weary hero weary audience

Zella 2022-03-27 09:01:12

Donnie Yen, who is the same age as Jet Li, is in the new century when Chinese kung fu films are on the decline. When Jackie Chan and Jet Li gradually faded out, he finally ushered in the "Ip Man" series of films, surpassing "Slaying the Wolf" and "Fuse" and becoming his lifelong hero. representative work. From "Ip Man" in 2008, to "Ip Man 2" in 2010, and then to "Ip Man 3" after the Spring Festival this year, the box office has risen steadily, but the audience's fatigue towards this series of films has also increased. to the highest point.

The boss of the first part of "Ip Man" is the Japanese army officer Miura, the second part is against the British boxing champion (I can't remember his name), and the third part is against Zhang Tianzhi, a fellow student of Wing Chun. It can be seen that the opponent is a weaker one. The plot of national justice disappeared in the third part, no longer fighting the people, and restoring Ye Wen to a real weak person. All the problems have become people's conflicts of interest, which seems to be more real.

For the consideration of the box office, the producers also invited Tyson and Ye Wen to have a "three-minute" duel. Perhaps this three-minute plot was set up considering the difference in physique and weight between the boxing champion and Donnie Yen, but the owner of the shipyard who hijacked his children and occupied the school was so obedient to the rules of the rivers and lakes that he showed a little bit of respect for himself. The fatherly love of a non-mixed Asian daughter seems a bit nonsensical.

After playing so many villains, Zhang Jin finally became a boss who was both good and evil. He believed that his martial arts cultivation was above Ye Wen, and the disparity in status and status became the knot in his heart. It's not bad that the ultimate battle is just to learn from the same family, but in the end of the authentic battle, it only changed the sentence "the most important thing is the people around you", and fought for a long time just to drink a bowl of chicken soup? I am worthless for Zhang Jin. Fortunately, the audience also saw who the next Chinese star will be.

Tan Yaowen, who always thought that his acting skills were neglected, seemed to be abandoned by the director. The exaggerated expression and superficial badness make his performance in the film not as good as Liang Jiaren, who has a tone of voice.

The biggest problem of the whole film is the split in the plot, and there is no connection between the front and the back. The first half is about ordinary people fighting against evil forces, and the second half is a sudden change in the style of painting, which has become a chicken soup of affection. Everyone wanted to talk about it, but they didn't finish it: Tan Yaowen, who was too arrogant, was scolded by Tyson and then disappeared. Tyson beat his wife and children for three minutes and then left the curtain call with his wife and children. The gimmick Bruce Lee, which had been continued before, disappeared at the beginning of the film, and appeared again near the end.

Ye Wen stepped down from the altar of a generation of masters and became an ordinary middle-aged man. The illness of his son's safe wife made him exhausted. As a husband and father, he has to face more difficult things than securing his position in the arena. But on Donnie Yen's consistent face, I can't see the pain in my heart, only the exhaustion on my face, like the countless middle-aged men I usually see on the road. It was only when he silently hit the wooden doll post at the request of his dying wife and occasionally sobbed between fists and fists, that people felt that feeling.

When I saw Ye Wen with a blank face, I suddenly felt very tired. I couldn't help but miss Donnie Yen in "Wing Chun". At that time, he was in love with a woman named Wing Chun. At that time, his face was still full of expressions. smile.

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Extended Reading
  • Xzavier 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    I didn't expect that the best fight was not Donnie Yen and Tyson, nor Zhang Jin, but the fight in the elevator with the Thai guy. Compared with the poker faces of the martial arts people, Tan Yaowen and Zheng Zeshi have become acting talents. Donnie Yen's Ip Man seems to have improved, and his figure is quite in place, but he always feels that he is playing Liang Chaowei. Zhang Jin is still Ma San'er in "The Grand Master", and the emphasis on being handsome has not changed.

  • Liana 2022-03-20 09:02:09

    Better than imagined, amazing film, once wanted to sleep, once wanted to cry

Ip Man 3 quotes

  • Cheung Wing-sing: Why'd God make women pretty but dumb?

    Cheung Wing-sing: They're pretty, so men will like them.

    Cheung Wing-sing: They're dumb, so they will like men.

  • Ip Man: Not bad. But did you really kick that water, or only think you did?