Phenomenal film and television works in the 1980s, apart from "Journey to the West" and "Dream of Red Mansions", the movie "Shaolin Temple" should be mentioned. This is the first color widescreen action movie in China. It cost about 2 million yuan. After it was released, it sold more than 100 million yuan at the box office for a dime, making it a sensation.
Regarding this figure, many people feel that there is an exaggeration and beautification element, and questioned: At that time, the population was not as large as it is now, and rural people accounted for the majority. Is there really so much movie viewing? Questions like
are generally raised by posterity, and the middle-aged people who have experienced that era just smiled:
"Go back and ask your dad."
"Shaolin Temple" is a myth in the history of movies. The movie
is very simple. It tells the story of the young tiger's father being killed by the bully Wang Renze, and he managed to escape and seek refuge in Shaolin. He saved the shepherdess and Li Shimin, and then studied martial arts assiduously, finally uniting the stick monk to defeat Wang Renze and avenge his father. .
However, there are still many stories behind the movie. It is hard to imagine that we could make such a movie under the difficult shooting conditions at the time. Zhang Xinyan, director of
, is a temporary rescue. Before his director, Chen Wen, he used the actors of the He Nanjing Opera Troupe. He has already filmed a section, but the production company is not satisfied. Zhang Xinyan removed the original actor as soon as he came on stage.
does not have martial arts actor . I recruited from the "Wulin": Jet Li of the Beijing Wushu Team, Yu Chenghui, King of Shandong Drunken Sword and Two-Handed Sword, Yu Hai, Mantis Boxing King, Ji Chunhua, Zhejiang Bald Eagle Claw, Ma Xianda, Shaanxi eighth-class heir, Henan Yu Opera sword Ma Dan Dinglan...
Only more than 30 actors were found, each playing five or six roles. Most of them have never acted in a movie, and they don't even understand the performance, let alone the sense of the camera. The daily director just clenched his fist: "Look here!"
has no martial arts instructor, so the actors rely on their own design. Once the director designed the plot of Sekong's drunken stick according to the story, but the actor Sun Jianhuai of Sekong has never played a stick!
don't care, design your own in the afternoon and start shooting at night. After hearing this, Sun Jianhuai thought about it by himself, and took pictures over and over again at night. There were 48 NGs. The last two arms couldn't move. Other actors took him back to the guest house.
This is not to blame the director. At that time, there was no monitor. The director could only judge the effect of the filming by feeling. Sometimes the director could not say that it was good, so he could only hold two words:
"reserved."
so one It is common for action shots to take ten or eight.
has no special effects. So actors can only do real work. What if
can't ride a horse? learn! Horse resources are limited. Honest horses will not run, and horses that can run cannot be tamed. In addition, does not have protective gear and . Many actors have fallen off their horses and their fractures are considered small. The most dangerous thing about
is the "horse trouble" encountered by the master actor Yu Hai. At that time, the horse did not listen to his orders and ran desperately into the woods. It was about to hit the tree. Fortunately, Yu Hai stretched out his left hand to the tree trunk and grabbed the back Jump on the ground. Rao was so, his left arm also fractured.
is such a "poor crew", it may not be able to achieve anything today, but at that time the people were all honest! Everyone is not doing it for utilitarianism. In fact, actors are not paid high, and Jet Li only costs one dollar a day.
Everyone wants to promote Chinese martial arts, hardship is nothing, so some actors wear bandages to act, and some actors have to leave the crew because of a ruptured Achilles tendon.
If today's audiences look at this movie from the current point of view, they may be able to find out many shortcomings of this kind, but in the past, this was a good movie, a good movie approaching full marks. In this movie, you can see martial arts and sincerity.
Of course, some people will criticize this movie today, partly because of the "bad influence" caused by "Shaolin Temple". At that time, many teenagers learned martial arts because of this, and there was even a wave of "running away from home".
Wang Baoqiang was inspired to go to Shaolin to learn martial arts because he watched "Shaolin Temple". However, like him, he became famous for acting in movies later, and he was more of a enthusiastic teenager who plunged into martial arts school and later delayed his youth.
In 2014, in the program "A Beautiful Chinese", 51-year-old Jet Li mentioned this guilt and regretted it:
"ActuallyI started to blame myself after I was 30 years old. Why did I make this movie? I misled how many teenagers to learn martial arts. They still haven't figured out what martial arts is. "
, especially when he heard that a contestant was learning martial arts, he was always dragged into a group fight by someone with ulterior motives. He sighed and waved his hands.
Actually, "Shaolin Temple" was a product of the times and had nothing to do with Jet Li personally. Without Jet Li, " "Shaolin Temple" will also find a male protagonist to complete the play. Later, Jet Li might have understood a lot by himself. He began to say that it was a pity, but no regrets.
"Shaolin Temple" is a phenomenal film. The sensation and influence it caused at the time may not even be expected by the director. After more than 30 years, this movie has become a “classic.” If you look at this movie from a classic perspective, you may find more There are so many wonderful things.
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