Michelle Yeoh's films have been watched a lot, but few really left an impression. As a star, the impression left to people is mostly beautiful movements or beautiful faces. In fact, it's not that her acting skills are bad, it's really that there is no suitable role for her to play.
Therefore, Ang Lee said after the filming of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" that the role of Yu Xiulian was prepared for Michelle Yeoh, and it was true. She played this oriental woman almost perfectly, and she was not moved by this tragic role after watching the movie. I, can I say that you have no humanity?
Recently, I found this movie to taste again. I took a look at the film reviews and found some behind-the-scenes information about the previous interview with Ang Lee, but I found that the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" I had watched was completely inconsistent with their description. , I was moved to tears by Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian's love, but there were so many emotions and lusts mixed together. Li An even said that Li Mubai was faced with a difficult choice between martial arts and lust, and he vaguely revealed that he arranged Li Mubai, Yu Xiulian, The triangular relationship between Yu Jiaolong really made me lose my appetite, and more film critics extended it to explain Li Mubai's arrangement for Yu Jiaolong's apprenticeship as a disguised possession, full of sexual hints, which really made me The Liba people are inexplicably surprised!
This drove me to watch the film again, and read some related works to trace Li Yu's past.
Ang Lee said that he changed the original book beyond recognition to make a good movie. This statement is true. In addition to the backbone of the story, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" generally continues the spirit of the novel, and many characters and plots have been greatly modified by him. For example, the relationship between Yu Jiaolong and the blue-eyed fox, the hatred between the blue-eyed fox and Li Mubai, and the origin of the relationship between Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian have also been passed without explanation. The origin and background are omitted, but it affects the audience's cognition of this person and misunderstands his words and deeds, so it is not surprising.
So who is this person? As soon as Pu Yi appeared, Li Mubai was already a senior researcher and academician of the Wudang Institute of Metaphysics, the top of the list of outstanding people in the Jianghu, the honorary chairman of the Jianghu Justice Association, and a moral model in the Jianghu for ten years. Philosophical cultivation has broken through the realm close to "Tao", and even his mentor has never reached it.
It can be said to be decent. Have the capital to be called a beast.
Looking at his history, in fact, he came from a wealthy family. He practiced martial arts at the age of six, and was precocious as a young man, both civil and military, and he was already a scholar at the age of thirteen. He fought against Yu Xiulian because he misunderstood the martial arts competition. After winning, he realized that it was a scam arranged by someone. Yu Xiulian had already betrothed to Meng Sizhao, and the two became brothers and sisters, so Yu Xiulian called Li as brother in the film, not a common name in Jianghu. .
In fact, Li Mubai had already fallen in love with Yu Xiulian at this time, and so was Yu Xiulian. After all, Li Mubai was less romantic, and it was the time for her heroic appearance. The relationship between the two is quite ambiguous, and the film begins to express that they often go to Beijing together before, or refer to this time.
By accident, Meng Sizhao murdered and fled under a pseudonym, became friends with Li Mubai in Beijing, and died of serious injuries to protect Li. On his deathbed, he gave his fiancee Yu Xiulian to him. Do you think this guy named Meng is really stupid, or is he really stupid? Can a man agree in this situation? Therefore, Li Mubai loves Yu Xiulian and cannot get it. Then in the capital nostalgia for a brothel, handing over famous prostitutes.
Li Mubai is actually a Su Shi-like character, equally accomplished and deeply rooted in love. When Su Shi sang "Ten years of life and death" in mourning for his deceased wife, he could easily give away his beloved concubine who had been with him for many years. As a traditional literati, Su Shi completely separated love and desire. It is the carrier of desire. When desire is released, it can be discarded at will, and feelings are always treasured in the bottom of my heart. Most of the classical Chinese literati dealt with their human desires in this way, which seems to be in line with moral norms. Therefore, some people proudly said: "Have a dream of Yangzhou in ten years, and won the reputation of being a brothel." Some people immediately envied it. Promiscuous: "Washed 100,000 yuan, riding a crane down to Yangzhou." Apparently, the scholar Li Mubai also handled his own passions and desires in the same way. However, Wang Dulu is a new school author, and his protagonist cannot be so casual, and let the chivalrous prostitute who loves him die unexpectedly.
In this way, we can understand that for the young and lovely Yu Jiaolong, if she is possessed in the name of accepting an apprentice to satisfy her own fleshly desires, this is a serious betrayal to Li Mubai's rules of life, even Li An Because of the reasons of Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi, they deliberately caused them to have some sexual fantasies and sexual implication, but they could not resist Li Mubai's natural requirements, and finally ended up preaching "the Tao", so although Chow Yun-fat repeatedly teased Zhang Ziyi, but when Li Mubai He raised his sword fingers and pointed at Yu Jiaolong's entrance, his expression was solemn and serious, which was completely different from the previous slapstick drama, and Yu Jiaolong also closed his eyes and pondered after a stunned moment. This should be an advanced level of Wudang metaphysics. The way of teaching is no longer the teaching of martial arts, but almost spiritual inheritance. The so-called inheritance is also, and both of them have this understanding and identity.
