As soon as the Duke of Northern Wuhuan appeared, he was a contradictory figure. He shows a rather feminine expression and posture from time to time, but he always walks with a very masculine step. He is sometimes warm and affectionate, and sometimes ruthless. He is cunning, but he can also say childish things. After carefully reading The Promise, I feel that Wu Huan is a selfish child and possessive. He loves love, but he doesn't know how to love others. And he may be bisexual. Judging from his sissy expression and movements, his sexual orientation may be male. But he must still like women, otherwise he wouldn't give a golden thumbs-up to the beauty of the whole city, but he also hesitantly touched the cheek of the whole city twice (one of which was angrily avoided by the whole city) and the little girl in Snow Country. I don't know if the girl likes the youth of the whole city or is attracted by the innocent appearance of the girl, but the duke's wolf claws almost touched the little girl's lips. Judging from the fact that he came out wearing an eagle helmet when he was a child, and that the room was covered with screens painted with various forms of birds, the Duke of North probably liked birds very much. Therefore, he treats people he loves, admires and is interested in by dressing them with feathered clothes or locking them in golden cages. Perhaps for Wu Huan, being a master is less likely to be deceived and betrayed than being a lover or friend, so he became a collector, grabbing the most beautiful, possessing the strongest, binding the fastest and conquering the proudest.
"You deprived me of the opportunity to be a good person"-Wu Huan and Qingcheng (with a hint of regret)
Wu Huan undoubtedly hates the whole city, but it is likely to be mixed with love. He said, "I haven't loved since then. I have been looking for you for so many years, just for this day. " This persistence may be unforgettable, because it is the first love and the intersection of love and hate. Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung performed wonderfully in The Golden Bird Cage: Qingcheng leaned against the stairs in various ways and breathed a sigh of relief with a charming smile on her lips: "Are we going to sleep here tonight?" Don't think she is a bad woman. At that time, she had to do this in order to survive, just like "the mother died, but the whole city wanted to live" (full of gods). Wu Huan seemed tempted, approached her and held out his hand as if to touch her face ... The gasps of the whole city became louder and louder ... Wu Huan suddenly withdrew his hand and said softly, "Do you think I robbed you to come back as Mrs. North? Take it back. " Qingcheng stopped breathing, but immediately laughed: "Isn't it?" Lift the jade leg, hook the unhappiness to the front ... suddenly pull out a knife and put it on the unhappy neck, with a victorious smile on her beautiful face. Wu Huan also smiled: "I thought you would thank me ..." I have to admit: he slowly leaned back with his hands, with mocking eyes and evil smile. He was really handsome! But he said such heartless words: "Without me, you may never feel love, even for a moment." But where is the person you love? You killed him for your own survival ... "Cecilia Cheung's performance was also excellent. I saw the whole city Zheng first, then sipped her lips, tears for you in her eyes, her hand holding the knife trembled slightly ... Tears finally fell down, and her face was full of tears ... She wielded a knife hard! Of course, it was dodged, and there was no threat, and its strength was obvious. I just felt a little cheated, so I said these words on purpose and stabbed her. People who have no love experience are often so cruel to the person they secretly love, and they can't help but say some harsh words to stab him and force him. In the last scene, the whole city secretly kicked the knife to Kunlun, and Wu Huan regarded it as the whole city with a complicated expression. On his deathbed, he said, "You still can't get it. "Yes, whether Wu Huan really loves the whole city or not, all he wants to do is lock her in a golden cage and appreciate her pain. Whether it is hate or love, the choice without joy is the most extreme performance.
"General, I respect you"-no joy and no light.
