From word of mouth to counterattack, Zhang Yimou's spy film "On the Cliff", which has broken through the box office of 600 million yuan, is the undoubted first in this May Day movie.
#On the Cliff of Movies #From the story to the starring lineup to the image and music, all aspects are satisfactory, especially the starring role is very solid, which can be called the strongest full-acting school lineup of the 2021 national film: Zhang Yi, Yu Hewei, Qin Hailu, Zhu Yawen, Liu Haocun, Ni Dahong, Li Naiwen, Yu Haolei, Fei Fan, as well as Lei Jiayin and Sha Yi with special performances.
In addition, many of these actors have previously had experience in spy war scenes, even if they are supporting roles, under the short-term lens, these actors have basically achieved details in the processing of performances, which makes people look very substitutionary.
Such a good film, I can't help but brush it again, the plot itself is already familiar, more emphasis is on some details, as well as the performance of the actors. Sometimes I really want to press the pause button, and even want to replay it.
The first time I watched "On the Cliff", I was attracted by the story, texture, tone, tension, suspense, gunfight, torture, etc., all of which staged a shocking glimpse in the hands of the old strategist, especially zhang Yi, who was stripped of his shirt, clamped on the sensitive parts of his body by electrocution, and was covered with blood and trembling, that performance was simply amazing, and it was extremely sadistic to watch!
I believe that many people will be impressed by this shot, which is also where many people were deeply shocked when they first watched the trailer of "On the Cliff".
Looking at "On the Cliff", you will find more secrets about this movie, especially the role played by Yu Hewei, Zhou Yi.
This brings us to "On the Cliff", and a TV series "Cliff" a few years ago.
The TV series and the movie are adapted from Quan Yongxian's original story, and the story is set in the 1930s, that is, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, but the difference between the movie and the TV series is that the original characters of the TV series are retained, and the plot of the movie is completely new.
When it comes to the movie "On the Cliff", many people will first think of the high-scoring domestic spy drama "Cliff" many years ago, in which Zhou Yi, a communist party member played by Zhang Jiayi, lurked in the special agent section of the Harbin Police Department in the 1930s, engaged in dangerous spy warfare work, licking blood on the knife edge every day.
This is a character who is extremely tormented at heart, but has to suppress his emotions and devote himself to the latent work, because this work does not allow him to make mistakes, otherwise what awaits him is death.
Before the release of the movie "On the Cliff", Yu Hewei's role as Zhou Yi has always been the biggest "hidden Easter egg" - although the role poster was announced at that time, the specific role played by the leading actors was not announced, which satisfied the appetite of many audiences, and also let everyone guess before: What is the relationship between "On the Cliff" and "Cliff", who is Zhou Yi in the movie version?
This is also the role that has been hidden the most before the release of the movie: you think that the agent is impersonating our joint staff, and as a result, the agent also hides an important undercover agent of our side.
Until the movie "On the Cliff" was released, the role played by Yu Hewei was Zhou Yi, which was known to the audience.
He is the undercover agent lurking inside the enemy, and he is the "inner ghost" that the high section chief played by Ni Dahong has always wanted to pull out. Now look back at the little bit of content that was first exposed in the trailer -
The hand that sat in the car and lit and crushed the note with information written on it was Zhou Yi, played by Yu Hewei, who had a lot of inner entanglement in "On the Cliff".
In the film, Zhang Xianchen, a member of the "Utra Action Group" played by Zhang Yi, finally recognized him in prison and opened his first sentence of "Lao Zhou", which made people feel shocked in their hearts, and at the same time, there was an unspeakable complex emotion that surged into their hearts.
The two have met many times before in the film, but they maintain a strange attitude towards each other, in order to hide their identities and continue their missions.
Mention Zhou Yi, this is a role that is very familiar to many viewers, because before ,Zhou Yi appeared in the TV series "Cliff", the Zhou Yi in the play was played by Zhang Jiayi, and many viewers at that time felt uneasy about the ending of Zhou Yi's final shooting in the drama version.
In this movie "On the Cliff", Yu Hewei played the important role of Zhou Yi, which made many original fans extremely expect how he would reinterpret this revolutionary who was calm on the surface but always had turbulent waves in his heart.
Yu Hewei, who wears a top hat, a coat, and a deep brow, has a lot of smoking scenes, which also has some commonalities with Zhou Yi, played by Zhang Jiayi in the drama version, and also makes people want to see what Yu Hewei's movie version of Zhou Yi will look like and what ending.
After watching the movie, you will find that this story and Zhou Yi in the story have both a relationship with the TV series "Cliff" (the same character) and no relationship (a completely different story).
