Some people say that Bruce Lee is the pinnacle of Chinese action movies. What
is true! To a certain extent, Bruce Lee represents the splendor of kung fu movies, or he gained fame in Hollywood, or starred in "Dragon Fighting Tiger" at the global box office of more than 200 million US dollars, or wrote the word kung fu into the world dictionary. Bruce Lee can be regarded as a pioneer in making kung fu movies truly international.
In fact, Bruce Lee's contribution to kung fu movies is mostly in influence.
Of course, this does not mean that Bruce Lee action movies are flashy. On the contrary, Bruce Lee's martial arts are too practical. The goal is to win in actual combat. This also leads to the real martial arts competition in "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Dragon Fighting Tiger", but watching Sexually it is not stimulating.
Therefore, Bruce Lee is not so much an actor as a martial artist.
In the Chinese language range, it is truly visually impactful, admirable, violent, brutal, and thrilling action movie, except for "Jingwu Hero", it will be "Slaying the Wolf"!
believe that action movie lovers are no strangers to "Slaying the Wolf".
is a monument to Chinese-language action movies, a revival of Hong Kong movies, and a real masterpiece of Donnie Yen. The significance of "Slaying the Wolf" is not only to bring the sluggish Hong Kong movie to life, but also to popularize Donnie Yen and Wu Jing. It is for the world to see that the best kung fu movies will only appear in China!
, you must know that Chinese Kung Fu movies have been looked down upon before.
It is undeniable that action movies were only Chinese specialties at the beginning, or Bruce Lee created the prosperous era of action movies, or Jackie Chan and Jet Li continued the glory of action movies. Action movies have always been Chinese "patents". But in the 21st century, as Thailand’s Tonija gained fame, he relied on the fist-fighting and passionate Muay Thai in "Boxing Fighter" and "Tom Yum Kung" to arouse heated discussions.
So far, it seems that action movies are no longer unique to Chinese.
indeed, Chinese-language action movies were languishing in that era.
In the 21st century, Jackie Chan's "vaudeville" performance of changing soups without changing medicines made the public aesthetic tired, and Jet Li, who created "Huang Feihong" and "Jing Wu Hero", is deliberately transforming. So far, Chinese-language action movies have faced not only the faults in the action actors, but also the difficulty in the way of action movies.
is difficult to innovate because of the fact that action movies Wuzhi will always be just those few.
or Chengjiaban, Hongjiaban, Cheng Xiaodong, Yuan Heping, although these action bosses were smash hits in the 1980s and 1990s, they created classics such as "New Dragon Inn" and "Drunken Boxing", but they still do this in the new era. In the action design, it continues to uphold the routine performance of flying over the wall and seeing tricks.
is doomed, and the future of Chinese-language action movies will be bleak!
is also this time, "Slaying the Wolf" is like a bomb.
"Slaying the Wolf" is a police action film directed by Ye Weixin and starred by Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Ren Dahua, Wu Jing, etc. The film tells about the retiring inspector Chen Guozhong, and the underworld boss Wang Bao and the new inspector Ma Jun are full of fate Duel. In the
movie, Chen Guozhong (Ren Dahua) is a terminally ill police officer. He received the task of guarding the daughter of a witness. Inspector Ma Jun (Yen Zidan) is an extraordinary martial artist. He has justice in his heart and always wants to punish him. Raise evil and maintain peace.
The underworld big brother Bao Ye (Sambo Hung) is cruel, this time in order to destroy the witnesses, he even made an enemy of the superintendent. In this case, the war between the two sides is about to start.
sounds like the plot of "Slaying the Wolf" is still clichéd, but in fact, in addition to the exciting action scenes, the theme of this film is more than previous commercial crime films.
First talk about the title, what does "Slaying the Wolf" mean?
The so-called "killing the wolf" is actually an interpretation of Feng Shui, while the interpretation of "killing", "breaking", and "wolf" refers to the three stars of the seven kills, the broken army, and the wolf greedy. This comes from Ziwei Doushu, in the Book of Changes There is also a record in Feng Shui, and in Feng Shui, all people have seven kills, breaking the army, and three stars in the greed of the wolf.
