Chapter 123 Film Review
Since Lin Zhimo is just a supporting role in this movie, he is still not worried, so he is also relaxed when watching the movie.
As for Zhou Runfa, he had achieved success many years ago, and with his confidence in himself and Li An, he was very calm.
Yang Ziqiong has put her energy into her family in recent years and has a detached mentality of being happy and worry-free about this movie, so no matter how the film evaluates, the box office will have no big impact on her.
Among the four, Zhang Ziyi was the most nervous. This video can be said to be her first stop to the world. In fact, the world is to rush to the United States. After all, only by being famous in Hollywood can it be considered an international superstar. In this regard, Li An has much advantage over Zhang Yimou.
If this video can become famous in the United States, it can be said that one foot has already entered the Hollywood circle. Therefore, although Zhang Ziyi stared at the screen with both eyes while watching the video, her ears were always paying attention to the reactions of the audience.
Lin Zhimo naturally saw Zhang Ziyi's nervousness, but this time both of them were arranged in the first row, and Lin Zhimo did not dare to do any extraordinary actions. He just occasionally patted Zhang Ziyi's arm lightly to show comfort when Yu Jiaolong performed in the film.
The big screen also reached the final climax of the entire film. In a dark cave, the blue-eyed fox controlled Yu Jiaolong. At this time, Li Mubai rushed to rescue him. However, because he was concerned about Yu Jiaolong's safety, he was shot by the blue-eyed fox's hidden weapon and finally died in Yu Xiulian's arms.
Yu Jiaolong also felt guilty because of Li Mubai's death. Finally, he came to Wudang Mountain to find Luo Xiaohu who was waiting for him. After lingering with him for a night, he threw himself into the vast valley.
The ending was so unexpected that when the screen fell into darkness and the song "Moonlight Lover" by famous singer Li Wen started singing when the audience was still immersed in the thoughts brought to them by the film and did not come back to their senses.
It was not until the lights in the screening room returned to light that the audience burst into thunderous applause. When Lin Zhimo and others walked to the front desk, the applause of the two thousand viewers in the audience continued.
Li An took out the microphone several times and wanted to speak, but was interrupted by applause. Finally, he had to wait for everyone to stop applause before starting to speak.
"Thank you, thank you for your support and for your love for this work." Li An said very little, and after saying thank you, he handed the microphone to Zhou Runfa.
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After the premiere, Lin Zhimo and others attended a small celebration held by the crew. After all, they didn’t know what the box office of the film and the future prospects for winning the awards, so the crew did not make a big fuss, but just invited some friends to attend.
The next day, all the front page headlines of the entertainment media were reviews about the video "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and it was almost one-sided cheers.
"This is a very profound martial arts film. It does not have the heroic complex unique to traditional Chinese martial arts films, nor does it have the strong and violent aesthetics. Although it is wearing the cloak of a martial arts film, it explores the lust of human nature more deeply than any art film. It contains love and righteousness, and is a rare good film." - The final summary report of "Movies of the Week".
"Li Mubai, played by Zhou Runfa, was wearing a plain long dress, with a broad mind and a great temperament. Especially when he danced his sword in the courtyard under the moonlight, he naturally showed a heart-warming demeanor, which was called the "Grand Master"; and Yu Xiulian was a tramping eunuch who had been walking in the world for many years. Just like her in the film, she was capable and calm, and she was proficient in every weapon and had three of them. This can be achieved from the competition between her and Yu Jiaolong in the square courtyard.
It can be seen that Luo Xiaohu is like his identity positioning, with simple fists and feet like the straightforward personality of foreigners, and Lin Zhimo's superb acting skills also make people feel that the arrogant Yu Jiaolong will fall in love with him for a reason; in the end, Yu Jiaolong is like the Qingming sword, showing its sharpness and cold light, but it is 'sharp and cannot be kept forever', and finally jumped into the cliff and died." - "Movie Weekly" focused his attention on the identity positioning and martial arts performance of several actors in the film.
"Zhou Runfa's performance is as usual. Whether it is the fight in the bamboo forest or his usual speech, he shows his superb and mature acting skills; Yang Ziqiong also interprets a calm and capable heroic actress, especially the flashes of his eyes are just right; Zhang Ziyi, the little girl, is also impressive, and shows a rural girl's persistent pursuit of love in 'My Father and Mother'. Now this delicate and willful Yu Jiaolong is also portrayed vividly by her; but no matter how good the first three performers are, they are not as good as the supporting role played by Lin Zhimo - Luo Xiaohu."
"In this film, Luo Xiaohu is undoubtedly a tragic character, but Lin Zhimo released this character with dazzling brilliance in just over twenty minutes, which is no less than the other three starring actors. Whether he was free and casual in the desert, emotional outbursts during the wedding, or the unwillingness of returning to Wu at the end, he was just right. I think that just by acting in unit time, Lin Zhimo is better than all three of them." - "Film Man" magazine, like their name, focused the report on character portrayal, and clearly raised the acting skills of Lin Zhimo, a small supporting role, to the top level.
"It can be said that the whole "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a tragic movie. No matter how profound the connotation it explores or how meticulous the character's psychological portrayal is, tragedy is a tragedy. Almost 80% of the plot of the whole film makes you feel extremely entangled, and the only part I don't care about is the scene between Luo Xiaohu and Yu Jiaolong in the desert. It is a natural and true nature. The two of them are in love and rituals, without the worldly bondage.
Without the constraints of ethics, love is so natural and straightforward, which is beyond the original novel. Of course, I also have to thank the two young actors Lin Zhimo and Zhang Ziyi for their superb performances, especially Lin Zhimo. The scene of him whistling down with a long knife from the hillside, I believe that many girls will be fascinated by it." - "Weekend Entertainment" gave its front page a name called "The least tangled part of the tangled film".
Whether it is sincere or just to attract attention, some people say good things, so they will definitely say bad things.
"In my opinion, this is purely a bad movie that pleases foreigners and admires foreigners. First of all, the martial arts in the film are too subtle and not exciting at all. Besides, light skills, a person's light skills can actually fly away from the sky and the earth, and it leaps away on the lake. It's too illusory and meaningless; finally, there are Chinese elements deliberately displayed in the film. Whether it is the props of the movie or the lines of the actors, they are full of deliberately artificial Chinese elements, which is disgusting." - This is a comment written by a newspaper.
If someone refutes, someone will naturally support it. So another newspaper began to refute this negative report one by one.
But then again, the newspaper's reports were not completely without a market, at least to some viewers, it still makes some sense.
"Not powerful! Is this also called a martial arts movie?"
"It's so uncomfortable. After watching this video, I just feel 'surrounded by a kind of sorrow of silence'."
"I came out halfway through it. It's really boring. I can't understand the lines at all."
"The martial arts scenes inside are really ugly, there is no creativity at all."
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This is the opinion of several people randomly interviewed on the street after the official release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Judging from the box office of the movie alone, the opinions of these people are very representative, because the box office of the entire "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has fully demonstrated the market's disappointment with this film.
A week after the premiere, the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the first week was 2 million, which is really not a good result. Especially compared with the one-sided praise and comments in the report, it looks particularly dazzling.
Therefore, when this box office appeared in those media, many media that had already questioned the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" were trying their best to advocate that the masses' eyes were bright.
However, these public opinion storms have nothing to do with Lin Zhimo. After the premiere, Lin Zhimo and Zhang Ziyi left Xiangjiang first, and then the two and Li An conducted another round of publicity in Taipei.
However, when they were in Baodao, they were different from Xiangjiang. The two were not only limited to the promotional activities of the press conference, but also needed to participate in some variety shows for promotion.
Chapter completed!