Recently, I just watched the Cantonese opera version of "White Snake Legend and Love", so I turned this old film out and watched it.
"Green Snake" is a 1993 film directed by Hong Kong director Xu Ke, with a Douban score of 8.6, ranking within the Top 250 of Douban, which can be said to be a good movie recognized by everyone.
Specific plot, I think for the 93 year film, plus the classic White Snake plot, I don't need to say more.
My ears also remembered Ye Qianwen's "female ghost of a thousand years ~ female ghost ah ~~", magic obstacle. When I was a kid, I really thought it was sung like this.
Speaking of songs, the songs in "Green Snake" are really very good, and the songs written by Hong Kong Huang Xia's master are really classics. Chen Shuhua's "Flying Streams of Light" and Xin Xiaoqi's "So in the World" are all too good to listen to.
I have to think of our current lack of domestic film music, the real box office department is hundreds of millions, and it will come to 4-5 billion at every turn, but the music in it is really lackluster.
Music is the worst place we have now, scripts, actors, directors, cinematography, special effects, these talents are many, but I think the most rare is music, music needs cultural literacy, higher than some others, not by surprise training, textbook teaching can improve.
At present, there is no Hong Kong Huang Xia or foreign Hans Zimmer and Hisaishi to let the same masters come out.
Back to the movie "Green Snake", in fact, I have never seen it. It is also good, if you look at it when you were a child, it is estimated that you will see that you are in love. At that time, it was also because of this that I did not go to the video hall to rent, in the end, children still like martial arts fights or science fiction movies.
Now that I'm older, I can taste more.
"Green Snake" is cloaked in an erotic coat, and lust runs through the entire movie, from the encounter with the mother in the bamboo forest of Fahai, to the white snake and Xu Xian, the green snake and Xu Xian, the green snake and the Fahai. A paragraph of lust is described, sex but not obscenity. This is also the characteristic of that era in Hong Kong, and there are not so many scruples and restrictions on filmmaking. Our release of a "Color Ring" in the mainland has caused an uproar, and there should not be so many topics in Hong Kong.
Someone on Douban specifically analyzed Fahai's feelings and desires in cultivating the Joyful Buddha, and said a lot of details about the cultivation between Fahai and the Green Snake. Others say it's about the love of the white snake and the green snake, and it's an LGBT movie.
But I think it's all appearances, like a lot of good movies, it's just a gimmick. Meet some low-level audiences by buying tickets into the theater by means.
And what is cultivation in the film, people, demons, and cultivators, how to break their cultivation barriers, is what Xu Ke wants to say.
Human nature is the most secular, and there are various advantages and disadvantages. Reading the books of the sages, the purpose of the practice is to obtain meritorious names. To put it more vulgarly, get rich by promoting officials, go home and marry a wife, and have a hot kangtou. The wife and children are big in heaven and earth, no matter what Dharma cultivation you have, what goblins are chaotic. However, he was timid and cowardly, and did not dare to fight. People can't see through it, and they don't want to see through it.
Demons, a hundred years of practice, a thousand years of practice, the purpose is to become a human being. Fahai said that he didn't expect that it was people who fought the Fa, and how remarkable it was. This is just our self-YY as human beings to make movies, how good it is to become an adult, and the ultimate goal of becoming a Buddha is not better.
The White Serpent said we were to be the spirits of all things.
The green snake didn't think anything of it, what good is there for people? If people have feelings, are demons ruthless? And you, as human beings, can't figure out what love is. When the green snake saw these things clearly, he did not have nostalgia for the human world. In fact, many films depict demons that are more affectionate than people.
Fahai represents the so-called righteous people, holding all kinds of power magic weapons, and if they want to get rid of demons, they will get rid of demons, and if they want to cast demons, they will cast demons. It's not that they don't show affection, but that his vision can only see one part, not the whole. Therefore, there will be the capture of spider spirits, and there will be the death of the monks of the Golden Mountain Temple. In fact, Fahai also has selfish desires, and his selfish desires are to become immortals and become Buddhas. Use the elimination of demons as a means to achieve their own personal goals.
Looking at what Fahai said, he was still only obsessed with his own merits, that is, his own cultivation.
Seeing this sentence of Fahai, there is an interesting place about our traditional values. You have done a good thing all your life, and finally you have done a bad thing, which is called "late festival is not guaranteed." And you have done a lifetime of bad things, and the most regretful enlightenment is called "putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the ground." My God, this can all become a Buddha. Fortunately, our current law does not do this, and whenever you do something bad, you will always be punished by the law.
Are people like Fahai often encountered in our current society?
Some people lust for power, such as Cao Pi's various behaviors in the new version of "Three Kingdoms", wearing armor to lead soldiers to the battlefield to kill the enemy, sacrificing his life to save Cao Cao, which is not for his future throne. But such a person should not be said to have been in the Wei state at that time, and if there is one now, it must also be from positive propaganda, only publicizing his justice, and will not mention his selfish desires, because this can satisfy the interests of the propagandists.
Some people have selfish desires, they do not have such a worldly desire for official positions, but they cannot avoid the psychological satisfaction they get when they are praised.
People who really want to do good deeds without desire and without demand, not without, but too few. It's also someone we really need to praise, and of course they don't care about that.
The people, demons, and monks in the film all have their own magic obstacles, they can't put it down, they all have attachments. So they can't become Buddhas in the end.