When introducing "Sinister Jianghu Runaway Sword" a few days ago, the protagonist Sun Chenxi was mentioned.
When we look back at the mainland martial arts stars in the 1980s and 1990s, Sun Chenxi is one who cannot be avoided.
He is a Peking Opera actor, nine years old to learn martial arts, solid skills and handsome looks, quite a small temperament.
In 1986, Hong Kong director Hui Anhua came to the mainland to shoot "Book of Swords and Enmity", and selected the 14-year-old Sun Chenxi to play the book boy Xinyan next to the protagonist Chen Jialuo, thus opening his on-screen martial arts love affair.
In the 1980s, domestic martial arts films were keen to use actors with kung fu backgrounds, and Sun Chenxi became a famous martial arts star in the 1980s and 1990s with her athletic skills and handsome appearance, and successively starred in many martial arts films such as "Sinister Jianghu Runaway Sword", "Flying God Mouse", "Pretty Luo Cheng", "Strange Girl Hot River" and so on.
Because of her appearance, Sun Chenxi often plays some dashing and handsome young heroes on the screen, which can be said to be a standard example of the male protagonist in the domestic martial arts films of that era, and is also a kung fu boy in the audience's heart.
Interestingly, however, Sun Chenxi's martial arts films often end in tragedy. In reality, Sun Chenxi also chose to fade out of the screen at the peak of his career and concentrate on the drama stage, but many of the works he starred in became classic childhood memories in the hearts of countless audiences.
Among the movies starring Sun Chenxi, there was one that once fascinated me as a child.
The plot of the film is very large, the story integrates martial arts action, historical legends, mythological adventures, comedy acrobatics, anti-Japanese dramas and other genre elements, the most amazing thing is that the core theme of the film is to advocate people to pay attention to and protect the national treasure giant panda.
In this issue of "Forgotten Domestic Genre Films", let's relive the cult classics in the history of this mainland martial arts film!
"The Dragon Is Heroic"
The film was filmed in 1995 and produced by Emei Film Studio, a "well-known domestic cult label".
E-Film Studio had a far-reaching influence in the field of domestic genre films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It is not only a childhood shadow maker for many people, but also produced cult masterpieces such as "The Mystery of St. Paul's Hospital" and "Death Is Approaching", and has also produced a series of works that can be called classic childhood memories, such as martial arts films such as "From ancient heroes to teenagers" and "Wise And Courageous Monks".
And this "Wild Dragon Hero" is between the above two categories, which still makes people marvel at the screenwriter's brain hole.
The story takes place in the last year of the Qing Dynasty, and the opening subtitle explains that it is after the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance.
It is said that in the remote mountainous areas of Sichuan, there is a place called Long County, and the locals mostly take dragons as their surnames.
Originally, it was a mountain village with no eggs in the backcountry, but recently, a big incident occurred in the town's Yamen:
The stone lion in front of the county court was cut off.
From this crooked-mouthed stone lion, you can feel the style of this exaggerated and comical comedy.
When the county grand master Long heard about this, he was shocked and angry, and immediately ordered his subordinates to arrest the murderer.
But when I took it back to Yamen, I found that this murderer was actually a local fake foreign devil.
Tu Maozi was originally a scoundrel, but now he has attached himself to the relationship of foreigners, relying on the foreign devil fox fake tiger power.
Even when he was brought back to Yamen, he was still arrogant, claiming:
He only knelt down to lord Yang and did not recognize the official uniform of LongXianye at all.
LongXianye was cowardly and pedantic, did not dare to offend the foreign devils, and was ready to release people.
Lady Long, who had been hiding behind the curtain, spoke and ordered tu Maozi to be beaten, and Long Xianye was a wife who was strict and had to obey orders.
At this time, the male protagonist, Young Master Long, happened to witness the farce in the courtroom and stared at the bicycle that Tu Maozi was riding.
While ya gong beat tu maozi, young master Long quietly pushed the bicycle and slipped out of the county court.
This young master of the dragon has not been engaged in business since he was a child, idle, and loves to brag, but he is a shrewd and slippery figure.
Young Master Long rode his bicycle around the county town, not only riding more and more smoothly, but even riding a bicycle to fly in the sky.
A bicycle, stunned by the young master of the dragon riding out of the water, land and air three-purpose aircraft science fiction sense.
Not only can he ride on the water, but he can also walk on the eaves of the roof, and Newton watched the old tears.
Seeing this, I have reason to doubt and doubt —
Director Jiang Wen's "Evil Does Not Pressure the Righteous" in which Peng Yuyan rides on the roof is a tribute to this film!
Originally a clumsy young master, he suddenly got a luxury car that could fly in the sky.
The first thing, of course, is to go for a girl.
