On the first day of the Chinese New Year, when the fierce battle between many movies in the theater is in full swing, a vicious battle in the Network Spring Festival file has also quietly started.
Song Xiaobao, Sha Yi, Ma Li starred in the "Fortune Diary", Wang Baoqiang, Ni Dahong, Wu Mengda, Liu Haoran starred in the "Shaolin Temple of Debao Legend", all appeared on the Internet on the first day of the New Year, leaving aside the quality of the film, from the cast to the story theme, we can still feel that both movies are full of energy.
In addition to these two popular movies, there is also a new online film "Green Dragon Crescent Knife", which has also attracted a lot of attention, because this film tells the story of Guan Yunchang, and guan Yunchang is played by the veteran actor Lu Shuming.
In the 1994 CCTV version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in which Guan Yun, played by Lu Shuming, was dressed in green clothes and long beards, not angry and arrogant, even after 27 years, it was still the most recognized image of Guan Gong in the film and television drama.
After all, after so many years, after watching the Yu Rongguang version, Zhen Zidan version, Bassen version, Dillon version, Han Geng version, and messy version, most people still think that Lu Shuming's version of Guan Yunchang is the most authentic.
Even the handicrafts sold on a certain treasure are modeled with the image of Lu Shuming, and his face is the same as Zuo Dayue's "Guanyin face", which has been equated with the image of Guan Gong.
Therefore, although this is an online movie, there is a scene of Lu Shuming, who is now 65 years old, he still brushed a wave of existence fiercely.
One
It is not vain to say that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one of the four classical masterpieces, is the only novel that Pigo has brushed so far, and those classic stories cannot be memorized backwards, but also know it well.
The film selects clips from the late stages of Guan Yunchang's military career to cut into,
The story begins with the twenty-four years of Jian'an, "Guan Yunchang defeated maicheng"——
Guan Yunchang (played by Lu Shuming) led the Shu army to cut down Wei, but was secretly attacked by the Eastern Wu army and captured Jingzhou.
Guan Yunchang suffered heavy losses in the face of the front and rear attacks of the Wei and Wu armies, and had no choice but to retreat, so he could only lead the remnants of more than 300 people to hold Maicheng. However, the grain and grass in the city were empty, and 20,000 Wu troops surrounded the city again, and it was time to fight to the death.
On the Side of shu jun, we saw the familiar Guan Yunchang, the knife-carrying Zhou Cang (played by Liu Weizhou) and the leading Guan Ping (played by Zhou Hang), but what Pi Ge "never expected" was that he actually saw Guan Xing (played by Guan Zhibin).
According to the arrangement of the original work, Guan Xing should be in Hanzhong at this time, the movie arranged a scene for him, and this scene is still quite enough!
On Wu Jun's side is Pan Zhang (played by Jin Song) and deputy general Lu Mao (played by Ma Ruihan).
Historically, Pan Zhang's subordinate Sima Mazhong captured Guan Yunchang and Guan Ping, but the character of Ma Zhong did not appear in the movie, but was replaced by Lu Xun's younger brother Lu Mao.
In real history, Lu Maoben was a civilian official, but in the movie, he was given the attributes of a military general, and he was also very good at fighting.
Less than 3 minutes after the opening, Guan Yunchang's 300 cavalry and 20,000 Wu troops fought in Linfeng. The process was very tragic, and although the special effects were a little flawed, it was still possible to see the level of the blockbuster.
In the end, we exaggerated to see that Guan Yunchang and Guan Ping's father and son piled up the Wu army generals they killed into a hill, and the two were eventually killed by the Wu army's random arrows.
Guan Yunchang, played by Lu Shuming, died heroically at this time, and it only took 10 minutes from appearance to death.
Pi Ge saw here and suddenly realized, it turned out that Lu Shuming went out of the mountain this time, just to play a wave of soy sauce, but the 3 character posters he published on the Internet clearly occupied the C position, and the film side's hand disturbance operation was quite a bit of hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat.
There are netizens on Douban who leave a message, saying that this piece can be seen for the first 10 minutes.
But Pi Ge has always done things from beginning to end, and in a responsible manner, he still looks at it seriously.
The later story focuses on the character of Guan Xing, in the original work, Liu Beixing soldiers attacked Wu and fought a big battle with Lu Xun at Yiling, in which Guan Xing killed Pan Zhang and regained his father's Green Dragon Yanyue Sword.
In the movie, Lu Xun was directly ignored, and Pan Zhangzhen was allowed to guard yiling, and Guan Xing was given enough scenes to form a sneak attack squad.
There are 4 people in this team, in addition to Guan Xing, there are Zhou Cang, Zhang Fei's son Zhang Bao (played by Erdene), and a fictional role female general Fan Ling (played by Jiang Lai), who is purely to ensure the balance between men and women.
