Japanese manga has not been very good in terms of live-action film and television.
For example, the previous "Attack on Titan", after the live-action film evaluation is unbearable, the adaptation is not the same.
Of course, there are exceptions, and the live-action version of "Langke Sword Heart" can be regarded as the best grade in a number of Japanese live-action films and televisions.
There are also many people who think that this series is "the ceiling of Japanese live-action manga".
The original live-action version of The Ranger Sword Heart is already over by the third "The End of the Legend", but there are still two chapters of this anime that are not live-action.
It is the "reminiscence" and the "human curse".
"Star Frost" is an original anime, not the story of the original manga, so it is not counted.
The memoirs are very much related to the story of the Renjie, of which the Reminiscences are the prequels to the entire anime, and the Renjie is the real final chapter of the Langke Sword Heart, which echoes each other from beginning to end.
Because the box office results of the live-action trilogy of "Langke Sword Heart" are very eye-catching, the producers will certainly not give up the plan of making these two chapters live-action, so the live-action movies of "Remembrance" and "Ren Jie" have also been released in Japan.
Since the live-action movie of "Reminiscences" will not be screened online until July, let's talk about "The Curse of Man" this time.
The fame of the original work is far less than that of the reminiscence, mainly because there is no animation, of course, there is indeed a gap between the two stories.
After all, the reminiscence can be called the absolute peak of the entire "Langke Sword Heart".
In fact, in the live-action version of the movie, the reason why "The Curse of Man" was released before "Remembrance" is also very reasonable.
Because although this chapter is not bad, as the last film in a series, it is indeed a bit insufficient to watch.
At the very least, the shock of the story is far from being comparable to "Remembrance".
The plot of "The Curse of Man" is very simple, the protagonist Jianxin killed Shedaiba's husband in "Remembrance", and then Shedaiba approached Swordheart in revenge but fell in love with him.
In the end, in order to protect the sword heart, he was killed by mistake, and Xuedaiba's younger brother Xuedaiyuan witnessed all this and wanted to avenge his sister.
Therefore, the young Yukidaiyuan went to Shanghai to practice martial arts, trained in the struggle of major gangs, and returned to Japan to seek revenge on the sword heart after the completion of kung fu.
Yuki first kidnaps Kenshin's second lover, Kaoru Kamiya, the heroine of the series, so that Kenshin has to duel with him.
Finally, after a struggle, Yukidai finally let go of his hatred.
After watching this plot, probably most of the children's shoes will say:
That's it?
Yes, the story of the original author's curse is not complicated, and after moving to the big screen, it was also streamlined because of the length problem and commercial needs.
From the perspective of the production of the film, the biggest flaw of "The Curse of Man" is that it is not a "complete" film.
What is a "complete" movie?
That is, the audience simply watches this film, and there will be no situation that they cannot understand, and they do not need to watch other movies to know the ins and outs.
In fact, many movie sequels on the market are related to each other, but there are very few strongly related movies like "if you don't watch the last one, you will definitely be confused", only the few films in "Reunion 3~4" are the case.
Although there are flashbacks about "Remembrance", if you have not watched "Remembrance", or for ordinary passers-by audiences, there will be many plots that cannot be understood.
For example, you won't understand why Xue Daiyuan has such a great hatred for the sword heart, and this hatred is particularly awkward, it looks very strong, but it does not look like the kind of unforgettable hatred.
Even more, he would not understand that since he seemed to hate sword heart, why not directly threaten him with hostages to commit suicide.
In itself, "The Curse of Man" is not a very good work, plus some of it is also divided by "Remembrance", which also makes this movie the lowest rating among the 5 live-action versions.
Due to commercial needs, although the martial arts scene of "The Curse of Man" still inherits the style of the series, it is still relatively eye-catching, but there are too many inexplicable links.
For example, the popular villain in the original game, Sojiro Seta, originally retired after the previous chapter of Kyoto.
