On the second day of the Lunar New Year, a hall of Wanlong Cinema in Quancheng

Zuo Le wore a mask and a cap, and sat quietly in the corner of the last row of the theater with his assistant Feng Ye.

He came here to observe the enemy's situation.

The word-of-mouth of "Golden Night Banquet" is divided, whether it is film critics or ordinary audiences, it is divided into two parts, some blowing and some stepping on.

So Zuo Le was also a little unsure, and was ready to see for himself whether this so-called top masterpiece in history was a dragon or a worm.

Even if you bet on the treasure, you have to let him listen to the sound of the dice first and estimate the odds.........

There are a lot of people in the theater, and before the movie opens, Zuo Le roughly estimated that it was at least about 90~95%, which was nearly full.

Zuo Le secretly took a look at the two "Charlotte's Troubles" halls next to him before, which are undoubtedly weaker than "Golden Night Banquet", basically floating around 80%.

Yesterday's first-day box office has been counted, counting the pre-sale box office, "Charlotte's Troubles" totals 297 million, temporarily ranking third in the Lunar New Year.

"Dragon Totem" is 302 million, ranking second.

Although it still retains the second place, the gap has been slowly narrowed by "Charlotte's Troubles".

The box office of "The Legend of Jigong" exceeded 200 million, temporarily ranking fourth.

As for the popular "Golden Night Banquet", although the word-of-mouth is mixed, it has not affected the box office for the time being, and now the total box office has reached 512 million, beating the same period.

The momentum is so fierce that even Zuo Le is a little skeptical that his plan to overtake the top position in "Charlotte's Troubles" can succeed.........

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At the beginning of the movie, Zuo Le immediately pressed the idea in his heart and watched the movie intently.

Because he had understood the general plot of "Golden Night Banquet" before, now that he watches movies, he compares movies with psychological impressions.

The movie "Golden Night Banquet" is said to be a local adaptation of Zhang Kaigang's combination of part of the plot of the famous Chinese drama "Thunderstorm" and the classic English Shakespearean play "The Prince's Revenge".

The story is set in five dynasties and ten kingdoms, but the dynasty of the movie is half-empty and does not specifically refer to it.

It is said that the emperor of a certain dynasty (Fa Ge) had four sons, the eldest prince (Yanzu) made a mistake and was demoted from the border, and the second son was made the crown prince (Liu Ye).

The third prince (Zhou Tianwang) is the first fierce general in the country, and he is most liked by the emperor, and the fourth prince is still a child, a transparent person.

Among them, the eldest prince and the third prince are the sons of the queen (Gonghuang), the crown prince's biological mother is unknown, and the fourth prince is the son of Concubine Wan (Zhang Ziyi).

In addition, the imperial family also has a Li Wang (Uncle Ge), who is the younger brother of the emperor, who is quite trusted and holds great power.

The emperor favored Concubine Wan, the queen was lonely, and accidentally had an affair with the prince, the queen was afraid that her private affair would be exposed, and she would be known by the emperor, and she loved her own son who had been exiled, the eldest prince, so she wanted to provoke the prince to mutiny and seize the throne.

The crown prince had a cowardly personality and immediately objected, and the queen had no choice but to give up, but she didn't want the affairs of the two to be known by the emperor's secret agents.

In order to cover up the royal scandal, the emperor intends to secretly poison the empress with chronic poison.

Sensing that her health was deteriorating, the queen found out that the emperor had attacked her, and in order to protect herself, she planned to mutiny with the three princes on her own and let the three princes take the throne.

The third prince is a "mother's treasure", as soon as he heard that his father wanted to kill his mother, he immediately quit and followed the queen to kill his father.

At this point in the plot, Zuo Le was already stunned, and the co-authored historical masterpiece was the son and the mother (non-biological) to get involved, the father killed the mother, and the mother took her son to kill the father.

Just the special real royal version of the thunderstorm......

Anyway, Zuo Le didn't know how the queen was tinkering, the harem was actually linked to the military department, and he secretly held 10,000 imperial forest troops.

With such a fierce operation, it is estimated that Wu Zetian can't compare to her.

In any case, the force of the mutiny is there, and the empress is ready to let the three princes lead the mutiny on the night of Chongyang and kill the emperor.

The prince was cowardly and difficult to take on a big responsibility, but the queen was "true love" for him, and specially came to the door to ask the prince to wear a robe with chrysanthemums on the night of Chongyang to avoid being injured by the rebels.

