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When I posted Liao Fan and Song Jia's "Master" before, the editor once said that there is a type of film that only Chinese people can make, and there is no other country that can compare horizontally and vertically.
That's a kung fu movie.
Kung fu movies are actually classified as action movies most of the time.
But if it is subdivided, action movies in a broad sense often include the kind of European and American races that rely solely on the advantages of large muscles and physiques, or the movies that are crushed by firearms and shells.
This kind of film may be exciting for foreigners to watch, but the editor feels that this is not necessarily correct or not representative of most people. The editor thinks that most Chinese people who really have a bit of traditional cultural aesthetics will not particularly like this kind of broad sense. Hollywood European-style action movies.
Because of our own unique "action films" - kung fu films, of course, it may be because the editor grew up in Chinese culture and has filters, but the editor feels that the excellent top-level Chinese kung fu films, at least in terms of aesthetics, are already better than these European and American blockbusters are too much higher.
But the editor pushes kung fu movies very rarely. If you have the impression of friends, you should probably count (well, I know there will be no) and you should find that the number of kung fu movies that Xiaobian pushes is almost the same as that of horror movies (who else doesn’t know that Xiaobian dares not watch horror movies) .
Willing to be the same.
This year, I haven't seen a decent kung fu movie for a long, long time.
Especially for viewers like Xiaobian, who watched a kung fu movie for the first time that year, and watched a kung fu movie that was hard to surpass at the top level.
Zhuyu is in front, and it is difficult to surpass.
"Fighting Heroes"
"Fighting Heroes".
The biggest concern of the editor who pushed this movie should be revealing his age (laughs). If there are post-00s among Micron’s friends, they probably don’t know much about this movie.
But I believe that the post-80s, or a few post-90s, should know about this movie.
Yes, this is the first kung fu movie I watched. I have remembered this for many years.
In the late 1920s, in order to fulfill his master's wishes, Chen Zhen went to Toyo to learn advanced technology, and he liked Japanese girl Mitsuko Yamada. However, due to the death of Master Huo Yuanjia, Chen Zhen had to leave Photon and return to China to assist Master's son Huo Tingen in running the business of Jingwumen, but unexpectedly aroused his jealousy and a power struggle between the brothers.
During this period, Chen Zhen was wronged, and Guangn traveled to China to help Chen Zhen clear his suspicions. Chen Zhen brought Guangn back to Jingwumen, but because he was Japanese, he was excluded from the door, and he was not accepted by the hotel, so he could only live in in the suburbs.
On the other hand, Chen Zhen traced the cause of Master's death, suspecting that the Japanese army officer Fujita Gang secretly used chronic poison to kill Huo Yuanjia.
Chen Zhen asked a doctor for an autopsy, which confirmed that Master was indeed poisoned to death. Soon, Fujita Gang challenged Jingwumen, and he induced the head of the Japanese Black Dragon Society, Fumio Funato, to challenge Jingwuguan.
After the two exchanged martial arts and parted, Huo Tingen came to Chen Zhenguang's residence, because he was worried that he would fail in the martial arts meeting with Fujita Go, and his father lost his martial arts skills, so he taught Huo Yuanjia's unique skills during his lifetime. Guangguang knew that he and Chen Zhen were separated from the country after all, so he finally left a letter and returned to his homeland.
Chen Zhen and Huo Tingen faced Fujita Gang together, launched the final decisive battle and won, killing Fujita Gang to avenge the master. At the end of the movie, Chen Zhen left and continued to fight for the national cause.
After this movie, 25 years have passed, and no one can play Jet Li in the same way.
Of course, Bruce Lee's predecessor is a person from another era, and the editor did not count him here.
Jackie Chan's style is a bit of a street style, more inclined to a kind of action humor, not to say that this is not good, each has its own merits.
But the editor, as a martial arts layman, only understands from the point of view of appreciation. The martial arts shown by Jet Li in "Heroes of Jingwu" are the purest, most powerful, the most straightforward, and the least sloppy.
There is no one centimeter of fancy and fake handles for each action, it is simplified to the extreme, simply neat to the extreme, straight to the center, 100% pure purpose, without any deliberate ornamental.
If I want to blow your head, that is the quickest and most ruthless way to punch you in the head directly when you can't react; if I want to blow your stomach, that is to go up and kick you fly.
There is no extra action at all, just pure ruthlessness, pure direct target.
Refined to the point that every centimeter of movement is calculated by a machine.
But can you say it's not beautiful? Do not! The editor was attracted by the kung fu in the film at that time, precisely because the editor had never seen such an alternative way of "beauty".
It was also at that time that the editor realized that beauty does not have to be elegant and slow, noble and glamorous. Beauty can take many forms. The sheer absolute control and cleanliness of power in "Heroes of Jingwu" is also a very different but absolutely charming beauty.
The film is called by many as the best pure martial arts film of all time. Everyone's aesthetics are different, and even if it is not absolutely undisputed number one, its status in the history of kung fu films is absolutely difficult to surpass. There are good reasons too.
First of all, as far as the theme of "Sino-Japanese Martial Arts Showdown" is concerned, this film has been difficult to surpass. The ideas of other films with the same theme are directly LOW to explode, because they basically rely on inciting national sentiment. In "Heroes of Jingwu", whether it is kung fu itself or the countless contests between the two sides, although it is based on the background of national war, the core spirit is still martial arts.
In the movie, the shameless oppression of the Chinese by the Japanese is true, but the fact that there are cold-blooded robots like Fujita Go and Fumio Funakoshi , a wise man with extraordinary magnanimity, are also among the masters of Japanese martial arts. biased.
Furthermore, "Heroes of Jingwu" has the best BOSS battles, and it clearly tells the audience how the protagonist uses technology to knock down opponents in his weakness, not a small universe.
and most importantly. This film conveys the concept of martial arts very well.
Even if the editor is a layman with zero foundation in martial arts, he instinctively knows that the so-called martial arts spirit is definitely not brave and ruthless.
The editor may not be able to tell the profound core spirit of martial arts, but I also know that in the end, martial arts is nothing more than a struggle with myself.
In the movie, it is the dialogue between Chen Zhen and Fumio Funakoshi after the contest between Chen Zhen and Fumio Funakoshi in the middle and latter part of the movie that makes the whole movie go to a higher level .
Fumio Funakoshi asked Chen Zhen what he thought the spirit of martial arts was. After all, Chen Zhen was young and energetic, so he naturally believed that the goal of martial arts was to knock down the opponent.
But Fumio Funakoshi said slowly: You are wrong, young man, the best way to knock down the opponent is with a pistol.
Then he said: The goal of martial arts is to push people's physical ability to the highest limit. And if you want to reach this state, you must understand the universe.
This dialogue, when the editor was young and ignorant, did not even understand the meaning of the dialogue, it was already impressive.
After watching it when I grow up, I feel that this episode is really brilliant. It took the whole movie to a higher level. In addition, this sentence was taught to Chen Zhen by a Japanese master, and Chen Zhen used this insight to finally defeat another Japanese master. He felt that the director abandoned national prejudice and thoroughly inherited the core spirit of martial arts itself in the film. wonderful.
It is precisely because of the fact that this film is in the first place, whether it is an action drama or a literary drama, the editor has never seen anything that can surpass it in the past 25 years, so I often sigh that the development of kung fu movies is getting more and more difficult.
And as there are fewer and fewer young people who can suffer and practice martial arts, I wonder if the prospect of kung fu films can only gradually fade out of people's sight. But I believe that no matter how many years have passed, the wonderful scenes in "Heroes of Jingwu" will remain in people's hearts. ,
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