If this is the "best Tsui Hark"
After watching the Tiger Mountain, this film is very lively and can be regarded as a regular commercial film. But it's really not difficult to shoot. I really can't see that this is Tsui Hark's work. I'm not surprised if this film was shot by producer Huang Jianxin. But since it is said that Tsui Hark made it, we should be more serious and comment on it from the standards of Tsui Hark's films.
considering the overall level of domestic films, give a four-star encouragement first, and then criticize.
Special effects are the biggest selling point. Domestic films are still far behind Hollywood. The gunfight was lively, but it was not without surprises. Since we want to evaluate from the standard of good movies, we can't just talk about special effects, but the plot of characters is more important. This main plot basically copied the model opera, and there was no big change. However, the newly added plays immediately showed the level of scriptwriting, which did not match the original works.
For example, that "embolus mother" can look like a Millennium fox after being tied up in the mountains for half a year. I can't imagine that she is a good woman. The image of butterfly fan is forced to be "good" only for Yang Zirong to have a "women's play" in the cottage, and finally to apply the Hollywood model to stage a James Bond-style "hero to save the beauty" on the plane. However, the result of changing the character in order to set up a business bridge is that the character's image and temperament are divided. For a while, the demon can't hate to suck the men in the whole mountain and make the bandits fear like tigers. When he meets Yang Zirong, he immediately opens his eyes and asks for help. Finally, let everyone feel that this stupid woman has nothing but bad things. This is the level of character design of the most important heroine in the play, and the little white dove can only blink her eyes and pretend to be pure and cute.
The mountain carving is also schizophrenic, so his wife seduces men all over the mountain to "test loyalty" and crouches under the window to listen to it herself. The whole film doesn't show that he is a shrewd and lean man, but only thinks he is a psychopath.
Then Yang Zirong went down the mountain to deliver information, in the name of "taking people down the mountain to rob". Looking at this, I think this is not intelligent enough. He took a group of bandits to deliver letters and robbed them. See how you play it.
It turns out that this clever plan is to tell you that you have a stomachache in the middle, and you have to rely on shit to escape such a LOW bridge to send information. As a result, bandits are not stupid, so they just stare at you. So I had to design the bandit Lao Ba to follow a silly pull, and drive all the bandits away by Lao Ba, which is inexplicable absolute trust in Yang Zirong. It's true love between Lao Ba and Laojiu.
As a result, Yang Zirong took people back to the mountain after pulling it. What was the agreement to rob the mountain? Run down the mountain and go back just to relieve yourself. Is this to treat the bandits as fools or the audience as fools?
This kind of scene can only be said that as soon as the screenwriter left the original plot, he would not make it up, and he refused to move his mind at all, so he had to come up with a solution to "modify the enemy's IQ" in the anti-Japanese war drama, thus causing Yang Zirong to become one or two hundred and fifty.
When bandits attacked villages, tanks, as heavy machine gunners, didn't prepare enough ammunition, and asked their companions to go all the way to carry ammunition boxes. It can only be said that their hearts killed their teammates. The plot is rough, and the sacrifice can't be touching.
In the end, the squad robbed the tank and killed two thousand bandits. When everyone cheered, they didn't think about how the mountain was so dangerous and how the tank got into the mountain. As for the plane and the runway hidden in the mountains, even the producers were embarrassed to talk about authenticity, so they had to make eggs and say that they were imagined by their little grandson.
In addition, Han Geng finally walked into the room, looked at a table full of dishes and a circle of empty chairs, and said, "There are so many people tonight", which scared me. Grandma smiled and said, "Yes, everyone has a reunion at this time of year." As a result, a large group of PLA really came out. It's really cold. This scene is really dramatic. It's like aunt Ni Ping's recitation, and it's hard to cry. I really miss the martyrs, so I should spend my time thinking of something better.
The trick is so careless, no matter how lively the gunfight is, the film is not a "good" word.
