Zhou Xingchi's lens is very elegant

Zion 2022-03-26 09:01:04

I didn't even notice how good the lens was until after 40 minutes.

The long shot of the 42nd minute, the cross section of the building, in one shot, presents the various lives of the tenants. Hitchcock used this shot in "Rear Window", and Lu Xun also wrote: "A man downstairs Sick to death, the family in the wall sings on the gramophone; the other side is the kid. Upstairs there are two people laughing wildly; and playing cards. There is a woman on the boat in the river crying for her dead mother. Human joys and sorrows are not connected, I I just think they are noisy." In short, this kind of human feeling comes out in one shot.

At the 43rd minute, the part of the "Young Man with Leg Skills" that died was very Gulong-like. The shot is like this: He was walking along a small road with his luggage on his back. The sound of the piano came from not far away. He didn't notice that the bucket on the beam next to him was silently cut into two pieces. Clear water splashed; where he walked, a cat on the roof walked out of the camera and wanted to jump down, the moonlight cast the cat's shadow on the wall, and the cat's body was cut in half when he jumped down , a smear of blood splattered on the wall behind him, a cat food dish fell from the air, the sound attracted his attention, and when he looked back, he saw a blind martial artist playing a qin sitting in the corner, the camera was his shocked look; then cut to The falling cat food dish, his shadow was cast by the moonlight on the ground where the cat food dish fell, the shadow and the head were cut off from the body, a human head rolled near the cat food dish, and a headless body fell on the ground Ground - In this shot, the main body of the picture is actually to set off the artistic conception, and what really plays a narrative role is actually the thing (shadow) in the corner of the picture. This not only avoids the direct presentation of bloody and violent scenes, but also makes the killing simply and neatly, showing the "autumn water without trace" style of a kung fu master. This murder was treated coldly, and then the next scene of killing the old man with the iron arm was heat treatment. The second blind martial artist and the old man with the iron fist fought each other, and they were evenly matched; when the two hit the courtyard, the blind martial artist sat playing the piano, According to the sound of the piano, the shapes of knives, swords and other weapons are transformed, which are enough to cut iron (break his iron wrist ring) and break stone (stone grinding disc). young people. Then the old man with the long stick appeared. Two to two. The posture of the two blind warriors sitting in the air has already been used in "The Gambler", where it is used to make fun, and here it is used to show the kung fu of the two blind warriors. Then the old man with a long stick played handsomely, using his spear to fight the piano, the visible to the invisible, the silent to the sound. In the end, it was also invincible. The two blind martial arts masters were now made to feel that they were peerless masters and invincible in the world, and then at this time, the charterer let out a lion's roar, and several strings of the long qin broke at the same time. The two were surprised: there are still masters? The two were about to fly up to the renter's room. In the shot, both legs flew off the ground together, and then fell down together. Behind the two legs, there was another person - the renter. The two of them lost their fists and kicks to the charter man, so they connected the strings and played the piano again. This played a big move. The sound of the piano transformed into several dead men with silver armor and long swords. The charter woman stood in front of the charter man and took a deep breath. , The cigarette on the mouth was sucked directly to the cigarette butt, and then spewed out in one breath, and several dead men were wiped out. The water droplets hit the ground from behind, and it felt like a silver bottle burst into water. At 58 minutes, Stephen Chow was taught a lesson by the glasses man After a while, in order to save face, he went to the roadside to rob the ice cream girl Huang Shengyi. When he held her hostage with a knife, the poster behind it was the poster of Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's "Top Hat". The setting of the male and female protagonists in Top Hat is that one party has a deep-rooted love, but the other party does not know the true face of the other party, and finally the misunderstanding is eliminated and the lovers are married. Now one party's infatuation remains unchanged, and the other party covers up his true heart and forms an intertext with "Top Hat". It turns out that the "Research Center for Abnormal Humans" is from this movie. At the end, the camera turned between the two (not head-to-head, it was a 720-degree shake), and in the end, both of them became the same as when they were children, still pure and innocent, just like when they were children, with a sweet ending.

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  • Vincent 2022-03-21 09:01:44

    To say that this is the pinnacle of a generation of kung fu films is not an exaggeration! Star is a genius! After so many years, no matter how many times I watch it, I can't help but sigh the classic every time! Don't we have the same dream as a child. To be a master.. Is a hero beautiful? If you haven't watched it many times, how many people really understand this ending?

  • Orin 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    Looking at it again, it’s still awesome. Fortunately, I watched it before I went offline! This year's top ten theatrical films, "The Grandmaster 3D" and "Kung Fu 3D" accounted for two. . .

Kung Fu Hustle quotes

  • Sing: Wow, that's a big fist!

  • Sing: Fat woman, you're in charge here, right?

    Landlady: [takes her shoe off, slaps Sing with it] Fat woman, my ass!

    Sing: I'm with the Axe Gang!

    Landlady: [slaps him] Axe Gang, my ass!

    Sing: Boss!

    Landlady: [slaps him] Boss, my ass!

    Sing: You have to pay our medical bills!

    Landlady: Bills, my ass!

    Sing: We're on the same side!

    Landlady: Same side, my ass!

    Sing: A snake!

    Landlady: Snake, my ass!