Tsui Hark's "Swordsman: The Undefeated in the East" was released in 1992, and no one has been able to surpass it. In the foreseeable future, no one can surpass it. It is recognized as the highest peak in the history of Chinese martial arts movies.
I don't know how many times I've watched this movie. Every time I watch it, my admiration for Tsui Hark is one point deeper, and my admiration for Lin Qingxia is also three points deeper. It has been 19 years, and the poisoning is getting deeper and deeper, and there is no cure.
Brigitte Lin plays Dongfang Invincible, which has both genders, as well as the extremes of violence and spirituality. He (she) is ambitious, scheming, cruel and vicious, at the same time tender and intelligent, willing to give up the king's dominance and even his life for love. Such an extremely complex and extremely contradictory role, apart from the peerless Brigitte Lin, who else can perform so amazingly?
A writer once said that the initial environment of a story can be set to be extremely absurd, but once the story begins, it must rely on internal logic to promote it. Touch the heartstrings of readers.
Dongfang Invincible and Ren Woxing belonged to the same era. When Linghu Chong was born, he was already a famous martial arts hero. How could such a powerful and murderous hero fall in love with a young boy who is indifferent to fame and fortune?
Let's start with the first four meetings between Dongfang Invincible and Linghu Chong.
A cliff encounter
Linghu Chong overturned the jug in order to save his junior sister. He was so angry that he sought the theory of Dongfang's invincibility. At this time, Dongfang Invincible is about to practice "Sunflower Collection", and his appearance and personality begin to change into a woman. However, his (her) amazing power and martial arts made everyone respect and fear him (her), and they looked up and worshipped him like a demon. Over time, he (she) will inevitably feel lonely and lonely. At this moment, a young man with a hairy head who knows nothing about the heights of the earth is not afraid of his (her) peerless martial arts, and involuntarily breaks into his (her) world, and he (she) is very excited by a never-before-seen sense of excitement. When his (her) mask was hung up by a tree branch, the slightly raised corner of his mouth revealed the secret of Dongfang Invincible's heart.
Any relationship must be built on the basis of equality of personality. Linghu Chong dared to seek Dongfang Invincible to "claim", which shows that he treats him (her) psychologically, so this peerless love has the prerequisites.
On the contrary, the role of "Cheng Lingsu" created by Jin Yong in another work "Flying Fox in Snow Mountain" undoubtedly ignored this point. Cheng Lingsu has an ugly appearance, and he feels that he is not worthy of Hu Fei in his heart, so he must seek a sense of superiority at the intellectual level and eliminate his inferiority complex. As everyone knows, she showed her resourcefulness again and again and played with Hu Fei again and again, which just made Hu Fei feel that the personalities between the two were unequal. Therefore, even if Cheng Lingsu sacrificed his life for him, he didn't think it was an expression of love, so he immediately started a new relationship with Yuan Ziyi.
2. Coincidentally encountering
Linghu Chong in the lake, he inadvertently broke into the range of Dongfang Invincible's power. When he found a beautiful "beautiful" in the mist, in order to withdraw his attacking move, he even discarded the jug that looked like his life. This detail undoubtedly caught the attention of the thoughtful Dongfang Invincible, so he threw his jug to him, and the two drank in the lake. Seeing Dongfang Invincible's peerless face with his head raised and drinking, Linghu Chong was obviously taken aback, and fell in love with this unknown "girl" on the spot.
In order to test Linghu Chong, Dongfang Invincible sank into the lake and played a trick called "Sound Transmission from a Thousand Miles". At this time, Linghu Chong said two words - "This master is extremely powerful, and there are only a handful of people on the rivers and lakes who can transmit thousands of miles. Do you know who he is?" "Don't worry, he is looking for me, don't you? Something will happen." The first sentence shows Linghu Chong's calmness and meticulousness under the wild and uninhibited appearance, and the second sentence shows his fearlessness in the face of powerful enemies. Dongfang Invincible is a hero with eyes above his head, surrounded by brainwashed Miao and Japanese pirates with hidden ghosts. If Linghu Chong is a stupid and indifferent person, how can he impress Dongfang Invincible's "heart"? However, Dongfang Invincible, who watched Linghu Chong leave, at least half of his eyes were joking. His (her) feelings for Linghu rose from curiosity to understanding.
3. Hei Muya Moon Night Knows
In order to help Ren Yingying find her imprisoned father, Linghu Chong bravely entered the main altar of the Sun Moon God Sect. Thinking about it, the oriental leader, who recited Mao Taizu's poem "The country is so beautiful, attracts countless heroes to compete and bow down", is immersed in the loneliness of high altitude. All of a sudden, the young man I admired suddenly arrived, which was a pleasant surprise.
