Chen Kexin’s "Certificate of Approval" was released in 2007.
starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei is the number one female
This film won the 27th Hong Kong Academy Awards zz 1 Golden Horse Best Film zz 1 Golden Horse Award best feature film
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First introduce the outline of this drama: the background of the film is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, Pang Qingyun turned out to be a general of the Qing army, in a battle because the friendly army could not save him, he was in The army was wiped out. Pang Chunyun escaped from the dead. Due to lack of physical strength, he fainted on the way to escape. With the help of a rural woman, he gradually recovered his strength. When he woke up the next day, the rural women had already left. He came to the town to find a bite to eat, just when Jiang Wuyang was recruiting people to rob the army. After some trials, Jiang Wuyang decided to take Pang Qingyun to see his eldest brother Zhao Erhu. At this time, Zhao Erhu had led the villagers to the side of the ravine, preparing to ambush the Taiping Army to deliver rations. During the fierce battle between the two sides, Pang Qingyun directly waited and watched and found the right time to directly kill the opponent's boss, winning the battle for Zhao Erhu and the others. After returning to the village with Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang, Pang Qingyun accidentally discovered that the rural woman who had rescued him turned out to be Zhao Erhu's wife. That night, the Kuizi Camp of the Qing Army came to the small village and plundered all the food they had looted during the day, and wounded and killed people. Just as the entire village was downcast, Pang Chunyun told everyone that they could join the army, and only then would they not be bullied. In order to dispel everyone's suspicions, Pang Chunyun also killed people with Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang, and received the name certificate. After taking refuge in Duke Chen, the three brothers soon ushered in the first battle-the Battle of Shucheng. The three brothers succeeded in disrupting the opponent's 5,000 soldiers with 800 troops, and finally won the victory. When attacking another city next, the three brothers met for the first time. After Gouzi and others raped the women after the battle, Pang Qingyun ordered the beheading to show the public, Zhao Erhu interceded for Gouzi and others, and finally Jiang Wuyang operated the sword. In the process of attacking Suzhou, Pang Qingyun besieged the city without success for nine months. Because Pang Qingyun played privately, the three adults, including Chen and Di, cut off their food and grass. Reluctantly, Pang Qingyun took Jiang Wuyang to the Kuizi Camp to find He Kui for borrowing food, and on condition that Nanjing was divided equally. At this time, Zhao Erhu volunteered to enter the city in the name of sending opium, and successfully met Huang Dajin, the leader of the Taiping Army guarding Suzhou City. Huang Dajin knew Jiang Wuyang's identity for a long time, but he didn't kill Zhao Erhu. He told Zhao Erhu to let the four thousand soldiers in the city go home to work as a farmer and not to abuse the people in the city. On this condition, he voluntarily hit and died on the sword in the process of fighting Zhao Erhu. When Pang Qingyun took food to comfort the soldiers and prepared to attack the city, the city gate opened and Suzhou City was peacefully liberated. But the three brothers immediately ushered in the second disagreement. Zhao Erhu shared food for the people and surrendered soldiers. Pang Qingyun resolutely opposed. He believed that the food for these 10 days was their capital for attacking Nanjing. If he shared more food for the people and surrendered soldiers, his own people would eat less. a little. Moreover, the whole army will attack Nanjing next. Suzhou is an empty city. The four thousand surrendered people become soldiers as soon as they take up arms. In order to prevent future troubles, Pang Chunyun ordered the killing of four thousand people. Just when the whole army was about to leave for Nanjing, Zhao Erhu and some of the team wanted to leave on their own. Pang Qingyun took Jiang Wuyang and knelt down in front of Zhao Erhu. In the end, Zhao Erhu chose to stay. After the capture of Nanjing, Zhao Erhu privately issued royal army payments. In Nanjing, He Kui wanted to win over Zhao Erhu, but Zhao Erhu did not respond positively. Jiang Wuyang discovered that Zhao Erhu's wife had boarded the boat of his older brother Pang Qingyun. At the court, outside the lobby, Empress Dowager Cixi rewarded Pang Chunyun as governor of Liangjiang and gave a yellow mantle. Pang Chunyun requested the Liangjiang area to be exempted from taxes for three years, and the Queen Mother allowed it. After the early dynasty, Pang Chunyun met Chen Gong and Master Di. Master Di told him that he had been granted a good day for a good day, and told him that the local governor had a heavy army, and the queen mother was not at ease; Pang Chunyun told him that he would take the lead in disarmament; Pang Chunyun Before he left, Master Di questioned him, and Zhao Erhu took the lead in the mutiny when he captured Suzhou; and when he captured Nanjing, he privately issued the royal army's salary. Is the Shanziying surname Zhao? After returning to