"Chang'an 30,000 Li" in-depth interpretation: The film side is very clever, and not deleting is the best arrangement
Text/Ye Qiuchen
I like the movie "Chang'an 30,000 Li" very much.
The only thing I want to complain about is the length of the film, and it is recommended that there should be a reasonable rest arrangement during the screening of the next nearly 3 hours of works, otherwise I really dare not drink water during the viewing process.
There will probably be a suggestion to cut it.
But after closing my eyes and thinking about it carefully, the editing of the movie is generally very smooth, and a large amount of information can be stuffed into it in just a few minutes, and the plot that can be deleted as a whole without affecting the character shaping and plot development is indeed not much, it is better to add them all to make it fuller.
Therefore, no deletion is the best arrangement.
This is a surprise work, and the part that is very emotional for me is that in addition to the poems explicitly mentioned in the lines, many pictures are actually another way of expressing poetry.
For example, the opening of "Eagle Strikes the Long Sky", there is the artistic conception of "a crane in a clear sky on the clouds", and the sentimentality of "feeling uncomfortable in the evening", etc., which is not limited to the time point in the Tang Dynasty, or the characters mentioned in the movie.
These contents probably require a certain amount of literary skills to see, otherwise it is just a few seconds of pictures.
Many people say on the Internet that "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is the most suitable movie for children to watch in the summer.
I am a bit disagree with this.
The length of this work is too much of a test for children (except for older age), and they can actually understand very limited things.
However, what else can you choose if you don't watch this film?
Overall, this should be the most suitable work for parents to buy tickets in the cinema.
If you can break it into several paragraphs, the effect may be better if you consume some every day.
Cramming children with adult satiety is afraid of backfire.
The call for a live-action version on the Internet is also very high, regardless of appearance or personality, Li Bai is indeed very similar to Huang Zitao.
The rest of the characters seem to have corresponding faces in the entertainment industry, and if the live-action version is willing to invest in polishing the script well, it is estimated that it can set off a wave of small heat and small climax.
I've always been interested in chasing light animation.
Their boss was previously the founder of Tudou.com, and he has made works such as "Little Door God", "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery" and "New God List: Yang Jian".
"Chang'an 30,000 Li" filmed this time seems to be more ambitious.
Some people say that you should add some basic knowledge before watching the movie to understand it more smoothly.
But in fact, what the film wants to show is a rich cultural atmosphere, and the historical background and so on are just accessories.
Of course, it would be better to know the details of the Anshi Rebellion and the lives of the characters involved in advance, but even if the understanding is not so thorough, it does not affect the understanding of the overall plot.
Therefore, audiences who are worried that their cultural level is not enough and will "not understand" do not have to worry too much.
The story is told from the perspective of Gao Shi, and the large length is in memoir mode.
Ye Qiuchen's film review below will involve a super large number of spoilers, please be cautious.
1. The protagonist is Gao Shi
When many people mention Tang poetry, they always think of Li Bai for the first time.
Therefore, most of the audience seemed to go to the movie for Li Baicai, and they were surprised when they found that the protagonist was Gao Shi.
Why did you choose Gao Shi to shoot from the main perspective?
First of all, it is probably because Gao Shi is the best comprehensive development in the same period.
In the subtitles at the end of the film, it is appropriate to evaluate Gao Shi as the most accomplished poet of the Tang Dynasty.
Unfolding with this character can not only run the poetic culture through it, but also show another possibility of the poet.
Not only is he brilliant in literature, but he can also lead troops to fight.
Comprehensive.
If you choose Li Bai, there are many versions of the current rumors, whether it is his life or experience, and it is very difficult to form an exact story.
Moreover, Gao Shi and Li Bai are friendly and can intersperse the ups and downs of the Qinglian family life when describing his story, which can be described as a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone.
The contrast between their personalities is strong, and the impact brought by watching the movie is also strong.
The most important point is that I think Gao Shi is more like an ordinary person.
In the movie, he described the feeling of reading books when he was a child, describing it as "as soon as he reads, the words on the book are like little tadpoles", which completely resonates strongly with most people's memories and the past.
Unlike the genius Li Bai, Gao Shi belongs to the type that can get infinitely close as long as he works hard.
