China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 406 Xiuchun Knife Flying Fish Clothes Jinyiwei (Happy New Year's Eve)

Chen Mao is a senior movie fan + amateur film critic.

The reason why he is an amateur film critic is because he has just become a film critic, or he is a wild person who has not been accepted by the film critic circle.

But this does not mean that Chen Mao's influence is poor,

With the screen name [Maomaocheng], he is very popular on the Penguin blog, with 50+ fans, more fans than many celebrities.

This also made Chen Mao one of Penguin Blog's non-celebrity Internet celebrity representatives, and also the first batch of amateur bloggers to get a yellow V.

And Chen Mao is famous for evaluating the new TV series and movies that are currently broadcast, or belittling complaints or praising Amway.

He first became famous when "Marshal Ma" was broadcast in January. He made a series of special blog introductions,
He has accumulated more than 120 blog posts, and made "Marshal Ma" popular on the Penguin blog by himself. I heard that Lao Zhao also sent someone to contact him, wanting to take him under his command, but was declined.

Another representative work is Fanxing's "Armor Warrior" series, which Chen Mao spoke highly of and regarded as a milestone in Chinese special dramas.

But when it comes to what really made Chen Mao famous and attracted 50 fans, it is the "Yan Shuangying" series. . .

The "Yan Shuangying" series, the first episode was broadcast in 2001, that is, Yan Shuangying learned how to kill bandits, and then fought against Japanese ronin. His wife died, and he was seriously injured and taken in by the Eighth Route Army.

"Yan Shuangying 2", which was broadcast last year, tells the story of Yan Shuangying joining the Eighth Route Army, becoming a blockbuster, all kinds of lonely heroes, and then forming a martial arts team to kill devils frantically.

The heroine played by Fan Xiaopang is the daughter of a traitor county magistrate, dissatisfied with her father being a subjugated slave, and rebelling in various ways.

Later, she accidentally helped Yan Shuangying, and after various chance encounters, she finally joined Yan Shuangying's team, responsible for the team's intelligence analysis and logistics, and at the same time used her father to help the martial arts team in various ways.

During this period, she developed love for Yan Shuangying and chased after him every day, but Yan Shuangying still thought about her sister Hua (Li Bingbing) who died before the first movie, and dared not accept it.

In the end, the role of Fan Xiaopang was discovered by her father through her father's sabotage of the devil's action. In order to save her life, the traitor father reported her to the devil.

Fan Xiaopang was arrested and tortured without saying a word. The devil had no choice but to plan to execute her in public, but in fact it was to use her as a bait to kill Yan Shuangying.

But Yan Shuangying and others were indeed planning to rob the execution ground. Fan Xiaopang knew that it was a trap, and tried to commit suicide in public, so that the devil's plot would be shattered.

Later, Yan Shuangying killed the murderer Zhong Zuo and Fan Xiaopang's traitor father, and avenged her.

How should I put this story, the anti-Japanese dramas in the future will not be bad, at least they will not be very fresh, but in 2003 this plot was far from the old-fashioned evaluation.

The heroine played by Fan Xiaopang is extremely lovable. The distinction between righteousness and Xiaojia is very clear. She has a generous personality without being shy, bravely chasing love, smart, and has outstanding abilities not to hinder the team. Finally, she sacrifices herself for the sake of her comrades-in-arms.

But then again, the "Swallow Shuangying" series is after all a heroic line, and the starring ability is relatively "outstanding".

For example, the martial arts team, needless to say Yan Shuangying himself, [half-human, half-ghost, number one sharpshooter], his own fighting ability, resourcefulness and other aspects are also top-notch, which can be called the ceiling of humanity

Especially after joining the organization, he received the blessing of faith, and his combat effectiveness was even better.

In a plot of "Swallow Shuangying 2", he used two box cannons (plenty of bullets) by himself, relying on street fighting in complex terrain, to forcibly block the two full squads of devils.

In the end, more than 20 devils were killed, and they all left calmly.

The martial arts team also has a bomber. The distance error within a 100-meter radius is no more than 2 meters. Within 50 meters, it can hit every shot with a hundred shots. It is an absolute close-range human mortar.

No, mortars are not even accurate to him...

In addition, there is a strong man played by the actor Jin Song, who was born as a monk and has great strength. In his hand, the light machine gun is like a machine gun, and he can shoot casually.

