Choose a movie from Xiaogang Feng, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

Director Zhang Yimou and screenwriter Feng Li premiered in February 2002.

Hero shows the world view of China people.

All the symbols about China are reproduced in Hero: Go, calligraphy, sword, guqin, landscape, bamboo slips, bows and arrows, chimes, towering buildings, endless yellow sand, green mountains and clear waters, red walls and green tiles. The pictures of hero movies are very artistic in Chinese painting.

Let's talk about people first:

1, unknown, decorated by Jet Li, identity: assassin, weapon: fast sword.

Classic line: "Your Majesty, I want to stab this sword. Many people will die if this sword goes on, but your majesty survived. I hope the king can remember the expectations of the deceased. "

Anonymity is the clue of a series of movies. As a narrative need, namelessness is more like a symbol, with no name, no family and no feelings. There is only one belief, the assassination of the king of Qin, and I have practiced "ten steps and one kill" for ten years because of this belief. When the unknown gave up stabbing the king of Qin, as a knight, he became a warrior and a hero. Because a hero who gives up suffers more than a successful assassin. But as an assassin and a dead man, he failed. Zhang Yimou let him walk calmly to the gate, reassured the king of Qin with death, and proved his choice and belief with the piety of the victims. If the unknown really wants to give up, there is only one reason, that is, he believes in Chan Jian, believes in Chan Jian's personality, and makes a choice because of this great personality. Not because of the modern slogan "peace" of the king of Qin. He should salute the king of Qin: then gather the wind like a meteor, kill it in ten steps, and stab the king of Qin, just like stabbing the sky and flying snow. As an assassin, he made a sword; As a chivalrous man, he gave up; As a dead man, he died a fair death.

2. broken arrow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, identity: assassin, weapon: broken arrow.

Classic line: "Please give up!"

Canjian is a chivalrous man. Canjian is a bookworm, a sword idiot, a lover and a chivalrous man. Under the hall, he told the king of Qin with firm eyes, I don't kill you because I know you can unify the whole country, because I know you can bring stability. He finally went beyond his limitations and made himself a chivalrous great man.

3, flying snow, Maggie Cheung decorated identity: assassin, weapon: flying snow sword

Classic line: "Draw your sword!"

Xue Fei is a hot-tempered, aloof and determined woman. The desire for revenge made her heart ached. She is a beautiful and ruthless assassin. Xue Fei is the only normal person in the whole movie. She is famous, has a surname, has a family background, has a normal love and hate, and has a distinct personality. Therefore, she has also become the most brilliant and plump character in the film.

4. The identity of Chen and Chen; The king's weapon; A powerful army like a wolf.

Classic line: "that's not killing, that's peace!" " "

King Qin is a real loner. He killed his mother, imprisoned her, killed her lover's family and beheaded two half-brothers. He has no friends. The hardships of childhood and the humiliation of teenagers distorted his personality and made him learn to bear it. The forbearing bloodline in him.

5. Sky: Donnie Yen's identity: assassin's weapon: silver gun.

Classic lines: none

He used to be the most famous assassin, and his gun was only half an inch from the chest of the king of Qin. The king of Qin commented on him: this man is arrogant and thinks he is invincible in the world. He is a very serious person, who has been stabbing for ten years and never gives up. This is just the hero in the unknown story. When the truth was finally revealed, what we saw was an insidious,

6. Moon: Zhang Ziyi Identity: Maid Weapon: Full Moon Machete.

Classic line: "I wonder if the young lady heard it clearly?" The host asked the young lady to borrow cinnabar. "

Yueru is a tragic figure. At the age of eight, she followed Canjian as both a disciple and a servant. Yueru's humanity and martial arts deeply attracted the remnant sword.

