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In 1990, Cheng Xiaodong opened the market for domestic adventure action films with "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors". In 1996, Cheng Xiaodong once again concocted the same method as "Virtual Reality" adventure action film called "Virtual Reality" by Luoxue.
However, the tragedy is that "The Adventure King" not only failed to achieve box office hits, but even failed in word-of-mouth, which became a turning point in Jet Li's filming career. Since then, Jet Li has reduced the frequency of filming after becoming popular in the 90s. In contrast, another actor who has achieved extraordinary achievements in adventure action movies has relied on adventure action movies to "bring the dead back to life".
In 2004, Jackie Chan's ambitious work - "New Police Story" was released, but this film was not only crushed by "Kung Fu" at the box office, but also "New Police Story" was completely abused in terms of artistic reputation.
So, in 2005, Jackie Chan returned to the familiar field and teamed up with Tang Jili to create the most successful film in Chinese film history - "Myth".
"Myth" is written and directed by Tang Jili (Wang Huiling, Li Haishu co-written), starring Jackie Chan, Kim Hee-sun, Leung Jiahui, released in September 2005, achieved a box office of 97 million yuan in the mainland, ranking second in the domestic film box office list that year, second only to "Wu Ji", with a global cumulative box office of 20.17 million US dollars.
On Douban, a total of 276,000 people gave it a score of 7.0, which is also one of the typical examples of being wrongly killed that year, and then relying on word-of-mouth to achieve a score counterattack (6.3 points that year), and at the same time, the film also received 4 nominations at the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards.
And this film can be said to be the most successful film in Chinese film history, and even in global film history. This film not only achieved box office success that year, but was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards, and its theme song is even more popular all over the country, and even today it is still one of the most popular songs of Sun Nan and Han Hong. At the same time, the TV series "Myth" adapted from this film has also been a great success, and Zhao Gao, played by Zhang Shi, has become the most amazing villain in Chinese film and television dramas.
It can be said that just one movie has achieved the three major successes of movies, songs, and adaptations, and it is a completely incomparable success for later films such as "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", and "Why Sheng Xiaomo".
In terms of Luo Xue's personal perception, the story of this film is exciting, the climax is repeated, the rhythm is very strong, and the whole is full of Jackie Chan-style joy, and the story is inherited from "Flying Eagle Project", which makes the movie have an inexplicable sense of familiarity. At the same time, through the interweaving of reality and ancient dreams, an extremely grand story is presented, so that the audience can always be moved by the love that spans thousands of years in the movie, and Jackie Chan's signature tragic ending gives this story more emotion.
In terms of action presentation, this film has both typical Jackie Chan-style funny scenes and very serious war scenes, which are majestic and extremely shocking. And the shuttle back and forth between reality and antiquity allows the film to enhance the rhythm while also feeling the mutual achievements between different styles of action movies.
The following is a serious spoiler, it is recommended that friends who have not watched it go to the movie first, and then watch the falling snow! (If there is no channel, you can click on the snow on the menu homepage to watch the movie)
1. Amazing storyline
From "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors", the director broke the boundary between reality and history with time-travel, and in "The Adventure King", Cheng Xiaodong used the novel to connect two almost unrelated stories.
But just like Luo Xue said when evaluating "The King of Adventure", the biggest problem with the film is that the logic is confused, and the timeline, cause and effect line, and character image are messed up into a pot of porridge. Mythology, on the other hand, does away with all the problems that Adventure King has, and really strikes a delicate balance between story and action.
This film adopts a two-line narrative technique to tell a love story that spans ancient and modern times.
In the double narrative of the movie, one is that the current Jack has been chasing the story of the woman who appeared in his dream, he traced it from Hong Kong to the Disha Kingdom, and then from the Disha Kingdom to Xi'an, and then to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, he finally found the woman in his dreams; The other line tells the story of General Meng Yi 2000 years ago, who was ordered to welcome Concubine Li, and fell in love with Concubine Li in the process of greeting, but had to obey the emperor's orders, and Meng Yi sacrificed his life to fight for the elixir of immortality in order to prevent Concubine Li from being buried.
There is a gap between Daqin 2000 years ago and Hong Kong today, Meng Yi and Jack, but Tang Jili connected the story of Meng Yi and Concubine Li of the Great Qin Empire with the story of Jack's pursuit of the truth through a similar way of reincarnation, turning the two stories into one story.
And in this kind of tandem process, it is not like "The Wandering Earth 2" that separates and stiffly glues two unrelated plots together. It's not as messy as in "The Adventure King".
Each segmented story in this film corresponds to two stories, the present and the past, and with the switch between the past and the future, the two stories are very closely linked. For example, the current bridge with Disha in the samurai competition is connected with the story of Meng Yi and Prince Disha in 2000, so that Jack's recognition that Meng Yi is the reincarnation of Meng Yi is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Moreover, in order to increase the connection between the two stories, the director used seamless editing of similar things, so that the film becomes smoother and more natural when switching back and forth between the two stories.
For example, when talking about the portrait of "Concubine Li's Smile", the director communicates the stories of two time and space through a portrait; And when Di Sha was chased into the water for stealing cultural relics, it formed a very ingenious linkage with the story of Meng Yi falling off the cliff and falling into the water in order to save Concubine Li 2000 years ago.
Through the seamless editing of this resemblance, the director not only connects the two independent stories, but also makes the stories independent and interconnected.
At the same time, through this kind of connection between stories and stories, the present is present and the past is past, which allows the audience to continue to receive new things and stories, so that the emotions are always in a very excited state, which perfectly improves the overall rhythm of the movie. It can be said that Tang Jili's operation has made "Myth" a must-watch movie for every art student.
