Hu Jinquan (1931-1997)
One of the most famous martial arts directors in Hong Kong, he has directed more than 10 works in total, such as "Children of the Earth", "Drunken Man", "Dragon Inn", "Chivalrous Girl". Unlike Zhang Che's films, Hu Jinquan's works are full of masculinity. Still elegant and graceful, ethereal and profound. Its representative works are the Dragon Inn and the Heroine. Establish a classic type form for Chinese martial arts movies, and show the spiritual and deep cultural connotations of martial arts movies.
"The Heroine"
Completed in 1696, this more than 3-hour martial arts classic was adapted from Pu Songling's novel of the same name in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai". Hu Jinquan changed the background to the struggle between Donglin and the eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, telling the story of Yang Huizhen's confrontation with Dongchang with the help of the scholar Gu Xingzhai. In the film, Hu Jinquan pays great attention to the brewing of atmosphere and the setting of suspense, and the most praiseworthy is his spirit of Zen. In the last paragraph, Xu Xianchun and Master Huiyuan fought a fight, and it will be related to the natural landscape. When Master Huiyuan appeared, his whole body was shrouded in clouds and mist, covered with golden light, and golden arrows swept over his head. He stood on the cliff and seemed to fall from the sky. , came to the world to practice the way for heaven and punish the evil. When the master was deceived by Xu Xianchun in the end, he was wounded by an arrow, and golden juice gushed from the wound in his abdomen. As everyone looked up, he slowly and arduously walked up the hillside, the sun was shining directly overhead, the member master stood against the mountain, standing upright, bathed in the sun and walked towards the light, into the clouds, towards the sky, towards the invisible. The sun is like a giant mirror, the master's hand points into the distance, and his head is lit into a candle in the sunlight, rendering Zen Taoism to the extreme. "Chivalrous Girl" is a classic of modern Chinese martial arts movies.
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