120 years ago, the last effort of the Qing government, the 18th Reformation, ended sadly in a dark humorous way. Since then, the humiliation and inferiority have been entangled in China for more than a hundred years.
After the 1960s and 1970s, Chinese people dared not talk about politics, technology and economy, but in a place full of colonial discrimination like Hong Kong, kung fu movies began to rise, and this cheap nationalism achieved a kind of self-deception release.
But it's hard to believe that in 2019, this is still the case. Kung fu films, as a guide for special films provided to the West, especially the United States, have not made progress over the years, but have gone back more and more.
Even with the protective goggles featured in kung fu movies, the sloppy plot of this movie is unbearable. A group portrait of Chinese martial artists like clowns, the president with erratic emotional intelligence, and a Chinese cheerleader who has no AC count in his heart. Bruce Lee, who can only engage in street fights and is completely unreliable for business. There is also Master Ye, who is terminally ill in his old age, and has to fight hard for the two strong men.
The characters can't stand, and the plot is just as weird. The dignified US Marine Corps actually went to the Immigration Bureau to catch an old man of some kind of president. He had to fight, proving that Japanese karate is the strongest fighting technique. This brain circuit makes people suspect the screenwriter. Was it bought by the Japanese...
The element of martial arts in kung fu movies is inevitable, but it is an insult to nationalism to have to compete with everyone to prove oneself. Especially all the clowns in the play are basically Chinese. A group of jumping Chinese clowns and two strong white men with muscles in their brains used to set off the glorious image of Master Ye? Then the group portraits of Master Ye and the clown stand out from the crowd, which one can represent the Chinese ethnic group?
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Last but not least.
Some Hong Kong kung fu film teams are left with the level of mechanical execution of propositional essays. Shooting Wing Chun can only belittle other genres and let Wing Chun dominate the world. How narrow is this. Shooting Ye Wen can only let him conquer the world, even if he has a terminally ill body in the movie. It's really sad that the Hong Kong film that once created the prosperity of Asian films has actually fallen to this point.
In my opinion, the final decisive battle should be played by Bruce Lee. There are several advantages to arranging him to play.
1. Bruce Lee relied on Wing Chun and other fighting techniques to create Jeet Kune Do. He is a martial arts master who integrates hundreds of schools. As a form of expression of Chinese culture, martial arts has never changed its limitations. ~ Therefore, Mount Tai does not allow soil, so it can be made large; rivers and seas do not choose small streams, so they can be deep; kings do not have crowds, so they can understand their virtues. ... If the ancients didn't have the mind of this, don't talk about culture in vain.
2. Martial arts culture also lies in inheritance. No matter how heroic Master Ye is, it is already a rare age for him to suffer from all kinds of illnesses. Why not let young people stand up? They are more tolerant and enterprising, and they should take the burden of their predecessors and move on. Otherwise, wouldn't it make outsiders laugh at no one in China?
3. Realistically speaking, it is because those people in the Chinese Association despise the actions of young people such as Bruce Lee, but isn't this a shortcut to improve the relationship between the two sides? Bruce Lee's philosophy always has to be proven to others by himself. Isn't it bad to use this method?
Because the title of the film is Ye Wen, only Ye Wen can conquer the world. It is no wonder that the film is so dull over the years.
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