Watching this movie, the biggest thing to watch is of course how Huang Qiusheng created Ip Man, and how did Qiu Litao, who is a fast shooter in Hong Kong film, make a convincing image of Ip Man?
The positioning of "The Last Battle" is very good here. The time period intercepts the time when Ip Man arrived in Hong Kong in 1950 until his death in 1972. During this time, Wilson Ye filmed in his "Ip Man" series, but It soon fell into the catharsis of beating foreigners. Wang Jiawei's "The Grandmaster" was also filmed, and it was only a node. And Qiu Litao shoots in the opposite way to Wong Kar-wai. Wong Kar-wai is accustomed to using blank space, freehand style, ambiguous lighting, and a narrative technique of avoiding the most important, while Qiu Litao is completely realistic, and even built a cinema in the mainland. It is rare in his creative career to restore Hong Kong in the 1950s.
Of course, Qiu Litao and screenwriter Li Min also organized a lot of data before shooting, ranging from building streets to small food stalls with red heads and black bodies and wooden chopsticks and pink paper towels, all of which were restored based on historical data, as photographers Qiu Litao also used warm tones to reflect the street conditions in Hong Kong at that time. Compared with other "Ip Man" works, Qiu Litao's "The Last Battle" is obviously more like a Hong Kong-made film.
Compared with Qiu Litao's realistic style, Huang Qiusheng's performance has also made considerable adjustments. Huang Qiusheng said in the interview that Ip Man is the character he is most satisfied with. He spent a year for this role, adjusting his body shape (to lose weight and restore Ip Man's thin and thin image in his later years), to fight a wooden dummy (to learn Ip Man's chant) Chunquan), practice accent (Ip Man's own Foshan accent). But even so, Huang Qiusheng didn't have much confidence until he put on a costume, shaved his hair, and spoke his accent before he felt that he was Ye Wen. On the whole, Tony Leung's Ip Man is too handsome, Donnie Yen's Ip Man is too perfect, only Huang Qiusheng's Ip Man is the closest to the truth (the gestures have a grandmaster style, and the rhythm and demeanor are very well mastered), and the "Ultimate Battle" civil and military It is all-inclusive, not only to avoid the virtual and to restore the unknown side of Grandmaster Ip Man, making this character more human, and the action scenes also include the fierce battle in the Kowloon Walled City (the Wing Chun boxing in this film is closer to the original appearance) and so on.
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