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In 1978,Jackie Chan shot to fame with Snake in the Eagle's Shadow. Since then, he has witnessed the rise and fall of Hong Kong films. He is the No. 1 celebrity in the Chinese film and television industry and almost dominated the Hong Kong film box office charts throughout the 1980s.In the 1990s, although Stephen Chow emerged as a rising star, Jackie Chan could still crush Stephen Chow in terms of global box office appeal.

But unexpectedly, after the new millennium, the situation of Jackie Chan's monopoly changed.

In 2004, Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow released "New Police Story" and "Kung Fu" respectively. Although both films were above standard, and Jackie Chan's "New Police Story" was supported by the IP of "Police Story",Unexpectedly, "New Police Story" was completely crushed by Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu" in many dimensions such as box office, word of mouth, awards, and Douban score.In fact, this failure became a thorn in Jackie Chan's side, and he reflected "revenge" in "The Baby Project".

In 2005, Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong collaborated to"The Myth" took in 97 million RMB at the box office, ranking second in the domestic film box office rankings that year., second only to The Promise. In 2006,"Baby Project" earned 94 million RMB at the box office, ranking 6th on the Chinese film box office list that year and 4th among domestically produced films.

In 2012, Jackie Chan"The Chinese Zodiac" earned 881 million yuan at the box office, ranking third in the 2012 mainland movie box office rankings and second among domestic films.

Since 2005, Jackie Chan's movies have always been among the top 10 domestic movies in terms of box office, which has completely made Jackie Chan a box office miracle after the 1980s.Jackie Chan's movies have been going from bad to worse since "New Police Story", and by the time of "Dragon Blade", it has become a piece of "shit" with exquisite packaging, full of the smell of money-making.

"Dragon Blade" was written and directed by Li Rengang, starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody and others. It was released on February 19, 2015.It grossed RMB 742 million at the box office, ranking 13th on the 2015 Chinese film box office rankings and 8th among domestic films.

Currently, on Douban114,000 people gave it a score of 6.0.At the same time, he was nominated for Best Action Director at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards.

From Luoxue's personal point of view, this film is a qualified popcorn movie, with a fast-paced rhythm, some inadvertent funny scenes, and action scenes throughout the film. The idea of ​​universal peace pursued in the film is also very in line with the needs of the times. Moreover, the presentation of elements such as friendship, family affection, and betrayal in the film makes the whole movie very good and very popcorn.

However, this film is just like "The Chinese Zodiac", you can't think about it too much.This film is full of logical and historical bugs. The development of the film's plot seems to be made out of nothing. The director's lack of knowledge of Chinese history makes the film full of extremely ridiculous and low-level mistakes.Every turn of the movie is extremely abrupt and there is absolutely no logic at all.

It can be said that the movie "Dragon Blade" is a pile of exquisite "shit". The more you watch it, the more disgusting it feels!

The following is a serious spoiler. For those who haven't seen it, I suggest you go watch the movie first and then read Luoxue's recommendations! (For those who don't have the channel, you can click Luoxue on the menu homepage to watch the movie)

1. Wonderful popcorn

Let me tell you one thing.Although the story of "Dragon Blade" has many problems, it is still an excellent popcorn movie.

The film tells the story of modern archaeologists discovering the ancient city of Liqian, uncovering a 2,000-year-old history. It turns out that the Chinese once fought a great war with the Roman army. The protagonist of the story is Huo An, a member of the Western Regions Protectorate. He mediated conflicts among the countries in the Western Regions and advocated peaceful development. However, he was framed and sent to Yanmen Pass to build a city. Unexpectedly, he encountered the Roman army who fled. After the two sides resolved the misunderstanding, they jointly built Yanmen Pass, established a deep friendship, and jointly dealt with the ambitious Roman army.

The story of the movie is very simple, butThe director adds a lot of action scenes, comedy segments, and fast editing elements to make the pace of the whole movie very fast, creating excitement for the audience and not letting them feel bored.

Especially the design of the action scenes. This film includes both individual fights and chaotic group fights, as well as battles between armies, showing a majestic momentum.