He came from a poor family, did not enter the university well, failed the exam, and did not find his true development direction until he was almost 50 years old, and finally succeeded.
The ending is good and inspirational.
The film side of "Chang'an 30,000 Li" chose Gao Shi, which is actually a very clever approach.
If Li Bai is the protagonist, no matter which of the rumored drowning S, sick S, and sudden S is used to make the end, it will give the audience a feeling of a little loss.
The movie only marks a line of small print in the end credits - Dong, Li Bai died.
Ye Qiuchen believes that this is already a fairly thoughtful way of handling.
After all, everyone doesn't want to watch "Chang'an 30,000 Miles" and just collect all their emotions in the fate of those depressed characters, which is inevitably sad.
2. Poetry Immortal Li Bai
Li Bai is a legend.
Written from the perspective of anyone who meets it, it is a mythical existence.
His free-spiritedness is fascinating, he is in the world, and he seems to be outside the world.
Li Bai's life has experienced many twists and turns.
He was born in a wealthy merchant family, but he was unable to participate in the scientific examination because of his identity.
No matter how rich the merchants were, they were also inferior people at that time.
The Tang Liudian clearly stipulates that the son of a sinner and the son of a merchant are not qualified to enter that threshold at all.
But he is Li Bai, full of talent, exported into poetry.
How can we rest on our laurels?
So I can only go the way of rolling up recommendations.
The line paper can be simply understood as the weekday high-weight class score in the final grade, and those students who think they have good works will organize the poems into volumes and submit them to strengthen the impression points.
The process of feasible rolls was not smooth, but Li Bai's speed of discharging emotions was extremely fast, and Xu Yi had long been accustomed to such gazes.
With enthusiasm but no door to serve the country, he simply returned to his hometown of Yangzhou.
After Gao Shi came to the one-year appointment, Li Bai led his friend to experience his dashing unruliness in the gentle township of selling gold.
In Yangzhou, it seems that everything is lively and related to Li Bai.
Watching Li Bai lead people to rob Ge Ji, dancing a beautiful Zhezhi dance across the boat, and his friends were quite generous, Gao Shi suddenly felt that he shouldn't be here.
Gao Shi can't live like Li Bai in his whole life.
Later, Li Bai fell down, the family property was divided among his brothers, and his father, who loved him the most, also drove Hexi.
Suddenly fell seriously ill, entered the Anlu Xu family, and his life experienced great changes.
Later, upon the recommendation of Princess Yuzhen, the poem was widely circulated, and for a time it was brilliant, restoring the original unruly arrogance.
Then the peak fell, and he once again wanted to enter the Taoist family, voted for the wrong king of Yong, and plotted against the exile.
"Chang'an 30,000 Li" writes Li Bai's life from the perspective of others.
In fact, Li Bai's character is not suitable for being an official in itself.
From the later Yongwang incident, it can be seen that whether his head is not as bright as in the past because of his old age, or he lacks this string, he can't go through the road of officialdom.
His personality charm is in creation, and his life is full of idealistic fantasies, in contrast, Gao Shi is more down-to-earth and realistic.
Gao Shi is special, he can always think out of the circle at banquets, and leave silently after finding out of place.
When Meng Haoran agreed to Li Baizheng's son-in-law, Gao Shi still held a sign of opposition.
When everyone was drunk, Gao Shi looked at Li Bai and said, "When can he wake up when he is drunk?"
This difference also attracted Li Bai.
Li Bai admired Gao Shi and constantly used words to motivate him.
Tell him the story of the iron pestle sharpened into a needle, and tell him that his "Traveler" was written according to Gao Shi's appearance.
To a certain extent, Li Bai is also envious of Gao Shi.
Li Bai hated the constraints of rules and regulations all his life, and he didn't care about the evaluation of others, it didn't matter at all, he just wanted to have a dashing and happy life.
In the past, many people only understood his talent, but there was no way to fully evaluate this character.
Fortunately, "Chang'an 30,000 Li" gives us an answer.
The climax of the whole film is the paragraph of Li Bai's poem "Will Enter the Wine".
I have been able to recite the whole text since I was a child, but I am still shocked when I hear it again.
