Tsui Hark Empire

Sherwood 2022-04-13 09:01:06

The film "Once Upon a Time" is a martial arts action film shot by the famous Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, and is the second in the five Wong Fei-hung series. Throughout the 5 films, this film is also a very successful and representative one.
The plot of the film is concise and clear. It is directly based on the practice of the White Lotus Sect at the beginning, which renders the film a strong Chinese mystery without falling into the clichés. It is a very good opening. Compared with the first work, this one is a little better. The plot in the first one is a bit mixed, and this three groups of Chinese soldiers, people, and foreigners are intertwined, and conflicts will also arise, which is more conducive to bringing more The brush and ink used in the rendering of the theme make the film not only have a wonderful martial arts scene, but also have a profound theme idea. It can be said that this is also the originality of director Tsui Hark.
This film is a martial arts action film, so it is a very Chinese-style film, and it is also a peak work of director Tsui Hark. Director Tsui Hark's shadow in previous works can be found in this work. For monotonous martial arts, Tsui Hark also has many subtleties in his handling of it. The film incorporates a lot of comedy elements that Westerners are used to, because Tsui Hark studied in the United States in his early years, which is why he chose comedy elements. Facts have proved that his idea is correct, it not only arouses the enthusiasm of the audience, but also avoids the monotony of traditional martial arts action films, which makes the film move towards a higher artistic value, and serves as a textbook for the subsequent films of this series.
For this film, I also want to talk about its characters. The arrangement of all the characters is really ingenious, and each image is so fresh, there is no excess or burden. The protagonist Huang Feihong in the film is a standard Chinese man image. He has both cultural relics and conservative thinking due to the influence of Chinese culture. This is also a special feature of this image. The Thirteenth Aunt represents a class of people derived from the new ideas of old China. She is open-minded and has many contradictions and conflicts due to the suppression of traditional ideas, which makes the plot more interesting. Liang Kuan created this character with understated brush and ink. For him, the director only used some subtle actions and language to outline his character. There is not much independent thinking, but it is another image of a traditional Chinese man. Compared with Huang Feihong, he represents a wider group of people. There is not much to say about the other characters. For example, the officers and soldiers played by Donnie Yen represent a type of traditional Chinese official image of diehards, who have received a new type of ideological education but become old because of the forced suppression of Chinese culture. Ideological service can only be willing to be a victim in the revolution. In addition, there is not much special about the revolutionaries such as Lu Shaodong and Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen copied the historical figure without question, but I think Lu Shaodong has more integrated into Tsui Hark's own thoughts. It is not so much Lu Shaodong, but Tsui Hark himself, because the language of this character reveals his reflections on the old China and his views on the new revolution. The appearance of this image can be said to be both real and charming. .
Not long ago, a film "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven" made me remember, and the magical video world constructed by it was jaw-dropping. When it comes to special effects production, I think of the excellent special effects personnel from Hollywood that Director Tsui Hark introduced in his film creation, and trained a group of special effects personnel, bringing a new spring to the Hong Kong film industry. "A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy", which can be said to be the film with the most Chinese characteristics, the elegant and moving image of Xiao Qian in the film has become the idol of a generation. It became popular all over Central and South Asia, and it also brought the elements of Chinese mythology out of the country. Whether it's the human way or the way, each film has its own brilliance. Tsui Hark sums up after each film, keeps making progress, and pushes his films to new heights. This series of films and the Once Upon a Time series are films of two styles, but they both incorporate common elements. You say that Tsui Hark is good at making traditional action films, but his films are very distinctive. It is also inevitable that Tsui Hark is known as the Spielberg of Hong Kong. His style is influential, leading a wave of Hong Kong cinema.

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