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If a big director makes a big bad movie, how should the audience evaluate him?
Maybe none of these matters are important. Some people are silent when facing such things, while others are swearing. For example, more than ten years ago, people said, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, you will definitely understand it in the future." As a result, I still can't understand it now.
So my main theme has always been so stubborn:
No matter how famous it is, the things you shoot must be appropriate.
"Fast words" means "like human words", at least everyone can understand it.
As a director, the most taboo thing is to play with "feelings". If a director who has always been good at art films is considered to be familiar with filming, it doesn't seem so strange. However, if a director of a commercial film has money and fame and plays with feelings, the result may often be disastrous.
For example, Hu Jinquan master, I started calling him a "master" because he deserved it.
When he was young, Hu Jinquan looked handsome and also made a guest appearance in " The Drunken Hero ". His performance was vivid. If he became an actor, he would not have to worry about having no food. Of course, if that were the case, the Chinese film industry would lose a big director.
This is a qualifying of Hu Jinquan's artistic tone throughout his life. Therefore, this article is mainly regretful for him, which not only regrets the failure of a work, but also regrets his lack of place for his feelings as a director.
As a half-baked writer who has always been unproactive, unproactive, and unrejected, I try to keep any work objective as much as possible. A film and television drama cannot be without flaws, so criticism should be pertinent and praise should be conservative. I am really sorry for the movie "Yin and Yang Dharma King" which was not popular at the time and is now limited to "ancient legends". Because it is the last work of Master Hu Jinquan, it is also an alternative interpretation of the rural monsters, and it is also the loss of a Chinese hometown.
is like a deep dream where the clouds return, and also like the ruins singing the way home.
: Called Wang Sheng, wearing a mask, acting like a person
"Yin and Yang Dharma King" was released in 1992, exactly thirty years ago.
Even if the director is Hu Jinquan, this movie has some remarkable points. For example, the familiar opening song "Picking the Stars in the Sky", at that time, Zheng Shaoqiu was in the prime of elegance. Unlike the current "female-like" style, they are really handsome and quite elegant, with the elegance of ancient Chinese handsome men, with sword-browed eyebrows and starry eyes, tall figure, half high and half elegant, and no makeup or crazy.
After all, we don’t bother to be “political correct”. I just say sissy, without any ambiguity at all, and I am not afraid of offending others. The old saying goes, those things in the years are all "rabbit masters", they are all "objects" for the greasy masters and playboys in wealthy families. I really appreciate men like Qiuguan . Once I stand there, I know that "this young man is not an ordinary person."
Therefore, Zheng Shaoqiu has dominated the screen for nearly 20 years and has played a fairy man in his seventies. The audience still praised him as a "romantic person". When he was the most popular, as long as the words "Zheng Shaoqiu" were hung in the TV series, the big girls and wives in the streets rushed to the TV like cavalry charges to watch him. If someone wants to change the station, he must accept a wave of domestic violence, which is a true existence like "April in the world, Taibai Xian in the sky".
However, in "Yin and Yang Dharma King", Adam Cheng's character position is a bit "weird" -
Wang Sheng, who appears as a LOSER. This person has a way of having fun and making money and behave well. Ten minutes into the opening, the madam (now called Nightclub Mommy) spat behind him: "Bah! You can make money by saying a big deal!" He listened, but he had no choice but to push the door out.
Then he ate noodles late at night and met the old Taoist priest who teased him (wuma ), met You Erjie who escaped from the ghost (Wang Zuxian ), and saw Zhang Daoling who kindly persuaded him during the day (Liu Xun ). He could also see the characteristics of "Wang Sheng" in his conversation with these characters:
philistine, shrewd, timid and lustful. And he was a mortal from beginning to end, without the halo of the protagonist. This character is quite rare in Chinese-language movies. In the whole movie, Wang Sheng was a "learning loser" when he was "a man" and "a ghost" (occupied by the Yin-Yang Dharma King), "Wang Sheng was also a "learning villain".
can only be said to be useless to Zheng Shaoqiu's good face, but it fulfilled Hu Jinquan's sense of artistic. He has "attempts", which will be mentioned later.
"Yin and Yang Dharma King" is based on a household name "Painted Skin" in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". When filming this movie, Joey Wong was also used for commercial reasons. The 1988 " Chinese Ghost Story " made mainland audiences recognize the charm of this tall and beautiful girl at one time. Then, Hong Kong film colleagues filmed two or three movies in one breath, and used their urinary nature to carry some "private goods" in the sequel. Now it seems that they are still wonderful and have the opportunity to dig a hole and talk about these great "borrowing ghosts and talking about people".
Let me say that, Joey Wong was not outstanding in this movie when she was the most popular back then. Although she was as graceful as Adam Cheng, she still became the "group star" in Hu Jinquan's eyes.
Also becoming the "group star" is not only the male and female protagonists, but also the "Taiyi Master" played by Sammo Hung and the "Ziyi Real Person" played by Lin Zhengying.
Singing: It's called Hu Lang, it's hard for overseas wanderers to see their hometown
So what story does "Yin and Yang Dharma King" tell? Let so many handsome men and beautiful women of the time run away?
On the surface, it is nothing more than -
The scholar met his mother's demon at night, and his lustful heart made the Rakshasa.
Who knew that the Demon King returned to the world and compensated his wife and he also paid for his health.
You girl asks for the gods and wants to reincarnate, and Taoist priests accompany them to tie up and swipe their rankings.
