When "Ip Man 4" was released, I had no emotions in my heart. But when passing by the mall, I decided to donate a movie ticket temporarily.
At that moment, I suddenly remembered the release of the first "Ip Man". About ten years ago, I was a middle school student. Our middle school is a semi-closed school, with mountains-high tutoring books neatly cut into square tofu-shaped desks, with students lying on the desks sleeping in the morning, red and white school uniforms, blue or black signatures The ink stains of the pen are dotted.
Until a certain cold and windy noon, the school was uncharacteristically, and the copyright of "Ip Man" was obtained from nowhere, and the movie was played in the ring-shaped auditorium, so the middle school student Jia Hutu and his classmates responded positively. It was the first time in the school. The auditorium witnessed Donnie Yen's Ip Man and Wing Chun, which became popular all over the country.
The movie "Ip Man" became an instant hit, and there was a Wing Chun wind blowing across the land of China. There were fart children who used telephone poles as wooden figurines everywhere. The scams of "old military doctor X disease with a single needle" and "heavy money for a child" The ads are all bald. Even a high-pressure middle school like ours, for the first time ever, responded to the requests of teachers and students, and screened in the auditorium for five noon sessions for a week.
After that, Ip Man and Wing Chun fever did not cool down, and the "Ip Man" series became more and more passionate. From the war against Japanese pirates in Ip Man's barracks, "I want to fight ten", to Master Ye's Hong Kong standing up and breaking the British boxer Tornado, to the Wing Chun orthodoxy battle, Ip Man's battle with Zhang Tianzhi, and the black-hearted boss who makes trouble, Master Ye is against Tai Sen, this series has been filmed for ten years without knowing it. From young to old age, Donnie Yen's eyes are more wrinkled, and the defeated generals under Master Ye's boxing are also stronger than the other - but come and go, Master Ye is still invincible, and has already transformed into a global IP, a symbol.
I think when I was in college, I had nowhere to put my passion, and I also practiced "Wing Chun" for more than a year, but I didn't persevere because of my concentration on my studies. After practicing until now, I should be able to make a complete set of Wing Chun's routines "Little Thoughts" and "Searching for Bridges".
Since Wing Chun has not been able to practice to the end, let's chase the movie to a successful conclusion.
Frankly speaking, from the perspective of the story structure, "Ip Man 4" is not a novel movie. The plot is exactly the same as "Ip Man 2", except that the background of the story is changed from Hong Kong to the United States, the Hong Quan Sammo Hung in 2 is replaced by Tai Chi Wu Yue of the San Francisco Chinese Association, and the British boxing champion Tornado is replaced by the United States. Marine Corps Officer.
Of course, for the Ip Man series, it can be said that from the second part, the plot is not the first element of the movie. What the audience wanted to see was that Master Ye hoeed the strong and helped the weak, and that his righteousness was weak. It was Ye Wen who used Wing Chun to beat all the young people. As for who the opponent was and what kind of punches he punched, it didn't matter, he was done. Slowly rolled up cuffs, tightly locked eyebrows, rainy fists, ghostly footwork, oozing knuckles, foreigners who have been beaten into stupidity, these recurring elements, Ip Man 4 has everything . Then, this Ip Man 4, which is also the final chapter of the Ip Man series, is qualified.
With the end of the movie, this decade-long series of movies has come to a successful conclusion in my heart. But at that moment, I couldn't help but feel lost.
Over the years, the traditional Chinese chivalrous spirit has always fascinated me. Whether it is "Water Margin", "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", or Jin Yong's ancient dragon Liang Yusheng, the martial arts dream always affects me. For a long time, acting like a hero and making friends with heroes from all over the world has been my ideal living state.
Some people say that each era will have its own laws of development and evolution, but the final theme will become fame and fortune. The so-called martial arts has always been an unrealistic ideal of people. The earliest martial arts, either from the army, or to defend against thieves, have nothing to do with "chivalry", "righteousness" and "dao".
However, I do not agree with this view. The martial arts of the Chinese are precisely the inheritance of the heroic righteousness of Ban Chao’s writing to Cong Rong, Wang Xuance to quell the chaos alone, and Xin Qiji to capture the traitor alive. Fundamentally speaking, isn't it a kind of spontaneous patriotism of the people at the bottom? In the eyes of many people, the great man is just a line, but in my eyes, it is a kind of spirit.
Until I really found out that martial arts had declined, and the so-called traditional chivalrous way, probably in life, was indeed dead.
In the past few years, more and more Chuanwu masters have been beaten out, Yan Fang's magic, Lei Lei's Tai Chi, Wu Lin style Yilong, and of course some Wing Chun masters who have become orphans, they repeatedly promote their own martial arts. Indestructible, widely recruiting apprentices, but facing the challenge of Xu Xiaodong and other counterfeiters, either refuse to fight, or be hanged in the duel. For example, Lei Lei, after the fiasco, he still talks about "internal strength" and "internal strength".
More and more people are beginning to believe that the "masters" of contemporary Chinese traditional martial arts are just selling their understanding of martial arts, chivalry, and rivers and lakes again and again to make a lot of money.
Morality in the mouth, business in the heart.
This degradation is inseparable from the impetuous atmosphere of the entire social environment.
I still remember that in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the young Guo Jing faced the "little beggar" Huang Rong he first met. Although he was tricked and fooled, he still trusted him. Even today, when I look back on this story, I can't help but be moved. However, in real life, this kind of simplicity in the face of strangers and heroism in the face of friends in the rivers and lakes seems to only exist in the 1960s and 1970s according to the elders. Today, if there really is Guo Jing, 80% of the time when he first entered the society, he will be fooled by the liar who "borrowed 20 yuan to buy a ticket home" on the street of the train station.
As for chivalry? It probably started from "you didn't hit it, why did you support it", and it was already dead.
Especially in the information age, the tip of the pyramid, which was originally invisible to most people, has spread various fragments through more and more channels. In the historical journey of imagining the "jump", more and more people began to seek wealth. give up others. deceive? It is precisely because the cost of cheating, defrauding donations, begging, and touching porcelain is getting lower and lower that there are so many liars running rampant, so that more and more people begin to not believe in society and the world, so they can only hold tight. Hold onto your purse - nonetheless, get reaped by scammers in elaborate scams.
"In this era, isn't money the best proof of a person's ability?" This is the exact words of a friend of mine, which made me shudder.
Ye Wen may be able to live on the screen, but in life, martial arts are indeed dead.
After all, in our era, the person who can hang up a lot of martial arts masters is Ma Yun in Gongshou Dao.
After all, the real Master Ye Wen in history has never beaten the Japanese, the British or the Americans, and he is also a big smoker who has taken a concubine.
Ip Man is a symbol, a symbol that represents people's longing, memories and expectations. Martial arts can live, but only on screen.
The article was first published on the public account [Black Laughing Novelist]
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