In the ancient martial arts novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Huang, Mei Chaofeng and other short stories about teachers and students just stood aside. In this film, this minor narrative line was taken out and made into a film. The clue of this film's emotional case is that Huang's love for disciple Mei Chaofeng was suppressed, and disciple Mei Chaofeng hated Master's love and finally merged into hatred. This film "Love between Master and Apprentice" should meet the aesthetic requirements of online movie audiences.
In the original collection of Jin Yong's martial arts novels, Huang and Mei Chaofeng's teacher-student relationship is not too much, even more implicit. In this film, most narrative clues are closely related to this theme style. The nine scenes that Mei Chaofeng wants to take away are also to better stimulate Huang. See who is the key in the master's mind. Even if Mei Chaofeng and her own apprentice are good adults, they still can't forget Huangshi.
At the end of the film, Mei Chaofeng "blocked the gun" for the master and finally died. Huang is pregnant with his apprentice, which also shows that he has more feelings for his apprentice than for his teachers and students. If he can start over, he is willing to choose these again. Although this rewriting is slightly different from the original collection of novels, it also attaches importance to the original without deliberate distortion. This sadistic connection between Huang and Mei Chaofeng is fully revealed in this film.
Just like this, this film focuses on emotional expression, but at the narrative level, it is slightly biased. Among the ancient martial arts novels of Jin Yong, Wan Li, a short story by Huang and Mei Chaofeng, is hidden in the focus of various short stories, but it is not independent. After the film is rewritten, we must take their story as the main line. In The Legend of the Condor Heroes, short stories are actually a collection of original novels.
It is also precisely because of the gleaning that it is likely to give the audience a hammer in the east and a wooden stick in the west. Just now, I was deeply attached to my master and apprentice. Immediately, my younger brother fled, and then the frontier fortress was killed. Then he taught his apprentice a lesson, and then he came to seek revenge from the seven monsters in the south of the Yangtze River. Between short stories and short stories, the classic fragments of the film itself lack commonness. If you haven't seen the original collection of novels, you will feel how the film went on the rampage. The lack of reasonable docking between classic fragments and classic fragments is an inevitable problem that the auxiliary stories in the novel collection turn into the main stories.
So I feel that this new film focuses on emotional expression and ignores short stories. The audience who love the original novel collection can find resonance in this film. People who haven't seen the novel collection or TV series of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, especially the children's audience, may think that the legend of the condor heroes boasted by uncles and grandfathers is just that. The original collection of novels is really not as simple as the sadomasochism of mentoring. The short story of Huang and Mei Chaofeng is just one of them.
At the film shooting level, the standard has already been much higher than the classic TV series version. Moreover, Mei Chaofeng's styling design is much better than the classic drama version. After all, the key to this movie version is to talk about feelings, and it is not too much for the female number one to be beautiful. However, in the classic drama version, Mei Chaofeng's appearance has always been a horror creation. However, in this film version, some young women are crazy about love. This time, Mei Chaofeng is more likable and commendable.
In the aura of artists, Ouyang Feng is the best. This villain is the easiest to show in all the film and television works of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. The establishment of villain image is the most special point in Jin Yong's ancient martial arts novels. In this film version, Ouyang Feng is still extremely sinister. Although it is very dramatic, it also meets the expectations of the original readers.
What is slightly insufficient is Huang Rong's mother's self-orientation. In this film, in order to better satisfy the two apprentices, Huang chose to quit, and then found Huang Rong's mother as his wife. Due to the limitation of narrative main line, the role of Huang Rong's mother has become a tool person, which has not been well developed. Classic drama version, Huang Rong's mother, but there are many scenes and interesting things. This character is also one of the life roles of the screenwriter. In this film version, it is a pity to be humanized by paper.
In view of this connection between Huang and Mei Chaofeng, Huang Rong's mother is actually a crucial third-party angle. However, the film has not been carried out reasonably from this angle. Regret and unexpected surprise coexist. The great movie Legend of the Condor Heroes pays much attention to the original work and is worth seeing.