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Zou Zhaolong once said: Now Xiao Xianrou can't carry a punch, is he worthy of being a (kung fu) actor?
But in a recent movie, he finally meets someone who can withstand dozens of his punches. He is Shi Xiaolong.
In the late winter of 1988, Shi Xiaolong was born in Dengfeng, Henan, less than 100 meters from the Shaolin Temple. His family has practiced martial arts for generations, and his father is a coach in a martial arts school.
The year when Shi Xiaolong was born coincided with the Year of the Dragon. In the 80s of the 20th century, the kung fu movie "Shaolin Temple" starring Jet Li became popular. Chen Tongshan said: "There are Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the south, and there should be dragons in the north." So he named his son Chen Xiaolong, and "Shi Xiaolong" was the legal name given by the Shaolin Temple.
In 1993, 4-year-old Shi Xiaolong visited Taiwan, China with the Songshan Shaolin Temple Cultural Group, which caused quite a stir in the local area. Especially four-year-old Shi Xiaolong, who looks very smart and has good kung fu. Taiwanese and Southeast Asian newspapers described him as a "magical Shaolin boy" and "Shaolin little Jet Li".
During this period, Taiwan's Changhong Film and Television Company came to the door, found Shi Xiaolong to make a movie, and even wrote a script for the movie.
In 1994, 5-year-old Shi Xiaolong and 4-year-old Hao Shaowen starred in the movie "Laughing Forest Kid". Hao Shaowen plays a little monk with a bald head and sunglasses, and Shi Xiaolong plays a kung fu little monk with a pacifier. Caught the attention of the audience.
When Shi Xiaolong was young, if he wanted to hang out in Weiya, he had to be Hao Shaowen's stand-in. According to Shi Xiaolong's impression, he has cooperated with Wu Mengda and Hao Shaowen for many years, and the two always eat or lie next to each other. And I filmed on the sidelines, it's normal to bleed and hurt.
Shi Xiaolong's hottest era was actually in time for the finale of action kung fu comedies. By 2000, Hong Kong and Taiwan's kung fu films were no longer good. Zhan Zhao played a child star in "Young Bao Qingtian" and "Continuing Life".
In 2003, Shi Xiaolong bid farewell to the film industry to study abroad. When he returned home after graduation, he was 20 years old. The entire industry no longer has the status of kung fu stars. Jet Li has gradually faded out, and regular action actors have lost their jobs.
Shi Xiaolong also went with the flow. In recent years, people have been impressed by his cameo in "Ip Man 2" and Zhao Wenzhuo's starring role in "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia", but netizens believe that although he is in good shape, he no longer has the aura of the past.
There has been a lot of discussion about him over the years, but most have missed the point. Among the kung fu child stars, only he and Semyon are still discussing, because they are still in the industry, and most of them have disappeared.
No young hero can defeat time, nor the kung fu kid who once amazed the world.
Shi Xiaolong, 34, has long lost his former momentum, but the stubborn boy who wept and mourned for Weiya at the age of 4 seems unwilling to compromise on this.
Just today, Shi Xiaolong's new movie "Truant Detective" directed and starred was released.
In the silence of kung fu movies, it is very difficult to "kill" a "blood stain"!
However, Shi Xiaolong fought! Old partner, looking for Hao Shaowen, Wu Mengda is dead, looking for Liu Tianzuo as Uncle Da, kung fu star, looking for Zou Zhaolong, Xu Shaoqiang.
For the style of the film, only one word is emphasized, Hong Kong style!
Verbal evaluation, look at Douban, there are many positive reviews!
The praise was surprisingly unanimous.
"Hardcore, good!" "The film is smooth and full of sincerity!" "The duel between Shi Xiaolong and Zou Zhaolong is a highlight."
What about word-of-mouth effect?
After 3 hours of broadcasting, it won the first place in the sky-high price list!
In the face of doubts from all sides and the decline of kung fu, Shi Xiaolong's solution is to talk less and do more, and use kung fu and movies to fight back.
Success or failure, the kung fu is still there.
1. The movie is a second, the opening scene is actually a kung fu fight, the action scenes are cool from beginning to end, this is a real kung fu movie
To be honest, I've seen enough of the slow motion + stand-in action scenes.
After watching the opening of "Truant Detective", the first thing that comes to mind is Tsui Hark's "Black Man", and the day when the action movie was still starred by kung fu actors themselves.
The story begins in Shanghai in the Republic of China.
A sister-in-law of a gangster in Shanghai was reported for selling opium and was taken to the police station, but easily walked out of the police station.
The detective in the patrol room played by Shi Xiaolong looked at her elegant walking back, and her eyes were on fire.