The specific process is not detailed, the protagonist team is always very stupid, and will always make mistakes, but relying on the protagonist's aura can always turn the danger into a disaster, but also laugh at the last plot.
Guan Xing 4 people originally wanted to sneak in secretly and cooperate with the Shu army led by Huang Zhong (played by Peng Chengqi), but their IQ was basically not online, and there were many accidents, and they also damaged Zhou Cang.
Fortunately, Pan Zhang's and Lu Mao's IQs were not high, and they obviously had already captured Guan Xing, or they still wanted to spare his life, and seemed to have special feelings for him.
In the end, the two sides met in the secret passage in Yiling City, and after a battle, Guan Xing killed Pan Zhang to avenge his father, and Zhang Bao also killed Lu Mao. The large army led by Huang Zhong also broke through the city and achieved the final victory.
Two
This ending is different from what is described in the original work, and it is also very different from the historical facts, the Battle of Yiling was the last battle of the "Three Great Battles" in the Three Kingdoms period, and Lu Xun and Liu Bei finally defeated the Shu army in the Yiling area after holding each other for more than half a year.
Liu Bei retired to Yong'an, and later he was isolated from Zhuge Liang in the White Emperor's City, and he died of illness at the age of 63.
In the movie, many characters were directly deleted, there was no Lü Meng, Lu Xun, Zhuge Liang, and Liu Bei only appeared and hit the soy sauce.
Although Zhang Bao is one of the main characters, he did not appear his father Zhang Fei, due to the limited length of the film, he could not explain too many characters and stories, and could only be drastically deleted.
According to historians, Guan Yunchang was between the ages of 58 and 60 at the time of his death, similar to Lu Shuming's current age.
Therefore, some netizens lamented that Lu Shuming played Guan Yunchang again after 27 years, still full of energy, and the years left a mark on his face, but he failed to take away the domineering spirit that he brought with him.
Unfortunately, Lu Shuming's appearance time is very short, and after the opening 10 minutes of the scene, the rest only appears in some fragments of memories, which disappointed the audience who liked him and rushed to see his performance.
This psychological gap will definitely affect the reputation of the movie, but the creator also has its own reason for this operation.
First, although Lu Shuming's appeal is there, after all, his works over the years are few, and it is not reliable for him to "hang up" the lead role, but the Hong Kong film star Guan Zhibin has more development potential;
The second is that Lu Shuming is old, starring in a movie with a large number of action scenes is somewhat difficult, and he can come out to sell his feelings, even if it is a mission.
Three
Bugs in the movie
The costume props of the movie are very exquisite, and there are no strange costumes such as "flying saucer hats", but there are still many obvious bugs.
For example, the banner of the Shu Army should actually write a "Han" character instead of "Shu", which is a hard wound that often occurs.
According to a later interview with the creator of the TV series, it was said that it was indeed a flag with the word "Han" written on it at that time, but later considering the limited acceptance ability of the audience, perhaps there would be doubts about the "Han" character on the flag, so it had to be changed.
Remarks: The second picture below is a screenshot of CCTV after the change
But now that it is 2021, most of the audiences who have been exposed to the story of the Three Kingdoms understand this matter, and it is impossible to say that it is not exquisite in the movie.
Gunpowder also appears in the film, which is also obviously crossed.
Gunpowder was invented and used in the military at the end of the Tang Dynasty, much later than the Three Kingdoms period.
In addition to these shortcomings, Pigo feels that the film still has many advantages.
One is that the actors' performances are very careful, especially the original BOY'Z group member Guan Zhibin, although he is 41 years old this year, he still does not look old, and seriously creates a handsome guanxing image.
The second is that there are many inadvertent long shots in the movie, and its choreography and operation are very exquisite, which shows that the director's ideas are still there. And one of the panned fight scenes is clearly a tribute to Park Chan-wook's "Old Boys".
The third is the grasp of the scale of the movie, and Pigo feels that as an online movie, its scale is still open.
In the film, not only the scenes of corpses piled up, but also the bloody and violent elements of the fight scenes, and even the close-up of the throat slit, which surprised Pigo a little.
Overall, "Green Dragon Crescent Knife" is a work with a passing line up. If you came to see Lu Shuming, you will definitely be very dissatisfied with the direction of its story; but if you happen to be a BOY'Z fan and come to see Guan Zhibin's performance, this film should make you like it.
Compared with this movie, Pigo still prefers CCTV's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after all, it is a classic work that cost countless people's efforts to create, and it is also the most complete one among the four masterpieces. As for the "Green Dragon Crescent Knife", it is to look at the 65-year-old Lu Shuming's still undiminished anger.
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