My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 645 The Dragon Gate is now open for the king, where can I find the broken dream rivers and lakes?

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Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island.

The brightly lit convention and exhibition center, where birds spread their wings by the sea, officially opened at the end of 1988, and it is full of star flavor at this moment.

This iconic building, excluding the land price, cost 16 billion Hong Kong dollars in construction costs. In the future, facing the sea is the famous Golden Bauhinia Square, where the statue of Golden Bauhinia and the daily raising of the national flag and the regional flag of the special administrative region are placed. The place.

The huge poster hangs at the head of the convention and exhibition center, with a kind of overwhelming shock.

Yellowish spotlights are placed on the ground, looking upwards on the poster.

A man with the air of a master, wearing a bamboo hat, his face hidden in the shadows, his lips tightly closed, wearing a green cloth garment with dense pleats at the bottom, and a red cloth around his waist, swinging in the wind, holding a broken sword, resolutely And Chong, located in the very center.

At the top on the left side, the enchanting and charming Qiu Shuzhen is wearing a long jacket with pipa sleeves and cross-collar, with a horse-face skirt underneath. Swing, the long sword is tilted.Directly above, the apricot-yellow skirt mixed with bright red, and the cloak wrapped in a graceful and resolute Gong Li stared straight ahead.

The feminine Chen Daoming and the low-browed Liang Jiahui stand on both sides.

The next book has seven gorgeous and colorful fonts, which are particularly conspicuous under the light: Director Wu Xiaozu's work!
The poster is full of sword-like breakups and intrigues, as well as the heroic ambition of the lonely smoke in the desert.

"The desert is filled with solitary smoke and yellow sand, and the dragon gate is tricked under the winter sun!"

Tsui Hark let the sea breeze blow his unrestrained hair, stood under the poster, raised his head with his hands behind his back, squinted his mung bean eyes, and stood proudly.

"..."

Hong Sanmao rolled his eyelids, glared at Guisun angrily, then turned his head and curled his lips at Shi Nansheng, "What is your master crazy about? He's chattering endlessly."

Shi Nansheng smiled and said nothing.

She naturally understood why Tsui Hark was!
This isn't chattering, it's clearly jealousy!

There are two lines of heart-warming small words on the poster: The pioneering work of the new school of martial arts--Dragon Gate is now opened for you!

look~
A cardigan!
Prior to this, Tsui Hark had been ambitious to regard "Swordsman" as the beginning of a new style of martial arts, and even invited Hu Jinquan, a recognized martial arts master in the Chinese film industry, to compose this new song.

It's a pity...Boss Hu and him have completely different ideas about film creation, which led to an extremely unpleasant quarrel during filming, and Wu Xiaozu, on the contrary, took advantage of the loophole.

How can Old Freak Xu not have lemons?
What's more, Boss Hu personally wrote an article in "Ming Pao" two days ago, exaggerating that "Dragon Inn" surpassed the previous work.

At the same time, praise Wu Xiaozu for his contribution to martial arts movies!

These words made Old Freak Xu's brain hurt.

A master of aesthetics of violence, an explorer of strange case films, a founder of horror genres, a promoter of gambling films, a master of new gangster films, a master of suspense films, and a founder of new martial arts?

I bought a watch last year!
Of course, Wu Xiaozu's family is the top card, so there is naturally a battle for the top card.

The martial arts movie "Dragon Inn" has also become the first movie to hold its premiere here since the Hong Kong Island Convention and Exhibition Center opened.

It is enough to prove that Director Wu's status and reputation in the film industry and even in Hong Kong Island are now.

Not only those from the film, entertainment, and cultural circles came to join in the show, but many celebrities from the business world and the richest people in the city also came to participate in the premiere.

It is rumored that the other party may be awarded the title of mortuary gentleman, which is much better than the previous top ten young people on Hong Kong Island.

……

Berlin, 2 February at 6:17.

Babylon Cinema, Darkness Falls.

Hong Kong Island, February 2 at 6:23.

In the convention center, the lights go out.

With a time difference of 6 hours, the same Chinese-language martial arts movie was screened in the East and the West. This is the first time that a Chinese-language movie has been screened in different places simultaneously.

Passed by the familiar locomotive logo——

In the Berlin theater, the noise was reduced, and countless foreigners crossed their legs, bored, suddenly their eyes froze and they held their breath.

Inside the Hong Kong Island Convention and Exhibition, there was no sound. Many movie fans looked at the familiar and unfamiliar logos and smiled knowingly.

In the twilight, a train is accompanied by a drum kit, mixed with bass and trumpet.

The train sails out of the clouds, the dream, the soul rests in the sky!

The lonely mountains and clear waters are full of shadows.

The reworked logo of the locomotive company has drumbeats between it, and the strokes of [-] written in Chinese official script are just like ink paintings, causing ripples.

Black and white ink painting unfolds.

Westerners seem to see the aesthetics of Eastern porcelain, while Easterners feel the refinement left by our ancestors.

...

