In 2010, Jiang Wen won "Let the Bullets Fly", which became a myth as soon as it was released.
Netizens praised: This is the best Chinese film in the past three decades, and it can break the wrist with "Farewell to the Overlord".
Some people also said: If Jiang Wen retires after filming, he will be canonized.
With countless golden sentences and metaphors, the film has been infinitely interpreted for ten years. The heat did not diminish that year.
In the past two years, "Let the Bullets Fly" has returned to the B station, and has been repeatedly played, spoofed and re-created by a group of young people. A new discipline was even formed, "let learning".
"Let the Bullets Fly" has become the online "Bible" pursued by contemporary young people, and it is also the "Push Back Map" that people will always ponder.
At this year's B Station New Year's Eve Party, Ye Yin Dance Troupe put "Let the Bullets Fly" on the stage, surprising everyone.
The dance is called "Let the Bullets Fly for a While", which intercepts the two scenes in the film, "Hongmen Feast" and the midnight bandits. The program dance is cool, the costume is exquisite, and the audience is highly cheered.
Netizen commented: "Let the bullets fly, YYDS." ”
Another person pranked: "I came to Station B to do only three things!" ”
Charge
In 2000, Jiang Wen's "Here Comes the Devil" won the Cannes Grand Jury Prize.
However, because the film did not pass the radio and television censorship, Jiang Wen privately participated in the competition and violated the law, not only did not make money, but also was ordered not to make movies for 5 years.
The film cost a lot of money, using 480,000 feet of film, resulting in a 30% overrun of the original budget of 20 million. In order to shoot the final Scene of Ma Dashan's beheading, the crew also imported several cameras from the United States that could roll the shooting.
As an investor, Dong Ping of Huayi originally had great expectations for the box office, but he did not expect to be released. Thinking of the huge cost of shooting a film, he was very aggrieved to use "film debut" to describe Jiang Wen:
"Jiang Wen cares too much about movies. The more you care, the more exquisite you are, the more exquisite you will shoot, the less you shoot, the slower you shoot, the less you shoot, the more you are afraid of the market, afraid that others will not understand. It's like a girl who goes to bed too little, so she's always shaking. ”
In 2005, as soon as the ban was lifted, Jiang Wen began to make a new film, and two years later he won "The Sun Also Rises".
This film is full of big coffee, Chen Chong, Jiang Wen Jiang Wu, and Jiang Wen's wife Zhou Yun. The producer is Taihe Film.
Halfway through the film, Taihe withdrew his investment, and Jiang Wen was helpless, and entrusted someone to find Yang Shoucheng to take over, at the cost that the emperor would get the account before Taihe.
Jiang Wenyuan wanted to turn around with this film and bet on the remuneration of himself and his wife. But I didn't expect the audience to understand, and it was taken off the line by the theater within a few days of release, and the box office was less than 18 million. Jiang Wen's commercial value has once again been questioned.
Jiang Wen was very depressed, he said in front of the media: "'The Sun Also Rises' is a gift from God to me", but he has been avoiding response to the box office and word of mouth.
Jiang Wen made movies and was notoriously expensive.
In the early years of "Sunny Days", in order to take a satisfactory photo, he took 100,000 negatives for Tranquility, more than a thousand shots, and finally selected one. The filming of "The Devil Is Coming" used 480,000 rolls of film and more than 4,000 shots.
"The Sun Also Rises" was filmed from Yunnan to Gansu, spending millions of more than a hundred kinds of birds and animals, and it cost 300,000 to build a locomotive alone.
Once on the show, Dou Wentao asked: "What should I do if the budget is oversized?" Jiang Wen said, "What is a budget?" That film is to invite the audience to dinner, do you still have food money? ”
"The Sun Also Rises" lost money, the media sang that he was abandoned by capital, Jiang Wen gambled, decided to make a commercial film "revenge" to prove himself.
erupt
In 2009, Jiang Wen sent a letter to Zhou Runfa, inviting him to star in his new film.
Jiang Wen promised this a unique role, and the letter wrote: "In the film, the brother will be a different kind of skill, the same as the authenticity, set to provide a vast space for the brother's acting skills, and create a beautiful talk of the film forest." ”
Zhou Runfa was very touched by the reading and immediately accepted the invitation.
Zhou Runfa was very expensive at that time, almost able to match the remuneration of Liang Chaowei and Zhang Maggie, but Jiang Wen still wanted to please, he felt that it was worth it.