In numerology, seven kills, greedy wolves, and breaking the army are in the life palace. The three parties and four are in the palace. This is the so-called "kill, break, wolf" pattern, which indicates turmoil and change!
can kill the wolf like the lone star of the gods, bothIt is a "death" pattern, and this also indicates that the movie "Slaying the Wolf" is also centered on the theme of cause and effect, telling the fight against fate.
In the film, the good and evil sides are always competing with the fate, constantly changing and disputing, but even so, the ending of the film is like breaking the wolf pattern, full of powerlessness that is difficult to break away.
Of course, the most exciting movie is Donnie Yen's temptation in action scenes. From the beginning of
, Donnie Yen was only a member of the Yuan family class. He only appeared as a supporting role under Yuan Heping, but as he continued to study action movies, he had a martial arts foundation and became an action instructor.
"Slaying the Wolf" is the work that best demonstrates his martial arts philosophy. The most important thing about Yen Zidan in this film is to abandon the "coercive feeling" of previous action movies.
In order to make "Slaying the Wolf" more exciting, he deliberately combined his good taekwondo with Chinese martial arts, and designed cool bridges for the docking of cold weapons such as grappling, wrestling, swinging sticks and daggers. And this makes the film action scenes not only clean and sharp, but also full of actual combat rigor. The three scenes in the film of
are enough to illustrate this wonderfulness.
in which the street fighting scene can be called a peak in an action movie.
It can be said that in this clip, Donnie Yen has brought his personal style to the extreme. In the few minutes of fighting between Donnie Yen and Wu Jing,
not only combines Jujutu (the predecessor of Judo), wrestling, and grappling, but also has many ideas for impromptu duel! Generally speaking, in this kind of close-range fighting situation, the actors must first perform tricks, so as not only to ensure the smoothness of the action, but also to ensure the safety of the actors during shooting.
actually came to the scene to shoot. When Wu Jing and Donnie Yen two actors with profound skills collided with each other, the show code of the duel was not only a trick but also an impromptu duel between the two!
and this also made the duel scene even more surprising and full of unknowns.
In addition, Wu Jing's killing bridge is also very addictive.
In the film, Wu Jing can be said to fully interpret the tyranny of the role, especially in the second half of Wu Jing's killing at night, wiping the neck, breaking the bone, or bleeding, basically inhuman means.
is this kind of perverted method. When the audience feels scalp numb, they are even more impressed by the role played by Wu Jing, because he is a desperate and a bloodthirsty martial idiot!
Of course, in the final match between Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung, it is also unique.
In fact, this clip can also be understood as a heritage of action movies. For a long time, Hong Kong action movies have been controlled by members of the five small fortunes such as the Hong Family Class and the Married Family Class. However, in the new century, when the audience's aesthetic shifts, Yen Zidan's swift and violent movements are more in line with modern aesthetics.
So this showdown also heralded the impact of Yen Zidan on the big brother.
Of course, in reality, Donnie Yen succeeded in becoming a new generation of "big guy"
, but in the movie, Donnie Yen could not escape the fate of killing the wolf! Perhaps the ending that many viewers have seen in China is that Donnie Yen avenged his friend and finally knocked Sammo Hung to the ground.
But in fact, what you see is only a cut version! In the original ending of
, Sammo Hung awoke and threw Donnie Yen out of the window while he was unprepared. As a result, Donnie Yen smashed into the car and died on the spot, but because the mainland believes in good and good rewards.
So the ending was modified until Sammo Hung was knocked out and ended in a scribbled way.
is actually more in line with the theme of "Slaying the Wolf".
Just as after Donnie Yen was smashed to death, Sammo Hung discovered that Donnie Yen had hit his car, and his wife and children in his car were also killed. This seemingly dark ending is also reflecting the core theme of "Slaying the Wolf".
That is the causal cycle, everything is destiny.
No matter how you contend, you will never escape this ending!
