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Every time a new material is released in the sequel of "Dragon Slayer", the ridicule is wave after wave.
In addition to the middle-aged black-faced unscrupulous, the most disgusting is Xiao Zhao, played by Yun Qianqian.
This Miss Yun, when she was first exposed, her facial features did not resemble Qiu Shuzhen at all. But in the official stills, there are three more similarities.
Can't help but make people wonder whether Director Wang chose a row of actresses to go for plastic surgery, whose finished product is most like Qiu Shuzhen, who will be praised.
However, Qiu Shuzhen in those years was indeed favored by Wang Jing.
"Jianning" and "Xiao Zhao", the most popular in the original book, but under the production of Wang Jing, they all make her the most eye-catching and special presence among the female characters.
However, throughout Qiu Shuzhen's cooperation with Wang Jing, she has almost always played supporting roles in men's plays. Even the so-called "Naked Lamb" and "Immoral Gift" created for her are also introduced from the perspective of male characters.
There is only one, but it belongs entirely to Qiu Shuzhen's heroine:
That is "The Secret Life of Cixi".
At first glance at this film, I feel that the most obvious should be only two words: gloomy & fragrant.
The story begins with a dark and crazy palace, and in the narration "The cold and mysterious Empress Xi is the last empress of China, and how did she get this supreme power?" In the middle, sat a woman who was not angry and arrogant.
She is the only heroine of this film, Empress Dowager Cixi.
But the big heroine is not cultivated in a day, so the story still starts from when she was hui yulan, when she had three characteristics:
Innocence, innocence, love to pet cats
Although she would have nightmares every night, dreaming of the dragon shouting "You are the woman of the fallen" and pounced on her.
The fortune teller said that Magnolia was the fate of "Kefu, Kezi, Kejia, Keguo, and Kemin" and should be strangled to death when born.
But she was unmoved by what she heard, and still just wanted to pet the cat.
The mountain thief robbed the road, and the hero of the Six Kings Yi bi saved the Beauty, which made her girl's heart move, but unfortunately she had been selected into the palace as Lan Guiren, so she could only say goodbye to her lover.
Before entering the palace, Magnolia's grandmother used the Yehenara clan to curse the legend of the demise of Ai Xinjueluo and ordered her to obey the imperial heart, but Yulan was concerned about why the phoenix could not be on top and the dragon was on the bottom.
At first glance, silly Magnolia is definitely the kind of person who can't survive three episodes.
Not only did he not know that the relationship was ostracized and disliked, but also because he did not know how to cater to the emperor, he was "left without dragon species" on the spot.
After Yulan became an abandoned concubine, the only cat that could comfort herself was also cooked.
Why bully cats?
Can bully me, kill my cat this can still endure?
So when the bully Yun Gui revealed that he was related to cooking cats, magnolia's dark side was stimulated by this vicious world.
Her hands rose and fell, and she took down the palace fighting blood.
Although she killed someone, Magnolia still had a conscience at this time, so when the revenge passed, she became overwhelmed.
Fortunately, Yi Bi arrived in time to assist Yulan in disposing of the body and woke her up with a slap. Yi Bi persuaded her to enter the palace must be favored, and the position in the palace must rely on stepping on the blood and bones of others to help her rise, so that she could awaken from the ignorant girl.
Therefore, Yulan borrowed her provincial relatives and invited two practitioners from the Eight Hutongs to carry out a seven-day profound training in the art of welcoming and sending, officially moving towards the road to heaven.
Blackened
The emperor was in the Buddhist temple, practicing asceticism for the ancestors for several days, and when he stayed up until his flesh and blood were exhausted, Yulan disguised herself as a small eunuch and broke in, offering the latest learning results, just to quench the emperor's thirst.
Since then, the Golden House has been dressed up as a pampered night, and the Jade House feasts on drunkenness and spring. The six palaces are pink and three thousand, and three thousand pets are dedicated.
And when she came to this step, she was already unwilling to be favored by the emperor.
At this time, the government was worried about internal and external troubles, and the emperor's dragon body violated the peace. Yulan took the opportunity to participate in the imperial discussion, followed the emperor's wishes and obtained recognition, and also assisted the emperor in correcting the folds.
And the so-called early birth is not as good as the coincidence of birth, Yulan also gave birth to the emperor's only son at this time, crowned Yi Guifei, becoming the most honorable woman outside the empress.