Unhappiness and light are yin and yang poles. When General Guangming appeared, he was dignified and arrogant. When Kunlun, who pretended to be him, entered the city, the silver army retreated in succession. As he said, "As soon as I appear in the city, the army of the Duke of North will collapse without a fight." Beloved light, power and glory, as well as the unhappiness with slight inferiority, are deep envy and admiration for him and his determination to subdue him. "I have always dreamed that you can wear this black robe. Should I give up this dream? " I want you to be my collection. I have wanted to be your master for a long time. When Guangming answered "Give me the robe", Wu Huan burst into tears. Before the release of Promise, I saw a comment in the newspaper that the ghost wolf finally had an ambiguous feeling for Kunlun. Maybe I'm slow, but I don't think they have any special feelings at all. But I'm really shocked to see this conversation without joy and light, aren't I? Does he like him? ! Otherwise, I really can't explain the tear. Well, even if Wu Xi finally surpassed the general and found a good slave and cried with joy, or cried excitedly because he finally found a bosom friend, how can he explain that he magnified the general? Would such a smart person make such a low-level mistake? But then again, there are many things in the promise that can't be explained. In a word, I believe this time it didn't bring any good results. The sword of freedom stabbed me. Wu Huan looked down at his injury, then raised his head with a gloomy face of betrayal. From the point of view that the ghost wolf wins the light and the unhappiness wins the ghost wolf, the strength of unhappiness should not be lower than the light, and the damage caused by sneak attack may be too heavy. Maybe Fan didn't go as smoothly as the spear. He lost unhappily first, and then turned the defeat into victory very skillfully. Quietly looking at the light that fell to the ground and gradually went out, what was on his mind? Perhaps without the absence of this moment, the chances of the whole city and Kunlun making a comeback are much smaller.
"Give me back my robe" —— Wu Huan and Ghost Wolf
Obviously, the ghost wolf's life under Wu Huan is not easy. Ghost wolves always tremble with fear in front of Huanhuan, and can't even speak neatly. Huanhuan throwing away his helmet can scare him. It is estimated that it is hard to be a slave to Huanhuan (understandably, such a moody person). The ghost wolf said to Kunlun, "Don't kill Wu Huan, you can't kill him more than me!" " "That ghost Wolf may resist, certainly didn't get any good fruit to eat. In order to help Kunlun, the ghost wolf still confronts Wu Huan. After Wu Huan stopped the ghost wolf, he deliberately tried to kill him. Fortunately, our hero Kunlun arrived in time and turned the tables. When two Guo snowmen were happy to get the flower armor, the situation reversed again, and the dark silver legion stood behind without joy. Wu Huan: "Ghost Wolf, I also want you to choose, armor or robe? ..... You betrayed the people of Snow Country in the past, and now you betray me, your savior. "I don't know if you have noticed that the following words are clearly addressed to the ghost wolf, but they are addressed to Kunlun:" Since you love your kin so much, please give me back my robe. "If you take him away, I want him dead! Then he turned to the ghost wolf and said sharply, "Give me back my robe!" You see, he still feels wronged. ) The ghost wolf finally disappeared without a trace. This is the possessiveness of an extreme collector: you can leave me, but you must die!
"You know that a slave is not even his own life"-Wu Huan and Kunlun
I'm afraid Wu Huan doesn't like Kunlun for three reasons: first, he is the man that Qingcheng really loves; Second, he is the slave of his most jealous General Bright; Third, he directly led to the betrayal of the ghost wolf.
But as a collector, he obviously appreciates Kunlun's ability. In the play, the martial arts of Wu Huan, Ghost Wolf and Guangming should be equal, each with its own strengths, and the super Saiyan like Kunlun can always beat Wu Huan a few meters away. So Wu Huan said to the ghost wolf in a rage, "Give me back my robe. I have found someone more suitable to be his master than you, not to mention that he is a slave. "
Wu Huan and Hua Jia
The flower armor represents invincible glory, but Wu Huan said, "... don't think I care about the flower armor and the god of war!" I want to keep it for great use. " If it wasn't for being a god of war, what was he doing in flower armor?
Without happiness and feathers.
The feather in Nukunlun's hand is a symbol of love and beauty, and it is his residual dream of love for the whole city. Wu Huan threw it into the fire, only to find that his men were scrambling around the stove, as if mocking, and he laughed. But when the feather flew to his eyes, the laughter stopped abruptly, and even he couldn't help staring at the feather.
Another feather fell from the ghost wolf's robe. He picked it with a gun: "Where are you?" Man: "escaped." The duke, who has always been furious, looked bitter: "Traitor!" Kuroha waved his hand and fell into the flashing green fire.
Perhaps, as his actor Xiao Xie said, the Duke of Northern Wuhuan should be the most emotional of the five, but he is often betrayed. But one thing is certain, people who can't love will not taste the taste of being loved.
