Some literary films seem to be very laborious, because they have to be dismembered like a dwarf and a cow, otherwise they will not understand.
Back then , Bi Gan's "Roadside Picnic", you need to dismember it into words, pictures, and shots to understand that this is "a game that cuts time" . Today, Diao Yinan's "Party at Southern Station" also needs to be dismembered, but this time it's a cat-and-mouse game about ambition.
It should be noted that the dismembered version here is the director's cut version of "The Party at South Station", which is 110 minutes long.
Q1: Why didn't Liao Fan's character shine in the film?
In 2014, Liao Fan won the Best Actor Award at the 64th Berlin Film Festival for "Fireworks in the Day", which is also the work of Diao Yinan. Many people in "The Party at South Station" are looking forward to seeing the wonderful performance of the actor, but do you think it is enjoyable to watch the whole film?
Certainly not addicting!
Why? Is Liao Fan's acting regressing?
The answer, of course not.
Liao Fan plays the captain of the criminal police in the film, a psychological secret battle with Yang Shujun played by Wan Qian. With a few eyes and a light switch, the image of a policeman who is worse than a villain is erected. His acting skills completely online.
Is that because of the supporting cast?
The supporting roles can also be very brilliant. Zhao Benshan said in "The Grandmaster of a Generation" simply, "People live for a lifetime, some people become the face, and some people become the lining. The face can't be stained with a little dust. The lining has to be kept and kept. Don't stop, it will leak to face. People, from time to time, you can cross any river, take off any shoes, and wear as many pants as you want. You must learn to be gentle, kind, respectful, frugal, and let, especially the word ' let ' ", many people will never forget it, not to mention that we have the actor Liao Fan who has acting skills online.
Is it the director's pot?
I originally wanted to say that it was the script's fault, but after looking at the editor, it was also Diao Yinan. Forget it, let's talk to the director directly.
To put it simply, Diao Yinan has flattened Liao Fan's role, and lacks depth in emotions, love, hate, and hatred, so I feel that the role of the police captain is not good.
Does the old driver also cheat when driving?
Of course there will be, and "The Ferryman" produced by Wong Kar Wai is obvious to all. But in the movie "The Party at the South Station", Diao Yinan did not go astray, and it was actually intentional to weaken Liao Fan's role.
Why, with a movie star, it can't be used well?
The actor is used to support the box office and recover some investment, and it does not necessarily play a great role in the film.
Why did Diao Yinan do this?
This is the second question.
Q2: Why did the director weaken Liao Fan's role?
The two lines in the film are very clear, unlike Ning Hao's multi-line narrative, there are only two lines for police and criminals.
In this line of bandits, we saw treacherousness. Brothers Mao Er and Maoyan tricked Zhou Zenong, played by Hu Ge, into a hotel room. We saw cruelty. Maoyan took brothers Zhou Zenong's head with a line, and his head was different; We saw the betrayal, Huahua took the money and betrayed his brother Zhou Zenong to brothers Mao Er and Maoyan. It can be said that this line is solid, deep and content.
In contrast to the police line, the contrast is strong.
As mentioned above, Diao Yinan has weakened the role of Liao Fan. The direct result is that the police line is very weak, destroying the dual structure of police and gangster films.
How many things have the police done successfully?
Plainclothes dance square dance, but his identity was revealed by accident; he pretended to eavesdrop on Yang Shujun, but Huahua saw through; the wild goose pond was raided, but Zhou Zenong was wandering under his nose but could not be caught. In the end, Zhou Zenong had to be killed under the report of the swimmer Liu Ai'ai, which was a fool.
Moreover, there is no chain reaction between the two lines of police and bandit, like two parallel lines, only when Zhou Zenong was killed did the two lines converge. It has always been Zhou Zenong and Mao Erfang who caused the chain reaction.
If we remove the police line, does the story go the same way?
The answer is yes.
Zhou Zenong escaped after being injured by the cat's ear. According to the principle of cutting grass and rooting, the cat's ear side is bound to hunt down the whole city, which is exactly the same as the police's actions. Among them, the two sides have each other's offensive and defensive. Mao Erfang will use Zhou Zenong's family as bait, and his brothers will betray Zhou Zenong for profit.
Some people say that Zhou Zenong's fighting ability and anti-reconnaissance ability are strong, and he will definitely escape and not die.
In fact, according to the portrayal of Zhou Zenong's character in the film, he will definitely die. Zhou Zenong felt indebted to his wife Yang Shujun, and he was willing to use the 300,000 yuan he had exchanged for his life to compensate his wife and children. If Mao Erfang threatened Zhou Zenong with Yang Shujun, what do you think the result would be?
At this point, you should understand why Diao Yinan weakened Liao Fan's role?
Because this role is irrelevant, it will not affect the direction of the plot.
That Diao Yinan was taking off his pants and farting, why did he still put the police line?
This is the third question.
Q3: Why did the director put a weakened version of the police line?
Analysis here, the answer is ready to come out.
In fact, it is very simple. Diao Yinan has to pass this film for review, otherwise he will not be able to explain to the investors. He must make a compromise between the original intention of making this film and the investors.
Bandits and rivers and lakes are his original intentions for storytelling, and Diao Yinan will try his best to protect them. Therefore, the police line must be released.
The film borrows the words of Liao Fan's character to say that the wild goose pond is a place of no concern. Then why did the police enter the wild goose pond? It's not because Zhou Zenong killed the police by mistake.
Diao Yinan almost didn't call out directly, if it wasn't for the people who killed you, you wouldn't be in charge of Wild Goose Pond. You are also incompetent when you come to Wild Goose Pond. Without Zhou Zenong's initiative, you would never have succeeded.
Why is the police Wei Guangzheng? Even if you compromise, you have to hide murderous intentions.
Are you a bit of a conspiracy theory?
no!
So, what kind of story does Diao Yinan want to tell? This is the fourth question.
Q4: What kind of story does Diao Yinan want to tell?
Balzac said that fiction is the secret history of a nation.
Movies, too.
Diao Yinan just wanted to photograph a river and lake with violence, drugs, and sex, a river and lake with flesh and blood, and a river and lake where thieves also have their own way. After all, Diao Yinan wants to make a mainland version of "The True Color of Heroes", which is Diao Yinan's ambition.
Wu Yusen used double guns and white doves to shape the aesthetics of violence, while Diao Yinan used smoke, fire and light to shape it, but it didn't provoke it.
Where is the Tao?
Tao is in Zhou Zenong's bones, a man should live in peace, take good care of his wife, children, young and old, and make their lives worry-free. So he had to die to compensate his wife and children.
In Liu Ai'ai's smile, the bitch is not ruthless, just because she has not met her fellow travelers.
What happens to those who do not obey the Tao?
One word, die.
Huahua betrayed his brother and died.
The cat-eared brother is a villain, die.
This is the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes of Diao Yinan, and the rivers and lakes of the thieves.
At the age of sixteen, Guo Xiang first heard about Yang Guo in the Jianghu population at Fengling Ferry and yearned for him. After that, I kept thinking about it, traveled all over the world, and couldn't find Yang Guo.
When they first met at Fengling Ferry, they met Yang Guo for the first time.
Liu Ai'ai didn't, because she met Zhou Zenong.
The one who was still holding on to his wallet when he was raped; the one who was reluctant to pay for two bowls of beef noodles and twisted for a long time; the bitch who even sold his body for money, was finally rescued.
Because, at the end of the film, the frosty Liu Ai'ai smiled.
If the police and the bandits are a game of cat and mouse, and Diao Yinan and the film censorship, why not?
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