Before seeing the comments of others, it was said that "Shaolin Thirty-Six Rooms" is completely a Shaolin Kung Fu primer. Very interesting point of view, roughly imagined, feel that the story is very unobtrusive, from the beginning to the end is the scene of practicing in the Shaolin Temple.
I really watched the film and found that it was a little different, not that the critic was wrong, but that the author looked at the problem from another perspective.
On closer inspection, the plot of this film is quite exciting:
First, a large framework of anti-Qing restoration was set up, and many influential figures of that period appeared, and the small details were not ambiguous;
Second, the display of kung fu is not only more exciting, but also has a correction function.
Third, the film will make everyone feel suddenly enlightened, saying that "the original three-cut stick was invented in this way" and "the thirty-sixth room of the Shaolin Temple appeared in this way", which is more knowledgeable.
On the whole, it can be called an edutainment film.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > Shaolin master cultivation record</h1>
The biggest surprise of this film is that although the film is called "Thirty-Six Rooms of Shaolin", it is actually a biopic of the legendary monk Sande in the history of the Shaolin Temple.
The protagonist Liu Yude, a seafood shop in Guangzhou Shaodong, is naughty and hot-blooded, and was found by the Qing soldiers when he helped smuggle anti-Qing restoration materials, and he was not only the only friend who was robbed of his home but also involved in the tragic death of his father and the only friend who did things.
Because he heard that the Shaolin Temple martial arts world for the first time to go to the Shaolin Temple to learn art, he was talented and willing to work hard, five years of kung fu to learn Shaolin Thirty-five Room Kung Fu, became a miracle in the history of the Shaolin Temple. When Yicheng descended the mountain, he killed and killed the Qing court dogs that were anti-Qing righteous land, and revenge for personal revenge also caused national hatred.
Back on the mountain, he founded the 36th Shaolin House, which was widely collected to teach martial arts to lay young people, and Shaolin Kung Fu has been passed down to the people ever since.
For one hundred and ten minutes of the movie, Shaolin Learn Kung Fu is almost fifty minutes short, and the remaining sixty minutes are divided into two.
The first forty minutes are of a hot-blooded teenager, with a desire to serve the country, but lack of practical ability, which includes experience in doing things and including boxing; the last twenty minutes are full of revenge, all the way down, to the skill, extremely painful.
The film is a traditional sequential structure, and all the films directed by Liu Jialiang are not fancy, except for kung fu. Therefore, we can see that in this film: there are feelings, and there are also logical flaws.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > patriotic feelings</h1>
The film opens with the surname of Zheng Chenggong going to Guangzhou to assassinate Lord Tiechai, but he did not know that the Qing court had already discovered that the Guangzhou general Tianda would make a plan, which caused Zheng Chenggong's subordinates to appear and be brutally killed and exposed to the public.
Liu Yude and two other young people were both students at a school, and their teacher's surname was He, and he was an anti-Qing righteous soldier. Liu Yude and two classmates visited the teacher at night and were indignant at the Qing court's bullying of the Han people.
Hong Kong films are very different from the mainland, patriotism is not lacking, at least in the film we should pay more attention to this aspect, but when it comes to a sharp performance, it is always Hong Kong films that win. Saying they're naïve and direct doesn't seem respectful enough, but they really don't want that much. In fact, it is very good and conducive to communication with the audience.
The discussion between Liu Yude and others and teachers about bowing their heads and severing their heads was simple and powerful, and they were very touched when they watched. Liu Yude said: It is said that under the roof of man, we have to bow our heads, and we live a lifetime with our heads down, so should our children and grandchildren also bow their heads for a lifetime? Teacher He said: If you don't bow your head, you have to cut off your head, and a classmate said that he is not afraid of cutting off his head.
Teacher He praised him well, but everyone is not afraid of breaking their heads, if everyone is not afraid of severed heads, there is no need to bow their heads.
This last sentence is very bone-chilling. Liu Jialiang is an older generation of people who practice martial arts, since childhood, the bones are very hard, although not a screenwriter, but such lines naturally won his heart. Speaking of him, he is also a direct descendant of Huang Feihong, and Xu Ke's Huang Feihong series has always held high the patriotic banner.
At first, Master Liu looked down on Xu Ke's exaggerated and unrealistic kung fu, but the national difficulties were in charge, and what was divided into each other, otherwise it was the fate of Master Yan Zhendong, which was really regrettable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > logical flaw</h1>
After praising the advantages of this movie, the following pick and choose faults, in fact, do not pick, because the faults are obvious.
Liu Yude praised him as a hero and a good man to the corpse of the Taiwanese assassin, and was beaten by the chief soldier Tang San, but fortunately he was rescued by the local local security, and Tang San asked if the local security community knew his name, and the local security naturally knew. After escaping from the dangerous situation, Di Bao explained to Liu Yude and others that Tang San wanted to mean money and power to want women.
Tang San wanted to say the meaning of this sentence, and the intention of the di bao to understand this sentence was to ask Liu Yude to mean it. As a result, not only did he not want it here, until the end of the hongguan big beheading several eight pieces did not see him want anything, from the beginning to the end is a super iron court man, not good to hear is the eagle dog, at best it is loyal and dutiful.
This kind of problem is a small flaw, but it is the consistent weakness of Liu Jialiang's films.
Master Liu Jialiang's films do not need to care about these at all, only to see that kung fu has exceeded the value of returning to the box office. "Shaolin Thirty-Six Rooms" let Liu Jiahui go to the peak of his career, and has become an irreplaceable bald emperor in the hearts of many movie fans for decades, there is absolutely no half falsehood, that is all the world that Er Liu has played out bit by bit!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > the inevitable outcome</h1>
At the end of the film, according to the logic of such films, the killing of Tianda is an inevitable result, but it must also be said in a fight.
This time was different, when he drew his double knife, he knew that this villain would undoubtedly die. Perhaps by coincidence, could the abbot of the House of Precepts really have insight into the opportunity early on? Heaven rewards diligence, Liu Yude can invent the three sticks is the result of several years of hard training, but his killing of Tianda is not so much a kung fu, but rather the advantage of advanced weapons over backward weapons, Tianda has no need to fight at all.
This man is damned, but he is really unlucky. Master Liu Jialiang's approach to dealing with the bad guys is unique. Such a plot is to say that it is rough, or to know the rules of the game of action movies of that era. But then again, compared to the current martial arts movie action movies, I prefer to watch "Shaolin Thirty-Six Rooms" because it shows the real kung fu.