• Space Scheduling: The layout of the movie space has reached the extreme. The Shitan scene is the most impressive. The complex terrain of Shitan is used for space scheduling with ingenious relationship shots, and a tense chase and avoidance scene is staged. The composition is exquisite.
• The artistic conception of Chinese classical beauty: a large number of aimless walking shots, through the use of long-range lenses and the arrangement of smoke screens and lights, achieve the artistic conception of traditional Chinese landscape paintings. In the martial arts scene that took place inside the city wall, the action of the characters is arranged in a beautiful composition, the foreground is blocked by reeds, and the characters flicker and disappear, and the picture has a rich sense of hierarchy. The large panorama of the backlit silhouette is very classically beautiful.
• "Recovery of material reality": Different from some early Hong Kong martial arts films, Xia Nv paid attention to "recovery of material reality of the film". When filming action scenes, Hu Jinquan tended to clearly explain the spatial relationship of the characters, while Instead of creating a lively and tense effect, a large number of high-frequency and fast editing and sub-shot switching are used to ignore the precise spatial relationship. For example, when performing martial arts scenes, a large number of lateral and side-moving shots with oblique tracks are used instead of high-frequency and fast editing to create momentum, and the characters can make as many actions as possible in one shot. cut. At the same time, it also cooperates with close-ups of short movements.
• Jump cuts. Xu Xianchun jumped forward and attacked the abbot. The jumping scissors were used to save the scene in the air, the sword was thrown into the city wall, and the fast editing was used to save the sword flying in the air. Maybe it was restricted by the film production at that time. Technology)
• Ethereal Aesthetics and Zen Thought: The choice of scenery is ethereal and magnificent. In the bamboo forest, the montage of the monk's appearance is full of Zen, and the use of light and shadow in the bamboo forest reaches the extreme. However, for Buddhist thought, it remains in an ethereal state.
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