But I hesitated again and again, but I still have to say, after all, a large part of Henan people is proud of history. If this history is also ruined, it will really become a place specializing in leather bag companies and selling counterfeit medicines. And this place, after all, has also produced loyal ministers, filial sons, chivalrous heroes. Everyone watched such a movie and then deduced the group portrait of Henan people. It would be distorted, and they would also laugh at Dafang's house. Then, didn't our Henan people's faces fall to the ground?
Let's not mention the "Shaolin Temple" a few decades ago. Today, that movie looks similar to a martial arts teaching film. The storyline is so simple that it is almost boiled water, and the characters' emotions are barely marked with subtitles. "Angry" and "Very angry" , "surprised", "wretched", ... but because it was early, everyone regarded it as a classic. And no matter how bad the script is, there is an eternal legend of "the thirteen stick monks save the king of Tang", there is also a classic bridge section of "family breaking - learning art - revenge" plus Jet Li's real kung fu performance. These now almost naive things constitute a core element of a large number of later martial arts films, and they have not been outdated until today, just the constant pouring of old bottles and new wines.
On the other hand, in this "new" Shaolin Temple, the stars are dazzling, but they can't see any taste. Shaolin Temple has a long history. The earliest temple was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it has been more than a thousand years. In this long period of time, which dynasty is not good to choose? The electorate country. Anyway, the Republic of China is not necessarily bad. If you really dig into the connotation and make an interpretation or extension of the confrontation between the quintessence of martial arts and Western technology, similar to Lao She's "Broken Soul Gun", it will reflect the loss and loneliness of ancient traditions. Not bad; or follow in the footsteps of "Jingwumen" and "Ip Man" to challenge foreign strongmen or something. The filming is wonderful and good-looking, and it can also entertain the public and increase discussion. My generation of Henan natives will walk in the rivers and lakes in the future, at least for those who are young Elders can increase deterrence. It's not a bad thing.
But Chen Musheng is not, he wants to shoot something with "connotation". I don't know how much the film has cast so many stars, how much the Shaolin Temple has spent, and how much the Henan Provincial Propaganda Committee has spent. I don't know how Chen Musheng guaranteed the ticket with these people. I don't know how much joy and trouble these people gave Chen Musheng. Anyway, as far as the finished product is concerned, it is a complete failure~~ Yes, a complete failure.
What was Henan like in the early years of the Republic of China? Don't talk about the cliché of "bandits are rampant, bullies are rampant". As the place where Yuan Shikai, the President of the Republic of China, made his fortune and his hometown, this province is absolutely the territory of the straight warlords. At the beginning of the Southern Army's northward movement, it was Yuan Shikai's military base. Later wars, including the Northern Expedition, were not completely free from the complete control of the Zhili warlords. As for the later Central Plains War, it wasn't a melee between small warlords, it was all pushed by big bosses. In short, Henan is too close to Beijing and Nanjing to allow too many Shandawangs to exist. You can also see that most of the people from Henan were absent from the various revolutionary uprisings in the Republic of China. It's not that Henan people are naturally quiet and honest, but that this place is too important, and any signs of something wrong are immediately extinguished. How can you allow yourself to rebel and rebel?
Therefore, there were indeed many bandits in Henan at that time, but the melee of the small warlords who had evolved to the level of warlords occupying the city was not a reality.
Well, you can also say that the director is afraid to shoot whatever he wants. Anyway, it is not a historical drama, which is a legend in itself. For example, when we say that Pangu created the world, who would care which blacksmith shop made Pangu's axe?