The new film exceeds 100 million. Influenced by the first two films, it is difficult to attract investment in new dramas. Jiang Wen's own company "Not Happy" invested nearly half. He also pulled Dong Ping and the emperor, who had cooperated with him, to invest money.
In 2010, Jiang Wen's commercial film "Let the Bullets Fly" was released. This jiang wen style film has aroused countless discussions at the beginning of its birth, and finally won 676 million at the box office, although it did not win the box office champion of that year, but it was the hottest one. The film is wonderful, the literary drama is chewy, ten years have passed, still active on the Internet, and it has become popular again and again.
After the release of the film, "Let the bullets fly for a while" became the most popular meme on the Internet, and Jiang Wen also won the god with this film.
Netizens praised: "If you want to select the post-2000 Chinese film list, this film can be ranked in the top five." ”
Some people say: This is the best Chinese film in the past three decades, and it can break the wrist with "Farewell to the King".
"Let the Bullets Fly" tells the story of a "bandit fighting a bully", set in 1920, the era of the Beiyang warlords. The bandit Zhang Muzhi kidnapped Tang Shiye Ma Bond, incarnated as the county magistrate of Goose City, and fought with the bully Huang Silang to carry out a series of wonderful confrontations.
The two of them have their own tricks, you come and go, from the beginning to the end.
The most exciting scenes in the film are Zhang Mazi and Master Tang going to the "Hongmen Feast" and suppressing bandits in the middle of the night. At the "Hongmen Banquet", the three of them each conceived a ghost fetus - Huang Silang for power, Master Tang for wealth, and Zhang Mazi carefully and brazenly conducted a negotiation for revenge.
"Master, high!"
"County Chief, hard!"
"Old Master Huang is tall and hard!"
The negotiations in the words of the three film emperors are still evocative.
In the middle of the night, Huang Silang sent his men to assassinate the county magistrate, and Yin And yang mistakenly killed the county magistrate's wife. He was sad and pretended to be sorry to take care of the county magistrate. Unexpectedly, Zhang Mazi took a breath and came alive. Huang Silang, played by Zhou Runfa, immediately changed his face.
Netizens commented: "Sichuan drama does not change its face so quickly, Zhou Runfa is really a god." ”
Some netizens praised: "Jiang Wen is really a ghost talent!" ”
In addition to the wonderful plot, "Let the Bullets Fly" is also particularly up to scrutiny, it is like a difficult to define polyhedra, everyone can find their own interpretation. Some people say that this is Jiang Wen's fascination and praise for the ultimate in personal heroism; some people say that in the confrontation between Huang Silang, Tang Shiye and Zhang Mazi, several revolutionary camps have been repeatedly pushed to power by the laws of history; others say that this is the Chinese version of "Game of Thrones".
The various metaphors in Let the Bullets Fly have also sparked a massive discussion. There are even netizens who fight over "Huang Silang died as a stand-in or himself".
Jiang Wen was very surprised by this, and he said that no matter what the film was blown into, he was happy to accept it.
Film critics said: "The over-interpretation of 'Let the Bullets Fly' is the respect for Jiang Wen. ”
unscramble
Since the release of "Let the Bullets Fly" in 2010, the folk interpretation and comparison of it have never stopped.
Ten years ago, if it was the top spot in the selection of Chinese films, netizens would have quarreled over "Farewell to the King", "Infernal Affairs" and "Journey to the West".
However, in recent years, "Let the Bullets Fly" has become more and more popular on major video platforms, leading the network with an absolute advantage and calming down this civil film history battle.
What made this "bullet" fly for ten years was not Jiang Wen, nor team publicity, but the "film and television commentary" blogger of video platforms such as Station B. After they dismantled the 132-minute film, it seemed that the whole film had become an almost "push-back" fable.
Every character, every line, every look can lead to the audience's infinite imagination.
In Station B, "Let the Bullets Fly" became the "Bible" of young people.
It is the most played film in total, and there are endless videos of character interpretation and symbol analysis of the film. A title called "Dare to Kill My Horse?! The ghost animal mixed scissors can receive more than 60 million plays on the B station. Click on a video at random, and the bullet screens that float past are "Accept My Knees", "Recite the Whole Text", and "Three Times a Day".
Even the young people of Station B have also studied a "let the science" - the study of interpreting "Let the Bullets Fly".
