On May 7, the lineup of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero" was officially announced, Jin Yong's original novel, directed by Tsui Hark, Xiao Zhan as Guo Jing, Zhuang Duffei as Huang Rong, and the plot is that Guo Jing unites all the heroes to fight Xiangyang.
This news of the new film echoes the personal gossip of Tsui Hark's "old man" two months ago, and jointly pushes this former Xiangjiang ghost to the peak of right and wrong controversy.
Entries such as "Huang Rong casting" and "Xiao Zhan's heroine luck" remained high on the hot search list that day, and Huang Rong once again acted as a tool man and sacrificed capital in blood.
This version of Huang Rong reveals Tsui Hark's perfunctory and confused about this movie everywhere, and also carries the anger of thousands of Jin Yong fans and martial arts fans.
Zhuang Duffy ancient costume
The first heroine of the Golden Book, just find a resource café that can't be associated with Huang Rong anywhere, how dare Tsui Hark?
Huang Rong's serious mistakes in casting can almost see the film's unclear future. Of course, there is no meaning to praise the male protagonist here. It's just that Huang Rong can't do it, the condor can't do it, and whether the male protagonist is a piece of or a piece of jade is meaningless.
It should be noted that the pessimistic resistance to this new film may not be all for the two actors announced this time, perhaps for more Hong Kong film fans and martial arts fans, it is just a complete disappointment of Tsui Hark himself.
After the hero left, he became the sand sculpture.
In 1992, a film "The East is Undefeated" directly led to Tsui Hark being permanently pulled into the "adaptation blacklist" by Jin Yong, and Mr. Jin Yong once said to him: "Our friends do it, but my novel will not let you make it again." ”
In 2019, after Jin Yong's death, Tsui Hark remembered: "Sir's voice is like a voice, infinite gratitude, and all memories will live forever for future generations." The vicissitudes of the sea laugh and sing the floating waves, and the book sword says the rivers and lakes. The shadow of the wounded hero is now gone, and the peach blossom is also gloomy. ”
In the past two years, I don't know whether Mr. Jin Yong asked for a dream, or Tsui Hark broke the contract himself, this distinguished user in the "adaptation blacklist" tested the water every three or five days, and repeatedly announced the start of shooting the "Condor Trilogy", until Tu Qiqi saw it recently.
Looking at this monstrous posture and brazier lineup, this "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero" is likely to form a "trilogy" with "Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon: Nine Yang Shengong" and "Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon: The Wind of the Holy Fire" directed by Wang Jing.
Mr. Jin Yong has the knowledge under the spring, and he does not know how he will feel, whether the "friend who did it" back then should be completely pulled down now, just like Shi Nansheng.
Yes, since he parted ways with Shi Nansheng, Nansheng is still the same Nansheng he used to be, and Tsui Hark is no longer Tsui Hark back then. Your uncle is no longer the grandpa of the past, your eldest mother will always be your eldest mother, and Uncle Benshan sincerely does not deceive me.
Some fans can't help but wonder, Lin Qingxia, Wang Zuxian, and Guan Zhilin's martial arts prosperous era back then was Tsui Hark's own vision or Shi Nansheng's aesthetics? I have to say that this question is good, just because he asked it well.
After thinking about it carefully, I couldn't help but wonder - without Shi Nansheng's planning, stripping away Cheng Xiaodong's actions, leaving Situ Huizhuo and Zhang Tan's lines, what kind of Lushan true face will Tsui Hark's martial arts movies be?
Without the sharpness of "Golden Knife Lover" and smoothing the aura of "Dragon Gate Inn", can the special effects of only bells and whistles create a real martial arts? Is Tsui Hark the Cameron of the East or Van Debiao of Xiangjiang?
No need to rush, no need to be anxious, all the puzzles and all the truth, will be uncovered in this "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero".
It is worth mentioning that below the comment area of the hot search, the Virgin who is keen on "water drop fundraising" is late: Tsui Hark, how much debt do you owe, we crowdfund to help you pay it back!
Just these people, that's what Wong Kar-wai said when he filmed "The Ferryman", and I still don't know if they raised a penny for the sunglasses. It's your own business to commit slut, don't pull up crowdfunding from others, filmmakers are spoiled by your gang.
Then again, at the end of the 90s, Hong Kong films flourished and declined, and Hong Kong filmmakers went north to the mainland and began a long road of co-production, they originally wanted to seize a broader market with advanced film technology, but more than 20 years of history proved -
The road north to Shenzhou is not as easy as imagined. Although the renminbi is easy to earn, but if you want to stick to the bottom line of art and stand and earn money, the possibility is almost zero, it can really be said that stealing chickens does not erode rice, seducing cannot be anti-raped, and adding to the laughter.
