A few days ago, I watched the situation in Macau. Although the plot was old-fashioned, it was inevitable that I was called by Fa Ge. When I came back, I couldn't help digging out various classic characters to review one by one, and found that the "God of Acting" was well-deserved, and it was so cool to act in everything, but the most special one was Brother Mu Bai.
Fa Ge's regular play style is chivalrous, uncompromising righteousness, humorous and uninhibited, deep and free and easy. However, this time, when Brother Mu Bai appeared on the stage, he had a bitter face and looked like he was dying.
Forty-one flowers for men. Li Mubai is handsome and unrestrained in martial arts. He is in charge of Wudang (quite a state-owned enterprise boss), and is famous at home and abroad.
However, when he was not confused, on the surface, he was troubled by two things. One is that the master Jiang Nanhe was murdered by a traitor, and his great revenge was not avenged; the other is that he and his confidante who had been with him for many years were unable to strip off due to moral constraints. These two worries are a long story. . .
1. Jiang Nanhe and the blue-eyed fox
said that many years ago, Wudang Jiang Nanhe was also a generation of heroes, and he was so handsome. The blue-eyed fox is also a beautiful girl. . . Although the two are talented and female, they are in love, but one is good and the other is evil, and they cannot stand at the same time. The fox spirits do everything in their power to get the upper hand, but the hero insists on the core value system of Taoism. The fox spirit grew from love to hate. Based on the extremist ideology of "if you can't get it, you will destroy it", killing heroes and stealing secret books, and since then, they have moved to the opposite side of society and become a "poisonous dragon".
2. Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian
Besides, many years ago, Wudang Li Mubai had just started to roam the rivers and lakes. During a fight, his good brother Meng Sizhao died trying to save himself. So the good man Li Mubai shoulders the heavy responsibility of carrying water for the widow, and often takes care of Yu Xiulian, who is married to Meng You. The two fell in love for a long time, but they couldn't let go of their guilt towards Meng, so they had to treat each other as confidants and deceive themselves. The ambiguous feelings tortured the two from youthful youth to leftover males and females, until the entire rivers and lakes had recognized their relationship, and the Party Central Committee (Master Baylor) began to pay attention to their marriage. Especially after Xiulian's father passed away, Brother Mu Bai began to suffer from double guilt. Apart from love, Li Mubai is a person with a head and face. In the past, acting stupid was because he was afraid that he would be stabbed in the spine by marrying a friend's wife, but now his father is exhausted, and a woman ran into the rivers and lakes, and he continued to play stupid because he was afraid of being scolded. Dude Zhu Bajie looks in the mirror, it's not human inside or outside!
The story in the movie starts here. Li Mubai, who was in a dilemma, decided to retreat and practice, using Taoist thoughts to resolve his own knot, but ended in failure. He found that he had touched "a realm that Master has never pointed out" (actually, Master has been there, but I'm just embarrassed to say...), and he couldn't find the answer, so he had to break the precept and leave the border ahead of schedule. This in itself is a denial of Taoist philosophy. At this time, Li Mubai was only one step away from running towards the free world. He chose a compromise plan, which proved to be a gradual plan in the future - quitting the arena and letting Xiulian hand over the Qingming Sword to Lord Baylor for safekeeping.
If the story continues like this, in the future, Li Mubai will go to the capital to find Xiulian to confess and quit the arena together. Since then, the prince and princess will live a happy life, which is a fairy tale. However, the appearance of Yu Jiaolong disrupted the whole situation.
3. Yu Jiaolong and Qingming
Sword Qingming Sword is Li Mubai. Like the heroines of all Hollywood movies, Jiaolong is of noble birth, rebellious in character and longing for freedom. She yearns for the life in the rivers and lakes in the narrow sense novels, hates traditional etiquette, and the love with Xiaohu in the desert is her first sublimation. She can live the life of the Condor Heroes from now on. The reason for her return is the love of her parents. In fact, it is also mixed with her pursuit of more excitement. Yu Xiulian's appearance gave her a chance, no matter how good her own things were, they couldn't compare to the excitement of stealing.
