Before the release of "Arrow Willow White Ape", it was actually very famous, but it was limited to the industry. "Arrow Willow White Ape" was first filmed in 2012, and has been nominated for multiple nominations at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, and its long and short versions have long been thoroughly discussed in the industry. The director Xu Haofeng is already famous, he is the original author of Chen Kaige's film "Taoist Down the Mountain", the best screenwriter of the "Generation Grandmaster" cooperated with Wong Kar-wai, his directorial debut "The Trail of Wokou" was shortlisted for Venice, and "Master" released last year has opened up a new world of local kung fu movies. When talking about martial arts or kung fu films, it is easy to put him together with Hong Jinbao, Xu Ke and other kung fu predecessors to the forum, the reason is very simple, because our local kung fu jianghu, it can be said that there is a specialty in the art industry, and there is currently only one person.
"Jianshi Liu Bai Ape" is actually Xu Haofeng's second film, which broke ground before "Master", "Shifu" was listed in front of the market because of commercial plug-ins, and the more pure "Jianshi Liu Bai Ape" wild crossing was self-propelled. This is like the jianghu of kung fu, the external style is easy to learn and easy to spread, and the inner boxing law requires you to hold your breath. I think that zhang Zhen practiced hard for three years for "A Generation of Grandmasters" until he won the championship of the martial arts competition, and a good kung fu film can be imagined. Xu Haofeng is not Wong Kar-wai, even if he has so much silver, there will be no big name to sacrifice for him, not to mention that his silver is limited, so he can only put more energy into the rivers and lakes he is familiar with.
Like Xu Haofeng's other works, the background of the story is still the chaotic world of the Republic of China. This is no wonder, in the middle and early period of the Qing Dynasty, strict orders were issued to suppress martial arts, many folk martial arts fragments were lost, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, not only the ban was lifted, but also encouraged the Boxers to participate in the right and wrong of the country, and the jianghu wulin ushered in a hundred blowouts. This momentum precipitated into the chaotic Republic of China, deducing the "sports to save the country", the Jingwu Sports Association, the Chinese Wushu Association, the Central Guoshu Hall and other signboards were hung high, and also received encouragement and support from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek and other Republican politicians. The highest pursuit of ancient talents was "Wen can raise the pen to fix the world, incapable of getting on the horse to fix Qiankun", the book is not good, and the martial arts are just as likely to get ahead. In the Republic of China, the literati could go to university to establish a career, but the way out for the warriors was abolished by the "martial arts", just as the opening chapter of "The Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape" said, the warriors of the Republic of China wanted to come out, either to open a martial arts hall or to follow the warlords to mix politics. The martial arts hall of the Republic of China is not so easy to open, which Xu Haofeng used a whole "Master" to confirm, and "Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape" is about another way out, or the end.
In the original work of "Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape", Liu Bai Ape is an assassin, and it is said that the warriors are mixing politics in the chaotic world of the Republic of China, and they are either bodyguards or assassins. Probably because this logic is too simple, in the movie, Liu Bai Ape became the judge of the jianghu, and his name was called the wulin arbitrator, but unfortunately, this wulin arbitrator was not the traditional wulin alliance master in the jianghu, and he was very unpopular. The identity of the character has changed, but what Liu Bai Ape "helped" to do is still the work of the assassin. Liu Bai Ape has an extra identity, Xu Haofeng has more chips to spread the Republic of China, and under the long film lens, several scenes of kicking the pavilion and the ruling of the jianghu have both detailed displays and no lack of scene rendering. Xu Haofeng in "Master" wants too much, eager to let Liao Fan fight with the ancient Chinese weapon spectrum, "Arrow Warrior Liu Bai Ape" is simplified, only to extract Song Yang's arrows and Yu Chenghui's gun, I do not understand martial arts, only visually, Yu Chenghui's stick gun is called a handsome. Unfortunately, this has become Yu Chenghui's masterpiece, and a generation of martial arts elders passed away last year.
In recent years, the domestic popular field image survey, I am a fellow named Uncle Ghost, often take a DV to travel to the countryside, capture those traditional cultures that are about to disappear. Xu Haofeng's shots are the same, and he tries to use the lens of the film to restore the dissipated martial arts around us. It is the March kung fu season, before the "Ip Man 3" punched out, refreshing the history of the Chinese kung fu film box office, "Arrow Liu Bai Ape" to raise the file group, the two kung fu masters will be in this germination season, can't help but make people think about the prospects of Chinese kung fu films. The collective decline of Chinese kung fu films is not a round or two, there was Bruce Lee's fall in the 70s, and the rise of Xu Kexin's martial arts in the 80s, the key thing is man-made, as long as someone continues to explore and try, the end will become the way out.
"Arrow Liu Bai Ape" continues the road of Xu Haofeng's hardcore martial arts, compared to the "Master" clearance narrative mode, closer to "Taoist Down the Mountain", highlighting its people and their skills and events, the film's narrative power is limited, mostly tang legendary novel style, but in the converging kung fu film market, "Arrow Liu White Ape" is a work with character, temperament and gender.
