"Ring competition" has always been a popular theme in screen stories. Whether it is the martial arts competition in Chinese movies or European and American boxing competitions, similar stories have long shots. However, the most dramatic ring competition in the author's memory is not a fictional movie story, but a ring competition between boxing champion Ali and Japanese wrestler Pig Trojan in real life. The two different fighting skills did not spark in the ring, but a nearly farce you hit yours and I hit mine... Decades have passed, and the competition of alien fighting skills is no longer an entertainment farce, but a professional formal competition. The competition arena also turned into an iron cage, and the so-called "entering the iron cage" means going to the ring.
The movie "Fight" is actually a growth story. The two brothers, "Zhao Ji" and the younger brother "Diantu", were adopted by the hospital worker Lei Sir but fell into the streets. The three had to defect to Master Lei's wife and moved into her boxing gym. When he grew up, he participated in big and small competitions and scored many unbeaten records, with the goal of participating in professional alien fighting skills (MMA) competitions. Diantu is unwilling to learn and is keen on participating in underground boxing competitions and becoming its "bad boy friend" online. The two brothers turned against each other because of the underground boxing match, until their brother successfully entered the professional match, but they were knocked down within twenty seconds after entering the iron cage for the first time. In order to protect the growing boxing gym, the younger brother was forced to play in the competition instead of his brother. In addition to hard training, he also relies on the sixth sense of fighting with talent. The so-called "precision is better than ability, and timing exceeds speed"...
inspiration comes from the real boxer
The inspiration for the creation of this movie was inspired by a boxer in real life. The person even appeared in the play, but the growth story of the two brothers is thousands of miles apart. Whether it is the life of an orphanage in childhood (can the yard workers who don’t even have a residence to adopt two children?), or imitating the classic settings of ancient and modern arenas such as "Rocky" and "Fierce Fight", low-level small characters (one of the two brothers does transportation, the other is a courier) who trains and challenges their opponents in amateur training and professional teams, they are all the Hong Kong films , thin, and even a few main characters don’t take any shots to portray them.
This movie is carefully managed by the fighting itself. The male and female protagonists Ma Zhiwei, Lin Yaosheng and Yang Liuqing trained a body of muscles (although they are still a distance from Nick Cheung's steel bar figure in "The Fierce Battle"), and various preparations before the game, eternal pound reduction problem. How can you pass the pound reduction by "dehydration" at the last moment if you fail to lose pound reduction? It is said that the honest accumulating skills are also part of the competition. It is difficult for both sides to attract the audience when they are polite, so from Alibaba, there are many boxing champions . As for professional wrestling competitions, it is also normal for players to play the role of good people and bad people. Diantu did not forget the fans of Entertainment Online during the game... In short, the director worked hard to present the "entertainment" side of the fighting game, not just how to knock down the opponent on the court.
action scenes and enough homework
But "Fighting" is still a movie that focuses on martial arts. In addition to the Western boxing practiced by the two brothers since childhood, the movie actually focuses on presenting the fighting technique of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu . On the one hand, in addition to knocking down opponents with punches and feet, using Jiu-jitsu to lock and cut off opponents is also a way to win the game, which is part of the highlight. On the other hand, the male and female protagonists put the jiujitsu tricks on their lips, becoming the material for the couple to make fun of each other. In the end, they have to add an extra scene outside the main plot to let the heroine show the jiujitsu sport, making the whole movie look like the of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu put into advertisements. This kind of treatment reminds people of Zhang Che's movie back then, which would give a boxing performance that had nothing to do with the plot at the beginning.
In addition to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and the entire alien fighting skills, including the Japanese "Shu Dou" and other competitions, this movie actually reminds people of the style of traditional Hong Kong films. The story may have many unclear scenes and details, but the action scenes are handed over to the homework and captures some grassroots attitudes of life (rejecting people from tobacco and alcohol, rather than Puritan Spartan training).In recent years, the new directors have worked hard to portray the weak and have something to say, and among the love sketches of young literary youths, "Fighting Bar" directed by Chen Yiheng is dominated by action, but the attitude of seeking pleasure seems to be of a different interest.