-On Wu Huan and the actors in The Promise.
On unhappiness
The Promise has been controversial since its premiere, mainly in two aspects: stunts and actors. Nicholas Tse is the most criticized actor. There are probably the following reasons: 1. The acting skills of Zhang Dongjian, Liu Ye and Hiroyuki Sanada were all affirmed, and they all won performance awards at home and abroad. Criticize them and keep some points; 2. Zhang He belongs to foreign aid, and the consistent style of China fans is to be more tolerant of foreign aid; Chen Hong and Cecilia Cheung are both actresses, which is enough to make people tolerate them. Besides, their performances were very good, and Xiao Chun's voice filled many defects for Cecilia Cheung. So a man became the target of public criticism-Nicholas Tse.
In this seamless egg, this handsome boy has always been a teenager's problem, and his acting skills have not been affirmed. He looks a little good. He should be classified as an idol, and everyone regards him as an operation. Even when I watched this movie, I thought, "Is this brother here for a joke?" And "He is ill." It was not until the end of the movie that I realized that he was really funny and really abnormal. But I already like this role and Nicholas Tse's acting skills.
Wu Huan, a crazy person, should not be said to be a willful and crazy child. Living a seemingly smooth but helpless superior life has also created his simple but complicated personality. In a sense, Nicholas Tse's situation is very similar to his, so their personalities are diametrically opposed. They all pursue perfection, simply strive for one goal, and also very much hope to be affirmed by others, but because they are too eager to save face, they don't want others to see their efforts, and even make some absurd behaviors that ordinary people can't understand. And these are just the foolish behavior of a rebellious child, and under the title of duke and the aura of star, the result is the same-criticism is like a flood.
Forget their personalities. After all, I don't know them. It would be foolish to say more. Back to the subject, talk about his acting skills.
Childish. Many people think that this is the biggest acting defect in this play, especially when they know that the original actor without joy is ... Needless to say, Leslie Cheung's feminine beauty, her eyes reveal a little ambiguity and her precise and mature acting skills for the role of Nie Nan are absolutely beyond Nicholas Tse's reach. However, I think Nicholas Tse's slightly childish acting in this play is his highlight. To be honest, in my eyes, Wu Huan is really a child. Although he is older than the whole city, he is much more naive than the whole city in treating people. The whole city has suffered a lot since childhood and has been tempered in all aspects. She is a natural precocious person. Without happiness, you will also be precocious under the title of duke, and behind that precocity is an extremely fragile mind and naive ideas. There is a line "You let me lose the opportunity to be a good person", which is praised as the great success of Promise, but I think it is the best embodiment of childlike innocence. We don't know whether what Huan said is true or not. He is too clever. But whether it is true or not, this sentence is too naive. If what he said is true, his persistence is too naive and pitiful. If what he said is false, it is to blame all the mistakes on Qingcheng, which reminds us of the little boy who broke the vase and tried to shirk his responsibility, but only thought of a ridiculous reason. Nicholas Tse showed this naivety well. I even want to say that even if Leslie Cheung plays it, he can't play this kind of innocence, which is the truest innocence contained in the maturity of appearance and the prominence of status. It is this innocence that makes the role of unhappiness more three-dimensional and different.
Indeed, the absence of joy is the most unusual part of the play. Kunlun, the growth story of a hero. This kind of story is everywhere, especially in Jin Yong's novels. But as director Chen Kaige said, he made the film seem to bring people even a little hope, so such a role is really indispensable. Guangming, the story of a fallen hero. There is no need to find such stories in novels. In reality, if you think about it casually, there will be a bunch. After all, people's basic attribute is to retreat if they don't advance. By contrast, no joy is so different. He is an extremely complicated person. He seems to have the most, but he also seems to have nothing. He seems to want everything, but nothing seems to make him happy. He tried to be perfect, but his character defect aroused the hatred of everyone. His body is full of complexity that people can't understand, and Nicholas Tse seems to understand this, so he shows the willfulness, madness and neuroticism caused by this complexity to the fullest. When he shows unhappy madness and tension, it will naturally have a funny effect. After all, a madman's behavior will make people laugh.
