Name: Hu Jinquan
Gender: Male
Birth and death: 1932.4.29—1997.1.14
Birth place: Beijing, China
Profession: Actors, directors, screenwriters, editing, setters
representative works: [Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai] (1963), [ Daddy Hero ] (1966), [ Longmen Inn ] (1967), [ Hero ] (1970), [Empty Mountain Spirit Rain] (1979) Commemorative Reason: 84th Anniversary of Hu Jinquan’s Birth
Hu Jinquan became famous in the Chinese film industry, starting with [DaDdy Hero] in 1966, and is recognized by the Western film industry in 1975. [Haro ] won the highest technical award at the Cannes Film Festival, which is also the first time that Chinese films won the Cannes Film Festival.
▲In 1978, Hu Jinquan was named one of the world's five major directors by the authoritative British magazine "International Film Guide". The first person to win this honor for Chinese film directors
Hu Jinquan's first personal work is [Children of the Earth] . With the background of the Anti-Japanese War, when the film was successful but was obstructed by external forces, Director Hu turned to the world of martial arts, but did not stick to the limitations of traditional martial arts, and finally became a great man of the generation.
▲Hu Jinquan's mother is a fine brush painter, so he received Chinese painting training since childhood. He has a calm and composed Chinese classical cultural temperament (the picture is a manuscript of Chinese painting by Hu Jinquan himself [Congshan Lingyu] (1979) by Hu Jinquan)
Hu Jinquan's martial arts characteristics are distinctive, and he has a glimpse of the world of Hu's aesthetics from two or three symbols.
Mingshi
Hu Jinquan is an absolute Mingshi enthusiast, and all his martial arts movies are in the Ming Dynasty. The villain of [The Heroes] is Wei Zhongxian, the story of [Longmen Inn] is to protect the descendants of Yu Qian, the protagonist of [Zhengren Painting] is Yu Dayou, [The Storm of Yingchun Pavilion] is the earliest era, and the theme is also the struggle between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia.
▲Hu Jinquan's original intention of shooting [Longmen Inn] (1967) was to be dissatisfied with the beautification of "spy" by the [007] series of movies. Therefore, the secret agency organization of the Qing Dynasty, East Factory , was moved to use ancient and modern
, border and inn
[黄天女] and [Legend of the Mountain], and the ruins of the border guard castle appeared in the films; and the inn is the most suitable place to tell stories, and it is also a social shrinkage. As Hu Jinquan said: "I always think that inns in ancient times, especially in the wilderness, were the most dramatic places. There are very few places in that combine time and space like this, and all conflicts may break out here. "
Hu Jinquan The first highlight of martial arts movie took place in the inn ([Drunk Hero] Jin Yanzi was besieged by bandits at Gaosheng Inn), and later films such as [Longmen Inn] and [Yingchun Pavilion Storm] became representatives of the movies of Hu's Inn.
▲Jin Yanzi's debut at Gaosheng Inn has raised the artistic conception of Chinese martial arts movies to a new level (the picture shows the stills of [Hello Girl] (1966))
Peking Opera
Hu Jinquan's martial arts fights are clumsy in the movies, but they have a kind of Peking Opera charm. The interlacing in fighting is very similar to the misunderstanding in Peking Opera, and the use of the amateur flip-flops of the bed is also very similar to the following fight in Peking Opera.
Hu Jinquan once said: "Many people think I have made many martial arts films, but in fact I don't know anything about martial arts. all the movements I shoot are borrowed from Chinese dramas. My martial arts movements are to combine dance, music, and drama. I decompose the movements of flat drama (i.e. Peking Opera) and try my best to make it achieve the most amazing and outstanding effect in the movie."
▲The hints of the stage often appear in movies. The fighting, moves and editing rhythms can all be found in Peking Opera (the picture shows the manuscript and stills comparison of [Yingchun Pavilion's Storm])
▲Tsui Hark said: "Hu Jinquan's martial arts films are greatly influenced by Peking Opera and have a strong sense of stage. I was his movie fan . When I was filming [ New Longmen Inn ] (1992), I wanted to get rid of the stage feeling, but once I got rid of it, Hu Jinquan's feeling disappeared. (The picture is stills from [New Longmen Inn])
Walking
Hu Jinquan's characters are always walking, carrying a bookcase, and living in a place without a fixed place. Those walking are lonely and desolate, mostly due to Hu Jinquan's life experience of leaving his hometown and wandering around in his youth. When Hu Jinquan's youth, he left his hometown and wandering around. .
But unfortunately, the Chinese landscape that Hu Jinquan loved so much failed to appear in several important movies. The landscapes and buildings in [Hello Girl] and [Empty Mountain Spirit Rain] were both filmed in South Korea.
▲[Hello Girl] (1970) There is a scene in [Hello Girl] (1970). Hu Jinquan thought the reeds were not tall enough, so he would rather drag them for a few months to wait for the reeds to grow taller before shooting, which reminds people of Kurosawa Akira who could wait for a month for a satisfactory sky shot (the picture shows the [Hello Girl] poster)
Hu Jinquan's film aesthetics is Chinese painting style, full of Eastern style. He is a memorable figure in Chinese culture because he is the first master to introduce Chinese culture to the West.
▲Although the younger generation Tsui Hark has drawn many traditional martial arts elements from Hu Jinquan's works, the former's style is more Westernized, and often attaches importance to novel forms
▲If the successor is to say, Ang Lee and Hu Jinquan's martial arts are the most similar, and they have both Similar family education is quite familiar with Western culture, but it is rooted in its bones with strong oriental feelings. To a certain extent, the success of [Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon] (2000) is actually a continuation of the success of [Haoist] (the picture is a photo of [Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon])
Hu Jinquan used his "sword and courage to open up a new world of martial arts, and at the same time he also inherited a classic Chinese poetic and picturesque style.
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