Hong Kong films in the 1970s divided traditional Chinese philosophy into two, with martial arts films represented by Zhang Che and Chu Yuan on the one hand, and kung fu films represented by Bruce Lee, Liu Jialiang, and even Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung, and Jackie Chan on the other. Martial arts movies are not a kind of personal heroic fantasy. His literati calligraphy and calligraphy language determines that its essence is an anti-hero culture. Moreover, what the martial arts man pursues is not the winner whose goal is to knock down the opponent. At a higher level, he is seeking spiritual communication and retrieving the true meaning of life. Kung fu movies are transformed from practical fighting skills. What he shows is an optimistic and enterprising attitude towards life. The so-called anti-violence and peace, punishing evil and gangsters, fighting if you can fight, and running if you can’t fight are all this philosophy of struggle. The specific content. If Liu Jialiang’s "supernatural powers and magical functions, transporting water and firewood" are still in the process of diligent study and practice. Then, on this basis, Bruce Lee's "Heaven and Earth, I am the only one", raised Kung Fu to the height of body philosophy and performance art. The so-called "I didn't think" is just that wherever the mind is, the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy retreats and I advance, the enemy will automatically be knocked down. His "I" and "Opponent" do not exist, but he has forgotten his mastery of the essence of Kung Fu. The enemy is just a phantom. I just find a balance between passion (not thinking) and machinery (overthinking), and enter the finite in the infinite in the spiritual realm, the infinite in the finite...
Bruce Lee once called his self-awareness-inspiring kung fu philosophy "the philosophy of water" in a TV interview. Because running water does not rot, all you have to do is to keep your rhythm. You must keep practicing to inspire you. Instinctive reaction. When you need to use it, it is there; when you need to move, you can move like a rabbit. What I mean is that you must stand firm, attack, and merge your movement and mind with lightning speed. You'd better train every part of your body, just like this finger pointing to the moon. If you don’t concentrate, you can only see the fingers; if you only focus on the fingers, you will miss all the energy. Aura. The heaven and the earth, whether it is the tangible heaven and the earth, or the intangible spirit, will finally merge into one. Don't stick to the tricks of kung fu, the form distracts your attention, all this is a gradual process, to calm your mind, ethereal, invisible, like water. Water can flow, and it can also hit. Experience the philosophy of water, my friend.
If Bruce Lee is still using this profound and mysterious theory of kung fu from "Big Brother Tangshan", "Jing Wu Men" to "Raptor Crossing the River" to pursue the pleasure of knocking down opponents, then in "Dragon Fighting Tiger Fighting", he has no opponents anymore. To understand the true meaning of smashing phantoms in the space.
Bruce Lee's "Dragon Fight and Tiger Fight" is a philosophical film. The film starts with the Zen term "holding the finger as the moon" and ends with defeating the "enemy" that implements Zen philosophy into material enjoyment and even crime. It is Bruce Lee who uses images to explain the truth about breaking through illusions and knowing his true self. Because the key to holding the finger as the moon is not to focus only on the material world in front of you, otherwise you will not be able to comprehend the aura of the spiritual world. Bruce Lee put pacifism through his Kung Fu culture to distinguish the ancient Greek/Roman philosophy based on heroic culture and cut off the Westerners' association of Kung Fu as a violent aesthetic. Strictly speaking, the movie "Dragon Fighting Tiger Fighting" is divided into two parts: The first part is Bruce Lee explaining what Kung Fu philosophy is. To sum it up, feelings can generate beliefs, feelings can enter the spiritual world, and feelings can be defeated. phantom. The second part is Bruce Lee’s kung-fu behavior, which represents the Zen Buddhism not standing, "stick like raindrops, drink like thunderbolt", and has entered into "getting the gods and forgetting the shape", and the body movements, facial expressions, and facial expressions are integrated. And howl bluntly, to perform this philosophy.