"Let learning" is rich in content and has many categories, including not only symbolic deconstruction, but also character analysis and problem interpretation.
For example, the question "Why did Huang Silang let go of the second and third elders", the interpretation of the master of "Let Xuexue" is:
"Sister Hua is a spy sent by Huang Silang to alienate Zhang Mazi's brothers. Sister Hua presented the gift box containing two diamonds to Huang Silang, and when Huang Silang saw it, she knew that Sister Hua had successfully separated herself and captured Master Tang (the diamond was originally in the hands of Master Tang) and the second and third elders. ”
For the top hat that Zhang Mazi first gave to Huang Silang when he first arrived in Goose City, the masters of "letting the study" also have a different view: The "top hat" is a kind of façade decoration, which is good-looking but not practical, implying that the county magistrate has no real power. Hu Wan, who greeted the county magistrate, cut the crotch of Zhang Mazi's pants and expressed his contempt for the county magistrate.
Also, what is the metaphor of the "horse-drawn train" at the beginning of the film? The netizens of Station B analyzed: "The horse-drawn train is a metaphor for the semi-feudal and semi-colonial situation at that time. ”
For the iconic location "Goose City" in the movie, netizens even gave different angles of interpretation.
There is an analysis from the perspective of harmonics: "Goose City" is "Hungry City". It means that the people of the county are living in poverty and have no oil and water to scrape, which contrasts with the rich "Kangcheng";
There is also an analysis from the perspective of symbolism, metaphor and other artistic techniques: the great white goose in the film symbolizes the people of Goose City. They first attached themselves to Huang Silang, and then when Huang Silang fell, they fell to Zhang Mazi. The last to follow Zhang Mazi to attack the bunker was a group of large white geese;
And some netizens even interpreted the political meaning: "Goose City" represents "Russia". The story takes place in 1920, shortly after the outbreak of the October Revolution in the world, when a cannon sound brought Marxism-Leninism to China. Zhang Mazi's appointment to Goose City means that "Goose City" was the place where the destruction of the feudal system began.
Some of these interpretations are reasonable, and some are over-interpreted by netizens. But whether it is properly interpreted or not, it reflects the fanatical worship of "Let the Bullets Fly" among movie fans.
"Let's Learn"
"Let the Bullets Fly" is enshrined in station B, and the reason behind it is not difficult to understand.
In addition to the ubiquitous details and metaphors in the film, the many golden sentences and intriguing lines are also another driver of "Let the Bullets Fly" "out of the circle".
"Standing and making money" and "Sometimes the dead are more useful than the living" These highly "universal" lines, spoken in the film with the help of the mouth of the characters, have an unexpected effect.
Netizens use these golden sentences to apply in reality, both ridicule and express their attitudes.
Two years ago, there was a mass parade abroad, a photo of robbing furniture spread wildly on the Internet, netizens commented: "County chief, county chief, these two chairs belong to me." ”
In the film, this line appears after Zhang Mazi defeated Huang Silang, and the people entered the bunker to divide the property. A commoner pointed to the chair under Zhang Mazi's ass and said so.
In 2020, Luo Yonghao entered the live broadcast to sell goods, and fans paraphrased Master Tang's admonition to Zhang Mazi in "Let the Bullets Fly", jokingly saying: "Make money, don't be chilling."
This line also quickly "went out of the circle" and was used by young people in all occasions to bend their waists for money, expressing their helplessness and self-deprecation.
In February 2021, consumers' rights protection at the Shanghai Tesla Auto Show attracted public attention, to which Xinhua commented: "Before the results of the authoritative department's appraisal come out, we should first 'let the bullets fly for a while'." ”
The "bullet" flew for ten years, and netizens used the various memes of the film more flexibly and changeably.
As the various "materials" of "Let the Bullets Fly" are quoted more and more frequently, netizens vigorously call for the protection of the film, and some people shout out the slogan of "applying for intangible cultural heritage".
On the other hand, the young people of Station B gradually grew up and began to pay more attention to the connection between life and art, and found confirmation for their lives from the film.
This group of young people with an average age of 21 years old has long been not satisfied with the film's ghost animal secondary creation and play, but uses their own way of expression to implicitly and skillfully participate in social thinking.
The simple but intriguing truth of "Let the Bullets Fly" and the ambiguous "Wei Wei Xue" material throughout the text are a good opportunity for young people to show their skills.
