watched
"Kill Bill" in early 2004, and I was overjoyed that the first episode I watched was the full-color version. At that time, some movie magazines such as "Watching the Movie" deeply interpreted the film from beginning to end, the creative engine that director Quentin used to create this movie, and the source of the collage of many details. I remember, one of the story sources of this movie is the 1973 Japanese movie "Shura Xue Ji". This is one of the many Japanese movies Quentin watched when he was a video rental guy. Yesterday, he just found the paperback at the disc store. D5, two-disc set, I hurriedly found it and watched it. The envelope is very Japanese and more attractive, with "Japanese version of Kill Bill" printed in teeny tiny characters.
Before reading, I turned to the relevant chapters of "100 Years of Japanese Movies" and referenced them, but there is no relevant description of the film, but about the director of "Shura Snow Princess" Toshiba Fujita, about the Japanese sword and halberd films in the 1960-1970s, the book It is outlined in this way that due to the impact of TV, the market for traditional pastoral and ranger-style sword and halberd films in the late 1960s declined. Toho Yinghua's Fujita Toshiba group of people moved from time to time and made some improvements to the sword and halberd films. , adding many modern visual elements, presenting a gloomy, violent and thrilling style. become a small genre.
Digression, maybe the trend is unstoppable, but it still echoes and competes with each other. On the other hand, in our Hong Kong movies, the movie giant "Shaw Brothers" is also popular, and director Zhang Che is often represented by "The War of the Intestines" with a distinct visual style. , a fierce and fierce costume martial arts film, and the "Shaw Brothers" rival "Golden Harvest" film company, also because of Bruce Lee, created a unique style of modern kung fu film, which has spread all over Southeast Asia and even all over the world.
"Sura Snow Princess" was adapted from the comic book of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Uemura in the 1970s. It tells the story of the early years of the Meiji era (equivalent to our late Qing Dynasty), when the west wind was gradually advancing, and reform and reform was imperative. At this time, bureaucrats, warlords, and bullies were rampant all over the place. Xue's "father" was a village teacher. On the way to take his mother and brother to his post, he was mistaken by a group of bullies led by three men and one woman as his hostile force. "Father" and brother were brutally killed on the spot. After her mother was ravaged by them for three days and three nights, she was finally taken by one of the bullies as his wife and went to open a shop in Kyoto.
In order to avenge her own offspring, she seduced the prison guards and officials everywhere in the prison, and finally became pregnant. After a heavy snowfall, she died peacefully. After rigorous and cruel training, 20 years later, Xue Ji went down the mountain to start a journey of revenge. The superb martial arts "Sura Xue Ji" (Sura, Sanskrit name Asura. Abbreviated as Shura. One of the six paths, one of the eight tribes, and one of the ten worlds. Also for Asura, Asura, Asura, Asura, Asura, Asulun, Asura. The free translation is non-heaven, non-similar, and improper. Ashura is one of the oldest gods in India. First, the ghosts and gods belonging to the fighting category are often regarded as evil gods, and they fought endlessly with the Emperor Shitian 'Indra God', which led to the emergence of terms such as Shura Field and Shura War.) The reputation spread.
In this movie, Toshiba Fujita still inherits the consistent aesthetic style of Japanese movies, and at the same time endows the characters with the unique paranoid character of the Japanese nation. When these characteristics are concentrated in a revenge movie with a female as the protagonist, the blood and rain appear. Cool and sad. The film has many characters and distinct personalities. The fighting scenes, whether indoors or outdoors, are cleverly arranged, the swordsmanship is cruel and agile, and the shot is very innovative. The rhythm of the story is tense, twists and turns, wonderful and smooth. And Xue Ji, with a pure and beautiful image, in a white kimono, spotless, as clean as snow, but intent on revenge, her face is ruthless, her eyes are grim, she holds an oil-paper umbrella (the handle of the umbrella is the handle of a sharp blade) and walks alone in the mountains and seas, villages, towns and cities, always Is in a hurry. However, her sympathy for the enemy's daughter and her short-lived love with the son of another enemy make the characters less masquerade and more oriental. Actor Kaji Meiko's beautiful face looks like Zhu Yin at first glance. It should be said that "Asura Xue Ji" is a relatively successful commercial film
So, what about Quentin borrowing those passages from "Sura Xue Ji" in "Kill Bill"? I read it superficially and thought it was: First of all, it is the character setting and story structure. "Sura Xue Ji" is divided into four paragraphs according to the plot, each of which is explained with chapter-like subtitles, and the heroines of the two movies are the goddess of nemesis. , I use Japanese swords, but one is a precious samurai sword, and an ordinary flat-mouthed short sword. The will for revenge is unstoppable, and no grass is left when the blade passes. The combination of real shooting and comics in "Kill", there are also comics in "Xiu" Explanation; Secondly, the use of the camera and the fighting scenes, the scenes of fighting alone and one person against a hundred, cutting limbs and arms, blood spurting wildly, from the kung fu routine to the camera are similar, such as 180-degree volley rotation, flying from behind the enemy to the front, For example, blood is often seen spraying like a fountain. For example, in "Kill", the bride always remembers that when she lay down at the feet of the wicked, the enemies smugly watched and looked down at the corpse. In "Xiu", it has also been emphasized that the four wicked people watched proudly after the death of Xue Ji's parents. , the camera is facing up, it is a close-up of the faces of the four villains; moreover, the music, there is always a song sung by a sad Japanese woman after killing the Bride of Billy and killing the enemy, the song is called "The Flower of Carnage Lady" (The Flower of Carnage Lady) ), the song is beautiful and ethereal, the lyrics are desolate and sad, and the characters are lonely and helpless. There are many fighting scenes, and the unique and urgent Japanese music has also been learned by Quentin. The duel is exactly the same as the camera and music in "Xura Xue Ji" in which the killer in Western clothes usually walks through the streets and overpasses to hunt down newspaper reporters.
Last but not least, there is still another episode of "Sura Xue Ji", which is the second side of this DVD. The second episode, titled "Shura Xueji's Resentful Love", tells the story of Xue, who was sentenced to death, rescued by weirdos, and assigned to monitor the budding Japanese communists, who turned out to be politicians and secret police. As a result, being infected by the words and deeds of the communists, Xue also began to have some patriotism and turned against him. However, the story dragged on and Xue's character was weakened. There were 60 and 70 minutes in the middle that had nothing to do with martial arts, and the rest was completely fighting for the sake of fighting, adding ideological things. Although the famous filmmaker Itami Shisan, who would become a director in the future, made a cameo in Red Molecule, but still not good-looking. Dividing the film into two episodes is one of the ways Quentin borrowed? And the same is that the next episodes are so dragging and ugly.
View more about Lady Snowblood reviews
