watched TV at home last night, and accidentally saw a classic movie "The Demon Lord of the Dragon Slayer".
Jin Yong's martial arts masterpiece, many films have been remakes countless times, including this "Evening Heaven Sword and Dragon", both TV drama version and movie version.
However, in this version played by Jet Li, it can be said to be well-known and remarkable. It has set a benchmark for action movies in martial arts movies and can be called a classic representative.
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"The Lord of the Demon Slayer" is a martial arts film directed by Wang Jing in 1993. The current Douban score is 7.6.
For this film, the producer can be said to have invested heavily.
It is reported that the film has a total investment of 50 million . Now it seems that 50 million investment in a film does not seem to be much, but it was a large sum in the past.
The film starring Jet Li, not only brought together Hong Kong actors such as Sammo Hung, Wu Zhenyu, Wu Yaohan, Zhang Min, Yau Shuzhen, Gigi Lai and others who were in the fire at that time.
also recruited many mainland actors to help, such as the "Drift" Yan Huaili in the 86 version of "Journey to the West" in the film cameo as the Golden Retriever Lion King, and Ji Qilin who played Zhu Yuanzhang and Jia Lian in the 87 version of "A Dream of Red Mansions" and so on.
This may be Wang Jing's very ambitious work in 1992 when he co-launched the "Deer Tripod" series of movies with a big box office.
Some people say that this drama can be called "The Greatest Face in History" "Eight Dragon Slayer".
Zhang Min played the most spiritual, especially the eyes, super in place! The original
describes Zhao Min like this:
"A self-contained beauty is not gentle and beautiful, or charming and charming, but this Miss Zhao is very beautiful, with a three-point heroism and three-point heroism. At the same time, he is graceful and luxurious. He is awe-inspiring and dare not look at him."
has to say that Zhao Min is the most in line with Jin Yong's original work, with strong heroic spirit, arrogance and domineering, and Zhang Wuji can't stand it in minutes.
Probably after Zhou Zhiruo's corruption in the original work, it is indeed too annoying.
Therefore, based on the consideration of amplifying and intensifying the contradiction, the screenwriter asked Zhou Zhiruo to collude with a bad boy like Song Qingshu as soon as he went to Wudang Mountain, and used beauty tricks to fiddle with Zhang Wuji.
Gigi Lai really deserves top-notch acting skills. She can not only perform Zhao Min's vividly in the TV series, but also act as a blackened version of Zhou Zhiruo.
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Let's talk about Xiao Zhao again, she is not too brilliant in the novel "The Legend of Heaven and Slayer".
However, in the movie , Wang Jing can be said to maximize the favor and preferential treatment of Qiu Shuzhen.
She has almost become the heroine doing her part, and even many of Zhao Min's beautiful characters are also placed on Xiao Zhao.
So we saw the ultimate image of a male and female killer, whether it is a woman who is charming, beautiful, pure, or loyal, etc., no one does not love this role!
and these are the classic screen moments that once astounded countless people.
Jet Li played Zhang Wuji. He was despised on Wudang Mountain at first, but he did not expect to fall into the valley. He actually played a trick. The deceived fireworker Tuo obediently passed on the Nine Suns magic. In the
movie, he was ambitious and he saw through Zhu Yuanzhang's scheming at the beginning, how could he give up the emperor's throne afterwards?
was then called "Zhang Wuji" in the black belly. In
, Jet Li started from Zhang Wuji, who was bullied by everyone, to the calm, steady and sophisticated qi who later practiced Jiuyang magic...
Therefore, Wang Jing set Zhang Wuji as a market in "The Legend of the Dragon Slayer". The disciple, who has been bullied in Wudang Mountain since childhood, liked Zhou Zhiruo but was blinded. This setting of
is not in line with Jin Yong's chivalrous spirit, but it is in line with the psychology of ordinary people, and it is really enjoyable.
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The film mainly intercepts the two major parts of the original work, "War of Guangmingding" and "War of Wudang", interspersed with the relevant plots of "Pygong Tou Tuo" and "Red Plum Villa".
zIn addition to changes in 1z, the film also has a lot of nonsensical spoofs .
The two old men of Huashan wore a "Red Cross shirt" when they attacked Guangmingding. When they were in danger, they shouted, "Hey, we are from the Red Cross and are responsible for saving people." Majesty and demeanor have become the "old fat man" who speaks swearing and nasty jokes. This kind of reform of
is quite controversial. Although it is consistent with Sammo Hung's usual play style, it almost loses the essence of Zhang Sanfeng.
so that this fat and funny Zhang Sanfeng is a bit like an old naughty boy.
Generally speaking, although this movie has a lot of points lost in characterization and plot advancement, it does not conform to the spirit of the original.
However, from a large-scale perspective, Jin Yong's drama adapted into a movie, whether it is "The Resurrection of the Invincible in the East" or Stephen Chow's "Deer and Ding Ji" series, seems to have no intention of making the original work well.
It is worth mentioning that the box office of this movie was bleak at the time, only 1043 million , and the sequel originally planned to be filmed was therefore stranded (this year, it is rumored that a sequel was planned to be filmed). At the end of
, Zhao Min's sentence , "Zhang Wuji, save the six sects, come and find me." abruptly became an empty phrase. According to netizens, waited for 26 years.
is written at the end
Some people say that it was because the original adaptation was too big and the characters’ personalities were inconsistent with the original, which led to the dismal box office.
However, with the passage of time and widespread dissemination, this wonderful martial arts movie with a compact plot and distinctive characters has unexpectedly become a classic.
can be said to have failed from the original work of "Evening Heaven and Slaying the Dragon". But as an entertainment film, Jet Li's version of "Eternal Dragon Slayer" is indeed worth reviewing, and it can be called a classic Hong Kong movie.
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