once again saw cyclists flying around on the screen, almost 20 years have passed.
In 2007, when I was still in my third year of high school, there was a rotten online novel hidden in my classmate's desk. Its cover is a dragon with two characters: Zhu Xian.
There is not much left in my memory of "Zhu Xian". The deepest thing in my memory is the skill of the cultivator of flying sword.
A sword is a flying machine, standing on it, you can come and go freely in the air.
time goes back to 2001, which was the year "Shushan Biography" was released. On the TV station in my hometown, I saw for the first time that people can fly across the sky like meteors, with a long trail behind them.
If you look back, in 1983, the predecessor of "Shushan", "Shushan".
A white ribbon floated out, and Lin Qingxia, like a flying sky on a Dunhuang mural, came by the wind. Sitting on a high platform, she was so beautiful that she was not human.
and sitting opposite her on the other side is the official Qiu Guan of that year.
dressed as a Taoist priest, youthful and personable.
It is often said that Chinese people have no imagination, they only look back, not forward, so they cannot make good science fiction films. In fact, whether the Chinese have imagination or not, the answer will be answered by watching a type of movie. Movies like
are fairy movies.
If kung fu movies belong to Bruce Lee’s ancient Roman arena, and martial arts movies belong to Hu Jinquan’s green bamboo sea, then fairy movies belong to Tsui Hark’s heavy mountains and stratus clouds-the first two are on the ground, and only the fairy is in the sky. .
time shifted to 2019, the opening of "Zhu Xian I".
When the Qingyunmen disciples were flying together in the sky, in a daze, I seemed to have seen the age of the fairy fighter flying in the sky again.
must admit that before watching "Zhu Xian I", I came with the idea of watching "The Legend of Shu Mountain" 18 years later.
I recklessly look forward to seeing the magnificence of Xianxia movies again in the cinema-the origins of director Cheng Xiaodong and Tsui Hark, and also give sufficient reason for this expectation.
This expectation was still there until the beginning of the movie, but as the story progressed, I finally discovered that the cyclamen in 2019 had already fallen from the sky to the ground.
"Zhu Xian I" , there are too many things that make me puzzled.
I don’t understand, a group of people who have been practicing for hundreds of years should be a bit of a life-and-death life and death. Why beats bowls and dishes in order to compete for a few pieces of braised pork and zucchini. Is
true temperament? Even if it is, it is the kindergarten-level true temperament.
I don't understand why in the big scene of the Seven Meridians Meeting Martial Arts, the fairies fight, using MMA's tricks to roll in the soil , it is a high match to take a sword.
and in the original book, the fairy contest is described as follows:
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suddenly, blue light flashes, a screaming from far and near, from far and near, from inaudible to rapid increase, until deafening, people can no longer hear anything Sound.
tens of thousands of blue lights, at this moment, they are all integrated into a huge beam of light. Seeing this momentum almost cuts the Qingyun Mountain in half.
Although the film adaptation does not have to follow the original, but let the fairies play wrestling, how do you look? They all seem to be carrying a machete to participate in the interstellar war.
I don't understand why when Lu Xueqi is on the stage, the Qingyunmen Qimai disciples have to hug and hug them like fans, shouting "Lu Xueqi! Lu Xueqi! "I just got a light card in my hand. I don't understand why some transitional passages that should have been passed by have been photographed as the key points. The passage where
Baguio came to steal the fire stick, I knew it after stealing it once. The burning stick will only follow Zhang Xiaofan. If others can’t take it away, they still have to take it over and over again, and hit the wall over and over again, and just saw it for several minutes. What's more terrible for
is: why the same stick-stealing section should be staged in different scenes Two times?
repeating the plot is a big taboo in filming. In the end, Baguio became the second force, and Cheng Xiaodong also announced to the world the exhaustion of his creativity.
I don’t understand, is nothing more than electricityZhang Xiaofan in the movie, from an out-and-out idiot who only knew her secret love for her senior sister, suddenly became a tragic figure who was able to carry the Seven Meridians and wanted to change his fate. There is no turning transition in the middle of
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This is the cause. When Baguio died for him to block the sword (the relationship between the two was cultivated by grabbing the stick), he picked up his lover, and I didn’t believe his sadness at all-in my heart he still Is a fool, where is the affection?
And in my limited memory, Zhang Xiaofan in the original "Zhu Xian I" is just dumb and not stupid. How many people had the tears of his feelings for Baguio?
Let me defend from the standpoint of Xiao Zhan fans: In fact, Xiao Zhan portrayed Zhang Xiaofan very plumply, but his words were all overshadowed by other people's dubbing. We don't even know what Xiao Zhan said!
Hey, it seems to be hacking him (manual dog head).
By the second half of the movie, I don’t have much thoughts to find a slot anymore. I only have one question in my mind:
From "Shushan Biography" to "Zhu Xian I", two fairy films 18 years apart, what are they? Things are changing?