The prince was unbearable, but he was not a fool, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and after failing to stop the queen, in a panic, he swung a knife and killed himself to get rid of suspicion.

At the same time, the emperor's younger brother, King Li, noticed the queen's actions.

Zuo Le was speechless, everyone knew that the queen was plotting against her, so why did she make a rebellion.........

Let's go back to King Li, this is an ambitious person, he has always wanted to take his brother's throne and replace him himself, and when he learned that the queen was doing something, he also secretly added fuel to the fire, wanting to make a profit.

Soon it was the Chongyang Night Banquet, and the old emperor suddenly turned his face at the banquet, reprimanding the queen for misconduct, and the queen was not good at stubble, and turned to the old emperor.

First of all, the prince's biological mother, for the throne, the old emperor was extremely flattering, married someone, with the help of his mother's power, after the result, the old emperor was deeply ashamed of this matter, and actually crossed the river to tear down the bridge, slaughtered the prince's father-in-law's brain, and the prince's biological mother was born and the old emperor was angry to death.

There is also Concubine Wan, who has been a childhood sweetheart with the eldest prince since she was a child, and she is in love, but the old emperor saw that Concubine Wan was beautiful when she grew up, so he moved his heart and forcibly married his future daughter-in-law.

The eldest prince was demoted, not because he made a mistake at all, but after the old emperor robbed his son and woman, he didn't dare to face criticism, so he sent the eldest prince far away to eliminate the impact.

Your circle is too messy!

Zuo Le was stupid, and only these four words were floating in his heart......

Many viewers next to him also made a commotion, it was exciting enough for the prince and the queen to get together before, and now there is a "Tang Minghuang 2.0".

Only a few people have a bright eye, this screenwriter can play, go back and check if he has any great works on the digital mainnet, please read it.

Back to the movie itself, the black history was picked up, the old emperor couldn't stand it, and was about to kill the queen, the fourth prince who had always been a little transparent, suddenly killed the prince with a sword.

Everyone was stunned, the queen hugged the prince's body and wept bitterly, and the old emperor was also sad and angry.

Although the prince greened him, he never thought about abolishing the prince, but blamed all the faults on the queen, and now let this little cub be killed.

The four princes hysterically told that the emperor had neglected him for a long time, and he hated the old emperor, even his mother Concubine Wan.

Because Concubine Wan thought about the eldest prince in her heart, she regarded the four princes she gave birth to by combining with the emperor as a shame, and she didn't have the slightest care at all.

The disregard of his parents made the four princes completely crazy, he said that he knew everything, and today he took advantage of the mutiny to kill the emperor and several princes, and the throne was his.

Then the four princes called out seven or eight guards to prepare to kill the monarch and rebel, but how could the rebellion be so simple.

The old emperor was old and strong, and directly killed all the guards, and then used the gold belt to whip the four princes to death.

As soon as the fourth prince died, Concubine Wan, who had been too lazy to pay attention to him, suddenly awakened her mother's love and looked at the old emperor with hateful eyes.

However, the old emperor didn't bother to care about her at all, because at this time, the third prince took 10,000 royal forest troops wearing golden armor and the silver armor ambush army arranged by the old emperor to start a bloody battle.

This war scene was filmed so spectacularly that even Zuo Le was stunned, and asked himself, at least now he doesn't have this skill.

What shocked him even more was that after the war, countless palace maids and eunuchs appeared, and restored the chaotic and bloody battlefield into the magnificent palace banquet before with a rapid and methodical speed.

Zuo Le, who watched this scene, was simply amazing.

A protagonist did not appear, did not have a single line, and in the elegant and solemn sound of ceremonial music, he talked about the supremacy of imperial power, and the performance was incisive.

These two scenes made Zuo Le put away the contempt just now, and his attitude became serious again.

The prince hung up, and the fourth child died.

The emperor looked at the bloodstained three princes and the tired queen tiredly, and gave the three princes one last chance to feed the queen to drink poison, and the crown prince position was his.

The three princes of "Ma Bao" didn't do it, they kissed themselves with their swords, and the queen also died, leaving only the emperor sitting on the chrysanthemum platform and becoming a loner.

At this time, the movie is not over yet.

There are two nights of the Golden Night, this is the first, and the second is the following.

A night banquet killed a daughter-in-law and three sons, and the old emperor's body was a little stretched, he abandoned his previous suspicions and prepared to summon the eldest prince back to inherit the throne.

So, King Li, who has been hiding behind the scenes, made a move.

