1905 Movie Network Special Article A pair of iron fists hit the world, single-handedly with one gear ten! When it comes to the "Shandong Ma Yongzhen" on the beach in the 1870s, everyone knows it. What makes the name "Ma Yongzhen" a household name is the Shaw classic "Ma Yongzhen", co-directed by Hong Kong martial arts film masters Zhang Che and Bao Xueli.
This "Ma Yongzhen" pioneered the "Shanghai Beach Theme" film and television drama in the Hong Kong film industry, and since then, kung fu films set on the beach in the early years of the Republic of China have gradually become a new fashion. In the film, chinese and foreign boxers fighting, axe battles and other plot elements have become classic bridges in future martial arts films, setting the tone for the film and television works that tell the story of the shanghai beach head group in the following decades.
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"On the beach, who isn't robbing?" Shanghai beach is full of gold, everyone hopes to dig up wealth from here, and here to get ahead, Ma Yongzhen is no exception.
Ma Yongzhen, who is a good martial artist who broke into the beach, was a coolie at the beginning, and once when he was helping people to wipe cars on the street to earn money, he met the mighty Shanghai beach bully - Tan Siye.
Jiang David played the role of Tan Siye, who was charming and radiant, and his fist and foot kung fu and transparent practice completely conquered Ma Yongzhen. Looking at Fourth Master Tan's carriage disappearing from the dust, he set the goal of life that "one day, I can be like him".
Ma Yongzhen's good kung fu and big brother spirit made him start the struggle to fight the world with his fists and feet on the beach.
Ma Yongzhen is played by Chen Guantai, who has won the Southeast Asian martial arts champion, and he uses real kung fu to play Ma Yongzhen, who is fearless in life and death, and has a heroic love for each other, and performs the blood and tears of revenge on the beach.
Prior to this, Chen Guantai had only played some supporting roles in the dragon set, and the role of Ma Yongzhen made him a hit, becoming one of the most powerful superstars in martial arts among Hong Kong martial arts movie stars in the past 70 years.
Ma Yongzhen, played by Chen Guantai, realizes the audience's imagination of the chivalrous guests who are righteous and happy to take revenge.
As a person who practices martial arts, Ma Yongzhen knows the morality of the jianghu. Faced with injustice, he shattered the king's way with his fist. "Although I am three, I still have a pair of fists."
In the face of the provocation of the foreigners, he did not want the countrymen to be humiliated, and engaged in a confrontation with the foreigners in the ring, slamming the YangLishi's chest with his jade ring step and Mandarin duck legs, kicking the Yanglishi to the ground.
He gained the status of the jianghu with his outstanding skills, and after getting the power money, it was difficult to escape the control and drive of the power money. But the good nature of his acquaintance with Fourth Master Tan, the care of his brothers and brothers in the past, and his tolerance for the vendors who could not afford to pay the protection fee all showed his unchanging and simple disposition.
However, Ma Yongzhen's unsophisticated and fierce personality has attracted many sworn enemies. "Every day people get up on the beach, and every day people fall." Wu Cai's heart was higher than the sky, but he could not defeat the sinister and shameless people's hearts in the end.
Knowing that it was the Hongmen Feast, Ma Yongzhen still generously attended the appointment, and he was a powerful bully who was several times larger than himself without any fear.
He went into battle shirtless and splattered blood for five steps, until he wiped out all his opponents, and then he fell to the ground and died.
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The tragedy of Ma Yongzhen is actually the helplessness of the little people in the chaotic world that director Zhang Che sees from the flowing historical reality, as well as the endless tragedy in the struggle for interests.
Whether it is the arrogant and fierce Wang Yu, the bohemian David Jiang, the upright and chivalrous Dillon, the luist and grumpy Chen Guantai, or the masculine hero played by gold medal actors such as the humorous and casual Fu Sheng, they all leave a youthful freeze frame in Zhang Che's films.
Stills from "The Thorn Horse"
Director Zhang initiated and has always insisted that "masculine martial arts" is the soul of martial arts movies.
The founder of the violent style of Hong Kong martial arts films, the preference for the aesthetic principle of "masculinity" is almost to the extreme, and the violent aesthetic characterized by shirtless fighting, outnumbered and tragic endings has become the hallmark of his works.
This style has had a huge influence on directors of the same genre such as Bao Xueli, Liu Jialiang, Chu Yuan, Wu Yusen, and even representatives of contemporary violent aesthetics such as Quentin Tarantino.
Zhang Che, who is known as the "Hong Kong Film Generation Tyrant", once said: "The most important thing is to have sincerity, not to show off and sensationalize!" There is violence in the movie, just as there is violence in life, and my attitude is to express my feelings according to the plot, rather than to sensationalize the public with cruel blood on the screen, which is the difference between sincerity and lack. ”
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In Zhang Che's films, there are many uninhibited heroes who "brush their clothes and go away, hiding their merits and fame" regardless of fame and fortune.
The martial souls in these lights and shadows have all become eternal at the most beautiful moment. At 22:05 on August 24th, the movie channel will broadcast "Ma Yongzhen" directed by Zhang Che for you to see what is masculine martial arts!