The author of this article: Dapeng [graduated from Beiying, a typical stubborn, arrogant Capricorn man. A filmmaker who was born as an art student but has a translation level of English; a producer in this line, loves screenwriting; has a fascination with action crime movies...]
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"Shaolin, Shaolin, how many heroes and heroes have come to admire you!" With a voice as strong as a bell, the movie "Shaolin Temple" was born, creating a generation of classics in the minds of Chinese people.
In 1982, "Shaolin Temple" directed by Zhang Xinyan was released in the mainland, and it reached a fever pitch of thousands of people. 500 million people.
If the box office of 161 million that year is converted into today's price level, the box office should exceed 20 billion. Such an astonishing number is unique in the world , and even "Wolf Warrior 2", which once caused a national upsurge, cannot be compared with it.
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Back then, in mainland China, no matter young people in big cities or children in rural villages, most of them had seen "Shaolin Temple".
For a time, everyone was talking about the plot, characters or songs in the movie "Shaolin Temple". All the boys know the idiom of "Shaolin comes from martial arts in the world", and "Kung Fu Emperor" Jet Li became a well-known film and television star overnight.
"Shaolin" has become a cultural symbol.
Looking back at the film "Shaolin Temple", it is different from the point-to-point fights in previous films, all the action scenes are completed by professional actors with real swords and guns. No matter in terms of action or audio-visual language, the film "Shaolin Temple" was a highly completed film in its time.
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But if it is just the film itself, it cannot achieve its unprecedented influence. Behind the popularity of the movie "Shaolin Temple" is the embodiment of the social trend at that time.
From a narrative point of view, the film "Shaolin Temple" has made a big breakthrough compared to previous films of the same type. Different from the 1976 edition of "Shaolin Temple", the 1982 edition of "Shaolin Temple" made a new deconstruction of the Shaolin Temple in the traditional concept: adding a new vitality to this sacred place full of martial arts mystery.
At that time, the mainland was in the early stage of reform and opening up, the society was thriving, and people had great enthusiasm and longing for production and life. However, corresponding to the vision is worry, many things have never been tried, and many ideas have never been broken through. At this time, the movie "Shaolin Temple" came into being.
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04 The movie "Shaolin Temple" is a prophecy of a better life in reform and opening up. The concept of "Shaolin Temple" in the film is not a Shaolin Temple in the traditional sense. The film weakens the Buddhist color of Shaolin Temple and abstracts it into an absolute authority and ideal commanding heights.
If defined from traditional concepts, Jueyuan's actions in the film who accidentally kill dogs and eat dog meat, and think about revenge, are extremely inconsistent with Buddhist common sense, but all of this has been recognized. This shows that the concept in the film is not the logic of Buddhism, but the logic of socialist reform and opening up.
The film uses the legend of "Thirteen stick monks save the Tang King" as an introduction, which makes the uncharacteristic monks in this brand-new Shaolin Temple reshaped by the director stand on the moral commanding heights: stand on the same camp with the future sages, resist the Sui Dynasty Zhengtang. This also makes the young monk Jueyuan in the film have a reasonable explanation and breakthrough for his revenge for killing his father, and also finds a basis for the final monks to fight against the officers and soldiers, so that the values of the film are no longer narrow.
Under the guidance of such correct logic, Jueyuan learned Shaolin Kungfu, avenged the murder of his father, and protected Tang Wang Li Shimin to the peak of his life. This has inspired people who are in the wave of reform and opening up to move forward and pursue the beautiful life they yearn for without sticking to small details.
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The film perfectly combines the fighting spirit in the early days of reform and opening up with the traditional Chinese chivalrous spirit : wine and meat go through the intestines, the man is informal, distinguishing right from wrong, and those who achieve great things inevitably have to sacrifice.
In 1982, the fourth year of reform and opening up, Chinese films slowly recovered their vitality. At this time, "Shaolin Temple" came into being. It is different from any old martial arts films in the past, and brought the audience a new viewing experience. The impact this film brought to the audience at that time was no less than the shock that "Avatar" brought us in previous years.
The current Jet Li is no longer as brave as he used to be; Ding Lan, the shepherd girl, has put down the shepherd's whip and went to sea to do business; Mr. Yu Chenghui, a great villain swordsman, has also gone west, but the "Shaolin Temple" they left behind has become a commemorative one. The legend of the times, famous in history .
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