Here he appeared again, and suddenly stood in the camp of the protagonist in the back.
For what? It is because of the high popularity of this character that he fights side by side with the protagonists to satisfy the fans.
But the consequence is that ordinary passers-by, or audiences who are more concerned about the quality of their own films, feel that this plot is very forced.
No matter how good the martial arts scenes are, they can't save these flaws.
Of course, if you are more familiar with the story of "Remembrance", or a fan who has seen the original work, "The Story of People" still has a big highlight.
It is the villain Yukidai and the entanglement between him and the protagonist Sword Heart.
Because it's full of human contests.
Xue Daiyuan loves his sister Xuedaiba very much, and that kind of admiration even treats his sister as a mother.
Originally, Shedaiba and Qingmei Zhuma promised to marry, and the two of them would live a happy life, but this life was ruined by the sword heart that was still the executioner at the time, and the sword heart killed Shedaiba's fiancé.
Later, he stabbed Shedaiba to death in front of him.
Supposedly, Shedaiba died to protect sword hearts, and she didn't regret it.
The feelings of Sword Heart and Ba are absolutely clear to Xue Daiyuan.
Here, the original work has a detail that highlights this point more than the movie, that is, when the two meet, Yukidaiyuan's title for sword heart is: brother-in-law.
For Yukidai, it was precisely this that made him most miserable.
Yuki is not an evil person, nor is he a person who will go to extremes completely.
If Sword Heart is a bad person, a real executioner who likes to kill, or does not really like Shedaiba, with the character of Xuedaiyuan, I am afraid that he will really cut his corpse into ten thousand pieces, or use all kinds of vicious means to make him live or die.
But it's not.
Sword Heart is a kind person, Xue Daiyuan understands very clearly, he understands even more that Sword Heart and his sister are truly in love with each other, and Sword Heart is the most important person in each other's hearts.
This is also why, he obviously grabbed The Sword Heart's current lover, Kamiya Kaoru, but he didn't kill her, and even if he had already pinched his throat with both hands, he still couldn't get his hands down.
The sin is not in the heart of the sword, and Yukidai blames everything on him, just because the loss of his sister hit him too hard.
To put it simply, Yukidai has lost her purpose in life since her sister died.
He didn't know why he was still alive.
Therefore, you must find a reason for yourself to live, and this reason is to kill the sword heart and avenge your sister.
In the end, he took the knife and stabbed at the sword heart, but the sword heart did not dodge and directly ate it, and Yukidai Yuan looked in disbelief.
He very much hoped that the other party was an evil person, so whether he killed him or he killed himself, it was a relief, but Jianxin was a good person, or his brother-in-law in the true sense.
After that, Jianxin apologized to him: "Yuan, I'm sorry for you." It also made Yukimoto completely sober up, and the character of this role was also completed.
Some viewers feel that Xue Daiyuan likes his sister, so he will kill his sister quickly after snatching his sister's sword heart, which is also out of jealousy, which is not right.
Because of the role of XueDaiyuan, it should be said that he hopes that his sister is happy, and Xuedaiba's originally happy life was destroyed by the sword heart at the beginning, so he will be hostile to the sword heart.
But later when he saw that his sister would even give up her life to protect this person, he actually knew who his sister's happiness came from.
It is also because of this that after waking up, Yukiyo, at the end of the body to send Kaoru Kamiya to block the gun, so that sword heart's lover can continue to live, so that sword heart can continue to be "happy".
It is because he loves his sister very much, so he also hopes that the person he loves the most will not suffer like himself.
Unfortunately, regarding the role of XueDaiyuan, it is impossible to feel more brilliant simply by watching "The Curse of Man".
Even, having only seen the anime and not seen the original manga, it is difficult to understand some of his actions.
Therefore, although the Snow Generation Edge has the potential of bright spots, it is actually difficult to become the focus of "Human Curse".
So this film, in fact, is just like that.
Next time, let's focus on "Remembrance".