For example, the battle between the Roman army led by Huo An and the Roman army of Thebes was full of cruelty.The scene where the armies of the seven Western Regions suddenly rushed out to fight against the Roman army was magnificent and shocking, just like Gandalf leading his troops to save Rohan in "The Lord of the Rings 2".

But the most amazing part of the movie is actually the two fights between Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody, which are both tough and entertaining.Adrien Brody's action scenes highlight the ferocious and wild action style. The design of Jackie Chan's broken arm bone when he turned defeat into victory is also quite shocking. It is one of the rare fierce scenes in domestic action movies.

At the same time, the movie basically follows the principle of a battle every 10 minutes, making the whole story full of exciting action scenes, constantly stimulating the audience's adrenaline. In addition, there are also many comedy scenes and touching elements in the movie.

For example, in the battle between Bairong and Xiong'an, Xiong'an King's daughter Lengyue and Huo An fought each other, and Lengyue's veil was accidentally torn off. When she asked Huo An to drink, she directly said "I'm ready", then took off her clothes and stood naked in front of Huo An. This wildness and boldness surprised even the audience who were mentally prepared.

In Yanmen Pass, the characters Yantou and his deputy played by Chopstick Brothers contributed almost all the jokes in the movie, making the audience laugh as the plot developed. In addition, the death of Prince Bairong and General Lucius added touching scenes to the movie.

A movie like this, which has jokes, touching moments, action, big scenes, friendship, love, and peace and love, can hardly be called an excellent popcorn movie, which is where the word "exquisite" comes from in the title.

However, the quality of a movie is not about whether it looks good or not, but whether it can stand up to scrutiny and whether we can find personal emotions that are closely related to us in the movie. Obviously, the story of "The Blade" is simple, but also stupid! The theme is clear, but it is extremely empty! There are constant twists and turns, but they are extremely stupid!

2. Brainless Logic

The biggest embarrassment of this film is actuallyThe theme of the movie is empty! It makes people unable to resonate with it, and they cannot feel the core charm of the movie.

In this film, whether it is Huo An breaking into the battlefield between the Xiongnu and the Bairong, or pulling apart the fighting ethnic groups in the Western Regions like Wong Fei-hung in Yanmen Pass, or the unity and cooperation to build Yanmen Pass, painting the flags of various ethnic groups, and finally many countries in the Western Regions sending troops to rescue Huo An, the concept of peaceful coexistence is constantly demonstrated.

But the question is, what do big themes and patterns like national peace and ethnic peace have to do with ordinary people and moviegoers?

Douban's TOP 250 movies such as "A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella" and "Dying to Survive" all have detailed and specific core concepts that make the audience see themselves or think of themselves when watching the movies, which makes them classic movies. Even "Kung Fu", which advocates "maintaining world peace", is actually the struggle between good and evil.

Chinese people have always disliked grand but empty themes, because big means empty, and empty means fake. The theme of world peace is actually just a false and deceptive theme.Compared with the empty and false theme, the story twists in the movie are extremely perfunctory, with absolutely no logic and no basis at all.

For example, modern archaeologists were determined to find the ancient city of Lizhou, but when they found it and holographically restored it, they just listened to an opera and decided to give up announcing it, allowing the ancient city of Lizhou to continue to sleep.What was the reason for the inconsistent and hasty decisions? There was no reason, no sign.

In the ancient plot, Huo An believed that Thebes led an army of 100,000 to pursue Lucius, in order to occupy the entire line of thought and endanger the Han Dynasty, so he concluded that "Thebes and the governor must have colluded." How did Huo An come up with such a stupid judgment? The gold coins were first used by the Protectorate to enter the pass, so the problem should be the Protectorate. How did the bad guy become the governor?

The governor exiled Huo An and others because of the influx of foreign currency, and ordered the urgent construction of Yanmen Pass to resist foreign enemies.How did Huo An come to the conclusion that the prefect was a bad guy?

Thebes led an army of 100,000 from Rome to the border of the Western Regions in order to obtain the border defense seal and all the military orders from Yin Po, rule the countries along the Silk Road, and build a more powerful country!

