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Have you seen " Embroidered Spring Knife 2"?
Today we are pushing a review about "The Embroidered Spring Sword 2", which may be more than the reviews.
Japanese swords fight against the embroidered spring sword
There is such a plot in "Embroidered Spring Sword 2", Zhang Zhen and Xin Zhilei master and apprentice fight in the bamboo forest, Zhang Zhen threw away the two apprentices with a feint attack and slashed at Xin Zhilei with a horizontal knife.
At this time, Xin Zhilei was caught off guard, drew her sword and drew a circle on Zhang Zhen's Xiuchun Sword, and then slashed her backhand, and Zhang Zhen's Xiuchun Sword broke to the ground.
Zhang Zhen muttered: Japanese sword technique, the descendant of the Qi family army?
Bamboo forest, Japanese sword, Qi family army, we immediately thought of Hu Jinquan . In the "Loyalty and Martyrdom" more than 40 years ago, director Hu filmed the story of Qi family army.
Hu Jinquan, this is also the beginning of this article today.
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The Grandmaster Hu Jinquan
Speaking of martial arts movies, we must mention Hu Jinquan. It can be said that he was the first person to introduce political forces into martial arts movies. He not only influenced Tsui Hark, but also influenced "Embroidered Chun Dao".
Tsui Hark once dreamed of a great man, so he decided to start filming "The Unbeaten of the East"
"Shura Battlefield" is the same, "The Ming Dynasty will not perish by bandits, but by factory guards"
How powerful is Hu Jinquan? This is probably indescribable in one sentence. In short, he is the most culturally profound martial arts film master.
To give a simple example, in 1974, Hu Jinquan discovered that there was something wrong with an article about Lao She in the Ming Pao Monthly. The editor-in-chief Hu Juren said to him, "It's better to write it." So he began to study Lao She, traveling to libraries such as Stanford, Harvard, and London. He accidentally became an "Lao She expert" and published the book "Lao She and His Works".
He was also the first Chinese director to win an award in Cannes. Later, Ang Lee filmed "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Jia Zhangke filmed "Destiny", which directly said that he was paying tribute to Hu Jinquan.
Hu Jinquan brought Xu Feng to Cannes with the movie "Hello Girl". Later, Xu Feng met Chen Kaige in Cannes and bought Li Bihua's "Farewell My Concubine"
Li Ang once said in an interview that he liked watching " Drunk Hero "
Hu Jinquan has three contributions to martial arts films. is the battle between the temple, the historical textual research, and the sublimation of thought.
The battle between temples
The first one has a great influence. Hu Jinquan likes to talk about the temple and the world, which is the pursuit of intellectuals in that era.
In his first martial arts film "The Drunken Hero", you can find this tendency: the officials arrest bandits, and the bandits arrest officials, and they are having a lot of fun.
and later rose to direct confrontation to "Longmen Inn", you will find that the so-called Jianghu has a completely inseparable relationship with the temple.
Such ideas directly affected Tsui Hark. In addition to the remake of "New Longmen Inn", the most important thing is the family and country justice of "Huang Feihong".
martial arts film The technique of "judging the height of the temple by the distance of the world" continued to "Embroidered Chunjian 2".
The protagonist of "The Embroidered Spring Sword" is Shen Lian . In the first part, he is a fighter, and in the second part, he becomes a pawn - Shen Lian and Pei Lun, who are Jinyiwei, do not participate in politics, but are deeply trapped in the political whirlpool.
Lu Wenzhao is also an important character. The defeat in the Battle of Sarsh made him proposing "change his way of living", so in "Embroidered Chunsword 2", he became the leader of King Xin.
However, in front of the "Thousand Faces Man" Xinwang, whether it is Hokage , Guo Zhen or him, they can only become abandoned sons.
small blackboard
Jinyiwei
00 The spy organization unique to the Ming Dynasty was directly responsible to the emperor, which was equivalent to a secret policeman, or the imperial guard agency.
In fact, the functions of the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang West Factory are similar, but because the emperor is afraid of being the only one power, the three are in a mutual restraint relationship, especially the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei, which have been fighting for many years. However, given the emperor's favor for the eunuchs, the actual power is still greater in the Dongchang, especially when Wei Zhongxian's power is at its peak, the Jinyiwei can only serve as a foil.
Simply put, that is, the "007" or "Gestapo" of the Ming Dynasty
historical textual research
historical textual research can be said to be the most prominent feature of Hu Jinquan. He is praised, but unfortunately there is no successor.
How important is he to make movies?
For example, he would seriously study the price level at that time, how much does a brush cost, and how much does a tea cost.
Even when filming "Longmen Inn", he went to the Taipei Museum to study "Police Picture" and "Planning Picture", and then thought for a long time: No one has seen this thing, what should it look like?
of his , director Zhang Che , is famous for "just be good-looking, unnecessary over-examination", but Hu Jinquan has been harsh in detail. When Shi Jun was performing " Legend in the Mountains", the character asked to carry a backpack with him. Director Hu Jinquan repeatedly verified it and finally obtained the material from the "Xuanzang's Sutra" exhibited at the Palace Museum to complete the design.
is this bamboo basket, does it look familiar?