Nanjing, Pang Chunyun began to arrange to get rid of Zhao Erhu. At this time, Zhao Erhu had already figured out what his elder brother Pang Chunyun had done. He thought that his eldest brother might be right and told his wife that he wanted to go back. At this moment, Zhao Erhu learned the news that He Kui was preparing to mutiny and attack his elder brother Pang Chunyun.He left without saying a word. On the way, he met Lu Dashan. Lu Dashan told him Pang Chunyun asked him to meet in a small town outside Nanjing. He told Lu Dashan to take the soldiers and horses and go alone. At this time Jiang Wuyang came to the eldest brother's mansion, he found that the mansion had changed guards. When the housekeeper said that the eldest brother and the second elder brother were reconciled and he was about to entertain the second elder brother in the afternoon, he ran to the second elder brother's house. At this time, the sister-in-law told his second brother to find Big Brother. When Zhao Erhu returned to his eldest brother's mansion again, he already felt wrong, knowing that his eldest brother wanted to get rid of the second brother. He thought that the eldest brother was for the second brother's sister-in-law, so he killed the sister-in-law. At this time, Zhao Erhu had been shot and killed in a small town outside Nanjing. The next day Pang Chunyun was sealed, and Jiang Wuyang was about to assassinate Pang Chunyun. When he was not Pang Chunyun's opponent after all, when the salute sounded, a foreign gun was also aimed at Pang Chunyun at the same time. At the moment Pang Chunyun was shot by a foreign gun, Jiang Wuyang also took a knife and pierced Pang Chunyun. Eventually Pang Chunyun fell and Jiang Wuyang was also beheaded for assassinating Pang Chunyun. So far the whole play ends.
When it comes to brothers' ties, most people should easily think of Liu Guanzhang's "Taoyuan Three ties", but the three brothers ended up fighting each other. Here we have to analyze what kind of three people these three brothers are, and what it means to these three people.
Pang Chunyun is an ideal, ambitious and eager person to make contributions. At the beginning of the film, Pang Chunyun survived by pretending to be dead. This was what he later met Zhao Erhu’s wife and told her; when they got the certificate and met the three adults for the first time, he personally told Master Jiang that he was not dead to come back to see him. In the three years here, I feel that Pang Chunyun has a few copies of the Yue Wang Goujian's "salary and courageous" style. He told Zhao Erhu’s wife, “Your life is your own decision.” Pang Chunyun, who was born in the army, is like thousands of soldiers. “A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier.” His pursuit of life. When beheading a dog who was an adulterer, he told a story: When he was an official in the past, he saw a catcher beating people casually in the street. There is no reason for the arrest, and the poor take everything for granted. "If one day I call the shots, I will never allow this to happen", "Before we were bandits, now we are soldiers. If we do this, what is the difference from the group of beasts in Kuiziying"; when he was appointed governor of Liangjiang , He boldly asked the Queen Mother to exempt the Liangjiang area from taxation for three years and cultivate people's interests. He is a general, but he is not an ordinary general. He has a heart for the people. "We are in the army to prevent others from being bullied. The people in the world cannot be bullied by others. What we are going to do is such a big thing." It was said when Killing Gouzi. At this time, there was a narration in the film, which was said in Jiang Wuyang's tone. It probably meant that we only knew what he was going to do at this time. When everyone was fighting just for a bite of food, Pang Chunyun had the whole world in his mind. He was fighting for the whole world and for the people of Li to not be bullied. So for three years, he said he had ideals, aspirations, and so on. The ideal and ambition is beyond people's reach, "The bird is safe and clear."
Pang Qingyun
Zhao Erhu is not very ambitious, only people who come out together can be prosperous and wealthy, and there are only brothers in his eyes. The brothers in his eyes are not only three brothers, but thousands of other brothers. At the celebration dinner for the food for the Taiping Army, Zhao Erhu told Pang Chunyun, “The sky is big and the earth is big, and the love for brothers is great.” “This year, without brothers, you can’t live.” When confronted with the Taiping Army for the first time, I saw When the brothers fell one by one, Zhao Erhu's hand holding the telescope was shaking, and cried and questioned Pang Chunyun, "People are dying, don't you go soon"; when Pang Chunyun was about to behead the dog to show the public, Zhao Erhu first Gouzi and others interceded and told Pang Chunyun that they knew they were wrong. When Lu Dashan drew out his sword, Zhao Erhu immediately threw out "Is my turn to be killed by you? Get out of the way"; after taking Nanjing, the first thing Zhao Erhu did was to divide the military pay between the living and the dead. Brothers; when he finally learned that his eldest brother Pang Qingyun had been killed, Zhao Erhu went to save his eldest brother without saying a word. Even when the arrow fell to the ground in the end, he still yelled "big brother".