Through flashback clips, it was explained that the four princes killed the prince, although it was due to his own personality, but it was also because of King Li's instigation behind his back.

Now that the plan has succeeded, King Li deceived Concubine Wan again and told her that the old emperor was ready to cut the grass and eradicate the roots and kill the eldest prince.

Because of the death of the four princes, Concubine Wan hated the emperor deeply, and was worried about the safety of her old lover and the eldest prince, so she teamed up with Emperor Li to stage the "Candlelight Axe Shadow 2.0" and killed the old emperor.

After the emperor died, King Li, who held great power, ascended the throne and accepted the beautiful sister-in-law Concubine Wan as the queen, and called it Queen Wan.

King Li... No, Emperor Li's ascension to the throne was not very clean, so he wanted to remove all obstacles, and the first target was the old emperor's only surviving son, the Great Prince.

After Empress Wan learned of Emperor Li's thoughts, she secretly protected the eldest prince with his hypocrisy and grievances.

At the same time, Emperor Li's daughter, Princess Qing (Zhou Gongzi), also has an unspeakable love for the lobby brother who played with her when she was a child, and mediated for the eldest prince in front of Emperor Li in every way.

Audience: "......"

Okay, there are mothers, sons, and daughters-in-law, and it is not new for the brother-in-law to dominate the sister-in-law, and the cousin loves the cousin.

And the eldest prince, on his side, also knew about the capital, he didn't know the specific situation, he only knew that his parents, brothers and fathers were all gone, his uncle was on the throne, and he also occupied his little mother and old lover.

In this situation, everyone thought that Emperor Li had harmed the emperor's whole family, and the eldest prince was no exception, ready to take revenge.

The revenge plan was very simple, he still had some followers in his hands, so he was ready to go back and kill Emperor Li.

Emperor Li is not right, there are many henchmen of the old emperor in the court, the eldest prince is the eldest son of the first emperor, as long as there is no exception to Emperor Li, he is the hero who set things right and the best heir to the throne.

Emperor Li also understood this truth, so he wanted to kill the great prince first.

But he was first confused by the beauty of Queen Wan, and he was a crazy demon who loved women, and Princess Qing even blocked the knife for the eldest prince, but he couldn't punish him ruthlessly.

Under the entanglement of the two women, Emperor Li was unable to kill the eldest prince for a long time, and the eldest prince also played a love triangle with these two women who had a complicated relationship with him, while preparing a revenge plan.

Finally, the second night banquet of the movie begins.

At the banquet, the eldest prince personally acted as a servant, and in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, the scene of Emperor Li killing the old emperor was reproduced.

Under the testimony of the witness Empress Wan, Emperor Li was forced to take poison, but before he died, he planned to pull Empress Wan to go together, and at the moment of crisis, the eldest prince stepped forward and blocked a sword for Empress Wan.

Emperor Li hung up, his sword was poisonous, so the eldest prince also died, and Empress Wan became the only survivor of this power struggle.

Just when all the audience thought that "Wu Zetian 2.0" was about to be born, Princess Wanhou Qing took it away with a flying knife.

The reason is that Empress Wan forced her father to kill the emperor, and she also affected the eldest prince, and after killing Wan, Princess Qing also committed suicide.

Two night dinners.

Two waves of annihilation!

The people of the royal family died cleanly, and only a group of civil and military officials were left looking at each other.

Most of the audience is also confused, what kind of thing is this movie, the family killed indiscriminately, and in the end, all of them died, and the screenwriter was sick.

Zuo Le probably saw the intention of the director and screenwriter, the theme of this movie is very clear, that is, to satirize the royal power.

It is a metaphor that under the oppression of feudal etiquette and power desire, the royal family fell into madness, became inhuman, ghostly, and left ethics and morality behind.

The final ending of the whole family is also a reflection and criticism of the autocratic system of imperial power and feudalism.

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Frankly speaking, Zuo Le still likes the connotation of "Golden Night Banquet" very much, and it has depth.

Especially in the first half, putting aside those messy bloody emotional scenes, it really feels like "Thunderstorm".

Moreover, the theme of anti-feudal parents in "Thunderstorm" has been directly raised to a higher level, turning it into anti-feudal imperial autocracy, which I dare not say is sublimation, but it can be regarded as another interpretation.

In the second half, the role of the eldest prince borrowed from Shakespeare's "The Prince's Revenge", which is a bit suspicious of a dog's tail and a mink.

And it may be due to the length of time, the two plots can't be rolled out, compared with the first half of the Chongyang Night Banquet, the second plot progress is obviously a little thin and anxious.

