There are many film and television IP in the showbiz circle, and the Gu Qiu Zi series is one of them that people love and hate.
The series, which kicked off in 1996, paints a profound picture of Hong Kong's gang culture.
In the tone of sword and light sword shadow and happy vengeance, the audience follows the protagonist's perspective to feel the power of love and righteousness, and also feels the breath of the modern version of the jianghu.
But on the other hand, the film unreservedly shows bloody scenes, which also makes some viewers feel physically uncomfortable.
Coupled with the fact that the protagonists are mostly gang members, the IP has also been criticized for instigating teenagers and beautifying gangs.
This has led to the fact that in some areas, the Ancient Puzzle Boy IP was once regarded as a jackal tiger leopard.
Looking back now, although the uncomfortable part is indeed undesirable, as a cultural symbol of a specific period in Hong Kong, the IP core of Gu Qiuzai is still worthy of affirmation.
At least that sincere brotherhood and extremely vivid character image have become the feelings of many people today.
After Chen Xiaochun, Xie Tianhua, Lin Xiaofeng and other "members of the Ancient Puzzle Boy" reunited in "The Brother Who Cut through the Thorns" this year, this sentiment has been echoed again.
Unfortunately, moderate sentiment is nostalgic enough, but if it is overly deliberately rendered, this already controversial sentiment will become more and more "worthless".
For example, in 2021, Chen Xiaochun twice launched the net with "Ancient Puzzle Boy" as the selling point, but both works unsurprisingly pounced on the street...
In the first half of the year, he launched the internet university "Endless Storm" with the theme of the undercover gangster's ancient puzzle boy, but the film received a 3.9 points of bad reviews due to rough special effects and thunderous plots.
In the second half of the year, Xiao Chunge changed the "gangster" of the network and directly played the ancient puzzle boy who re-emerged from the jianghu.
This time, his rating dropped directly to 3 points, which is also the lowest rating in the history of the movie he starred in.
The film that made Chen Xiaochun refresh the lower limit is the recently launched net university:
Fight the rivers and lakes again
The plot of the film is not complicated, and it tells the story of an old old puzzle boy who reappears in the jianghu.
Brother Shan (Played by Chen Xiaochun), a man in the underworld, chose to quit because he was tired of fighting and killing, and disappeared in anonymity for many years.
But 15 years after he quit the jianghu, after a gangster who died and died to offend, Brother Shan helped him out of brotherhood.
But this gang did not tighten, but let him lose his hand and cause the underworld boss to fall off a cliff and die.
This accident brings great trouble to Brother Shan, who has already washed his hands in the golden basin, and the brother of the big guy (Li Cansen) comes with anger and revenge after hearing the news.
He not only killed all of Brother Shan's former brothers, but also kidnapped Brother Shan's daughter and sold her to traffickers.
In the face of the escalating provocations of the other party, the mountain brother who tried to endure could not bear it when his family faced safety.
In desperation, he chose to re-emerge from the jianghu and had a life-and-death struggle with the other party...
From the core of the story, although the plot of this film is routine, it is still quite coherent, and it seems that it should not be only 3 points.
But after watching the 80-minute film, I understood the reason for the swearing in the comments section.
Judging from the plot full of thunder points, even if there is Chen Xiaochun pressing the front, this 3-point film still has room to fall.
Some fans even gave direct evaluations: insincere and shoddy
Because, the film can be described as a collection of the most common diseases of the network film.
The first is the extremely out-of-control plot logic.
In the film, Chen Xiaochun ran away because his daughter was kidnapped, and he and Li Cansen, who avenged his brother, performed a jianghu version of "two-way rush".
In order to highlight the aura of the double male drama, the screenwriter chose to infinitely strengthen the combat strength of the two, which made the film extremely untrue.
Chen Xiaochun's part, the character's combat strength can be described as comparable to 007 agents, a pick twenty is not a word...
When he rescued his daughter, he first shuttled directly through the next building and easily took it down in the face of 4 people.
Then enter the elevator and meet a wave of little brothers, he even scared off 6.
And this series of actions, he even only spent an elevator to open and close the door time...
After facing the more men that the big guy brought with him, he beat them to death with just one stick.
Not only was there no injury in this process, but Koharu's hairstyle was not messy.
At a rough count, he single-handedly knocked out 24 people in these three fight scenes.
Compared with Ip Man who "fights ten in one", Chen Xiaochun's combat strength is only afraid that two Ip Man can't stop it...
On the other hand, the combat strength of the villain Li Cansen is also exaggerated.
When he was cuffed by black eating black, he used the inexplicable "bone reduction trick" to directly break free of the iron handcuffs, and killed the other party's gang with his bare hands...
Later in the plot, he also appeared such an anti-logical operation.
Facing the vehicle driving in front of him, he bounced into the car with a super high bounce back, and he was still alive and well.
This set of difficulty coefficient 5 star operation, only afraid that Wu Jing will be ashamed to see it, Jackie Chan will like it when he sees it, and it is not Stallone who does not turn.