By the way, the perfect counterpart to the storyline processing of "Mythology" is actually the extremely garbage treatment of "The Wandering Earth 2" on the narrative line. Wu Jing and Andy Lau have no intersection in "The Wandering Earth 2", nor do they have any intersection across time and space, but in the end, they combined two extremely independent stories together to form a complete story, which is unbelievable.
It's like watching two completely unrelated feature films, and then someone tells you it's the same story, and the underlying reason is that they are both "into science".
Of course, the excellence of "Myth" lies not only in the processing and switching of the story line, but also in the fact that Jackie Chan in this film has finally become "Jackie Chan", presenting two extremely exciting action scenes in ancient and modern times.
2. Double action scenes
Jackie Chan is an actor with very strong self-esteem, he is always looking for breakthroughs, whether it is "The Heart of the Dragon", "New Police Story", or later "Shinjuku Incident", Jackie Chan is breaking the inherent cognition.
But the price of this breakthrough is extremely painful, basically as long as Jackie Chan changes his style, he will definitely suffer a box office fiasco. Therefore, in "Myth", Tang Jili shuttles between the past and the present, which not only satisfies Jackie Chan's desire to seek innovation, but also ensures the box office of the movie.
In modern stories, Jackie Chan mainly highlights the witty and humorous side of his action movies, such as the fight between two guards when he steals the treasure from the tomb of the prince of the Disha Empire, he saves Leung Ka-fai, and every time he can step on Leung Ka-fai's hand to highlight his witty sense of humor in action movies. At the same time, in the individual fight, the traditional and clever use of the characteristics of various props amplify the comedic elements of its action components, so that the audience can laugh while being nervous.
And the most obvious of this style is actually the battle on the sticky mouse board in the Disha factory.
first played a musical instrument to attract a cobra, and then because of peeking at the bottom of the skirt, the police were put in, and as a result, they jumped on the original board of the sticky mouse board during the fight, untied their shoes, glued to the board and couldn't move, and the plot settings such as the beautiful woman's underwear being glued off by the sticky mouse board made the movie full of joy. And the design of the guillotine adds to the tension.
It can be said that these two action scenes epitomize the classic Jackie Chan-style action comedy style, but Jackie Chan has always wanted to get out of this inherent mode, so Meng Yi's action scenes have become extremely rigid and completely separated from Jackie Chan's style.
For example, when Jackie Chan fought with the general of Jizi Joseon, there was no humor and funny in the action at all, and he did not use the resources around him, just a real hard kung fu competition.
A more typical representative is the battle of sniping Zhao Kuang's troops after Meng Yi got the elixir, without any funny or funny, and without tricks, he only relied on two spears to resist the army of hundreds of people, single-handedly fighting dozens of people at a time, dignified and arrogant, killing a whole hill, until Zhao Kuang personally took action, and finally killed Meng Yi in one fell swoop.
But the best thing about this movie is that when this kind of scene appears in the movie, the audience doesn't have a sense of absurdity. For example, in "No One in My Eyes 2", the blind man killed more than 300 well-trained private soldiers by himself, which makes people feel ridiculous, and the reason is that the director's control of details is very poor.
In "Myth", first of all, Meng Yi himself is a super general, and secondly, he will be defeated by small soldiers when he faces four hands with both fists, and finally when he kills a hill, he is already out of strength and his hands are trembling, and it is the addition of these details that makes the action writing of the movie more convincing.
And since 2002's "Hero" opened the era of domestic blockbusters, domestic films in this period can even crush today's visual effects! For example, "Wuji", "Hero", "Vote for the Name", and "Assembly Number" are all representatives.
In "Myth", the appearance of a large number of soldiers increases the majestic momentum of the film in the action (war) scenes, coupled with Tang Jili's use of close-up shots and the use of a large number of special effects, which makes the film more grandiose. Although it is not as good as "Hero" and "Vote for Fame", even if you watch it now, you can still be shocked.
However, the score of "Mythology" was 6.3 that year, and it was not all the reason for being unjustly killed.
3. Logic bugs
The movie "Myth" can't be watched closely, because once you look closely, you will find many logical problems, such as the shiny stainless steel sword, the easy smuggling, and the extremely simple tomb of the Qin Emperor. Especially the scene where the North Korean general welcomes back the princess, it is even more "seriously ill".
General Cui appeared after Princess Yushu was canonized, and he wanted to take the princess back, not to mention whether he had a big picture of the problem, just his neatly arranged troops and prepared fireballs were very problematic.
Since the troops and fireballs can be arranged in advance, why can't the princess directly snatch or kill her before she enters the territory of Qin? said that he wanted to take the princess back to China, but the arrows and fireballs all attacked the princess, which is the rhythm of killing. But when the carriage was about to fall off the cliff and Meng Yi pulled the carriage and was powerless to fight, he didn't kill the princess or Meng Yi, but also took the initiative to save the princess and let him go when he could kill Meng Yi.
If it's not that this general has a brain problem, then the director has a serious illness, does he want this general to kill the princess? Can you stop jumping sideways repeatedly?
Moreover, Jack is a keeper of cultural relics, but when he stole the cultural relics of the tomb of the prince of Disha, he was not ambiguous at all, even if he took away the meteorites and paintings, even the sword, isn't there still a guard weapon on the ground to defend himself?
It can be said that there is no problem with the big logic of this film, but there are actually a lot of small logic bugs, and the overall quality is worse than "New Police Story". However, at the end of the movie, Jack met Princess Yushu and floated away but did not jump like Meng Yi, but Luo Xue liked it very much!
On the whole, although this film has bugs and logical problems, the theme is novel, the rhythm is strong, the action scenes are very prominent, and the war scenes are majestic, which is not only the pinnacle of "virtual reality" movies, but also in the entire field of adventure action films, it is an extremely rare masterpiece. Personally highly recommended!
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