The king-a story about the rules
Wang is a man of "rules". He often said, "Without rules, there would be no Fiona Fang", so the dining table was also arranged by Fiona Fang, and the position of the home was never in disorder. He always warns the queen and her prince that home is home because there are rules. Like most men, Wang actually made his own rules. For example, the rule he gave the queen was "take medicine if you are sick". It sounds natural, but the crux of the matter is that whether the queen is sick or not is up to the king. So the queen drank medicine for more than twenty years. Because Wang thinks she has "deficiency cold syndrome". Men will simplify the problem and often flaunt it. The conclusion is that taking medicine is the rule and not taking medicine is the bad rule. The king also made rules for his son. Wang said to the second prince Jie Yuan more than once, "I gave you what you wanted, and you can't take it away." In order to prove the correctness of what he said (which is very important for men), he deliberately sat in a chair to compete with the second prince Jie Yuan and defeated him. However, Wang forgot that his power to become a rulemaker was exactly what he robbed 25 years ago.
However, the inevitable factor of tragedy lies in. Everyone broke the rules. Prince Yuanxiang committed adultery with the queen, and the second prince Yuanjie rebelled and entered the palace. The third prince, Cheng Yuan, killed the prince and forced the king to abdicate. Wang is injured. He was in pain, too. The degree of pain a person can bear does not depend on the severity of the injury. What matters is the location of the injury. For example, the face is absolutely impeccable. Face is more important than anything. The mistake of the queen and the prince is naturally a very shameful thing. So the queen must do this, and the prince must be abolished. Naturally, the queen's silence is the best. For example, a chronic poison called kusnezoff monkshood was used to make it into a vegetative state. Men hate women who have an affair outside the wall far more than men who have an affair outside the wall. So is the accident inside the wall. Jie Yuan's mistake is also a matter of face. Originally, the king abolished the prince and prepared to make the second prince Jie Yuan the new king of Chu, but the king said, "I won't give it, you can't take it." If you don't listen to me, I will kill you with 10 thousand rebels. Just to tell my son, "Dad says you can't take it. You can't take it. " The third prince Cheng Yuan is even worse. Killing the prince is killing my son. You kill my son, I'll kill you. Even if you are my son. My son. I kill you, but I can't kill you. What Wang said to his son. The third prince will only be digested in the afterlife. ....
Men who can stick to the rules are all men with arrogant psychology. Proud men are more lonely, and loneliness is the price of pride. No one can tell whether the king propped up the golden armor or the armor itself propped up the king's body. After taking off his armor, Wang put his tired body in a steam medicine bath specially made by Dr. Jiang. At that time, he was just a helpless old man, which was the price of pride. After the death of relatives one by one, Lao Wang still sat next to Fiona Fang's neat dumpling skin and proudly said, "I can't take it if I don't give it to you." .
A man who follows the rules is a man with feelings. For twenty-five years, Wang Yizhi has been obsessed with his ex-wife and has maintained the living arrangements of twenty-five years ago. The strength of "defending" for 25 years is touching. But twenty-five years later, the woman that Wang missed appeared. The king's decision turned out to be-kill. A lot of great love is actually that we fall in love with ourselves, not the object in love. The appearance of his ex-wife robbed Wang of his homesickness for 25 years. Only by killing can love last. It's a pity that Wang is the king of five dynasties and ten countries. It was the most unruly time in the history of China, killing children, robbing daughters-in-law, killing masters and killing fathers. There were 14 emperors in 53 years in the north, and only abnormal death can make it a historical fact. In fact, just 200 years later, there was a guy named Zhu who carried forward the Confucian thought of the sages (Confucius and Mencius) and popularized the rules of "father as son", "monarch as minister" and "husband as wife". This is Wang's ideal in the movie. It has been at least 100 years since the Song Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty each lasted for more than two hundred years. I can't help reporting it. In fact, Zhu commented on Ye Shaoweng's Four Dynasties as follows: "Mother abuse. Unfamiliar to his relatives; Walk with Ni and lure him as a concubine; Open the door to teach students. Thick element; The four sides eat each other and Wan Li moves. " When talking, I digress, but the people who make their own rules are not very accurate in observation, and Wang is too persistent.