In addition, many of the details of the film also highlight the screenwriter's carelessness.
At the beginning of the film, Chen Xiaochun and his brother evaded the pursuit, and in the previous scene, his front, back, left and right car windows were all broken.
But in the next scene, the glass is as intact as "auto-restored", which is really speechless.
What is more exaggerated is that after successfully escaping the pursuit, they also poured gasoline while smoking and burning the car, and the setting without scientific common sense was a bit funny.
In addition to the illogyny that runs through the film, the second slot of the film is the excessive stitching, and the shadow of at least 4 films can be faintly seen in the film.
From a stylistic point of view, the character lines of the two male protagonists Chen Xiaochun and Li Cansen are reminiscent of two Hong Kong films.
The male protagonist, Chen Xiaochun, faded out of the jianghu because of the death of his relatives caused by being a gu confused boy, but he took up the knife again under the provocation of the villain.
This setting is similar to his 2008 film "Goodbye Ancient Puzzle Boy", when he also played the former ancient puzzle boy who was tired of the jianghu, and also returned due to the persecution of his family.
The villain Li Cansen is paranoid to avenge his brother in this network, and wantsonly pursues and kills the male protagonist like a mad dog.
This paranoid image is also reminiscent of the classic Hong Kong film "Dog Bites Dog".
In "Dog Bites Dog", Li Cansen, who plays a policeman, chases down and kills the killer Chen Guanxi because of the death of his colleague, and comes to a very crazy dog bite with the other party.
In this network, Li Cansen is still stalking the protagonist and still threatening the protagonist's family.
In addition to the "similar styles" of the above two films, there are two Korean films that have been directly copied and creative.
In the film, the male protagonist Chen Xiaochun's red-faced confidant & female A Feng is from the ancient puzzle boy, and when he appears, he is a beautiful appearance of "killing pigs Andi Shi".
Whether it is the shape of the red cardigan or the setting of the leg-out throwing knife when cutting meat, it is very similar to the heroine of the Korean movie "Miss Butcher", and the action is almost no different.
Under the imitation of the role, the screenwriter also added some settings that added snakes to the snake.
For example, let the heroine wear high heels to race, and even step on the high heels to win the villain in the film, which caused netizens to complain.
The male protagonist and the villain around the "daughter kidnapping" and "brother killed" two major grievances to catch up with me, this main line plot has also been pointed out by netizens and Won Jeong-min, Lee Jeong-jae starring in the Korean movie "Save Me from Evil" is exactly the same.
In general, this film that stitches together at least 4 film elements not only makes people unable to see the novelty, but also fails to copy the essence of the homework, but also copies a bunch of problems.
In addition to the above two major shortcomings, this "Re-fighting jianghu" also inherits the two major label templates of the net movie: selling feelings and selling meat.
First of all, selling feelings, the film is always marketing the elements of "Ancient Puzzle Boy".
Sometimes it's playing with feelings in people's names;
Chen Xiaochun's character in "Ancient Puzzle Boy" is originally named Zhao Shanhe, and his role in this network is directly changed to Zhang Shanhe, which is difficult not to make people associate.
Sometimes it's playing with emotions on BGM;
At the beginning of the film, when Chen Xiaochun rescued his brother, the background sound of the scene directly enabled the classic soundtrack of "Ancient Puzzle Boy".
Sometimes I rub my feelings on cameos;
The film invited Zhu Yongtang, who had starred in the nest of the "First Generation of Ancient Puzzle Brothers" in "Ancient Puzzle Boy 1".
Like the character Nest Pi 25 years ago, Zhu Yongtang's role this time also died in the middle of the film in the middle of the villain siege...
Secondly, the net's iconic showmanship is not less.
The butcher woman who plays the male protagonist's confidant with a red face has always appeared in a cool outfit in the film, even if she changes to a bucket shape in the plot, she is still cool style...
Even the role of Chen Xiaochun's daughter is similar to the setting, when being chased by the killer, the screenwriter also "deliberately" arranged a picture of her being caught in the bathroom, and the plot was a bit deliberate.
In contrast, the only highlight of the film is the acting skills of Chen Xiaochun and Li Cansen.
Putting aside the plot setting, Chen Xiaochun, who is now 52 years old, is still full of aura when he plays the underworld gangster, and Li Cansen also uses a vicious and evil expression to play the role of the extremely crazy killer very interesting.
But in addition, the stitching and cutting of the script, the roughness of the special effects and the logical collapse all make this "Fight again" seem fragmented and extremely low-watchability...
Even if the acting skills are worthy of recognition, Chen Xiaochun still failed to save the film rating, and even lost word of mouth for it, refreshing the lowest score of his personal career.
25 years ago, the gu qiuzai fever arose, and the young Chen Xiaochun became popular.
25 years later, when Zheng Yijian and other old friends "no longer confused", Chen Xiaochun, who did not pick the script, still fought again.
However, this time, although the 52-year-old still has a knife, the audience can no longer afford this "dirty" feeling.
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