As the camera turns, the female boss returns to her opium warehouse, throws a wine bottle at the whistleblower's head, and kills her on the spot. Remember this character, he will be the biggest foreshadowing of the film's key reversal.
The camera pans again, and a masked man rides a motorcycle straight to the warehouse.
Then the speeding car rushed into the warehouse like lightning, and the guards caused the guys to rush up as well.
Shi Xiaolong flicked the tail of the crowd with a kite on his motorcycle, and then flew through the gap in the warehouse.
The result is a reversal. Just behind the warehouse, Chang Wei saw, ah no, another masked guest played by Zou Zhaolong, which surprised him: in less than three minutes, two kung fu stars who could still play in the Chinese film industry met, and they didn't say anything. He was about to do this, but was scattered by bullets from the gang guards.
Good guys, this tense BGM, hardcore and tense atmosphere, very similar to the style of old Hong Kong movies.
Stimulate! Surprise!
The next director, Shi Xiaolong, did not waste a second.
I haven't seen such a good drama for a long time.
The iron rule of Hong Kong movies is department store kung fu.
There were too many guards in the warehouse at the last second, and I couldn't wait to rush up and kill them.
In the next second, Shi Xiaolong suddenly struck, fast as a gust of wind, strangled the opponent's throat, attacked hard, shot by shot, and instantly knocked out most of the people.
Shi Xiaolong walked through the warehouse, elegant and agile, like ink. Also, Zou Zhaolong, who can still be beaten if he is lame in the movie, and there are a few shrimp soldiers and crab generals, how to fight?
Fighting in the Hong Kong film warehouse is another iron law, and it is impossible not to have additional problems.
Met, met the beautiful reporter.
The rogue sister-in-law was angry, "Where I am small, I still bring someone to shoot me?" "Female reporter: I don't know him, I'm here to expose you.
Shi Xiaolong's line is simpler: I'm here to kill you.
The next second, he flashed and beat his sister-in-law to the ground, and then he flashed his hand and stuffed the grenade into his sister-in-law's mouth.
Then he picked up the female reporter and drove straight out of the warehouse.
The violent blast wave set off a wave of gas behind the motorcycle, and the two galloped all the way, completely retreating into the sky full of fireworks.
I looked at my watch and the movie only started 7 minutes.
Needless to say, I'm already in the game.
These 7 minutes let me see the advantages of an excellent traditional Hong Kong-style action movie.
Explosive real kung fu scenes, super fast plot rhythm, hardcore action + gunfights, clean action scenes and scenes where two heroes meet.
Who says that domestic movies can't make real kung fu action movies? Isn't this coming?
2. Put this film together with other slow-motion "spinning and jumping" action movies, and the difference is obvious
It can be felt from the title of the movie that Shi Xiaolong is an apprentice in Hong Kong movies.
The title is taken from Xing Ye's "Truant Weilong". The whole movie combines the comedy of "Truant Weilong", the action texture of "Black Man" + masked hero, and the gripping reasoning of "Young Bao Qingtian".
Shi Xiaolong seems to inject everything he learned as a child into the movie, kneading comedy, action and suspense together, combined with Hao Shaowen, which seems to be a gift to the post-80s audience.
Although they are all established routines familiar to the audience, the film takes this routine to the extreme: to create an action movie that puts the audience's adrenaline pumping.
First, a strong reversal.
The main line structure of the film is very clear. One is that Chen Hu (Shi Xiaolong), who has just joined the Shanghai police station, is ordered to investigate a bizarre rickshaw murder case. The late He Manjun was the son of a high-ranking official in Shanghai and a student at St. Martin's High School.
To this end, Chen Hu disguised himself as a student and infiltrated the school to investigate.
Second, in the process of investigating the case, he competed with various forces.
The two are interspersed, and the story is concise and clear, but there are many twists and turns.
For example, in the beginning, police relied on cufflinks found at crime scenes to identify the killer.
Chen Hu soon discovered that missing a button was a bully in the class, who was also the mayor's son.
Of course, the police chief did not dare to close the case, forcing Chen Hu to go back and continue the investigation.
But this is clearly just a trap set by the screenwriters.
For example, Chen Hu found during his investigation that a female student was raped by her murdered son-in-law.
Murder for revenge? Seemingly reasonable, but superficial facts are not real facts.
Finally, behind the many reversals is the excavation of the theme of the film.
Don't forget, there is also an important role in the movie, which is the mysterious guest played by Zou Zhaolong and the school's physical education teacher.
He has been selling tobacco at school since he got tobacco from the gang boss in the warehouse chaos, so he killed the man after his son accidentally found out?
It can only be said that the final result was completely unexpected.
The real killer alone has undergone at least five reversals.
Just like the "Young Bao Qingtian" that Shi Xiaolong participated in that year, until the end, the variables will always exist.