Some women are born unruly. They live to break the rules. The terrible thing is that one of the ten women who intend to break the rules may have a purpose of breaking her own. Only one or two are rebuilding their own rules. Wu Zetian is one. Cixi and Lv Hou are only half. Which one does the queen belong to? They destroyed themselves in the process of destruction.
The queen's destruction began 25 years ago. As a princess of Hou Liang, she married a rebellious captain. This should be a violation of the rules and doomed her fate. In fact, the queen also kept it for more than 20 years until the prince grew up. Stepmother didn't keep it. This. Wu Zetian is much smarter. People go to the temple to be nuns and so on, so it becomes a positive result. Then again, she didn't wait for more than twenty years. A word of life is more powerful than a rule. If this is love, then its power is also the driving force to break the rules. Anyway, something happened, and Wang knows it. According to the rules, you should be punished. For example, taking aconite poison as a tonic, then there will be at least three months of waking days.
A woman can be determined to win, order the second prince Yuanjie to attack the harem and force the king to abdicate, but she will not let her wavering lover (prince) wear a chrysanthemum scarf as a symbol of resistance. I hope Prince Yuanxiang can escape death. It is against the rules to be cruel or not. The queen did all this. The most unruly thing is that she insisted on building the army after knowing that things were exposed. This woman seems to be expressing a meaning. Today is the Double Ninth Festival. Didn't Wang want me to die? It's better to water your chrysanthemum with my blood. Isn't that enough? How's your son? Or add the blood of ten thousand soldiers.
The queen should be a romantic woman, because even such bloody killings. She will personally embroider a white silk scarf with Jin Ju pattern for every rebel general. This mutiny, which is doomed to failure, is just like chrysanthemum for the first time in her life. This is a bloody ceremony. She risked exposure. Or don't care This mutiny is like a romantic performance. When ten thousand people were wiped out by Wang Jun, the blood in the square was covered with tens of thousands of flowers, and chrysanthemums seemed to have more souls. I prefer the pattern of silk scarves. No matter what the environment and fate bring us, as long as there is a desire for beauty, there is hope.
Yuan Xiang, the eldest prince, grew up without a mother. Some psychologists believe that most boys who have no maternal love like older women. In the queen's mind, is he looking for love or caring? When he didn't understand, he was afraid. He is afraid of everything he gets, but he longs for what he can't get. He is afraid of the ambiguous relationship with the queen, and he is even afraid of the disaster that the position of prince may bring him. He longs for the unreserved love of Dr. Jiang's daughter, Jiang Chan (Li Man), and he longs for the king to let him leave the palace so that he can have a heart. Fate will not choose cowards, because cowards always choose betrayal in the face of pressure. He betrayed his father and committed adultery with the queen; He betrayed the queen again and told the king her plan to revolt. He should be more cowardly than Zhou Ping in Thunderstorm, and Zhou Ping should at least elope with Sifeng. Yuan Xiang, knowing that Jiang Chan was leaving, went back to the palace alone. Therefore, the story of the old man did not give him the courage to commit suicide like Zhou Ping, but let him be free under the sword of the third prince Yuan Cheng.
Jie Yuan, the second prince, is an alternative of this family and that era. I like the reason why he does things for himself. He started fighting. He said he just wanted his mother to stop taking medicine. He is the highest martial arts master of Wang Zizhong, and the only one among them who is willing and dare to tell the truth to his father. This is by no means a martial arts movie, but the second prince is the only figure with martial arts artistic conception. In fact, Wang valued him most and gave him many opportunities to learn to assess the situation, but he gave up. As long as the Double Ninth Festival is over, the king will turn him into a prince. He accompanied his mother to complete a beautiful madness.
The life of the third prince Yuan Cheng is like a joke. He is only a child, but he thinks he is an eagle. He also planned a ridiculous time, but the king solved his life with a belt. Children who have never fought or been loved are dark and intrigued. Because in the world he lives in, this is a visible law. He is also a kind of simplicity. Evil simplicity. His father, brother and mother all have their own things to do, and the sense of existence is what he longs for. Just like those bad teenagers whose parents are busy with work and have not received a good education, crime and even death just prove their existence.