There is also an inverted tomb robber who is good at cracking organs and digging holes in disguise. With a Luoyang shovel, he can dig from the gate of the city to the military police department in the city, nicknamed "Tu Xingsun".

In order to prevent him, after the heroine was caught, she used multiple iron cages suspended in the air to reinforce them, and placed them in the yard, surrounded by seven or eight checkpoints, guarding and patrolling 24 hours a day.

Including the heroine, Fan Xiaopang, who is actually a genius, with a photographic memory, meticulous thinking, and a small expert in making money, so that the martial arts team has no worries about food, clothing, food, and food.

In a sense, this is no longer a martial arts team, but a low-profile version of a superhero team.

It is also because of this that it is different from the war of resistance that many people can understand.

Although the devils in it are cunning and insidious, the traitors are slippery, and even caused great losses to the martial arts team, some audiences still cannot accept it.

Chen Mao is one of them. He made various complaints about the "Yan Shuangying" series, questioning that Yan Shuangying is too inhuman, and it is completely a "thunder drama".

For this reason, the official bloggers of the "Swallow Shuangying" series came to the stage in person, started a debate with Chen Mao, and cited many gods of war in our army.

Hu Xiudao, known as the "King of Individual Soldiers", participated in the Battle of Shangganling as a recruit.

In the case of all the casualties of his comrades-in-arms, one person stood firm for a whole day, repelled 41 enemy charges, and wiped out more than 280 enemies.

Also in Shangganling, [Sniper God] Zhang Taofang killed 32 enemies with 442 bullets in 214 days, making the US military and the United Nations terrified.

Volunteer Army hero Li Fei led a team of 6 people to block two battalions of the U.S. Army and one battalion of the Netherlands, destroying 360+ enemies with 0 casualties.

The Pang Guoxing who said "not only did the enemy not surrender, but dared to fight back against me", three people took over an artillery battalion.

All of these, there are many, many such legendary combat power and soldier kings in our army.

All of them ran to the underworld, slapped Lord Yan a few big mouths, and then came back swaggeringly. Yan Shuangying was barely "passed" when compared with them.

Later, considering some people, the official blog of "Swallow Shuangying" also listed several legends of foreign gods of war.

The most famous one is Simon Haye, the king of human sniper. During the Soviet-Finnish War, he killed 542 people in less than four months, an average of 4.5 people per day. In the true sense, killing people is like slaughtering chickens.

As the screenwriter and director of the "Yan Shuangying" series, Qian Yanqiu also responded on his blog, saying that Yan Shuangying himself actually integrated the experience of the soldier king and God of War, and he wrote it on his own.

After all, reality does not need logic, but film and television works do not.

Yan Shuangying sniped and escaped from the two devil squads, and some people refused to accept it. If he captured the two devil squads like Pang Guoxing, the outside world would be fried.

But in fact, in the late surrender stage of the devils, it is common for small troops at the squad level to directly take over the number of people several times or even dozens of times more than the devils on their own.

Later, this incident also aroused the adoration of our military heroes by many netizens, especially the patriotic young people who are called "angry youth" and "fifty cent party" by some people.

Chen Mao also withdrew his comments on "Lei Ju", but he was still not too impressed with the "Yan Shuangying" series, but anyway, he is famous because of "Yan Shuangying", and the "Yan Shuangying" series is also because of his popularity on the Internet. famous.

Although word of mouth is still polarized, its influence is indeed further out of the circle.

Zhang Zijian also became famous because of Yan Shuangying and Feng Yingxia in "Armor Warrior".

What's even more amazing is that his two "women" are Li Bingbing and Fan Xiaopang, and there will be two new heroines in "Yan Shuangying 3", tentatively named Gao Yuanyuan and Liu Yan.

The former is more of a cameo role, not a heroine in the true sense. It will be finished soon, and Liu Yan will have more roles.
In "Swallow Shuangying 4" and "Swallow Shuangying 5", it is planned that Yang Xue will be selected as the heroine, and Da Mimi will probably also participate in it. Li is also on the list of candidates.

Forget about Liu Tianxian, at most he will be a nurse in our army or a silly and sweet crowd. Being the heroine of the "Yan Shuangying" series is too unsuitable.

