lot to do with the text. Even if Jin Yong’s novels involve the content of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, their origins are still in the world. No matter how profound and magnificent the subject matter is, it is nothing more than Jianghu, family country, or anti-wuxia (such as "The Deer and Ding Ji"), and "steel making" (for now Let’s call it this way) The initial intentions have been set very high. For a small example, the protagonists of both will have major frustrations at the beginning, Yang Guo broke his arm, Zhang Wuji’s palm in the mysterious god, Linghu Chong’s N shares of innocence, etc. In the steelmaking process, the two brothers lost their mothers because of the taboo of the human body. One lost his body, the other lost an arm and a leg, but the difference is that Jin Yongzhong’s character hardship is more of "Heaven will succumb to great responsibility." The main considerations of the “Siren” model are the plot and character creation. The ordeal of the two protagonists in steelmaking is a kind of thinking in itself, with a sense of original sin. Although the author has added love to the two of them, but There is no affection here at all. Even the final ending is hard to be called a complete one. The journey of the two people is not so much searching, but rather being forced to meet again and again during the harassment of Hermon Cruz. Jin Yong couldn't do this for his own original sin.
The serious imbalance between the two worlds
will reveal a lot of plot. If you haven't watched it yet and plan to watch it, please skip it.
When I first watched the film, based on the time background around 1910, I was always guessing where this happened. The Japanese like to play steampunk, but they also like to put those weird steam machines in a somewhat distant age. If in Japan, it would be Meiji or Taisho. If it is in the world, it is similar to the junction of the 19th and 20th centuries. Alchemy itself has a strong classical color, but every warlock claims to be a scientist again and again, which is very interesting. It can be regarded as an ancient monster like the big steam-powered robot in the robot carnival. Judging from the dressing of the characters and the way of choosing their names, there is a strong German and Austrian flavour (European aristocracy is also a major Japanese complex, as can be seen from the biography of Yinying), I have always felt that the country is like the Austro-Hungarian Empire , Location, ethnicity, and combat effectiveness are all the same-although tanks appear boringly in the film and it is not the earliest small Willy type. In this way, this film has seriously violated the principles of the background of the times, and should not be changed too much-I have always thought this way, but I didn't find it until the last few episodes. It turns out that what is narrated in the film is not the world we experience in life, but the world parallel to our world. In the words of Hearnheim of Light, there is no difference between that world and our world except for the absence of alchemy. . And the death of people in our world provides the inner power for the alchemy of that world. This paragraph shocked me a bit, just like seeing Bruce Willis as a ghost at the end of the sixth sense. In the last film, Edward, who came to our world from another world, also mentioned a long string of Germanic theoretical physicists, but it is not so much easier to understand, as it is for the sudden increase in the difficulty of the plot. It's just a little gold.
But if you think of it as two worlds from the beginning, it will be easier to handle. Anything that you don't understand, as long as there are two worlds, it will be explained smoothly. The author thinks about it this way. I don’t know if I thought it out at the beginning, or in the end I found that it was a bit difficult to justify and came up with the escape word, laugh-
a false proposition of reality (still related to an important plot)
If you delete the last few episodes, you can almost look at it as a political film. Although this film model of many undercurrents of power surging to fight for power is widely used, it has been tried and tested because of the ingenuity of the screenwriter’s thinking. , I used to think this way when I read it, or think about it further, with certain political metaphors, such as mocking militarism, critique of genocide and suppression of national independence, and exposing political shady (Fifth Research Institute , When I watched it, I remembered 731, Khan), and thinking about personal political ambitions. However, after watching the last few episodes, you find that those places that seem to be superficial and can be said very deep, suddenly disappeared, and even-even gave the film a taste of a gothic love tragedy. A pair of lovers of 400 years, in order to maintain their eternal life, they continue to use the lives of others to become sage stones and store their souls in different bodies. Finally, the man gets tired of encountering true love once. , And a woman still wants to be a sage’s stone at all costs for immortality. The two sons of the man stopped her... In short, the most macro plot is like this. What does it sound like? Surprised for four hundred years? When I learned of this important fact, I didn’t have a sudden sense of pleasure, only the kind of forbearing the author’s anger, and arranging such a magnificent airframe for such a mess, I rely on it, the author is a bit of a new style. .
