Introduction and Analysis of the Movie Hero

Director: Zhang Yimou Screenwriter: Feng Li, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin Producer: Feng Li, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin Actor: Jet Li (unknown) Tony Leung (Broken Sword) (Flying Snow) Chen () Zhang Ziyi () Literary Planning: Wang Bin Photography Director: Du Kefeng Photography: Zhao Xiaoding Martial Arts Director: Cheng Xiaodong Art:

One, Qin Gong, Black. Opening remarks At the end of the Warring States period, the six countries were at war, and Qin was the strongest. Zhao Zheng, King of Qin [1][2] (Chen) was ambitious and dominated the world, and became the target of assassination by many assassins. On this day, Zhao Zheng, King of Qin, will summon a small official named Wu Ming (Jet Li). Unknown dressed in black, imposing, walked into the blue-black hall. This is perhaps the most empty palace in the history of China. No maid-in-waiting guards, no decoration, deserted. The king of Qin sits alone on the throne, far away from the unknown. Since one day three years ago, two assassins broke through the block of three thousand guards and entered the temple, the king of Qin has been in deep fear. In order not to hide the assassin, this hall has become the most empty palace in the world. Even the guards can only wait outside the temple gate. Unless, who can kill the king of Qin like a nobody? [Unknown, as opposed to the king of Qin, begins to tell how he killed the first menace of the king of Qin-the assassin Sky (Donnie Yen). ] Second, the chess house, black. Unknown story. On a rainy day, in the chess hall, in the fiddling sound of the blind old man, the sky defeated the seven masters of Qin, and was about to leave the chess hall, but was stopped by an unknown voice. "Slow down!" In the sound of guqin, the rain flowed along the dim eaves of the chess house, and two men in black danced up and down. Looks like a dance, but it's a life-and-death contest. The nameless sword pierced. Compared with the rapidity of the sword, the dripping of rain beads turned into a slow slide. The sky is falling. Whoever kills the assassin in the sky can approach the king of Qin twenty paces. In addition to the four rewards, Wu Ming was allowed to be separated from the king of Qin by a hundred paces. He began to talk about how to kill two other big worries that kept the king of Qin awake for three years, the assassin's remnant sword (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Xue Fei (Maggie Cheung). Third, Zhao, red. Unknown story. Unknown dressed in red, in the name of begging for the last words of Canjian, he came to Zhao Library, the seclusion place of Canjian. Canjian practiced calligraphy in the sand.