Zhao Erhu
Jiang Wuyang's headThe brain is simpler, he only has the eldest brother and the second brother in his eyes. There is a narration in the film, in Pang Chunyun's tone, "He later told me that he didn't believe in the nomination, he only believed in the second brother and me." The night before the attack on Shucheng, when the team was preparing for the charge, Jiang Wuyang took the lead and stood up first because no one was willing to go. When beheading the dog, he first felt that what the second brother said was reasonable, so he fought. Gouzi slapped them and told them that they knew they were wrong; when the eldest brother finished speaking and found it reasonable, he immediately drew the knife out, and said straightforwardly that I would start quickly; when he shot the Suzhou pawn Zhao Erhu resolutely opposed Pang Chunyun’s approach, and Jiang Wuyang told him three times, "Big Brother is right"; when Jiang Wuyang thought that Pang Chunyun wanted to kill Zhao Erhu for women, he killed Zhao Erhu’s woman without saying a word. Because "if outsiders confuse my brother, they will cast their names and they will kill them." When he learned that Pang Chunyun still killed Zhao Erhu, he went to the official ceremony alone to assassinate Pang Chunyun, just because "brothers kill my brothers, they will kill them." It must be killed".
Jiang Wuyang
Besides, what is a "voting certificate"? There is already a very good explanation in the film, "If a brother kills my brother, he must kill him; if a brother messes with my brother, he must kill him". In short, "to vote" refers to brothers sharing blessings, sharing difficulties, and taking safeguarding the interests of brothers as the starting point for all work. This is a kind of "sentiment"; and Pang Chunyun's Ideals and ambitions are a kind of "morality", and it is their responsibility to rescue the people of Li people. In the past three years, "emotional justice" is a kind of "little justice", and "morality" is a kind of "great justice". There must be a contradiction between the two. For the sake of "great justice", abandon the "small justice"; "Little justice", give up "big justice". Therefore, Pang Chunyun's ideals and ambitions will inevitably conflict with the "voting of fame", which is also the root cause of many conflicts between the brothers.
The first conflict between the three brothers occurred when a dog was raped by a girl. Pang Chunyun was about to behead the dog and others. At this time, Pang Chunyun gave a generous statement and expressed his determination and ambition for the first time. The people of the world are not bullied. Starting today, he will not allow this to happen in his army. In Zhao Erhu's heart, these people are all his own brothers, even if they make mistakes, the "voting of fame" is the first, the brotherhood is the first, and the others must be left behind. This is the first collision between Pang Qingyun and Zhao Erhu's values. Pang Chunyun used his brother to operate in order not to bully the people of the world; even though his brother bullied the people, Zhao Erhu still interceded for his brother. The first conflict of values between the two people ended in the beheading of the dog, which shows that Pang Chunyun's ideals and beliefs have been consolidated, and Zhao Erhu's "voting for fame" has been threatened.
The second conflict between the three brothers occurred when dealing with the soldiers from Suzhou. Because of the Nanjing War ahead and the shortage of food, there are four thousand Taiping troops who may take up arms at any time behind them. In order to solve the troubles, Pang Qingyun decided Kill four thousand descendants. However, Zhao Erhu was busy distributing food to the surrendering soldiers and the people in the city, and prepared to let go of all the surrendering soldiers in accordance with the agreement with the Suzhou chief Huang Dajin. Zhao Erhu wants to fulfill his promise, and Pang Chunyun wants to put an end to future troubles. "Let the soldiers go home to work in agriculture, and don't humiliate the people in the city. This is a condition for Kaesong to surrender. You must do it if you say it. Promise to let them live." This incident is actually very simple. There was a disagreement in the handling of Jiang Zuo. The whole incident did not directly or indirectly happen to the three brothers or other brothers around him, but this incident became the biggest between Pang Qingyun and Zhao Erhu. gap. I didn't quite understand the director's arrangement at the beginning, but suddenly understood later: In fact, Zhao Erhu's promise to Huang Dajin is another kind of "voting for fame". Because the "voting certificate" is a contract and a promise, Zhao Erhu treats the promise like a "voting certificate", and Pang Qingyun tramples the "voting certificate" (promise) once again for his ideal pursuit. The third conflict between the three brothers
occurred when Pang Qingyun shot Zhao Erhu. At this time, Pang Qingyun did not have any awe for the "voting for fame". For the future of Nanjing, he did not hesitate to use his brother to operate.
