In 1976, the release of "Meteor Butterfly Sword" ushered in the golden age of Gu Long's adaptation of movies. This is the first Gu Long movie directed by Chu Yuan . It won the Double Lion Award for Best Art Design at the 22nd Asian Film Festival for this film. The "Master of Strange Martial Arts" ushered in the second peak of his career.
1. The martial arts classic
. Everyone knows that Gu Long’s martial arts freehand painting is too elegant, and the martial arts movements are described in one stroke, so it is difficult to adapt into the plot of the movie.
But "Meteor Butterfly Sword" is an exception, and it is more like a suspense spy film dressed in the skin of a martial arts film, which can be called the 1970s martial arts version of "Infernal Affairs".
In Hong Kong in 1976, for ordinary bored viewers, being able to see so many reversals in a movie is worth the price in terms of viewing experience.
The audience in the whole film probably didn't have time to pay attention to the hero Meng Xinghun and Xiaodie's love, and their energy was all focused on reasoning about who in each camp was a traitor.
plot reversal to make people doubt life. I never know how traitors are people who are close to each other. They are Gu Long style unique to martial arts novels.
The characters have complex personalities and no clear distinction between good and evil. For example, the old man trusted the last killer , Han Tang, , was besieged, but rescued soldiers came but killed the seclusion master from behind.
"Meteor Butterfly Sword" is the most compact plot among all Gu Long's novels. The pace is so fast that the audience is a little distracted. The person who has just appeared has already received the lunch box.
Lu Xiangchuan went to visit King Wan Peng. Nangong Yuan, a disciple who had been with Wan Peng, actually jumped back. He held King Wan Peng hostage and asked King Lu Xiangchuan to leave safely, and then committed suicide by separating himself. From appearance to lunch box, it was in an instant.
The characters in the movie are very distinctive of Gu Long. They will repay their kindness. They will commit suicide and commit suicide. They will commit suicide if they disagree. If you say fate, don’t want it, and you can’t see any hesitation.
Ling Yun played Ye Xiang learned that the woman he met was Xiaodie. Xiaodie was the old man's daughter. Because she was afraid that Meng Xinghun would not know the truth, she killed the old man and killed Xiaodie. She bet her life and went to the old man to tell Meng Xinghun, and then committed suicide.
The whole story promotes a truth that people around you may turn against each other in an instant, regardless of their closeness or distantness. Almost everyone died of trusting the people around them too much, except for the old man.
Meng Xinghun was recruited into the mansion by the old man. He thought he had gained the trust of the old man. He contacted the insider who had been arranged in the man’s mansion many years ago and confirmed the time. Later, he sneaked into the man’s garden to assassinate the old man, but the old man was leisurely picking flowers and was prepared for it. The old man’s image as a godfather stood there.
The old man's right-hand man's long-term right-hand man, Lu Kagawa, played by Yue Hua, betrayed the old man and seized power, and then used the mechanism to escape. He has raised a friend for more than ten years, and he has regarded him as his last retreat. But who knew that this person was also bribed by the old man.
The male protagonist Meng Xinghun has almost become a tool for stringing the plot together. The real charm lies in the struggle between Lao Bo and Lu Kagawa.
Finally, the case of Lu Kagawa was settled. After the old man got Meng Xinghun, his right-hand man, he decided to let him take Xiaodie away, because he would definitely become the next Lu Kagawa, reflecting the image of a big boss who is well-known in the world.
2, Meteor Butterfly Sword: Gu Long Novel The first film and television
1972, after the completion of "The Deer and the Cauldron", Jin Yong completely announced his closing. The high yield period of Gu Long began to arrive in the 1970s.
Although Gu Long adapted films and televisions have rarely appeared in recent years, in the 1970s, many works were filmed and television almost every year.
No matter how popular the writer is, there will not be so many film and television projects. At that time, Gu Long was a well-deserved top high-traffic IP writer.
The one who reproduced the most films and television works by Gu Long was naturally the "big manufacturer" of the martial arts films at that time. Shaw Brothers produces as many as 24 Gu Long movies.
, Chu Yuan, known as the master of strange martial arts, is the director Shaw Brothers who made Gu Long's works the most movies: Chu Yuan has made 20 martial arts films, 2 are adapted from Jin Yong's novels, and the remaining 18 are adapted from Gu Long's novels.Since "Meteor Butterfly Sword" in 1976, Chu Yuan has begun to cooperate with Gu Long for a long time.
"Meteor Butterfly Sword" is not the most famous novel in Gu Long's martial arts, far less famous than Chu Liuxiang , Lu Xiaofeng , Xiao Li Feidao , and the peerless twins.
