I vaguely remember that the video tapes I watched when I was a child were deeply impressed by the filthy duo of the Huashan faction and Zhang Wuji, who showed his ambition after ascending the position of the leader.
The two big Internet movies in the Spring Festival file, which were rotten to the sky, successfully attracted my attention to Wang Jing's old work.
As a film reviewer said from the media, Wang Jing's two recent sequels, the sum of the scores, is not as high as the old movie in 1993.
For Director Wang, I actually don't have too many requirements. It is understandable that the film directed by him has a bad reputation. After all, people have said that film is a business.
Of course, there are times when Director Wang misses. For example, in Chasing the Dragon a few years ago, he can watch it unexpectedly. I think it's not that Director Wang is too old.
The golden age of Hong Kong films, the style of entertainment to death, was very popular at that time. We also laughed out loud in Director Wang's films. It was an indelible memory of joy.
But with the passage of time, the once box office trump card is now more difficult to swallow.
It's like revisiting this demon sect leader with a score of 7.8 now, seeing the Huashan duo who are thinking about mating like animals, the funny before turned into nausea.
The evaluation of close to 8 points is definitely inflated, but Jet Li, Zhang Min, Qiu Shuzhen, Gigi Lai, handsome posture, young face, beautiful smile, and the highlight moments of Hong Kong movies are gone forever. In the score, there must be a memory of the good things that have passed.
There is no need to discuss whether this movie is worth this score. It is like a toy car that you played with when you were young. When you pick it up when you are middle-aged, you will also wonder how you could play with it in the first place. Can't put it down in the afternoon?
Feelings is difficult to define with specific scores. I just finished reviewing it today, and I don’t want to evaluate its quality. I want to make something interesting and explain it from the perspective of a Jin Yong book fan and movie fan.
When it comes to the film and television dramas shot by Jin Yong's works, there are basically no adaptations. Some people are applauded, and some are scolded. This demon leader is even more imaginative and casual.
Let's take stock one by one. Compared with the original book, what changes have this movie made?
1. Zhang Sanfeng
From Zhang Junbao to Zhang Sanfeng, in the book, this top figure in Jin Yong's martial arts world has gone through a long period of time and spanned several works, from a stunned youth to an old master. Bone, humility is like a valley.
Of course, Zhang Sanfeng has the personality of Zhang Sanfeng. He can create his own Taiji swordsmanship and boxing, and he is a pioneer. Naturally, he has a vision that is different from ordinary people. He never felt deviant.
The so-called sectarians in the novel all regard Mingjiao as demons, ghosts, and monsters, and there are extreme representatives of Shitai, who hold high the banner of justice and carry out cruel acts.
As for Zhang Sanfeng's setting, it is unique and enlightened, and it is the wisdom of a school of masters.
The Zhang Sanfeng in this movie has the taste of spoof, plus Sammo Hung's round face, fat body, and comedy effect.
The enemy is currently pretending to be stupid and stunned, with a weak appearance that is harmless to humans and animals.
Discuss Yizhuqingtian with his disciples, and then laugh at himself why he has always been a boy because no woman wants it. Zhang Wuji has beautiful girls around him, so of course he should enjoy it first.
Zhang Sanfeng, created by Wang Jing, does not have the pretense of being a leader, nor the burden of an idol. Some of them are the emotions of ordinary people.
This is also the trend brought by Hong Kong-style comedy in that era. The deconstruction of traditional images does not have a high moral standard, but the desires that you and I have. Don't suppress or feel ashamed. You see, Zhang Sanfeng is different from us. ?
2. Zhang Wuji
The changes to the protagonist in the movie can be summed up in eight words: humiliation, black belly, hatred, ambition.
In the original novel, Zhang Wuji has been hovering on the edge of life and death. He accidentally practiced magical skills to eliminate cold poison, and encountered the pig-killing plate of Zhu Changling's father and daughter.
The film should be limited by the length of the film, coupled with the director's consistent style, it is more simple and straightforward, replacing Song Qingshu with Chang Wei, Zhou Zhiruo with Zhu Jiuzhen, portraying Zhang Wuji as a bit of inferiority waste, and showing the various tortuous experiences in the book. , condensed into humiliation.
Falling into the valley, reap the magic, raise your eyebrows, the front can't resist to spare your life, fate is like a roller coaster, the same routine as today's Internet Shuangwen, just to highlight the humiliating experience at the beginning, and depict Song Qingshu so dirty, Too deliberate.
Black belly, hatred, ambition, these drastic adaptations of Zhang Wuji, just like the deconstruction of Zhang Sanfeng, replaced the hero's upright loyalty, benevolence, compassion, desire and desire in the book with the survival essentials in the law of the jungle.
