"Win the Championship" won a good reputation, of which Chen Kexin's guidance is undoubtedly contributed.
Looking back at Director Chen's previous work, there is such a film that has invested 300 million yuan in investment but has not received the expected box office, which makes investors helpless to lose money, but for filmmakers in the industry, it has always been a film worthy of praise.
It is the movie released in December 2007:
"Certificate of Casting"
"Certificate of Casting" directed by Hong Kong director Chen Kexin, with this film, he won the Golden Horse Award and the best award. Director Jia, from a technical point of view, "Voting Name Certificate" is definitely Chen Kexin's career masterpiece.
The film is also very strong in terms of cast, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, and the three major male stars interpret the brotherhood in the late Qing Dynasty.
Xu Jinglei, Guo Xiaodong and other powerful young actors also participated in the film, while Wei Zongwan, Wang Kuirong and other old drama players also contributed their acting skills in the film.
This film is based on the assassination case , one of the "Four Great Cases of the Late Qing Dynasty" of . The director adapted it on the historical event of the assassination of Ma Xinyi, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and added a new interpretation. At the beginning of the story of
, Qing general Pang Qingyun (played by Jet Li) led his troops to fight with the Taiping Army. Due to the lack of reinforcements by friendly troops, Pang Qingyun's army was annihilated, and only Pang Qingyun escaped.
Pang Qingyun from the exile village got acquainted with the bandits Zhao Erhu (played by Andy Lau) and Jiang Wuyang (played by Takeshi Jincheng) who had robbed the official food. The three were confidant.
Pang Qingyun urged Erhu and Wuyang to join the army on the grounds that “have better armed forces to protect the villagers” through the looting of the people.
in the first place, the three of them got together with Jinlan and accepted the name of , who would never betray their brothers. The three took Pang Qingyun as the elder brother, Zhao Ergou as the second brother, and Jiang Wuyang as the third brother.
Pang brought Erhu's troops back to the Qing army and established the Shanzi Battalion. With the brothers in one heart, the Shanzi Battalion was like a broken bamboo, and successes were frequent.
However, the victory also made Pang Qingyun swell, his ambitions gradually increased from the concept of two tigers, and the fate of the three brothers gradually turned. After
attacked Suzhou, Pang Qingyun broke his promise and killed thousands of prisoners of war , which made the two tigers extremely dissatisfied, and great disagreements between the brothers...
After taking Nanjing, Pang Qingyun was named Jiangsu by the court. The governor, at the request of his superior, Pang Qingyun was forced to cut with the two tigers who were born in bandits, and then Pang Qingyun killed the two tigers with a trick.
After killing his righteous brother, Pang Qingyun finally failed to wait for a chance to win the battle.
At his inauguration ceremony, Jiang Wuyang suddenly broke in and assassinated him. After the dagger pierced Pang Qingyun's chest, Jiang shouted: "The stabbing man, Jiang Wuyang is the same!" Wuyang practiced the cast of fame with blood.
The investment cost of "Vote Certificate" is said to be very high (many industry insiders estimate it is around 200 million), of which Jet Li’s film remuneration accounts for a large share, while other actors’ fees and setting expenses are the same. The investment is not small. Under the high investment of
, the market response of "Voting Name Certificate" was mediocre. The box office in the mainland of the film was RMB 202 million, and the box office in Hong Kong was 27.5 million Hong Kong dollars. From a market perspective, it is undoubtedly a loss.
With the precipitation of time, "Come to Name" has gradually gained the recognition of the audience. Now when we look back at this movie, we can still find many highlights from it.
First, the characters are deeply portrayed, all of them are flesh and blood
Big brother Pang Qingyun-idealist is also a political head iron baby
"Voting Names" depicts many vivid characters, the most typical of which is the pang played by Jet Li Qingyun. The image of the character is too full, and every interpretation can read a new feeling,
is difficult to evaluate the character of Pang Qingyun, even the starring Jet Li said bluntly, is the most acting in 27 years since the movie. Complex roles.
Looking at the character of , Pang Qingyun has undergone a huge transformation, from enthusiasm to complicated.
At first he was a positive image with facial makeup. When he first built the Shanzi Camp, he smashed his brothers , and took the lead in the Battle of Shucheng and gained the respect of the whole army.
treats the subordinates kindly and at the same time treats the people leniently. The righteous remarks when the subordinates of the illegal civilian women were executed were even more impressive to the audience.