At the same time, Ru Yan, the heroine of the "Detective Di Renjie" series, will be played by Dong Xuan if there is no accident.

Considering the heroine lineup that plays with Zhang Zijian, Zhang Zijian is likely to become the envy of many LSPs in the future.

Men are Yan Shuangying!
Women should avoid snakes and scorpions, it's too much for the wife, the fate of the lone star...

Let's talk about Chen Mao again. He thought that he had offended Fan Xing after going through "Yan Shuangying", but he didn't expect that for the premiere of "Xiu Chun Knife", he was specially sent an invitation letter, and even included food and travel expenses.

Of course, Fanxing was not the only one who invited him. He was also an influential amateur film critic on Penguin Blog and related websites. Fanxing also sent invitation letters. Considering that most of these people were part-timers and had limited liquidity, they included board, lodging and travel expenses.

This is also the first theater movie that pays attention to amateur film critics on the Internet.

Prior to this, mainland films were dominated by professional film critics and the media, and the word-of-mouth of a film was often based on these film critics.

But with the development of the Internet era, the voice of the public is getting louder and louder.

Especially with the successive rise of community network platforms such as Tianya Forum, Baidu Tieba, Penguin Blog, etc., online public opinion has an increasing influence on the word-of-mouth of a film.

At present, most film studios have not changed from the previous inherent concepts.

Yuan Shikong didn't realize the power of netizens until next year's "The Promise" was released, and Director Chen was pushed down from the altar.

And Cao Xuan has a golden finger, so he naturally reacted faster than others, especially when the Penguin blog was launched, which produced a small number of influential amateur film critics.

The influence of one of their film reviews, spread through the convenience of the Internet, even exceeds that of many professional film critics.

At this time, most of the netizens are young people, who can be regarded as the main provider of the movie box office, so online promotion can replace the media and offline, and become the number one weapon for movie promotion.

Before "When Men Are in Love", Cao Xuan had already tasted the sweetness of online publicity, and now with the help of the Penguin blog launched this year, he will intensify his efforts.

Although the cooperation with Sina was good last year, it was not as strong as Penguin's own home stadium. The promotion and promotion are the same as not asking for money...

Of course, the online promotion is under the online promotion, professional film critics and media, as well as offline roadshow Cao Xuan are not idle,

Although the rise of the Internet does not mean that other aspects of publicity are not important, and even these still occupy the absolute advantage of film publicity so far.

The professional film critics and media present at today's premiere are definitely much more than amateur film critics like Chen Mao.

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Chen Mao, who was sitting in the front row, looked at Cao Xuan and others who were answering the questions, and did not forget to record the main points in his notebook.

The premiere was not for nothing, Fanxing sincerely hoped that after watching the movie, they would post a film review and post it on the blog, and even gave them a certain amount of money to retouch the film.

And the conditions are also very loose, as long as it does not smear prejudice, film critics can play freely.

It was this condition that moved Chen Mao and the others.
These people are basically senior movie fans or movie lovers. They are film critics out of hobby or persistence, and because they have just risen, they are more sentimental and have guaranteed integrity.

After another two years, most people have tasted the sweetness of Qiafan and have become new film critics. The so-called creative freedom is just a bargaining chip.

Others don't know, but Chen Mao himself is relatively noble.

He himself has a formal job in the university, his family background is good, and he is not short of money, so he is one of the few film critics who refused Fanxing's pen fee, board, lodging and travel expenses.

At the beginning of accepting Fanxing's invitation, he made it clear that he would give all his opinions fairly and objectively.

Regardless of whether "Embroidered Spring Knife" is a bad movie or a good one, I will give the most authentic evaluation based on my own thoughts or interviews with other people.

If Fan Xing doesn't want him to go to the premiere, then he will pay for the tickets himself, and then write about it on his blog.

Facing Chen Mao like this, Fanxing couldn't assassinate him, the publicity personnel reported to the top, Cao Xuan was still interested in Chen Mao, and specially invited him.

That's why, as an amateur, he sat in the front row ahead of many professional film critics and authoritative media reporters.

After the interview was over and the movie officially began to play, Chen Mao also put away all distracting thoughts and watched the feature film of "Embroidered Spring Knife" seriously.

