"The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" is a martial arts classic drama launched by Hong Kong ATV in 1981, and it is also the first Hong Kong-made drama to be broadcast in the mainland. The drama is interlocked, the whole process is a real kung fu, fighting, revenge, extramarital love, national righteousness and other complex conflicts have achieved tension and relaxation, resulting in a sensational influence caused by thousands of empty alleys when it was broadcast!
Depicting the legendary life of the famous martial artist Huo Yuanjia at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it seems that he repeatedly defeated foreign warriors, Hercules, and traitorous enemies in the chaotic world, but the story jumped out of the traditional martial arts drama protagonist all the way to the mode of revenge and hatred, but objectively restored the view of the portal of the martial arts, and a generation of masters also ended in tragedy.
At that time, when the Hong Kong kung fu genre began to reach its peak, Yuan Renxiang was invited to serve as a martial arts instructor, plus Huang Yuanshen and Liang Xiaolong were all real kung fu, all kinds of hard bridge hard horse fights, tigers and tigers, fist to flesh, playing very enjoyably, there was no stand-in at all, so their beautiful martial arts real killing real slash, let people feel happy.
The success of this drama lies in Xu Xiaoming's human concept: a really good martial arts drama must first have a hero with flesh and blood and heavy feelings, rather than a reckless man who shouts and kills all day. Therefore, Huo Yuanjia, played by Huang Yuanshen, has a more humane personality, he is not a perfect person, he has his own weaknesses and helplessness.
And The elegant, heroic and handsome, brilliant Huang Yuanshen, he wears a cardigan and black cloth shoes, looking different from the tough and rugged tough guys, obviously super bookish! It is said that Huang Yuanshen, who was anxious to make money to support his family, did not want to shave his hair, so Xu Xiaoming changed from a qing costume drama to a Republic of China drama with a big stroke of his pen, and did not want to shine.
The Huo and Zhao wulin families competed because they were arguing over who was the true sect of the Secret Sect Fist, and did not want the one-armed old man Cheng Tianxiao of the enemy family to kill him, and the two sides were caught off guard, which was already surprising. At this time, Huo Yuanjia, a weak scholar, suddenly came into battle, flew up and hit the one-armed old man, and he actually created his own "Lost Fist" Gaishi martial arts, and the exquisite twist was even more eye-catching.
Huo Yuanjia himself had a unique view of martial arts, and had expressed deep dissatisfaction with the phenomenon of self-imposed self-imposed between feudal sects (such as passing on men to women). His own father was stubborn, and he could only keep silent. In the face of feelings, he has failed the original wife and the niece of the enemy family, Zhao Qiannan, which is equivalent to delaying the happiness of the two women.
At that time, Zhao Qiannan, played by Michelle, was at the peak of her appearance, although her skin was a little dark and baby fat, her facial features were exquisite, a pair of big eyes with affection, two twisted braids, wearing a blue dress, and it was soft on the outside and strong inside. Zhao Qiannan had a marriage contract with his cousin Long Haisheng, and the Zhao family had a feud with the Huo family, so he suffered this big lady.
Zhao Qiannan, in order for Huo Yuanjia to argue with his father and brother, endured all kinds of gossip and ridicule, and had to prevent the big villain from being drunk and light, and he was tired enough. She saw the shadow of his virtuous wife Qianying, who had quietly stood behind Huo Yuanjia, and she was even more sad and tearful. This strange woman who swore never to marry for the rest of her life was easy to have a brief reunion with her sweetheart, but she waited for the separation of life and death.
This sadistic love affair like "Romeo and Juliet" is more idealistic to solve, and Xiao San can be accepted by the virtuous wife of the feudal family, and the story does not appear chaotic physical derailment. The wife played by Chen Wanwei can silently endure her husband's concern for other women, and she can more generously make bridges for lovers.
Huo Yuanjia had a rough road in love, and his heroic deeds and righteousness also caused too much trouble, because he was more naïve and kind, and the new apprentice Chen Zhen was obviously trying to take revenge. Burning Long Haisheng's opium smoke house is equivalent to offending the corrupt government and gangsters, and can only be forced to flee his hometown and go to Tianjin to establish the "Jingwu Gate"!
A generation of masters also defeated foreign samurai, offended powerful villains, and was maliciously retaliated against by the other side, directly arrested and imprisoned, and infected with a terrible drug addiction. When he was released from prison and rehabilitated, he defeated the Japanese again, and said the slogan "We Chinese not the sick man of East Asia", he was simply poisoned and killed, which is also too sad!