Then the plot deepened, the improvement of ambition made him unscrupulous, and Pang Qingyun's image began to deteriorate.
Killed the thousands of prisoners of war recruited by Erhu, cheated on Erhu's wife, killed his righteous brother Erhu...everything bad was done, and Pang Qingyun's character rushed to the negative pole.
When Wu Yang witnessed an affair, Pang Qingyun’s expression changed very well to show that his personality changed . After facing Wu Yang, he first showed a guilty look.
After just a few seconds, his eyes became deep again, and it even made people wonder whether he also wanted to do something to Wuyang.
and analyzing from the character's ambitions, it can "explain" the causes of his series of "bad things".
Pang Qingyun is undoubtedly an idealist who does not give up until he achieves his goals. In order to achieve his goals, will remove obstacles at all costs.
was initially seeking reinforcements. He did not hesitate to accept a military order to conquer Shucheng on the next ten days. His quick success style put him and Shanziying in a dangerous situation.
chose to cooperate with his former rival, the Kuiziying, in order to obtain grain and grass reinforcements during the successive defeats of Suzhou and Nanjing.
And Qingyun's act of killing the righteous brother Erhu, although there are reasons for the boss's persecution, and he likes Liansheng, the more essential reason is that he thinks that the existence of two tigers hinders his own business .
In essence, Pang Qingyun is not a person who degenerates for the sake of power, otherwise he would not take the risk of asking for a “three-year tax reduction in Jiangsu” when facing him. It can be seen that his ideal ambition of is not to become a corrupt official for profit, but It is to benefit the people after reaching a high position, although this process requires some cruel means.
From the tragic fate of Pang Qingyun, it can be seen that is a complete "primary school student" politically.
Although knowing that premature attacks on Suzhou and Nanjing will touch the interests of bureaucrats, Pang Qingyun decided to make a quick battle without a backer, , this is the first of all, .
After winning the court's commendation, his untimely asked for "Jiangsu tax cuts for 3 years", which touched the interest of the court headed by Cixi, this is the second irony . In the subsequent meeting with Di Lao, facing the aggressiveness of the old fox, took the initiative to disarm the mountain camp and agreed to kill the two tigers. took the initiative to reduce his military power to . Three of Iron.
And these first iron actions are basically doomed to his ultimate tragic fate.
The second brother Zhao Erhu, the leading jianghu man
differs from Pang Qingyun in that Zhao Erhu played by Andy Lau has a purer idea: insists on morality and defends his brothers.
Whether it is for the robbing of food and the people during the bandit period or the various acts of benevolence and righteousness during the military period, Zhao Erhu's role has always adhered to the purest benevolence and morality.
Compared with elder brother Pang Qingyun's uncompromising means, Erhu pursued something and did not do anything, disdain to cooperate with the Kuizi camp that oppressed the people, and even broke with Qingyun in order to kill prisoners of war.
The role of the two tigers even has a sense of universal fraternity, which reminds people of the similar role of Andy Lau the previous year (Mo Tse in 2006).
For brotherhood, the film has shown the love and righteousness of Zhao Erhu countless times. The end of the film Erhu was murdered by Qingyun's design, and he fell to the ground with a few arrows. Before he died, he still wanted to protect" "Big Brother in Danger", this scene moved people.
The role of the two tigers is quite connotative, with loyalty and righteousness as the supreme and the world in mind. It’s a pity that in the turbulent times of the Qing Dynasty, the true heart of such a character is onlyFree to pay. The third brother of
Jiang Wuyang, the loyal practitioner
Compared with the sentiment and ambition of the elder brother and the second brother, the third brother Jiang Wuyang played by Takeshi Kaneshiro is undoubtedly a muscle. His mind will always be the first one: brother.
self-confidence with Qingyun and Erhu, Wuyang's deeds are to fulfill the agreement of the past, and he is stupid and loyal, and he does not have too many distinctions between right and wrong .
In Erhu asked Qingyun to let go of the dog who raped the female, Wuyang considered the overall situation and took the knife and directly executed the military law against the dog. In the scene where
killed the prisoners of war, he played the role of a neutralizer between the two brothers. First, he tried to persuade the two tigers to obey the overall situation, and when the two tigers led the team out of danger into a mutiny, he stopped the soldiers to protect the two tigers.
In the end, Wuyang went to extremes. He thought that the second tiger’s wife Liansheng was the culprit for destroying the relationship between the brothers. In order to save the lives of the two tigers, he chose to kill Liansheng.
