hasn't watched a new movie in the theater for a long time.
is mainly after watching "Terminator: Dark Fate" and "The Battle of Midway", the cinema has no blockbuster movies.
flipped through it and suddenly discovered that there are two domestic low-cost movies that might be worth watching: "Chang'an Road" and "Nineteen Years of Pursuing the Murder".
is funny, the two films attracted me because of the actors.
Fan Wei and Song Yang in "Chang'an Road";
and Wang Takizheng in "Nineteen Years of Pursuing the Murder".
wanted to watch Fan Wei and Song Yang's drama;
wanted to see if Wang Takizheng's acting skills had improved in the movie. After all,
came from "White Night Chasing the Murder", and Wang Takizheng is like everyone else. Zhou Xun is too limited, and I sincerely hope that he can make a breakthrough.
Because we watched "Chang'an Road" first, let's talk about this movie today. The movie
was really not watched, so that when the ticket was checked in, there was a staff member who came to greet me because only I bought the ticket for this movie.
But after watching it, I have to say that the treatment of this movie should never be like this.
(this article involves some spoilers, please read carefully)
director Li Jun's resume is not luxurious.
Most of his previous works are some TV series, and I have watched very few TV series. The only thing I have heard is "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangxi Cannot Believe in Tears", but I haven't watched it either.
However, in 2016, Li Jun directed a film called "The Great Reversal" by many fans as the "most underestimated domestic suspense crime".
I have watched "The Great Reversal".
Although the director's skill is slightly immature, and the film's name lacks novelty, it has already begun to take on the core elements of a commercial film. The script of
is very solid, and in the end there is indeed a big reversal. The shooting of the police and bandits is intense and exciting. The only thing
looks uncomfortable is Lee Jung Jae’s dubbing Mandarin. I think it’s better to let him speak Korean naturally.
But after "The Great Reversal", he fell silent in the movie circle, and went to film the TV series "Peace Hotel" and "The King Behind the Scenes".
until this filming of "Changan Road".
Before the movie was released, director Li Jun shared his thoughts on making this movie on Douban.
Li Jun said that he was interested in Hai Yan's novel "The Pirates of Chang'an" very early, and hoped to make it into a movie. After communicating with Hai Yan,
was the first to prepare the film to become a popular "Hollywoodized police action film".
However, in the subsequent preparations, director Li Jun discovered that the original novel is actually the real human nature
that attracts him the most, so he believes that "a movie that focuses on real characters is not suitable for cool expressions." Have the prototype today. The
movie uses a non-linear narrative in content.
From this point, we can see that director Li Jun is still a little rusty with this method, and some transitions are rather blunt.
For me who just finished watching "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", the transition of this movie is a bit like a schoolboy did.
However, the non-linear narrative does add a great suspense to this movie, and it also makes the image of the characters come alive gradually.
The audience follows the director step by step to reveal the real humanity hidden in the characters. Although
suffers a bit from non-linear narrative, Director Li Jun is quite mature in grasping the camera.
just rely on a picture to let people see the blood. The last time
felt this way was in Jiang Wen's "Evil Do Not Suppress Righteousness". After all,
is backed by the original novel. "Chang'an Road" not only inherits the solid script foundation of "The Great Reversal", but also takes it to the next level. On the basis of ensuring suspense and reversal,
also deeply digs into the human nature of several main characters this time, which makes me enjoy it.
has to talk about actors here. Among the four main actors of
, the best performer is undoubtedly Teacher Fan.
Wan Zhenggang, the character he starred in, is a heinous villain in the original novel, but a lot of changes have been made in this film.
isHe became a cowardly intellectual who was pedantic and eager to express himself. The image of
is really suitable for Teacher Fan Wei!
In this limited frame, he grasped Wan Zhenggang's small emotions very delicately.
At first, we thought this was a solitary person, but we didn't realize that this character is really easy until later.
is not only flexible in mind, but also good in skill.
Through cooperation with the police, he directly discarded his wife and lover who had been cuckolding him, and he also took the opportunity to make a fortune.
and seemingly weak, he was able to directly knock Shao Kuancheng, a policeman in his prime of life, to the ground, and he could easily choke his wife's neck and almost choked to death.
this kind of tolerance is terrible.
even the audience was deceived by his show of loving his daughter.