. Although he is dressed in red, he can't hide his loneliness. Yueru is also dressed in red, serving beside her. At this point, Qin Jun soldiers, arrows like migratory locusts. Everyone in the library has been shot by an arrow, but those who haven't been shot by an arrow are still practicing calligraphy. Zhao's calligraphy is famous for its fortitude. The arrow is on the string, and the remnant sword is trying to write. Feixue nameless struggled to stop the arrow. The arrow array stopped. Canjian finished writing his words. That is a blood-red word "sword". In order to deal with these two top experts, Unknown decided to take a deviant approach. When he made an appointment with the two men, he said that before he committed suicide, the sky asked him to give Xue Fei something. When giving something like that to Xue Fei, Wu Ming put jealousy in Canjian's heart. It was night, and the broken sword tore the clothes like the moon. Yueru smiled impudently, as if laughing at Xue Fei. Jealousy is a powerful poison mixed with honey. There is no antidote for this poison. When the poison carefully prepared by unknown people finally broke out, Xue Fei's sword went through the wooden door, and the rest of the sword fell heavily to the ground. Beautiful yellow leaf forest, like the moon revenges the flying snow. They seem to stand on tiptoe on the blade and dance in despair. Yellow leaves are flying, flapping them, as if that suffocating love. Only when they fly on the top of the yellow leaf forest, the blue sky occasionally appears, but they will be abandoned or abandoned faster. The moon is like a desperate attack again and again. Her desolate youth was once only illuminated by a man for a moment. Now, she just wants this so-called youth to be ignited by hatred and then burned out. She is just a maid, who can only have the martial arts of a maid and all her sorrows. She was killed. Everything turned red, yellow leaves and blue sky were soaked in blood. Xue Fei was so distracted that he was stabbed to death by an unknown sword. When the unknown finished speaking, he dedicated the huge word "sword" to the king of Qin. The king of Qin announced a more generous reward. At the same time, the unknown is allowed to be separated from Zhao Zheng by ten steps. Between them, the candle burned towards the king of Qin, and the king of Qin suddenly said, Nameless, you are lying. Fourth, blue. The guess of the king of Qin. Three years ago, the king of Qin had an unforgettable contest with the remnant sword Feixue. In the impression of the king of Qin, Canjian and Xue Fei are both quite chivalrous. How can they be so narrow-minded and trapped by lust as described by the unknown? And the biggest possibility is: nameless is also an assassin! Peerless martial arts, an unknown practitioner of "ten steps and one kill", can kill each other quickly in ten steps. However, Qin Gong is heavily guarded. Only by killing famous assassins such as Tian Tian, broken arrow and Fei Xue can we get a chance to get close to the king of Qin. Sky, in fact, is an anonymous friend, willing to commit suicide. The scene of the chess hall was actually discussed by the two people, and a good play was quickly staged in front of Qin. In order to save each other, Canjian and Feixue rushed to die, but were ambushed by Feixue in the end. Flying snow ambushed the sword and died alone. The king of Qin also guessed that Canjian and Unknown had a real gentleman's contest on the shore of Jiuzhaigou Lake. There is a small pavilion floating on the lake, where Xue Fei's body lies. Two people, flying over the lake gently, seemed to be dancing, very surprised. They seem to be dancing sadly on the water. In order to have a mission, let love and gentleness drift with the tide. Under the huge word "sword", the king of Qin expressed his own speculation and ambition to unify the world. "This will be a big field." Between him and the nameless ten steps, candlelight roared by. The king of Qin went on to say, "Do you know how I guessed? I felt murderous in this candlelight. But, "he asked doubtfully," why is it swinging again? " Five, green and white. The nameless tells the true story. Three years ago, the remnant sword and the flying snow joined hands to stab Qin. There were huge green curtains in the Qin Gong at that time. However, when they broke into Qing Qin Gong and met the king of Qin, the remnant sword gave up. In the long process of practicing calligraphy and martial arts, Canjian realized something. For three years, Xue Fei didn't say a word to Canjian for this reason, but she refused to forgive him, and his failure stopped. Now, unknown once again mentioned the word "Qin" in front of them. Kuting, unknown, shows off his precise fencing. His sword accurately cut off a slender brush and passed through the nib. His sword can accurately pass through two acupoints of the human body, thus ensuring that the victim fell to the ground at that time and only temporarily suspended his death. Actually, the sky is not dead. And the sword and the flying snow don't have to die. However, it is still an adventure. The next day, broken arrow snowed for an appointment. On the way, both of them were ready to start work, but in the end, Xue Fei robbed them first, and the remnant sword watched Xue Fei die. When the unknown man was going to block the road and stab Qin, the remnant sword stopped him and wrote two big characters on the ground. Six, Qin Gong, black. What are these two words? "The world." In the face of these two words, personal hatred is insignificant. This is the reason why the candle between the unknown and the king of Qin wavers. The king of Qin threw his sword on the nameless table and said, "You choose." When he turned his back and faced the huge word "sword" written by Canjian, the king of Qin suddenly understood what Canjian had learned three years ago: "The first realm, there is a sword in your hand and a sword in your heart; In the second realm, there is no sword in the hand, only the sword in the heart. "In the third realm, there is no sword in the hand and no sword in the heart." Unknown, put your hands down. He turned around. He walked out of the hall. He came to the door of the black palace. Three thousand black guards are here. Their red hats and tassels stand out in the turbulent black. "Kill or not, please decide." The king of Qin pondered for a moment. "If you don't kill it, it will violate the law of Daqin and hinder the great cause of reunification." The sound is surging. The king of Qin waved him down. Ten thousand arrows were fired at the same time. Seven, Ya Dan landform, white. The ending. The news finally arrived. Xue Fei waved her sword angrily, competing with the remnant sword. Finally, the flying snow sword stabbed out, but the residual sword did not escape, and accepted it calmly. No blood came out, because everything was so white. Fei Xue committed suicide. "broken arrow snows, people don't leave people, and swords don't leave swords." There, the emperor practiced the ideal of "the world". The nameless was solemnly buried; Here, they fulfilled their promise of never giving up. The wind moved their white dresses. Voice-over, the sky abandoned the martial arts in memory of three good friends.

