Chapter 1005: "Night Banquet" Released (Part I)
Unconsciously, all the star artists who came to cheer today have all been in place, and then Menjie and others sat in the front row, with all the ordinary audiences in place, Feng Xiaogang, Menjie and others came to the stage to say some scenes, and the movie "Night Banquet" was also the premiere.
The lights on the scene were turned off, and after falling into darkness, a flash of light flashed on the big screen, and the four big characters of Huayi Brothers flashed, which also indicates that the movie "Night Banquet" is premiering today!
In fact, in the original time, in terms of investment in the movie "Night Banquet", in addition to Huayi Brothers Entertainment Company, there was also a group called Huanya, and even when the movie "Night Banquet" was released, the signature was also this group, but this time, it may be because Huayi Brothers Entertainment Company was severely traumatized and urgently needed an excellent film and television work to save it, and finally the signature became Huayi Brothers Entertainment Company again.
However, these are innocuous little things, and few audiences will pay attention to this kind of thing, just under the expectant eyes of all the audiences at the scene, the movie "Night Banquet" officially began!
At the very beginning, Feng Xiaogang introduced the background of the whole movie in a narration way.
"Several large rebel armies have established their own dynasties, and this period has become 'Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms' in Chinese history!"
"This is a rather chaotic period, years of war between countries, bloody wrestling between emperors and ministers, and even within various royal families, fathers, sons, and brothers kill each other, our story takes place in this period......"
When he said 'fathers and sons and brothers killed each other', the picture suddenly changed to a bamboo forest, which made all the audience at the scene have a strange feeling.
The story begins in earnest with this sentence. Does it mean that the theme of the story told in the movie "Night Banquet" is the story of 'fathers, sons, and brothers killing each other'?!
And with the appearance of this emerald green bamboo forest, the first character to appear in the whole movie is Wu Yanzu with a slightly rustic white mask.
In this bamboo forest, Wu Yanzu, wearing a white mask and a white robe, was constantly chanting the tunes of that era, quite a feeling of a mountain hermit.
But at the same time, along with Wu Yanzu's interpretation full of dusty feelings, there were also warriors wearing armor and demon-like terrifying masks, riding fierce horses. The group rushed towards Wu Yanzu's location.
The story begins!
"Your father and emperor died, and your uncle succeeded to the throne, and he will reply immediately after receiving the letter!"
With the transmission of the holy decree of the eunuch, such a feeling emerged in the hearts of all the audience at the scene.
At the beginning of the movie, such a fact was explained. What kind of plot will develop after that? Could it be that Wu Yanzu's uncle killed his father and took the throne? After this, will Wu Yanzu embark on a road of revenge. Fierce competition for the throne with his 'uncle'?
One question after another. appeared in the hearts of all the audience.
However, just as everyone was waiting for the development of events, the scene changed again, and a woman with a graceful and delicate body in a white veil was strolling down a long aisle, surrounded by warriors in armor and helmets, under the watchful eyes of countless guards. The woman pushed open the door at the end of the hallway.
Who is the man in the gate? Is it the Holy One today?
Squeak!
After a shrill wooden grinding sound came from the wooden door being pushed open, a strong man in black and gold armor appeared in front of everyone.
A very familiar face, almost everyone recognizes this unusually young man, but in the movie "Night Banquet". Through a series of makeup techniques, the young man gave people the feeling of being quite old, in his forties, and his eyes full of vicissitudes were also extremely profound.
Such a man is pretending to be in reality, but in the movie, there is a feeling of 'very feeling'.
This person is a doorman!
And the next plot is indeed a bit confusing to the audience.
At the beginning, Zhang Ziyi, who played the role of 'Queen Wan', expressed full dissatisfaction with Menjie who played the emperor, making everyone feel that Menjie should be a villain, but Zhang Ziyi is the goddess of justice who insists on standing on the side of 'justice'.
But later, after Menjie said 'I need her', he grabbed Menjie again, expressing that the two finally chose to be together, and such a turn of events is really a bit confusing.
Of course, not all people are very confused in their hearts, just sitting not far from Menjie, the level is not inferior to Feng Xiaogang's great director Zhang Yimou, but a different color flashed in his eyes, and he nodded slightly, as if he understood something.
