In recent years, TV dramas adapted from martial arts novels have humiliated the original novels as much as opening coffins and destroying corpses, and they still use extremely clumsy expressions. "Jianghu Qingyi" is simplified as "love", which is still the ambiguity of a man dealing with several women. In the Hong Kong films of the 1980s and 1990s, the props and sets were very crude. The scene of martial arts must be built with crackling noises, rising yellow smoke, and the clanging sound of sharp weapons colliding. It seems ridiculous now. Even the cool special effects can't make up for the lost chivalry and affection. The drastic adaptation of Old Monster Xu is extremely unrestrained, and it can also be regarded as the undefeated name of the East. After all, the novel is full of viciousness and martial arts of the East, and it hung up after a few pages of the official appearance. My friends and I wrote a big question mark on our foreheads. The dynasties in the novel are vague, as if we were saying, "Damn, it's ancient, not modern." The movie puts the story in the Ming Dynasty, or when Japanese pirates created chaos and loyal ministers were buried. Whenever the monarch is dull and the black iron age is full of revelry, the wind of retreating to the mountains and forests will prevail. At the beginning of the film, the Huashan disciples decided to retreat to Niubei Mountain and no longer bother about the affairs of the rivers and lakes. They no longer cherish their self-defense swords, which they use to skewer pheasants and roast them on the fire. "Tomorrow, you will be retiring. What do you need a sword for?"
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