It's not surprising that Jiang Wen scored a low score just one step away. I think it's fair. Who asked Jiang Wen to talk in your sleep and play high regardless of the audience's feelings? China audience is finally not so easy to fool. However, the score of outwitting Weihushan before it was released surpassed the previous Ming Liang naval battle, rage and catching up with Interstellar ... I was also puzzled by the criteria for judging "China audience".
it's like seeing everyone scold the king's feast and 1942, and then follow the trend to see Thailand. If this is a good movie in China people's minds, then the China film circle is too easy to mix, and the money is too easy to earn. You can make money without standing, lying down and rolling. No wonder Xiaogang Feng turned his head to shoot "Private Custom", which is tailor-made for the China market.
So John Woo Tsui Hark came back to shoot a lot of commercial films, and I wouldn't be surprised if Ang Lee came back to shoot a red women soldiers one day.
I don't think a step away is a good movie. If the director is too egoistic, he will bear the risk that the audience won't buy it. But if we have to say that outwitting Tiger Mountain is a good movie, then I also think that everyone's requirements for good movies are really too low.
what is a good movie in my mind? Take Tsui Hark's own films as an example.
Huang Feihong Part I, Green Snake, Butterfly Lovers, Dong Fangbubai, Xinlongmen Inn.
what about ordinary movies? Flying swords of dragon gate, Shushan, Seven Swords, and the Dragon King ... including this one that outsmarted Tiger Mountain.
I don't think I need to explain the difference between good movies and ordinary movies. A good movie can make you remember and remember, and it will be regarded as a classic after many years. The people there, the pictures there and the music there will always be remembered by you. There are joy, hatred, infatuation, drinking and fighting swords, and singing crazy songs.
There are no such things in general movies, and there is nothing for you to remember, only "super 3D special effects" or "excellent production".
Just as the most wonderful special effect in the film is the scene of killing tigers and saving the United States by plane, it has nothing to do with the whole plot. If the movie is just like this, it's better to make a movie "Fighting Tiger Up the Mountain", and the whole movie will fight the tiger. In fact, it can also be made very well, maybe the score will be higher, and it will still meet the current situation.
But who will remember this "wonderful" when a Hollywood blockbuster with better special effects comes in a few days?
when the song "Laughing in the sea, waves on both sides of the waves" sounded, it was intense. What about the heroic feelings of "the world is out of my generation, once you enter the rivers and lakes, you will be ruined, and you will be drunk in your life."
a good movie needs a soul. A good story is the same as a good song.
Don't say that the modern theme can't make a wonderful picture. There are so many colorful characters in the squad, such as the Yang Zirong 23 tank brick and white dove with high waves. As long as it is carefully portrayed and a few shots are taken, this character can shine, and the villains can also be more distinctive and sinister, instead of such a group of jerks. I am most afraid that the director himself has lost the mood to make a good film, and is only satisfied with excellent special effects and making money to call it a day. He is not in the mood to describe the refined details of the characters, and finally make them into the same Facebook characters as model operas. This film can also be used as a model of "successful domestic mainstream commercial films" to call on more aspiring young people and investors who think "I can make this movie" to make money in China film circle.
Funnily enough, at the end of the movie, the carved mountain fell off the cliff, and Yang Zirong reached out and pulled him (why should he be pulled? ), the mountain carving looked at Yang Zirong plaintively, and his eyes seemed to say, "The biggest mistake in my life was trusting you. But I don't regret it! " Yang Zirong desperately grasped the mountain carving in pain, but the mountain carving threw him off angrily and fell off the cliff, and his figure disappeared in the vast snow, except for the bald star.
At that moment, Brigitte Lin was overprinted in my eyes. However, such a "classic reappearance" only makes people feel that today is not the same, things are different, and they are also falling off a cliff. This contrast is too great.
if it weren't for tsui hark, I wouldn't waste my time commenting on this film.