Is it worth looking forward to the new Legend of the Condor Heroes？

Special feature of 1905 film network After waiting for many years, the new film was officially announced, and the cast was announced, playing Guo Jing and Huang Rong.The subtitle of the film title, "The Great Chivalrous Man", is taken from Mr. Jin Yong’s original "The Condor Heroes", "The Great Chivalrous Man is for the country and the people".

It can be seen from the publicity of the project initiated by the State Film Bureau that the film tells the story of the Mongolian army, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, going west to destroy the gold, and trying to destroy the Song Dynasty. Among them, the masters of various martial arts schools in the Central Plains scuffled, with Guo Jing as the representative, who was the greatest chivalrous man, for the country and the people, assembled the strength of the Central Plains martial arts and defended Xiangyang.From this point of view, the film may focus on the novel.the legend of the condor heroesThe story in the middle and late period, in the martial arts.rivers and lakesChina, against foreign enemies.

As the director who knows the Jianghu best in everyone’s eyes, when he meets Jin Yong’s novels, it may make people think of the Dong Fangbubai of the Swordsman. Although there were theoretical contradictions at that time, Jin Yong was still willing to give the copyright of The Condor Heroes to Director Tsui Hark and planned to build a trilogy.

2024 is the 100th anniversary of Jin Yong’s birth. Perhaps Tsui Hark has "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Man" and will give a good answer.

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The feud between Tsui Hark and Jin Yong has always been mentioned by many people and they can’t help feeling deeply.Many people who know Jin Yong know that Mr. Jin Yong was very angry after watching the film "Dong Fangbubai of the Swordsman" directed by Tsui Hark, and even made a big speech, and his works will never be handed over to Tsui Hark for shooting!

As we all know, although Dong Fangbubai is a classic, it is far from the original expression. Dong Fangbubai himself is a male, and eventually became a hermaphrodite because of practicing "Sunflower Collection". However, in Dong Fangbubai, Dong Fangbubai is not only transsexual, but also falls in love with Ling Huchong.

This feud has been accumulated for more than ten years, until later when Jin Yong was interviewed, he bluntly said, "Change Dong Fangbubai from a man to a woman and play it with a woman, and a man’s transsexuality will change in personality. This process is slow, complicated, changeable and process-oriented. It is involuntary, not as simple as it is in the movie."

Jin Yong, who once said that "friends can do it, cooperation is out of the question", finally let go of this grudge.

At the Shanghai International Film Festival in June 2018, Lechuang Entertainment announced at the Shanghai International Film Festival that the trilogy of "The Condor Heroes" series was fully launched and was decided to be directed by Tsui Hark. Even at the event at that time, Zhang Zhao, then CEO of Lechuang Entertainment, once said that Tsui Hark’s trilogy "The Condor Heroes" no longer paid attention to the couple, but "mainly talked about how this sculpture inspired us to rise."

It’s just that the follow-up of this trilogy has not been finalized. At the end of the same year, Mr. Jin Yong’s death left many regrets.

Later, there were many rumors, true or false, about the casting of The Condor Heroes, but Tsui Hark mentioned in an interview that it was a work that had a profound influence on his childhood, hoping to shoot it as well as possible.

Now, the story of Little Dragon Girl and Yang Guo may be put on hold for the time being, and Guo Jing and Huang Rong, the former historians, took the lead in putting it on the trip. Tsui Hark has a brand-new interpretation of Jin Yong’s story.

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In the past few years, Tsui Hark has been busy with the film series. The last time he filmed a costume martial arts movie, it was in 2018, and even for a long time afterwards, no matter whether it was produced by Tsui Hark or the Chinese film industry, few martial arts movies appeared.

Nowadays, the director who is best at shooting martial arts movies in the eyes of the public has chosen to remake The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which can be described as a real "mountain"!

What is martial arts?In Tsui Hark’s eyes, "the martial arts world is very free. We can solve the unfair situation according to our personal sense of justice and expose the strange phenomenon to the truth behind it with our own skills. These things are all possibilities that we present to the audience in the martial arts world."

Perhaps this has something to do with Tsui Hark’s growing up. As a child, he moved to China and Hong Kong with his family because of the Vietnam war. After finishing high school, he went to the United States to study movies. For a long memory of his youth, "chaos" has always been the key word.

In most of his films, the story background mostly happened in the war years — — Xinlongmen Inn and flying swords of dragon gateIt was the Ming dynasty when Dongchang was authoritarian.Huang Feihong.It was a turbulent time in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.Peking opera blues.Is a warlord melee during the Republic of China, "DERenjieSeries is a period of power turmoil in the Tang Dynasty … … Not to mention latertaking tiger mountain by strategyAnd The Battle at Lake Changjin series.

As we all know, The Legend of the Condor Heroes is based on the confrontation between Song, Jin and Mongolia, and it is a guardian of the country outside the rivers and lakes. Especially at present, the synopsis revealed by the film is more settled in Guo Jing guarding Xiangyang City, or in the last few chapters of the original "Legend of the Condor Heroes".This story can naturally give Tsui Hark a lot of room to play.

If we say that before "Taking Tiger Mountain Outward", Tsui Hark’s creation only used actions and emotions between people to drive the plot.

Then, after the creation of several recent works, the dramatic conflicts in Tsui Hark’s films are not only the chivalrous feelings arising from the struggle between heroes and villains, but also the feelings of home and country.

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Fighting is the key to martial arts movies.In Tsui Hark’s martial arts movies, the most important person is. Especially, Ghost Story, the legendary swordsman and Xinlongmen Inn are almost complementary to each other, and their works only emphasize the car-scrapping of movements, and more highlight the atmosphere of freehand brushwork, just like dancing.

In Cheng Xiaodong’s previous film Zhu Xian 1, which was co-produced with Sean Xiao, it was well presented. Although there is no behind-the-scenes team lineup such as official propaganda and action guidance, these connections may be enough to look forward to.

Of course, Tsui Hark also has more realistic works such as "Huang Feihong" series, but after careful watching, the martial arts scenes of these works are still more dynamic, more skillful in action, and more gorgeous and beautiful in perception.

The support of these styles in the past can’t help but make the public look forward to it. How will Tsui Hark present Guo Jing’s eighteen palms?

In fact, compared with the display of the Eighteen Dragons, for Tsui Hark, who prefers weapon design, Huang Rong’s "dog stick" may be more likely to happen, and it can also display the "Machamp’s chaos" of "Seo Lao Guai".

In the genealogy of Tsui Hark’s works, weapons are the reflection of the spiritual world of the characters. Especially in the movies, the seven swords correspond to the respective personalities of the seven swordsmen.

In the novel, "dog stick" represents the power of beggars’ gangs. At first, it means that beggars are often attacked by vicious dogs, and this stick is a self-defense tool. This meaning is put in troubled times, it is to fight the wicked in troubled times and clear the "bad dog" in the home.

Perhaps, beautiful fighting and more weapons that can be used have the opportunity to make the story of The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Man of chivalry develop in a lot of space.

Interpreting Jin Yong from another angle and talking about this story in Tsui Hark’s way is bound to be the biggest attraction of The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Man. After all, in Tsui Hark’s lens, actors will become his interpretation tools, and actors will only become surprises in the story, and Tsui Hark will always see the side of actors that ordinary people can’t see.

In any case, The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Man of chivalry has just been officially announced, and what kind of story will be presented by the "Xu Laoguai" will never be known until it is released in the movie.