After 14 years, Tsui Hark, known as "Old Monster Xu", finally made another martial arts movie, and then came out of the mountain at the age of 75, which can't help but make people speculate, is it to earn milk powder money for children? Or is the martial arts complex too deep?
On the night of the Lunar New Year, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Man" began to compete with Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown 1900", "Fengshen Part II", and "Nezha's Demon Boy in the Sea" to start a fierce battle for box office supremacy. On the first day of release, its box office performance exceeded the 247 million mark.
Despite the relatively low film scheduling rate, this is quite an excellent result.
At present, the box office is predicted to be 1 billion yuan, and the return to cost has long been a certainty.
So the benefits are there, what is the word of mouth?
Judging from the feedback from the well-known Tiger Pounce platform, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great One" has received a whopping 9.1 rating, which is higher than the other three blockbusters and ranks first.
Tsui Hark, who has always taken an unusual path, was shocked at the beginning in terms of choosing actors, Zhuang Dafei's version of Huang Rong, plain-faced, and pretty Huang Rong was changed to a female fighter?
did not choose the actors according to the aesthetics of the original work, the traffic actor Xiao Zhan added an unknown newcomer, and the famous director Tsui Hark seems to have been bound to the word "rotten", so "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Man" was labeled as a bad movie before it was released.
However, since Tsui Hark's debut, he has not made a bad movie, how could he personally smash his golden signboard in his old age.
On the first day of the movie's release, the feature film was revealed, it turned out to be a pure martial arts film, and Tsui Hark once again let everyone see his true level!
Under his lens, the rivers and lakes are not the romantic freehand of Peach Blossom Island, but the vast grassland, as well as the magnificent and exciting spectacular battlefield.
From south to north, as far as the eye can see, there seems to be no boundary between heaven and earth, so vast that people feel their own insignificance and insignificance, no matter who they are, they are as small as a faint candle fluttering in the wind.
is worthy of being a veteran director, Tsui Hark is well versed in the beauty of light and shadow art, under the sunset, Guo Jing led the army in front, followed by the mighty Song army, at that moment, the audience couldn't see their faces clearly, only saw - Guo Jing, who was riding a horse, ran towards Xiangyang City without hesitation.
Don't brag or brag, to be honest, the lens aesthetics presented in this movie alone are enough for the directors of domestic entertainment to devote themselves to studying and learning for a lifetime.
From the eagle eagle soaring in the sky to the flag fluttering in the wind, the hunting sound, beautiful and Chinese romance, the whole scene is just like a far-reaching freehand landscape painting, its composition, its angle, random screenshot of a frame, are called a model of learning.
Looking at the theme again, the 75-year-old Tsui Hark directly and accurately extracted the core theme of the original "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" - the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people.
In the original work, Guo Jing before the age of 20 seemed to have divine help, and his life path was smooth. He was lucky to meet his beloved and was able to get to know Huang Rong and accompany him; With his own talent and hard work, he has practiced the supreme martial arts.
The movie quickly skipped these previous situations, but focused on the last few episodes of the original book, telling that Guo Jing fell into a low point in his life, he and Huang Rong were lost due to misunderstanding, and the 5 masters who had been taught since childhood also suffered misfortunes one after another and died in Huangquan, and even his mother Li Ping, who gave him life and teachings, also chose to commit suicide.
At the crossroads of life, Guo Jing faced the impermanence of fate, his heart was full of a deep sense of powerlessness, his lover, relatives, masters, and friends all left him, where should the young man go?
Fans came for Xiao Zhan, Guo Jing played by him, at first glance, he was too handsome, and people couldn't help but wonder, can he be so handsome can successfully control Guo Jing's honest and simple character?
However, after watching the movie, passers-by were also fans of him, and Guo Jing, interpreted by Xiao Zhan, gradually grew from an ignorant teenager to a mature and stable chivalrous man.
In this process, Xiao Zhan worked extraordinarily, and the clumsiness brought about by this effort strangely coincided with the character's characteristics. There is no need to deliberately perform many times, he is already Guo Jing standing there.
Huang Rong played by Zhuang Dafei does not match the American word, subverting the previous cognition, she has transformed into a righteous and enthusiastic, clever and intelligent beggar gang leader. Especially when Huang Rong first arrived in the rivers and lakes and pretended to be a little beggar, she played it, and she played it, and she was unique to the girl's playfulness.
Tsui Hark is undoubtedly a "beloved daughter", in the film, there is no common scene of Hua Zheng and Huang Rong competing for Guo Jing in the cliché, but it makes the two daughters sympathize with each other, and it seems that they hate each other late.
Zhang Wenxin, a newcomer who plays Princess Huazheng, is a highlight in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", showing the boldness and atmosphere in her character just right, she is an eagle in the desert, not a delicate girl, riding a horse galloping posture, heroic posture.
On the shore of the lake in the grassland, looking back at the moment, it was so beautiful that the audience's hearts were beautiful, and the natural and bright smile hit the soul, predicting that this girl Zhang Wenxin would be a little popular.
Even if the audience already knows the story of the Condor Shooting, the Chinese people have always been unable to refuse martial arts films. As a well-known detail control, when Tsui Hark filmed this film, he showed the audience a grand and shocking battle between Mengjin and Jin, with the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse deafening and shouting of killing one after another.
He put the imaginary martial arts scene on the big screen and split the principle of the moves, which not only avoided making the whole fight scene seem suspended and unreal, but also fully demonstrated its strong sense of strength and rhythm, which made people watch it energetically enough.
Ouyang Feng, played by Liang Jiahui, contracted the jokes of the movie, a hard-mouthed martial arts obsessive, although he is a bad guy, but the bad is cute, the bad is funny, and he pretends to be tough and unwilling to accept soft words, which adds a lot of comedy to this role.
And the facial makeup effect deliberately created for the actor once made the audience who was familiar with him unrecognizable, and he had become one with the character, as if the characters in the book had come out.
Movies are the art of the director, Tsui Hark wants to show a lot, two hours is not enough to watch, and finally there is an easter egg full of information, look at the meaning, it seems that it will be made into a series, but you must know that the story of the Condor Shooting has ended, and if Tsui Hark wants to continue filming, it is the story of Guo Jing and Huang Rong continuing to stick to Xiangyang, which corresponds to the plot at the end of "The Condor Heroes".
I don't know if this director, who is past his prime, can continue to maintain his energy and work hard to make the next one, anyway, the audience is looking forward to it!