Later it appeared in Cheng Xiaodong 's "A Chinese Ghost Story"...
with a stupid and cute brother
No wonder Ye Jintian later said that Hu Jinquan's movie is an inexhaustible treasure.
Philosophical thoughts
As for ideological sublimation, it is actually his philosophical thoughts. This idea starts from "The Legend of the Mountain" and reaches its peak.
Confucian hero + ethereal aesthetics + Buddhist Zen
To be honest, when we watch " Assassin Nie Yinniang " by Hou Hsiao-hyun , we always think of Hu Jinquan. The biggest reason is also because of those two "mountain" works.
They invisibly incorporate culture, history, and philosophical ideas into the movies, which can make their peers look up to.
But in fact, there are very few directors who can do this, until in "The Embroidered Spring Sword 2", we saw an attempt by director Lu Yang .
Human nature, power struggle, love in crisis, thousands of sails pass by, seek but not get... The connotation of the film is more than imagined
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6 Hu Jinquan influenced "Embroidered Chunjian 2"
said Hu Jinquan was also to say "Embroidered Chunjian 2". In addition to the bamboo forest war mentioned above, there are also direct inherited flying fish suits and embroidered Chunjian.
It can be said that the popular Jinyiwei was first brought to the screen by Hu Jinquan, and once it was formed, it has never been changed.
For example, flying fish clothes with embroidered spring knife, such as the Japanese sword (Japanese sword) that was used in large quantities at the end, many of the premises of "Embroidered Spring Sword 2" were first verified by Hu Jinquan.
even has a story, that is, the battle between the temple, which directly carried forward Hu Jinquan's political martial arts.
In Hu Jinquan's "Longmen Inn", the main line is Dongchang chasing the descendants of Yu Qian, and in "The Heroes", the secret line is Dongchang chasing the descendants of Yang Lian, and the pursuit of Zhongliang's descendants is Hu Jinquan's interest.
And in "The Emoticon 2", like "The Heroes", the descendants of the Donglin Party played by Yang Mi were chased by various people.
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That year, the two factions made contributions and were highly valued. In the following four years, the two factions gradually expanded, and the Donglin Party took the opportunity to eliminate opponents such as the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party, and Wei Zhongxian became increasingly prosperous under the trust of the emperor.
But in fact, the emperor was always dissatisfied with the Donglin Party's practice of making noises all day long. So when the Donglin Party members drove all their firepower to Wei Zhongxian, the emperor let Wei Zhongxian deal with it himself, so there were many spies and completely defeated the Donglin Party's camp. In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lian was killed by the Jinyiwei with an iron nail, which ended with the failure of the Donglin Party.
Under such premise, the rivers and lakes and temples will be integrated, and only then can people truly feel the powerlessness of ordinary people under political forces.
But obviously, although "Embroidered Chunjian 2" was born from Hu Jinquan and you can see many shadows of his predecessors, compared with Hu Jinquan's intellectual optimism, Lu Yang is much more pessimistic.
Because of this pessimism, he created the "Impermanence Book" and undoubtedly showed the ruthlessness of the secret service.
Chen Junsheng, why don’t you hand over the Book of Impermanence?
Because of this pessimism, he pays more attention to human nature. Whether it is Shen Lian or Pei Lu, whether it is Xin Wang or Lu Wenzhao, his personality is quite three-dimensional in this movie.
It is precisely because of pessimism that the sense of fate of ants in "The Embroidered Spring Sword 2" is so strong that it makes people almost desperate.
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Martial arts films cannot disappear just like this
It can be said that since Tsui Hark began to tinker with the weird and weird things, basically no one has filmed martial arts films.
Remember which movie this is from?
Further afield, since Tsui Hark's "Sword" failed in the box office, martial arts films have been in a slump due to various reasons.
When martial arts action wonders can no longer attract people, that world as simple as a fairy tale will attract less and less attention to the audience.
In recent years, there are only three martial arts films worth paying attention to, one is " Sword Rain ", one is "Assassin Nie Yinniang", and the other is "Embroidered Chunjian".
But unfortunately, the box office of these three movies was not so satisfactory.
Whether "Embroidered Spring Sword 2" will save the martial arts movies is hard to say, but undoubtedly, this is a direction for martial arts movies.
The so-called direction is not to infinitely amplify the "teathing" and political colors of martial arts, but to attach another set of background to the cloak of martial arts.
The foundation can be politics, culture, or human nature -
A person is caught in a crisis due to an accident. Behind the crisis is political power and a love story is incorporated into... From this dimension, the story of "The Embroidered Spring Sword 2" can also be said to be the best martial arts films in recent years.
After all, as a unique type of Chinese movies, no one wants it to disappear.
Because of this, we are willing to give Lu Yang more expectations and applause to "Embroidered Chunjian 2".
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