In fact, the name of Zhou Yi, after a detailed tasting, you will find that it is very popular, and the "Zhao Qiansun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang" in the hundred family names, plus a "Jia Yi Propylene", is a code name.
So, Zhou Yi can have multiple understandings, you can think of it as the same person, you can also think of it as not the same person, to make a less appropriate but very direct analogy - you can understand "Zhou Yi" as "007" James Bond's name, just a code name.
To interject here, Yu Hewei revealed that he was previously selected to play Zhou Yi in another film directed by Zhang Yimou, "Rock Solid" (unreleased).
Although the Yu Hewei you see only recently appeared in Zhang Yimou's films, in fact, he revealed that he had acted in Zhang Yimou's films as early as when he was in his junior year of acting, 26 years ago.
In 1995, Zhang Yimou directed "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge", Yu Hewei was a group performance in the film, Gong Li sang on the stage (below), he played a guest dancing on the dance floor, but later the movie was released, Yu Hewei found that he did not have a single shot, a group of people on the dance floor, and could not find himself at all.
In "On the Cliff", Xiaolan, a member of the "Utra Action Group" played by Liu Haocun, is the most simple, but also the character who lives to the end of the story. It can be said that Liu Haocun, as a new girl, is relatively good at completing this role in this movie.
On the one hand, the character of Xiaolan is young, kind, inexperienced, and it is inevitable that he will be disturbed by the love of men and women in the execution of the task.
On the other hand, this role has a very important role, she has a super memory, is very good at codebreaking, seems to be weak, but has the basic literacy of being a "secret agent".
Therefore, I am afraid that many people will not think that it is the members of the most "weak chicken" of such a "Utra Action Group" who have become the last people to cooperate with Zhou Yi, played by Hewei, to complete the "Utra Action" together.
At the end of the movie, Zhou Yi asks Xiaolan to hand over the poison and says the most touching sentence in the film: I want you to live and see the dawn.
Here, the film has a long and open ending, on the one hand, It is Zhou Yi's determination not to lose his comrades-in-arms again, and on the other hand, it is the possibility that the two will continue to lurk on a mission.
From this point of view, "On the Cliff" can even be seen as a prequel to "Cliff" in a sense, and the role of Xiaolan in "On the Cliff" can even be seen as gu Qiuyan, the character played by Song Jia in "Cliff" - in the days to come, they will continue to perform arduous tasks, and they can also understand why Zhou Yi is desperately trying to protect her from a more diverse perspective.
Assuming that the sacrifice of "Zhou Yi" in "Cliff" is irreversible, then the open-ended ending of "On the Cliff" is also connected to "Cliff" to some extent.
In addition, "On the Cliff" has a hidden Easter egg, which must be taken out separately.
The movie "On the Cliff" mainly tells the story of Japan's anti-human experiments, in order to obtain evidence of these crimes, Zhang Xianchen, Zhang Lan, Wang Yu, Wang Chuliang formed the "Utra Action Group" and was sent to the northeast to carry out the "Utra Operation".
What is the Utra operation, which is to rescue a man named "Prince Yang".
This character, who appears at the end of the film, is rescued, but the film does not explain more. In fact, this is exactly a real history told by "On the Cliff" between the virtual and the real.
Unlike most of the characters in "On the Cliff", which are fictional, Wang Ziyang is real.
In September 1934, ishii Unit, the predecessor of the Japanese 731 Unit, set up a "magic cave" experimental site in the WuchangBeiyin River in Heilongjiang, and escaped several survivors, including Wang Ziyang. In the movie "On the Cliff", "Operation Utra" is to escort him out safely, which has become another dark line in the movie: to accuse and expose one of the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army invading China in our country.
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The real Wang Ziyang later joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army and the Communist Party of China, becoming the acting commander of the Sixth Division of the Third Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, and in March 1937, he died honorably in the battle of the Abductor Bridge with the Japanese army.
On April 20, 2017, wang ziyang's tomb was discovered in the Yuanbaoshan forest farm in Bayan County, Heilongjiang (below), and local people went to the tomb to pay tribute. On September 2, 2020, wang ziyang martyrs were selected into the third batch of famous anti-Japanese heroes list.
Therefore, watching the movie "On the Cliff", on the one hand, you can see more details of the actors' performances, on the other hand, the fictional movie story is also in the real history, presenting some spy war secrets. Under the careful tasting, you will find that this movie is really careful.
Those unsung heroes keep the "last bullet to themselves", and the second brush "On the Cliff" makes people's hearts unable to calm down for a long time.
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