The director's wrist is older, and it is easy to fall into a myth: whether to continue to pursue the "artistic truth" like a mirage, or to tell a good story for the audience in a down-to-earth manner.
Obviously, Lou Ye was never the latter. And then this time it was off.
The plot of "Lyceum Theatre" is not complicated, telling how a female spy engages in intelligence. Because the female spy is the top of the film circle, and there is an ex-husband who likes to mess with the wrong, she hides three layers of stories in order to engage in intelligence:
The first layer: the gossip in the circle that the melon-eating masses like to hear: actress Yu Jie (Gong Li) returned from overseas to re-enter the stage of the Lanxin Grand Theater, and joined hands with the fresh meat lover Tan Dao (Zhao Youting) to relive the dream.
The second layer: Chongqing, Nanjing, the Japanese army, the Allies believe that Yu Jie returned to rescue her former husband who was in prison.
As for which side of the ex-husband was the person, why did he go to jail? Does Sister Yu have to save him? The movie didn't account for it. Don't ask! Ask, just don't understand art!
The third layer: Yu Jie's father, a French old man and her alone: get the latest code of the Japanese army, insight into the next move of the Japanese.
The form of expression of "Lyceum Theatre" is also not complicated. Yu Jie and her boyfriend are both actors, so they have made a drama structure. The plays they rehearsed, whether from the plot or the lines, are both suitable for the situation when the two first met, and also hinted at the final ending of the two.
Although the story and form are earthy, if you shoot honestly and do not engage in moths, you can still take a look, which is not a big deal and decent. However, as a well-known art film director, it is simply impossible to say that he is not a bit of a demon.
As a result, "Lyceum Theatre" became a very unfriendly film to the audience.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > visually poor</h1>
The film is black and white. In the gray haze, some viewers said that it was not unusual to fall asleep.
Why does director Lou Ye use black and white tones to make films?
Some say it's to save money – I don't believe it! Saying that Lou Ye had no money twenty years ago, I believe; saying that Lou Ye now has no money, I can only hehe.
Some people say it's because the actors are plain-looking – I don't believe it! Not to mention that the female number two wears a lot of makeup from beginning to end, even if it is a pure black tone, it is said that a common sense: if a person does not bring makeup to the mirror, the headlights are hit, and then the three-dimensional face will suddenly become flat and bleak like black and white impermanence.
Some people say that it is to take care of Aunt Gong Li, after all, it is almost 60 people, the color giant screen comes out, the fairy girl suddenly falls - this I agree, the beauty is never defeated in the years, but will be defeated under the high-definition camera.
In fact, black and white films have higher requirements for composition, light and shadow and scheduling than color films. Lou Ye did this, and the high emotional intelligence statement is: the director has his own ideas, artistic subjectivity; the low emotional intelligence statement is: pretending to beep.
In addition to the drowsy black and white tones, the film shakes badly, especially in the first 30 minutes. I have personally witnessed that some spectators watched for less than 10 minutes and could not stand it, stood up and directly left the scene.
Audiences who want to go to the theater to experience a feeling of fainting, it is recommended not to eat too much, do not have an empty stomach, it is best to bring a little talk plum, feel dizzy to eat a slow.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > story challenges the audience's IQ</h1>
As mentioned earlier, Yu Jie began her performance with a three-layer story. The first layer is the love scene.
To tell the truth, I really don't like war, suspense, espionage... Watching love dramas in this kind of hardcore movie, especially love that can't stand, is like Yu Jie and Director Tan.
Gong Li and Zhao Youting are 20 years old, have no sense of CP, and are like aunts and milk dogs in the film. How the two people hooked up, I don't know; how to dry firewood after the reunion, love and desire to rekindle, did not mention. Just like this, two people, alive without seeing a spark, died together. Is it because the cemetery is just engaged in activities, pits to buy one get one free?
Moreover, the routine of two people sending them to death together is particularly stupid -
In the last scene, Yu Jie is trapped in the Lyceum Theater, heroically overturning everyone, holding a passport and US dollars, and obviously running away that night. But she was not, she insisted on staying until the next day to meet the little lover, took him with her, and ended up in an ambush.
