Because the content of this article is rather complicated, in addition to talking about this movie, it also touches on a little bit about Hong Kong society in the late 1950s. I don’t know what title to use. After thinking about it, it’s still this one. Well, plain and simple.
"Ip Man 3" is beyond my expectations. I thought it would be better than the second at best, and it turned out to be better than the first. Why do you say that? Let me slowly elaborate on the three good points and two bad points of this movie.
1. Three o'clock is good
1. There is content, solid details, and heavy.
The first part is very particular about rules and regulations. Before the competition, invite people to eat together. After eating, don't rush to fight, light a cigarette, and sit on the rocking chair. Lie down for a while to digest. Outsiders came to the house to compete in rough voices, and they broke things for fear that the wife would not be happy. The other party said that he would pay, so he continued to fight. These details make Ye Wen's character full of flesh and blood, and also create sufficient emotional motivation for the second half of the shot. In the second part, it became a fight for the sake of fighting. The plot was very fictitious. Huang Xiaoming's role weakened the sense of seriousness in the film and became exaggerated.
This is also reflected in the action scenes. The action scenes in the first part are very restrained. Every time Ip Man makes a move, he has to forge his emotions to a certain stage, but the second part is not. Ip Man has obviously become fond of "showing off his skills".
The third part neutralizes the restraint of the first part and the exaggeration of the second part. It not only retains a lot of life-like details, but also shows the fast, accurate and ruthless Wing Chun martial arts, allowing me to see the hearty martial arts at the same time. , I also saw the streets, hospitals, schools, and docks of Hong Kong in the late 1950s, which were very heavy and solid.
In addition, one of the most obvious features of this film is that no one died in the whole film, which I think is very good. The first one is the background of the war, one can still understand the dead. The second one is in Hong Kong. Sammo Hung was beaten to death by a foreigner in a match. This is a bit fake. This is a regular game, not a black fist. Hong Kong is a place where the British government regards it as its own and focuses on cultivating people. Unlike Shanghai, which is just a springboard to get rich, the legal system is quite sound.
In the third part, no one died, why do I feel good? Because Hong Kong in 1959 was in a period of rapid cultural development, there was a good atmosphere for the creation of newspapers and publications in Hong Kong. Jin Yong's "Ming Pao" was founded in May of that year. "Children's Pictorial", Zhou Muyun in Wong Kar Wai's film started to serialize novels in newspapers and magazines at this time. In the film, each martial arts gym attaches great importance to the propaganda of the newspapers. Before the fight, the reporter was invited to the scene. The Chinese police officer, Fei Bo, also asked the reporter to take a picture before cleaning up the crime scene. This shows that everyone believes in the power of the news media. At this time, Hong Kong was already a very civilized place, especially compared to the mainland, which was separated by a river. It was almost one day and one place, and things like gathering crowds to fight rarely happened, let alone killing people.
Apart from social factors, it is not so easy to kill people in martial arts itself. If you want to stun a person who is not sick, you can't be stunned by hitting the forehead, even if you smash a beer bottle. The place where the human body is most prone to dizziness is the chin. The best way to play is the inside line punch, which is to press the elbow against the rib cage and drag the opponent's chin with both palms, so that the elbow and forearm can use the force to ensure that all the strength hits. On the opponent's chin, the opponent's brain will be violently concussed, resulting in dizziness and serious concussion. As for outside boxing (that is, directly swiping over, also known as Wang Baquan), unless you have practiced or are really strong, it is difficult for ordinary people to stun people; as for killing people, it is actually very difficult to hit other parts with bare hands. The most deadly part is the cervical vertebra, and only a person who has received special military training can kill with one blow, and it is difficult for ordinary people to do it even with the help of tools. Although Ye Wen is a martial artist, it is very difficult to kill him with a single blow, because his opponents are all martial arts practitioners and their kung fu is not weak, especially those like Tornado and Tyson who are tall, muscular, and have a neck longer than your thighs. If you are still rough, the possibility of you killing him with your bare hands is almost zero. Therefore, in the third part, Ip Man beats the little gangster, Tyson, and Zhang Jin, all without hurting his life, and even with less skin trauma. I think this is more common sense.
Stop daggers and become martial arts. Originally, everyone has managed to cultivate a kung fu. If they rely on this to eat, they will be injured, maimed and killed at any time. Why bother?
2. The relationship between husband and wife is very touching
This is a play. Donnie Yen's movies and dramas have never been good, but this one is not bad, especially in the scenes by the hospital bed, there are very few lines, all rely on actions and expressions. The Hidden Pain plays very well, of course, it is also possible that he plays the painful scenes like that, whether it is Ye Wen Mao Wen or Liu Wen, but at least in this film, he convinced me. At this moment, I think he almost caught up with Huang Qiusheng's Ye Wen. Although Ye Wen played mediocrely, the literary drama was very good. After all, Huang Qiusheng is an old actor.
Of course, Xiong Dailin has no acting skills from beginning to end, but she is good-looking, delicate and beautiful, I feel pity for her, Ye Wen loves her, loves her and even fears her, I think it should be. In fact, the reason why their relationship as a husband and wife moved me is inseparable from the background of the times shown on the side of the film. In that era when immigrants poured into Hong Kong in large numbers, it was difficult to fight for a meal, and Ip Man did nothing but teach boxing. She is capable, but teaching boxing is not something that can be taught by opening the door. It will take some time to build a reputation. She is afraid that her husband will have an accident, and she does not want him to go out and fight with others every day. Not easy. Some people say, why didn't she go out to find a job to support her family? In June 1957, nurses from the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals in Hong Kong organized a rally to demand the abolition of the rule that women should be suspended after marriage. This was the beginning of fighting for the right to work for married women. By 1959, due to the influx of immigrants from mainland China, they were fighting for jobs. opportunities, so it is still difficult for married women to find work.