"Shushan Biography", in a strict sense, is not enough for the so-called handed down classics. But Old Monster Xu established his own style of Xianxia film with extremely distinctive film language. This style can be summed up in four words:
is bizarre.
Looking back 18 years later, the special effects are of course more crude, but I still marvel at Tsui Hark’s imagination.
didn't know that much when I was a child. My impression of "The Legend of Shushan" is that the whole film is full of strong colors.
is either red, green, or blue:
The flying sword is written in the book, but it is Tsui Hark’s original creation to turn people into cruise missiles.
The shadow of my childhood up to now is still the little butterfly that can only get into Gu Tianle's mind in "Biography of Shushan".
looks like Lin Xilei, but in fact it is a demon who can manipulate you.
Not only that, but Real Man Emei could make Xuantianzong appear in the air with his own face and speak in his own voice. The technological content of
is very high, at least involving modern technologies such as holographic projection, sound conversion, and delay-free transmission, which may not be realized in the 5G era.
To put it plainly, Tsui Hark is making a science fiction film.
You should find that when I talk about "The Legend of Shushan", my textures instantly increase and the scenes are also enriched a lot. It's really not that I deliberately created a difference, I only blame "The Legend of Shushan" is so flying.
And if I have to use one word to answer all my puzzles about "Zhu Xian I", it should be: soil.
Compared with "The Legend of Shushan", "Zhu Xian I" because of the lack of imagination, the first impression is soil.
, whether it is the old-fashioned bridge, the awkward plot, or the monotonous character setting, makes it eclipsed in front of Mr. Xu and has become a TV drama-level existence.
And Cheng Xiaodong's solution to the lack of imagination is to make "Zhu Xian I" a purely romantic drama.
But the cruel thing is: Even if talks about love, Tsui Hark speaks better.
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is a little bit more spiritual, which means that we are completely connected with each other.
can we always be connected with each other for a thousand years and two thousand years?
This is before the Emei school female disciple Li Yingqi completed the "double sword integration" with her brother Chang Kong Wuji. The two people of
have entrusted each other for life, but they were distracted in the process of merging, which caused the body of Changkong Wuji to be destroyed. The real person
Emei recreated a body with Changkong Wuji’s soul, which was called Lian Xun. He With a bit of memory from his previous life, he can no longer recognize Li Yingqi.
confronts him, what should Li Yingqi think about?
not only love, but also friendship. Gu Tianle's Dan Chenzi is possessed by a demon, and he wants his friend Xuantian Zong killed himself so as not to become a demon again. This scene really made me cry back then:
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It has been agreed that if anyone has become a demon, he cannot be merciful. Although
has been around for a hundred years, it is inevitable to have the last time.
In addition to imagination, the feelings under Tsui Hark's lens are more worthy of thought.
That is the romance of that era.
In contrast, the emotional drama in "Zhu Xian I" is much smaller and weaker.
However, thinking about it, what makes me most sigh is not "18 years later, Xianxia movies have not only lost their imagination, but also lost their sense of romance." The ability of
has reached the upper limit. Since Cheng Xiaodong left Xu Ke, it has been verified many times, and it is not new. What
really makes me sigh is that Tsui Hark has found the right way to shoot Xianxia movies. You can look around, but the incompetent can take over.
Back then, the martial arts film Tsui Hark took over Hu Jinquan's class. Now, who can continue the incense for Xianxia movies?
Cheng Xiaodong, who is only three years younger than Tsui Hark, tried to become that person, but those who have watched "Zhu Xian I" should be able to feel:
looks like a fairy on the surface, but inside is actually the old Hong Kong comedy pattern. The shortcomings of
, rough special effects, symbolic characters, and touching logic, belong to Hong Kong-style comedy; the advantages of
, those small flower jobs that make people shine, such as the setting of the ghost king, the appearance of the four guardians, etc. It is also a Hong Kong-style comedy.
Xianxia is not impossible to be funny, nor is it impossible to do routines, but the pattern of Xianxia must not be the pattern of comedy.
Such as "expensive as a spiritual master, but only responsible for teaching young men and women to flirt and fall in love", such comedy sections are far from worthy of the aura of a fairy.
In my heart, Xianxia film should be an epic belonging to the Chinese, and it is our "Lord of the Rings".
In addition to children’s love, gagging, and fighting for power, fairy movies must have the fairy spirit of "floating like a legacy of independence, emerging as a fairy",
must have a chivalrous spirit for the country, the people, the eyes and the common people, and
must even more. Heaven and earth, my greatest kingly spirit.
However, I sigh, I sigh, there is a comment on the Internet, I agree:
fairy movie is no longer a thing of this era, if it were not for the traffic of Xiao Zhan, "Zhu Xian I" may not be the box office and volume.
In other words, the fairy movie has never reached its peak, but it is doomed to die.
Maybe, this is where I am really disappointed.