At the beginning is Cao Xuan's voice monologue, introducing the background of the story——

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Tianqi passed away, and Emperor Chongzhen just came to power, and immediately began to attack the eunuchs headed by Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian was demoted to Fengyang, and Emperor Chongzhen immediately ordered all parties to suppress and arrest members of the Eunuch Party.

As the emperor's pro-army, he naturally became the sharpest butcher's knife in the hands of the emperor...

This beginning is actually not a secret. The trailer of "Xiu Chun Knife" has already released the background of the late Ming Dynasty.

At that time, it also caused a certain disturbance. "Ambush from Ten Daggers" is about two late Tang policemen, and "Xiuchun Knife" is about three Jinyi guards in the late Ming Dynasty.

From the perspective of the outside world, the two movies are more or less a bit of a rivalry.

It wasn't until later that the films of both parties came up with the time for filing the scripts, that this matter was considered to be dealt with.

Before "Hero" was released, the relevant outline of the script of "House of Flying Daggers" had been filed. "Embroidered Spring Knife" was later, but when it was filed, the filming of "House of Flying Daggers" had not yet started, and the script was kept strictly confidential.

So from the obvious point of view, there is no such thing as plagiarism between the two parties, and it is completely a coincidence.

And when the trailer of "Embroidered Spring Knife" comes out, viewers who have watched "House of Flying Daggers" will find something wrong after comparing it.

In "Embroidered Spring Knife", Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, and Chongzhen appeared. Obviously, the movie story is inserted in the historical background.

Just like Jin Yong's martial arts, with the historical framework unchanged, a certain degree of extended adaptation is carried out.

And "House of Flying Daggers", to put it bluntly, borrowed the background of the late Tang Dynasty and fabricated a Feidaomen against the Yamen. In fact, it has nothing to do with history at all.

Replacing the late Tang Dynasty with the Three Kingdoms, the Five Dynasties, the late Song Dynasty, the late Ming Dynasty, and even the Republic of China period does not violate the harmony.

This is also a common problem of Lao Mouzi's costume movies. Except for a few movies such as "Heroes", the rest don't like to write about the specific era, borrow a framework and then change it magically.

This is true of "The Great Wall", "Shadow", "Curse of the Golden Armor" and "Three Guns Surprise".

The suspension of the plot of his movie is also related to the lack of a complete world view to a certain extent, which makes many plots look a little "ridiculous".

For example, "The Great Wall" fought against the gluttonous army, and "Shadow" won a city by sliding down a slide with a few broken umbrellas.

"City Full of Golden Armor" is adapted from Cao Yu's "Thunderstorm". The story of "Thunderstorm" is naturally very exciting, but it is more or less false when the family fights for imperial power.

In the movie, the royal family stabbed all kinds of knives, and the ministers seemed to disappear. This is completely impossible in the real world.

On the contrary, it is in line with the background of the real era, and many stories of Lao Mouzi are well shot, even amazing.

That's why "Embroidered Spring Knife" released Wei Zhongxian in the trailer, just to attract some interested audiences.

Among the power officials of the Ming Dynasty, apart from Zheng He who made seven voyages to the West, Wei Zhongxian was the most famous. This is mainly due to the credits of film and television dramas and various magazines and wild publications.

However, Liu Jin, Wang Zhi, Wang Zhen, Feng Bao and others who were not inferior to Wei Zhongxian in the Ming Dynasty were not known to most ordinary people nowadays.

Apart from Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor, the most famous one is Chongzhen, the king of subjugation. Even Zhu Di is now ranked behind Chongzhen.

This is also the reason why "Embroidered Spring Knife" puts the background in the late Ming Dynasty. If Wei Zhongxian is changed into Liu Jin or Wang Zhen, if you don't make it clear directly, many people probably don't know that this is a story about the Ming Dynasty.

This is not an exaggeration. In 2022, there are still many people who do not understand a lot of historical knowledge, let alone 2004, when the Internet has just emerged.

You know, many TV dramas with a background in the Ming Dynasty, especially those based on directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, many of the emperor's men in the Ming Dynasty were called Ouchi Guards or Imperial Guards with Swords.

Zhu Yuanzhang had to crawl out of the ground with Jin Yiwei to peel them off when they heard it...

