Text / Red Leaf Maple
In the past two years, the development of online movies has been in full swing, among which martial arts themes are highly favored, and related works are numerous. However, regardless of their quality, in terms of content alone, it is often adapted from Jin Yong, Gulong or some network IP, and there are few originals.
However, "The Rise of the Deadly Sword" (hereinafter referred to as "The Sword of Death"), which will be launched exclusively on Tencent Video on July 24, has a rare courage to break the convention and show us a different strange jianghu and a thrilling martial arts secret history with a completely original martial arts story.
"Death Sword" is about a small hunting dream. The "Eight Masters" of martial arts who have been in the limelight for twenty years have encountered black hands one after another, and they have all died under their own unique skills, and for a time the rivers and lakes have set off a bloody storm. In order to track down the real murderer, Duan Xiaofeng (Ming Junchen) has first ventured into the jianghu and secretly visited the remaining few of the "eight masters", and finally unveiled a long-sealed bloody case of the jianghu extinction...
It is undeniable that the use of elements in this film is somewhat influenced by the Martial Arts Style of Jin Yong, such as the setting of the Demon Sect and the identity of the internal people are very much the flavor of the Sun and Moon God Sect in "Laughing proud of the Jianghu", and the death method of the "Eight Masters" who have lost their lives one after another is also like winning the Murong family's stunt in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", "Returning to the Other Body in the Other Way", and the divine weapon of the "Death Sword" is also a bit like the Heavenly Sword... However, the story of this film is completely new, the eight masters set up in the film have distinct images and very different personalities, such as dragon breaking, fierce wind flame knife, strange pupil technique, snow cicada silk and other related unique martial arts skills are particularly fascinating, and their existence and successive mysterious murders make the new jianghu presented in the film appear more and more turbulent and frightening.
In addition, the male protagonist Duan Xiaofeng's personality is also more innovative.
In the public impression, the protagonists in martial arts film and television works generally carry a deep hatred in the blood sea, or a martial arts wizard, through breaking into the rivers and lakes, encountering a series of strange encounters, practicing a unique martial art, and finally taking revenge on snow and hatred, eradicating adultery and evil, and becoming a well-known young hero in the martial forest. However, Duan Xiaofeng in "The Sword of Death" has been mediocre in martial arts from beginning to end, and his identity is only a small catcher with six doors, and his original intention of dabbling in the jianghu is even more obviously utilitarian: he vows to make a name for himself by investigating the case!
Although Duan Xiaofeng's idea is not much noble, it is extremely grounded, plus he is relying on his strong memory and reasoning ability to investigate the murder, so it is quite a bit of a grassroots version of the teenager Di Renjie 's taste (Note: Di Renjie here refers to the male protagonist in the "Di Renjie" series of films directed by Xu Ke), and his love triangle with the queen of the Demon Sect Leader, Fei Yan (Liu Yuqiao), and the Qinglou Hua kui Sun Ying (Confucius Yue) has also added a sometimes romantic and sometimes sadistic tenderness to this film.
In terms of actors, although the main actors are all newcomers and their acting skills are relatively young, they are better than their appearance and eyes, and their performance is hard. Among them, the male no. 1 Ming Junchen has red lips and white teeth, which has a bit of The style of Wu Zun's youth, and the case is fully concentrated, and the woman who likes her is difficult to hide the innocence and shyness of the teenager, and it is very pleasing to hope; the two female protagonists Liu Yuqiao and Confucius Yue are also a bright domineering, a delicate and cold, like red and white roses, which are interesting; there is also a 97-year-old actress Yu Huanhuan, who plays the only female Shangguanhong among the eight masters, although the role is a middle-aged woman, but the appearance and temperament are not lost to the first two, and the posture of fighting with the piano is also decent. It's impressive.
The jianghu laughed, the enmity was complained, the people passed the trick, and the knife was hidden. Red dust laughs, laughs lonely, a pot of wine, all forgotten...
All in all, "Deadly Sword" is an atypical juvenile hero's jianghu detective adventure, although due to the cost limitation, there is still room for improvement in production, but the original sincerity and original intention of the creators in front of and behind the scenes are worthy of recognition. It is reported that it also has the next episode of "Blood River and Lake of the Deadly Sword" will be launched exclusively on Tencent Video on July 27, and interested partners will remember to continue to watch it.