Today is the third anniversary of Mr. Jin Yong's death. It is indeed very fitting to talk about a martial arts film on this day. Akira Kurosawa's "Intentional Stick" is such a pure martial arts film. A down-and-out samurai came to a town where officials and businessmen colluded, and used their force to restore justice for the town. This is almost the connotation of Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts, how the great heroes save the country and save the people in troubled times.
So even if Guo Jing and Huang Rong could stay on Peach Blossom Island, even if the Southern Song rulers were incompetent at that time. Kublai Khan saw Guo Jing's arrogance and wanted to bring him under his command, and persuaded him to surrender to:
"Uncle Guo, Zhao Song has no way, the ruler is confused and the people are impoverished, the traitor is in power, and the Zhongliang is wronged, what I said is not bad!"
Guo Jing said: "That's right, Emperor Lizong is a foolish monarch, and Prime Minister Jia Sidao is a big traitor."
But he went on to say, "Even if Guo is unworthy, how can he be used by a traitor and a traitor? He is just angry at Mongolia's brutality, invaded my territory, and killed my compatriots.
The great hero is for the country and the people. Not for the foolish king and traitor, but only for the people of Shenzhou. Guo Jing and Huang Rong gave up their seclusion life on Peach Blossom Island to protect Xiangyang.
"With Heart Stick" is also a story about a chivalrous man, but the protagonist is replaced by a down-and-out samurai. In Japanese, "Mind Stick" means "thug", and Toshiro Mifune plays such a thug. Although the whole movie is a samurai movie, it is shot in the way of a Hollywood Western. In a small town with long yellow sand, a ranger came. Stepping into the empty street, a gust of wind blew, and a pair of eyes appeared beside the street, peeping at the outsider. You can imagine many movies like Zorro, Red Dead Redemption, and even Let the Bullets Fly, East Evil and West Poison, Insects... In fact, "Red Dead Redemption" is exactly what the director watched Kurosawa Akira. A remake of the film after "The Stick of the Heart".
The film should be called the sword and halberd film, but a new character appeared in the sword and halberd film - the pistol. How the samurai in the cold weapon era, played by Toshiro Mifune, faced the pistols in the hot weapon era, and the topic of how the people of the old era survived under the changes of the times. Not much can be said about the film itself, with most reviews focusing on Akira Kurosawa's excellent mise-en-scene and cinematography. Although I can experience some photography skills, I always feel like a layman watching the excitement, so I don't mention it, just talk about the theme of the movie, and how the chivalrous spirit dissipates in the process of the times.
I'm not talking about movies, but reality.
In recent years, there are countless TV series adapted from Mr. Jin Yong's novels, and it seems that a few are released every year. But it seems that except for a slightly positive evaluation of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", most of the others have become the traffic passwords of the B station up master and the self-media account. It's hard to output opinions, but it's easy to criticize others for making bad films, and the audience warmly welcomes such complaints.
But I don't think it's not that Jin Yong's dramas are ugly now, but that modern people don't like watching Jin Yong's dramas at all. In a society where cynicism prevails, a society that satirizes Xu Zhiyuan's inability to keep up with the times, and a society that welcomes Ma Dong 's argument that "literate people should go back to the study to do the 5% ", it is difficult for me to see Mr. Jin Yong's actions for the country. What spiritual soil is there for the essence of the great people and chivalrous people today?
In fact, I didn't like to watch Jin Yong dramas when I was a child, partly because I didn't like to watch fights and fights; the other part was because I was the youngest in the family and in the class, and I was good at being good in exchange for not being bullied, so why bother? Muscle flex with classmates. "Three-Body Problem" describes the police in the future society with a face that is so delicate that it can be compared to idols, and the unshaven police like before no longer exist. I do see this tendency in society, it's not a call to a masculinity, it's that peaceful times are more concerned with appearance than muscle.
Recently, there has also been a trend of idol fitness in Neiyu, but unexpectedly, fans do not want idols to practice martial arts, and they want idols to practice "thin muscles". Slightly visible lines, but not too thick. He is too thick and has the imagination of domestic violence, and a thin piece of muscle can prove his health and self-discipline, and it is no longer threatening.
Grayson Perry explicitly mentions in The Decline of Men that it is this anachronistic masculinity that has caused the decline of men. We need to rebuild masculinity so that men can fit into an egalitarian society. The kind of movies and TV shows that advocate masculinity and tough guy style really have no soil today. The wheel of the times is moving forward, and we have passed the society that needs Jin Yong's martial arts novels.
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