The biggest credit of "Manjiang Hong" is to bring the audience back to the cinema

Author: Green Stream

Three years later, I returned to the cinema, not only to see a good movie, but also to see if the film industry has improved.

Judging from the several popular films released during the Spring Festival, we can say with certainty that there has indeed been great progress, which has become depressed and on the verge of stagnation under the plight of the three-year epidemic, and it is really rare to be able to produce such works.

Film creators have become cherishing the audience, like many of the lens designs and line designs in "The Wandering Earth 2" are aimed at satisfying the audience and making the audience happy. The production of big scenes shows that enough money has been spent, and that the money is being spent in the right place. Original script plus a small climax that appears every few minutes. The run-in between traffic stars and the previous generation of heavenly kings has also become more natural.

But one thing is debatable, and that is that each movie is two or three hours long. The bladder can't stand it.

We know that Indian movies last more than three hours at a time because the people at the bottom there are very poor and rarely see a movie, so they want to be able to watch it for a long time, and they will have intermission. In the past two years, we have also earned less money, and the movie tickets during the Spring Festival are very expensive, and the exchange coupons cannot all be free during the Spring Festival, or you have to pay a certain amount of money, so of course the audience will have the psychology of wanting to return the ticket price. Then it is crucial to add more big scenes at this time, as well as lengthen the duration of the movie, and the appearance of traffic stars.

 Another observation is that all the stars will be listed on the official poster, but when you walk to the door of the cinema, you only see the promotional poster of the traffic star alone. His fans can also be heard shouting handsomely from standing in front of the giant. But I'm not criticizing this phenomenon, but I'm happy that our normal life is back.

 Now back to the movie itself.

"Manjiang Red" first watched the trailer and casting, and thought it was another "Three Guns". After watching it, I realized that each actor fulfilled their function inside and outside the story. Yue Yunpeng is responsible for being funny, Shen Teng is responsible for explaining reasoning to the audience while being funny, the four-character brother is responsible for gathering fans and honing his acting skills, Zhang Yi is responsible for creating doubts and stabilizing the narrative rhythm, and Lei Jiayin is responsible for revealing the mystery and leading the audience to the end.

Each actor has his own audience, has his own box office appeal, and his acting skills are collectively online, integrated and unified, and he is not as provocative as "Three Guns".

From the perspective of genre, "Manjiang Red" is a suspense film, in order to feed the audience with suspense, a few minutes is a reversal. The reversals are so frequent that the audience can't think about whether there are logical holes. Anyway, it's cool. Suitable for the New Year and festival to watch.

In the play, the question is: Who are the identities of the assassins? What is their ultimate goal? How do they do it concretely? Who is involved?

Outside the play, the doubt is: Yue Fei died unjustly in the Storm Pavilion, is the word "Manjiang Hong" from his hand? (This poem was found on a stone tablet dug up from the Yue Temple in the Ming Dynasty, and Yue Fei's third son, Yue Lin, and grandson Yue Ke, did not record Yue Fei's works.) Also, Qin Hui ran back to the Great Song from the Jin Camp, and after becoming the Song Xiang, did he collude with the Jin people and betray the Great Song?

By the way, Ni Zhange's novel "Mo Xuyou" in 2022 takes Yue Yun as the protagonist, and tells a period of history at that time from the perspectives of Yue Yun, Qin Huan, Zhao Zhi, and Yue Lei. The writing is exquisite and smooth, and the historical details, customs and folklore in it can stand up to scrutiny.

Yue Fei, hero. Although it has been controversial whether the word "nation" can be added before the word "hero", when he is mentioned, a tragic image of looking up to the sky will appear in everyone's mind. Thirty meritorious fame dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. The movie "Manjiang Hong" allows the audience to collectively relive this grandeur and fierceness in the cinema through audiovisual language.

Personally, I think that every sensational mood in this film is too deliberate, but let Qin Hui recite the design of "Manjiang Hong". It is full of irony in the play, and it is still full of irony when viewed outside the play from the commanding height of history. The reputation of the traitor, the comments of later generations, the treachery of officialdom, the hardships of the world... In the hearts of ordinary people, they do not speak, they are not the silent majority, they remember it in their hearts, and they only wait for an opportunity. Mo waited for the young man's head to be white, empty and sad.

The transition music of the movie is accompanied by drama, jingling and quite refreshing in the more than two hours of the movie, like 10,000 diplodocs swaying and shouting on my brain. But then asked Teacher Li, he mentioned that the music in it is mainly Yu Opera, "Exploring Yin Mountain", "Ten Guarantee Officials", "Mu Guiying Hangs the Marshal", "The Fifth Emperor Invites Ying", "Xia Chenzhou", "Wang Qiang Points Soldiers", etc., after all, Yue Fei is a native of Henan and is in the core area of the Central Plains culture. It's also a tribute.

Seventy-three-year-old Zhang Yimou guarantees a stable production, and this film is of a medium standard in his works, but also has obvious shortcomings, such as the usual conspiracy aesthetic neatly drawing a big red and green; The female image is monotonous and old-fashioned.

On the plus side, Zhang Yimou did not live on "Alive", nor is it a kind of life.

At this point in time, film practitioners are more concerned about letting the audience return to the cinema and regain the habit of watching movies in the cinema. So at this time, we can't be too demanding, how high the artistry must be. To be commercially successful is already remarkable. It will definitely get better, everything will be fine.