In fact, the biggest difference between the re-screening version and the previous version is not that it is converted to 3D, but that the story structure has been completely adjusted. In other words, this film should be called "The Official Version of the Grand Master". The previous version, perhaps as the rumors said, was a "trial version" that had to "flow to the market" under immature conditions due to commercial pressure due to the shooting for too long.
It takes time to make a good movie. Ten years ago, Director Wong Kar-wai was preparing the script of a great master. For so many years, Ip Man was robbed and shot badly by others. When you sang on the ring, I appeared on the stage so lively, the lights were dim, but I was still alone. Thinking about the moves and ideas.
The biggest problem with the previous version is that you don’t know who the protagonist is after reading it, and you don’t know who is talking about "whose story". You are expecting an ending, or a climactic fight, but it ends suddenly. Up.
The reason is that the director's heart is too great, but he gave him too little time. In the eyes of others, the piece of Ye Man's cake was just a Fearless copy of a shredded devils punching a foreigner Hercules, but in the eyes of Wong Kar-wai, it was a martial arts, a world, and a piece of history.
The first generation master is not only Ye Wen, but also Gong Baosen, Gong Er, and Yi Xian Tian. Wang Jiawei wants to tell a story about martial arts. He wants to tell the wandering life of those martial artists in an era where martial arts are no longer needed.
So in this movie, Ye Wen could only endure silently when his homeland fell. He didn't and couldn't use his fists to fight the devil's machine gun. All he could do was to say when the Japanese army came to lure: "I have never been poor in my life." But he watched his two daughters starve to death. He promised a woman from the north that he would visit her, but the war separated them and saw each other more than a decade later, but they were already totally different. He could only say indifferently: "If life is without regrets, how boring is it?" "
There is no crazy vows and love, everything is buried deep in my heart. The martial arts, which is unique in the world, is a state of its own, but it cannot be used to defeat time. The person is right in front of him, but he has no power to say a word of love.
There are so many things to talk about. Wives, confidants, masters, strong enemies, martial arts, north and south, family feuds, national hatred, and bomb index. Ten years of life, all must be dissolved in a movie. It is no wonder that even if it is Wong Kar-wai, We must take care of this and lose the other.
In the re-screening version, Wong Kar-wai is finally cruel and no longer attempts to tell the entire history of modern Chinese martial arts in a movie. Instead, he began to tell the story of Ye Wen and Gong Er seriously and exquisitely.
But we can finally understand that period of history. Ye Wen and Gong Eryi are facing each other from south to north, strung together the great changes and enmity of this country for half a century. What they believe in and protect is not just martial arts, but a kind of spirit and spirit for thousands of years. No matter how high in martial arts, it can't beat machine gun tanks, but what can't be shaken is the strength of character and soul.
Gong Baosen said: "Will learning can be divided into north and south, and can the country be divided into north and south?"
Ye Wen said: "One belt and one breath, you must live for one breath."
Gong Er said, "It's not you who gave it back to me, it's me." I took it back by myself."
They have never fought for themselves in their entire lives, and they couldn't even live for themselves. The world has changed, and they are also old, forgetting the moves, but forgetting the inheritance.
Always remember, there will be reverberations.
It is a great master.
------------------Because the new version has been released, the previous film reviews of the old version have been moved to the diary--------
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