In 1994, Tsui Hark served as the producer, Huang Yuncai, Nan Yan ( Lin Lingdong brother Lin Lingnan ) screenwriter, the martial arts movie " New Burning Red Lotus Temple " directed by Lin Lingdong was released Later, the Hong Kong box office was only 1.81 million Hong Kong dollars. Lin Lingdong said in frustration at that time: "Tsui Hark created a new era of martial arts, but I became the terminator of martial arts movies." After that, Lin Lingdong never set foot in martial arts movies again. New Fire Burning the Red Lotus Temple also became the only martial arts film in his directorial career.
"New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple"
In the Hong Kong director sequence, Lin Lingdong is very special. His films are realistic, violent, violent, messy, dark, treacherous, and full of blood. (" Dragon and Tiger ", " Prison ", " School ", "Holy War ") is the most vivid. In terms of director style, Lin Lingdong is the one who is closest to Wu Yusen. And Woo Yusen at his peak was the one who was closest to the "God of Director" among Hong Kong directors.
"New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" is no exception. The heavy taste, the large scale, and the evil style all have a strong "Lin's" label. Whether it's a hidden weapon mechanism that kills people like cutting vegetables, or the villain's perverted mental and physical double confinement control, it all shows the "evil classic" force that is aloof. To a certain extent, it and the film "Knife" directed by Tsui Hark himself the following year can be called "double gems", one is the evil of the East and the other is the poison of the West. In the torrent of times that are getting worse and worse, even if the golden years of " New Dragon Inn " in 1992 cannot be reproduced, the path of "everything goes too far, everything is crazy" in Hong Kong films, Lin Lingdong and Tsui Hark are stubborn. went black.
Lin Lingdong
Lin Lingdong once recalled that when he filmed "The Red Lotus Temple", he "went to Shanghai and Yinchuan to shoot for a month, and then returned to Shanghai Film Studio ." Lin Lingdong's wife at the time Taking the child to visit the class, while waiting for the bus outside the hotel, Lin Lingdong found his son crawling on the ground and desperately tried to stand up. At that time, Lin Lingdong felt that the rhythm of "working 48 hours a day" should be slowed down, and he "should" Take more time for your family." But then Lin Lingdong did not slow down the rhythm, and still output steadily at the rhythm of one work a year, and even went to Hollywood to collaborate with Shange Winton to film "Extreme Adventure" (also known as "Extreme Adventure") 100% Dangerous"), " Copy Killer " (also known as "Replicant"), "Hell Awakening Dragon" (also known as "Jailbreaker") and other movies. It was not until 2003 that Lin Lingdong stopped. From 2003 to 2015, in the 12 years, except for the movie " Iron Triangle " co-directed with Tsui Hark and To Qifeng in 2007, he has no other works. show.
"New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" is the product of the cooperation between Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Film Studio. Because of the co-production background, the mainland location in "New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" is very vast and vast, and there are many mainland actors. Participating actors include Yang Sheng who plays Hong Xiguan, Lin Quan who plays Cuihe, Wu Xiqian who plays Smart, and Li Ji who plays Jishan. In addition, the film's photographer Gao Ziyi, artist Qu Ranxin and other behind-the-scenes teams are all from Shanghai Film Studio.