One of my favorite scenes in Nicholas Tse is the scene ordered by Snow Country. While I ordered the killing mercilessly, I said innocently: You Snow People are really ruthless races. This scene fully shows the cruelty, childishness, madness and willfulness of unhappiness. At that time, I just wanted to hit him, laugh at him and sympathize with him. This is Wu Huan, a unique Wu Huan, a feminine, handsome, heartless, childish and willful madman, and we will never see him in our life.
"They are dying. Go and see them. " He cut the rope of Qingcheng, even though he knew Qingcheng would never pounce on him. But even though he knew he was dying, he still told his favorite woman that others were dying. There is no humble begging for this woman to take a look at herself, even though he has great expectations in his heart. This is his unhappy pride. Even if this pride will make him lose everything, he must persist because he is not happy.
But when the little boy put the little girl down from the tree, he was innocent; But when he handed the hat to the little girl, he was naive. ...
-The acme of beauty and destruction.
In "The Promise", Duke Huan of Beiwu values his noble dignity above everything else. For everything outside, he values purity and beauty-loyalty and courage to people's hearts, luxury and beauty to things. Because he pursues external purity and noble dignity, his clothes and residence (even combat armor and military equipment) can be beautiful. Because he valued the loyalty and courage of the people and the dignity of the nobility, he was desperate to find a suitable slave. But at the same time, he lives in his own world, and everything outside must obey his dignity. When people are disloyal and brave when their dignity is humiliated, he is determined to destroy them and punish them.
So in the value world defined by Wu Huan, Xiao Qingcheng made Xiao Wu Huan lose her dignity, and at the same time violated the loyalty behind her promise, so she would eventually be destroyed.
The silent snow country girl scratched him and hurt his dignity, while the snow country people would rather die than be his slaves, which violated the definition of courage in misfortune and should be eliminated.
At the last moment, the ghost wolf who chose to be a slave died together because Kunlun betrayed him and lost his loyalty as a slave.
And light, coupled with courage and loyalty to the king, made him value it very much. It was not until the king died that Guangming deceived the whole city out of selfishness and decided to destroy him without knowing anything. But in the Senate, Guangming finally regained her courage and loyalty to love because she fell in love with Allure. It was an unpleasant accident, so he expressed his appreciation for the light of this moment in his own way.
Although Kunlun was loyal and brave from beginning to end, he repeatedly hurt his dignity and eventually became the lover of the whole city. That destroying him can also bring pain to the whole city, so there is no joy in killing him and destroying her.
He knows the darkness in people's hearts (the initial reason may come from his childhood experience), looks at other people's world coldly and controls manipulation together, just like a game. His aristocratic status and ability to control people's hearts made destruction possible.
The duel between birdcage and Qingcheng Mountain was the first victory. Look at his soft voice and soft body, as if the whole city suddenly jumped out and spoke the most sensitive and fragile monologue, and the whole city began to collapse.
The confrontation with the ghost wolf in Hyogo was the second victory. Look at his harsh voice and high roar, awe-inspiring heroic spirit. The cowardly ghost wolf loses to the imposing manner first, and regaining the black robe is the most feared threat of the ghost wolf. Although the death of the ghost wolf is more due to its own awakening, for Wu Huan, the purpose has been achieved.
The unexpected change of light in the Senate made this joyless game take a turn for the worse, and the final showdown finally began.
This time, Wu Huan failed. There is no joyful monologue, from the humiliation of childhood to the end of "we can't trust anyone". As for "They are dying, go and see them" before dying, I think it is incomplete and has another meaning. Perhaps in Wu Huan's view, letting Qingcheng live but losing her lover is the biggest destruction and punishment for Qingcheng, who has been longing for true love.
He is too paranoid and cares about the dignity of the nobility. Without happiness, he can only have the beauty of external things, but not pure beauty, so he is not a god but a demon, doomed to be a destroyer and doomed to be unhappy.
Conclusion: Without a happy smile, people can't see through it, but who knows that turning around and watching it may always be a life without joy for themselves. Although he has nothing, there is no one in the world like him, and all kinds of emotional words always come from the heart. Even this Byakki Smoker is an enlarged part of himself.