Let the bullets fly - Mr. Huang can’t live without Goose City

1. Why is Let the Bullets Fly successful?

The lack of segmented narrative reduces the threshold for viewing, the comedy increases the viewing experience, and the background era of the film makes people feel both close and far away.

Let the Bullets Fly always tells a story from the perspective of the protagonist and the protagonist's team, which enhances the sense of immersion without doubting the authenticity of the story.

For a movie like "Rashomon", for the same thing, different people choose to tell different story versions due to their own interests and various reasons. In the end, a large number of story fragments were collected and then combined into.

Another option is to divide the original story into multiple segments, scramble them and then combine them for broadcast.

Multi-angle and multi-segment films (films with multi-line narratives), such as "Two Smoking Barrels" and "Crazy Stone", have very high requirements for the director to control the rhythm. The film is so complex that even when asking investors to invest, it is necessary to draw a character relationship diagram to facilitate understanding.

The biggest problem still lies in the high-density information flow. Faced with the high-intensity information infusion, we can only use our brains to think.

Entertainment is relaxation. Comedy only requires the audience to find it funny. Happiness requires no thinking. When people see the protagonist’s bizarre encounters and unlucky moments (Huang Bo’s bread-stealing ending and the sewer in “Crazy Stone” phone), people found it funny.

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Most of the literary works that can make people think are tragedies. Tragedies will make people think about the reasons for the tragedy of the protagonist, because after we take on the role of the protagonist, we do not want ourselves to Facing a tragic ending, we will find ways for the protagonist to change this tragic ending. This is also the reason why many people don’t like to watch tragedies.

If "Let the Bullets Fly" ends after Huang Shilang's death, the entire story will be a story of good triumphing over evil.

But doing things requires paying a price. The division of a team is inevitable, but unity is accidental. When the purpose of revenge for the six sons is completed, the division of the team is inevitable.

Did Zhang Muzhi succeed? It succeeded, Huang Silang is dead

The fifth generation family business was just gone, but it did not succeed because his team disintegrated.

In the era of the Republic of China, there were not only some core concepts of modern politics - democracy and nation, but also some remnants of China's feudal social culture - the imperial power did not extend to the county (above the county level, intellectuals under the imperial examination system Mainly, a dual structure based on gentry and clan autonomy below the county level).

The Republic of China is an era very close to us, but also a very distant era.

2. Why has "Let the Bullets Fly" always been so popular?

Because this story can interpret some current problems from multiple perspectives.

The United States flaunts itself as a beacon of democracy. Recently, a fraud case involving Trump’s national adviser “Bannon” came out.

The United States is Goose City, so who are the gangsters? One is terrorists (according to the narrative of the American political elite), and the other is immigrants (Americans are angry at immigrants taking away their jobs after their job opportunities have been reduced).

Then Mr. Huang is a capitalist. The benefits of suppressing foreign bandits are two points. One is that the military-industrial complex makes money, and the other is that the American Internet and technology giants are based on the global market and are built on global stability and With the United States dominating, the United States must demonstrate its military presence to other countries in order to maintain its dominance.

With the decline in the quality of life of the American people, the long-term war has caused some American people to reflect on why the United States went to the distant Middle East to fight a war that lasted for many years.

Boycotting immigrants will not solve the problem (the plane on 911 was a domestic flight in the United States), not to mention the loss of job opportunities caused by these immigrants.

A new bandit suppression method has appeared again, which is to build a wall and increase the cost of immigration. Of course, the problem with building the wall is that neither the military-industrial complex nor the technology giants can get the money, so Trump is very willing to build the wall. , and the US government is unwilling to repair it.

People can personally donate money to raise funds to build the wall.

When the money is in your hands, you can control where it goes. Once it is handed over to other people's hands, you don't know where the money goes.

Building a wall is a new money-making opportunity for the United States. Building a wall is anti-global intervention (global intervention requires a strong, flexible, and globally deployed military) and anti-immigration (the United States has such cheap and abundant procedures (member?), then how does the military-industrial complex make money, and how does the technology giant reduce costs?

This is why Bullets Fly is still so popular, a story from a movie from a few years ago can explain what is happening now.

3. What story does Let the Bullets Fly tell?

A group of bandits used the official documents they snatched to go to a county to become the county magistrate. They fought against the gentry in the county, Mr. Huang, and finally defeated Mr. Huang.

For the master, his county magistrate was bought, so what he has to consider is how to earn his county magistrate back. Therefore, the master's position is that as long as he can make money, whose money is it? It doesn’t matter who gives it,

But for Zhang Muzhi, his county magistrate is free. Since he came to Echeng to take office, he came to be the county magistrate. Whether he makes money is the second goal, so Zhang When Mu Zhi came to Goose City, the first thing he did was to complain.