Long Dashao rode to the town's tavern, and the lady who owned the tavern was known as The Hot Sister.
Long Dashao has always had a good feeling for him, and he will be called a daughter-in-law when he has nothing to do, taking advantage of his mouth.
Stepping on the god car under his feet, Long Dashao rode on the hot sister to the house and down the river, just like the most beautiful boy in the whole gai!
After the wind, it annoyed the blacksmith next door who was also struggling to pursue the hot sister- the iron brother.
Brother Tie was five years old and three thick, and once he threw Long Dashao to the ground, accusing him of hooking up with Hot Sister.
Young Master Long was not convinced, so he was taught a lesson by Brother Tie.
As a young master who bullied the soft and was afraid of hard waste wood, Young Master Long knew that he could not beat the other party.
So he used Ah Q's spiritual victory method to seek self-comfort:
Grandpa is a dragon, so don't fight with your bear!
Then he began to brag again, saying that he was a "dragon species" and that he had seen a real dragon.
The more Young Master Long spoke, the more evil he became, but he didn't expect that these words were just listened to by the tu maozi on the side.
At this moment, Lady Dragon rushed to the scene, grabbed Young Master Long's ear and carried him home, tied him to the study, and taught him a lesson.
Late at night, Grandpa Longxian took advantage of his wife's sleep and sneaked into the study in the middle of the night to let his son go.
He asked him to find Tu Maozi and take the initiative to return the bicycle, so as not to retaliate and attract foreign devils.
Young Master Long looked down on his father's fear of foreigners, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
Just after being let out, I thought about going to the bubble girl again, and as a result, I came to the tavern, and just happened to bump into brother and sister Qingqing me, and I was tragically angered by the young master of NTR, and once again competed with brother tie and had a dispute.
At this moment, Tu Maozi actually came to the county town with a group of British sergeants carrying foreign guns, and happened to bump into two people.
These British sergeants not only injured Brother Tie, but also captured Long Dashao and escorted him back to the county court to ask for the real dragon from Long County.
It turned out that Tu Maozi had heard the Young Master Of the Dragon boast that day that he had seen the dragon, so he had a plan:
Bring the foreigners to Longxian to find the dragon, in order to get revenge on the Dragon County master who beat him.
Long Xian ye explained to the foreign officer Filson:
Dragons are all fictional and do not exist at all.
In disbelief, Yoko asked:
You say that dragons are Chinese imagined, so why don't we British imagine dragons?
Maybe the British officer was illiterate and didn't know the legend of St. George's dragon slaying circulating in Britain.
Then the foreigner said:
You always call the emperor the True Dragon Heavenly Son, and call yourself the descendant of the dragon, so there must be a dragon.
I have to say that this reasoning is really reasonable, making LongXian Ye completely difficult to discern.
After that, Yang Maozi captured Lady Long and threatened to ask Long Xianye to exchange the dragon for someone.
Long Xianye scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, and when he was cornered, Young Master Long had a ghost idea——
He found a bunch of eggs and duck eggs, added mud, and then stained them with paint to make "artificial dragon eggs".
He then pretended to trick the foreign hair into the old cave in the deep mountain, so that they inadvertently found the artificial dragon egg by accident.
At this point, the foreigners thought that they had found the dragon species, and they left satisfied, and they also rewarded the young master with a lot of bounties.
On this day, Young Master Long walked triumphantly on the street of the county town and witnessed a group of strong men chasing and killing a girl.
The girl had the same hairstyle as Chun li, and looked weak and delicate, which inspired the heroic heart of young master Long to save the united states.
Immediately, young master Long danced wildly, and actually drove away the strong man who was chasing and killing the young girl.
The young girl saw that young master Long had taken the initiative to protect herself, and she was immediately moved to give herself a promise.
This was exactly what Young Master Long had in mind, after all, he had just been "split legs"——
Finding another daughter-in-law was the first thing in his heart.
The two came to the mountain, and the spring girl took the initiative to throw her arms and give hugs, and the two sides rolled up the grass happily together.
After that, the woman took the opportunity to blow the pillow side wind to Long Dashao, saying that she also wanted dragon eggs.
Long Dashao was overwhelmed and told the truth:
That's all my fooling the foreigners!
Unexpectedly, the girl turned her face in an instant, saying that she was also a foreigner, but an Oriental.
It turned out that she was Japanese, named Inoguchi, and when she learned that the British had found the dragon egg, she immediately disguised herself and came to Dragon County.
Knowing that everything was just made up by Young Master Long, Inoguchi was furious and immediately drew his knife to kill Young Master Dragon.
Seeing that Long Dashao's life was not safe, suddenly, a yellow-shirted woman flew out of the forest.
The yellow-shirted woman was strong in martial arts, intervened to stop Inguchi, and then flew to save young master Long.
