The world is difficult, and the ideal is not easy.
Released in 2007, "Submission of Names" has rebounded a little in recent years. In addition to the audience's more understanding of that history, there is also an understanding of the psychological journey of the characters in the play. The old version of the righteous qi dry cloud is transformed into a game of ideal and reality in "Submission of Names". The unbearable chaos of the world reflects the cruelty on the road to success. It can be said that this is a historical film, an action film, a war film, and it can be said that this is a realistic tragic film.
When you say "Letter of Submission", you cannot but say "Thorn Horse".
"Thorn Horse", adapted from one of the four strange cases of Wanqing [Zhang Wenxiang's Horse Assassination Case], is still talked about by action movie fans to this day.
The real history, the love feud between brothers, the declining environment of the late Qing Dynasty, and the three Top Pillars of The Shaw Clan, Dillon, Jiang David, and Chen Guantai, appear so strong and powerful in Zhang Che's shots.
It can be said that the movie "Thorn Horse" is seen as a shaw twin screen rupture between Dillon and Ginger David.
The life lawsuit of killing brothers and sisters-in-law can stimulate the imagination of the people when put on ordinary people, not to mention Ma Xinyi, a senior member of the Qing court and the governor of Liangjiang.
On the day of taking office, he was stabbed to death by his former brother, and the murderer was disposed of by Ling Chi, which is definitely worthy of blood.
In addition to the brotherhood of Chen Kexin's version of "Submission of Names", he also has more thinking about social and personal encounters. After the betrayal of lust and morality, there is also a struggle for personal destiny in the big era, a game of different ideals. The love and hatred of the three brothers are intertwined, and it is even more because the Qing court that is high above seems so fragile and small.
The film begins with Pang Qingyun's defeat.
Skilled and a great general, he escaped the Taiping Army's killing by pretending to be dead. The corpses of his brothers were strewn across the field, and the beasts of the Kuizi camp were behind him but hesitated to lend a helping hand.
Pang Qingyun knew that his capital was gone.
At the same time, the folk grass Kou led by Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang was eager to try, trying their best to grab grain and money for their own villages, and the original intention of taking their lives in the chaotic world made them not care who the other party was.
If you can survive, you have a chance to see tomorrow's sunrise.
Pang Qingyun, who was frustrated, Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang, who had no direction, met in this way. After eating, he went with us to do the work of life.
Where is the meaning of playing with life, different people have different understandings.
In the eyes of Zhao and Jiang, the meaning of playing with their lives is to be able to eat enough, to live until tomorrow, and then to continue to rob, to kill, to live. In Pang Qingyun's view, this rabble-rouser dares to play with his life, which is the capital for his future reversal.
Anyway, they are all ants, there is no goal, and they dare to play with their lives, then I will give you a direction and let your life achieve my career.
800 people, the full strength of Pang, Zhao and Jiang.
Opposite them were the three giants of the imperial court, Lord Di, Lord Chen, and Lord Jiang. The scheming trio first threatened Pang Qingyun's entire army two months ago, and then laughed at the 800 people, whose deterrent power, influence and power-playing wrists were like three jackals, more cold than the Taiping Army on the battlefield.
On the 10th, without military pay, he took Shucheng, which was Pang Qingyun's sacrifice of his life.
The so-called 1500 non-commissioned officers who assisted them were nothing more than sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger, waiting for an opportunity. Zhao Erhu was reckless and impulsive, Jiang Wuyang was frank in nature, only Pang Qingyun, who had a tight brow, knew that 800 people were his chips, and the three of them plus 800 people were nothing more than the chips of Lord Chen. And all this is the chip of the imperial court.
Shucheng narrowly won, and won the first capital for Pang Qingyun after recreating the team.
For him, the capital is a bet on the next victory. In the eyes of Zhao and Jiang, this capital is the purpose of the hometown fathers and elders to eat enough.
In the eyes of the three giants of the imperial court, this force was a pawn of checks and balances against each other. They had no loss if they lost, but winning could help Lord Chen kill Lord Jiang Ruiqi.
The capture of Suzhou became a battle to rewrite Pang Qingyun's fate.
The charge was in front, the casualties were taken by the sky, and it was successfully taken, but it was taken by the Kuizi battalion. Obviously, good things belong to others, and they are desperate to see themselves. After the more tragic victory, it is necessary to face not only the greedy Kuizi battalion, but also the moral judgment of the prisoners.