The basic correspondence between [Golden Flower] and the characters in Thunderstorm is as follows: King Zhou Puyuan; Queen-Fan Yi; Prince Yuan Xiang-Zhou Ping; Second Prince Jie Yuan-Lu Dahai; The third prince Cheng Yuan-Zhou Chong; Medical daughter Jiang Chan Sifeng; Dr. Jiang-; Jiang Shiping (Ma Lu). It is true that the film was adapted from Thunderstorm, but from the beginning, no one thought that Laomouzi would really tell the original story intact. Since Wan Fang's wonderful comments on the adaptation of the script, everyone's expectations have focused on a variant.
There is a difference between the bourgeois houses in the 1920s and the harem in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, which goes without saying. The biggest variable is still reflected in the characters. The role of Lu Dahai corresponds to the second prince, Jie Yuan. The old scoundrel changed his mother, so he has nothing to do with "Lv Jia" and has pure imperial lineage. I think there are two advantages here. First of all. The emotional connection of a family has become closer. The confrontation between the two classes turned into a conspiracy between members of a big family, saving some time to tell stories just to show the money-making guys. Second, Lu Dahai's plays are inherently weaker than Zhou Ping and Zhou Chong, and those two roles are not suitable for cool Jay Chou. With such a change, at least Zhou Shaoshao, who is at the peak of popularity, can become the main ticket. It's not very kind of me to guess like this, and I can say it without shame, because I think that boy Yuan Jie is much cuter than Lu Dahai.
Another big change is that there is no love between Zhou Chong and Sifeng. The principle is similar to that of Lu Dahai. If there are too many branches, you can't manage anything. Moreover, there are many women in the harem, and the probability of pure love should be minimal. More changes come from the temperament of the characters. Of course, it is indispensable for Zhou Puyuan to be a capitalist king, and he should be heroic. If Fage goes to that station, he will change! Fan Yi in Thunderstorm is a bit dull, depressing and dark. Although the queen also has a neurotic side, her noble blood makes her try her best to produce amazing flowers. Complete a performance art with the death of ten thousand people. As mentioned above, the prince actually gave the life force of his drought-striken fields to the second prince, Jie Yuan. "The Little Prince" completely subverts the sunny boy Zhou Chong. How do children who grow up in the harem see the sunshine? Of course he is pure, he is pure evil. He thought he was born for the throne, but in fact he just died for it. What can also be called pure evil is Jiang Chan, that is, four phoenixes. On the one hand, it is unreserved love, on the other hand, it is so calm and calm when preparing poison for the queen, which is completely different from the girl Sifeng in Thunderstorm. Dr. Jiang is younger, so the old man kept his wife's secret from him in the movie. The variables at the end are also unexpected, but we can't say more. ...
It took me a lot of words to make the story clear for the first time. No matter what attitude you take to watch this movie, you will see the old man patiently telling the story in the movie. He is sincere.
The few action scenes in the whole story reflect its function of serving the plot. Fast-paced, explosive, and never do tricks outside the plot. After watching the film, Lao Mouzi told me that when watching him cut the film, the action director and the prop department were distressed, and often hundreds of thousands of films were lost. But he must insist, because the old man knows that the focus of this film is different from the first two, and the story is the first element.
