Elegy of the Video Age

Garret 2022-01-22 08:05:07

I used to talk to girl A about the thunderbolt, and have been involved in the nurturing and backfeeding of Hong Kong martial arts films and Japanese sword halberd films. I know that there are many sources and texts, but I don’t have the time and confidence to watch old Hong Kong films and old Japanese films— -One year I did spend a lot of effort to watch old films of Zie Ziluo and Nakadai Tatsushi, but like the "self-study" that I often sigh with emotion, it is just unsystematic and chaotic viewing, with vague conjectures but no definite proof.

Later, I saw on the Internet that many people were diehard Shaw films, and they often watched old Shaw films in batches, and wrote film reviews and impressions. Then I just have to sit back and enjoy the achievements, hehe.

Hong Kong film critics have talked about the increasing superficiality, prosperity and decline of Hong Kong films. A large amount of investment into the film and television industry (including money laundering by gangsters) before 1997 has caused unprecedented prosperity in the film and television industry. Department, marketing in Southeast Asia. As soon as the new film is cut out, it will be shown at the midnight show in a certain place (Kowloon? Forgot?). If the audience applauds, they will be relieved to go to the show the next day. If the audience is bored, they will definitely not be able to make any money. "Street boys", the decline of Hong Kong-produced literary and artistic films is also a foregone conclusion. On the other hand, the shooting of goofy gunfights and kung fu films... After 1997, the investment decreased, the filming cycle lengthened, the generation of actors was aging, and the intensity of new actors' filming was not enough. Therefore, the problem of insufficient acting skills and so on appeared.

I love to watch such informative film critics. It turns out that the first batch of film critics in Hong Kong movies are in the late stage, not professionals, nor ordinary citizens, but a bunch of horses. This is very news.

For ordinary viewers like me, watching Hong Kong movies is just like what Xun said, it is a kind of sentiment, it is like going into the dark video room to watch martial arts movies, watching 30 episodes in one breath and seeing transient blindness, and When you go to the video store, you first pay 40 yuan to make a card to rent the video tape, and you can rewind the tape with a hand-cranked rewind machine. Later, it has evolved into a "technology development process" such as VCD discs and DVD compression discs.

I watched "Resurrection of the Dragon" two years earlier, and I was completely stunned. How could it be done like this? ! After thinking about it for a long time, I realized that it must be like this: Li Rengang is ignorant and fearless, and he is consciously sharp, so there are both real sparks and many outrageous things. In fact, this is not the feature of the video tape!

Watching Hong Kong movies, I used to go to a video tape store to rent it. It was messy, stupid, and silly like a chicken blood, so everyone thinks it’s normal. Now I’m sitting in a movie theater and watching B video tapes, of course many Groove to vomit!

Elements such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Final Fantasy set of pig-killing knives, Frost Flower Shop, American wrestling, etc. can be seen everywhere in "Jin Yiwei". I watched it and thought: Li Rengang must have some ideas for himself, plus many Japanese, Korean, European and American movies. With the triggering of animation games, all mixed together, he burst out a lot of sparks that he felt very excited, so he made such a film, plus the work of the barbarous film and television city in the vast west, many scenes are in "The Promise", " "Heaven and Earth Heroes" have already seen... If Li Rengang shot this film within a week of producing the script outline, it would be a full-fledged Laogang film; if it is well-produced, the filming cycle is elongated, but it seems that the teeth will be a bit concavo-convex. .

One more thing to say is the decline of Oriental aesthetics-seeing Wu Zun's belly injury, he immediately thought of the "intestinal war", Li Rengang is indeed very old-fashioned. As for Yuxi... Watching "Doctor Sansho", the chef finally found the blind old mother and used his father's "credential" to prove his identity. I see this, chuckle, my goodness! Isn't this kind of plot that you can often encounter when watching dramas when you are young? At that time, I was very familiar with this "recognition of relatives by credibility" routine, and then I almost forgot about it. In "Jin Yiwei", it was funny to see the battle for the "Jade Seal of the Kingdom". On the one hand, he sympathized with Mr. Yuan Shu. On the other hand, he remembered that Mr. Lu Xun said that Dou Sheng Xiaomin thought that the loss of the jade seal was a big deal. For the country thief, what is a jade seal, it is just the ignorance of the country drama... Is the decline of this fetishism also the decline of Eastern aesthetics?

Most of the Hong Kong-produced feature films since the 1980s are a bunch of smorgasbord. The latest Hollywood set, plus the latest social news, animation and games, mix it up, make a facelift, and localize it, and then show it to us. . When we are one shot slower than the world, Hong Kong movies that are half a shot faster are of course a very lively choice; today, when we are globally synchronized, Hong Kong movies are sadly reminded.

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