And the biggest tension is not who the murderer is, but Chen Hu, who is so jealous, why did he finally let go of the murderer?
The other is real kung fu.
For a good action movie, in addition to a good story, touching scenes are especially important. Luckily, Truant Detective does a great job of this.
The whole movie helps action movie lovers release a long-suppressed release: there have been too few good kung fu movies, cool movies, and blockbusters in recent years.
We really need visual relaxation to get the adrenaline pumping.
The movie satisfies you in every way.
The main course of the film is the action performance, and the taste is layered.
Big action scenes, four episodes.
Except for the opening scene, the last three rooms are different: the nightclub, the campus, and the learning equipment room.
The first big action scene was about joy.
Shi Xiaolong follows the undercover policeman played by Liu Tianzuo into a nightclub to investigate the case, and finally lures the number one thug into the hands of the gangsters of Shangao.
As soon as Shi Xiaolong made a move, he subdued the other punks with a few moves.
But he's not a brainless machismo with his bare hands. He can also respond flexibly to huge opponents.
The frontal attack is flawless, and the side attack is useless, just attack the opponent's lower body. As a result, the gangster who bounced up in the air fell directly on the body of the campus overlord.
The bully man was immediately beaten by the rogue boy who ran away. Actual!
The second fight scene was refreshing.
The gangsters come to torture the female students, and the kind school bully leads the students to fight wits and courage with the gangsters.
Needless to say, it's unbeatable and a decent long-range shot.
Shi Xiaolong appeared as a whirlwind boy and used a baseball bat above 1V to show the audience a joyful gangster fight.
From tight to open, from dogfight to multiplayer dogfighting.
Shi Xiaolong's body was as light as a swallow, shuttling through the bandits like lightning.
A baseball bat, the whole process is done in one go, but clean and tidy.
The use of kung fu is fast, accurate, ruthless, and without any fancy.
The speed of action seems to have doubled, and the power has been upgraded. The male protagonist is addictive, and the visual impact is extremely eye-catching.
The third action scene is also the long-awaited final showdown for fans of kung fu movies, full of realism.
Zou Zhaolong against Shi Xiaolong.
In the equipment room, Zou Zhaolong and Shi Xiaolong fought in the dark, the flow of light and shadow, and the real kung fu confrontation was really amazing.
1v1 live battles. Without further ado, just do it!
The planning of tight spaces and the use of environmental weapons are top-notch.
The first thing that struck me was the pain flowing on the screen. The action of the master duel is not posing, nor is it shouting.
This is a real blow.
The instrument room is neatly arranged with sandbags and walls, and the roaring flames make every movement of the hit more shocking and painful, and the cramped space reflects Shi Xiaolong's lightning-like power. The perspective immediately reaps the ultimate thrill of "high-intensity confrontation".
The action scenes in the film do not blindly pursue the elegant feeling of slow-motion blockbusters.
On the contrary, there are many "breaths" between movements: gasping, stiff limbs after injury, moans...
This is the truth behind kung fu movies.
There is also a sense of flow between champions.
Kung Fu fans haven't seen this feeling for a long time.
As soon as this match started, Zou Zhaolong had the upper hand. But after Shi Xiaolong figured out the opponent's strategy, he quickly changed his style of play and adopted the lock-throat melee combat tactic, completely overwhelming evil.
In the end, Zou Zhaolong, who pretended to be lame, was really "paralyzed" by Shi Xiaolong, and the audience breathed a sigh of relief.
In this action scene, the sound of punching eardrums is deafening, and punches and feet are as fast as lightning.
This is called a kung fu movie!
The third is to have feelings.
"Truant Detective" is not a pure kung fu movie.
There are many elements mixed in with it, such as suspenseful reasoning and laughter that pops up from time to time. The emotional part comes from Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen in the same frame.
There is a scene in the film where Hao Shaowen, who is washing the classroom together, suddenly looks at Shi Xiaolong seriously and says that we seem to have met somewhere.
Then the movie showed the childhood BGM dedicated to Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen, and someone immediately said in the barrage: If only Uncle Da was there.
As soon as this sentence comes out, no one can break the defense.
Shi Xiaolong really worked hard to make this movie.
3, Shi Xiaolong and Zou Zhaolong have a fierce conflict, but Zou Zhaolong's acting skills are still better
When Shi Xiaolong recruited Zou Zhaolong to play the last villain, he clearly adopted the setting of two male protagonists facing off against each other and strong confrontation.
Judging from the kung fu performance in the film, Shi Xiaolong's kung fu has not lost its previous sense of speed, but also has a sense of power.
The 55-year-old Zou Zhaolong's physical flexibility and technology are no less than those of "The Matrix".
Therefore, it was the last brilliant championship game.