When adapting a familiar story, don't expect the suspense of the story to bring tension, but rich details will promote the rhythm of the film. At this time, [Golden Flower] seems to have some shadows of [Red Lantern Hanging High]. Regardless of the characteristics of the main characters, the choice of two eunuchs in the film is one fat and one thin. It is said that I have also worked hard. Not only the sound is in place, but also the body movements are very accurate. The first step is to break, the calf drives the thigh, which is a typical female action. When the queen drinks medicine, there must be four maids waiting for her. One is holding medicine, the other is holding mouthwash, and the other is holding an empty cup to receive the water spit by the Queen. The last one wiped the queen's mouth with a silk scarf. The movements of the four people must have been strictly trained, and the speed of forward and backward movements is the same. It is not urgent but rhythmic, driving drug addicts to keep the same frequency. It not only shows the royal luxury, but also expresses the queen's impulse to drink medicine. It's part of the rules. There are more details about a person taking medicine to show. At a fixed time every day, after the night watchman strikes the time, it must be the time for the queen to take medicine, to be precise. Eunuchs are also very interesting when they sing. The so-called "four directions always follow the instrument-the time of the child", in addition to showing the punctuality of the queen's medicine, this story happened in one day, driven by high notes, even if the blood is flowing, it will not go out of shape, absurd and cold. No matter who dies, time will not stop.
In addition to telling a story wholeheartedly, this film certainly subverts the most popular evaluation of the elderly for many years. That story, which has been told for twenty years, is that the old man is just showing the backward side of China to foreigners. And [Golden Flower] can be completely manifested in his showing the most luxurious side of the nation to foreigners. In fact, we have never seen those things ourselves. They are all harem dramas, and you can expect to get visual enjoyment by spending tens of millions or even hundreds of millions indoors.
Still inseparable from the details. If you don't visit the art department in advance, you can't see the difference between dozens of palace lanterns, fans and palace clothes from the film alone. In the warm colors of red and gold, hundreds of pharmaceutical workers are engaged in pharmaceutical production, and hundreds of maids are changing clothes and making up. Mirrors, objects and people set each other off in luxury. No matter the quality of the old man's movies, you will always enjoy a unique visual scene in two hours. This scene started in the red sorghum field 20 years ago, and [Golden Flower] is still going on.
Don't underestimate the ambition of the old man to express martial arts because of the proportion of [Golden Flower]. One of the criteria for western film critics to evaluate oriental action movies is whether your action scenes are original or not. No matter [hero] or [flying daggers], there is no shortage of such elements, and [Golden Flower] is still following the tradition. [Golden Flower] Apart from some short-lived killing and fighting scenes, there are mainly two big action scenes, which show completely different action styles.
The first scene took place in the tiankeng. The guard captain killed Dr. Jiang's family at Tianfu Inn. The guards made full use of the terrain, and the flying rope was fixed to the bottom of the pit from several hundred meters high. Dozens of flying ropes cover the inn like a huge spider web, which seems to cover the vitality at once. There are several paragraphs in the battle. The inn killed, the flying knight killed the fleeing knight, and the flying knight was shot by the arrow of the ambush soldier.
In fact, it is difficult to talk about the originality of action scenes now. Martial arts instruction has been used for more than 20 years, and there will be no more "bullet time" easily. The originality of the action of "Golden Flower" lies in emphasizing the confrontation between different arms and different martial arts. For example, the flying rope fighters of the King's Guard can walk as high as Batman and have great mobility. When dealing with marine experts and even cavalry, their flying sickles can kill the enemy from different angles. But when they enter the range of the troops sent by the Queen, they will only become targets.
At the end of the film, there is a battle between the rebels and the king's army. This function has been strengthened. In the battle between the king's army and the rebels, the flying rope warrior is just a bait. They can easily defeat rebel fighters with short weapons, and then be defeated by Jay Chou's long knives and soldiers' spears. However, the Jin army armed with long weapons fought against the king's army equipped with chariots, shields and bows and arrows. Weapons decide the outcome, and 10 thousand people were killed. At the end of the film, this kind of fighting, or killing, emphasizes the importance of weapons and equipment. The use of weapons is beyond human ability. We believe in Cheng Xiaodong's technical ability. But this idea is definitely Zhang Yimou's.
Wang Jun's shield array in defense and arrow array in attack cooperated with chariots and rebelled rhythmically. Tactics are orderly and actions are in place. The rebels were in chaos, killing and injuring all over the ground at one time. The idea that posts and equipment are beyond human physiological ability is shocking enough.
I don't want to say too much about the performance, so the director of such a blockbuster already knew his result when he chose the actor. I prefer Li Man's performance, the performance of a new actor. In particular, the collection ability is a bit surprising.