If it is said that Zhang Che's film is an eye contact between two confidants, playing from day to night regardless of the crowd. Then Bruce Lee’s strange singing-like cry when he was fighting was a contest with his spiritual opponent and an emotional explosion of self-entry. There is only himself in Bruce Lee's movies. Everyone is the background material for him to enter the spiritual world. The opponent he defeated is himself. This is why he is beyond ordinary kung fu movies. There is a spiritual philosophy in his movies. In the movie, he completely enters his own imagination, becomes more than just performing the role he plays, and achieves the realm of enjoying it and forgetting both things. According to Jack Smith, this kind of performance is a human hallucinogen, reaching the height of faith. With this kind of actor, the fake scene can be brought to life, and everyone can explore the unknown spiritual realm.
As Bruce Lee said, I performed Bruce Lee in front of the camera, because Bruce Lee represents the potential of his true self. He is both unnatural in nature and nature in unnaturalness. This rather slurred sentence is easily reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s play of the underground movie king Jack Smith’s “superstar” theory. It’s not surprising why every director’s shots are involuntarily blocked by Bruce Lee. The performance of the transcending "superstar" was deeply attracted. Bruce Lee uses human flesh to take the audience into Bruce Lee's fantasy world in slow motion as if entering a man's land. This is not simply funny and not entertaining, but walking in a real dream. Every fight, every "revenge", every rash and emotional howl, Bruce Lee uses serious, joyous, excited, and even weird expressions with sad facial expressions to inform the audience that this place should be empty, lonely and cold. , Can this be called the most human likeness? This unfinished, mournful and sorrowful state is Bruce Lee's automatic performance after the camera is turned on. Such an inevitable illusion must be reproduced, and he must not be forced! Otherwise, Long Ge will have to wow me and kick you away!
Attachment: Use Jack Smith's theory to review Bruce Lee's "bad" performance again:
Jack Smith: "Maria Montez only cares about her own fantasies, she doesn't perform anything except her own fantasies (she attracts fantasy movies to her-they need her-it would be ridiculous to change to any other actor. ——Anyone else).” This sentence is the best commentary on Bruce Lee’s performance.
The United States had just experienced the baptism of underground, pop, and hippie culture in the 1960s. In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee appeared on the American stage with a charismatic performance. His unique view of pursuing the personal universe coincided with that of the time. Of American culture. It can be seen that the reason why the Americans like Bruce Lee and compare him with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Stallone is not all kung fu, but more of his unique way of performing. What he performed is not even kung fu. It was his own fantasy.
In "Jing Wu Men", you can see that every lens is capturing Bruce Lee’s exaggerated facial expressions. According to today’s standards, the performance is very "bad", but this is exactly what Jack Smith likes to "do not perform". It is normal to see the performances of other actors in contemporary movies. Only Bruce Lee makes people "play" because he only performs himself. He doesn't care how "strange" others think he is. This is what foreigners like him.
Bruce Lee’s exaggerated facial expressions magnify each "feeling", slow it down, and close-up, until the face cannot accommodate his rich emotions, it becomes body movements and "howls", that is, exaggerated stage-like "martial arts". This kind of martial arts is actually a continuation of his personal emotions, his unique "body language", no one can imitate, and no one can surpass it. He is a human "psychedelic".
Jack Smith: I would rather like bad performances. Bruce Lee is a "bad performance". In a fighting scene, he used human flesh to slow down the "fight" action. The man was dead, but his hands were still shaking. Time seemed to be still, with extreme An exaggerated way of expressing anger, this is no longer a demonstration of Kung Fu. Like Jack Smith said, he stubbornly insisted on his own way, so he went beyond technique.
Jack Smith's theory is actually quite advanced. He believes that "unique people perform themselves" and in this way arouse the audience's fantasy is really hard to surpass. This is the "magic" and "psychedelic agent" of the movie. . Many people think that special effects are "fantasy". In fact, special effects are just tools. They have no content, nor can they arouse people's fantasy. What they can bring to the audience is only visual stimulation, rather than thinking with the eyes. Because humans are beyond machines, special effects can only be auxiliary, it is very limited, and it cannot reach "infinity".
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