Production Company: China Film Group Corporation Beijing Xintu Film Co., Ltd. Distribution Company: Beijing Xintu Film Co., Ltd. Yindu Institution Co., Ltd. Elite Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Winning record

American Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film;

Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Alfred Bauer Award at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival. Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards. The 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Photography; Best original movie music; Best clothing styling design; Best production designer; Best action design award; Best visual effect award; Best sound effects.

film review

Hero is a grand image narrative between business and art, and it is an important symbol of the artistic transformation of the famous director Zhang Yimou under the background of film globalization and commercialization. "Hero" is full of stars, with grand scenes and exquisite pictures. The freehand brushwork of martial arts design combines the traditional artistic conception of China with the violent aesthetic modeling of action films, creating a new round of box office myth and film industrialization mode in Chinese mainland. The American "Wall Street Journal" said: "Hero really opened the curtain of China's blockbuster era". At the same time, the grand narrative strategy of Hero between business and art has also aroused fierce debates among intellectuals, the general public, official ideology and film professionals. The theme of heroes has always been the focus of debate. The theme of the movie Hero comes from the story of Jing Ke stabbing Qin. Since Historical Records, the story of "Jing Ke stabbing Qin" has been praised by people, in which the spirit of individual resisting power is the core, and "Xia" is also defined as "forbidden by force". The social function of martial arts literature and later martial arts movies is to use Xia's image to break through social taboos to a certain extent, confront power politics and provide readers or viewers with pleasure that is not available in reality. After 1980s, both Zhou Xiaowen and Chen Kaige rewrote this theme in images, in which the resistance to mainstream ideology and the psychological reconstruction of historical figures such as princes reflected the influence of modern enlightenment narrative on film images. However, in Hero, Zhang Yimou changed the narrative strategy, and the theme wandered between business and art, which dispelled the rebellious meaning of enlightenment and reflected the ambivalence of the middle class towards grand narrative in the current domestic cultural context. It can be said that Hero reflects the basic understanding of power in current society: the worship of power and the dream of power coexist, and the film tries to reconcile this contradiction. It is the unique creativity of this film to organize the two opposing requirements of consolidating rights and challenging rights side by side into the story. At the same time, the author provides two positions for the audience to choose from: a strong challenger and a weak challenger. The author tries to balance the relationship between these two people morally through various film means. This reflects the author's contradictory view of heroes, and he tries to dress both of them up as heroes. It is this seemingly ambiguous attitude that leads to the mutual dissolution of the two, which makes both types of characters not conform to the heroes in the traditional concept. However, the image of the film is touching, and the audience habitually identifies with the chivalrous men represented by Unknown, broken arrow and Fei Xue at first. They are the rewriting of a desperate man like Jing Ke who turned to work for the rich and noble, showing people in a new identity, and they are the synthesis of literati and chivalrous men. Wu Ming symbolically stabbed the king of Qin with a sword handle, which is the crowning touch of the whole film. This narrative may be far-fetched, but it is symbolic and reflects the author's good intentions: it is more important and effective to influence the rulers' minds than to destroy their bodies. Unknown and broken arrow can't seize the rights of the rulers by violence, so they can only settle for the second best, and convey their idea of calling for peace by exerting greater discourse power. It should be admitted that the director has spent a lot of thoughts on smoothing out the blank and covering up the contradictions, which is an inevitable choice for commercial films. The popularity of a movie is likely to satisfy many interests and wishes of different audiences. From the rational analysis, they are likely to come from conflicting and uncoordinated ideologies. The key to winning the audience is