"New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" poster
It should be said that in "New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" Lin Lingdong still insists on his consistent strict requirements for film quality, whether it is the six action scenes full of extraordinary imagination (The action guide is Li Jiansheng ), or through the speculations about the system, power, system and resistance explored by the Red Lotus Temple and Shen Gong, in the midst of a violent massacre, "New Burning Red Lotus Temple" still expresses the director's concern for Observation, irony, subversion and reconstruction of destiny, human nature, tradition, morality, etc. In terms of video style, there is Lin Lingdong's usual slanted sword and the desolation and tragic under the control of Tsui Hark, and the atmosphere of Jianghu is extremely strong. In terms of
actors, Ji Tiansheng, who played the leading role of Fang Shiyu in "New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple", was a martial artist in elementary school, and he also played the protagonist Huang Feihong in " Drunken Fist 3". At that time, he and Li Ruotong were both under To Qifeng's Signed artists, the two also fell in love because of the drama "New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple", but later Du DuQi Feng found out that Ji Tiansheng had married and had children in the United States long before signing the contract, and Ji Tiansheng gradually faded out of the entertainment industry. Li Ruotong had not yet starred in "The Condor Heroes" that later made her famous. In 1993, she signed a contract with To Qifeng's company. It is said that she wanted to stay away from Hong Kong because she was in a bad mood. Burning the Red Lotus Temple", in the film, she plays the pure and beautiful heroine Doudou. She is charming and capricious, and her sexy has hidden personality. In addition, she has a beautiful appearance and delicate skin, which is very impressive. Huang Jinjiang , who plays the big villain, once played the anti-No. 1 Golden Gunner in the movie "Domestic Lingling Paint". His acting skills are superb, making the gods pervert, bloodthirsty, murderous, ruthless, repressive, foot fetish, etc. The performance is convincing, terrifying to hear, and trembling to see. The Cheng Dong who plays the blood drop is also a classic villain in Hong Kong films. He once played the one-eyed dragon army in the movie " Gambler ", and played the trickster tyrant in "The Tricky Expert". " as Laifu.
Ji Tiansheng and Li Ruotong
Some people say that "New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" is "Prison Situation" in another sense, and it is still a story of "escaping the room". There is no problem with this sentence to a certain extent. This film is rough, vigorous, domineering and passionate. It balances commerciality and is infinitely creative, full of metaphors, and it is full of fun.
In the turbulent times, outside the wilderness, the four characters of "Wonderland on Earth" are written on the gate of the Red Lotus Temple. As the only ruler in the temple, Shen Gong can be called heaven and earth, and I am the only one. Shen Gong was originally the emperor in front of the imperial court. Eunuch, he used to be loyal and righteous, but one day he found that he had a lot of white hair on his head, and then he realized that people are mortal, so his temperament changed greatly, and he began to abandon human nature and use any means. Please adjust the Red Lotus Temple, where he can be lawless , Emperor Tiangao is far away, no one can do anything to him, he killed countless people, and then made a mummified corpse. The goddess turned the Red Lotus Temple into a "divine palace". . Shengong explained the Red Lotus Temple in his heart: "The Red Lotus Temple is as sinister as the rivers and lakes. If there is a door, there will be a struggle. The winner is the king and the loser. This is an iron fact. As long as you give up your own door, Red Lotus The temple will disappear automatically, and become the emperor and the courtier again. If you are obsessed with it, you will be self-destructing.” Shengong also has his own philosophical system and religious theory, he said: “The dead are still perfect, will not resist, and have no thoughts. , everything is flawless." He said: "I want to draw a rainbow that is boundless, endless, supreme authority, and selfless." He said, "Buddha is already happy in hell." Even in the ultimate battle, God Gong actually said "I will let your youth disappear in an instant", which is very post-modern artist's line. Compared with the ignorant young Fang Shiyu and the undercover Hong Xiguan, Shen Gong, who likes to be clever and clever, has more character charm, but the top-heavy structure of the plot makes the whole movie look a bit anticlimactic, otherwise, Shen Gong's demeanor will be more turbulent surging.
"New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" has a gloomy style
Although "New Fire Burning Red Lotus Temple" inevitably bears some marks of Hong Kong films of that era, and some deliberately funny lines and vulgar meat jokes are undoubtedly similar to Lin Lingdong Shen The cold and low-pressure style is out of place (maybe he wanted to neutralize Lin Lingdong's too dark style, but it was counterproductive), but as a "non-mainstream" martial arts film of the year, "New Burning Red Lotus Temple" has become more and more polished over the years. As a "relict" of the "big turning point" era of Hong Kong films in the 1990s, "New Burning Red Lotus Temple" is still worth watching.
