Re-scoring, just add an extra star to the performance of Uncle Long and a group of martial arts unprecedented and likely to follow.
When I was young, I only noticed that I played wonderfully. When I grew up, I would wonder "How did this action and how this scene was filmed?" When I think about it, I will admire, feel distressed, and feel incredible. Really falling, really hitting, really smashing or even jumping into the charcoal fire, who would dare to play like this? Thanks to Uncle Long and the excellent filmmakers of that era for leaving us with works that cannot be copied with unsurpassed feats.
This film is a perfect combination of the traditional martial arts film hard bridge and hard horse, Jackie Chan-style action comedy and the short and fast film route of the old Hong Kong film. At the same time, the image of Huang Feihong, who is "stubborn and impulsive", expresses a different understanding of Zuiquan. People all see Zuiquan's free and easy way, but they rarely think about its flaws and the principles behind it. That is too much: Wei Drunk makes people feel less painful and doubles their courage, while being drunk makes people lose their minds and make them vulnerable. Of course, what lies behind this is actually the Chinese traditional culture's emphasis on moderation, proportionality, and restraint.
At the same time, the value core of traditional martial arts is also indispensable with the word "benevolence". Benevolence and righteousness inevitably have to make a righteous act when practicing. In some cases, people who practice martial arts inevitably use violence to control violence. The motivation behind this behavior It must contain a simple sense of justice driven by passion. Huang Feihong in the first half of the film is the extreme representative of this simple sense of justice. In the second half, Huang Feihong, who turned his head back, gradually understands proportion and restraint. This is actually a common theme in martial arts movies, but the movie does not stop at the protagonist's practice of tempering, enhancing his character, and eventually becoming a master of generation. At the end of the film, Huang Feihong was forced to complete the righteous act in an "impulsive" way, drunk himself with industrial alcohol, and solved the battle with a drunken fist that his six relatives did not recognize. Of course, he also paid the price and temporarily blinded both eyes. It is said that the original ending is that Huang Feihong has become dementia due to alcoholism. This may be more shocking, but I believe this is unacceptable for the audience.
In any case, using this unconventional way to express a popular theme makes this version of Huang Feihong's image can be called the most special edition in film history.
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