At the end we discovered that he was actually the old scholar who abandoned his wife and son decades ago.
He cares about his daughter, but he cares more about himself. In the last scene of
, Fan Wei showed a father and a pedantic old scholar to the fullest. In the original novel of
, Wan Zhenggang's daughter was shot by him after being shot!
But Fan Wei thinks that novels can be written like this, and movies must not be acted like this, it is too abrupt.
Wan Zhenggang has been preparing everything for his daughter in the early stage, and in the end it is absolutely impossible to make up for his daughter.
So Fan Wei finally made Wan Zhenggang not fire a shot, but he was incompetent and hesitantly squatting on the ground crying.
is in line with the personality of this role, because he can lie to himself that his daughter's death has nothing to do with him.
It is a pity that the domestic development stage for Mr. Fan is really small. Although
has won a blockbuster award such as the Golden Horse Award actor, but the resume of the transition from a sketch actor has caused many audiences and directors to have a deep misunderstanding of his fixed image.
is actually the same at home and abroad.
Even many people in the film industry think that "comedians can't perform at all."
In fact, in contrast to many sketch actors in China, their performance on TV and movies is actually not bad.
Guo Da, Pan Changjiang, Feng Gong, Zhao Benshan, etc.
It's a pity that these good actors can't even match a few cutouts.
Then the actor worth talking about is Chen Shu.
In the film, she plays Lin Baiyu, Wan Zhenggang's second-married wife, and she is an out-and-out strong woman. Although
is middle-aged, she is definitely the most charming woman in the film. The image of
is the real mature woman.
Lin Baiyu, in front of Wan Zhenggang, can yell at me that the whole family is earned. When
faced the TV station canceling her program, she did not admit defeat in the face of the younger generation who replaced her.
is even aware of cheating, which can be seen in many details.
can hold this kind of role, no wonder director Li Jun keeps adding drama to her.
Compared with Fan Wei and Chen Shu, Song Yang's performance that I have been looking forward to is actually very mediocre.
According to director Li Jun, he hopes to design the policeman Shao Kuancheng into a young version of Wan Zhenggang.
Although Song Yang also showed Shao Kuancheng's hesitant character, after all, he was on the same stage with Fan Wei, and his performance was not enough.
Song Yang still carries a little bit of the evil spirit and stubbornness in "Master" and "Bruptly Silent". These characteristics of
are not impossible, but they are definitely not suitable for Shao Kuancheng's role.
and Jiao Junyan's performance is similar to Song Yang, although acting online, but there is no place to shine.
may also be due to the role.
In addition, although "Chang'an Road" is a suspenseful film about police and robbers, I accidentally saw the essence of marriage from the film.
Originally, Wan Zhenggang left his original wife because his wife fell asleep when he and his wife were going to history.
Lin Baiyu cried while listening to his history. Although we don't know if it was pretended, it is clear that Wan Zhenggang thinks he has found someone who can understand him.
I remember hearing this sentence before:
knotMarriage is to find someone who can talk.
is simple, but it is all about marriage.
Wan Zhenggang left his original partner because he could not talk together, and later he and Lin Baiyu's marriage disagreement was also because he discovered that Lin Baiyu was actually lying to him.
This time there was no marriage change because Lin Baiyu was able to find a place to speak for Wan Zhenggang on the TV station.
Although there is no explanation in the movie, we can actually guess.
Shao Kuancheng and his girlfriend will definitely not be able to get together in the end, even if they get married, there will be no happiness at all.
because two people can never talk together. The
movie "Chang'an Road", you must not miss it when you have time. The movie
now has a box office of only more than 20 million yuan. Such a masterpiece has been dumped two blocks away by the "Charlie Girl" movie, which is definitely a publicity.
Also, don't watch Douban ratings for this movie. I don't understand
. The movie review area is all about the movie, and the result is only a 6.6 rating. There is no reason.
This movie has a minimum rating of 7.6. If
counts the performance in acting, 8 points are not impossible.