The artistic conception is extremely beautiful, and everyone flies between the stars and rivers on white cranes.
At that moment, you finally understand why Li Bai is a poet immortal, and Du Fu is only called a poet saint.
Immortals, extraordinary people.
His body is indeed old, but his heart is not.
The belly gradually grew bigger, but the belly was still full of literary thoughts.
He's not perfect, but impressive.
At the end of the movie, Gao Shi and the book children chatted about the old works of these old friends.
The book boy counted Wang Wei and Du Fu and others, and finally said that he loved Li Bai the most.
The film did not film Li Bai's departure, because Li Bai will always live in people's memories and endure for a long time.
3. Three sumo wrestlers
In the movie, Gao Shi and Li Bai have a total of three sumo wrestles.
In the first scene, on their way to Chang'an, they met shirtless.
At first, Li Bai mistakenly thought that Gao Shi was a thief who stole the thief, and the two did not fight or know each other.
Here's a key line where Li Bai asks Gao Shi when teaching sumo skills, "Do you know how to fool your opponent?" ”
It paved the way for Gao Shi's subtle tricks on the battlefield in the future.
But interestingly, except for sumo, Li Bai has not learned the skills to deceive his opponent from beginning to end, and he does not seem to need to deceive.
In the second scene, after Gao Shi returned to his hometown of Shang Qiu Liangguo, Li Bai came to him.
Once again, the sumo technique of "using the virtual to the real" is emphasized.
Once again, it laid the groundwork for deception.
The third was the morning after Li Bai chanted "Will Enter the Wine".
Gao Shi said goodbye, and Li Bai stood up with a big belly and went sumo with him again.
Flowers have a reopening day, and people are no longer young.
They are all old.
At this time, it was the end of Li Bai's glory, but it was the beginning of Gao Shi's glory.
At this juncture, they seem to have exchanged the wonderfulness of life.
4. Advance by retreat
The role of Gao Shi in "Chang'an 30,000 Li" seems a little stupid and stunned, but Ye Qiuchen believes that he knows the principle of "advancing by retreat" best.
This path may not seem to be smooth, but it actually leads to the best possible future.
In the film, Gao Shi's idea of "advancing by retreat" is mentioned many times.
The opening chapter is to abandon the city and retreat to Lushui Pass.
The Tubo people fled, and Gao Shi said "no need to chase".
After joining the army, he said that "retiring is much more dangerous than marching."
At first, in order to deceive Cheng's father-in-law, he dyed the white towel on his neck red with wine, and then revealed the secret at a critical moment.
When he said that Yan Wu's reinforcements had arrived, my whole body got goosebumps.
Remember the sumo technique that Li Bai taught him?
To deceive the opponent, do all kinds of foreshadowing, even you yourself think that it is true.
Take the false to the real, and advance with retreat.
Gao Shi's life is also like this.
Follow-up may be related to luck, but it is also inseparable from its choice.
Finding that his talent was not as good as others, he left Chang'an and went back to work hard to improve.
When development is limited by talent, he can immediately change his course and join the army to fight.
In this way, we can be invincible.
5. Huaicai is not met
In the movie, many characters are labeled as "Huaicai does not meet".
These include Gao Shi and his son, Li Bai Dufu, the exiled Wang Changling and Cui Zongzhi, among others.
Gao Shi said that his father was both civil and martial, but his career was not smooth.
He himself also ate a lot of closed-door soup in Chang'an, and even though Qi Wang Aicai specially arranged a performance for Princess Yuzhen, the marksmanship of killing enemies in battle failed to win the favor of women.
Du Fu said that "everyone can write poetry", and he himself has failed to make the list several times.
Wang Wei also has to play the piano in front of everyone to help him enjoy, he was originally the kind of cold character who is not good at sociability.
There is also Guo Ziyi, if it were not for Li Bai and Gao Shi to save each other, I am afraid that there would be no future to recover Chang'an.
In Li Bai's mouth, "Wu Daozi's painting, General Pei's sword" is a strong alliance, but the latter can only dance at home, and he has no ambition, and the situation dictates that the situation dictates.
