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Want to know the true face of Mount Shushan, two versions to see clearly

After watching the new version of "Legend of Mount Shushan" directed by Tsui Hark, the first thing that comes to mind is: if I am allowed to award a prize for this movie, I will give this prize to the computer stuntmen. The reason is that, at a cost of more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars to hire Hollywood four computer stunt companies and the same world's top animation video stunt company, Hong Kong Animation Technology Company called more than 100 computers spent a year before the completion of the stunt footage is definitely a visual feast: more than 1,600 shots (ordinary movie about more than 800 lenses), most of which have the power to explode. At the same time, in the new version of "The Legend of Shushan" I didn't find the talented film director Tsui Hark, who always likes to play the role of the mastermind. I think the real heroes in this movie are the computer stuntmen and the 100-odd computers, and the highest achievements of the new version of "The Legend of Shushan" are all the products of the mechanical civilization. So I wouldn't look at the new "Legend of Shushan" as a movie in the traditional sense; perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a cartoon picture book printed on film.

It is conceivable that when Omei's eldest disciple, Dan Chenzi, unveiled a pair of 72 flying daggers with wings called "Tianlong Choppers," the movie would have caused a full house to gasp in amazement. However, I think the new version of the "Shushan biography" is still not as solid and heavy as the old version of the "Shushan biography", the new version of the "Shushan biography" of the overall feeling of extremely flashy, the so-called fantasy landscape is mostly cartoonish composition (see by the influence of the Japanese cartoon), and therefore many people think that the new version of the "Shushan biography" is similar to the video game. It is the video game screen texture so that the new version of the "Shushan biography" lost to the old version of the real-life operation of the "Shushan biography".

The author specially revisited the old version of "Shushan" in 1983, and found that after 18 years, the old version of "Shushan" has not lost its edge, and its elegance is still there! It can be seen, in the old version of the "Legend of Shushan", Tsui Hark has begun to accumulate energy; the picture mood strange and bizarre, imposing, visual climax wave after wave. Tsui Hark is by the film this established himself as Hong Kong's new martial arts film master status, since then the "Heroic" (with John Woo), "Blade Horse", "Wong Fei Hung", "Sinister Spirit 3: Tao Tao Tao" are trying to create a visual miracle for the audience to marvel at. It is because of this obsession "ten years to sharpen a sword", there is the 1992 "Smiling Proud Wanderer 2: The East is undefeated", "New Dragon Inn" and other Hong Kong's new wuxia movie masterpieces came out of the blue.

Today, the technical achievements of the old "Legend of Shushan" are still unmatched. The reason why I mentioned earlier that "the old version of Shushan" is a solid foundation, mainly because the movie in the lighting set on the scene excellence. Relevant information shows that Tsui Hark invited from Hollywood had participated in the production of "Star Wars" special effects team, but Tsui Hark has always adhered to the principle of foreign for the use of the principle of Hollywood and did not abuse the Hollywood-style special effects, to unilaterally pursue the color of fantasy, the character modeling is also very concerned about the provenance (18 years ago, Brigitte Lin Qingxia's flying make-up than today's Cecilia Cheung's flying make-up tends to be more realistic). The most praiseworthy set in the movie is Shushan Castle, I really don't know where Tsui Hark found the artisans and props masters, the set is real, enough pounds, can definitely be comparable to the mainland historical films that won the competition with the real scene at that time. Seeing Lin Qingxia and Zheng Shaoqiu in the fairy castle, each riding a stone beast entanglement, in a trance, the audience will feel, even if the reproduction of the "Journey to the West" in the most exciting battle scenes is just like that, right? The blood demon in Yuquan is just a piece of red cloth, unlike the new version of "The Legend of Shushan" which creates a sea of blood in a video game or cartoon effect. As for the skeleton formation, is a hundred and ten "real" gathered into a ball, but than the new version of the "Legend of Shushan" in the thousands of video game texture skeleton tumbling and leaping in the formation of the intimidating! When you see the Peking Opera-like scenes of the monsters in action, you will understand that Tsui Hark has always advocated the use of more artistic means of expression with national cultural characteristics. The deepest impression is still the film's first combination of shots, wide field of view, the atmosphere is magnificent, perfect reproduction of the Shu Mountain's treacherous and majestic, transcendent spirit of fantasy, in fact, only this one stunt lens is enough to prove that the 1983 version of the epochal significance of the Shu Mountain: Hong Kong martial arts film development to the 80's, there has not been a movie can be opened up to such a point of vision (only the works of the Hu Jinquan was once prominent, but the achievements of their achievements are more in the) Eighteen years later, Tsui Hark in the new version of the "Legend of Shushan" once again with a bird's eye view of the mountains of the opening shots, although the painting work is fine, but no longer reach the former swallowed the mountains and looked down on the height of the living beings. Tsui Hark is no longer able to penetrate the secrets hidden in the sea of clouds of the immortal mountains. What interests him most is not the story, the characters' relationship, or the main idea; he seems to be obsessed with technology, and his main goal is to keep creating audio-visual wonders for the audience.

