寻子记

　　浙江长城传奇影业集团出品的寻宝探险电影《天朝国库之谜》于2021年4月6日在湖北浠水开拍。

　　一个月光惨淡的夜晚，西域响马头目杨剑飞带人袭击了一个部落。部落中的男女老少惨遭杀害。慕容艳等几个女武士因在外侥幸逃脱此厄运。她们发誓要向杨剑飞讨回血债，而官家也派西域名捕石雨带两名捕快追捕杨剑飞。 杨剑飞听说慕容艳杀了他的几个部下，似乎觉察到慕容艳在与他做对，但他却并不把一个女人放在眼里。 因慕容艳杀了不少人，官府限令石雨在10月内将慕容艳捕获。而石雨对此却不以为然，他认为一个女人作响马，肯定是被人逼迫出来的，况且那几个女人并没有为非作歹．所以他不去为难慕容艳。 慕容艳也听说了石雨，她从同族的一老人口中打听到石雨是侠心义胆的正派人．可她并不相信，她认为历来是“官匪一家”。 不久石雨找到慕容艳，但他并没有抓慕容艳，而且同意了慕容艳的建议：两人共同杀了杨剑飞，然后远离大漠。 在一家酒肆，石雨与杨剑飞不期而遇，双方交手，不分高低，打个平局。相约三日后再战。但是杨剑飞违约，提前行动，想趁石雨没有准备而取胜。幸亏慕容艳手下一个人给石雨送信，使他免遭暗算。石雨立即将此事告之慕容艳，提醒她提防心狠手辣的杨剑飞。 约定的时间到了，石雨和慕容艳来到杨剑飞的老巢。双方见面，一时间刀光剑影，飞沙走石，人喊马嘶。几经拼杀，慕容艳在石雨的帮助下，终于杀死了无恶不作的西域响马头目杨剑飞，报了深仇血恨。

　　马库斯（Richard Gibson 饰）邀请自己的同学兼好友雷欧（多米尼克·格尔德Dominic Guard 饰）到自己家去玩，就这样，雷欧结识了马库斯的姐姐玛丽安（朱莉·克里斯蒂 Julie Christie 饰），美丽又善良的玛丽安给雷欧留下了非常深刻的印象。马库斯得了传染病，没办法陪雷欧玩了，雷欧就此结识了名为泰德（阿兰·贝茨 Alan Bates 饰）的农夫，泰德拜托雷欧帮他送信给玛丽安，雷欧答应了他。
　　之后，雷欧和退伍军人修斯（爱德华·福克斯 Edward Fox 饰）交上了朋友，并且震惊的得知，玛丽安的家人准备将她许配给修斯，不仅如此，雷欧还意外的发现，自己帮泰德和玛丽安送的那些信件，其实是他们的情书。

　　T•C• Jeffords是一个自大、冷酷的农场主，他的女儿Vency一直希望代替死去的母亲，获得父亲的爱与权力，直到一天TC带回另一个女人。Vency与父亲决裂，并最终靠自己的力量夺走了农场。

　　清末新疆地区，侠客许天雄从金匪手中救下遭到金行老板巴占贵暗算的淘金王。身受重伤的淘金王告诉许天雄一定要找到他发现的秘密金洞，用金子从巴占贵手里赎出女儿金草。但奄奄一息的淘金王还未能说出金洞地点，便死去，许天雄拿着他留下的鹿皮荷包，开始努力寻找金草的下落。许天雄在金城遇到与淘金王生死共命的关山、王保子等人，拿出淘金王的遗物，向他们道出了淘金王惨死的真相，众金客悲愤交加。许天雄被金客子们推为新的“淘金王”，带领大家一起寻找金洞。而奸诈的巴占贵也觊觎着秘密金洞，监视他们的行动。命运悲惨的小露珠被金客王保子买来做“临时妻”，但在与淘金人的共同生活，渐渐寻到的幸福快乐，后她为救助大家牺牲了自己。阴险的巴占贵为独占金洞，诱使金草寻找金洞。正当巴占贵的心腹要杀她灭口时，许天雄出现了。淘金人终于寻找到了黄金，但幸福的生活却没能到来……

　　本片依据Howard Hughes的生平改编。
　　Howard Hughes（Leonardo DiCaprio 饰）出生于美国德州休士顿，18岁时，他继承父亲德州油井的财富，心怀电影梦想移居好莱坞。1926年他买入125家戏院的控制权，砸下数百万美金拍了实景空战史诗电影《地狱天使》，成为著名的制片人；1939年，他入主环球航空公司，他迅速使公司扭亏为盈，二战期间与美国军方合作，主持了蓝云杉飞机的发明和改进。
　　Howard Hughes在事业上取得巨大成功的同时，他也饱受了忧郁症和精神官能强迫症的折磨；他的感情生活波折重重，Katharine Hepburn（Cate Blanchett 饰）、Ava Gardner（Kate Beckinsale 饰）先后离开他，让他备受打击。
　　影片选取Howard Hughes重要的生活事件，真实地再现了他的传奇。

　　故事发生在16世纪，当时敌对的军阀为控制日本而战。大名织田信长意图控制日本，在与几个势力开战时，他的一个家臣荒木村重发动了叛乱，并迅速消失。
　　信长召集了包括光秀和秀吉在内的其他家臣，命令他们抓住逃亡的村重，并警告说：“谁最努力，我就选谁做我的接班人。”
　　带着各种各样的想法、计划和 陷阱，他们很快就被带到一个复杂情况的十字路口。
　　条条大路通本能寺，命运在那里等待着他们。
　　他们的“首”会往哪个方向转？

　　Chronicles a family__APOS__s hopeful battle to stay together as personal demons and destructive secrets threaten to rip them apart.

　　Miyu went to Seoul, Korea to study and look for her older sister who went missing two years ago. One day Miyu got to know Hana who was a famous plastic surgeon and she reminded of her missing sister. Hana lives with her lover Hyoshin, but she got attracted by Miyu. And Nyoshin felt jealous of Miyu. Miyu thought that Hana is actually her older sister and asked her to tell the truth. Hyoshin saw two of them talking and killed Hana because of jealous. Hyoshin tried to kill Miyu next and Miyu realized Hyoshin is her sister who had plastic surgery and changed her face. Finally Hana stuck a knife into herself because she knew Miyu always values her sister. Miyu survived, but lost her precious sister.

　　45 year old Don Valter is a traditional priest who still wears an old fashioned black tunic out of nostalgia. One day young Claudio and his exuberant troupe of actors appear, proposing to perform an avant-garde show based on the Gospel__APOS__s miracle of the rebirth of Lazarus*. The powerless priest is overwhelmed by this young upstart, who stirs within him emotions that will, whether he likes it or not, pull him into the modern era.

The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family__APOS__s history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years. At the crux, however, it__APOS__s the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with. But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family__APOS__s world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe__APOS__s clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood. I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential. by D.R.