For most people who like to be emotional and overbearing, Marysu, the president's dog's blood, the Jianghu of blood shed's bravery, courage and chivalry is beyond their understanding and acceptance. There is a line in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: "A woman who can drink can't win any man." Girls who like to watch martial arts must be very open-minded.
If you meet a girl who likes watching martial arts, marry her ~ ~ ~ ~
Recently, I heard that Jin Yong's doyen has revised some plots and endings of his fifteen martial arts novels, which may be more in line with the development of the main lines of characters and story lines, but I always feel that it is still unacceptable, so I have always refused to read them. In the eyes of our generation, the old version of "Flying Snow Shoots White Deer in the Sky, Laughing at the Book and the Man Leaning on the Peach Blossom" is a legendary classic, which can never be surpassed. I always feel that Jin Lao's rewriting has a helpless compromise.
Martial arts is actually a fairy tale for adults, and the unattainable ideal of "chivalrous people use force to violate the ban" can be expressed in the book. It's just that the martial arts described by the author can't be separated from the projection of the real society, and people can only catch their breath in the book between trivial matters of life and realistic pressure. When the so-called martial arts are forced by some rules of moral and legal society, they are more and more close to the norms in real life, which is unacceptable but helpless for people who love it.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Iron Riding a Silver Bottle are two martial arts novels that I loved very much when I was young. In them, Yu Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu are lingering, and the love tragedy is deep, and there are quite some tragic and earth-shaking feelings of China's Romeo and Juliet, which were deeply shocked when they were young and ignorant.
The writer of these two books, Mr. Wang Dulu, is a master of chivalry, and he has been hidden in the market all his life. In his six martial arts works, The Legend of a Ranger in the River Yue, The Sword and the Golden Hairpin, The Shockful Pearl, The Crane Starts the Kunlun Mountains, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Riding a Silver Bottle, the masculine beauty of chivalry is combined with the feminine beauty of emotion.
Unfortunately, the vivid images of these street martial arts characters, the twists and turns of the story development, and the strong conflicts of the characters' emotions, even the masters like Ang Lee did not show integrity on the wide screen in later film works, and perhaps they were taken out of context in many places.
The biggest change and the original fans can't accept is that in the original book, Yu Jiaolong of strange girl, who has so much personality charm, dares to love and hate, and fights against the personal fate of feudal society, which regards women as sacrifices and superior products in the struggle for family power, has evolved into Zhang Ziyi's role of betraying his master for personal selfish interests, undermining chivalry and even some ruthless giants and ladies, even though in the end of the first movie, Yu Jiaolong cut her own throat and jumped off a cliff in the beautiful scene set off by the surrounding snow-capped mountains.
Not to mention, in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Sword of the Green Ghost, Yuan Heping directly transformed "Jade Jiaolong" into a "cold plum" with an ordinary name, without the slightest shadow of "Jade Jiaolong" in our mind, which is charming, tactful, distinctive and passionate, but unforgettable.
Throughout Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Sword, the whole film is a "chivalrous" avenue that is mechanically applied and pulled alive. Shouting "chivalry" for the so-called "Jianghu's righteousness", "iron-armed Lu", "shadowless dart", "drunken epilepsy" and "flying knife Li" died in the struggle with the big villain, the BOSS of Xilian Education, Wei Yan, which made people feel less moved and more puzzled. Perhaps the director can explain the details a little bit here, which may be more convincing.
However, it is true that the special effects of the whole movie can be compared with blockbusters. The Lord of the Rings's original crew, Yuan Heping's name as the world's first martial arts finger, no matter the fighting on the Xilian Sect's old nest tower, or the duel between Meng Sizhao and Wei Fang's master and apprentice on the ice lake, Donnie Yen's trademark three kicks, the villain's hard bridge and hard horse, the tower's collapsed bricks and tiles, and the ice crack of the dense thread on the ice, all show the excellent special effects and Yuan Da's excellent guidance of martial arts.
The word "martial arts", "martial arts" is indeed before "chivalrous", so a martial arts movie can't be recognized by the audience if it is too melodramatic in martial arts action. However, a director's lack of humanistic spirit will inevitably lead to greater defeat. To tell the truth, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2, The Sword of the Green Ghost, with so many elaborate martial arts moves, is not as impressive as the scene in which Ang Lee made Chow Yun Fat stand on the top of the bamboo forest and linger in the wind, seemingly boneless but standing still.
The story of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Sword is relatively complete, and it echoes from beginning to end. It explains that Wei Fang is the illegitimate child of Han Mei, and he was robbed of his property by an official concubine and traded his daughter for it. (In fact, in the original work, Yu Jiaolong did not die after jumping off a cliff, and was unable to return to her parents, so she was turned into a phoenix by someone else, named her daughter as "Spring Snow Bottle", and met "Han Tiefang" who was raised by bandits.
However, the level of the whole film is unknown, and there is no central idea. The whole film is full of "chivalry" imposed from the outside, and it feels very abrupt.
It is very difficult for people who have not been deeply baptized by philosophy and humanistic thought to reach a peak only by understanding life. Yuan Heping is like this, in fact, Stephen Chow is also like this. With hard work and talent, you can really get ahead of others, but you can't really achieve classics just by sweat and experience. This is true for film producers, and so is it for all walks of life in society.
The dilemma of martial arts movies is not only weak in humanistic thought, but also weak in real life.
Martial arts is a glimmer of light for people's ideology in the chaotic times when the situation is complicated and the law of the jungle prevails. It can't change people's real dilemma, and its greatest use is only to keep people from sinking into a completely dead body, imagining a martial arts world where they can be happy, break class rule and speak out for the disadvantaged groups.
Unfortunately, with the improvement of people's consciousness level, the increasingly standardized society ruled by law, the change of some social rules in economic development, and the change of people's attitude in ideological belief and material pursuit, the theoretical foundation of martial arts in reality is getting weaker and weaker.
On the surface, both the literary world and the film market hold up the martial arts theme as a hot topic. In fact, under the fame, such as cooking oil with fierce fire, excessive consumption and unconscious misunderstanding, it will only make martial arts come to a dead end and the living space become narrower and narrower.
Whether to let the martial arts movies die, or let them linger on to win the hearts of the audience with the remnants of their past, or, the best hope is that there will be some people who don't give up their ideas and skills lightly, persevere and carry them forward, or give the world more aura with the attitude of rebirth.
Wait and see, look forward to it ~ ~ ~ ~