But it was still very uncomfortable to watch. In a movie about life and death in Henan, everyone spoke half-baked Mandarin, and only Jackie Chan was acting stupid in the extremely rotten Henan dialect. There is a long shed with sheets and straw mats at the entrance of the temple. This kind of thing spends the winter in Henan, and it is strange that it does not freeze to death. At least cutting some branches and wiping some mud or something doesn't cost much more than a bed sheet. The steamed buns distributed to the refugees were a mess, not to mention that there were no modern milling machines or prosperous flour in those days, it is a feat to get so many high-quality wheat from the Shaolin Temple. Wu Jing said that there was not enough food to eat, so I suggested -- privately, to collect the bran from the grinding of noodles to make Wowotou, enough for the winter, and maybe there is a surplus. If Jackie Chan's cooking skills are superb, he might be able to make whole wheat bread or something. Next, Xiong Xinxin's gang went to steal rice. Henan people basically don't eat rice. Like Shanxi and Shanxi, they are all pasta animals. Mainly due to drought in Henan, rice cultivation is difficult, and it is only used to cook rice porridge. Director Chen is a genius, but he can't change the food habits of our Henan people without authorization, right? When providing relief to the victims, it is enough to send out porridge and wowotou. It took a lot of time to import rice from the south and set up a modern flour factory to meet everyone's demand for Fuqiang powder steamed buns. He is not the director of the Shaolin Temple...
Let's talk about the story. Andy Lau was a warlord, and he brought his younger brother Nicholas Tse down to Dengfeng City. Kill them all. Then he had a feud with his brother, Nicholas Tse rebelled, Dehua's family was destroyed, and he hid in the Shaolin Temple. Xie Xie colluded with foreigners to steal national treasures in the name of building railways&... Then everyone in the Shaolin Temple protected the treasures and saved people, and the warlords and foreigners set fire to the Shaolin Temple...
Anyway, it is quite nonsense, and the succession and transformation are not good, Jackie Chan is really a cook; Andy Lau seems to be just bad luck; Nicholas Tse has the potential to play a pervert. Once he hits a woman, he is very involved in the drama. The scene where he beats and abuses Fan Bingbing is much better than the caged teasing of Cecilia Cheung in "The Promise". Wu Jing died in a gang fight inexplicably. Several of Nicholas Tse's minions also appeared without warning. The axe soldiers look handsome, but I don't know how effective these people are in the face of machine guns and grenades. Maybe I have to explain that this is a boxing target tailored for everyone in the Shaolin Temple. ... Andy Lau's daughter is extremely cute, but sometimes she looks like three or four years old, sometimes she looks like thirteen or fourteen years old, and it is extremely malleable. Andy and his eldest brother fought against each other, and Nicholas Tse turned against the tide. None of their armed forces came out to fight. At the beginning, they chased and killed Andy Lau, which was confusing.
I still don't understand how the foreigners' plan to build railways and steal national treasures can be added. Although there are many underground cultural relics in Henan. But I don't think it's worth it. I don't know what homework Director Chen has done, but I hope he didn't read the biography of Sun Dianying, the robber of Dongling, even though he is also from Henan. But Nicholas Tse obviously has this kind of bastard's energy to steal graves and dig graves. Speaking of railways, the Longhai Railway is the main artery running through the east and west of Henan Province, and it is also an important part of the Eurasian Continental Bridge. But this railway has been built since 1901, that is to say, it was almost started after the reform of the 1980s. The earliest repair was the section from Luoyang to Kaifeng. It was repaired in 1909, and the first part was commercial, and there was no foreigner. In the Republic of China, I signed a contract with the Belgians to build the railway from Kaifeng to Xuzhou, and Luoyang to Guanyin Temple. After that, the construction of each section was intermittent until the founding of New China, and it took several years to repair it. Throughout the history of this railway, it seems that there are not many traces of foreign invasions. I don't know where these foreigners of unknown origin came out to point fingers at the Shaolin Temple. What's more, Dengfeng may not have so many national treasures to dig, and most of them are in Anyang and Luoyang. In the end, the bridge section where the foreigners bombarded the Shaolin Temple was also very boring, not to mention that the Shaolin Temple was repeatedly set on fire, but basically it was not bombarded. It is incredible that Shan Shanyang can mobilize artillery troops so quickly in the hinterland of the Central Plains. If so, can Anneng have a place for warlords from all walks of life? Everyone has been slaves to the country.
And the unfortunate abbot of Shaolin Temple, every time there is a crisis in Shaolin Temple, the unfortunate abbot is like the Jewish ark of the covenant. But unfortunately, this time, due to the advancement of technology, the director changed it to shoot with the times, but it didn't work, and sacrificed in vain...
Looking at this film, I am most satisfied with the Henan dialect of Jackie Chan. According to the "Chinese" Shaolin Temple he said, it was worth the money...
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