In recent years, the theme of crossing has been loved and sought after by the audience.
Whether it is a novel, a movie or a TV series, it can be described as a wave of fire.
In fact, as early as the last century of Hong Kong movies, it has begun to play through. The most famous of these is Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West", which introduces a crossover film directed by Xu Ke this time.
"Flower Moon Season"
Released in 1995 with a Douban score of 7.9, the film was actually born from another work by Xu Ke.
In 1994, Xu Ke filmed a "Liang Zhu" based on Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, and after the film was released, the box office and word of mouth were both harvested.
In order to continue the box office boom of "Liang Zhu" and make up for the audience's difficulty in liang Zhu CP, the original team made this "Flower Moon Good Period".
Wu Qilong and Yang Caini continued the love in "Liang Zhu" to "Flower Moon Good Period", and the cooperation was seamless.
I have to say that Xu Ke is really good at filming women, the Oriental undefeated in "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", the gold inlaid jade in "New Dragon Gate Inn", Nie Xiaoqian in "Ghost of Qiannu"... He uses a unique vision to interpret a different kind of feminine charm.
The female characters in "Flower Moon" are still the same.
The heroine Yang Caini has starred in many film and television dramas, known as the head of the jade girl, but many people's influence on her mostly comes from "Flower Moon Season" and "Liang Zhu".
In "Flower Moon Season", Xu Ke's love for Yang Caini's extreme lens allows us to see her unique beauty.
Whether it is a strange spirit or a smile, it is so lively and vivid, even a few points more cute than Zhu Yingtai in "Liang Zhu".
And Zhang Ting, who has always given a sweet impression, has become a snake and scorpion beauty with all kinds of styles and I see pity under Xu Ke's lens.
Even though she knew that her heart was like a snake and scorpion, the way she looked up, people couldn't help but feel pity.
Add Xu Ke's golden team, music Hu Weili and Huang Yinghua, clip Mai Zishan, martial arts Yuanbin, art Zhang Shuping, photography Bao Dexi.
Although "Flower Moon Season" was created by the original team of "Liang Zhu", it is indeed two completely different stories.
The first time I heard the name of the movie, many people thought it was a romantic love story, but in fact, it was still a ghost movie, and the film had another name - "There Are Ghosts on the Telephone Pole".
The film tells the story of the drama class Hua Dan Hong Xinxin and the bank employee Jiang Jiwei met and met by chance, after Wei was killed by bandits, he asked Xinxin to help him cross back two weeks ago to prevent himself from being killed, and in the process of turning back time, the two gradually fell in love and truly loved each other.
"Flower Moon" is not the work of Xu Ke, and it can even be said to be a "game work", and it is precisely because of this that Xu Ke boldly plays and plays stunts and imagination to the fullest.
Therefore, "Flower Moon Season" is a brain-opening work that integrates love, funny, ghosts, and crossings.
In the film, the director added the element of "time back", allowing the protagonist to travel through time and space through "electricity", and after crossing, he can also see his past self, which means that there will be two identical people after crossing.
This invisibly increases the difficulty of shooting, because there are two identical people at the same time, the audience is easy to faint, and what is more exciting is that the director also lets the protagonist cross 3 times.
Here we have to admire Xu Ke's ability to control the rhythm and narrative of the film. The same scene characters and story line, several ups and downs of time and space conversion, the story is not only smooth and clear without chaos, but also full of novelty and fun.
The best part is the third crossing.
In the second crossing, in order to save the heroine, the male protagonist trapped himself and the villain Yama King in the wire, in order to change the fate of the male protagonist, the female protagonist decided to cross back to two weeks ago alone.
But back to the past, it is not only the heroine, but also the ghosts Jiang Jiwei and Yan Luowang who ran out of the world of telephone poles.
So the most wonderful climax of the film came, two Jiang Jiwei, two Hong Xinxin, and two Yan Luo kings, eight people opened a great war between good and evil.
In order to make the battle between the two sides more exciting and interesting, the director cleverly laid the foreshadowing before, one is the mutual dislike and targeting of the male and female protagonists, and the other is the bug that the ghost comes with, and if you can't see the light and get close to yourself, you will be bounced off.
Therefore, the third crossing is unusually intricate, but it is exquisitely designed, one reversal after another, so that the whole chase and fight process is not only not chaotic, but also ups and downs, wonderful.
At the same time, the director also constructed a "fantasy space" in the wire.
In this space, all objects are constantly twisted like wires, and the sun and moon alternate for a few minutes, and the day is as fast as a few minutes!
The most important thing is that you can't do the action quickly here, once the action is too fast, somewhere in the body will fall to the ground, and if it is serious, the whole body will explode.
If you want to go out, you can only return to the outside world through the medium of the dead object, and once the object is destroyed, it will explode and disappear, which also lays the groundwork for the end.
To be able to set up such a scene, I have to say that Xu Ke is really a geek!
However, after the release of the film, everyone expressed no feeling for this bold creativity, and the box office was as dismal as "Journey to the West", and it was also ridiculed by everyone as a circle money film made by Yu Wei of "Liang Zhu".
At first glance, "Flower Moon" looks very different, but it is fantastic and novel, full of Xu Ke's imagination, which is difficult to see in his current works.
As netizens commented, if "Liang Zhu" is a classic, then "Flower Moon" is a seriously underrated classic.
Compared with "Liang Zhu", "Flower Moon" is not sad and desperate, but more relaxed and funny.
Whether it is the peddler who fools everyone into buying potions at the temple fair, or the protagonist who crosses back and sticks together to become a two-faced person, the people who watch it laugh heartily, and even the villain who becomes a monster, Yama King, is more funny than terrifying.
After fading the elements of funny and crossing, the film's expression is still love.
The first side of Hong Xinxin and Jiang Jiwei is not so beautiful, the two people can be said to be not fighting or not knowing each other, one pushing each other into the water, and the other spilling the bamboo stick of the box on each other.
The dialogue is also a variety of vitriol, the female protagonist said, what kind of marriage do you want in this kind of ball, the male protagonist replied, who likes you this old aunt is not dead.
At this time, all they see is the shortcomings of the other party.
As the two people cross each other, they slowly change and begin to see each other's flashes, in order to express this change, the director deliberately emphasizes the main point of crossing with electric lights.
One is that the male protagonist has electrified the female protagonist, the second is to look at the light bulb, and the third is to use the true feelings of the heart, the most important of which is the third step.
The first time through, the heroine's love comes from her father's feelings for her mother.
The second crossing, the heroine's love comes from the male protagonist's singing of "Hu No Return", at this time the two have a secret love affair.
The third crossing, the male protagonist is trapped only the female protagonist, in order to save the male protagonist she decided to cross again, this time the love comes from her inner love for the male protagonist.
Here I have to mention the art design of the crossing, it is really beautiful.
The protagonist sits on the floor facing the electric lamp, behind which is the ink-colored stage curtain, and the light of the light bulb illuminates the two people, so the simple design is unexpectedly stunning.
Three times through the female protagonist's feelings layer by layer, from the beginning of not understanding the true feelings to the final reveal of the true feelings of the male protagonist, this is not exactly the process of feelings we experience.
At the end of the film, the male and female protagonists who are about to disappear tell themselves two weeks ago that after two weeks, the two of you will become very good to each other, because we are the same as you two weeks later.
In fact, there is no need to tell them that the red line of marriage has already led them together.
Flowers and moons have finally ushered in the most beautiful period.