The old version of "The Legend of Shushan" has a very solid ideological foundation with richer national cultural characteristics and national spiritual information. "The old version of Shushan" The opening will be the background of the times to deliver a clear: "When the end of the five hu chaotic China, eleven countries side by side, the powers of the world to fight for hegemony, the world is in chaos ......" "The state is not for the people, and the people do not belong to the state." In the midst of the war, two Shu soldiers (played by Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung) are tired of killing and fighting, and they suddenly realize: "In addition to the different colors of each other's clothes, they are not the same as human beings!" Fighting and killing are meaningless. So they flee the battlefield and go their separate ways. Yuan Biao mistakenly entered the mountains, encountered demons and monsters, and then through the help and enlightenment of the Sword Fairy, he finally attained enlightenment, and turned from a soldier who practiced escapism into an immortal warrior who was willing to take the universal freedom of all beings as his own responsibility, and began to fight for the ideal of "everyone under the sky has the same heart, the dry wars will be stopped, and the world will be at peace". The old version of "The Legend of Shushan" is actually a story about "growth". The fact that the young Shubing can become a generation of immortal warrior, and that Master Xiao Ru's disciple overcomes his timidity and weaknesses and finally takes over the position of the head of the school can be interpreted as a kind of growth in life. The growth process of the main characters is by no means a feudal superstition of cultivation and ascension to immortality, but a process of rediscovery and understanding of the self. In the play, Yuan Biao, after going through trials and tribulations, says something decisive and loud: "I was originally a soldier in Xishu, and I became a soldier because I had no choice but to ask for a capable person to come to our rescue one day. Then I met my master and thought I was saved. I didn't realize that the righteous people were not only unwilling to be united, but also slow in doing things. They only care about their own sects, saying that they are fighting demons, protecting the righteous and saving the world, but in fact, they are all scattered. If we are like them, not to mention saving them, even our generation can't save itself!" These words are Yuan Biao's sign of growth. Tsui Hark tries to express his understanding of chivalry through this story about growing up.

With a solid ideological foundation, the narrative of the old "Legend of Shushan" is rich in loose ends and grand in appearance.

In contrast, the new version of "Legend of Mount Shushan". Because Tsui Hark is not most interested in the story, character relationships, the main idea, a preoccupation with special effects, the period background naturally watered down, the relationship between the characters is naturally simple, the protagonist's character is naturally not enough vivid [Xuan Tian Zong (played by Ekin Cheng), Li Yingqi (played by Cecilia Cheung), Lian Din (played by Wu Jing), the long empty without a ji (played by Wu Gang), Cheng Le Tian (played by Zhang Ziyi), Duan Lei (played by Tan Yaowen), and even Dan Tenchenzi (played by Koo Tin Lok), Red Corpse (played by Koo Tin Lok), Duan Tenchenzi (played by Koo Tin Lok). Koo Tin Lok), red corpse (played by Lin Xilei), should be a big sparks out of the drama out of the color]. Therefore, watching the whole movie, the audience is almost unable to determine who is the first male or female lead, and unable to determine whose story they are actually touched by. The new version of "The Legend of Shushan," the flat group drama is just that.

Reviewing the old version of the "Legend of Shushan", the sword immortal, strange warrior friendship between the grudges intertwined entanglement, personal growth, the choice between lovers in the film has become the most eye-catching highlights: when the small Shu soldier Yuan Biao vowed to subdue the demons, guarding righteousness, evil, when the end of the immortal fortress owner Lin Qingxia and the demonic sword warrior Zheng Shaoqiu embraced each other to death, the power of life shook the heavens and the earth! The light of love shines through the ages!

The old "Legend of Shushan" will always be a classic, and for Tsui Hark himself it was an insurmountable pinnacle.

In fact, the cartoonish new "Legend of Shushan" tells us that Tsui Hark has long said goodbye to the new martial arts movies, since he is already obsessed with the fantasy world of flying into the sky and earth, then, the most suitable type of film for him in the future should be animation, mythological films, if he shoots the "Journey to the West", "Feuding the Gods", "Nezha", if the film, everyone will clap their hands and applauded.

The new version of "The Legend of Shushan" is just a transitional product of Tsui Hark, the Light Devil. Let's keep looking forward to it.