The master is very tragic, and the apprentice Chen Zhen is also a reckless temperamental person, and it is also too bitter on the road of love. He falls in love with Sakurako, a Japanese female spy who assumes the pseudonym Wang Xiuzhi, but the two have difficulty falling in love in a chaotic world. Liang Xiaolong acted very accurately, Wei Qiuhua also played the infatuated woman who was intertwined with love and hate very involuntarily, and her betrayal of the organization and her killing was also very touching.
At that time, Liang Xiaolong was strong in martial arts, he shot fiercely, his movements were fast, his legs and feet were fierce, and he played very beautifully. Although Chen Zhen has courage and strategy, he hates the Japanese enemy, in order to avenge the master, he single-handedly went to the Hongkou Dojo, and finally he kicked a volley, and the camera was frozen in an instant, which was equivalent to announcing that he was shot and killed!
Compared with the master and apprentice, the handsome villain Long Haisheng is more like a microcosm of the national scum. He is handsome in appearance, looks like a gentleman, and is actually a great villain who defects to enemies and sells friends. Not only did they covet Zhao Qiannan's beauty, but they also colluded with the Zhao family brothers to sell opium, and even the Russians went to their aid.
The enmity between the door sect and the home country, plus the insertion of chaotic spy war dramas, "Huo Yuanjia", which has both explosive points, cool points and flash points, has excellent integration of multiple types of dramas, and is definitely a classic masterpiece that is advanced. Xu Xiaoming's most successful is to inject a strong patriotic feeling into the series, but there is no elevation and mythical national hero, which is the most rare.
At that time, the location and cinematography of ATV's martial arts dramas were slightly rough, like the film effects of old Shaw films, so it was easy to create a strange effect of the moon black wind. Li Xiaotian and Lu Guozhan's creation "The Great Wall Never Falls" is a classic divine comedy, a sentence "Sleep for a hundred years, the Chinese people have gradually woken up" makes people shocked to the heart, so that the blood boiled instantly.
There is no flower shelf that flies around and embroiders legs, and the flesh-and-blood plot of "Huo Yuanjia" coincides with the peak of the creation of Hong Kong dramas, which will definitely cause a sensation. At that time, there were very few tv in the mainland audience's homes, so some people turned on flashlights and took small stools and ran to sit around a dozen miles away to chase the drama, and when they saw foreigners being beaten, they cheered together!
In the play, Huo Yuanjia opened the "Jingwuguan" with the intention of strengthening the people's health, and created a set of exquisite boxing techniques "Lost Fist", which beat the foreign martial artists and washed away the shame of the "sick man of East Asia" that the great powers gave to Chinese, but due to the corruption and cowardice of those in power, a generation of masters was eventually poisoned by foreign lackeys, which was quite helpless!
The song "The Great Wall Never Falls" once had a strong feeling of awakening Chinese patriotism and resisting foreign insults, but the last sentence: "This sleeping lion has gradually awakened", is quite intriguing. Just as Huo Yuanjia and Chen Zhen could not change the decay of feudal China and the poisoning of foreign powers, their sacrifice in the chaotic world was more like a spirit, which made people wake up.
This drama will never lose its shine with the change of time, and some distribution giants boast of "making a film that can be retained" is actually this kind of classic masterpiece! Many years later, I will definitely forget Han Han and Guo Jingming, forget other versions of "Huo Yuanjia", forget a certain mainland blockbuster movie that kills and defames foreign enemies...
But when "The Great Wall Never Falls" was sung, when the curtain was first lifted, it attracted me to watch it with fascination. The drama educates and warns the audience: as a Chinese we must continue to work hard, after all, "the people of the country have gradually woken up after a hundred years of sleep", not "completely awakened"!
"The Great Wall Never Falls"
Lyrics by Lu Guozhan
Composed by Rei Oda
Ye Zhentang sang
Sleepy for a hundred years The Chinese people have gradually woken up
Open your eyes and watch carefully
Which wisher confesses
Because of cringe and forbearance
People are getting more and more arrogant
Speak up and shout, shout
This is the whole country
Robbers have always wanted to invade
In the end, it will be fatal
The Great Wall will never fall
The water of the Yellow River is gushing
The mountains are beautiful and the peaks are stacked
Ask me what my country is like getting sick
Rush away from the bloody road and wave up
We must devote ourselves to national ZTE
Let the land be trampled upon again
Take on a mission
The sleeping lion is gradually waking up