The TV series "Tianlong Babu" is being broadcast on the CCTV TV drama channel. Because the drama is based on the original novel of Mr. Jin Yong, it is highly sought after by fans. After many episodes of chasing the drama, the old editor believes that director Yu Rongguang is obviously well versed in "martial arts philosophy", and "Tianlong Babu" has made the taste of the real Mr. Jin Yong. And this taste is mainly reflected in the three protagonists of Qiao Feng, Duan Yu and Xuan Zhu. Allow me to go through them one by one.
Let's start with Qiao Feng. To present the role of Qiao Feng, you need to have three realms of the character. Mr. Jin Yong's good creation and yu Rongguang's good restoration are also reflected in these three realms. The first realm, the brave martial realm of the Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon. The second realm, the Arjuna-style realm of heroic romanticism. The third realm, the Confucian spiritual realm of the homeland. Jin Yong Wuxia, on the surface, is a story, but when viewed seriously, it is a traditional Chinese culture and philosophical belief, and it is the spiritual character of Chinese.
Director Yu Rongguang firmly grasped these three realms of Qiao Feng in "Tianlong Eight Parts" and displayed them clearly and clearly with the language of the lens. In the first realm, the Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms were very brave and martial, and they could take the first rank of general among the ten thousand armies. In the plot content, Qiao Feng once went deep into the Liao army camp head-on and captured the enemy commander alive. Director Yu Rongguang filmed it, which can be described as a full realm, showing that Qiao Feng has the courage of ten thousand improper. However, the spirit of courage and martial arts is not bloody violence, but "peace is precious". Therefore, in the plot, Qiao Feng and Murong Fu compete, and when the point is reached, Qiao Feng captures the commander of the Liao Army, and is still the main persuasion. This is the spirit of courage and martial arts in traditional Chinese culture, Mr. Jin Yong wrote well, and director Yu Rongguang grasped it steadily!
The second realm, Aju-style heroic romanticism, is an important stroke to portray martial arts heroes, Da ze and help the world, and retire to the love of children. In "Tianlong Eight Parts" directed by Yu Rongguang, he well captured the charm of Mr. Jin Yong's Aju, and for Qiao Feng, Da guarded the world and retreated to guard Aju. This tension in the love of children and daughters comes from the high-level pursuit of martial arts heroes for their own moral conduct. In Director Yu Rongguang's "Tianlong Babu", the audience can see the cleanliness and purity of a hero. The content of love is also part of one's spiritual beliefs, and a promise will be practiced throughout life.
The third realm, the Confucian spiritual realm of the homeland. Many of our martial arts works are easy to grasp the love of our daughters and ignore the home country and the world. As everyone knows, the greatest essence of Jin Yong's martial arts is precisely this confucian realm of the family and the world. In his martial arts novels, Mr. Jin Yong is full of beautiful imagination for the culture of the Central Plains and a sense of spiritual inheritance of the characters. Director Yu Rongguang accurately grasped this point, in "Tianlong Eight Parts", the opening is the content of Qiao Feng for the country and the people, bravely breaking into the enemy camp, saving the people, sacrificing life and forgetting death. There is a detail in the play, when Xiao Qiao Feng visited the Wang Gang Lord, he took the family country and the world as the great faith and righteousness, and won the affirmation of the Wang Gang Lord.
The above three realms are clearly presented in Director Rongguang's "Tianlong Eight Parts". The spirit of bravery but not exhaustive redemption, the pure and faithful love pursuit, and the belief and sense of responsibility of Confucianism as their own responsibility, in this TV series, all appear very accurately in the role of Qiao Feng. Director Yu Rongguang did not subtract from mr. Jin Yong's martial arts spirit, but has always followed mr. Jin Yong's footsteps and inherited the spirit of Chinese martial arts.