From music, clothing, photography and other aspects:

The music production of Hero is full of confidence because of Tan Dun's joining. Tan Dun not only invited Italian violinist Paalmann and Japanese percussion band Kodo, but also tailored several songs for heroes, such as Heroes in the World, On the Water, Breaking into Qin Gong, A Farewell to Heroes and The Wind. "I think the romantic violin sound can provide yin and yang, and the yin aspect always reminds people of Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi; Yang's vicissitudes are the embodiment of Jet Li and Tony Leung Chiu Wai. "

Photography: Australian Du Kefeng is famous for his avant-garde photography style. He directed many films for Wong Kar-wai, a powerful Hong Kong director, and Hero was his first attempt to make a martial arts film. As a photography director, Du Kefeng is responsible for the exposure control of all shots. He first provided the specific shooting scheme of four colors (red, blue, white and green).

Clothing: Ms. Emi Wada, a fashion designer, is a Japanese old lady in her seventies. She has been designing clothes for the famous film artist Akira Kurosawa. She won the Oscar for Best Fashion Design for Chaos. Zhang Yimou asked her to refer to the style of Xi Terracotta Warriors and Horses to design the clothes of Qin State. At that time, there was no information about Zhao's costumes, which was quite difficult. However, the lady overcame the difficulty of lack of information, independently created and designed the costumes, hairstyles and character decorations of Zhao people, and then designed and produced the armor and helmets of the King of Qin and his soldiers.

Visual effect: first look at the scenery. This is due to Zhang Yimou's choice of location and photography in Du Kefeng. Dunhuang has desert scenery and Jiuzhaigou has beautiful scenery. The pictures are very shocking and touching.

Second, watch martial arts. Thanks to the martial arts coach Cheng Xiaodong. All movements are like flowing clouds, giving people an elegant aesthetic feeling.

Third, look at the special effects. This is due to CG colleagues in Australia. I can see 9 CG special effects: 1. Architecture, a technology I have seen in Gladiator; 2. Create a huge crowd. This technique has been seen in shaolin soccer and Tomb Raider 2-The Return of the Scorpion King. On rainy days, nameless duels with the sky in the chess hall. In order to show the speed of action, the rain is frozen in the air, only the sword and people are moving; 4. The desert smoke during the duel between the nameless and the flying snow; 5. Bow and arrow rain, the effect of overwhelming arrows can shock people; 6. The flying snow and the moon are fighting in the yellow leaf forest, and the true leaves and CG leaves are seamlessly mixed, which is mainly used to show the effect brought by the sword wind; 7. Unknown demonstrated "Ten Steps Must Kill" to Canjian and Xue Fei in the Library Pavilion; 8. Unknown and broken arrow compete on the lake, using water droplets as weapons; 9. The king of Qin drew his sword and threw it at the unknown. I can't tell if it's CG special effects.

Fourth, look at clothes. In those days, Kurosawa's costumer and stills photographer cooperated with Zhang Yimou this time. Emi Wada, an interior decorator, is a respectable old lady. Zhang Yimou said she needed a red color. She personally brought back dyes from England and dyed 100 kinds of red in a small factory in the suburbs for the factory director to choose. I noticed a detail. In the three versions of Canjian and Xue Fei's story, their costumes are the same, but the colors are different, that is, red, green and white.

The Narrative Mode of Hero

The plot of the film is unfolded through the dialogue between Wu Ming (Jet Li) and Chen (Chen) in the main hall. The story told by the unknown minister goes back to the unknown to reveal the truth, bringing out three versions of the assassin's story (that is, the story of the unknown and the sky, broken arrow, flying snow and the moon), thus telling the story of the assassination of Qin to the audience, and at the same time leading the audience to go deep into the inner world of the movie characters step by step, revealing their respective personalities and contradictions layer by layer. It's a bit like a detective movie, which interprets different versions of the story through the narratives of different characters, so as to gradually approach the truth. Only this time, there were only two people: Unknown and King Qin. They narrate each other, infer from each other, and show ideological and emotional struggles, such as playing chess. So Zhang Yimou did make a breakthrough in the narrative style and structure of the film! But not too innovative.