Therefore, when the trailer of "Xiu Chun Knife" was broadcast, it took half a minute to explain that Xiu Chun Knife was a weapon of the Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty, and what kind of people were the Jin Yi Wei of the Ming Dynasty.

Going back to the movie, the opening scene is about two street patrol officers and soldiers wearing flying saucer hats, patrolling late at night with lanterns, and complaining from time to time.

One of the officers and soldiers named "Ma Ye" is played by Ding Haifeng, who is Wu Song from the 98 version of "Water Margin".

Master Ma was vigilant, passing a dark alley and immediately noticed something was wrong, he held a lamp in one hand and drew a knife in the other, forming a posture of defense and counterattack, with a serious expression on his face.

"Who is it, come out."

A person slowly walked out of the dark alley, Ma Ye raised the lamp, and through the light, the person showed his face.

It was Cao Xuan who was wearing brocade clothes and embroidered spring knives on his waist. Behind him were a dozen school lieutenants and wrestlers who were dressed in the same outfit, but without flowers on their black clothes.

Under the shadow, Cao Xuan was expressionless, and gave Master Ma a cold look. The other party saw the embroidery on his body through the light, and fell to the ground in fright.

"Jin...is Jin Yiwei."

When Chen Mao saw this passage, he quickly wrote down a few points that he admired in his notebook.

In the beginning, Ding Haifeng played a guest role as Ma Ye, who is alert and brave. When facing something wrong, he directly draws a knife to meet the enemy, looking like a ruthless character.

As a result, in the next second, when he saw Cao Xuan's clothes, he was so scared that his ass pissed.

Because of the previous foreshadowing, the audience will not feel that Ma Ye is timid and incompetent, but will be surprised by Jin Yiwei's fierce reputation and raise their sense of expectation.

At the same time, there is also a small easter egg. Back then, Ximen Qing, played by Cao Xuan, was beaten to death by Ding Hai's storm. Now in "Xiu Chun Knife", the other party was scared and fled, which can be regarded as a bad breath.

And the next plot shows why Jin Yiwei is so fierce.

Remindered by the subtitles on the screen, the audience learned that Shen Lian, played by Cao Xuan, was ordered to come to Chen's house to capture the eunuch Xu Xianchun.

Mr. Chen was discussing with his younger brother about sending Xu Xianchun out of the city. The next second, he saw his wife and daughter coming in in their pajamas. When he was questioning him suspiciously, Cao Xuan led someone in.

Taking out the token with [North Town Fusi] in his hand, he reported his family name: "Master Chen, I, Jin Yiwei North Town Fusi——Shen Lian."

The two sides exchanged a few words of wit, Master Chen's younger brother held back his fear and took the lead. Shen Lian took down the opponent three times, five times and two divisions, put his knee against the opponent, drew the knife neatly into the opponent's shoulder, turned the handle of the knife, and screamed Strike lightly and forcefully question Mr. Chen.

Master Chen collapsed to the ground, but still didn't spit out. Shen Lian grabbed his daughter and kicked Master Chen who rushed over,
"Your daughter is only 14 years old. If you go to the Jiaofang Division, you don't have to say much about what will happen to you. This is all caused by your secret eunuchs."

Under the collapse, Mr. Chen explained the situation. Shen Lian led people to arrest them. The other party got the wind and fled.

This episode and the previous scene where Shen Lian played and took down Mr. Chen's younger brother initially showed the martial arts style of the movie "Embroidered Spring Knife".

Crisp and sharp, sharp and decisive, but it is indeed a down-to-earth realistic style.

Not to mention, Shen Lian climbed over the high wall when chasing him, accelerated by sprinting for a short distance, and then flew up by stepping on the ladder built by two of his subordinates.

This made many critics who are used to the current martial arts movies with protagonists flying around shine in their eyes.

Of course, although the fighting scenes in "Embroidered Spring Knife" are excellent, but now is the era when martial arts movies are prevalent.

Whether it is the previous "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero", or the recent "Ambush from Ten Daggers", the fighting scenes are very brilliant.

"Embroidered Spring Knife" can at most be juxtaposed with them, or each has its own merits, but it is a bit unrealistic to say that it surpasses them.

Although the big show hasn't come out yet, the small trial has also made many senior movie fans see that the fighting elements of "Xiu Chun Knife" are absolutely top-notch.