Looking at the whole movie, we can see that Pang Qingyun sacrificed his brother for his own ideals and ambitions, destroying the "voting certificate". It can be said that Pang Qingyun did not strictly abide by the "voting certificate" agreement, so what is his attitude towards the "voting certificate"? There is a detail in the film. When the three brothers first took the "voice for fame", Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang killed people without saying a word. Only Pang Qingyun chirped and made the other person see his face clearly and remember the other person. Come to him for revenge, it can be seen that he doesn't want to kill people in his heart, which is a last resort for him. But he still did. why? Here I have to mention another characteristic of Pang Qingyun: unscrupulous. The two mentions of "soldiers never get deceived" in the film were both from Pang Qingyun: The first time was when many brothers gathered around to play games and kicked each other; the second time, Zhao Erhu mentioned that he promised the leader of the Suzhou Taiping Army to let go of the soldiers. . In addition, Pang Chunyun could sacrifice anything in order to achieve his own goals and realize his personal ideals by defrauding He Kui's food with the bait of entering Nanjing, shooting four thousand Suzhou Taiping soldiers, and exchanging his brother's life for Nanjing. So it is not difficult for us to understand why Pang Qingyun did not want to kill in the first place. Because only by killing people and receiving the "voting certificate" can we get help from Zhao Erhu, Jiang Wuyang and others. This is a bargaining chip to return to Gong Chen. Therefore, in Pang Qingyun's view, accepting the "tou fame" is just the first step in realizing personal ideals and beliefs, it is only a means and a tool to realize personal ambitions. At the beginning, the feelings for Pang Chunyun were also very complicated. His ideals and ambitions are impeccable for you, but this is at the expense of many people. Who is right and who is wrong, maybe this is also the director's hope to inspire everyone!
Let me talk a little bit about Pang Qingyun's final fate. There is a good explanation in the film, because the queen mother will not let an outsider manage Nanjing. If Pang Qingyun is directly transferred or cut from his post at this time, it may cause him to mutiny. Therefore, it is a common practice for many people in power to directly get rid of the ministers who have done nothing. In order to get rid of Pang Qingyun, the court also took great pains. When Pang Qingyun met with Master Chen Gongdi after he was appointed Governor of Liangjiang, the adults hinted that he wanted to disarm and questioned him about Zhao Erhu's rebellion in Suzhou and the private division of military pay in Nanjing. Pang Qingyun agreed to disarmament, and the idea of getting rid of Zhao Erhu came into his mind. Disarmament and the removal of Zhao Erhu mean that you have cut off your left and right arms? Pang Qingyun naively thought that by getting rid of Zhao Erhu, the court would be able to rest assured that he would be governor of Liangjiang. In fact, the court was worried that if Pang Qingyun fell and Zhao Erhu stood up again, it would be troublesome, so Zhao Erhu had to be removed before Pang Qingyun was removed. So Pang Qingyun's death was nothing more than a political victim.
The woman in Zhao Erhu, played by Xu Jinglei, walked between the three men and became the victim of the "voting fame". In the broken thatched cottage, Xiao Xu talked about being raised as a "Yangzhou thin horse" when he was young. He had been sold as a concubine, but Zhao Erhu "rescued" her again and went into the mountain. concubine. "He didn't know you had changed, he thought he saved you" "He is a man" A simple set of dialogues, Pang Qingyun knows Xiao Xu better than Zhao Erhu. Perhaps because of this group of conversations, Xiao Xu had more thoughts about this man in his heart. And Xiao Xu pulled Pang Qingyun back from the dying side, which made Pang Qingyun have an unusual affection for Xiao Xu. Nevertheless, Xiao Xu still has feelings for Zhao Erhu. When Zhao Erhu was about to enter Suzhou City alone, Xiao Xu gave him the cross that Zhao Erhu had given her before, and left two rows of tears. But when the time came when her husband did not come back, she shed tears again. When Jiang Wuyang is about to kill Xiao Xu in the film, Xiao Xu tells him that the curtains are beautiful, and she wants green and red. I'm wondering if this sentence implies that both men want it? Perhaps it was the director deliberately arranged, perhaps it was just a casual rhetoric, Xiao Xu eventually caused trouble for his greed.
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Finally, I want to say a few more words. The three brothers weren't the same. Pang Qingyun was originally the leader of the Qing army, and he was taken as a bandit when he failed in the battle; while Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang were doing homework and robbery to make a living. One is to make meritorious work, and the other is to eat a meal, and finally everyone reluctantly came together. But the process was very tortuous, and the contradictions intensified.
I hope everyone can follow a little more heart.