In the second night banquet of the special highlight, the villain Emperor Li died too sloppily, and the death of the eldest prince and Empress Wan was also inexplicable, which is a bit of a forcible plot killing.

Compared with the spectacular war scene in the first half and Zuo Le's favorite scene of cleaning up the battlefield and re-arranging the night banquet, the second night banquet did not have the strength of the finale at all.

Judging from the plot line, it is not an exaggeration to evaluate it with four words.

In addition, "Golden Night Banquet" also has many advantages, whether it is the picture, photography, costumes, and soundtrack, they are all of a very high level, and it can even be said to be the top level in the Chinese film industry.

The actors' acting skills are not picky, except for Zhou Tianwang, who is a little down, the other actors have not lived up to their honor as the actor and actress, and have contributed a quite wonderful acting feast.

Several scenes of the emperor & queen, Emperor Li & Empress Wan, made Zuo Le addicted to watching, and he couldn't get enough of it.

This is the pros, and let's talk about the disadvantages.

First, the relationship between the characters is too messy.

Zuo Le understood that the screenwriter and director were probably intensifying the impact in order to show the filth and squalor under the imperial autocracy.

But seriously, the screenwriter tried too hard.

One or two are okay, the whole family is messing around, and not all the audience can accept it.

Second, emotional drama is bloody.

This is also the biggest failure that Zuo Le thinks, the power tilt is written about the power dumping, and the emotional drama has to be added to it.

Of course, Zuo Le also understands that these scenes are to reflect the brilliance of human nature in the dark, but they are too bloody, they are just some unethical feelings, and they are very messy.

You love her, she loves him, he loves her, she loves him, he really loves her, she actually loves him.........

Zuo Le almost didn't recognize these two words.

In fact, the emotional scenes in the movie "Golden Night Banquet" are not only love, but also family affection.

The old emperor has a father-son relationship with the crown prince and the three princes, the three princes are also very filial to the queen, Emperor Li is insidious and cunning, but he loves the green princess, and when the eldest prince comes back for revenge, he often misses the scenes of playing with a few children when he comes back.

But the fuck is that thanks to those unruly feelings, the audience's ideas have been led astray by the movie.

Even if the movie shows family affection, everyone automatically thinks crookedly, such as-

The three princes are working hard for the queen, do they also have some thoughts in their hearts, is there any indescribable emotion behind Emperor Li's love for the female madman.

Not to mention ordinary audiences, even Zuo Le is a little vague, is there any emotional line that is deeply hidden, I don't see it.

Third, the actors' performance methods and lines are not grounded.

Most of the leading actors are acting in an unfathomable posture, with lines covered by clouds and mountains, and they are particularly forced.

In fact, the setting is quite in line with their identity, royal, holding the identity, it is normal to speak in a twisted way.

But for some viewers, it's quite unfriendly.

There is a saying in the circle, never overestimate the audience's ability to understand, especially commercial films, the box office is rushed, you play dumb riddles with the audience, and the audience spends money to buy tickets and watch a belly of question marks, isn't this angry.

If that's all, after all, the plot is not very difficult, and there are a few joints that you can't understand, and it doesn't hinder the overall situation.

But the most important thing is that the narrative style of "The Golden Night Banquet" is a bit of a drama and Shakespeare's drama.

To tell the truth, ordinary audiences who have not undergone a certain amount of edification can watch dramas, but if they watch Shakespeare, most people will not be able to adapt to it.

Just like ordinary people watching Peking Opera for the first time, they don't understand the tricks and can't understand the charm of it.

Under such circumstances, it is undoubtedly very unpleasant for "Golden Night Banquet" to take the road of "combining China and the West".

Even in Zuo Le's view, it is the director and screenwriter who are laughing at themselves.........

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Overall, "Golden Night Banquet" is a movie with very obvious pros and cons.

Lovers love it and treat it as a classic.

People who don't like it feel very bad, the kernel is empty and scarce, deceiving their feelings, and they can't wait to rush to Zhang Kaigang and shout [RNM, return the money !!].

It is only now that Zuo Le understands why the reputation of "Golden Night Banquet" is so polarized.

Even he didn't know what to say about the film.

said that it was a bad movie, but there were a lot of excellent places, saying that it was a good movie, and looking at those shortcomings, I felt that it was not worthy.

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Lao Zhang is worthy of being one of the top famous directors in China, and such a tangled movie has been made, and Zuo Le is willing to bow down.

Serve spicy!