影片《鸦片战争》以巨片的规模再现了那段作为中国近代史开篇的历史,并力图以今人的眼光重新加以审视,力求拍出“新意”。辅导们依据“以一个站起来的民族的目光观照自己曾经屈辱的历史”的主旨,也确实在片中许多地方拍出了新意。然而笔者在惊赞这些新意的成功之时,心底却又不时掠过一丝丝疑虑,感到有必要在此提出商榷。 片中最有“新意”之处可能要数对琦善这个人物的刻画了。显然,辅导看来是力求表现琦善这个人物性格中的两重性的,是把他作为一个妄自尊大的落后民族面对外强入侵这一不可逆转的历史命运时,被推到历史的前台扮 The Opium War reproduces the history of the opening of Chinese modern history on a large scale and seeks to reexamine it with the eyes of the present and seeks to make new ideas. The counselors, based on the principle of “seeing history of humiliating themselves in the eyes of a nation that has stood up”, did indeed make new contributions in many parts of the film. However, when I was amazed at the success of these new ideas, my heart was swept over by doubts and doubt from time to time, and I felt that it was necessary to discuss it here. The most “novelty” in the film may count on the characterization of Qishan. Obviously, counseling seems to be trying to show the duality of Qishan’s character, pushing him to the forefront of history as an arrogant and backward nation in the face of the irreversible historical fate of foreign invasion.