looked back suddenly, my brother has been gone for 7 years. 7 years ago, he told Tsui Hark that he wanted to be a director and wanted to make a real film of his own, but while the Tsui Hark and his wife were talking with investors, his brother jumped off a high-rise building. It was April Fool's Day. The big joke broke the hearts of countless people. Surprised, regretful, puzzled, sad, the various voices of the spectators have never stopped, but my brother can't hear it, he has left this glass world that looks lively but full of sad stories forever.
I have been thinking, if my brother really got the opportunity to make a movie of his own, what kind of story will he tell, is it as sad as "When Love Is A Past", or as warm as "The Love of the Year"? Lin Yihua said to his brother Leslie Cheung when he was a student, "If there is a Romeo in the world, I think he is like you." It seems that this Romeo-style noble and melancholy temperament is innate to him, and every song he sings , Every character in the show seems to have an affair with this gorgeousness, and probably the same will be true of the debut work that will never be completed.
A friend asked, "Which one do you like the most among the roles that my brother plays?", a lot of pictures flashed in my mind. The peerless famous actor in "Farewell My Concubine" who is not crazy or alive is like a bird without feet in "The True Story of Ah Fei". The lonely prodigal son who wanders without roots, the chaotic scholar in "A Chinese Ghost Story" who only looks at each other in the shape of the moon, the innocent, paranoid and just hot policeman in "The True Color of Heroes", etc. But to be honest, although some of these images are classics and have even been famous in film history, the one that impresses me the most is the unrestrained Wudang disciple Zhuo Yihang in "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch". Doubtful look.
Director Yu Rentai's adaptation of Liang Yusheng's novel of the same name, "The Witch with White Hair", does not seem to be so radiant among many similar martial arts films in Hong Kong, and it seems that it has rarely been officially mentioned until now. I don't know if the audience will think of the moving plot of Li Bingbing's white hair, played by Brigitte Lin, when they saw the strange scene of Li Bingbing killing people with white hair in "Kung Fu King".
Although the reputation is not very loud, the classic level of the movie "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" is no less than that of Tsui Hark's romantic to the extreme "Swordsman: The Undefeated in the East", and there are some interesting similarities between the two works. place. The story background of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" is set in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the film also features Wu Sangui, a historical figure played by Kaohsiung. Zhuo Yihang, the protagonist, is the first disciple of Wudang who is destined to become the leader of the martial arts, but his personality is unrestrained. Small sections, not obsessed with major events, there is a kind of free and easy and carefree "if the sky falls, I don't care about my business".
Although Zhuo Yihang and Linghu Chong also wanted to quit the arena, there was a fundamental difference between the two. There is a scene in the movie where the younger brother is talking about how to kill the witch, Zhuo Yihang angrily inserted his sword among the crowd, and then said, "The foreigners have no grievances with us, so why kill them". When I saw this, I was very moved, because I finally saw someone in the martial arts movie who could Qingming Lingtai.
Fighting violence with violence, and prohibiting violence with force are the characteristics of chivalry, but the chivalrous men with swords and knives never thought about the right of people to use lynching to judge the life and death of others. means reflection. Speaking of which, I thought of the order to reward the good and punish the evil in "The Journey of the Knight". Zhang San and Li Si, two masters holding two gold medals, seem to have a legitimate and indisputable reason to control life and death, but the good and evil here Who determines good and evil? Is it just based on your own subjective ideas? Everyone knows that there is no absolute good and evil in the world, and the starting point of interest is of course different, and the rivers and lakes are a very easy place to inflate themselves. But the martial arts masters seem to be always happy to let the heroes in their writing punish evil and promote good, and few people have ever reflected on it, so this kind of shining question is also quite valuable. It is said by Zhuo Yihang in martial arts movies, and the most typical one in martial arts literature is Xiao Feng in "Dragon Babu". I always feel that the people who can say such words are the kind of broad-minded people who have the ability to purify all sentient beings. Xiao Feng is the pinnacle of "Xia" in Jin Yong's writings, while Zhuo Yihang is a pure and innocent child.
In the movie "Swordsman: The Undefeated in the East", Linghu Chong withdrew from the arena because he was tired of the intrigue and blood and rain in the arena. The sentence "Leave the world's affairs to those who want to test it" is extremely unrestrained, and Linghu Chong is not intrusive. , he would not or would not want to think about why "just sighing back from a few people", this is the detached and casual Dionysian spirit.
Zhuo Yihang wanted to quit the arena because he saw through the rivers and lakes. Good and evil are just people's wishful thinking. The root of killing is the cruelty in human nature. The huge rivers and lakes are no different from the secular world with constant disputes. Even the Zhenwu Hall, which should be quiet and indifferent, is as sinister and terrifying as the sinister human heart. But after he sees through it, he is not tired of the rivers and lakes, but is helpless to the situation where everyone is drunk and I wake up alone. This is a kind of compassion. If he inherits the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance, it is obvious that he will become the leader of the killing, but for the sake of profit It is unacceptable for Zhuo Yihang to arbitrarily plunder other people's lives in the rivers and lakes with clear latitude and longitude, and the troubled times have always been settled by blood. If Zhuo Yihang follows the master's intention, I am afraid that sooner or later, he will be helpless. And becoming the same person as Wu Sangui, Shishu, and Ji Wushuang, this should be the most important reason why he wants to quit the arena except for the loveless landscape with the prodigal girl.
At the beginning of the movie, the young Zhuo Yihang dances his sword in the sunset, and the sword walks lightly like a dragon in the colorful fall, which is extremely beautiful. After finishing the attack, I saw a sword circle vacant all over my body, and I couldn't help thinking of Jet Li practicing Tai Chi in "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" with fallen leaves flying. In terms of scene design, the two have the same purpose, but the meaning is very different. The yin and yang of the Taiji diagram made of leaves are combined, which intuitively expresses the transcendental wisdom of the unity of nature and man, and the forgetfulness of things and me in Taijiquan. The sword circle created by Zhuo Yihang's sword dance not only reveals the exquisiteness of his swordsmanship, but also highlights his own characteristics, that is, his heart is clear and clear, and he is not easily affected by the outside world. This is also his frank and free nature. .
In fact, thinking about the name Zhuo Yihang itself is very interesting, the one-leaf ark that stands out from the crowd, but in the muddy waters of the rivers and lakes, even the big ship will be sunk at any time, maybe there will be a man who likes to dismantle like Dongfang Invincible. The great men of the warship come to destroy it, not to mention the small boat, although it is agile, it is also involuntary. Zhuo Yihang, played by my brother, is a rare innocent side of his many screen images. This character is simple, happy, compassionate, clear and kind. It's a pity that in the movie, my brother was able to "dance the sword and dance without sticking to the clothes", and always maintain his innocence. For the sake of his lover, he can stick to the strange flowers on the iceberg for ten years. He is like a fairy tale character, but in reality he is so paranoid. , which is regrettable.
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