Therefore, I think it is very sad that this hard-working couple left their hometown and took root in an unfamiliar place. In the end, one of them got cancer and left first. It was very sad that the eyes were wet several times. The girls wiped the tissues one after another. Under such sufficient emotional tension, Ye Wen accompanies his wife to get medicine, and beats the Thai guy in the elevator and the corridor. Take care of yourself. That is also the place where the whole leaf asks the heaviest. If it weren't for the fact that his wife was sick, Donnie Yen would be suspected of defeating Tony Jia in this scene.
There is also Ye Wen who beat the wooden dummy to her at the request of his wife, and finally held the wooden dummy while holding the wooden dummy and held back tears. It may be that the previous details are sufficient, and these few emotional scenes that are not grand are very contagious.
3. Play well
The first part played skillfully, and the second part played ruthlessly. This part combines skill and ruthlessness, and it is mainly reflected in the final competition between Ye Wen and Zhang Tianzhi (played by Zhang Jin), who performed eight-and-a-half sticks respectively. , Ba Zhan Knife and Knife Kneading Hand (in Xu Haofeng's film "Master", Jin Zhijie mentioned it, it used to be the atmosphere of Tianjin martial arts), authentic Wing Chun, Gui (sound with the same red) hand, and Shenhu His skills in Wing Chun Tingqiao (in Wong Kar-wai's "The Grand Master", in the stage of the Jinlou competition, Ip Man fights against the accountant, it is mentioned), etc., are really hearty. Donnie Yen and Zhang Jin themselves are martial arts practitioners. They fight with full force and have a strong sense of strength. ps. Zhang Jin fights are really handsome.
Ip Man, who everyone cares about, beat Tyson, and the filming is also quite good. The Tyson here is not like the tornado in the second part. He is blindly attacking and fighting bravely. He knows how to use his greatest advantage-strength to hit Ye Wen at the right time, but it seems that he is showing mercy. The strength of his fist, the punch that hit Ip Man's ribs would definitely break the ribs and cause massive internal bleeding. I thought that Ye Wen was pretending to be calm when he left, and it would be very uncomfortable after going out, but it didn't, and I was a little bit unconvinced. However, Ye Wen also used the most ingenious way to resist Tyson's strong attack, and lasted until the end of three minutes. Unlike the second part, he almost killed others. Western combination punches can be broken by you so easily. . So overall it's more realistic.
2. Two points are not good
1. The primary school
in the school film is an important fuse for the development of the plot. In those days, families whose children were able to go to school were all very good. For those like Zhang Tianzhi, it was very unlikely that their children could go to school, because Hong Kong implemented the "Seven Elements of Primary School Expansion" in August 1955. The annual plan, including the establishment of five government primary schools, with limited school resources and basically only promoting English education, schools that teach Chinese will be considered to have a red tendency and will be closed. Correspondingly, admission qualifications are also strictly controlled. .
In addition, the underworld of the boat gang controlled by Tyson (in the section where Ip Man went to save his son, you can see the wooden structure of a large ship, which is a shipyard, and Tan Yaowen threatened to sell Ip Man's son to Nanyang, indicating that they are not Nanyang. The boat gang is also closely related to the Nanyang boat gang in business) If you want to buy a school, it is useless to find the principal, because at that time, the primary school was all owned by the government, and the principal was just the operator. You asked him to press all ten fingerprints.
2. Ip Man's English Ip Man went to Tyson, he did n't
speak a word of English, which was a bit unreasonable, because Ip Man worked as a translator in the National Government in the 1930s, and everyone knew English. Is there anything you can't sit down and talk about first? Of course, you will say that people are patriotic and that you must communicate with each other in Chinese, that is a dead brain. In the film, Tyson is more reasonable, saying that he will let you go if he doesn't kill you for three minutes, but he did. For a person who has worked as a translator in a government department, he will definitely feel that the communication effect will be much better if he communicates in English. However, this film seems to have castrated Ye Wen's life and turned him into a young master of the old society who can't speak English at all. I don't know why.
3. Finally,
one sentence summary: "Ip Man 3" is a very worth watching film, which is better than all the domestic films in theaters so far in 2016.
Kung fu movies have been shot to this day, and pure fighting and killing can no longer satisfy fans. In the past 90s, martial arts films such as Huang Feihong and Xiaoao Jianghu were unrestrained in their greed and hatred, and they paid attention to being full of joy. Now it is no longer possible. There must be details and the characters must stand up to scrutiny. The description of martial arts in Jin Yong's novels made the martial arts instructors like Cheng Xiaodong popular in the sky and the ground. Now this kind of fighting style is not easy to use, and it is necessary to explain each punch and foot clearly. One word: realism, this realism In the tide, Wing Chun boxing is very popular because of its hard bridge and hard horse, and it takes the lead for a while. This realism has undergone some changes. Donnie Yen Wing Chun is more poetic. Later, Wu Jing filmed "Wolf Warrior" and told us in a seemingly realistic way that there are also martial artists in the army, but so far, the real The real one is Xu Haofeng. I mentioned several times before that "Master" was my No.1 domestic cinema movie in 2015. Right now, on March 11, "Arrower, Willow and White Ape", which he made four years ago, will be released again, isn't it good? In addition, friends who like realistic martial arts should not miss it.
View more about Ip Man 3 reviews