They borrow the content of the film, blend the pain points of society, and then match it with various BGM with various sinister sounds, and export the attitudes and views of young people.
Just by seeing the title of the second creation video of "Let the Bullets Fly" on the B station, its mind can know a little bit.
"You translate for me, what is capital?"
This is the doctor!
"Leave work on time? Oh, disgusting! ”
<主管，你是了解我的，我从来不做准点下班的事>
In addition to ghost animal videos and clever use of golden sentences to comment on social hotspots, young people also use a variety of ways to interpret this divine work.
Let the Bullets Fly is like the sea, providing them with a steady stream of inspiration.
On December 31, 2021, at the New Year's Eve party of Station B, Ye Yin Dance Troupe adapted the film "Let the Bullets Fly" into a dance, performing the two performances of "Hongmen Feast" and Midnight Bandits.
As soon as the actor appeared, Zhang Mazi's top hat, Master Tang's robe and coat, and the clock that rang in mid-air were all highly restored to the scene of the film. In addition, the dance was adapted into the films "The Sun Also Rises" and "Colonel Poughy's March" as a dance soundtrack.
On stage, the costumes and taoism mixed with the iconic elements of the film, and the three dancers took the stage in a dashing manner, showing the wonderful battle and character relationship of Zhang Mazi, Huang Silang and Tang Shiye in the film.
As soon as the lights came on and the dance music sounded, the audience was instantly pulled into the era when Zhang Mazi killed the rich and helped the poor. The audience roared.
At the end of the dance, accompanied by Zhang Mazi's sentence "I came to Goose City and only do three things", the atmosphere reached a climax, some people screamed, some people were in tears.
<B站跨年舞蹈 《让子弹飞一会》>
Young people like "Let the Bullets Fly", B Station crossed the night on "Let the Bullets Fly", fans in the B station on the exuberant creative passion, received a sincere and ingenious response from the B station.
From this program alone, I saw the intention of the B station evening party: when other homes and traffic, pile stars, B station chooses to respect what the audience is really interested in, chooses to respect the content that has been precipitated by time, and finely polishes the production details such as music and vision.
This is a small romantic feeling in the cultural production industry.
"Let the Bullets Fly" is a peak of Jiang Wen's career. At that time, some fans said: "If Jiang Wen announces his retirement after filming "Let the Bullets Fly", he will be canonized." ”
But Jiang Wen is good at thinking, seeking change, and the road of directing must continue.
After filming "Let the Bullets Fly", Jiang Wen directed "One Step Away" and "Evil Does Not Pressure the Right" in 2014 and 2018, but unfortunately, both of which cannot be the same as "Let the Bullets Fly" regardless of box office or word of mouth.
The voice of doubt pounced on Jiang Wen again, and he said, "I am a little willful. ”
In 2021, the magic giant "Turandot" was released, with a Douban score of 3.6. In it, Jiang Wen plays a proud sweat, dressed in gold, with two small braids, and the audience calls out hot eyes. Some people criticized him for taking bad films, and some people called him back to be a director.
After filming "Let the Bullets Fly" that year, fans chased After Jiang Wen to let him shoot a sequel. Jiang Wen pestered, smiled and agreed. Eleven years later, the sequel to Let the Bullets Fly still hasn't waited. Some netizens said that "Let the Bullets Fly" is an old movie and is not energetic. Some people also said that Jiang Wen's later films were not as good as one, and Jiang Lang was exhausted.
Jiang Wendu did not respond to this, he just smiled and said in an interview:
"It's easy for us to make a copy of Let the Bullets Fly, but I'm willing to do something of value."
No hurry, let the bullets fly for a while.
Some references:
1. Jiang Wen, "Let the Bullets Fly" information, Baidu Encyclopedia
2) How "Let the Bullets Fly" became the Bible of the New Age, Dr. X
3. "Let the Bullets Fly": Do you understand in ten years, The Paper
4, just one step away, Jiang Wen collapsed in 1993, today's char siu
5. "Lu Yu has a date", an interview with Jiang Wen
6. "Thirteen Invitations", an interview with Jiang Wen
7. "In-depth interpretation<让子弹飞>, Jiang Wen: This matter is my heart disease", Station B
8. "<让子弹飞>Comprehensive Interpretation - Final Chapter", Station B
9. "<让子弹飞>The Hidden Dark Plot at the Beginning", Station B
10. "<让子弹飞>Four Famous Scenes", Station B
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Author | Zack