Just like most fantasy novels we are familiar with, the protagonist is set full of ridicule against traditional moral standards. How can he survive in the reality of intrigue and deceit? Of course, blood debts must be paid in blood. The ambition of a person is a normal desire, and being willing to be ordinary is an expression of incompetence.
Although these contents are expressed bluntly in the film, they also cater to the impulse to liberate personal desires in that era.
3. Female characters
Before Lu Ding Ji came out, Zhang Wuji was the male protagonist with the richest love life in Jin Yong's writings. Some time ago, when I watched Su Youpeng's Yitian, Xie Xun said with a smile, "My Wuji child is much better than his father, who brought a girl with him back then. Come on, my son takes four at a time, and sure enough, one generation is stronger than the next.
It can be said that Zhang Wuji is really beautiful, and the four beautiful images of different flavors are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. No matter which version of Yitian, who will play the female characters is the key to success or failure. scolding hot eyes.
In this film, Xiao Zhao is full of agility and energy, and he directly copied Zhong Ling from Tianlong Babu. Duan was also transplanted to Xiao Zhao.
As for the emotional aspect, Xiao Zhao in the book is a guardian, caring, I can stay by your side, and I get jealous occasionally, but it doesn't force Zhang Wuji to make a choice, you can only have the possessiveness of me, which of course is overwhelming The ideal type of most men, I don't need to pay much to get the most loyal love, which also makes Xiao Zhao's status like a concubine rather than a palace,
Therefore, in various versions of the drama, most of the official matches are Zhao Min and Zhang Wuji. Zhao is more direct and enthusiastic, never concealing his love for Zhang, refusing to accept arranged marriages, and boldly pursuing a lover. It is completely different from the classical subtlety of the beauties in the Central Plains.
Director Wang Jing's idea is that I should be different. This time, the female protagonist of the official match is more like Xiao Zhao, who is by her side from beginning to end, and also lacks a layer of window paper that was not pierced in the original book. Zhang Wuji boldly held hands in the market (although unsuccessfully), Xiao Zhao hid in the corner and wrote his lover's name by default. After a misunderstanding, the two embraced tightly, no ambiguity, no concession, only you and me.
The relatively complicated Zhou Zhiruo is simplified into a femme fatale in the movie, which is simply a combination of Zhu Jiuzhen and Ding Minjun. Except for the name that is the same as the original, there seems to be nothing in common.
Oh, the famous scene of piercing Zhang Wuji with a sword is still preserved, but whether in the novel or in other versions, Zhou Zhiruo's sword is unbearable and helpless. With Director Wang, Xiao Zhou is afraid that the stab will not be hard enough.
Zhou Zhiruo in this movie is estimated to be the official match of Song Qingshu of Chang Weihua.
Due to the length of time and Xiao Zhao's many scenes, the popular player Zhao Min's playing time has been severely shortened. The only serious opponent scene with Zhang Wuji is Luliuzhuang. Of course, it is also the most fun scene. With a flirtatious fragrance.
The idea of the wooden sword poisoning was too ingenious to be preserved. Tickling the soles of the feet turned into using the universe to remove clothes. Wang Jing has been playing with it for decades. Zhang Min's fragrant shoulders are of course beautiful, but Director Wang His habit is to play beauties as cards, to reveal for the sake of revealing, the characters are illogical, and it doesn't matter whether there is a style or not, everything serves the box office.
Think of Wang Zuxian, Brigitte Lin, under the lens of Tsui Hark, is unattainably beautiful, like a dream, and the beauties in Director Wang's film are really embarrassing, a bunch of kings in their hands are bombed, just like that The silly son of the family splurges.
But no matter how frantic Wang Fatty is, Qiu Shuzhen, Zhang Min, and Gigi Lai's looks are highly placed there, not to mention that it is their most beautiful time, and they can relive those young faces that have long passed away in old movies, blooming like flowers, Glittering is enough.
Finally, I added that Zhao Min was lucky, and Yin Li was directly omitted.
4. The Battle of Bright Summit
This battle is Zhang Wuji's famous work. The reason for the shot is the kindness of nature, the cruelty that can't see extinction and easy to kill. Zhang's special identity (father is a disciple of Wudang School, mother is the daughter of Eagle King), also let He appears neutral in the so-called battle of good and evil, and acts out of compassion.
This also allowed Zhang to come forward, and he is more in line with the spirit of chivalry than everyone here. He does not belong to any well-known sect. He holds high the banner of justice to kill people like hemp, and he does not join the Ming Cult. Injustice draws a knife to help.