In fact, the little lover does not know anything, has not been put in the eyes of the opponent at all, even if The sister runs alone, after the limelight passes, the same can be the raptor to cross the river again, take the little lover to fly with wings.
I don't understand the significance of arranging for two people to die in vain?
The second layer of the story is the rescuer.
This is even more nonsensical. Zhang Songwen's ex-husband is simply a tool man, and he was inexplicably killed within three minutes of playing, simply blind.
I don't understand the value of this character's existence.
If he was covering for the third layer of the story, he didn't need to die at all; if not, the line was too sloppy.
Sloppy, though, is the style of Lyceum Theatre, as you'll see a more sloppy treatment in the third layer of the story.
The third layer of the story is the core of the entire spy war, and it should be the most difficult and exciting part - Yu Jie needs to get the latest codebook from the Japanese army.
I rubbed my hands and looked forward to it.
I thought that either it was the technical flow of "Mission Impossible" that makes people inseparable from the eyes, or the psychological warfare of "The Sound of the Wind", which is also good and evil, true and false, and the worst should be 007's beautiful and dazzling beauty plan.
But none! Yu Jie gave a shot to the injured Japanese engineer, open! begin! urge! sleep! Then, the engineers all hired!!!
Excuse Me？ I fainted, I threw up, I insisted on it for almost two hours, just show me this?!
Since it is hypnosis, why does the front pave the way for the sister and the engineer and his wife to look very similar? Is it deliberately inducing everyone, there may be a good boat, please do not leave the scene early? However, it did not!!!
Since the hypnosis was successful and the password was also obtained, why did the engineer wake up and realize that he was hypnotized at the first time, and accurately pointed out that it was Yu Jie who took away the password? Is this engineer, or an actor in an immersive theater? Entering the play so quickly, and withdrawing so violently?
I really can't think about it, think about it more, and I will be dizzy.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > character settings are dirty</h1>
The male protagonist will not say, the whole one love supremacy silly white sweet.
When Zhao Youting cried and said, "What can I do, I can only choose to believe her", I really want to find Ouyang Nana and shout at him: You wake up! You're 35 years old! Why take on this role? Why do you want to abuse yourself like this?
Across the screen, I can feel that the high circle is no longer good.
The heroine Gong Li has a cold face throughout the whole process, but it is a pity that there is neither the coldness of the big star nor the coldness of the double-sided spy. With thick bangs, she seems to have walked the wrong set of Qiu Ju, listless.
Female No. 2 was a spy from Chongqing, and was ordered to approach the heroine and find out her true purpose of returning to China suddenly, but unfortunately she was young and brain-dead. As a small fan of the heroine, the heroine beckoned, and she was grateful to Dade, not only helping the heroine to top the bag and round the field at the critical moment, but also because the heroine was killed.
Even if these are concerned, the most bloody thing is that before dying, there was an ambiguous lily boat drama with the heroine?! Why?
Male Number Two is a sperm-brained guy. The first time I saw the female second, I wanted to take a hard bow on the car, but I was slapped silly by the female second, so I have been grumpy.
At the critical moment of the last scene, the whole film is busy with gun battles, only the male second is busy with the female second, or in the simple bathroom of the theater, and it is really not a picky person.
You say that such a lustful person, turn your head and qing me with the male protagonist, hold the male protagonist's face, let him listen to his own words, live well, and live well with the two people!
I??? Really got the whole black question mark face.
Perhaps, this is the strength of "Lyceum Theatre": the sheets that should be rolled do not roll, the rolls that should not be rolled can be happy but sudden; the love that should be loved, the love that cannot be felt, the eight rods cannot be beaten, the love is deep, and the love is warm.
In the end, it is still the director's ambition is too big, and the ability is too small, and he is self-righteous, and he also treats the audience as a pen.
In China, is it really so difficult to be a director who honestly tells the story round, less and some are not, and who is fancy?