"Sword Rain", which was released in China on September 28, 2010, was suppressed by "Di Renjie" who started from the same starting line in the National Day file of that year, and after a short one-month scheduling, it lost all the way to the box office of less than 50 million, which was a sloppy end, but it was a pity that a good story and a group of good actors were born.
The decline of martial arts films has become a major trend, as a unique genre film in China, with the end of the golden period of Hong Kong and Taiwan films, it is gradually entering a downward trend. It is not that the film is not well made, but with the introduction of foreign films and the broadening of the public's vision, the group of moviegoers has not had such a high enthusiasm.
In Xu Haofeng's book "Knives and Stars", it was mentioned that why martial arts films would become unique to China, because the inferiority and weakness of the Chinese people at that time, lack of what to think, and what they longed for were naturally reflected in the creation of film art. And now that the country is prosperous and the people are strong, it is conceivable that there is no need to prove to the world that "east Asia has no disease".
Of course, Jin Kejijun does not want to discuss such a heavy and big topic here, but simply wants to recommend such a more interesting old film "Sword Rain" to everyone.
"Sword Rain" is a costume martial arts film produced by Wu Yusen and co-directed by Su Zhaobin, and co-starring Yang Ziqiong, Zheng Yusheng, Wang Xuexi, Xu Xiyuan and so on. The film tells the story of "Zeng Jing", a female killer who retired to the jianghu, hoping to live an ordinary life with the small town messenger youth "Jiang Asheng", but because of the possession of the jianghu holy relics, he was involved in bloody storms. The film was released in China on September 28, 2010. Netizens once jokingly called the film "a tragic case caused by a corpse", and the core point of the whole film focused on the corpse of this legendary jianghu holy relic, the high monk Rama.
The high monk Rama, who came from afar from Tianzhu, sat in the Central Plains and left his body as the final proof of his journey in this mortal world. And this body is said to contain the unique martial arts left by Rama after enlightenment, which has become the object of contention among the jianghu people. In the scramble, Rama's body was divided into upper and lower halves, and the upper half somehow fell into the hands of the first assistant Zhang Hairui, and because of his guilt, the Zhang family was destroyed by the BlackStone Organization.
The famous Black Stone in the jianghu is a killer organization specializing in assassination and assassination, led by a mysterious person named Reincarnation King (played by Wang Xuexi), who has three masters under him: Drizzle (played by Lin Xilei), Lei Bin (played by Yu Wenle), and Lian Sheng (played by Dai Liren).
When the Zhang family was destroyed, Drizzle escaped with Rama's body and defected from the BlackStone Organization, and with the help of the jianghu ghost doctor Li Ghost Hand (played by Jin Shijie), he changed his face and transformed into Zeng Jing (played by Yang Ziqiong), a civilian woman selling cloth in a small town, and under the mediation of Cai Po (played by Bao Qijing), who sold dried fruits in the city, he married Jiang Asheng (played by Zheng Yusheng), an honest person who delivered letters. I wanted to spend a lifetime of drizzle on this occasion, but in a robbery of the money house, I showed my horse's feet, and finally I was found by BlackStone.
Lei Bin, Lian Sheng came to the door one after another, and ye Xiqing (played by Xu Xiyuan), a new female killer who replaced the position of drizzle. For the sake of Jiang Asheng's life, Zeng Jing was forced to reluctantly agree to hand over the upper half of Rama's body and help them capture the lower half. The Reincarnation King was so good at talking, after getting rama's body, he immediately repeated it, and the drizzle could not avoid a big battle with Blackstone. But what she never expected was that she looked at her honest-looking husband Jiang Asheng and turned out to be a master of hidden strength.
The setting of the male and female protagonists in "Sword Rain" is a bit like the love work "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" by Julie and Pete, except that the former is an enemy of each other and the latter is a partner. Jiang Asheng is the only son of zhang hairy Zhang Hairui (played by Guo Xiaodong), because his heart is different from ordinary people, and the sword of drizzle did not let him die immediately, but was sent to Li Ghost's hand by the monk Lu Zhu (played by Li Zonghan). In the small boat that swayed on the river, two people did face-changing surgery in succession. But neither side who changed his face had ever thought that he and she had a relationship from enemies to husband and wife.
As for the end of the story, the identity of the reincarnation king surfaces, and this powerful character who is very brave and fearful is actually just Cao Feng, a nine-pin eunuch who sends and receives letters in the Cha Yan Division. He did his best to capture Rama's body, not for the sake of the Peerless Martial Arts Secret Book, but to make his body complete and the part of himself that had been castrated grow back. In the final duel, Drizzle used the three moves that Lu Zhu had taught her to completely break the Reincarnation King's water-breaking sword and defeated the Reincarnation King. The Black Stone no longer exists, and Rama's body has since disappeared from the jianghu. As for the two couples, whether they are together again is unknown.
I have to say that the quality of this movie is very high, in addition to Wang Xuexi's rotational king has some facial features, other characters have been given their own characteristics, whether it is Lei Bin, who opens a noodle shop and likes to study noodles, or the illusionist Lian Rope, who makes a living from illusions, or even the lustful female killer Ye Qingqing, who was added later, is not poured out of a stereotyped killer mold.
Xu Xiyuan, who was obsessed with filming at that time, was really willing to put down her body to hone her acting skills, playing a vicious and cold-blooded woman who killed her fiercely because of her husband's sexual incompetence, even if she was sentenced to death in the official lobby, she was still fearless, in her opinion, it was better to have ungodly sex than to die; and Zeng Jing and Jiang Asheng's one light and one dark were definitely the wonderful points of this big drama; and the rotation king stirred up the whole jianghu to kill so many people, just to make herself a real man.
The most wonderful highlight of the whole film is that the reincarnation king buried Ye Xiaoqing under the stone bridge, which really responds to the Buddhist story of His Holiness Ananda who was told by the foolish master in the movie to the drizzle, "I would like to incarnate as a stone bridge, by five hundred years of wind, five hundred years of sun, five hundred years of rain", just in exchange for the glance you turn around.
Looking at the emotional expression in the movie alone, "Sword Rain" is no worse than those pure love films. The monk Lu Zhu's love for all sentient beings who do not swear to become a Buddha, the family warmth of Lei Bin and his wife, the mutual affection between Zeng Jing and Jiang Asheng, and even the perverted feelings of the Reincarnation King towards Ye Xiaoqing are deep or shallow in the movie, but they are properly expressed. The flowing sword techniques, martial arts routines, and wonderful fight scenes in the movie are not lost to any previous martial arts film.
The jianghu of "Sword Rain" is a young man in fresh clothes and angry horses, and it is also a veteran who has been traversing for decades, there are tricks in the court, there are also storms and clouds between martial arts, and there is no lack of fireworks in small towns and towns.
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