And after Erhu was undermined by Qingyun, he stabbed the knife at the once respected eldest brother.
Jiang Wuyang interprets with his actions, he is the practitioner of the spirit of . In addition to the three brothers, such as Xu Jinglei's second sister-in-law Liansheng who was entangled between two men, and Guo Xiaodong's Taiping generals who rescued the people from the dead, they were all vividly presented in front of the screen. "Fame" also presents scenes of sentient beings in the troubled times.
2. The politician’s chess pieces and victims are more than Jiang Wuyang.
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" In addition to showing the broken brotherhood in the war environment, it also describes a higher level of political struggle, despite the length Not big, but with deep intentions.
This film shows the attitude of the chief officials towards Pang and his party through many hidden dialogues with three bureaucrats, Jiang Gong (Gu Baoming), Chen Gong (Wei Zongwan), and Di Gong (Wang Kuirong).
A chess game is quite interesting in the film. When Pang and his party gradually rise, but they want to attack Suzhou and Nanjing to destroy the bureaucratic interests, the dialogue between and is quite eloquent.
By playing chess, Lord Di skillfully throws out the topic.
Mr. Chen cautiously hinted that he wanted the chess piece (Pang Qingyun) to be connected, while his opponent, Mr. Jiang, made it clear: No!
In a few conversations, the comparison of the strengths of the three people of and the attitude towards Pang are revealed. Chen is obviously the weakest party, and he tries to win Pang for his own use; Jiang is obviously stronger. He did not want Pang to destroy his own interests; Di was obviously stronger than Chen, but he viewed Pang in a wait-and-see manner. At the end of the
film, after Pang Qingyun went up and shouted a "deadly" request for tax cuts for three years, Sangong's attitude clearly regarded Pang as an "abandoned son."
Di Gong, who was originally neutral, also stood in a clear line. He changed his previous gentle attitude and asked Qingyun to reduce the army and get rid of the two tigers.
and Chen Gong, who was weak in power but had a little cherishment for Pang, no longer wooed Pang, but made a meaningful sentence.
At the end of the film, at the scene where Jiang Wuyang assassinated Pang Qingyun, Chen Kexin's shot was given to the back. A black gun gave us enough room for imagination...
It is not important who the murderer was. , Pang Qingyun, who became a victim of , was destined to die in the official battle.
Three, the props group plus chicken legs! The scene truly portrays the scene of the times
Apart from the plot and connotation, "Total Names" is also very worthy of recognition in other places. This work from 13 years ago has many highlights.
The characters are dressed and all kinds of scenery are very elegant .
and the creation of war scenes is also quite realistic , which not only has the magnificence of a wide viewing angle, but also cruelly reflects the cruelty of the bayonet from the depth of the details.
The whole film is very "real" in production. 15 assistant directors were used before and after. The costumes, props and framing were all deducted for details, even to show the two are dating.In the scene of love, 300 people were hired as background.
In addition, there are 16-minute deleted shots in "Voting Name" (Hong Kong version), which is rumored to include multiple restricted-level shots , which also reflects Chen Kexin's creation of a sense of reality. In the extended version of
, there is a scene of Jiang Wuyang, who had assassinated Pang Qingyun, being executed by Ling Chi. It should be flashback with the three people chanting the name of the cast. This scene is quite graphic and has an ironic feeling.
Unfortunately, this scene was not broadcast when it was released in the mainland version, but the existence of these restricted shots also reflects the director Chen Kexin's pursuit of to create a sense of reality.
In the context of the time, "Voting Certificate" failed to win the box office, which caused the film party to lose money, and there was even a rumor that Chen Kexin could only rent for this loss.
Due to the different versions and other related reasons, "Tou Ming Zhuang" did not win a high reputation. Even though Chen Kexin won the Golden Horse & Golden Image Best Director by virtue of "Jing Ming Zhuang", his rating at the time was even less than 6 points.
With the passage of time, the quality of "Certificate of Casting" has gradually been recognized, and the public praise has gradually improved. "Certificate of Casting" is also one of the few movies whose ratings have risen almost every year. The current rating of has risen to With a score of 7.3, there were also many viewers who were aggrieved by the film.
The editor can responsibly say that is a movie that is worth watching and watching again and again , whether it is the presentation of brotherhood in troubled times, or the unforgettable roles, or the turbulence. The political situation of Yunqi changes, every angle and every viewing will have a different interpretation. If a movie like
appeared in the theater again, it might make up for some of the regrets of Director Chen Kexin.
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