not to emphasize that one ideology is superior to other ideologies in an attempt to fundamentally solve the contradictions that cannot be solved in reality, but to find a way to reconcile and let various interest groups find the factors that satisfy them from the text. Hero is also quite innovative in the combination of art and business. In addition to the narrative strategy of Rashomon, drawing lessons from Hollywood blockbusters, it is also quite innovative in martial arts scenes, video screen design, audio-visual effects and so on. It can be said that Hero is a visual feast. All the visual symbols about China spare no effort in Hero: Go, calligraphy, sword, guqin, landscape, bamboo tube, bow and arrow, towering buildings, endless yellow sand, green mountains and clear waters, red walls and green tiles. As far as color is concerned, in Hero, it is the opposition and collision between "red" and "black". "Black" is the representative color of the Qin Dynasty, symbolizing the pressure of grand narrative and the majesty of mainstream ideology, while the film uses red as a metaphor for national Chou He hatred, red as a symbol of the inner strength before the volcanic eruption, and red as a declaration of a unique chivalrous determination and ambition. From the beginning, the film shows the powerful army of Qin State, the unparalleled palace buildings, thick smoke and quiet black. The serious king of Qin, dressed in black, wearing a black crown, black boots and black armor, sat firmly in a black Qin Gong with a black dragon column. He is brave and dignified. In the fragments describing chivalry, bright red occupies an absolute dominant position. The costumes of the characters such as the remnant sword, the flying snow and the moon are all red, which blends with the less dark scene space to form a fiery tone, giving the audience a strong visual impact. For example, if the moon vows to avenge its master, it will be a life-and-death battle with Xue Fei in the Populus euphratica forest. In this scene, Zhong Jian, a fast-moving opponent, is killed, and the blood looks at the world, making the picture and space turn red, which is quite shocking. In terms of hearing, Hero also raised the sound effects of martial arts films to a new height. The soundtrack of the film is Tan Dun, a famous musician. He no longer emphasizes the strong exaggeration of sword, fist and flying like previous martial arts films. On the contrary, the protagonist's dubbing and onomatopoeia are quite restrained. They pay more attention to the artistic conception of "long" and "far" and emphasize the texture of sound. Fully accommodate all kinds of expressive details: not only drums, pianos, violins by Ezzat and Paalmann, but also all kinds of natural sounds in martial arts scenes. What is expressed after these restraint has opened the world of "ears". For example, facing the picture, the background sound is as quiet as a clear lake. In the waving clothes and the bass of the drum, the sharp sound of the sword through the air matches the sound of the characters prancing. The trill of the gun and sword after collision is very tough and textured. Impressively, in order to describe the accuracy of Jet Li's swordsmanship, he swiped his sword horizontally, from splitting the bamboo pen to changing the pronunciation of the pen tip. There is also a sword play in Jiuzhaigou, where people step on the calm water, sword breaking the surface, and the ripples are shaken, and people jump out of the water and enter the air in their ears. The film industrialization mode brought by Hero is also quite enlightening. "Hero" presents a set of market-oriented film operation paradigm which is different from the previous domestic film operation mode, but fully conforms to the commercial law. Two months after the release of Hero, the domestic box office reached 240 million yuan. Undoubtedly, Hero has achieved unprecedented commercial success in domestic films. To some extent, "Hero" is a milestone in China's film industrialization, and it has rich enlightenment significance for the development of China's martial arts film which combines art and commerce. Hero is the first 1 in China film history, which makes domestic films beat imported films (mainly Hollywood films) for the first time, breaks the unreasonable box office distribution system left over from the planned economy for the first time, and improves the box office distribution ratio of domestic film investors, thus increasing their investment confidence and enthusiasm. 3. Breaking the unilateral monopoly price of movie audio-visual copyright, making the price of audio-visual copyright rise dozens of times. 4. China movies beat Hollywood blockbusters for the first time in the North American market and became the box office champion in North America for two weeks in a row.