Of Hu Jinquan's films, I have only watched the later "Swordsman" (which can't be completely counted as his) and "Dharma King of Yin and Yang", and I have to add the "Chivalrous Girl" that I just finished watching tonight. These three films are implicated in their respective themes, and there is no big difference in some appearances such as techniques.
I don't know about Hu Jinquan's other works, but these three works have their own basis, and two of them have the signboard of Pu Songling. At the beginning of "Chivalry", I reread the relevant chapters of "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai". After watching the movie, I found that most of the elements of the novel have been preserved in the film. The first half of the first part of the film was followed step by step, which seemed to follow the routine of Pu Songling's novel, except that the fox became Jin Yiwei. , the movie began to part ways solemnly. After starting a series of Dragon Inn-style stories in Tuen Mun Fort, the movie turned to the novel's routine again. Gu Sheng had a son, but the twists and turns soon turned, and the ending found a tune for the future "Green Snake".
Movie adaptations of famous novels have always been thankless, but here short stories are more convenient than grand novels. A novel that can be read in five minutes will definitely not need nearly three hours of pictures to express, the director just borrowed a piece The coat, inside is his own flowery intestines. We can speculate irresponsibly. This movie may be renamed "The Monk", "Five Samurai", "The Story of Bamboo Forest", or simply "Tuen Mun Fort" Or "Jinyiwei". If it really doesn't work, it can also be called "The Legend of Fahai". Here, the chronological order is mixed up, please forgive me.
The filming of this film was not easy, and it took a long time before and after. The story of the fox fairy and the Dragon Inn may sound a bit unbelievable at first, but the movie is probably still smooth. We often hear what kind of chemical reaction will occur when something is added to something, and a certain bridge segment is stacked with a certain bridge stack, which becomes a classic. But I prefer to look at the link of the reaction, the classic glue skin.
The most important thing that can make seemingly unrelated things (although the original book also mentioned the theme of the movie revenge at the end) is the director's ability to "transform". Due to various reasons, the text is converted into an image. No matter how much space is given, there will always be inconsistencies. We don’t care about the small details such as Erjiezhuti or Yisuo Demen, and we must really investigate them. , the single-handed chivalrous woman has become a chivalrous woman with soldiers and Buddha's sponsorship, and many of its original backgrounds are difficult to establish at all, and the flag of Pu Songling can't be raised at all. I think this is the film's failure. , or the director wants to express too many things and forgets the most basic ones. In addition, a certain leader does not believe in ghosts and gods, but at the beginning of the movie, there are a few tufts of hair on the bridge of the nose, and Jin Yiwei, who is the prototype of a fox, mysteriously leads Gu Sheng to think that the neighbor girl is a ghost, which is very incongruous. But the most successful part of this movie is the super gimmick of ghosts and gods used in the night battle at Tuen Mun Fort. One mistake in the end, the willows are dark and the flowers are bright and another village, which successfully blends the mysterious atmosphere of the first half of the movie, and the final Shinto Taoism seems blunt.
In a word, how a word "hua" is amazing.
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