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In 1967.
Heung Kong's talent, Ni Kuang, was inspired by Jin Yong's novel "Divine Eagle Man" and created the epoch-making martial arts film "One-Armed Knife" with director Zhang Che.
After the release of "One-Armed Knife", the box office exceeded 1 million Hong Kong dollars, becoming the first film with a box office of more than one million since the opening of Hong Kong, so Zhang Che won the nickname of "Million Director".
Since then, the IP of "One-Armed Knife" has been sequeling continuously, and the characters have also been increasing, and they have also played a wave of tandem with Toho's Humpback City in Japan, and filmed "One-Armed Knife vs. Humpback City".
But stepping into the 70s, shoddy sequels began to emerge, and the box office was not as good as before, and after the launch of "One-Armed Fighter King Brave Truman Nine Sons" in 1976, this IP finally came to an end.
However, Hong Kong people still have inseparable feelings for "One-Armed Knife", and this emotional continuation eventually fell to director Li Rengang.
In 1994.
New director Li Rengang turned to the big screen, ambitious, he wants to rekindle the grandeur of "One-Armed Knife" that year, and began to shoot "94 One-Armed Knife" (also known as "94 One-Armed Knife Love").
In terms of the cast, Jiang David, Xu Shaoqiang, and Liu Songren were three people who took charge, and invited Wu Xingguo and Gao Jie from Taiwan, the heroine was Yang Caini, a red jade girl, and Jiang Shan, a mainland actor, also appeared on the scene to play a wave of soy sauce.
Li Rengang, who pays great attention to pomp and circumstance when shooting TV series, is naturally particularly attentive to his film debut.
He did not hesitate to invest heavily in moving the entire crew to the icy northeast to shoot a better atmosphere.
However, too much emphasis on perception makes it easy to lose sight of one or the other. He only focused on the performance of the camera, but ignored many problems in the script, casting, action design, and shooting methods.
Although the story of the film takes place in the Republic of China, it is about the enmity and hatred under the traditional martial arts portal dispute.
The "Wrong Sword Hall" originally had three brothers, Bai Fuguo, Wang Jingguo and Wu Anguo, and their master also had a daughter named Susu.
The three of them quarreled over the position of master and the son-in-law who was the master.
Master brother Bai Fuguo defeated the second master brother Wang Jingguo, not only seized the position of the lord of the church, but also embraced the beauty of the return, and became a winner in life at a young age.
But Wang Jingguo was not willing to give up like this, and after leaving the Wrong Sword Hall, he created a one-sword club by himself, changed his sword technique, and seven years later brought a group of disciples to challenge Bai Fuguo.
Although Wang Jingguo still failed to win the official duel, he still injured Bai Fuguo by playing with the yin trick.
However, Wang Jingguo did not directly ask for Bai Fuguo's life, but took Bai Fuguo and Su Su's son Bai Ning.
Su Su died after Wang Jingguo took Bai Ning.
Time flew by, and soon 20 years passed, and Bai Ning, who was renamed "Wang Ning", also grew up.
As Bai Ning grew up, Wang Jingguo taught him all his studies, but he also repeatedly "warned" him that Bai Fuguo was the great enemy who killed his parents, and asked him to seek revenge on Bai Fuguo after he became successful.
In order to promote this good drama of "son killing father", Wang Jingguo went to lobby his disciple Wu Anguo to secretly assist in the battle, promising him that as long as Bai Fuguo died, the position of the wrong sword hall master would be his.
After dozens of duels, with the help of Wu Anguo, Bai Ning finally found an opportunity to kill Bai Fuguo.
Bai Fuguo also seemed to have anticipated fate, and before he died, he gave Bai Ning a letter, and after Bai Ning read the letter, he realized that he had killed his father.
Bai Ning did not wake up until this time that the righteous father he had mistaken for was the culprit who had ruined his family.
He regretted it and wanted to kill Wang Jingguo to avenge himself, but he was against him, and in his grief, he wanted to commit suicide. Fortunately, the four protectors of the Wrong Sword Hall saved each other in time and gave him a sword worn by Bai Fuguo.
With the sword bonus, Bai Ning's confidence doubled this time, and he turned back to wang Jingguo for a duel.
This time, relying on the advantage of the sword, he was young and strong, plus the protagonist's aura bonus, and finally defeated Wang Jingguo after a hundred moves, and also scrapped a pair of his eyes.
When the people were very happy, Wang Jingguo's wallet fell out, and inside it even treasured a photo of Wang Jingguo and Bai Ning.
When Bai Ning saw the photo, he realized that although Wang Jingguo had used him for 20 years, he had always regarded him as his son.
His hatred for Wang Jingguo immediately vanished and was replaced by thousands of remorse.
Both his biological father and righteous father died at his own hands, and Bai Ning's liver and intestines were cut off, and in order to repay Wang Jingguo's nurturing grace, he severed his arm with a swing of his sword.
It was only at this time that Pigo saw the original so-called "one-armed", which was confirmed here.
Although the ending of the story is very blunt, it also adds a little touch, and it can also be regarded as the title of "One-Armed Knife".
Although the film topped the big name of "One-Armed Knife" and also gained a lot of iron fans' expectations, after the release, it still encountered the embarrassing scene of word-of-mouth and box office failure, and it was released after only one week, and finally received 760,000 Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
The reason is that although the creator has suffered a lot in order to shoot, there are still many shortcomings in the whole film that cannot be ignored.
The first thing that must be complained about is the title of the film.
In order to rub ip heat, consumer feelings and forced linkage, eating is really ugly, it is no wonder that after the release of the movie at that time, it will cause public anger among Hong Kong film fans, and only 760,000 box office can not blame others.
Another example is the unreasonableness of the script and character settings.
The whole film is shrouded in the atmosphere of moving a knife without a word, such a story may be fine if the background is placed in ancient times, and placed in the Republic of China makes people feel that the characters in the film are neurotic.
What age is it, the Eight-Nation Alliance has entered the city of Beijing, and what is cool to carry a sword?
Even if you wear a long shirt and play a little brother, you can't hide the thinness of the story!
When it comes to casting, the problem is even greater.
At that time, Jiang David was 47 years old, Xu Shaoqiang was 44 years old, and Liu Songren was 45 years old, all of them were older, and they were not like Jackie Chan's practitioners.
What's even more bizarre is that Wu Xingguo was also 41 years old at the time, similar in age to the three of them, but he had to play a young man in his early twenties!
Wu Xingguo is also an old-looking person, and in the film, it seems that his son is older than his father.
Because of the casting problem, most of the scenes in the film need to use a stand-in.
In order to cover up the shortcomings in this regard, Li Rengang made a lot of use of shaking virtual mirrors, freeze frames, and delays, using vague techniques to carry them over, resulting in no one of the fighting actions being able to see clearly.
Use this trick of fooling people a lot, and the result is that the audience doesn't buy your account either.
The only highlight is the two actresses Jiang Shan and Yang Caini, especially Yang Caini, who just turned 20 at the time, and the pure image is intoxicating.
But Wu Xingguo is more than twice as old as she is, and she can be her father by looking at her face, and how awkward the emotional drama between the two looks.
And these obvious shortcomings were completely ignored by the director, resulting in the film's final failure.
Although the box office fiasco failed, but the legend of the one-armed knife did not end there, the next year Xu Ke gathered Jiahe strength movie stars, and filmed the shocking "Knife".
Helplessly, hong Kong, the jianghu, has no foothold for martial arts films.
Such a powerful masterpiece as "Knife" only grossed HK$3.31 million at the box office, bringing to an end to the Hong Kong martial arts films of the 1990s.
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