But it was precisely this novel that was recommended by Ni Kuang to Chu Yuan, who was in trouble at the time of his career. Chu Yuan grabbed this life-saving straw, and suddenly the salted fish turned over and became a representative of the new trend of martial arts films.
You should know that the late 1970s was the embarrassing years when Hu Jinquan’s masterpieces “Empty Mountain Spirit Rain” and “ Legend in the Mountain ” failed in the box office, and the view that “martial arts films are dead” was rampant.
Gu Long has also become the hottest figure in the Hong Kong film and television industry since the release of "Meteor Butterfly Sword" in 1976, and is always followed by producers, directors and actors.
Gu Long loves money, and his care and principle of his works are far less than Jin Yongqiang. Gu Long personally wrote more than 20 scripts, and the novel " Xiao Shiyilang " was changed to a novel based on the script.
In fact, the official title of "Meteor Butterfly Sword" is "Meteor Butterfly Sword". Interestingly, since "Meteor, Butterfly, Sword", three vocabulary titles in the film market have become crazy popular.
, even , Jackie Chan, , before becoming popular in "Drunk Fist", was not immune to the vulgarity. He has filmed "Wind, Rain, Double Meteor" and "Sword Flower, Smoky Rain, Jiangnan" and other movies that sound like they are not in line with Jackie Chan's style. He has no basis and believes that such a movie title will become popular.
There is also a well-known story between Jackie Chan and Gu Long. Jackie Chan once visited Gu Long for a character, but was ridiculed by Gu Long for being "ugly". This hit Jackie Chan, who was not famous at the time, and ran to the toilet and hugged David Jiang and started crying.
3. The master of strange martial arts Chu Yuan started with this film
. The two major players in Shaw Brothers martial arts films are Chu Yuan and Zhang Che. In fact, Chu Yuan was originally surnamed Zhang, and was the son of Cantonese opera master Zhang Huoyou. He debuted from the Cantonese film " Poor Parents' Hearts " and joined Shaw Brothers in 1971.
Although Chu Yuan is not as good as Zhang Che, the box office of Shaw Brothers in the 1970s was supported by Chu Yuan, and he is known as the nickname of "Chu Qianwan".
From a style perspective, Chu Yuan’s Gu Long martial arts movies are obviously different from Zhang Che. Zhang Che is simple and masculine, while Chu Principle is romantic and gorgeous, and is known as the "master of strange martial arts".
One of them is Chu Yuan’s set. In the martial arts era of King Hu, the usual practice was to be in the field. Waiting for a day at the angle of the sun was obviously not something that Shaw, who pursued efficiency, could accept.
Chu Principle places the containers of the space in the interior of the studio. Chu Yuan is accustomed to using props and lights flexibly, using rockery, plants, water bodies, lights, smoke, and designs. He does not require outdoor scenes at all, and directly directs people to set up scenes in the studio, which started with "Meteor Butterfly Sword".
achieves a certain depth of field in the studio, but does not seem too false and has no sense of cheapness. This is Chu Yuan's cleverness.
Xiaodie's residence is a typical Chuyuan style setting. Meng Xinghun’s conversation with Xiaodie here uses spring and butterflies to imply the ephemeral of love, and directly transforms the written language of Gu Long’s novel into a dialogue.
Chu Yuan’s shots often hide behind plants to highlight the mystery of the characters. For example, in the scene of Gao Lao Da’s bedroom, the camera hides behind the vase and gauze tent, and many indescribable pictures are added to the set, and the feeling of desire is bursting out.
In fact, Run Run Shaw and Fang Yihua are also interested in this aspect, and specifically reminded Chu Yuan that "indescribable shots can be added here."
Boss Gao is very dissatisfied with Ye Xiang's love with Xiaodie. The series of dialogues between Ye Xiang and Boss Gao are so explicit that they are outrageous, and the indescribable and funny combination is a famous scene in this film.
In addition, Chu Yuan's fighting scenes are not like Zhang Che's violent beauty. "Meteor Butterfly Sword" pursues simple and freehand painting, and even focuses on nearby branches, making the two people fighting each other virtually, only seeking atmosphere and not talking about movements. This new style became popular.
1976 "Meteor Butterfly Sword" was released in Hong Kong. Without the help of Dilon David Jiang, Chu Yuan took the top spot in Hong Kong martial arts directors. The "The Bright Moon Knife of the World" in the same year, the following year's "Chu Liuxiang" and " White Jade Tiger " and so on, with the help of Di Long and Er Dongsheng, have repeatedly broken the box office record of Taiwanese films and opened up the prosperity of Gu Long's novels and film and television in the next nearly 10 years. (written by: Mankei Wu)
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