This is not beyond everyone's expectations. The martial arts instructors of the "Embroidered Spring Knife" crew are Zhang Lei and Yuan Kui.

The former can be regarded as Fanxing's imperial martial arts director, and most of the movies and TV shows produced by Fanxing, such as "Armor Warrior", "Yan Shuangying", "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji", as long as there are martial arts scenes, have him in most of them.

The latter is one of the Seven Little Fortunes, a representative figure of Xiangjiang's action instructor, and one of the few martial arts instructors who can go abroad.

It is worth mentioning that Sang Lin, the martial arts instructor of the original version of Xiuchun Knife, is actually a disciple of Yuan Kui, who also participated in the action design of "Xiuchun Knife" this time.

He was even hooked up by Cao Xuan, and had a vague intention of returning to China to join Fanxing.

In addition, director Xu Laoguai is a representative figure of martial arts movies, and he is considered an excellent martial arts action designer, and Cao Xuan invited Yuan Baye, the number one martial arts finger he had a good relationship with, as the chief action consultant to check the film.

As for the cast, Wu Jing and Zhao Wenzhuo were originally professional stars, and they both became famous through action dramas.

Cao Xuan's roles in "Yi Tian Shou Long Ji" and "Swordsman" can also be regarded as representative actors of martial arts themes, and his appeal in fighting dramas is even stronger than that of some stars.

The same is true of Hu Jun. Relying on "Dragon Babu" and his bold and burly figure, he is obviously a Chinese opera major, but he is regarded by many people as an action actor. It can be seen that his acting skills are very appreciated by the audience.
All of these, the behind-the-scenes and lineup of the martial arts drama "Embroidered Spring Knife" can't be said to be the ceiling of Chinese-language movies, but it is definitely at the top level in the industry nowadays.

Under such circumstances, the outside world also has extremely high expectations for the fight scene of "Xiu Chun Knife", which has attracted a large number of martial arts fans and action fans.

As far as Chen Mao is concerned, he has no interest in action scenes, but the first two clean fights in "Xiu Chun Knife" are still very popular.

And the next plot is that Xu Xianchun, who was pursued by Shen Lian, was captured by other Jin Yiwei ambushing around.

At the same time, through the dialogue, part of the situation of the hero Shen Lian was also explained, and his two brothers also showed up one by one.

The boss Lu Jianxing, played by Hu Jun, is the head of the banner. He is armed with goose-wing knives in both hands. He was expected to make up hundreds of households, but was destroyed by Xu Xianchun.

The second child, Shen Lian, is armed with Yanling sword + crossbow, and his position is also the general banner. According to the conversation, Shen Lian was from a hundred households before, but for some reason he was demoted to the general banner.

The third child, Jin Yichuan, played by Wu Jing, is a small flag, and his weapon is a pair of short knives. He has a lively personality, but he has his own secrets.

At the same time, the situation of the three brothers is not very good. They belong to "lonely ghosts" with no backing in the Yamen, and the errands they take are all hot jobs that others don't want.

The next few episodes further introduced the situation of the three brothers, and at the same time pointed out their dilemma.

The eldest wanted to make up for the vacancies left by his father, and fulfilled his mother's wish. Not only did he give credit to his boss, but he also took out all his savings for management.

However, his boss, Zhang Ying, delayed his promotion in every possible way on the grounds that he had too little money.

The second child "followed" an official prostitute of the Jiaofang Division and wanted to redeem her, but he had no money.

The third child is because of his unclean background. He was originally a Jiangyang thief, but later entered Jinyiwei under the name of someone else, and now he is being blackmailed by his fellow brother Ding Xiu with his little braid.

And the third child is suffering from tuberculosis, which is why he was played and applauded by his senior brother, and he couldn't beat him.

The three brothers each have their own difficulties. Although they are Jin Yiwei, their lives are actually quite miserable.

At this time, Eunuch Zhao (played by Zhao Wenzhuo), the newly appointed admiral of the East Factory, found them.

Because the three brothers were too miserable, they were obviously not members of the eunuchs who had gained power before, so Eunuch Zhao found the three of them, claiming that the emperor asked them to lead people to catch up with Wei Zhongxian who had just left Beijing, and wipe out the roots.

It is a big job to be ordered by the imperial decree. If it is done well, the three brothers will be lucky.