Let's talk about Duan Yu. In Yu Rongguang's "Tianlong Eight Parts", the opening of the multi-episode content, Duan Yu's story is the most. This is a very noteworthy way of creating. Mr. Jin Yong's Duan Yu is similar to Mr. Cao Xueqin's Jia Baoyu. However, in the martial arts world, Jia Baoyu, who does not teach the content of the discipline, has become a duan reputation for not learning martial arts. Whether it is Jia Baoyu or Duan Yu, it is the most noble content paradigm in the character of the Chinese people - it is precisely this kind of childlike heart that the Literati of China have pursued.
Director Yu Rongguang in the TV series "Tianlong Eight Parts", just right to pinch this sense of nobility in Duan Yu's body, especially good at showing the character's childlike temperament: with a childlike mind, to face this world of "eryu and self-deception", and finally ended with a child's victory, which is the greatest sense of strength that Jin Yong martial arts give to the world. In the TV series directed by Yu Rongguang, Duan Yu's temperament is fully interpreted. On the woman's side, Duan Yu pursues not the desire of the body, but the aesthetic aesthetics of the soul dimension; on the side of martial arts, Duan Yu does not learn martial arts, is forced to learn, but only protects himself, saves people, and definitely does not harm people.
Director Yu Rongguang is well versed in the spirit of Jin Yong's martial arts, so he put Duan Yu's story at the forefront at the beginning. The beauty of Duan Yu's soul is the "spiritual secret" of a real martial arts character against the world of "Eryu I deceive". This version of "Tianlong Babu" released this Jia Baoyu-style spiritual aesthetic in advance, which had at least two functions. The first point is to form a spiritual guarantee for the subsequent worship of Qiao Feng, Duan Yu and Xuan Zhu, this kind of jianghu brotherhood does not originate from "pulling gangs and factions", but from clean and pure mutual appreciation in the spiritual dimension; the second point is to use the most beautiful soul to fight against the dirty martial forest. Duan Yu is like a mirror, on the one hand, he reflects his own era and characters, and on the other hand, he illuminates the readers and the audience. In the plot before "Tianlong Eight Parts", the purer duan yu's temperament, the more it can build momentum for the subsequent plot. Director Yu Rongguang's ingenuity is here.
Finally, let's talk about virtual bamboo. In the opening plot of the TV series "Tianlong Eight Parts", the content of the virtual bamboo is not much, but it can be regarded as going hand in hand, even if there are few bridges, but the content is accurate and sound. After the broadcast of "Tianlong Eight Parts" more than halfway through, the role of virtual bamboo drama increased. Mr. Jin Yong's virtual bamboo seems to have mediocre qualifications, but he carries the idea of Shijia in traditional Chinese culture. In Chinese philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism have always been inseparable from each other, and the thought of the Interpreters has long been part of Chinese philosophy. The dialectical view, the equality of all sentient beings, and even the harmonious relationship between man and nature in the Thinking of the Interpreters are all at the level of modern philosophy.
These contents are in Rong Guang's "Tianlong Eight Parts", which are completely inherited from the original work of Mr. Jin Yong. For example, as soon as The Virtual Bamboo appeared, he was a young monk with mediocre qualifications, and he did not complain or be angry at the disdain of his brothers. Later, before following the teacher's father down the mountain, he was ridiculed by his brothers, and the teacher's Dharma explanation also showed the philosophical potential of the equality of all sentient beings. It is worth noting that the appearance of the virtual bamboo in the Shaolin Temple began with the protection of a bug with both hands. The ultimate of philosophy is actually this great compassion of man in nature. Yu Guangrong's "Tianlong Babu" grasped it too accurately!
The essence of Jin Yong's martial arts lies not only in the story, but also in the characters above the story, the spirit above the characters, and the traditional Chinese culture in the dimension of spiritual belief. In jin yong martial arts, we can see the purest and cleanest soul. Director Yu Rongguang is obviously well versed in this way, and his "Tianlong Babu" is not only full of story sense, but also paints dragons and tigers, and the characters are spiritual and full of philosophical taste. Here, we can see the holiest and noblest side of Chinese culture. Such a martial arts drama deserves praise. (Text/Ma Qingyun)