In the scene of killing prisoners, Li Hongzhang directly called out to the insiders in history.
Regardless of the contempt of traditional values and folk morality, countless lives have been deprived of their own words, and their own values have suffered as much as the moral bottom line.
Zhao Erhu's green forest and grass were reckless, claiming that to withdraw was to create a mutiny and break with the military department, forcing Pang Qingyun to kneel.
"Your surname is Zhao!"
Lord Di's words were actually not Pang Qingyun's words.
It's like a joint-stock company, and three people started together.
Pang Qingyun is responsible for direction control; Zhao Erhu is in charge of personnel management, and Jiang Wuyang is responsible for market operation. 800 people stand firm, become 8000, 80000, at this time, who should listen to?
This is also the essential difference between Pang and Zhao and Jiang.
Pang Qingyun knew too well what he wanted. He climbed out of the pile of zombie-like dead people, licked his face to live, took advantage of various opportunities to regroup a new army, and developed step by step until he could compete with the Kuizi camp, and his development ideas were incompatible with the brotherly team of Zhao and Jiang.
It took 30 years for Lord Chen to fall to his knees in the Forbidden City, at the feet of the Empress Dowager. Pang Qingyun, a rising star, is absolutely unwilling to use the same time to temper himself into a dying member of the dynasty who is about to die and eat vegetarian food.
Using his military exploits to petition the people and plead for the reduction of money, grain, and taxes, his ideals were even grander and contrary to the power of the imperial court.
"My life is like walking on thin ice."
The filthy sleeping of the second sister-in-law violates brotherhood; the cruelty of killing prisoners violates basic morality; and the open intercession for the people of Nanjing violates the way of the highest power to accumulate wealth.
From the perspective of personal lust, organizational development, talent construction, or superior relationship maintenance, every door Pang Qingyun is locked.
At this moment, he is an idealistic outsider to either side. In the real world, idealists without absolute power must die.
Empress Dowager Cixi didn't have to say anything. The three giants of the imperial court can hold you up today, and they can kill you tomorrow. What's more, Pang Qingyun got rid of Zhao Erhu, providing Jiang Wuyang with the best motivation.
Borrowing a knife to kill people is already smart, not to mention that this knife does not have to be borrowed, he went straight to Pang Qingyun and came.
In "Thorn Horse", the three brothers of the freshly dressed and angry horse can also smile and hook their shoulders, put on their official uniforms, and feel the happiness of qingyun with the wind blowing on their faces. "Cast a Name" confronts the audience with the ugly and unadorned beauty of history.
Knives and guns have no eyes, the big hero also has to be gray-headed, the court is dangerous, and the big husband also has to bow down. To the end is to die.
From "Thorn Horse" to "Cast Name", the name of the person has changed, the style has changed, the focus point has changed, and the feeling and pattern have also changed.
Shaw's brotherhood has become a trade-off between political power and battlefield fighting, and the eclipse of the star aura has accelerated the transformation and tempering of the role. So much so that the action scenes take a back seat.
Conspiracy and development, ideals and reality, individuals and society, became the core theme of the film. The story also becomes more obscure and dark.
At this time, Zhang Wenxiang's horse stabbing case became a skin, and "Letter of Submission" became a realistic theme work: in the film, the entrepreneurial team of Pang Qingyun, Zhao Erhu, and Jiang Wuyang tried to perform a bloody blockbuster with the sacrifice of a hero with a broken wrist in the context of a dispute with state-owned enterprises and a horse race.
Unfortunately, the reality is so cold, so cold that anyone who tries hard is vulnerable in the face of absolute strength. The hatred of good and evil in traditional literary and artistic works is no longer so straightforward, and the fate of being manipulated cannot be controlled by anyone.
Just like Zhao Erhu's daughter-in-law said, it was good. This year is red, next year is green, but the reality is not up to you. If you cast your name, you will kill them.
This is a blockbuster film of bitter love in the guise of history, with a gray head and a dirty face, stumbling. There is absolutely no such thing as the vigorous action of martial arts, but there are commercial film organs that are exhausted, the dark screens of political movies, and the entanglement of real men and women. As for the fatal knife in the real event, who cares today?