The cold moon is tilting, the red tiles are flying, and the carved beams and painted buildings are dim.

The lake is sparkling, the lonely shadow is independent, and the wild ducks are pecking at each other in the water.

In Bibo, a close-up of the phoenix hairpin, a jade arm hangs slightly, resting on the jade railing, and the hand is nimbly twisting the brown rice——

The lens is like a partial close-up of a painting of ladies. The light here is distinct from cold and warm, adopting the bright features of paintings of maids in the Ming Dynasty, but also has the characteristics of blank space.

Overlooking the waves, the lonely moon is cold.

Voiceover——

"In the first year of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty, the first emperor succeeded Datong when he was young, and the empress dowager and the three assistant cabinet elders jointly supervised the government. In the seventh year of Zhengtong, the empress dowager passed away, the old man succeeded, and the three cabinets retired.

Dan Shu Xi swore that he worshiped the sun and chased him; Chi Fu was sparsely honored, and he was still rewarded with rank and rank!
There has never been a bird to hide the good work, nor a rabbit to die and a dog to cook.

Make great efforts to govern, use troops in Luchuan, work diligently and love the people, and stabilize the southwest.

In the 14th year of Zhengtong, the first emperor had three out of twenty, and he also led the Wara soldiers to invade northern Xinjiang first!First invaded Datong, went to Maoerzhuang, Tuotuobuhua invaded Liaodong, Zhiyuan Ara Kouxuanfu, besieged Chicheng, and focused on Ganzhou all the way.

The officers and soldiers were defeated one after another, and the north was in a hurry! !

The first emperor wanted to imitate Chengzu's 5 conquests of Mongolia, and the emperor personally conquered it!On July 50th, the first emperor ordered his younger brother to stay in the imperial capital, led a large number of officials, and selected [-] elite soldiers to go out to fight.

In August, water is cut off, and food is cut off every month!

Autumn and September, the tragedy of Tumubao..."

His voice was cold and he paused.

Pull up the camera, wide-angle lens, Gong Li is wearing an apricot-yellow pair of breasted and large-sleeved shirt, three inches wide, with Xia Pei and a long red skirt, graceful and luxurious, with a phoenix hairpin on his head, and a face like a full moon, dignified and majestic.

The phoenix eyes are cold, looking far away!
In the camera, the flames of war are raging, like a Shura battlefield, horses hiss and people roar, and swords snap.

The battle was fierce, and the scroll was stained with blood.

This group of shots is magnificent and shot in real scenes, which is very shocking with the vastness of Soviet movies.

In terms of scene scheduling, it can be called a difficult point.

At the beginning, such a war scene made the audience excited.

The foreigners all stared wide-eyed, watching the war in the era of cold weapons.

Wu Xiaozu restored the cruelty of war very well, and the whole battle was full of fierceness of iron and blood.

This is definitely not the way of war, but watching the scene of lining up in square formations and waving weapons and rushing towards the enemy camp is still exciting.

The overall picture scroll forges a shocking yet poignant, bloody but shocking scene!
The audience on Hong Kong Island stared wide-eyed, they were even more shocked by this reality!

The audience in Berlin felt the horror of the war!
As the picture scroll gradually dissipated, the voice-over continued the monologue, which was roughly about Emperor Jingtai ascending the throne and using the factory guards... Balabala... the chanting that introduced Wala to be sent back to Yingzong and Longmen...

This is a voiceover that introduces the background of the story.

Immediately afterwards, as soon as the screen turned, it switched to the factory guard, a scene of killing in a rainy night!

The remnants of the 'former dynasty' were purged!
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the people of Dongchang Factory Guard are counting and surrounding the Gaoting compound!

The hand crossbow begins.

Thousands of arrows rained in the sky, countless wailing!
In this scene, Wu Xiaozu used more than tens of thousands of arrows in order to shoot the scene of arrows raining down.

In the era when special effects were not yet successful, Wu Xiaozu couldn't learn the pictures in "Heroes" at all, but this kind of live-action interpretation is more realistic!
The martial arts scenes in the play are chaotic and charming!

The foreigners were dumbfounded! !

Swish over the wall, fly over the wall!

Wu Xiaozu combined Wia with real martial arts movements in the play, which not only endows the sense of reality, but also is full of power and blood, and also has shocking scenes!
The action scenes of "New Dragon Inn" in the previous life were very classic, and it caused quite a stir when it was released in Europe!
Even though foreigners can't understand this drama sometimes, it doesn't prevent them from enjoying the fun!
Action scenes are the killer feature of Hong Kong films!

The shocking and exquisite action design opens a new chapter in martial arts movies!
The hard bridge and hard horse are transformed into more exciting martial arts designs!
Blood stained the stone steps.

Two-phase fighting, the scene is bloody!
The important officials of the imperial court were pulled out like animals, and Fanzi brutally made the literati kneel down——

"It's absolutely impossible... why did our family receive such a big gift??"

Black embroidered python robe, with a white jade pendant hanging on the waistband, a red cloak, and a temple crown on the head.

