Yu Chenghui, China's last sword saint, has now left us. However, the heroes he portrayed have always influenced us, and Ma Yi, played by him in "The Yellow River Hero", explains to us very well what is a hero, a hero who is great, for the country and the people.
The director of "Yellow River Hero" is still Zhang Xinyan, there is no mistake, he once directed "Shaolin Temple". The cast here follows Yu Chenghui, Ji Chunhua and Yu Hai. However, this time, our Yu Chenghui is no longer a villain, but a hero who serves the country and the people and is awe-inspiring in justice.
The background of the story is set in the last year of the Tang Dynasty, which was an era of chaotic warfare between the kings of the clan, and in the Yellow River Valley, there were three clan kings of Duan, Li and Liu, who were divided and mixed, which caused the surrounding people to be displaced and miserable. One day, King Liu (played by Ji Chunhua) attacked the duanwang mansion (played by Zhao Zhigang) and hunted down and killed duan wang (played by Jin Demao) all the way to the territory, at this time King Li chose to stand by and let them fight with the clams, and he could fish for profit.
Ma Yi (played by Yu Chenghui) saves Duan Wang and releases Liu Wang. In addition to lamenting Ma Yi's superb sword skills, King Li also wanted to draw him under his banner for his own use. King Li, bent on seizing the world, had no tolerance for man, and ordered Ma Yi to kill him if he could not use it for himself.
When Ma Yi rushed to his home, his hometown was being slaughtered by King Liu, and finally he saw his daughter being killed, and he went to the liquor store to buy drunk in discouragement. Later, he met Che Tian (played by Chun Yu Shanshan), who sold art, and the two collaborated on selling art. Yu Chenghui's improvised drunken sword is really wonderful, and the drunken sword is his signature, which we have seen in the Shaolin Temple.
King Li's men poisoned him in wine and blinded his eyes, and two of the three kings had formed a hatred with him. At this time, the king came to the palace to repay his life-saving grace, ostensibly to repay the favor, but in fact it was to take advantage of it. Duan Wang was a man with a very heavy heart, a very deep city government, good at playing with power, and attacking in his heart. He took advantage of Ma Yi's hatred and the mentality of a hero, and incidentally added che Tian's greed for money. Let them help themselves write a war book to King Liu, and then take advantage of the opportunity to eliminate King Liu under the slogan of serving the country and the people.
After King Liu was destroyed, he threw a feast for King Li, but King Li escaped successfully, and Ma Yi saved her daughter Zhenzhen. The two developed feelings in the process of getting along. Duan Wang,Unable to make a plan to regenerate, let Ma Yi escort Zhenzhen back, and then arrange for a dead Zhenzhen to let Li Wang and Ma Yi kill each other. When Zhenzhen arrived, he just saw his father die under Ma Yi's sword.
Duan Wang's good move borrowed a knife to kill people, which could not only get rid of the troubles of two confidants, but also hold the beauty of the return. But what she didn't expect was the truth, and he recognized That Ma Yi was a good person and a hero. How many people can be like the real now? It is estimated that the end of most people is to marry duan wang, a villain!
Che Tian and Ma Yi were good brothers from misunderstanding to birth and death, and in the end Che Tian sacrificed himself. Ma Yi's eyes are also restored with the help of the abbot (Yu Hai), and he kills Duan Wang Li Buddha, and before dying, he laments that he has been killed by a blind man in the world.
Ma Yiqin learned to practice swordsmanship for ten years, and originally wanted to use swordplay to save the people from danger, but after the death of his family and blindness, he deeply understood that his own strength alone could not save them, so he opened a kendo hall to teach more people swordplay, and by the way, the spirit of the hero was spread. The cockfighting eye played by Ghost Foot Seven Bear Xinxin is one of the apprentices, and how many times has there been his fight scenes?
Against the background of the great hero Ma Yi, the ugly faces of the three clan kings are fully displayed, they calculate and use each other, under the big sign of serving the country and the people, but in fact, they do some burning and looting activities, trapping all the people in water and fire. The most human-like estimate in the whole film is Che Tian, who does not lack kindness, benevolence, and righteousness, but he also carries the characteristics of greed for money and indecency. Isn't he the truest portrayal of us?
In addition to Master Yu Chenghui's wonderful swordplay performance, the kung fu displayed by other supporting characters is also very exciting, and most of the weapons they use are also long halberds, double hooks, three-section sticks, chain hammers, etc., not those ordinary swords and guns, which highlight their kung fu even more.
China has had a martial arts culture from ancient times to the present, and what they just wanted to do was to uphold justice for Tianxingdao, and finally Yu Hai did not let Ma Yi become a monk, but let him do what he wanted to do, and it was not to let him continue to spread this chivalrous culture. Nowadays, it is difficult to produce such a classic martial arts film, let us miss the master Yu Chenghui again, and wish him well in another world!