When the audience in front of the screen saw this scene, those who are familiar with history immediately thought of Wei Zhongxian's fate recorded in history.

According to Ming history records, when Emperor Chongzhen attacked Wei Zhongxian, he first sent him to Fengyang Shouling, in order to test the court situation. After all, there are many members of the eunuch party, and if Wei Zhongxian is not handled carefully, it will cause major turmoil.

Seeing that this order did not cause much reaction, Chongzhen sent Jin Yiwei to escort him back to the capital for punishment.

When Wei Zhongxian traveled to Fucheng, he received a secret report and hanged himself in fear.

It seems that the general plot of "Xiu Chun Knife" is the same, with minor changes made to change the arrest of the emperor into murder, but it makes sense.

After all, there have been several conspiracy theories that Wei Zhongxian did not commit suicide, but was assassinated by Chongzhen, Donglin Party or Eunuch Party.

Chongzhen is the least suspicious, after all Wei Zhongxian is still useful to him.

The suspicion of the Donglin Party is not small. On the one hand, the two sides have deep grievances. On the other hand, considering Wei Zhongxian's return to Beijing, there may be changes.

The biggest suspicion is the eunuch party, because Wei Zhongxian is the core of the eunuch party and holds too many secrets.

Many people wanted him to shut up, and considering the situation, once Wei Zhongxian died, the culprit would be punished, and these accomplices would probably be sent down lightly, and even be taken under the emperor's command.

Considering the integrity of those eunuchs, killing the boss should be no psychological pressure for them.

However, killing Wei Zhongxian is not necessarily good for the eunuch party, and it may also be targeted by various targets because the dragons have no leader, so the suspicion of the eunuch party can also be explained in reverse.

But in any case, the chance of Wei Zhongxian being assassinated is still very high, so the deduction of "Embroidered Spring Knife" is very in line with the psychology of many audiences present.

Returning to the plot, on a thunderstorm night, the three brothers wearing leather hats and coir raincoats came to the inn where Wei Zhongxian stayed.

Shen Lian was going to send a signal to call on the people in ambush to do it together, but was stopped by the boss.

This time it was a good job. Many people in the yamen were jealous of their brother, especially his boss Zhang Ying, who probably mixed sand in today's team.

If everyone is called to do it, if something goes wrong and Wei Zhongxian runs away, the three brothers will all die.

Of course, the boss still has another idea, that is, the three brothers in the family will do it themselves, take the credit for the credit, get promoted and raise their salary.

The two brothers who were also in a predicament were persuaded by the boss, and the three chose to do it themselves.

I planned to solve the checkpoint and assassinate him quietly, but Wei Zhongxian's guards were also expert.

In desperation, the three brothers revealed their identities, but were still besieged by heavily rewarded guards. On a thunderstorm night, a tragic fight took place.

Whether it is weapons or actions in "Embroidered Spring Knife", the crew has carefully designed it.

The boss, Lu Jianxing, uses a two-handed saber, the blade is thick and heavy, and the sword technique is wide open and closed, with a momentum like a rainbow.

The second son, Shen Lian, made the Yanling Saber, which was a standard sword used by officers and soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. It is very convenient for actual combat.

The third child, Jin Yichuan, uses a pair of daggers, taking the light and agile route, with concise, vertical and horizontal saber techniques, fast, accurate, firm and steady.

Although there were many guards besieging, the three brothers faced each other tacitly, and they still fought vigorously. They even covered Shen Lian and entered the inn to deal with Wei Zhongxian.

Shen Lian slashed all the way to deal with the guards upstairs, and finally met the powerful eunuch.

With the knife resting on his neck, he was about to strike if he said two sarcastic remarks, but Wei Zhongxian's two or three words made him hesitate.

"Master Zongqi, if you kill our family, you will not survive."

"Why did Chongzhen kid kill me? Is our family full of evil? Hehehe, then you think about the emperor simply. I, Wei Zhongxian, have been in power for eight years. Now the tree has fallen and the monkeys are scattered. There is nothing else but money."

"Bandits in the Northwest, Huangtaiji in Liaodong, the emperor needs to pay for the army, and my money is the army's salary."

"Kill me, if you don't get the money, you will still die."

Mr. Jin Shijie, who plays Wei Zhongxian, has superb acting skills. Under Wei Zhongxian's crazy and treacherous appearance, there is a generation of powerful officials full of schemes and palaces.