The principle of equivalence exchange and Hermon Cruz
equivalence exchange are the fundamental laws of alchemy and even everything in the world that have been emphasized in the film, but in fact, this ultimate law is not valid. Because the world is not determined by the simple principle of conservation of mass and energy, even machines and perpetual motion machines have been permanently denied by the French Institute because of the wear and tear of energy. However, the people in the film are obsessed with this and insist on it. People feel stupid, and only make people feel sad—equivalent exchange should be a principle, but "should" and "actual" are often contradictory. It's the same as the ideal state that is always emphasized when doing physics experiments. The sage’s stone, made with countless lives, can overturn the principle of equivalence exchange. It used to be said in the film, but in fact, it just pushes the originally unfair balance to a more unbalanced place.
Just like the forbidden body training, even if you have a lot of the same elements, even the most important 21 grams are still there, you still can't train a living person, although the power is provided by another world, is this fair? It takes a lot of other people's lives to exchange the lives of one or more people. Is this fair? There is also Hermon Cruz, known as artificial humans. They are failures made by the human body, but should they be eliminated?
Here are a few more cyborgs. The charm of Cyborg Luster is definitely comparable to the cyborg leader in "Blade Runner". When asked: You can't die, and you have super powers, why do you want to become such a filthy and sinful person? She only said one sentence: Then why do you want to restore your brother's body? What are you pursuing? The other party was dumb. Artificial humans have always been negative images in the film. They are cruel, they are cruel, but they come from human sin, and what they do is just want to turn themselves into that "dirty and sinful person." Edward yelled at these inhumans impulsively time and time again, unable to give me any convincing answer, but mocking the principle of equivalent exchange from another sad aspect.
The abundance of sub-themes
can be regarded as the sub-themes of the film if the pseudo-proposition mentioned above is not regarded as a pseudo. When the film is still in the first few episodes, especially when the chapters are very independent and wandering, almost every episode can get a small theme. The superstition worship in the town of Lior shows the irrationality of the mob group; the Malhad warlock keeps resurrecting his lover with fake dolls, and he pays attention to the topic of love on the body and on the surface; Thaka makes his daughter a synthetic beast, reacting In the face of absolute rationality, the loss of human rationality... The era chosen by the film happened to be the era when Darwin’s theory of evolution was greatly expanded and socialized. Humans’ confidence in themselves could not be increased until the cruel world war drove humans, especially Europe. With a punch, the gray city is rich in resources (look at Wen Li's eyes in Saint-Terrare), but it is always shrouded in a kind of decadence, while the bright and beautiful countryside has long been burned by the fire of the brothers. For the last homeland, if what is the summary of the sub-theme of the film, then it can be said that on the road of modernization, how should human beings deal with the relationship between science, reason and human beings.
Shuz Shuz is so cute
Speaking too seriously, finally relax. Although the details of the film are very rich, I have to say that the workmanship of this film is really rough and tight. I haven't seen such a simple composition in many years. Fortunately, I am used to it and I don't think it anymore. Talk about some of my favorite characters. The two protagonists, the older brother is a genius with a bit paranoid personality, but I don't like this character very much. I don't know the reason. From my own point of view, he is only cute when others say that he is short. Brother, refer to the honest monk described by Gu Long, who is more honest than that fellow. Major Armstrong is undoubtedly one of the cutest characters, but the scene is too single. I still like Lieutenant Colonel Schulz too much, this guy who loves his daughter a little bit Luo Likong, almost made me cry when he was finally heroic. But I am not talking about him, but Colonel Roy Marstein, whom I have high hopes for. What a cute character this could have been, he needs to look good, he needs to be capable and capable, and he was put off by the author in the comics. I'm not saying that he was funny a few times, but he said so many times that he wanted to go up. Climbing-hey, people who are cruel enough should not be like this, and in the end, the duel between Saint-Terrare and the president is a bit of a drooling animation, ruining all the scheming that has been difficult to construct. Now, I used to think how confident and planning he was. At the last look-hey, it turned out to be just a bluff and sadness. However, the calm sentence in front of Shuz's grave: Is it raining? It really highlights the integrity of this person, but unfortunately, there are too few designs like this after entering the second half.
After reading all of them, let me make a score, 85. I originally wanted to hit 90, but the picture was too rough, and the 5 points were deducted. I am ambitious and powerful, but I have made too many commercial compromises, too. Can't you come up with a version that is interpreted by how many people? This kind of film is just right.
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