This woman's light skills are excellent, and she makes good use of gunpowder dark weapons, and with a slap of her hand, the ground explodes!
Then, using the smoke, he took advantage of the situation to escape with young master Long.
The woman took Young Master Long to a valley, and at this time Long Shao found that the woman in front of her was as beautiful as a fairy.
The other party put down the young master of the dragon, and then turned to leave, leaving only the young master of the dragon who was drunk in the fairy's beautiful dream.
Unexpectedly, Young Master Long had just been rescued from the wolf's den and entered the tiger's mouth again.
When the British learned of being tricked, they went up the hill to find the dragon, and just happened to bump into the young master of the dragon, forcing him to continue to look for the dragon.
Young Master Long had no choice but to take the British up the mountain, and on this night, they encountered a mysterious large creature.
That's right, it's a giant panda, called a cat bear in the movie.
The British Ho had seen this mysterious creature before, and there were panicked soldiers who opened fire.
At this time, the woman in the yellow shirt appeared again, and she was also driving a very high-tech butterfly-shaped flying machine.
This butterfly flying machine is not only capable of flying, but also indestructible, and can also release fireworks and beat the British around.
Then the woman performed a bit of acupuncture and easily subdued the British and saved the young master.
When Young Master Long woke up, he found himself lying with the panda.
Young Master Long saw the unknown creature in front of him and was frightened to urinate, at this time the woman appeared and comforted Young Master Long.
Young Master Long finally knew that the girl in front of him was named Shan Mei, and the giant panda was called Tiantian.
Mountain Sister claims that her ancestors lived in seclusion here hundreds of years ago, and since then she has been accompanied by rare and strange beasts in the mountains, guarding this paradise for generations.
Mountain Sister saved Young Master Long three times and twice, and Young Master Long was a standard Yan Control.
Therefore, Young Master Long, who was keen on finding a daughter-in-law, moved his mind again, and immediately wanted to confess: he wanted the other party to marry him.
After being rejected by The Mountain Sister, Young Master Long still lay dead in the mountains and did not leave.
On the other hand, the foreigners did not find the dragon, so they stared at the giant panda again.
So he grabbed Young Master Long's parents and coerced them to go up the mountain to find Young Master Long and ask him to hand over the giant panda.
In order to save his parents, Young Master Long quietly drugged The mountain sister, and then handed the panda sweetness to the British.
When Shan Mei woke up, she was going to settle accounts with Young Master Long, and in order to make up for his sins, Young Master Long decided to snatch the panda back from the British.
In order to compete with the British, Young Master Long decided to create a mysterious weapon.
Originally, Young Master Long learned from The Mountain Sister that there was a kind of solid armor wood in the local mountain, and this wood was indestructible and difficult to hurt.
So he decided to use the armor wood to build an armored car and compete with the guns of the foreign devils.
After that, Young Master Long cooperated with Hot Sister and Brother Tie to perform kung fu and paint on a long table.
This scene is obviously the director imitating the plot of Zhou Xingchi in "Tang Bohu Points Autumn Fragrance"!
Eventually, according to the design drawn by Young Master Long, they built armored vehicles and drove to the British camp.
At the same time, the Japanese Inoguchi also set their sights on giant pandas.
She arrived with a group of Japanese samurai and engaged the British.
Seeing that the panda was about to be snatched away by the Japanese, Shan Mei took the opportunity to kill and launched a three-way melee.
Shan Mei has a divine protective body, flying all the way to the sky, the Japanese and The British can't hurt her at all.
The most amazing thing is that The mountain girl and the Japanese samurai fight, and suddenly jump tango.
When I saw this, I never expected that this film actually had song and dance elements!
However, although Shan Mei is strong in martial arts, the other side has many powerful people, and Shan Mei is difficult to support alone.
At the critical moment, Young Master Long's armored vehicle arrived, blocked the guns of the foreign devils, and successfully repelled the invaders.
In the end, he successfully helped Shan Mei regain the giant panda, and young master Long became a national hero surrounded by everyone.
After repelling the foreigners, Young Master Long couldn't help but be satisfied, but Shan Mei was still worried in her heart.
She knew that the foreigners would not give up, this time it was only a small wave, and the next time they came to capture the pandas, it might be a large army.
After experiencing this storm, Shan Mei changed her mind about Young Master Long, believing that he was not bad in nature and was quite intelligent.
Young Master Long then took the opportunity to confess again, frantically showing love:
Even if you can only be a husband and wife with Shan Mei for a day, you are satisfied!
Unexpectedly, the mountain sister who had been rejecting Young Master Long actually agreed to his marriage proposal this time.
Moreover, it said that the two of them immediately went to the church to become relatives, and when Young Master Long heard about this good thing, his heart was of course overjoyed.
