In those days, the two films, Unbeaten East and New Dragon Inn, were unprecedented and became the insurmountable peaks of martial arts films. By the mid-1990s, the upsurge of Hong Kong martial arts films gradually subsided, and several kung fu films shot by Kung Fu Emperor Jet Li in Hong Kong in the later period failed to achieve their ideals. Achievements, even including the martial arts hero who is regarded as the textbook of action movies. The Demon Lord is a follow-up work that continued the glorious stage of martial arts movies during this period. Director Wang Jing injected erotic, funny and curious elements into the movie out of commercial considerations, but it still failed to stop the decline of this type of movie.
The film did not make major adjustments to the original structure. The vernacular for a few minutes at the beginning explained the causes and consequences of Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu's forced suicide. By the end of the film, Zhang Wuji had become the leader of the Ming sect and led his followers to rescue the six sects. In just 100 minutes, I talked about the content of the original work more than 20 times. Although many side branches have been cut off, the main line is basically preserved, and the amount of information is very large. But it is also because the plot span is too large, the story progresses rapidly, and there is no extra footage to focus on the character description and the relationship between the characters, which leads to Song Qingshu, Zhou Zhiruo, Zhuangzhe and other characters being too facial, and the relationship between Zhang Wuji, Zhou Zhiruo, Zhao Min, etc. has not been in-depth. description. Zhang Wuji's image is also a bit dark, far from the original. The martial arts design of the movie is also relatively general, neither Cheng Xiaodong's ghostly and elegant, chic and ethereal, nor as strong as Yuan Heping's iron bridge, which integrates hundreds of schools. Looking at the later Ip Man, Sammo Hung's martial arts design has obviously improved a lot from the original.
There are a lot of dirty jokes in the movie. What a pillar of the sky, even Zhang Zhenren will not let go. Song Qingshu and Zhou Zhiruo's plot to seduce Zhang Wuji looks very Wang Jing at first glance. Apart from commercial gimmicks, this part seems very rigid. There are also the two wretched brothers from the Huashan faction, which are commonly used by Wang Jing to vulgarize the content of movies.
Jin Yong's novels are rich in content and vast, so they are suitable to be made into TV series, but it is too difficult to make into a movie, unless they are drastically edited, such as Xiaoao Jianghu. Purely from an entertainment point of view, Demon Lord is still a good-looking movie, but it is too rough in other aspects, with a strong Hong Kong-made brand, no wonder it is gradually eliminated by the times.
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