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Bamboo Forest War
Arvid 2022-11-18 12:14:30
The battle of the bamboo forest in "Chivalrous Girl" created the bamboo forest fight scene in martial arts movies, and there was no computer technology at that time, but this scene was still exquisitely shot. No matter from the scene scheduling and lens use in the shooting stage or the editing in the later stage, it has been sublimated to an aesthetic philosophy belonging to Hu Jinquan himself. In Hu Jinquan's images, the bamboo forest blocks the sky and the sun, but only a shimmer of light penetrates through the gaps between the bamboo leaves; while the bamboo forests that we can usually see are quiet and peaceful places, we will start a fight in such a place where temperament is cultivated. You can see the power of the director. In this scene, the camera takes into account the fighting sides and the environment, and uses the characteristics of the bamboo forest site to integrate the characters and the bamboo forest into one, and the two become a different "continuation" of nature. The pictures of the film are artistic and poetic with Zen. The bamboo forest as a whole presents the profound connotation of Chinese traditional culture, but the deeper meaning is a kind of transcendence.
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Ku Shen Chai: Have you seen Miss Yang, the lady who lives here?
General Shih Wen-chiao: No, I'm blind.
Ku Shen Chai: Forgive me.
General Shih Wen-chiao: Miss Yang and her mother are gone.
Ku Shen Chai: She said you should run for your life too. Do you know where she went?
General Shih Wen-chiao: No.
Ku Shen Chai: I have to find her!
[Shih pulls out a sword as two soldiers fly down from the sky and attack, but are quickly killed in a few brief strokes of the sword]
Ku Shen Chai: Mr. Shih, Mr. Shih, who are you really?
General Shih Wen-chiao: I'm not blind, that's for sure.