Zou Zhaolong's taekwondo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu were both used in this competition. In several photos, I saw Zou Zhaolong's fierce expression and ferocious movements, and the scene of him and Donnie Yen fighting in "The Fuse" came to mind.
But compared to before, Zou Zhaolong's character in this movie is more complicated.
The villain he played once participated in the Northern Expedition and shed blood for the revolution, but because he was unwilling to join forces with his superiors to sell cigarettes, he was demoted to a school as a sports instructor, so he became the opposite of the past.
Zou Zhaolong, who plays the villain, does not need lines, just one look and one look is enough to make the audience dream back to the past.
But in contrast, the male protagonist's jealous and hateful character is somewhat thin and one-sided.
The villain played by Zou Zhaolong supported the villain role with his personal charm.
Especially after being arrested, Zou Zhaolong, who had lost his legs, said in the fire: "Detective, aren't you hot? Can you take me away? "Fun and cute!
55-year-old Zou Zhaolong, martial arts aside, still shows the charm of a villain in literary dramas.
4. The printed Shi Xiaolong is the familiar Shi Xiaolong. Hong Kong kung fu films are not dead.
Of course, Truant Detective isn't perfect. There are even a lot of disadvantages.
As the director, Shi Xiaolong wanted too much, and he was an undercover agent at the school, and the female teacher fell in love with the masked man, and the case was closed.
For example, the face of the male protagonist. In fact, except for the character of Zou Zhaolong, all other characters lack a more detailed description.
The film is too secondary, and the male protagonist of the finale takes a group of students to challenge the gangster, which is actually too hot-blooded.
But aside from these, the overall look and feel of the film is still very good, especially the hard kung fu style pursued by Shi Xiaolong is undoubtedly excellent.
The action scenes in the film are remarkable, and several fight scenes at least capture the essence of Hong Kong-style kung fu action movies, without wasting a minute and second of the audience's time.
Some people say that the film is at best the lower middle level of Hong Kong kung fu films in the 80s of the 20th century.
If that's the case, isn't Shi Xiaolong commendable?
I roughly calculated that pure action scenes account for 1/4 of the 90-minute film, which can be said to be full.
Smooth and exciting, almost reproducing the feeling of Hong Kong action movies in the last century.
It can be seen from Zhongye that director Shi Xiaolong's professionalism, seriousness and respect for the career of kung fu films. and awe.
But why are some viewers not used to watching it?
Because this is indeed a film with more emotion than substance and an audience deviating from the mainstream.
What's even more brutal is that audiences who have not experienced the golden age of Hong Kong kung fu films can hardly appreciate the joy conveyed by the film.
But "Shi Xiaolong" is still stuck in the golden age of kung fu films.
In the 70s of the 20th century, Bruce Lee was born, opening a new era of action movies with a new hardcore kung fu combining Chinese and Western styles.
In the 80s of the 20th century, Jackie Chan incorporated comedy into kung fu films;
In the 90s of the 20th century, Tsui Hark injected flying kung fu films, and also found great spiritual support for martial arts kung fu films.
After the new millennium, Donnie Yen incorporated techniques such as mixed martial arts and Muay Thai, moving closer to the realistic style of physical strikes.
But Donnie Yen's "Ip Man 4" is also considered the farewell song of kung fu films.
In this era when "Avatar 2" made visual effects popular all over the world, in kung fu movies where two people stand on the table and fight back and forth, two fists are no match for four hands.
All of this tells you that you'll never go back to the golden age of kung fu movies.
However, Shi Xiaolong's efforts could not turn the tide.
But. At least he's still fighting desperately, isn't he?
Look at his battle with Zou Zhaolong, one move to catch the ball, one move to break the wrist, one move to twist the leg, from the freehand environment to the clear and neat melee, the tension between the virtual and the real is full, the action is logical and direct, and the shot is cool.
After the game, Zou Zhaolong gave Shi Xiaolong a big hug.
After all, Shi Xiaolong used enough wonderful fights to earn back face for kung fu films, and then his face was full of sincerity.
The brilliance and hope of kung fu martial arts flow and continue in the fists, feet, light and shadow of generations of kung fu stars. A generation of filmmakers is aging, and the generation of Shi Xiaolong and Xie Miao seems to be the last kung fu stars.
Heroes will eventually be obliterated by time.
But there are still people who fight, and the history of kung fu action movies never ends.
Just like the famous quote of Mr. Lu Xun's "Hot Wind" at the end of the egg: there is a little heat, there is a little light, just like a firefly, it can also emit a little light in the dark, without waiting for a flashlight. Henceforth, if there is no torch: I am the only light.
You can say that again! From now on, if there is no torch, they are the only light of Chinese true kung fu.
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