Speaking of the Pei family, the film specifically fictionalizes a female character, Pei Twelve, a strange woman with both poetry and swords.
As the only descendant of the Pei family sword, she is a woman, even more desperate than Li Bai, and has no way to serve the country.
After Pei Jiajian PK Gao Jiagun, she won Gao Thirty-Five (Gao Shi) with excellent skill.
But what's the use of being powerful?
Gender limited her.
Pei XII's appearance is to show that powerful women at that time are also pregnant, and this situation does not apply only to men.
The character is probably adapted from the poem "Gift to Pei 14" by Li Bai.
Gao Shi is depressed.
In his paper, he realized that "unknown people should not come to Chang'an".
In terms of martial arts, he lost again to a woman who seemed to be "delicate".
Therefore, Gao Shicai said that he "did not learn enough and was not refined in martial arts", and after bidding farewell to Li Bai, he returned to the furnace and rebuilt.
But this experience made Gao Shi find a real direction for his efforts, and he stopped stammering and stuttering.
Li Bai was bent on serving the imperial court, but when he was young, he had no way out.
In the movie, the only arrangement that is met is Li Bai's glory period.
He invited Gao Shi to Chang'an and attended the Qujiang banquet.
But the excitement here is short-lived.
Soon Li Bai was jealous and wrote poems that were mistaken for making fun of the concubine, and was snubbed again.
He chose to return to the Daomen and said, "The way of the world, I can't go on."
Nearly half a hundred years old, hot to faint in Jinan Taoist Altar.
This scene is very compatible with the current weather in Beijing.
Falling from a height is no longer the past, and in the end, the end is still nostalgic.
Even though their poems have remained famous through the ages, they still have many difficulties when they are alive.
"Is this shortcut in the world open for the cold?"
Suddenly there was a smell of irony and absurdity.
It seems to be more than just the story in the movie.
6. The Tang poems mentioned
Some people jokingly said that if you want to get a high score in the writing essay during the exam, you have to stuff a large number of famous quotes into it, and I feel the same way when I watch "Chang'an 30,000 Li".
Ye Qiuchen noted some during the watching process, due to time constraints, in Liang Shiqiu's words, "where the memory goes, there will be many leaks", so everyone is welcome to continue to add.
Most of the Tang poems mentioned in the film are embedded in the dialogue of the characters, and there are many in the end scrolls.
I also looked at the content summarized by other friends on the Internet, and wrote the following text together to share it with everyone.
For the protagonist Gao Shi, the most familiar estimate is his "Bie Dong Da Two Song".
Thousands of miles of yellow clouds in the day, the north wind blows geese and snow.
Mo Chou has no knowledge of himself in the future, and no one in the world knows the king.
This is a group of poems, a farewell work.
Everyone is more familiar with the first, and the second is "Liuyi Piaopiao has been away from Jingluo for more than ten years." The husband is poor and should not be enough, and today they meet without alcohol money. ”
There are very few who can recite.
Gao Shi also has "Bewei Joins the Army", "Yan Ge Xing", "Sending Troops to Jibei", "Colonel Bie Liu's Book" and "Ten Songs of Song Zhong".
Cui Hao's poems, most notably "The Yellow Crane Tower".
In the movie, young Li Bai's expression gradually became serious when he read Cui Hao's poem.
During his recitation with Gao Shi, the whole picture came to mind.
Even Li Bai was convinced by Cui Hao's poem.
Another poem by Cui Hao is "Inscribed Tong Guan Lou".
Li Bai also mentioned Wang Zhixiao's "Ascending the Stork Tower".
Du Fu has "Wangyue", "Jiangnan Fengli Turtle Year" and "Eight Immortal Songs in Drinking".
Wang Wei is the author of "Lovesickness" and "Longtou Yin".
Meng Haoran's poems include "Passing the Old Man's Zhuang" and "Spring Dawn".
Bai Juyi's "Horizontal Blowing Song Zhi Chang'an Dao".
He Zhizhang made "Xianghe Lyrics - Lotus Song".
Wang Changling has "Out of the Plug" and "Answer to the Master of the Wind on Behalf of the Wind".
Cen Shen's song "White Snow Song Sends Military Judges Back to Beijing".
