The last time I watched "Ip Man" in the movie theater, the sparse audience, with very few screenings, worked hard and was able to see Donnie Yen's skill and integrity as one against ten. And "Ip Man 2" is very suitable for all ages. All kinds of three aunts and six wives, uncle Abo, Xiaoming and Xiaohong poured into the theater to watch the whole picture of Ye Wen, one of the top ten young people in Foshan.
In fact, "Ip Man 2" is a completely independent story, which can be easily integrated into it without any effort. However, this is not a film that needs to be criticized for its plot. Ip Man came to Hong Kong and had a hard time opening a martial arts hall, in which he constantly showed his personality charm. He was poor but happy. Until Master Hong Quan was beaten to death by the British in the competition, Ip Man broke out into a small universe, challenged the British boxing champion, carried forward Chinese martial arts, conquered people with morality, and won respect for the Chinese people. In fact, the plot is similar to the first episode, except that the wealthy middle-class representative of the first episode, Ip Man, became embarrassed and embarrassed, but the proletariat is naturally more able to win the favor of the general public, so he has a stronger and more solid the popular base. The same way the previous episode played against the Japanese and this one made me think why our movies always stimulate the audience's adrenaline by fighting the invaders, but even so, I was still shocked by the charm of Chinese martial arts, If I were a little boy, I would definitely be like Stephen Chow after watching it. I hope that I have a wooden dummy at home and beat him every day. One day when I had the opportunity to sign up for a number, instead of handing over a business card, I put on a posture and added the phrase "Wing Chun" in front of the name.
This is a film that can ignore the plot, but the film is nearly two hours long without any procrastination, because Chinese Kung Fu is already the best plot. And Donnie Yen is suitable for both civil and martial arts. He interprets Ip Man, who is benevolent, refined, humble, caring, upright, forbearing, and passionate. He is a gentleman who makes all girls willing to follow him to eat chaff, and all boys to follow him to practice martial arts. A leisurely recluse practicing qigong. The blunt and capable Donnie Yen in "Heroes" has disappeared. He finally became an actor, and his best business card is: Wing Chun, Ip Man.
But the biggest bright spot in this film is Sammo Hung. As the master of kung fu films who have already learned the truth, his sword is not old, and he will compete with Donnie Yen in a tabletop fight, one move and one style, hearty. Donnie Yen played Wing Chun's flexible Zen in this match, while he showed the enthusiasm and positivity of Hong Quan. In the part of the fight with the British boxing champion, although it was a young foreigner who was at the height of the war in the colonial era, Lord Hong did not lose at all. Let us see the wisdom and integrity in Chinese Kung Fu. As the martial arts guide of this film, the new ideas of action scenes emerge but they don't feel fancy, and they can be called masters.
For character building, the most plump is Hong Zhennan, the head of Hong Quan played by Hong Ye. In the martial arts world, the rivalry between Hong Quan and Wing Chun is not overnight. The masculinity emphasized by Hong Quan and the flexibility of Wing Chun once made them incompatible, and also contributed to the prosperity of Chinese martial arts. And Hong Zhennan, who is the first brother of the martial arts in Hong Kong, has a lot of criticism about Ip Man, who comes to teach Wing Chun and is unwilling to submit to him. However, as a martial arts practitioner, his martial virtues made him willing to call Ye Wen "Master Ye", and although he was a marginal person among foreigners, he regarded a competition as more important than life. He said the rhetoric of "I can endure life, but I can't take Chinese martial arts lightly", and defended the integrity of Chinese martial arts with life. No wonder Ye Wen would sincerely call him the most respected teacher in his life. He is like a pebble by the water's edge, with his own wisdom as the water washes away, but when a crisis hits, he still has an unparalleled hardness. In contrast, Ye Wen is a perfect five-good youth, with almost no flaws, like those shimmering porcelains that are placed in museums for people to admire, admirable but inaccessible.
The kung fu in "Ip Man" really shows the Zen of Chinese martial arts. No matter which sect, it has the great wisdom of conquering rigidity with softness, and is much smarter than the muscular men in the shootout films. The ancient style of Ye Wen's long gowns and tea drinking shows the long history of Chinese martial arts. The big sales of such a film will definitely elicit a pilgrimage-like enthusiasm for Chinese martial arts, which is very good. I have always loved Hong Kong films because they have a more precise grasp of traditional feelings. An ordinary Hong Kong fish stall, the Chinese flavor in it is far better than the splendid palaces in various costume blockbusters. And their kung fu is also much purer than those directors who want to compete for Oscar at every turn.
At the moment when the Hong Kong film industry collectively went north, there were still people who kept the tradition and continued to inherit it, which was touching. In today's society, the so-called Chinese style is nothing more than a teacher lecturing various classics, a ci writer writing a few semi-classical lyrics, and the copycat West is tired, so we start copying the ancient times. Just as we once denied everything, now we affirm everything. It has become fashionable to use ideology, consume ancient cultural fast food, and worship Confucius collectively. What we want is not to carry forward the essence of tradition, but to have a show where we can entertain ourselves. The craze of Sinology is nothing but a flood filled with commercial flavor. As long as there is no retreat, who cares about who is swimming naked. We are just Zhouzhuang of Dream Butterfly in the illusion of the rise of great powers.
In the film industry, there is "Confucius", "Mulan", "Red Cliff", and "Painted Skin". But can this be said to be the revival of classical culture? At least I prefer to think that this is a terracotta warrior doll wrapped in a Forbes coat in the ancient tide of this cottage. From the inside to the outside, it reveals a clumsy and modern Smell, no old-fashioned smell. Although children all over the street are more willing to wear taekwondo suits and shout Yiyi when they kick their legs with those half-understood coaches, there must be children who love Chinese Kung Fu. They may be like Stephen Chow in Kung Fu. It is possible to practice the Tathagata Palm in one day, and this is the true inheritance of our culture. Just like the streets are full of KFCs, but the cross-bridge rice noodle shop is still crowded, some traditions have always existed, but when you don’t deliberately praise them, they stand out.
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