The Exorcist is one of my favorite novels from my high school days, and I can remember chasing after it without sleep or food. In the book, Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao left a deep impression on me, as the main character tossed and turned between the two women, and the love between them was hard to love.
The problem of the red and white roses in wuxia novels has always dazzled the audience. In addition to “The Exorcist”, there is also Zhao Min and Zhou Zhi Ruo in “The Legend of Heavenly Tu Tuition”, Qin Kefei and Qing Qing in “The Full Moon Scimitar”, and Bai Fei Fei and Zhu Qi Qi in “The History of Martial Arts”.
The Exorcist is more like a modern love story in the guise of a chivalrous novel, where every man wants to have two women in his life: a white moonlight and a cinnabar mole. Each woman, in turn, wants her lover to be handsome, dashing and virtuous.
While we criticize the man’s hesitation, the reality is that many of us treat love and marriage the same way as the people in the play: greedy and selfish, perhaps love is not always so great that it is celebrated, but rather easier: when the love is strong, it turns thin, and now we regret our love.
In the interview, Mencius said that because Baguio is a witch, she has to dress like that. It’s not a witch, but there are many witches in Jin Yong’s plays, such as Huang Rong, Ren Yingying, Zhao Min, and none of them look like this, and a witch is a woman who acts in a deviant and deviant way, not a woman who looks so non-mainstream.
The second slot is at the beginning where the brothers and teachers fight over the roast pork. When it’s time to eat, the brothers and teachers fight over a piece of meat, as if they have never eaten anything good in their 800 lifetimes. The scene is similar to Yang Yang and Liu Yifei’s “Three Lives and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms”, in which Yang Yang advertises hand-pulled noodles and Xiao Zhan advertises braised pork in “The Exorcist”.
The third slot is the clothes inside. It is said that the set of beggar uniform a hundred thousand, why I look as decent as ten dollars?
After talking about the slots, let’s talk about the pros.
First of all, let’s talk about the acting skills of the main man and woman.
The first time I saw her, I thought that she was a woman, but she didn’t know that she was a woman.
Xiao Zhan and Li Qin did a very good job. At the time of making this movie, Xiao Zhan was still an unknown actor, and had not yet made “Emotion Order Chen”. When the movie aired, Emotion Order Chen was already on fire, and Xiao Zhan was even more popular, so this movie has such a box office, he contributed. In the movie, we also see his seriousness, and Zhang Xiaofan’s role is very suitable for him, he previously played Wei Wuqian, which is a very cute character in the early stage and a dark character in the later stage, with a great reversal.
Li Qin’s Lu Xueqi is also good, although not a white dress, but the performance of the kind of cold and arrogant, outward appearance looks elegant and unworldly, but carrying too much, for the sake of the honor of the master, practice kung fu practice until the nose bleeds, her facial expressions are also very in place. If you don’t have high acting skills, you can easily become a zombie face, as in several of Liu Yifei’s roles. She is not only not stiff in her facial expressions, but also shows her responsibility and pain, and her laughter and tears are always for the sake of Zhang Xiaofan, especially the tearful smile at the end, which is appropriately expressed.
Let’s talk about stunts again.
Cheng Xiaodong is a master of martial arts, having filmed classic films such as “The Legend of the Chinese Woman”, “The East is Not Failed” and “Yellow Feihong”, the stunts of that era had reached the point of perfection, so the stunts of this movie are guaranteed. In addition, this movie only invested 50 million, small cost of special effects can also do so, already very impressive, Cheng Xiaodong in the end is Cheng Xiaodong.
Finally, a few laughs.
There are a lot of jokes in it, some corny, but also with a conscience. The monkey and the dog are good, but in the original Zhang Xiaofan had two pets, Ash and Big Yellow. I still remember when Zhang Xiaofan came back to Qingyun after becoming a ghost, Little Grey hugged him and said, “Now you’re the only one who still treats me the same as you did at the beginning,” which was infinitely heartbreaking. In the movie, when Baguio snatched the burning rod, the monkey’s expression was surprised and covered his eyes, which was so vivid that one could not help but feel that the animal’s acting was better than some actors. Later on, the monkey riding the dog is also laughable, and the design here is very original.
With the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the box office trend of “The Exorcist 1” has dropped significantly: the first day broke 140 million, the second day more than 80 million, the third day more than 40 million. The movie is not a classic, but it’s not a bad movie, and can be considered a moderate work.
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