When the Opium War broke out, the emperor fled to Rehe, and at the suggestion of Concubine Yi guifei, Yi Bi was left in the capital to mediate.
After arriving at Rehe, Yi Guifei's desire for power became more and more inflated, and finally caused the emperor to be jealous. The emperor was about to die, and the ministers hoped to kill the mother and leave the son.
However, in order to ensure that many parties were restrained, the emperor still decided to leave Concubine Yi guifei.
With the death of the emperor, the Empress Dowager faction and the Gu Ming faction began a power struggle. She first used her old feelings and body to win over Yi Bi, and then used Yu Shijin's words to appease the minister of Gu Ming. At the same time, he tried to return to Beijing early, launched a coup d'état, and executed the minister.
Playing to this step, of course, is more enjoyable, so the curtain of the two palaces and the prince auxiliary government can no longer satisfy her.
She threw Li Fei, who used to cook and loved cats, into a hot pot, and then set up a bitter meat plan to poison the Eastern Empress.
In the end, Yi Bi was also deposed, and from then on, the Western Empress sealed her heart and sat alone in the Cold Palace, and eventually became a generation of female emperors.
Throughout the history of the Xiangjiang Wind and Moon, "The Secret Life of Cixi" is also a very unique one.
At that time, similar films were nearing the end, and the film was only screened in The local area two years after filming, and it was still the highest box office in the Wind and Moon category that year.
He has always commented on this play, always belittling his wild history and eroticism, and shrinking the legend of the main drama that should be a brilliant pattern into a forbidden palace anecdotes for snooping only.
But now when I open it, I find that this is a female psychological drama that cuts from desire.
Wang Jing drew considerable nutrients from Li Hanxiang, the great predecessor of the Wind Moon. The plot of the film is composed of Li Hanxiang's "Burning Yuanmingyuan" and "Hanging Curtains to Listen to the Government" of Li Hanxiang's drama, and the overall style is also quite the charm of Li Hanxiang's wind and moon films.
Compared with the original Forbidden City, summer resort on-site shooting, but also the huge cost of building the landscape of the Yuanmingyuan, this film is obviously difficult to replicate the epic sense baked by the big scene.
So the director and screenwriter omitted the scenes of the dynasty and the war before the original film, and concentrated on excavating how Cixi went from innocence to viciousness.
The same is the head to raise the eyes, but it is already a different state of mind
The first is to enhance the Gongdou bridge section.
In "Burning the Yuanmingyuan", only magnolia is used to watch other concubines and concubines sleep with narration, taking her through the period when she was snubbed.
And Wang Jing expanded this in detail: Yulan, who had just entered the palace, did not check the eunuchs in advance, was arranged to go to a room with poor conditions, and was collectively excluded by the harem led by Concubine Li because of her beauty, highlighting how ignorant she was in the early stages.
The reason why Magnolia was not favored in the first place was not as simple as the "Curse of Yehenara".
In fact, Yulan had to be noticed by the emperor as soon as she entered the palace, but her lack of relevant life experience prevented her from capturing the Sacred Heart while she was serving.
Therefore, in the case of events such as the unfavorable bedside and the loss of the cat, magnolia was completely knocked down, and under the stimulation of long-term sneering, she fell into depression, and the inner dove surface gradually formed, forming a change in personality.
What is really responsible for connecting the psychological changes of Magnolia in the film is the core of the film, those beautiful wind and moon scenes.
There is no picture here, please look for it yourself if you need to watch it, right?
Power is an aphrodisiac. Carnal desire, on the other hand, is more able to show the position of power.
The film consists of six fragrant scenes, namely the first time to accept grace, the private house to pass on the skills, the Buddhist temple to be favored, the phoenix to the dragon, the bathroom self-desecration, and the spirit before the offering. Through the change of the body's perception of desire, the film goes deep into Magnolia's desire and mastery of power step by step.
From not knowing what to call it, to trying to meet it, to trying to grasp the initiative, and finally to fully gain the initiative, on the surface, Lan Guiren climbed to the position of noble concubine and empress dowager through his body, but the core was that cixi's desire for power was expanding infinitely.
Therefore, all the relevant scenes in the film not only highlight the color ornamentation, but also often mix with other scenes to strengthen the attributes of power in carnal desire.
For example, when Yulan first accepted the favor, the picture constantly cut to the mocking smiles of the palace ministers.
In the Buddhist temple section, the abstinence of the Buddha statues and the chanting of the monks add to the evil nature of the scene, indicating that Magnolia is not only rushing to the harem at this moment, but also rushing to the taboo of women's power in the feudal era.