But the death of Liuzi was a turning point. This incident directly led to the feud between Zhang Muzhi and Mr. Huang, and united Zhang Muzhi's team. After all, some people wanted to replace Zhang Muzhi. If he wanted to replace Zhang Muzhi must consider the thoughts of other team members. It is necessary to avenge the six sons, but after the revenge is over, what should the team do? Should they continue to follow Boss Zhang in Echeng, or follow the new boss to Pudong to eat meat.

But Mr. Huang doesn’t know the importance of Liuzi in this team. If he knows that the person opposite is Zhang Mazi, there is no need to save his life. If you are a bandit, you can kill him directly and explain the banditry. Vicious cases only occur when you enter the city (rape cases committed by Mr. Huang).

4. Why vilify bandits?

To answer this question, first understand what power is? Power is a kind of influence, using fear to prevent the other party from making choices that you are unwilling or do not want the other party to make, and using trust to make the other party make the choices that you want.

The difficult thing about clans is that they not only commit evil, but also have their own judgment system to adjudicate conflicts among clan members, and the most important thing for Chinese people is their ancestors. You will see The final point of the argument between Lin Yaodong and Lin Yaohui in "Operation Ice Breaking" was also explained to the ancestors in this way. At the same time, in Tazhai Village, the oppression of the first and second families against the third family is also the norm in the clan, but they have all been bullied to this extent. In the end, Lin Yaohui still Worried that I was betraying my last name.

The effect of vilifying the bandits is to make the people of Echeng hate the bandits and support the act of suppressing the bandits. To suppress the bandits, the gentry will most likely return the money in full, and the people's money will be divided into 30-70 business. What's more important is that the people of Echeng will not run to the bandits.

What is Mr. Huang’s business? They trafficked people to the United States to earn dollars, and sold cigarettes to Liu Dutong. Without those common people who didn't even have a shirt, Mr. Huang sold himself to the United States to earn dollars? If the people grow food to be self-sufficient, who will grow tobacco soil for Mr. Huang? Therefore, the people of Echeng must live in poverty in order to maintain Mr. Huang's business.

When the people can't stand the poor life, they have to run away. In order to prevent the people from running away, they have to publicize how bad life is in the mountains and how vicious the bandits are.

Of course, bandits during the Republic of China basically committed all kinds of evil. Of course, another notable feature was that they had good relations with corrupt officials and landlords.

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Secondly, Mr. Huang also has a third business. He cooperates with the county magistrate to make money from the four major families and the people of Echeng. Mr. Huang is the seventh and the county magistrate is the third, but he is a gangster who only talks about it. We can't let the four major families and the people of Echeng honestly give money to suppress the bandits, so we need a real existence that meets Master Huang's needs (the real bandits don't have pockmarks on their faces, but Master Huang's bandits have their faces burned in order to conform to the publicity). Pockmarked) Mazi.

Third, what the real bandits do may not necessarily scare the people of Echeng, but what the fake bandits do will definitely make the people of Echeng afraid to leave Echeng and leave Mr. Huang. So Huang The master doesn't have to worry about the people of Echeng escaping.

Fourth, in order to legally kill those uncooperative officials, the five-pole Ten Thousand People Umbrellas in the hands of the bandits were faked. After the suppression of the bandits was completed, Liu Dutong's cigarettes would be handed over, and the banditry problem would be gone. , how can Mr. Huang continue to collect money to suppress bandits and collect money from the four major families? Without banditry, people will not go to other counties to make a living.

Bandits must be vilified. If they can’t be vilified, even if they can’t be vilified, they still have to make some fake pockmarks to do what Mr. Huang wants to do but can’t do. If Mr. Huang can leave the people of Echeng, then Why should we vilify the bandits? The vilification of the bandits proves that Mr. Huang cannot do without the people of Echeng, not that the people of Echeng cannot do without Mr. Huang.

5. What do you think of "Let the Bullets Fly" this way?

When I was still studying, I thought it was a comedy. The master was so miserable. He was eating hot pot and singing, and was suddenly robbed by bandits. He even became the county magistrate despite his commission. The chief and his wife cannot sleep together. The most important thing is that the master is not allowed to make money.

When I read it again later, I felt that it was a story about a lonely hero. When I came to Goose City, I was a group of brothers. When I left Goose City, I was alone. The hero is always lonely.

When I went to see it recently, I felt that either Master Huang could not live without the people of Echeng or the people of Echeng could not live without Mr. Huang.

"Yutou" will be updated next week.