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Wu Siyuan, the godfather of Hong Kong cinema, has been popular with Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow, used Andy Lau, excavated Xu Ke, promoted Wu Jing as a director, and is committed to the integration of mainland and Hong Kong films. Wu Siyuan as a producer and executive producer, there are countless classic works, but as a director, his works are little known, the most representative of which is 1977's "Eagle Claw Iron Cloth Shirt".
From the current point of view, the film's set is rough, the costumes are perfunctory, the literary drama is stylized, and the narrative is blunt. However, in terms of martial arts fingers, soundtracks, and literary dramas, it was in a leading position in the martial arts film market at that time, and was once popular throughout the country because of its groundbreaking action style and impressive story ending.
From the beginning of this film, it is undoubtedly a very serious traditional martial arts movie. At the beginning, it takes a few minutes to systematically introduce the principles of "Iron Cloth Shirt" and "Eagle Claw Fist".
Serious science popularization: The iron cloth shirt belongs to qigong, which is a superior internal skill.
Then make up the basics related to acupuncture points to the audience.
The last sentence is the key: the iron cloth shirt is not without flaws, and the only way is to attack its valve.
The protagonist of this film, Xiao Rufeng, does not understand the iron cloth shirt himself, and is at the level of the Shi family and the sisters and brothers who are now learning to sell. The main villain Zheng Zheng is the master of the iron cloth shirt, and the model in the above popular science is Huang Zhengli.
The most critical question becomes how to find this valve and defeat it. The position of the valve in the martial arts film includes Chen Xuanfeng's navel in "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", Mei Chaofeng in the tongue and so on. The setting of this film is that the possible valves of the iron cloth shirt have throat, armpits, genitals, etc., and practitioners with high dao skills can move the valves. In the film, the brother who dueled with Huang Zhengli thought that Huang Zhengli's valve was still in the throat hole before, but Huang Zhengli had moved the valve and misjudged it, and was killed by Huang Zheng using the eagle claw fist.
Xiao Rufeng (Liu Zhongliang) tried repeatedly, and finally found that Huang Zhengli always covered the key parts. Huang Zhengli's valve is undoubtedly under the yin, but the previous master brother also tried to pull the crotch, and the reason for the original failure was indentation... Xiao Rufeng lit Huang Zhengli's jade pillow point under the guidance of Shi Shu, making it impossible for him to retract the key part into his body, and then reached out and squeezed it.
Next is the most famous montage shot of the film, which Zhou Xingchi also paid tribute to in "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair".
In the background of the blur, holding two eggs in his hand, using the Shi family's special skills to iron fingers, the egg liquid splashed around.
The next shot is Huang Zhengli's expression. Many viewers have seen this scene many times when they are ignorant teenagers, and many people have no impression of the plot, and the only thing that cannot be forgotten is that pinch. At that time, the popularity of "Eagle Claw Iron Cloth Shirt" in the mainland was unimaginable to the current audience, from companies, factories, institutions, to universities, middle schools and even primary schools, indulging in this trick and repeatedly experimenting with their own unlucky friends is staged every day.
The overseas export of this film is very good. So much so that the German version of the poster, directly adopted the bad taste of the end, walking the world, enduring.
"Eagle Claw Iron Cloth Shirt" is an action film with strong sensory stimulation, and naturally it is indispensable to the excellent soundtrack. The film's episode "i giorni dell'ira" uses the theme song of the Italian film Blood Sands from 1967, and also appears in Quentin's film Django Rescued. This film is also one of Quentin's favorite Chinese films, and it is said that he has watched dozens of times to observe and learn.
In addition, as a Chinese film IP, this film is also the darling of the fashion circle, and has produced many peripheral products.
The actors of this film are not familiar with non-Hong Kong film fans, I am afraid that most of the audience get the cast list, only know the "Seven Little Fortunes" members Yuan Biao and Yuan Kui who debuted shortly after their debut and ran dragon sets in the film. The film's main villain Huang Zhengli is the same age as the male protagonist Liu Zhongliang, born in 1944, both of whom were discovered by Wu Siyuan in 1976 during the "South Fist and North Legs" period and came to the Hong Kong film industry to develop.
In addition, the divine leg Liu Zhongliang, the overlord leg Huang Zhengli and the leg king Tan Daoliang, the whirlwind leg Kasava and called the four-legged king of the Hong Kong film industry, everyone has their own signature action.
Hwang Jong-ri is a South Korean who fought in the war with the army as a coach and could kick a person to death with one kick. This taekwondo master is a real material, excellent leg skills, and even kicked out one of Jackie Chan's teeth in the filming of "Snake-like Executioner".
Huang Zhengli has starred in a large number of movies as a major villain, the most famous is the villain Yan Tiexin in the 1978 movie "Drunken Fist", who was defeated by Jackie Chan with "self-created He Xiangu", and the villain Tao Baibai in Akira Toriyama's "Dragon Ball" is a reference to Huang Zhengli's image. He also made cameo appearances in a large number of classic films such as the Japanese who dueled with Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao in the 1986 "Rich Train". Huang Zhengli's signature leg move is a volley of three consecutive kicks.
As the male protagonist, Liu Zhongliang shows his actions more fully in the film. Liu Zhongliang, known as "Kung Fu Liang". Since starring in "South Fist and North Leg" in 1976, he has become the representative of the North Leg among the martial artists in the Hong Kong film industry.
Liu Zhongliang's common action in the movie is to kick his right leg high.
I don't know why this film holds the leg with his hands many times, full of acrobatic sense. Relative to Huang Zhengli's leg method, it seems to be relatively simple, but it is also a martial artist with no special effects and no Weiya, who can adapt to the strength of a shot to the end.
In addition to the two-legged king, there are also Li Haisheng, Gao Fei, Wang Jiang, Xie Yuan, Yuan Xinyi and other people in the film, plus Yuan Kui Yuanbiao's words, which can be described as a gathering of masters.
In 1978, the hit films "Drunken Fist" and "Snake-shaped Executioner" came out, starring Jackie Chan, who was born in a Peking Opera opera class, not specializing in martial arts. Since then, the Hong Kong film industry has become the world of action comedy and ushered in a new era. However, whenever we look back at "Eagle Claw Iron Cloth Shirt", we will always inadvertently think of that "pinch". (Author: Mankei Wu) #Toutiao Film and Television Archives ##头条观影指南 #
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