Dragons compete for the tigers and fight against the yin and yang road, and the beauty finally becomes the immortal in the painting.
Hu Jinquan has a lot to express, and as a result, this caused confusion in thinking after watching, because his emotions are too many and too deep, and it is not something that a movie with only ninety minutes can explain.
I see the online information has an analysis. At that time, Hu Jinquan wanted to express his own sadness as a "whether he is a Chinese" through the wandering souls controlled by the Yin-Yang Dharma King, and his role setting for "Wang Sheng", and also expressed his whip of the evils of the sour literati in Chinese culture. Of course, this has the special nature of his era, and it also has the feeling of looking back at his origin after success and fame.
The original film has been more than two hours, because of all kinds of strange misunderstandings and contradictions, it was cut into a work that everyone looked very boring. But I don’t think this is a reason to “pass the blame”, and he has never talked about this movie in any public occasions later, which shows that he also knows very well in his heart that it is indeed a pity for “Yin and Yang Dharma King”.
I want to praise him for this. After all, the master is a master. Unlike others, they have to insist that they can "understand" in the future. Because if you are wrong, you are wrong, and if you are not good, you are not good.
Overall, the biggest criticism that "Yin and Yang Dharma King" has made ordinary audiences is not the boring story or the lack of appearance. But it is "not good-looking, not fun". The story has no educational significance. You say, "You can't be too lustful in life." Instead, the female ghost asked the Taoist priests to fight with the King of Dharma to save Wang Sheng. You say, "The fighting scene is very exciting." Sammo Hung and Lam Zhengying also had several trips in vain.As for Mr. Wu Ma, the senior brother of "Zhang Daoling" who was killed by the Dharma King in the first wave, I wonder if I would lament when I was receiving the lunch box:
Xiaoqian, go and say to Ning Caichen , we Yan Chixia fell into the special effects this time...
pair, no special effects! The action design is also very awkward.
This movie inherits Hu Jinquan's traditional martial arts style in martial arts. The movements are not fancy, and only use wires but not emotions. But you should know that the Tsui Hark next door had already learned to use the "50 cent special effects" at that time.
It was 1992 at that time, and the audience voted with vision. This voting method also made "Avatar" a benchmark in a few years.
After all, "Playing acrobatics is playing acrobatics, and practicing martial arts is practicing martial arts. You have to play acrobatics and practicing martial arts" (the phrase comes from "Sword Rain", which will be discussed in the future). It will definitely make the audience ignore the intentions of the director and screenwriter (The screenwriter of "Yin and Yang Dharma King" is Acheng, and I have also said the representative work "Chess King"). Even if the feelings are deep, the audience will not buy it without a good story or good expression. This tendency will become more and more obvious in the Chinese-language film industry in the future.
What can make people think of is Hu Jinquan's unique picture beauty, and as a master of Ming Dynasty, his intention to character costumes, props and sets in the movie.
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"The song is high and the little", it has always been a choice that people who play commercial art should have.
"Yin and Yang Dharma King" is a very special commercial film, worthy of research and reflection.
It has many regrets. You said that the director did not take care of him, so he must have wronged him. Master Hu Jinquan also wrote a song "Yin and Yang Dharma King" in this movie. After so many years, I still clearly remember the domineering spirit of this great ghost king when he appeared:
"Cultivate for thousands of years, with high magic power. I am - neither human nor ghost, neither god nor immortal, nor Buddha, In this Yin-Yang Realm - I am acclaimed king."
In addition, the genius Mr. Huang Zheng also presented "Picking Stars" and "Love", plus the full live shooting, and was filmed in Datong, Shanxi, Wutaishan and Beijing Film Studio . Therefore, just looking at artistic quality, "Yin-Yang Dharma King" is a pity, lamentable, annoying, and pathetic.
"Longmen Inn" speaks a new word, and "Legend in the Mountain" has a new chapter.
It belongs to the aesthetic end of a generation of filmmakers and is also the grand appearance of the next generation of filmmakers. Those who took over were named Tsui Hark and "Tsui Hark".
As a master of a generation of Chinese films, Mr. Hu Jinquan has been around forever. The turbulent and turbulent era he lived in also became a history that people may remember or forget through his works.
"Yin and Yang Dharma King" is the first time Hu Jinquan went to the mainland to shoot, and it was also his last time. On January 14, 1997, after the release of "Yin and Yang Dharma King", Mr. Hu Jinquan passed away at the age of 65. After all, he didn't see the day of his return, and the movie became his last work.
There are so many regrets about this movie, but in the eyes of an audience who has seen the changes of the times, it is still full of respect for a master, or a Chinese filmmaker:
Dead Yuanzhi everything is empty, but sadness cannot see the same thing as Jiuzhou.
The day when the king's army settles in the Central Plains, family sacrifices Don't forget to tell my husband.
—"Shier " Lu You
Time enters 2022 (old transitions), Master Hu Jinquan passed away, Master Lin Zhengying was at the end of the zombie film, and Mr. Wu Ma also went to heaven to continue to protect "Ning Caichen". Many of the fantasy dreams that were once imaginative are now over.
If you ask, "What kind of unreliable is unreliable than unreliable than unreliable?", then I may say, "Not reliable than unreliable than unreliable is the unreliable that 'everyone will understand' in the future'."
As for later generations, how should we maintain a kind of remembrance and inheritance of our ancestors?
Maybe it should be like Aaron Ancestor's dream in "Picking the Stars":
I want to swear to embrace the beauty and pick the stars in the sky.
The new year is here.
hope, encourage each other.