During the summer resort period, Yulan tried to reach the phoenix dragon through posture, and Wang Jing also added a scene of Yulan stealing the dragon robe.
This scene caused the emperor to be jealous from the plot, creating the biggest crisis after Yulan was favored, and even more from the perspective of the character psychology, it showed that Yulan's desire had been sworded to the highest position of power.
The only erotic drama between Yulan and Yi Bi is directly compared with the minister and the harem for the Xianfeng Emperor's weeping spirit. The front hall is full of black and white, wailing, and the rear hall, Magnolia uses the power and self at her fingertips to seduce Yi Qi.
She not only wants Yi Bi to satisfy her physical desires, but also to become a general she can drive.
In addition to the erotic scene, the film uses other three-level limited sensory stimulation to perfect Magnolia's deep palace encounter and power desire. For example, after Chu Cheng'en was tortured by the "No Dragon Species", when he killed Yun Guiren, he sprayed a mirror with plasma, and the picture of a gloomy horror movie when he boiled Li Fei in a cauldron and cut flesh poison Ci'an.
Through visual spectacle, the audience can not only fully understand the strange feelings constructed by Ye Shi, but also understand how Cixi became a strange woman from a psychological level.
Therefore, although "The Secret Life of Cixi" itself originated from other films, the original bridge section was also absorbed by later works depicting the ecology of the palace curtain.
The section where the eunuch was assigned to a poor room and pretended to be a little eunuch to regain favor became the story of Yuying in "The Desire of the Golden Branch";
The story line of Wen Bixia's version of Dai Ji is almost completely imitated from this film, so it becomes the only Dai Ji who has ascended the throne;
And the story of An Lingrong's first bed was returned is also the same as the first bed of Magnolia in this film.
Of course, these plots and scene designs can become classics, and the core is Qiu Shuzhen herself.
Qiu Shuzhen's beauty is extremely malleable. From the innocent maiden beauty of Magnolia, to the pure desire of Yi Concubine, to the charming style of Yi Guifei, and then to the snake and scorpion beauty of the Western Empress, Qiu Shuzhen can be displayed vividly.
This is undoubtedly Qiu Shuzhen's grasp of the role, so she can pass it to the screen through her own expression and limbs.
Qiu Shuzhen's acting career has always been unobtrusive, glamorous and not obscene, but with her excellent performance and sexy appearance, the picture adds to the erotic characteristics of the Eastern way, full of more seductive teasing.
Even if the film's lineup still includes Leung Ka-fai, Yu Rongguang, Gu Feng and Weng Hong in its heyday, it is difficult to hide Qiu Shuzhen's brilliance in this film.
In the film, the section of the coup d'état of Xin You, does not show Cixi planning and ordering, but when gu ordered the eight ministers to ambush him, he cut into the imperial crown and the imperial dress of the empress dowager to listen to the drama comfortably.
The bloodiness of reality, the fierceness of the stage, and the empress dowager of power reflect each other, but Qiu Shuzhen's silent expression highlights the terror of power.
Of course, as a commercial work with Israel as a selling point, "The Secret Life of Cixi" still has many shortcomings, such as most of the scenes are too rough, the plot is too quick to jump out, and the characters except for Yulan are relatively flat.
However, in contrast, the recent costume dramas, in the records, go back to the feudal thinking, are bound by the concept of restoration to the shape of no character characteristics, and the lines and manners on the performance are simply not convincing, and it is even more difficult to profoundly show people's hearts.
In 1995, Wang Jing, who has always made bad films, was able to dig out the story of women facing carnal desires and power desires from the wild history and palace fight scenes, and transformed them into visual stimulation and projected them into the audience.
Liu Weiqiang's composition and light effect design, Hu Weili's strange soundtrack, and the shape of the big wings to show magnolia's power and power are also striving to achieve the best performance within limited conditions.
In "The Secret Life of Cixi", Yulan is not the empress dowager of the holy mother in history, nor the old demon woman in the evaluation of later generations, but a real and deadly woman who controls desire.
In the loneliness of the deep palace and the power of the fall, she gradually transformed, killed a bloody road, and finally sat on the glory.
After enjoying the spectacle of peeking into the deep palace and the colors, the audience can also ponder what desire and power can bring.
Put into the current costume film, this once third-rate film may become a generation of masterpieces.
Design/Vision: Robust
This is the real domestic deadly woman