Speaking of which, in the movie adapted by Jin Yong , the 1993 version of "The Legend of Flying Fox" is a very embarrassing existence. It is neither as good as the classics of Tsui Hark "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer", Wang Jing "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", nor as good as the magical modifications of "Tianshan Tong Lao" and "East and West".
movies use bizarre story plots, combined with action design and sensory stimulation, to form an inappropriate movie style. It is clearly a Jin Yong script, but it is made into an Gulong style style.
also said that the 1993 version of "The Legend of Flying Fox" was a film produced by Mr. Jin Yong himself, "I highly recognize the version." I am skeptical of this news.
If Mr. Jin Yong could accept this fantasy style and a strong business story atmosphere, what would his inner experience look like?
In fact, "The Legend of Flying Fox" is somewhat inconsistent based on the original work written by Jin Yong. Although "The Legend of Flying Fox" is a prequel to " Snow Mountain Flying Fox ", the novel is written after "The Legend of Flying Fox", which is considered a work to make up for the pit.
The most interesting thing is that in "The Legend of Flying Fox", Jin Yong gave the Hu Fei , which was originally a thin character in "The Flying Fox of Snow Mountain", a full character, but the whole emotional story is not consistent with the previous "The Flying Fox of Snow Mountain".
In "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", he likes Miao Renfeng 's daughter Miao Ruolan . When he arrived in "Flying Fox Legend", he had an entanglement with two women, Yuan Ziyi and Cheng Lingsu . I don't know why the old man's writing has such a loophole.
This movie focuses on the emotional scenes of a man and a woman, so casting is very important.
The character Hu Fei was played by Li Ming, who was very popular in the 1990s. They all had strong appeal in the era of the Four Heavenly Kings. Dawn usually performs more modern fashion shows, and the one that can be seen in ancient costume dramas is this "Flying Fox Legend".
During this period, Li Ming and Li Jiaxin often cooperated, and were quite reliable screen partners. In this drama, Li Jiaxin was arranged to bring Cheng Lingsu, who had a love for Hu Fei, which was within the expectation.
Another Hu Fei's beloved woman, Yuan Ziyi, the director asked Zhang Min to play the role of the female lead. I think even the best beauty of Miss Hong Kong, Reis, could not suppress Zhang Min's limelight during that period.
Director Pan Wenjie Once won the Best Film Award for the Film Festival for the movie " Lame ". He is a director who is very good at filming heroic dramas.
And like Wang Jing, he has no "cheap" in filming, so he can do whatever he wants.
plus the producer of this movie is McDonald , which advocates violent aesthetics . Although the box office and reputation are not good, some of the clips are impressive.
The story begins in the wilderness, with the atmosphere a little similar to "Longmen Inn". Hu Fei drove a donkey cart to find a yard full of herbs, and met Cheng Lingsu, a weird girl with a makeup like a flower fairy, and then there were various confrontations between the happy enemies.
Director's control of the atmosphere is quite informative. For example, the poisoning process between two people, and a subsequent scene of Cheng Lingsu poisoning Hu Fei into a fat man was added. This should be one of the scenes that Li Ming wants to delete the most. He can't see his usual gentle appearance, which is particularly funny.
Compared to Cheng Lingsu who is careless and has no female self-consciousness, Yuan Ziyi, played by Zhang Min, comes with a filter to help her appear. This seems to be a routine operation of Zhang Min in Hong Kong films. For example, her Zhao Min in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" became a classic by using a woman to dress up as a man and smile.
The same is true in this "Flying Fox Legend". She was wearing a purple dress and the same veil. After meeting Hu Fei, she also lifted the veil and looked back and smiled. Unlike Zhao Min's slightly provocative smile, this smile was even more tender as a girl, which was quite beautiful.
also impressed Hu Fei and showed goodwill frequently. In order to create a sense of harmony between men and women, the director deliberately designed a classic scene of making maltose .
Hu Fei boiled malt sugar for Yuan Ziyi to taste, but the syrup stuck to her hands. Hu Fei carefully sucked her fingers, and the ambiguous atmosphere could overflow the screen. I have to say that Pan Wenjie is really good at it.
It’s a pity that Yuan Ziyi, who came back to her senses, suddenly left, leaving Hu Fei alone inexplicably. It was not until later that he saw Yuan Ziyi’s bald head that he understood why Yuan Ziyi flatly rejected him.
In the emotional game between two men and one woman, I personally sympathize with the weird girl Cheng Lingsu. She is obviously not a good person, but in order to save the poisoned Hu Fei, she eventually sacrificed herself.
, and Hu Fei, who was obsessed with Yuan Ziyi, chased Yuan Ziyi after resolutely resenting his grudges. No one was satisfied with this entanglement, and the ending seemed quite unpleasant. This may be the reason why the movie was only sold for HK$6.86 million. The three big-name actors helped, but they failed to save the box office defeat.
Fortunately, the entire action scenes still maintain the usual level of Hong Kong martial arts films. In addition, in that era, the audience was quite "high" in relaxed and funny jokes. Although the box office was not high, some viewers were still quite popular with the Dawn version of "Flying Fox Legend".
Even though "The Legend of Flying Fox" has been available in various TV series versions of Qian Xiaohao and Huang Rihua since 1980, when it comes to the movie "The Legend of Flying Fox", everyone still thinks more about this version of Liming.
