Starring Wu Jing's younger brother, and Ye Zhun, which is known as a more authentic Wing Chun movie than Donnie Yen's "Ye Wen"

Thurman 2022-01-14 08:02:16

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In recent years, following the huge sales of Donnie Yen’s "Ip Man" series of films, the flock of works that followed the trend has been swarmed for a while. One of them actually dared to come out under the banner of "more authentic than Donnie Yen’s Wing Chun". It is the "Ip Man Front Story" directed by Qiu Litao and starring Du Yuhang.

But in fact, "Ip Man's First Story" dares to brag like this, to a certain extent, it is true and reasonable:

First of all, "Ip Man's Prequel" specially invited Ye Zhun, the eldest son of Ip Man, to participate in the film. This is the first time Mr. Ye has performed on the screen, and he also won the best male performance at the 13th Shanghai International Film Festival. The supporting role has become the oldest (87 years old) best actor in history.

Secondly, Du Yuhang, who plays Ip Man in the film, is not a general: he started martial arts at the age of 6, won the fifth World Wushu Championship Changquan champion at the age of 18 (1999), and won the Busan Asian Games at the age of 21. Changquan, Daoshu, Gunshu all-around runner-up, won the East Asian Games Championship at the age of 24. He is also the youngest world martial arts champion in Hong Kong.

In addition, Du Yuhang also studied in Beijing Sport University. In this way, Du Yuhang is still the younger brother of Zhao Wenzhuo and Wu Jing.

The most important thing is: Du Yuhang is Ye Zhun’s disciple, and his master is Xian Guolin (Vice President of Wing Chun Association). He has been studying Wing Chun for 8 years, and he is an absolutely authentic Wing Chun disciple.

Regarding this point, Ye Zhun also supported his disciples at the film premiere, claiming that Donnie Yen went to learn Wing Chun after making the film, and Du Yuhang was an out-and-out disciple of Wing Chun.

In fact, it should not be difficult for an attentive audience to find that Du Yuhang also appeared in the "Ip Man" series starring Donnie Yen. For example, in "Ip Man 1", he played Jin Shan's follower.

In "Ip Man 2", he plays the role of Zheng Weiji, Hong Zhennan's apprentice, and has a lot of roles.

At the same time, in "Ip Man 1", Du Yuhang and his master Ye Zhun served as the Wing Chun consultant for the film. During the filming, Du Yuhang also personally taught martial artists how to play Wing Chun. This shows that Du Yuhang's identity of Wing Chun is beyond doubt.

Of course, movies are movies, and martial arts are martial arts, and the performers themselves are not authentic Kung Fu sect. For the film, the impact is not big. To put it bluntly, this is just a gimmick used by the film propaganda party to self-hype. As the saying goes, you still need to be hard at hitting the iron. In the final analysis: it is the quality of the film itself that determines the box office and word-of-mouth of the film.

Due to production cost constraints, "Ip Man's Prequel" naturally cannot be compared with big figures such as Donnie Yen's "Ip Man" and Wong Kar-wai's "The Great Master", but objectively speaking: only in terms of martial arts, "Ip Man's Prequel" In fact, the filming is quite exciting, most of the action scenes are remarkable. In some details, it does not even lose the version of "Ip Man" by Donnie Yen, but the overall production level of the film greatly reduces the audience's viewing. Experience.

For example, the grandfather-grandchild battle between Ye Zhun (playing Ye Wenshishu Liangbi) and Du Yuhang (playing Yewen) can be used as a Wing Chun teaching film.

The standing posture before the fight was extremely standard.

Ye Zhun uses a "bundle + stall" stand.

What Du Yuhang uses is the "stand + guard" stand.

"Remaining strength but not hands", Wing Chun's more skillful rules among the same school.

The traditional Wing Chun is mainly hand-based, focusing on hand-playing seven points and kicking three-pointers. Liang Bi's first series has improved it, adding many leg styles and wrestling styles. This major change of Wing Chun School is also mentioned in the film.

Fan Shaohuang (as Jin Shanzun), who participated in Donnie Yen’s "Ip Man 1~2", played the big villain in the film. Of course, the plot of sending a Japanese child as an undercover is a bit too exaggerated. But in comparison, I personally feel that Fan Shaohuang's performance in "Ip Man's Prequel" is actually better whether it is martial arts or literary drama.

Fan Shaohuang is also a martial artist since he was a child. The collisions between him and Du Yuhang in the film are very exciting.

Especially the battle between good and evil at the end of the film. For this action scene alone, I personally feel that it is more appetizing for kung fu movie fans than the end of Yen Zidan's "Ip Man 1", but the latter is much better at the production level.

It is worth mentioning that the long-lost action superstar-"Little Junior Brother" Yuan Biao also returned to the big screen this time and made a cameo appearance in the film.

Sister Xu Jiao also missed a face.

In fairness, among the works of Ip Man other than Yen Zidan's "Ip Man" and Wong Kar-wai's "The Great Master", "The First Story of Ip Man" is the best filmed one, especially for fans of kung fu movies. There is still a higher ornamental value. Moreover, after the filming of "Ip Man 4", Donnie Yen has made it clear that he will block his boxing (no longer making kung fu movies). Therefore, those of us movie fans are also looking forward to the emergence of more talented newcomers like Du Yuhang. In this way, the tradition of Chinese Kung Fu movies will not be cut off.

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  • Archibald 2022-03-14 14:12:26

    The film dealer organized us to watch the film internally. . The martial arts is not bad, the others are very thunderous, especially all the actors are very ugly, the leading actor is ugly. In addition, the wigs are more thunderous, I am worried that their wigs will fall off

  • Bailee 2022-03-18 09:01:06

    Du Yuhang is very stylish