But how did a Roman who was thousands of miles away know the seal of the border commander? He was a foreigner, and it would be difficult for him to mobilize the Han army even if he had the seal!An army of 100,000 marched all the way from Rome to Gansu just to seize the seal of the border commander, and then it would be easier for him to rule all the countries along the way.

Let’s not talk about the difficulty of leading an army of 100,000 from Rome to Gansu and the difficulty of logistical supply.With his 100,000-man army, couldn't he destroy the Silk Road countries one by one and then rule the Silk Road? He had to go to China and take the seal of the border commander to rule the 36 Western Regions far away from Rome. Was he crazy?

You know, in the battle at the end of the movie, the seven countries in the Western Regions were easily destroyed by him. So, why didn't he just destroy the countries in the Western Regions, but chose such a stupid method? In addition, which country would dare to borrow the passage of 100,000 troops? Is he so bold?

Similarly, Leng Yue and his brothers went to rescue Huo An. The seven countries in the Western Regions fought together in times of danger. What was their reason for risking their lives?Even if Huo An had done him a great favor, he wouldn't repay him with the life and death of a country, right?

In addition, in the movie, when Huo An rescued the Roman army in Thebes, he was so kind as to let his enemies go. The Roman soldiers followed suit and let the enemies go, but when they faced enemies that were hundreds of times their number, they were killed and had no chance of survival.What kind of thought process does this require? What kind of saintly white lotus can do such a thing?

In addition, a single agreement can make the monarch of the empire lose everything, and the setting that Tibes could have killed Huo An but never did so, and then waited for the other party to kill him, made Luo Xue call the screenwriter a fool! The screenwriter and director's ignorance of history made this movie extremely ridiculous.

3. A chaotic history

The biggest joke in this film is the words “This story is adapted from real history” at the beginning of the film.

Not to mention that Li Rengang's iconic flying saucer hat design is very stupid, the fact that the person in the Western Han Dynasty 2000 years ago taught in the simplified Chinese characters that became popular after the New Culture Movement is very distracting. And the people in the Western Han Dynasty Protectorate can wear modern leather jackets. I don't know what the director was thinking?

As for clothing, there is no one in the film who is dressed in rags, even the slaves who built Yanmen Pass were dressed appropriately. That was the Western Han Dynasty, which had just experienced the northern attack on the Xiongnu, the witchcraft disaster, and the Han Xuan Emperor's efforts to strengthen the country. The people were extremely poor. Mencius said: "If you plant mulberry trees in a house of five mu, you can wear silk clothes at the age of fifty." That is to say, if you plant five mu of mulberry trees and raise silkworms for decades, you can only wear clothes at the age of 50 if there are no natural disasters, man-made disasters, or wars.

In the movie, everyone wears clothes, and the clothes are gorgeous and decent.Was the Western Han Dynasty already so wealthy? Were the slaves so free?

Moreover, when Huo An went home to save his wife, they actually used silk as a bond to go downstairs. You should know that until the Ming Dynasty, officials of low rank could only wear hemp clothes. And the Western Han Dynasty was so rich? Was it because the Western Regions Protectorate was so rich?

Moreover, when the director was building Yanmen Pass through the cooperation between China and the West, he actually used the method of using iron frames to hold gravel, which was extremely distracting!

Luoxue did not doubt the design of the pulley, the calculation method, or the method of use. However,Iron is needed to make iron cages, and iron has been a strictly controlled item since the Qin Dynasty. However, Yanmen Pass was able to privately build multiple large iron cages at will. Was Yanmen Pass preparing for a rebellion?

It can be said that this film's ignorance of history and culture and its deception of the audience have reached an outrageous level.On the other hand, looking at the dressing styles in "The Warlords", we can clearly see the gap between Li Rengang and Chen Kexin, it is really a chasm!

So, in general, "Dragon Blade" is a fairly decent popcorn movie, but the frequent logical bugs and historical ignorance in the movie can be said to be a pile of "exquisite shit", which is very disgusting!

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