Chapter 748: Home and Country
Feng Xiaolong, Zhang Jianzhong, He Zhu and others are great directors themselves, and their vision and appreciation ability are first-class in the whole of China, although they are not directors who shoot action movies, but they have their own deep understanding of the use of color in the movie, the coordination of music and the switching of shots.
The film "Huang Feihong", just the soundtrack at the beginning plus the scene of the group performers practicing martial arts collectively on the beach, is full of masculine tension, and a feeling of "Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement" seems to be overflowing from the screen.
"The soundtrack at the beginning of this is amazing!"
After watching the opening song, Feng Xiaolong sighed to Zhang Jianzhong: "Jin Ge Iron Horse, masculine and fit, the music and singing are perfectly matched, just listening to such a song, I have a feeling of blood boiling." ”
Zhang Jianzhong also sighed: "Guo Dalu's action movies are always different from others, and this film is estimated to be much more exquisite than his previous action movies." Many of his previous films tend to be international, but this film seems to be really full of Chinese style!"
He Zhu next to him said: "Director Zhang, let's watch it first, and then talk about it after reading it, don't disturb others!"
Zhang Jianzhong smiled: "Okay, let's talk about it after reading it!"
On the screen, after the feature film begins, what is shown is some of the ancient street scenery and humanistic atmosphere in the south, but on the Chinese-style streets, there are many foreigners walking swaggeringly, with a high-spirited face.
They were neatly dressed and magnificent, and even the missionaries showed a kind of lofty posture, and many Chinese people bowed their heads and did not dare to look directly when they saw these foreigners.
But this is obviously our land!
They are rampant in our land, and they will be exalted, let us worship them!
Even though this was more than a hundred years ago, it still makes people panic at this time.
The incompetence of the late Qing Dynasty and the numbness of the people, combined with the singing and dancing in the teahouses on the street, show this great era in a very real and close to cruel way in front of everyone.
The appearance of the thirteenth aunt in the play, when taking pictures of Huang Feihong and others, suddenly had a problem with the camera, and the birds in the cage were cooked.
But this is just a small episode in the movie that makes people laugh, and the really impressive thing is Yan Zhendong who performs in the rain.
When Yan Zhendong bent down in the heavy rain to pick up the copper plate thrown by the audience on the ground, he looked up at the sky in the rain with a confused expression, which made people feel sorry in their hearts.
Then as the storyline unfolded, the Shahe Gang chased and killed Liang Kuan, and Pork Rong led the militia to help, and the two forces were in chaos in the streets and alleys.
At this time, I only heard someone in the camera say, "The Great Seal of the Six Nations, come and see." A group of people climbed up the bamboo frame to watch. The vendor who did business shouted, "Sell sweet cakes, eat sweet cakes and watch fights." Then another group of people crowded over, bought sweet cakes, and ate them with relish and enjoyed the fight.
These people are apathetic, insensitive, and ignorant, and they can do nothing but be spectators, and when the beaten and slain becomes themselves, there will be another group of people who will continue to be spectators.
In this era, the illness of the Chinese people is no longer physical, but spiritual, and it is very sick!
Later, the Admiral deliberately made things difficult for Huang Feihong, and when Huang Feihong caught the leader of the Hesha Gang who burned Bao Zhilin, he wanted the victim to testify for him, but no one was willing to be his witness, at this time, a foreign missionary preached to him, Huang Feihong was very lonely and asked: "I caught a bad guy today, will Jesus help me be a witness?"
The foreign missionary didn't know how to answer for a moment, and stayed at the scene, so the disappointment on Wong Feihong's face became more and more obvious, and he turned to leave.
He saved others and punished the villains, but others didn't even have the courage to stand up, and they didn't even have the most basic gratitude, this kind of thing not only happened in the era of Huang Feihong, but also is not uncommon now.
The main theme that runs through the film is the trafficking of Chinese laborers, and the traffickers and profiteers make money on the road: "In the United States, everyone has to be very careful when walking, why? Wash your face by the river, and there is golden sand when you pick up the water, and people there must wear sunglasses during the day, otherwise the gold will blind you. ”
For the sake of profit, these people even sell their compatriots and let them go to the United States to be cattle, horses and animals, without the slightest guilt in their hearts.
The theme of the whole movie is gloomy, but sad but not sad, there is a dark side, and there are also bright points in human nature, just like the foreign priest, he was asked by Huang Feihong at the time, and he was speechless, and then he couldn't bear the inner torment and took the initiative to testify with Huang Feihong.
This is different from the previous action movies where all foreigners are bad guys, in this movie, there are bad guys in the Chinese, and these foreigners also have good guys, which shows the multifaceted nature of human beings.
As the plot progresses, the camera turns to the destitute Yan Zhendong, who offended the local snake because of his performance along the street, and was forced to compete.
Although Yan Zhendong finally killed the head of the Yue family knife who was bent on finding trouble for himself, he was greeted not by applause, but by coldness, although his kung fu was high, but the people who watched the excitement did not wait to see him, so that he couldn't even eat a hot meal if he wanted to, he could only swallow saliva and watch others eat.
At this point, Yan Zhendong's moral bottom line is on the verge of collapse step by step, and under the oppression of life, he began to become famous little by little to reality.
In order to become famous, Yan Zhendong irrationally challenged Huang Feihong, who had just been burned, and then under the stimulation of the money and silver dollars of the Hesha Gang, he performed kung fu for the people of the Hesha Gang like a monkey, and he also deceived himself and said that he would slaughter more dogs in the future, and then contribute to the people of the world in the future. Don't you know that you can't even maintain justice under your nose, how can you still uphold justice for the people of the world in the future?
Once the moral defense line is opened, the bottom line will be lower and lower, and in the end, let alone presiding over justice, I am afraid that I will become the object of being hosted.
Yan Zhendong is a product of the tragedy of the times, representing the decline of the warriors under the hot weapons, in the change of the times, these warriors with rampant kung fu are no longer of much use, just like the decadent dynasty of the late Qing Dynasty, have been abandoned by the times.
Compared with other action movies, this "Once Upon a Time" is much thicker, far from being comparable to ordinary action movies.
At the end of the movie, the Admiral and Huang Feihong looked at Huang Feihong from a distance and asked Huang Feihong, "Jinshan?
Huang Feihong said: "If there is a mountain of gold in this world, then why do these foreigners come to our port? Maybe we are already standing on the mountain of gold!"