Linghu Chong asked him (her), "You won't be a married man, will you?" He guessed that this "girl" was Dongfang's undefeated concubine. And Dongfang Invincible's raised eyebrows showed the surprise in his (her) heart: "Good boy, you dare to seduce a woman from Dongfang Invincible? Have a personality!"
This young man respects him (her) from the bottom of his heart. And love, also makes Dongfang Invincible's "feminine consciousness" in the depths of the heart bewildered, want to refuse but welcome. Therefore, he (she) just let him take it with him, wearing flowers for the moon, drinking and singing.
On this fairytale-like night, the two took off their usual masks at the same time. Dongfang's mask is "overbearing and cruel", Linghu's mask is "wild and uninhibited", and under the mask are two equally lonely souls.
When Dongfang Invincible was playing the flute to the moon, Linghu Chong inadvertently recited a poem: "The world is beyond my generation, and as soon as we enter the rivers and lakes, the years will remind me. Wang Tubaye is talking and laughing, and he will be intoxicated in his life." The defeat was greatly shocked - "It turns out that this person is actually my bosom friend!" For a time, the previous curiosity, understanding, and appreciation quickly sublimated into love. After Tsui Hark's layers of foreshadowing, an impossible peerless love was born, and it was born so naturally and so rationally that people had to be convinced. Old Xu Zhen is also a master.
4.
Linghu Chong , a boudoir "friendship", is about to return to seclusion. For this reason, he plans to pick him (her) to live in Niubei Mountain together. At this time, Dongfang Invincible has completely degenerated, painted eyebrows and cheeks, and applied rouge thinly, becoming a real "woman". You must know that at this time, there are only three days before the undefeated east and the northern expedition. Before sending troops, the dignified and solemn leader suddenly turned into a charming and charming woman. How much will this affect the morale of the army? It's not that Dongfang Invincible doesn't know this, it's just that she is desperate for love. What's more, the world is full of stupid people. Her understatement: "I have practiced magic skills, and changes are unpredictable!" The anxiety of the church members was transformed into religious worship, which could not help but make people laugh.
In the boudoir, Dongfang Invincible orders his concubine Shishi to pretend to be her to accompany Linghu Chong for one night. This shows that even if she has practiced "Sunflower Collection", she is not a complete woman after all, so she can only get her lover's heart in this way. At this moment, she was in a conflicted mood, which caused her to fall short in the battle against Ren Woxing. It also planted the seeds of her subsequent failure.
By the way, the undefeated concubine of the East is called "Shi Shi", which is obviously a nickname, not a real name. Why did Dongfang Invincible give her such a name? "Poetry" is homophonic with "wet", and the poem related to "wet" is Ouyang Xiu's "Sheng Chazi Yuanxi"?
On the night of the new year last year, the flower market was lit like day.
The head of the willow on the moon, people about after dusk.
On the night of the new year this year, the moon and the lights are still the same.
I didn't see the people from last year, tears wet the sleeves of spring shirts.
Thousands of miles of foreshadowing, already doomed ending.
At the end of the
battle at Heimuya, Dongfang Invincible fired several needles. Seeing that Linghu Chong's life was hanging by a thread, she was in a panic while killing people without blinking. Although that sword was not at the point, it still stabbed Dongfang's undefeated heart with blood. At this time, Dongfang Invincible was full of resentment, and there was still some kind of hero who swallowed the whole world. It was clearly a poor woman who was hurt by love. The blood spurting out of his chest symbolized the collapse of the emotional defense line.
Dongfang Invincible fell into the abyss. The blood-soaked red robe, the long flowing hair, the blurred eyes, the tearful expression in the smile, and the arrogance and arrogance of the phrase "I have everything at my fingertips" have stayed in every "Qingxia fan" for a long time. heart.
She was deeply in love, and for love, gave up Wang Tu's hegemony and picturesque rivers and mountains. Fight for a lifetime, and have a good day!
She lost in the battle of the world, but she is eternally undefeated in the love of heart-to-heart. The moment she fell into the cliff, Linghu Chong gave her life and jumped down to hug her. She smiled, she knew that she would hold her lover's heart forever, and whether he was drinking or playing the piano to the moon in the future, he would never forget her. So, what if you lose Jiangshan? No regrets in this life. So she used all her strength to send her lover back to the cliff, leaving the hope of life to him and the despair of death to herself.
The failure of Dongfang Invincible is an unparalleled failure. Because of its failure, she is still undefeated.
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