I also have some sympathy for this, but it is not entirely on the issue of Chinese Kungfu winning. I remember that after watching this film for the first time when I was a child, in addition to being very happy again, the biggest feeling in my heart was that it was fake, too fake. The Japanese didn't kill Chen Zhen in the end? ! Is this still a vicious Japanese pirate? Impossible, impossible.
It was only after I learned about the history of that period that I really understood more of the film. The Black Dragon Club in the movie is real, it is the most famous Japanese trading company + martial arts + spy organization during World War II, and its predecessor is just a small gang established in the Jiawu period, but it is small and small, its founder's " "Grand Ambition" laid the foundation for the subsequent strong fission of the gang: to serve Japan's invasion of East Asia. When Sun Yat-sen was making a revolution, the foreign power that helped the most was the Black Dragon Society. Throughout the history of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary struggle, the Black Dragon Society was as hard-working as Wang Jingwei, who was a human bomber. But after all, the cooperation with Sun Yat-sen is because of the common enemy of the Qing court. After the fall of the Qing court, the Black Dragon Society will immediately change and become China's most vicious enemy. The film's Fumio Funue represents the Black Dragon Society who still has feelings for China. some people. For a long time before the war against China, the Japanese political circles were divided into two factions with opposing views. One was the civilian class who opposed all-out invasion of China, and the other was the military class who blindly advocated invasion of China. Civilians oppose the all-out invasion of China not because they have great internationalist sentiments, but because of a sentence from the Heilonghui civil servant under Fujita Go in the film: No matter how strong Japan is, it is only a strong ant trying to overthrow a sleeping one. It's just an elephant, I'm afraid this elephant will wake up in pain one day. Later, the military launched a large-scale assassination of civilian officials, seized military and political power, and finally made the full-scale invasion of China a reality. But in any case, the reasonable existence of the civil servants provides a reasonable reason for the survival of the protagonist at the end of the film.
And a careful analysis of the protagonist's moves in the film shows that Chen Zhen's victory is not YY.
At the beginning of the film, Chen Zhen used the traditional Chinese hand to divide the tendons and the bones when he crushed the Japanese angry youths. When he entered the Hongkou Dojo, the most used one was Cun Jin, which represents the traditional Chinese martial arts. When dueling with Huo Tingen, in order to teach him the flashy martial arts, Chen Zhen used the most common Western boxing in the ring. When competing with Chuanyue, Chuanyue asked what kind of punch Chen Zhen was using. Chen Zhen said contemptuously that it was a good punch to knock you down. In fact, he used a Thai elbow strike (I think this is the most powerful move in the film, Chen Zhen). You are really cruel to the elderly). When it was time to step into the Hongkou Dojo again, Chen Zhen had already exhausted his best boxing, representing the combination of the best boxing styles in the world. It was a matter of course to repair this robot that only practiced hard skills. So the director meant to play 50 big boards each. He not only made a rational criticism of Chinese Kung Fu's tradition of not paying attention to actual combat, but also borrowed the words of Funakoshi: "To knock down the opponent, the best way is to use a pistol, practice martial arts The goal is to push people's physical ability to the limit.", expressing his disdain for the killing machine like Fujita.
After all, the audience of the movie is a nation that has been bullied for a century and loves YY. The inheritance of the Chinese tradition of winning is the director's compromise on the box office. However, the film does not stick to narrow national thoughts to show all kinds of excellent martial arts. "Heroes of Jingwu" is indeed the peak masterpiece of Chen Jiashang and Yuan Heping. Chinese action movies have come all the way, and only some Hong Kong directors can do the most "unbiased" in dealing with themes related to ethnic relations. Huo Yuanjia", these films with an open mind are invaluable. I hope they will make persistent efforts. I don't mind seeing the ending of Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng or Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng.
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