In his mouth, he involuntarily spit out four words.
Hamlet!
However, in fact, the movie "The Night Banquet" is in some ways very similar to the famous novel "Hamlet".
A prince with a quiet personality or some 'indisputable' concepts, his brother who is likely to be killed by Menjie, the original emperor, and a sister-in-law, on the whole, although the relationship between the characters is somewhat different from "Hamlet", it is extremely similar!
I have to say that Zhang Yimou is worthy of being the top director in China, and he is really excellent in terms of 'sense of smell', although it is only a little plot, but it is also judged that the inspiration for the movie "Night Banquet" came from "Hamlet"!
Of course, it was adapted, although it was somewhat similar to "Hamlet", but in the end, after a series of adaptations, it also combined the characteristics of China and the characteristics of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and finally shaped the Chinese version of "Hamlet".
And the subsequent plot fully proves how sharp Zhang Yimou's vision is.
Just after Menjie and Zhang Ziyi reached some kind of 'agreement', the picture turned again, and they returned to the bamboo forest, and the 'prince' Wu Yanzu and the dead soldiers sent by Menjie started a fight to the death, which also made everyone clear about an identity setting.
Wu Yanzu is a positive character, and Menjie is a villain!
But......
Is that really the case?!
Later, with a series of developments in the plot of the movie "Night Banquet", more information also surfaced in front of everyone, including the ambiguous relationship between Wu Yanzu and his stepmother Zhang Ziyi, including the domineering screen image of Menjie, and even Queen Wan'er's personality classification, sometimes extremely keen on power, sometimes in love with Wu Yanzu, and sometimes fierce and vicious in the face of women who are close to Wu Yanzu.
Of course, in a way, the people with some 'split personality' in the whole movie are not only Zhang Ziyi, but also Menjie has some such feelings.
Wu Yanzu, the two more pure and decent characters in the movie "Night Banquet", has always been an 'indisputable' appearance, and Zhou Xun, who admires Wu Yanzu, has put his whole heart on him, without much change.
But Menjie is not, at the beginning, Menjie and people's impression were extremely cold-blooded, only love the country and the unparalleled emperor, but after that, Menjie and Zhang Ziyi are completely different from the mainstream, and the love that is completely woven together by 'beauty' and 'power' is shocking, and it also fully expresses the mentality of Menjie at this time 'loves the country and loves the beauty more'.
But......
Such a change is really a bit weird!
Normally, when people hear words such as 'love beauty but don't love the country', they will involuntarily have a feeling of 'faint'.
But Menjie is different, with the help of Menjie's extremely powerful B-level temperament skill 'Temperament Rendering (Coercion)', even if Menjie expresses such an idea, it does not give people even the slightest feeling of 'faint king', but feels that Menjie is more domineering and majestic!
Even those veteran actors feel that at this time, Menjie is a 'I love beauty the most, and even put most of my energy into beauty, but as long as I take 1% of my energy to take care of the country, it is enough', which is really domineering!
"When Menjie plays a role like the emperor, at least in terms of temperament, even I am slightly inferior, just wait for Menjie's acting skills to hone for a few more years, I'm afraid that in all aspects, it will not be worse than me!"
Looking at Menjie's domineering appearance, Zhou Yanfa, who was sitting next to Zhang Yimou, had to give Menjie quite high affirmation.
In order to find out the news of the rival, after the release of the movie "Night Banquet" today, many cast and crew members of the movie "The City is Full of Golden Armor" arrived, Zhang Yimou on the side was commenting on Feng Xiaogang's directing techniques, and Zhou Yanfa, as an actor, naturally commented on Menjie's acting skills.
"However, Menjie's acting skills are really getting better and better, I'm afraid how long has it been since he debuted to have such strength? I'm afraid that in a few years, he will become the most dazzling actor in China! ”
Nodding slightly, Zhang Yimou on the side also had to affirm Zhou Yanfa's statement, gave Menjie full affirmation, and Si did not hesitate to praise himself.
But at the same time, Zhang Yimou was secretly happy in his heart.
Although in the movie "Night Banquet", although director Feng Xiaogang has fully exerted all his strengths, although all the actors, including Menjie, can be said to be super level of performance, but if you want to catch up with yourself, I am afraid it is still impossible! (To be continued......)