An unrepeatable classic

Crawford 2022-03-01 08:01:11

During the Tianshun period in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Shaoqin, the eunuch of Dongchang, framed Yang Yuxuan, the minister of military affairs, to death, and used the exile of his children as bait to draw out Zhou Huaian, Yang Yuxuan's subordinate, in an attempt to wipe out his old department. Qiu Moyan, a hero of the Jianghu, was entrusted by her lover, Zhou Huai'an. After a bloody fight, she rescued the children of the Yang family and made an appointment to meet at the Dragon Gate Inn at the border of the desert. Unexpectedly, the three masters of the East Factory who disguised themselves followed them. The proprietress, who runs a black shop for a living, is coquettish and affectionate, and has a secret affection for Zhou Huai'an. Unfortunately, Zhou Huai'an has long been attached to Qiu Moyan. At this time, Cao Shaoqin's brigade was attacking the Dragon Gate Inn, and there were Dongchang experts entangled in the store. In addition, the unpredictable weather in the desert made Zhou Huaian and others unable to escape. Zhou Huai'an found out that there was a secret way out of the inn. In order to save Yang's orphan, Zhou Huaian did not hesitate to find out where the secret way was on the condition of marrying Jin Xiangyu, and made an appointment with Qiu Moyan and others to escape from the secret way on the wedding night. Unexpectedly, Cao Shaoqin's brigade had already arrived. Among the thousands of miles of yellow sand, when life, death, love, and hate intertwined, Zhou, Qiu, and Jin joined forces to kill the villain, but Qiu Moyan also sacrificed. Zhou Huaian decided to stay away from the Central Plains, Jin Xiangyu burned the inn with a fire, and followed Zhou Huaian away.

"New Dragon Gate Inn" brings the advantages of Hong Kong-style martial arts films into full play in the peak period: desert and yellow sand, gathering of masters, narrow space, battle of wits and courage, long love between children, and a thousand-year-old homeland - the classic symbols of martial arts films have been enlarged to Extreme. "People say that in troubled times, don't complain about children's love, but in troubled times, children's love is deeper." Tsui Hark's dialogue on Jianghu's introspection has implanted the love of children in "New Dragon Gate Inn" into everyone's heart. Tsui Hark said: "Jianghu is everywhere, and there are also rivers and lakes in the home." - The Dragon Inn, as the carrier of the beginning of the rivers and lakes dream, let the legendary stories of Qiu Moyan, Zhou Huaian and Jin Xiangyu be passed down forever.

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  • Sandra 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    It is not like a battle between good and evil, but a ruthless (eunuch) and a lover's opposition, and it is a spiritual and physiological parallel: Zhou Qiu's love between a man and a woman, Qiu Jin's female and female ambiguity, Jin Zhou's sexual attraction , and even the solitary second child's friendship with the bereaved father, sister and brother is similar to the projection of family affection, and then it is a relationship that is not worthy of being without a penis. Compared with the foreign film allusions that are more and more complicated outside the play than inside the play, this arrangement is very "Chinese" and unique.

  • Marlin 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    The lonely smoke in the desert is straight, and the long river is setting the sun. I feel like this is a Chinese western. The conflict and entanglement of various forces in a small inn in the vast desert. In other words, that man with two knives is the one who sweeps the floor.