Chapter 814: Only envy mandarin ducks, not immortals
As a sequel to "A Chinese Ghost Story", "The Way of the World" is admittedly missing a poignant connotation, but under the background of a troubled world when a traitor is in charge and people's livelihood is withering, the movie uses ghosts to ridicule and satirize human affairs, such as "Write a travelogue and say that I leaked state secrets." When writing history, I say that I use the past to satirize the present. Commenting on the art of war, he also said that I was plotting a rebellion. Let's write stories about gods and monsters, and say that I lead people to superstition. finally rewrote the biography of the celebrity, hehe, as a result, this celebrity was wrecked and was condemned as a chaotic party, and I was sentenced to life imprisonment with him", which made the movie create its own internal depth that is different from its predecessor, and it is unique, and people are sometimes more terrifying than ghosts.
Just like Terminator 2 and Terminator 1, A Chinese Ghost Story 2 is also a sequel movie that is not inferior to its predecessor, and even in some ways, A Chinese Ghost Story 2 is more profound than 1.
This drama not only maintains the classic combination of Zhang Guorong and Wang Xian, but also adds Li Jiaxin, Zhang Xueyou and others to enrich the plot.
In terms of character image, A Chinese Ghost Story 2 has an interesting sense of youth, and Jacky Cheung, who plays the ghost horse Taoist, also has a colorful expression.
It is said that Zhang Xueyou is an actor who was delayed by singing, which is not blind at all.
Zhang Xueyou is not good-looking, so unlike Liu Dehua, he is always too handsome, and only pays attention to his handsomeness, and ignores his acting skills.
The not handsome Zhang Xueyou can only make people pay attention to his acting skills in the movie.
And Zhang Xueyou's original time and space was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards for this role.
As for Zhang Guorong's honesty in the film, he has successfully rooted a somewhat pedantic scholar in the troubled world full of ghosts. In the scene, he did not forget to add humor to the fun, such as Ning Caichen and Taoist Zhidi meeting in the broken temple, Ning Caichen learning "fixation" and meeting real monsters, etc., are full of humor.
In terms of female characters, the film added "Fu Yuechi" played by Li Jiaxin on the basis of the first part of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and improved the setting of the "one-sided" comedy effect in the first episode.
Then on the road of service, A Chinese Ghost Story 2 has made better progress than A Chinese Ghost Story 1.
The traditional costume scenes and theatrical action processing are combined with computer special effects visual effects to create a different visual experience.
The film has not only been very popular with audiences in traditional markets, but has also received excellent responses from Western audiences in non-traditional markets, pushing Hong Kong's sword action dramas to a higher level. This well-designed commercial film has received high praise in terms of artistry and entertainment.
As a sequel to "A Chinese Ghost Story", the biggest regret of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" is the lack of a brilliant story structure to carry much stronger political irony than the main episode.
"A Chinese Ghost Story" certainly has the classic ghost love pattern provided by Liaozhai's original work, and then Tsui Hark and Cheng Xiaodong's "Smiling Proud Jianghu", although it is a drastic adaptation, does not violate the political spirit of Jin Yong's original work.
On the other hand, the main plot line of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" is vague, the plot of rescuing loyal ministers is similar to "Dragon Gate Inn", Zhang Guorong and Wang Xian seem to want to continue "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the cannibalistic black shop reminds people of Tsui Hark's old work "Hell No Door".
Therefore, no matter how good some political satirical ideas are (such as the demon monk confusing the world with the image of the Buddha, and the civil and military officials are only empty shells), they are always covered up by a large number of not-so-brilliant gods and monsters, and the appearance of the giant corpse and the thousand-year-old centipede is dull, of course, this is compared with Hollywood.
Qiao Feng has watched A Chinese Ghost Story many times, and he has watched all three of them many times.
Looking at A Chinese Ghost Story 2, every time he saw Yan Chixia waving her hands heroically and shouting "Heaven and Earth are endless, Qiankun swordsmanship", his blood boiled, and with the majestic background music, he was a little excited and burst into tears. That heroic chivalrous spirit is really heartfelt and touches from the depths of the heart.
The second part of A Chinese Ghost Story has nothing to do with Nie Xiaoqian, Qiao Feng once guessed that the director must have seen that the box office of the first part was good, and it happened that during that time, when he was thinking about life and overlooking the common people, his heart was full of some disappointment and dissatisfaction, so he used film art to satirize reality.
The centipede essence turned into a Buddha, and Yan Chixia scolded: "You are so bold, even the Buddha dares to fake!"
The centipede spirit replied, "The world loves idolatry, so why do you want to oppose it?"
Yan Chixia angrily reprimanded: I'm sorry, it's because the world is ignorant that you will take advantage of it, even if you want to worship and not worship a monster like you, don't try to deceive people!"
I have always felt that this dialogue is very classic, aside from the plot, according to the artistic logic that the movie is a reaction to reality, it is really quite thorough, scolding Hong Kong at this time, scolding the mainland in the future, scolding the next few decades, it is estimated that it is still appropriate.
However, this line is not the most brilliant, the monologue of Mr. Zhuge Wolong when he appeared can be described as a classic in the history of Hong Kong and even Chinese films
"Write a travelogue and say that I leaked state secrets. When writing history, I say that I use the past to satirize the present. Commenting on the art of war, he also said that I was plotting a rebellion. Let's write stories about gods and monsters, and say that I lead people to superstition. In the end, I rewrote the biography of a celebrity, hehe, as a result, this celebrity was wrecked and condemned as a chaotic party, and I was sentenced to life imprisonment with him......"
These words can't help but remind people of the ancient wise saying, called "If you want to add sin, there is no excuse". If the powerful want to rectify you, it is too simple to find a reason to rectify you. This black humorous line is still so profound after almost 20 years, and it is still so profound, or the saying is good, real art will not withdraw from the stage of history because of the passage of time.
Zhang Guorong is really powerful, Ning Caichen's appearance feels very vague, at most he is just a passionate scholar. When I saw Ning Caichen of Zhang Guorong, I felt as if Mr. Xu had come to give people literacy, and this scholar should grow like this. Especially at the beginning, the haggard and affectionate figure in the wind is full of graceful and sad poetry
Shili Ping Lake is full of frost
Every inch of green silk is sad for the Chinese year
Look at the moon and look at each other
Only envy mandarin ducks, not immortals
To match this poem, it is simply elegant to the extreme, a Hong Kong director, the technique is so far, 120,000 admired.
At that time, Qiao Feng had watched a lot of monster fighting movies, including mutated, alien, undersea, desert, and lake...... , but I have never seen such an enjoyable and cultural game like the "A Chinese Ghost Story" series. Every time you revisit it, it makes people feel refreshed and their muscles and veins are smooth.
There are too many demons and monsters these days, and we have to shout at them like Yan Chixia: "It's useless to pretend to be, I want to expose your disguise to the world" and then represent the moon, and use the Heaven and Earth Infinite Qiankun Sword Technique to destroy it.