I like the cold and arrogant Chu Zhaonan played by Donnie Yen. His people are as sharp as the Yulong Sword in his hand, and they are so sharp that they never seem to know how to hide themselves.
Chu Zhaonan in the TV version of "Seven Swords" is played by Zhao Wenzhuo. Zhao Wenzhuo is also an actor I like very much, but his Chu Zhaonan... I don't like it.
Maybe it's not his fault, it's just that the script didn't show Chu Zhaonan's personality better, or that he lost his true personality in order to show it.
I can only say this, because I didn't watch the TV version, because I couldn't watch it anymore.
Between watching TV series, I read Liang Yusheng's original book "Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains". In the original work, there are no Yulong, Qinggan, Mowen, Riyue, Jingxing, Tianpu, or Sheshen. There are only seven people, male and female, swords are in their hearts, and they have chivalry in their hearts.
There are many differences. The biggest difference is that Chu Zhaonan in the original book is a complete villain. When I first watched it, I still had a glimmer of hope, hoping that he was an undercover agent and an inner responder. Halfway through, my hopes were shattered, but I still unconsciously hoped that he would wake up at the last moment and do something that moved me. Until, until he was injured by Yi Lanzhu's subordinates, and killed himself in order to protect his own face, all my hopes finally fell to the ground and vanished.
My hope is because I like it. The shattering of hope made me decide to abandon Chu Zhaonan in the original book. I am willing to forget him and only keep the cold and proud Yulong Swordsman in my heart.
Suddenly he felt like a person. This person is like a sword, a sharp-edged sword with dazzling brilliance. But... it is also because of his irresistible brilliance, so I always feel that I can't see him clearly. It is obviously true, and I always feel that he is so illusory.
Should a person like a sword look for a person like a scabbard to contain his edge? Therefore, Chu Zhaonan in the movie believed that the woman belonged to him at the first sight of Lu Zhu. (I don't appreciate the machismo in it.) The green pearl in the movie is a woman who is weak and like water, but at the same time she has the strength of a sword. Combining the two, she is destined to belong to Chu Zhaonan.
Chu Zhaonan on TV was a loser in this regard. The two women he fell in love with were not scabbards, but swords as sharp as his. Forced by life, let yourself learn to be ruthless and cold-blooded green beads. And the one dressed in red, arrogant like a sword, cold like ice, could I have seen the gentle flying red scarf. Front to front, light to light, no compromise!
So... how about him? The heroine in the love that made him unforgettable, the woman who embraces him with understanding, isn't it a scabbard? And the woman who gave him trust and freedom in the later relationship, why can't it be described as a scabbard? But why did it still fail? Even if it is a scabbard, you have to meet a sword that matches!
And... the encounter between the sword and the scabbard also requires fate, doesn't it?
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