Li Lianjie really restored Huojiaquan when he played Chen Zhen because he learned from many schools of martial arts, but Mizongquan may not have a foreign name so far, so he used a part of Changquan instead. This is the main difference compared with Bruce Lee's version.
Talking about the idea of the film: Chen Zhen's character has been praised to this day because he lived in a weak era in China, and it also represents an image of a part of the national sentiment who is still passionate about fitness and serving the country, so when talking about Chen Zhen, in addition to his outstanding martial arts, he There must be the same outstanding martial arts thinking and era ambitions, in order to still be remembered by the world for melee combat with fists and feet in the era of cannon fire.
Chinese martial arts is not a simple martial arts technique, but requires martial virtue. Therefore, a master is not necessarily a martial arts champion, but must be a wise man who can practice martial arts well and convince the public with martial virtues. . However, in the chaotic times, the various schools that are the inheritors of boxing and kung fu are often placed by the common people to strengthen the country and defend against foreign enemies. For example, in the Shaolin Temple, monks and soldiers rescued the King of Qin and beat General Wang. The difference is that in the Middle Ages, everyone only had cold weapons, while in modern China, a lot of guns and guns have been eaten. This land is not only bloody, but also cannon fire. People are not only worried about knives and spears, but also a hail of bullets. Therefore, in those days, the unarmed Chinese were so afraid of the oppression of foreign enemy forces, and the spine bent in front of the guns was never afraid of the tall and thick arms of the foreigners, but the guns behind them.
Chen Zhen of Jingwumen expresses such Chinese folk sentiments. We also have great martial arts and fighting skills. Japanese army officer, a role that our folk heroes have never been afraid of. Chen Zhen is already a kung fu master who has awakened in troubled times. He realizes that the martial arts that we have always regarded as inheritance are useless in troubled times. We should shoulder the hope of the nation and learn more practical fighting in order to win the enemy. Technology. But a person's awakening is limited. Chen Zhen can go from 0 to 1 by himself, but from 1 to 10, he needs the next generation's relay. He understands the truth that "no matter what kind of fists and feet are, they are no match for guns and guns." I'm afraid it is Chen Zhen's consciousness beyond his ability.
Therefore, the role of Mr. Funakoshi, the master of the Black Dragon Society, conveys the creator's intention: "Young man, let me tell you, bullets are the fastest way to defeat people, and kung fu is for physical fitness and self-protection." This sentence also points out this. The problem to be discussed in this film is the problem of kung fu and weapons, not the problem of martial arts and fighting. This problem has been solved by Chen Zhen who has come back from studying in Japan and has seen a strong industry and a variety of martial arts genres.
Chen Zhen represents the spirit of awakening from the great country and creating a new, more practical and better national culture in combination with the times. Mr. Funakoshi represents the way of national self-help from the high point of view of observers. to suppress similar ideas. In the face of the drastic changes of the times and the complete subversion of the world pattern by technological productivity, it is really difficult for us to have such a national consciousness of self-help, because our country is too large and has the most citizens, and a complete change will require greater efforts to achieve. When I write this, think about how from 1840 to 1949, there were really no cowards on the road of self-help for a hundred years. Heroes came out of the country bravely. Finally, we can live in an era of unification, and we really have to sigh at the difficulty of the people's war.
Since a hundred years of self-rescue lasts for a hundred years, everything in the process is not thorough enough but it is indeed meaningful. Let’s take a look at Chen Zhen, who represents the conscious exploration of national self-rescue, and the bolder Mr. Funakoshi, who is a more effective way of national self-rescue. The direction of an image. Chen Zhen later went to the three eastern provinces where there were more Japanese forces, and was determined to spread the national spirit of fitness and power to give the people the courage to stand up, and Mr. Funakoshi is Japanese, with a more advanced country's sober situation judgment and martial arts. The master's anti-war sentiment left China. In the film, it is precisely because Chuanyue is Japanese that he can put forward such a pioneering concept of self-help from the sidelines. Because he is not a Chinese, he does not need to consider China's backward productive forces and generally low national sentiment, so his concept is not yet. Possibly practical. But what is right is right, and it does not become wrong just because the times are not ready. Although this concept has been put forward by the vanguard of that era to the real implementation of our party's insistence that "only what has been beaten and not discussed" has been put into practice. It has been ten years, but now the country's prosperity has confirmed it is correct, so these pioneers still exist in our literary and artistic works today, and they can be remembered in history.
So, do the right thing, don't be afraid that there is no feedback, sometimes the times are not ready. From this point of view, Mr. Funakoshi represents a avant-garde of new Chinese ideas, and ideas have no national boundaries. The wheels of history have run over, and it is not the police in the British Concession, nor the Jingwumen, nor the Japanese army who survived, but such vanguard ideas; and today we have used people's war to turn such vanguards into everyday life. I think this is the reason why some literary and artistic works lose their charm due to the passage of time, and this movie still has some content that can be deafening, perhaps indicating that this old story of martial arts fighting for the front still has a new place in today's new China.
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