The love triangle conspiracy is completely bankrupt here. So when Zhang Ziyi shouted to break Li An's mind: "Do you want a sword or me?" Li Mubai could hold her in his arms calmly. She was already the heir of his soul and spirit, and for him he had already met for life. , where to choose.
In fact, Easterners can't see through Li An's conspiracy, because for us, the ancient master-disciple relationship is a sacred relationship, not comparable to the current beast godfather.
Since the interference of Yu Jiaolong, a third party, is not as important as Li An expected, why did Li Mubai, who broke his precept and came down the mountain in order to resolve the relationship between the two, never open his mouth to Yu Xiulian, and always hesitated?
Many people lamented that Li Mubai's cowardice was harmful, but no one saw Yu Xiulian's resistance, and even Li An didn't realize Yu Xiulian's independence. He talked about Chow Yun-fa's Li Mubai, Zhang Ziyi's Yu Jiaolong, only Only did not talk about Yu Xiulian's influence on this love story, almost everyone ignored the influence of Yu Xiulian's unique personality, and placed her in a position subordinate to Li Mubai, it seemed that they could only bear it silently from beginning to end.
Is that true?
Who is Yu Xiulian? She is the chairman and CEO of Xiongyuan Escort, a large security company, and may also serve as the chief combat instructor. Here are the real successful people, strong women!
Her customers admire her highly, her subordinates respect and love her, her father's friends regard her as a woman, familiar, telling letters and lectures, this woman has made her own way in the world of men, relying on It is the world's insight, people's skills, and martial arts.
In the face of Li Mubai's repeated hints, even though she loved him in her heart, she was clearly pretending to be stupid and gently rejected him. When he repeatedly mentioned quitting the arena and retreating to tranquility, Yu Xiulian The wise are confronted only by worldly peace. She told him I didn't understand.
Because she understands that she promises Li Mubai, and she will go into seclusion with him, then she has sharpened her hands full of calluses and practiced the swordsmanship, and carefully dealt with all kinds of people. became empty.
She wouldn't, she didn't want to, she didn't want a couple to sing along. She wants to be herself.
Throughout the film, Yu Xiulian wore a thick disguise. Only when she met Yu Jiaolong for the first time, she was sure that she would not have anything to do with this beautiful noble lady, and she showed a little bit of her true self.
"If you're married, you can still run around." "If you say you're ignorant, you know a little bit more." That small smile was Yu Xiulian's inner reflection.
Seeing that the noble lady turned away and was about to enter the cage of marriage, Yu Xiulian was a little envious, but never yearned for it.
Yu Xiulian is the biggest rebellion in this story. She makes men respect, love and fear. She is stronger than men to resist the three cardinal guides and five constants. The blue-eyed fox and Yu Jiaolong are only the most shallow awakeners. Not at the same level as Yu Xiulian. The first two thought that Wudang Secret Books and Qingming Sword were the basis for their resistance, so that they would never forget them in life and death, but Yu Xiulian knew that foreign things could not be relied on, only herself was the foundation, and she did not know any secret skills that flew around. , only to defeat the genius Yu Jiaolong who holds the divine weapon with eighteen kinds of martial arts proficient and down-to-earth.
Therefore, when Li Mubai recklessly revealed her love before her death, Yu Xiulian cried so painfully and quickly regained her calm. The two "not timid people" lost their lives because of their own pursuits. When Michelle Yeoh tortured her heart, what was she asking for, she really only knew when she lost her love! Only then did she realize that Yu Xiulian asked Yu Jiaolong to "regardless of your decision in this life, you must be sincere to yourself", which was clearly a firm commitment to herself, and she would not regret it until now.
This is Michelle Yeoh's Yu Xiulian, not Wang Dulu, let alone Li An's Yu Xiulian. Michelle Yeoh endows this character with a huge inner tension, and endows Li Yu's love tragedy with a deep connotation. In comparison, Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Zhen's performances are too dry, making Yu Jiaolong's drama full of despair and hope at the end. Inexplicable.
Only that Yu Xiulian and Li Mubai's parting kiss was sweet and bitter, and sad and hated. The lover finally embraced, warmer and colder.
Su Shi is a poet. He sang: "Ten years of life and death are boundless, without thinking, and unforgettable, a lonely grave a thousand miles away, where the words are desolate. At night, you suddenly return to your hometown, Xiaoxuan window, is dressing, relatively speechless, only tears thousands
Okay ." Li Mubai is a Xuanmen cultivator, he said: "I would like to wander by your side, be a wild ghost for seven days, follow you, even in the darkest place, my love will not make me a lonely soul forever. ."
Who is more moving?
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