Text/Ala Ping, Naranze Self-Media Editorial Office
Recently, nearly two years, the movie "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" that has been changed many times has finally met with the audience on the big screen, as a movie with the theme of fighting counterfeiting of cultural relics, the audience naturally needs part of the historical knowledge to understand it, especially some of the Easter eggs buried in the film, after understanding it will greatly enhance the viewing experience, and better understand the painstaking efforts of the main creative team.
Adapted from Ma Boyong's novel of the same name, directed by Guo Zijian and starring Lei Jiayin, Li Xian, Xin Zhilei and Ge You, "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" tells a series of adventures that occur when the five-veined heirs make a wish to find out the truth about the Buddha's head in Wu Zemingtang in the Tang Dynasty.
Netizens who read Ma Boyong's novels know that he especially likes to rely on historical backgrounds to write, such as the previous hits "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", "The Wind Rises in Longxi", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Supporting Roles", etc., all have a large number of historical allusions, and the "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" is naturally the same.
It's just that compared to the original novel, you can check the information at any time, the TV series version can be suspended, and the film version has undoubtedly higher requirements for the audience, next, let the editor take stock of the important Easter eggs hidden in the "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau".
The first is naturally to stir up the overall situation and lead to the Buddha's head of the story.
The Wu Zetian Ming Hall mentioned in the film is a hall built by Wu Zetian in Luoyang in the fourth year of Tang Dynasty, which is mainly used for government, sacrifice, congratulations, feasting, teaching and debate, and is a famous large-scale building in the Tang Dynasty. Later, Wu Zetian, who believed in Buddhism, ordered Xue Huaiyi to cast a large statue of the Buddha in the Ming Hall, but Xue Huaiyi, because of his loss of favor and resentment, burned the Ming Hall and took away the jade Buddha head, and as a result, wu Zetian died on the Yaoguang Hall, and the jade Buddha head has since been exiled to the people and sent to Japan by the father of the male protagonist Xu Wish.
In order to identify the authenticity of the Buddha's head, the screenwriter also introduced the Baozhi monk, it is said that when Zhang Sheng took the order of Emperor Wu of Liang to paint a portrait of the Baozhi monk, he had an important skin phase and Dharma phase in Buddhist theory, laying the foundation for the final truth of the film.
Secondly, it is the scene of Xu Yuan and his father Xu Ping playing chess many times in the film.
These pictures not only show the memories and thoughts of Wish for his father, but also bring clues to Wish at the most critical moment. At this time, the screenwriter also inserted a classic duel between Chinese Go master Wu Qingyuan and Japanese player Hideya Honinfang. This chess game can be said to be a game of great significance in the modern Go world, containing a contest between traditional layout and new layout, chess leaders and talented rising stars, which has had an immeasurable impact on future generations of chess players.
"Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" brings this historical past to the screen is also very in line with its historical background, and also symbolizes the alternation of old and new.
Finally, Antiques Central Also shows a lot of treasure hunting skills.
For example, in the first climactic clip of the whole film, the treasure contest between wishing and medicine is not unfolded, and the later team is calligraphy and painting and jade. Antiques such as porcelain have added special effects, which not only makes each antique have a lifelike feature, but also makes the antique itself full of Chinese-style beauty.
Coupled with the jargon and identification techniques such as palm eyes, shape viewing, patterning, Maotuo method, monofilament double silk, glazed bottle tracing gold, jade wrapping technique, perfusion method, etc., and a trick of unheard of suspension wire diagnosis pulse, space breaking gold, so that the audience is bright, it is easy to produce a sense of substitution and immersion.
Of course, the quality of the script of "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" itself is excellent, so the audience will accept the Easter egg foreshadowing planted by the main creative team in the film. In the final ending, the protagonist communicates with Lao Chaofeng on the phone, and also claims that the enmity between the two people is endless.
Judging from the plot where Wish finds the mystery of the five tanks undercover and then salvages the shipwreck on the high seas, the second part may also be on the agenda. At present, the box office revenue of "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" has exceeded 400 million yuan, which is not high in the current film market. This is likely to affect the appearance of subsequent works or not, I hope that audiences interested in this subject can see the appearance of the second part as soon as possible.
Do you think "Antiques Central Bureau" is worth buying tickets for the audience?