Fang Shiyu (played by Jet Li) is the son of Fang De, a wealthy businessman in Guangdong. He has a wealthy family since he was a child. Coupled with the free-range education of his mother Miao Cuihua (played by Xiao Fangfang), Shiyu loves to play since he was a child and often fights injustices with her own skill. . In a martial arts contest, he heard that Leihuo (Chen Songyong), a foreigner, used "fighting the whole province of Guangdong and kicking the two states of Suzhou and Hangzhou" as a soliciting couplet, so he went to challenge and was about to defeat future mother-in-law Li Xiaohuan (played by Hu Huizhong) Suddenly, he suddenly found that the partner was a top-clad maid, and he immediately lost the contest with a slippery head. When Miao Cuihua heard that her son had lost the competition, she went to the competition venue disguised as a man, claiming that she was Fang Shiyu's elder brother "Fang Dayu", and came to challenge Li Xiaohuan to fight for her son. After a fight, Li Xiaohuan lost the game, but at the same time, he strangely liked the "Fang Dayu".
The mother and son disrupted Thunder Tiger's martial arts contest and recruited relatives, and at the same time planted the fate of Fang Lei's family. Fang De (played by Zhu Jiang) was originally a silk merchant. He was targeted by the government at the time because he participated in the anti-Qing Fuming organization Red Flower Society. In order to avoid the government, Fang De took Miao Cuihua and Shiyu into hiding. Thunder Tiger's home. Shiyu was forced to fulfill her promise of martial arts and marrying Miss Lei, but found that the maid she saw during the martial arts call was only a top bag. The real Miss Lei turned out to be her sweetheart who had not been able to ask her name before... But Fang Fang When the Lei family held their wedding, the people from the Qing court who chased the Red Flower Club came...
"Fang Shiyu" was a film made by Jet Li when he was 30 years old. At that time, he had completed three Huang Feihong films of Tsui Hark. From "Once Upon a Time" in 1991, "Once Upon a Time" in 1992, and "Once Upon a Time in the Lion King" in February 1993, the audience's impression of Jet Li has probably long since changed from the handsomeness of "Shaolin Temple". The monk turned into a long gown, Huang Feihong standing on his back. However, in March of the same year, Jet Li took the posture of a hairy boy Fang Shiyu to catch Master Huang who had just left work in "The Lion King".
Thirty is indeed an embarrassing age. It seems that the front foot has stepped into the door of so-called maturity, but the back foot still reluctantly stays in the youthful season of fresh clothes and angry horses. Jet Li also applied a thick foundation, took off his long shirt, put on a short suit and jumped up and down with Xiao Fangfang on the big screen, performing a pair of live treasures that can still make the audience laugh today. From a famous kung fu master in Foshan to a troubled kid in a small county in Guangdong, Jet Li tried his best to get rid of the stereotypes of the audience at the time. Frankly speaking, his acting skills were not outstanding, but the characterization of Fang Shiyu showed his understanding of youth and frivolousness. And "strength".
Everyone has tried pranks and got caught, but we didn’t see our expressions look like this at the time
Jet Li can be said to have deduced a foolish smile with gums in the morning
How candid these little eyes look when facing your sweetheart... Just ask, does Master Huang have these eyes!
Fighting is a physical education lesson for teenagers, just as secret love is a physiology lesson for girls
In a fight, you will never plan. To win is to win, to lose or to lose, and to post and wait for opponents after the fight.
Kurosawa once mentioned in his autobiography "The Oil of the Toad", "I will die before the age of thirty, and people will only become ugly after they are thirty." Historically, fist bravely surpassed others. , Fang Shiyu, who was so injustice, only lived to be twenty-four years old and died in a fight in the martial arts. Since then, Fang Shiyu has become an eternal boy in history and film and television dramas. Whether it will definitely become ugly after the age of 30 is really uncertain, but the happy rivers and lakes before the age of 30 must be a cinnabar hidden in the depths of youth that cannot be erased. Because at that time we were still playing with the rules, and we who were not fully familiar with the laws of the world, like Fang Shiyu in the movie, tended to react faster than rational judgments. When you win, you can't help but show off your strength, and when you lose, you can't help holding your sore spots and crying for pain.
Who hasn't tasted Juvenile Mania? Before feeling the worries of the young Werther, we were indomitable, so innocent and lovely, and frankly so frightened to later ourselves. If "Young and Dangerous" is a quagmire dream that lives in the mind of a teenager, then "Fang Shiyu" is probably the introductory version of this quagmire dream, because before we learn the quagmire morality, although we have a clear concept of protecting shortcomings with friends, at that time The bottom line in our hearts is still "parents", and it seems that only parents can inspire teenagers to get rid of their childishness, go on the road alone, and take a growth lesson that no one supports.
Jet Li made two films of "Fang Shiyu" successively, and the ending part coincided with Fang Shiyu's parents' suffering as the final climax. At the end of the first movie, he went to the streets alone to rescue his father who was about to be beheaded in public. Before the end of the two films, each sacrificed a very important friend/teacher of the other Shiyu in the plot as a pavement for the final climax. From the perspective of the series, this is a flaw in the plot layout, because it is a formula. From the perspective of Fang Shiyu's personal development in the play, it is smooth.
This is because the two movies constantly mention "anti-Qing and Fuming". The characters in the play are as small as Fang De to Chen Jialuo, and they all have their own beliefs in these four words. As Fang De’s son/Chen Jialuo’s adopted son, Fang Shiyu should have inherited their beliefs, but to him in the movie these four words are like a slogan, as if joining the red flower will treat him/miao Cui As far as Hua is concerned, it is a transition from a rich family to a triad, commonly known as the "Friends Splitting Organization". Whenever someone close to him has a crisis due to the development of the plot, Fang Shiyu will appear to be challenged to the bottom line, and it will suddenly erupt. However, when he returned from the crisis with his parents, his maturity also disappeared like the crisis. The power of faith is so remote and powerless for a teenager who has not yet started the self-judgment mode.
However, why this movie can still make many viewers willing to stop and watch and smile even though it continues to be rebroadcast today. In addition to Jet Li's martial arts scene (I have to say, the action design in the old port movie is really atmospheric, and the rhythm of the fight is clear and refreshing), it is worth seeing, Fang Shiyu's youthful spirit and Miao Cuihua's ghost education are probably ours. It is good for these fans who have been soaked in Laogang movies for many years and are reluctant to get out. When we were young, we watched movies because we thought the characters in them were funny. Teenagers who were supposed to be heroes always made some extraordinarily funny things, and mothers who were supposed to educate their children would reflect our stereotypes of mothers in the past, or this It's all the reason we followed it, because in the most extraordinary plots, we saw a little bit of human flavor.
Who doesn't hesitate to take the youthful spirit that can't come back if you lose it, and the youthful spirit is just like what Zhao Wenzhuo said when he commented on Fang Shiyu in the play, "If there is a serious thing, don't do it, learn from others to fight against Qing Ming and Ming."
That little bit of mischief, a little bit of ignorance, mixed together, it has become our most reluctant cinnabar mole today.
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