In this tearful, sweaty and bloodless film journey, Chen Jiashang, Lin Chaoxian, Wang Jing, Liu Weiqiang, Liu Zhenwei, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kexin and a large number of iron bones that may not have gold under their knees have emerged successively, turning all the melodies into the main melody.
"Operation Mekong", "Operation Red Sea", "Chinese Captain", "Chinese Doctor", "Winning the Championship", "Changjin Lake" ... One after another, endlessly. IMHO, as a lover of the main theme, "Garland Under the Mountain" and "Bright Sword" are eternal gods.
Instead of listening to the foreign monks chanting blindly, it is better to look at the desert gun Shenyan Shuangying, at least he can tell me that there is no bullet in the enemy's gun.
Then again, in this group of "Wang Jingze" who make gold and real fragrance, Tsui Hark is undoubtedly their big brother.
In 1979, Tsui Hark's film debut "Butterfly Change" officially kicked off the new wave;
In 1986, Tsui Hark's "The True Color of Heroes" led Hong Kong films into the most golden era;
In 1993, Tsui Hark's "The Lion King" became the first Hong Kong film to participate in box office sharing in the mainland, opening a large-scale co-production cooperation between mainland and Hong Kong.
In 2021, "Changjin Lake" directed by Tsui Hark and Chen Kaige and Lin Chaoxian, with a cumulative box office of 5.695 billion, crushed the wolf warrior and became the overall box office champion in Chinese film history.
In the 40 years of Hong Kong film history and even in the history of Chinese-language film, Tsui Hark has continued to play a leading role, leading the trend and change of film time and again.
Coupled with the magic blessings of many supreme golden classics such as "Qiannu Ghost", "Smiling Rivers and Lakes", "Huang Feihong", "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "Green Snake", his transcendent status in the hearts of fans has long been unshakable.
His shining aura, his brilliant record, his extreme obsession with movies, his friendly attitude towards women... The combination of many factors makes the audience add the thickest filter to him, and the fans have the fullest tolerance for him, so that we often habitually ignore a problem -
In the past two decades, what has Tsui Hark filmed?
"Seven Swords", "Iron Triangle", "Di Renjie", "Longmen Flying Armor", "Outsmart the Tiger Mountain", "The Sword of the Third Young Master", "Journey to the West", "Qi Men Dun Jia", "Climber", "Seven-person Band", "Changjin Lake"...
These works, half of which are stunt blockbusters with the main theme, half are platter works with other directors, and a small part of the martial arts themes he is best at, and the Douban score is also stable below 7 points.
"Jianghu, I don't even know what Jianghu is."
For the main theme, the author does not think that Tsui Hark, Lin Chaoxian, Liu Weiqiang and other "red" people can be greedy for the merits of the sky, as long as it conforms to the core values of socialism, everyone can become a wolf warrior, which is not surprising.
Regarding platter movies, since "Rich Night Banquet" and "Double Dragon Club", Tsui Hark has not been absent, most of them have died nine lifetimes, can advocate luxury in front of the stage, prosperity behind the scenes, but can not compliment quality, at most it is an industry public relations ceremony.
As for the theme of martial arts, major masters such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Wen Rui'an, Huang Yi and so on have left a huge intangible cultural heritage for Hong Kong films, making martial arts filmmakers who are weak screenwriters Du Hashimoto even more lazy to use their brains.
It can be said that as the No. 1 film author in Tianzi, Tsui Hark has not produced an author's film for more than 20 years, and his proud aesthetic has also been degraded for a long time, although it is not necessarily worse than Wang Jing, but it is not necessarily compared with Wang Jing.
Moreover, Wang Jing still has the courage to spit on her own, unlike other businessmen who claim to be artists, who overlord the bow every time, and have to force others to say "I like it" after the whole rotten work, I really don't like it.
I really didn't think that those Hong Kong filmmakers who once held "going north to Shenzhou and restoring Hong Kong films" ended up killing the killer in the name of love in the name of compromise and betrayal.
While occupying the power of the film industry and not letting go, while shouting that the green and yellow do not answer, while going north to the mainland to participate in bad variety shows, while returning to the local area to control the Academy Awards, while strongly praising the "nineteen-year-old" Zhang Wanting, while ignoring the vigorous atmosphere of new directors and young actors.
The new wave of Hong Kong cinema is now struggling to break through, even more dangerous than it was 40 years ago. Despite being pessimistic, they should remain optimistic, they can certainly -
Like Tsui Hark forty years ago, in the face of the first type of danger, the butterfly changes and opens his own corridor of justice in the absence of a door to hell.
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