But the Dragon County Master and the Dragon Lady next to them were very worried:
This son of his own is so wasteful of firewood, why does the girl look at him?
And it is.
In fact, when Shan Mei decided to marry Young Master Long, she already had other plans in her heart.
On the night of their marriage, Shan Mei passed on the ancestral Heaven and Earth Divine Skills to Young Master Long, asking him to inherit his mission and continue to protect the rare and strange beasts in the mountains, while he himself had to go to fight with Yang Maozi, and the two only wanted to be a husband and wife on this day.
Obviously, the passage of the Cave House Chuangong is again imitating the bridge section of the Dragon Er Chuangong to Wei Xiaobao in the "Deer Ding".
Knowing the truth, young master Long naturally did not agree to send Shan Mei to death, so he jumped up excitedly.
As a result, because of the Divine Gong Protective Body, he actually rushed out directly from the roof, and then he flew to the town tavern with light skills.
At the tavern, Young Master Long gathered the old and young masters in the county town together and called on everyone to jointly resist the foreign hairs.
After some impassioned statements, Young Master Long decided to personally lead the people together——
Defend the giant pandas against invaders.
After that, young master Long sent away the mountain sister and the panda Sweet, and then found a grizzly bear to put in the cage as a stand-in.
Then, under the leadership of Long Dashao, the people of Long County disguised themselves as yang family generals and Yue family troops, and ushered in a final decisive battle with the foreigners.
And the young master of the dragon himself dressed up as the Monkey King, and they set up a fire thunder array and launched a fierce scuffle.
Under the guns of the foreigners, the villagers fell one by one and died, but they did not retreat until they died.
In the end of the fierce battle, young master Ryu finally defeated Inoguchi, but he was also shot several times.
At this time, the British officer Filson walked into the cage containing the cat bear, but found that it was not a cat bear at all.
The dying Japanese woman Miguchi issued a final taunt before her death:
How in the world can there be dragons?
At this time, the young master long, who was still standing still, responded:
Who says there are no dragons, and you've all seen it!
Plunged into madness, Filson asked:
Where is the dragon?
The bloodied Young Master Long did not answer, but only set his sights on the people of Long County who had fallen to the ground.
Dragons, may not exist, but the spirit of dragons is forever engraved in their veins...
Frankly speaking, from today's point of view, this film can be regarded as an ancient version of the anti-Japanese drama.
But the intriguing thing is that the main theme of the film is actually to protect the national treasure giant panda.
The whole film ends in a tragic battle of all-staff sacrifice, but a line of subtitles appears at the end of the film:
In 1873, giant pandas were first discovered in China.
From this point, it is not difficult to see that the film's choreographer tries to praise heroism through this history of blood and tears to protect national treasures.
It is worth mentioning that the theme of protecting pandas in the film is actually related to the social background at that time.
Since the 1980s, due to the endangerment of giant pandas due to environmental degradation, a wave of giant panda protection has arisen in society, and this theme has been expressed in movies, and the Sichuan Emei Film Factory, as the hometown of giant pandas, has also launched a number of panda-themed movies, aiming to call on social protection to care for this national treasure.
As early as 1983, Emei Film Studio and the Hong Kong Film Company co-produced a "Panda Adventure", which showed the bond between humans and giant pandas in the form of fairy tales, which is a long childhood memory in the hearts of many audiences.
And this "Wild Dragon Hero" was also born in this background, but the film was influenced by Hong Kong and Taiwan films at that time, trying to take the route of martial arts kung fu films, and on the poster of the film, the film was positioned as:
Shengong martial arts gun battle tragic comedy film!
From this sounding magical film label, you can see the evil classic of the film, the plot of the film is strange, the screenwriter tries to integrate various types of elements together, not only wants to imitate the Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films at that time, but also tries to rise to the national righteousness, the sense of value of protecting national treasures, and finally achieved an alternative anti-Japanese drama that combines soil and foreign countries.
From the beginning of the Chinese kung fu flying against foreign guns and cannons, to the protagonist's production of local legal organ weapons to resist the invaders, and then to the end of the film, all the members incarnate Yue Jiajun and Yang Jiajun and the water margin good Han to defend the country, the screenwriter's brain hole can be described as qingqi, hand tearing devils is nothing, far less than this "you have science, I have divine skills" optimism spirit.
In addition, the story of the film has a YY spirit, which is very in line with the cool text routine in future online novels:
A certain waste firewood was full of food all day, and finally deep in the mountains, he met the immortal sister to teach the supreme divine skill, to see how he fought the foreigners, ping Wukou, and finally embraced the beauty and returned, and got the divine beast cat bear. Main tags: upgrade practice, play pig eat tiger, hot blood, fairy.
It can be seen that no matter what era, the shuangwen plot is a form of entertainment that the people like to hear!