Zhang Xu's "Spring Tour is Worth Rain".
Du Mu is the author of "Three Sentences of the Passing Huaqing Palace".
Zhang Shuo's "Miscellaneous Lyrics and Stepping Lyrics".
There is also the "Goshu Song" of the Western Contemptible.
Song Dynasty Shu Ling's "Poppy Lady Sending Gongdu", and Zhang Shunmin's "Selling Flowers · Title Yueyang Lou".
Li Bai wrote the most poems, but most of them only quoted a few sentences.
Confirmed appearances include "Sleepwalking in the Sky and Leaving Farewell", "Will Enter Wine", "Silent Night Meditation", "Lotus Picking Song", "Difficult to Travel", "Shangli Yong", "Fufeng Haoshi Song", "Yellow Crane Tower Sends Meng Haoran to Guangling", "Nanling Farewell Children Enter Beijing", "Reminiscing about Old Travels and Sending Junyuan to Join the Army", "There is a bottle of wine before two songs", "Xia Kexing", "Quasi-ancient twelve songs out of nine", "Early White Emperor City", "Midnight Wu Ge Autumn Song", "Single Father East Building Autumn Night Sending Clan Brother Shen Zhiqin", "Eleven Yongwang East Tour Songs", "Sending Lu Judge to Biwa Gorge" and " Listen to the flute on the Yellow Crane Tower with Shi Lang Zhongqin".
Less sure are "Liang Yuan Yin", "Three Songs of Bai Zhi", "Jiangxia Sends Hanyang Auxiliary Records" and "Sending Yuan Twelve Songs to the Fourth".
When watching "Chang'an 30,000 Li", one of Ye Qiuchen's biggest feelings was that the copyright awareness of the Tang Dynasty was really great.
At least the poems created by talented people are famous along with their original authors.
The movie also flesh out the names that only stayed on paper in the past, and even Wang Changling and Chang Jian, who were named in the examination room, felt that they had a picture in their minds when they thought about it again.
It turned out that I heard about Zhang Xu, and I only knew that he was a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, known for being good at cursive writing.
Although he did not appear in many scenes in the movie, the phrase "learned the way of calligraphy" is connected to the information obtained before. And his alcoholic characteristics also made me revisit the members of the "Drunken Eight Immortals" (also known as the "Eight Immortals in Drinking"), including Li Bai, Cui Zongzhi, He Zhizhang (He Jian) and Zhang Xu mentioned in the film.
It turned out that reading Du Fu's "Jiangnan Meets the Year of the Li Turtle", the name was memorized.
Now the character of Li Guinian also appears in the character dialogue, and then read "It is a good scenery in the south of the Jiangnan, and the time of falling flowers is a gentleman" is much more vivid.
Similarly, in Li Bai's "Gift to Wang Lun", "the peach blossom pool is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun sending me love".
In addition, the Yan Wu that Gao Shi deliberately gave his battle merits in the end, he was also Du Fu's another confidant in addition to Li Bai and Gao Shi, and the two often communicated in poetry, and he called Du Fu "Du Er".
Yan Wu wrote "Early Autumn of the Military City".
There are also some characters, although not impressive in poetry, but also left a strong mark.
Geshuhan's phrase "not all generals are traitors" is sonorous.
In the entire movie, the scene where Ye Qiuchen felt the most was the scene where Gao Shi returned to Chang'an.
The Chang'an in front of us is neither a person nor a person.
From the perspective of Gao Shi's several visits, it can show the style of Chang'an more comprehensively.
From glory to decline.
The work is finished, the scroll unfolds, and tears are instantaneous.
All kinds of chanting and recitation with the keyword "Chang'an" are magnificent and magnificent in an instant, and they seem to be calm.
The feeling of shock has not dissipated for a long time.
I walked out of the cinema, looked at everything outside, and suddenly it was like entering another world.
For a while, some couldn't get out.
A lot of things don't disappear completely over time.
After watching the movie, the Tang Dynasty passed, the poet left, but something remained.
If the poem of the Yellow Crane Tower is there, the Yellow Crane Tower will be there.
As long as the poems are there, the books are there, Chang'an will be there.
Text/Ye Qiuchen
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