Special feature of 1905 film network Based on the novel of the same name, the spy war giant system was released nationwide today. This film tells the story of Nanjing during the Anti-Japanese War, when the Japanese and the puppet governments infiltrated each other, and the ace agents Jin Shenshui (ornaments) and Lin Yingying (ornaments) walked on the tip of the knife with a group of agents with different ambitions.
This time, the Mai family in Gao Qunshu joined hands again, and then can it once again become a brand-new legend of spy war?
After "Wind", "Knife Point" is hard to reach the peak again.
How popular was The Wind in those days? In 2009, the spy film Wind, which was directed by Gao Qunshu and adapted from Mai Jia’s novel, was born, winning 235 million box office, which not only set off a frenzy of contemporary spy film creation in China, but also won the highest score of Chinese spy film with a score of 8.4, and won numerous awards at major film festivals and award ceremonies, becoming the peak of China spy film.
After The Wind, the spy war masterpiece Knife’s Tip was filmed. Director Gao Qunshu said frankly that he was going to shoot something different and focus on the relationship between the times and fate. Therefore, the story background of this film was set in Nanjing under the rule of Wang puppet regime in 1940, rather than Shanghai, where spy war works were the most common.
In the propaganda of Knife’s Tip, what worries Gao Qunshu most is how to make people not associate with Wind. In his view, "Knife’s Tip" is about the choice and helplessness of personal fate in the complex and turbulent era at that time, but it just happens that the role is an agent.
However, judging from the artistic quality of the films, there is indeed a certain gap between the two films. The movie The Wind has a higher degree of completion, and the story is simple, focusing on a specific thing like a script killing, while The Knife’s Tip has a richer plot and tells a bigger story, but the details in its story, including the relationship between characters and stories, the relationship between styles and themes, are not complete enough, and the feeling of holding the audience away from the wind is missing!
It is difficult to hide the shortcomings of group play when the bones of the play gather together
The cast of this film is also very strong, starring Zhang Yi, Lang Yueting, and starring,,,,,,, especially. It is expected that a number of actors will join us.
In this film, Zhang Yi plays the special agent Jin Shenshui, who has multiple identities, and walks among the forces of the Japanese military, the puppet government and the military junta, just like walking at the tip of a knife. Zhang Yi said that the growth process of the role is the awakening of an agent. From the beginning, it was just for revenge, to finding faith with the help of comrades-in-arms and moving closer to anti-Japanese organizations, we can see the growth of the role "from iron to steel".
In addition, Gao Jie’s eagle dog, who plays the role of "profit" in this film, is full of malice and malice. Cheng Taishen, just sitting quietly in the picture, didn’t say a word, all is wily.
However, although the film Knife’s Tip is a gathering of drama bones, it is not satisfactory in shaping the group scenes. In contrast, in the movie "Wind", there are big flowers competing with each other, and there are also small students fighting with each other. In the first hour of the movie, the game scenes between the protagonists leave a lot of room for the group drama of the movie.
The complex relationship between the characters and the multiple identities and tasks of the same character in Knife’s Tip made the audience feel "brain-burning". In order to tell the story completely, the director hid a lot of plot information in these two hours. Therefore, in the second half of Knife’s Tip, several core characters showed a sense of panic to the audience with the rhythm of one victim for ten minutes. Such a change in the fate of the characters, because the development time is too short, it is difficult for the audience to have enough cognition and judgment on the characters. In the movie, except for three main characters, such as Jin Shenshui, with some characters’ arcs, all other characters serve the plot like NPC, and there is no room for other characters to grow and change.
On the other hand, there will be some misplacement between the way the characters are portrayed in this film and the appreciation habits and levels of the current mainstream audience. For example, in the scene of Li Bingbing and Zhou Xun in The Wind, the mutual verbal test and the change of expression in the camera will give the audience the pleasure of reading and make people look very enjoyable. However, when the Japanese army suspects Lin Yingying in Knife Point, her defense is to cover for herself by revealing the shortcomings of others, and this process of revealing shortcomings is very direct, which makes people feel that its overall plot and lines are not intelligent enough.
If we look forward to the Wind and see the Blade’s Tip, which may be disappointing, but if we just look at the Blade’s Tip, will we be moved by its ups and downs, suspense and thrilling confrontation between light and dark? Let’s go into the cinema and find out!