With sunken cheeks and extended eyebrows, Chen Daoming bowed slightly.

The face is like a wolf, and the eyes are like eagles.

He said he didn't dare.

The moon is like a hook, and under the cold light, it forms a heavily dyed picture scroll.

A smear of blood streaked across——

Don't rest your eyes!

The names of the film's leading actors and staff also emerged one by one along with the above screen.

Gently smeared with blood, the ink painting is constantly changing, lonely smoke in the desert, picturesque swords, gold and iron horses, all kinds of ghosts and ghosts - attributed to the movie title:

"Dragon Gate Inn" (New Dragon Gate Inn)

It's like flipping through a book, turning a page.

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The yellow sand is messy.

The camera is very low, a vulture stands on a bone, pecking off a shred of meat.

A clatter.

Spread your wings and fly.

The camera also rises accordingly, in the vast and barren Gobi desert, under the lonely light and shadow, the Longmen Inn stands in the desert, with simplicity and vastness in the smoke and dust.

The three floors of earth rammed stones have been blown by gravel, wind and scorching sun, and everyone is just a passer-by at the Longmen.

The tattered and tattered banners at Longmen beat the wind, making the sound of whips.

If you don't belong here, you will eventually leave here.

The setting sun slanted.

Sunset afterglow.

The land is full of wildness and vicissitudes, but the boundless desert shows a fascinating scenery like an ancient painting.

The melodious and long-lasting song outside the Great Wall and the combination of Qiang flute and mariot make people instantly brought into this vast and barren land swept by wind and sand.

Low shot close-up.

The feet are turned up, and the silver bell is shaking with the minor key. The music processing here is amazing.The sense of hierarchy is clear, but it does not overwhelm the host.

Hu Weili's master handwriting brings endless feelings from the beginning.

Where is the girl in Ruqun looking at with her back to the setting sun?

This is the frontier, this is the Gobi, this is the desert, this is sparsely populated, and this is the edge of the rivers and lakes.

She is the Longmen Inn, and the Qiang flute blows her heart!

"On the [-]th day of the eighth lunar month, the temple door opens, and various candles are placed.

Red candles come red, white candles white, your candles are like fortresses...

Little girl, I can't handle it. "

The Northwest Minor Tune exudes the flavor of the original ecology, followed by drinking orders, shouting, voices, and sound montage interspersed.

With a slender hand, he slowly opened the scroll, and the out-of-focus figures appeared one by one.

What a hot restaurant and restaurant.

The subjective camera moves with a pot of fragrant stewed mutton, the man hums a charming little song, and the big man next to him pats Kaifengni and pours wine with his head up. intrude into it.

Like a drop of blood, like a drop of ink.

The camera slowly descends vertically——

Passing through the ground, one suddenly sees a secret kitchen.

Knife up and down.

"mutton--"

Guys shuttle between restaurants, rude men of different races, ferocious reckless men, groups of swordsmen wearing ragged clothes and vicious eyes, swordsmen wearing bamboo hats, drinkers with teeth and claws, desperate prisoners, gambling The defenders shouting constantly...

The picture scroll unfolded, and what gushed out was clearly the lights and shadows of the rivers and lakes under the sky of the desert.

There are skills, but they stop at the point, everything is like a scroll.

Compared with Shaw Brothers' martial arts, this drama reveals a strong flavor of the world as soon as it is rolled out.

What is arena?

This is the arena in front of you.

The filmmakers on Hong Kong Island looked at this vast picture like a poem with fascination.

The audience in Berlin lamented the blood and sand!
Although I can't understand the minor key, I can't cover the charming oriental notes in the minor key!

The soundtrack with oriental instruments fascinated many European filmmakers. The purest music, paired with the sky and desolation, makes people feel different.

Hu Weili, a master, showed the charm of oriental music!

This kind of music is a novel attraction for many Westerners, so they can't help but explore the magnificence of the East!

It seems that they still don't quite understand what the film creators want to express. After all, there is no such soil in Europe.

but!
Such a magnificent and beautiful picture scroll, such vivid shots, such vivid characters, and such wonderful music still let them feel the inexplicable feeling.

It seems to think of the medieval country fields, and the earthy tavern~
I thought of the barbarians in leather armor, drinking ale, and bearded old knights from a foreign land leading old horses by the side of the road...

I thought of the coquettish proprietress in a corset!
Quite the wonder and desolation of the age of great navigation!
it seems~
It's very similar to a North American western, like watching "Red Dead Redemption" again!
Wu Xiaozu also showed the elements of our own western in "Dragon Inn".

Jianghu martial arts have different colors for Chinese and Orientals.

Different from the daydreams of foreigners, many people in Hong Kong Island feel that the picture in front of them is the scene of the rivers and lakes that they are fascinated by!
Cutting it down with a single knife reveals a screen full of fantasy and satisfaction!

Swords, lights and swords, people screaming, this is the temple and the rivers and lakes!
(End of this chapter)