The cover-up of his identity at the beginning was also very interesting. A little-known Zeng Aniu, had his head flooded? He was sandwiched between the two major forces. , where did this kid come from, how is he so powerful, and finally received three palms from the old nun, one palm is more ruthless than the other, showing Zhang's stubbornness and toughness.
No matter which version of Yi Tian it is, this is one of my favorite episodes. There is a sense of pleasure layered upon layer upon layer until the emotional release of the climax. Obviously, this movie is not interested in explaining such details, nor does it want to make it too complicated. Zhang's behavioral motives It is to avenge the parents, and the battle is a simple confrontation between good and evil. You see the Shaolin monk who plays the dragon's claw and the Mie Shitai who uses the Yitian sword. From the appearance to the temperament, the words wicked are blatantly written.
The beating was also very sloppy, and the Shaolin monk was easily eliminated, and he flew around in the air, all kinds of gases were emitted around his body, exploded, and beat the old nun to the ground. In the next second, Zhou Zhiruo, who was possessed by Ding Minjun, pierced through. palm.
This kind of highlight, I have taken it in one stroke, and it is not enjoyable to look at.
5. Battle of Wudang Mountain
This battle is comparable to Guangmingding, there is no Jiuyang magic, there is no great movement of the universe, using authentic Wudang kung fu to subdue the enemy and give Zhang Zhenren a long face.
Before Zhang Wuji's attack, Mr. Jin had prepared the groundwork. Zhang concealed his identity and was a little disciple carrying a stretcher silently. Zhang Sanfeng was conspicuously injured, and temporarily taught Taijiquan and swords. Her subordinates are all called A Da and A Er, which shows her strong strength. In the end, she sets the conditions of the competition and wins with Wudang Kung Fu to be convincing.
Originally, there were many crises, and Zhang Yi shot immediately to clear the clouds and see the fog. It was like a drowsy encounter with a pillow. It’s unfortunate that Zhang Zhen has created a set of boxing and sword techniques that have never been seen before. I have nowhere to practice, Master, are you surprised, Zhao Min, are you surprised?
As for the essence of Taijiquan sword, what Mr. Jin set is to forget the moves, which is peculiar and interesting. At the same time, it echoes the profound martial arts such as Dugu Nine Swords.
The ending after the war is full of warmth. This is the first time Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Wuji have reunited after many years. In the heart of the old man, he thought that Zhang Wuji had passed away unfortunately, but he didn't expect to help a lot when he came back this time. The old man was overjoyed, and he touted each other with the White-browed Eagle King. You have a good disciple and grandson, and you also have a good grandson.
The first thing that changed in the movie was Zhang Sanfeng's injury. The Shaolin monk who suddenly used cold arrows was replaced by Song Qingshu's serial strategy. It was to nail Song to the label of a wicked person, to submit to the imperial court, and to murder the master. This is not a bad person. It's a broken brain.
The process of teaching Taijiquan has become a live teaching, as if it is silently telling that it is too late, so let's just say that the movie is not long enough?
Naturally, there is no foreshadowing of concealing his identity. He just did it when he came up. With the aura of the protagonist, his sleeves sprayed like a fire extinguisher, and they sprayed each other with the two elders of Xuanming and won.
Forget about the move and keep it, after all, it's interesting and hilarious.
In the end, the two battles seemed like going through the motions. One was that the plot was very rushed due to the time limit, and the other was that Wang Jing was also very perfunctory. It was enough to have some classic scenes, interspersed with some comedy effects and vulgar jokes, and it was over.
6. Fire Foreman
This character is the essence of Wang Jing's magic transformation. Nima is tied to a big stone. Oh, no, it is inlaid with a big living person with a hideous face. The stone still rolls on its own. Monster, right?
The way the fire foreman tormented Zhang Wuji is also very strange. Passing the Jiuyang magic to Zhang is like me giving you billions of wealth in order to get revenge on you, so that you lose yourself in money. What kind of brain circuit, I'm afraid not a fool ?
Zhang Wuji's farewell was also very funny, "I'll come and save you when I'm done with my revenge." The fire foreman was agitated for a while, "Fuck you, do you think I'm a fool?"
Really.
7. Zhu Yuanzhang
Zhu Yuanzhang's face is round like a chef, and he has thick eyebrows and big eyes. After all, he is also a real historical figure. He can't make his beauty explode when he jokes. He is more of a tool man and is responsible for explaining Zhang Wuji's ascension to the position of the leader. Psychological activities, enough, Director Wang, let's arrange an inner monologue of Jet Li, and save the actor's appearance fee.
In fact, there are still many details, so I won't repeat them one by one. In those days, it was an entertainment blockbuster that could bring laughter and wonders. Now it seems that it is also a time machine that can relive the beauty of the prosperous age. As for whether this film is good or not ,who cares.
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