She stole the Qingming Sword at night, and it seemed that she was stealing the sword, but she was actually stealing people. The two most important fighting scenes in the whole film are between two women, and both revolve around grabbing swords. Both times, Jiaolong finally won the sword. It's not that her kung fu is really better than that of Xiulian, but that she is bad enough and free and easy. Speaking of which, I couldn't help but brag about the international chapter. I used to annoy her (like everyone else), but after a generation of masters, I found that they are indeed quite powerful, especially in the drama, which is very similar to that. It is also playing against Brother Fa, and Jing Tian, who is Heavenly Kill, is less than one-tenth as good as Zhang Ziyi.
A swordsman's mid-life crisis can be seen by looking at the sword. Qingming Baojian is 400 years old, drinking countless blood and reaching the pinnacle. However, with a hundred feet of success, the last step could not be reached. The blue-eyed fox is always hard to find, and it is difficult to meditate in retreat. The sword was handed over to her confidante, White Rose, by her master. She cherished it and sealed it into the pavilion. The sword was snatched by the red rose. She was born with a calf and was not afraid of tigers. That's why Li Mubai couldn't resist the Jade Flood Dragon.
A hero who suffered a mid-life crisis, lost a lot of energy, just broke through himself, and decided to face love head-on. However, he found that he still "couldn't control his own desires", and he suddenly had another trouble - a martial artist with no successor. This time, the desire was too strong, and he immediately decided to make an exception to train a female descendant for Wudang again. (If Jiang Nanhe had this consciousness, he would not have to die. Brother Mubai, you are so avant-garde, does your master know...) The
fight scene in Zhulin is not so much a fight as it is a lingering, a man who has conquered the whole The male silver of the rivers and lakes, the passionate play of conquering the unruly Jiaolong. (Remembering Brother Mu Bai's sane face, he can't help admiring Brother Fa) Yu Jiao said the truth after smoking, and asked Brother Mu Bai, "Do you want a sword or me?" He successfully tamed the dragon, and at the same time successfully dragged himself back to the cycle of troubles - morality or freedom?
Master storytelling is always patiently paving the way, and the climax bursts! Ang Lee is like that. The sudden change in the situation in the cave connected Li Mubai's three troubles together, and solved it at the same time----the appearance and death of the old fox, but the great revenge of his teacher; the sudden arrival of death completely got rid of the entanglement of red and white roses, Brother Mubai was guaranteed to die in the evening.
4. The old fox and the little fox
The old fox was obsessed with martial arts, became obsessed with demons, and did all the bad things in his life. The only thing he was proud of was the excellent apprentice Jiaolong. She is as talented as she was when she was young, and she is as deviant as herself. Over time, she will also become a "poisonous dragon". However, in the reincarnation of the world, Li Mubai's appearance repeated the scene of the old fox and Jiang Nanhe. The difference is that the little fox's "authenticity" is not bad, and the orthodox won again. This was unacceptable to the old fox. She shot the poison needle at the little fox, her "only relative and only hatred".
Ang Lee finally pointed the source of evil to greed and jealousy, and the old fox who revealed his true form is exactly the same as the classic American image of the clown. While restoring traditional Chinese martial arts and Taoist culture, it also allows Western audiences to understand. The most rare thing is that he used the true meaning of Chinese martial arts to point out the road of redemption for goodness. The biggest difference between the old fox and the little fox lies in the culture. The old fox is illiterate, and even if he steals the scriptures, he will end up going crazy.
At the end of the film, Yu Jiaolong went to Wudang Mountain not to look for Xiaohu (this spare tire, Xiaolong's heart already belongs to another place at this time), but to convert to traditional morality. Her leap is itself an acknowledgement of tradition (an ancient legend) and her own redemption.
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