The treacherous and cunning Wei Zhongxian trapped Shen Lian in a few words, threatening all kinds of things, and at the same time offering huge profits to lure him.

This money is very hot, if the money is taken, Shen Lian and others will die if something happens.

But if Wei Zhongxian is killed, his children and grandchildren will desperately avenge him, which is also a death.

Left and right are dead, it's better to take a gamble.

There were more and more guards downstairs, the two brothers couldn't hold on, they kept urging, Wei Zhongxian kept threatening and tempting like a devil.

On the other hand, the book boy who had been by Wei Zhongxian's side also suddenly assassinated, which undoubtedly added to the "conspiracy" of this matter.

You must know that although Wei Zhongxian is lonely now, he was nine thousand years old before, and being able to stay by his side to serve him is undoubtedly a confidant in his heart.

Regardless of whether it is instigating rebellion or being an undercover agent, the person behind this must be unfathomable if he can make the book boy obediently obey his orders.

No matter what, since the three brothers were sent here and another undercover agent was hired, if Wei Zhongxian really died, the three brothers really couldn't get away with it.

Wei Zhongxian's phrase "he is a chess piece, and you are also chess pieces", further illustrates that this matter is really tricky.

In an instant, countless information was mixed in Shen Lian's mind, and it was impossible for him to make an accurate judgment.

Seeing that the situation outside was getting more and more critical, Shen Lian had to make the quickest decision. In addition, he was worried about money, so it was difficult to stop his greed.

In the end, Shen Lian engaged in a scene of Wei Zhongxian's "self-immolation" and handed over a charred corpse.

This point needs to be specially explained. Many people dislike Shen Lian, thinking that this person is indecisive and cheated his brother for the sake of a woman.

In a sense, it is correct to evaluate Shen Lian in this way, but he definitely did not intentionally cheat his brother.

Carefully studying the situation at the time of assassinating Wei Zhongxian, in a very short period of time, Shen Lian had no way of making the most accurate and prudent decision.

Or it would be useless for him to choose anything, as Eunuch Zhao said later, from the moment the three brothers were selected, the three of them were almost in a deadlock.

Even if they killed Wei Zhongxian, Qian didn't move a penny, and killed a bloody path from the crazy Wei Zhongxian.

Back in the capital, Eunuch Zhao, who falsely preached the imperial decree, wanted to kill the three of them...

So it can be said that Shen Lian's choice was wrong, and he could even say that he was stupid naively, but there is really no big problem with the logic of the plot, and Shen Lian never intentionally tricked the two brothers here.

When seeing this plot, many film critics wrote and drew pictures in their notebooks, and this paragraph drew out the main line of the movie's plot.

The movie also starts from pure martial arts, and has more or less a taste of historical machinations.

Three hard-working low-level civil servants are involved in this vortex, how to struggle to escape, unknowingly, some audiences are gradually immersed in the plot.

Back to the movie, the three brothers brought back Wei Zhongxian's "burnt corpse" and gave it to Han Kuang and Eunuch Zhao, the new chief ministers of the cabinet, to investigate.

The former is played by Yue Buqun actor Wei Zi from "Swordsman". With this acting skills, it's not a problem to play Han Kuang, a wily man with a hidden smile.
As the new chief assistant and leader of the Donglin Party, Han Kuang wished Wei Zhongxian would die, but he had a hard time trusting a charred corpse and felt it was fraudulent.

So he asked the three brothers repeatedly, and at the critical moment, Eunuch Zhao gave a helping hand to smooth things over.

Afterwards, the three brothers thanked Eunuch Zhao, but Eunuch Zhao spoke coldly to each other. He had experienced the corpse just now and learned that Wei Zhongxian was not dead.

In the next episode, the third child and the girl from the hospital have a mutual relationship, and the girl presents a sachet to each other.

In the previously repressed movie plots, this episode of the youthful relationship between men and women relieved a lot of tension, and many viewers smiled knowingly.

After that, Eunuch Zhao appeared again, came to a wooden house, and saw the surviving Wei Zhongxian, who turned out to be Wei's godson.

When father and son meet, they show their wit.

First, he filled in the pit of assassinating Wei Zhongxian's book boy. It turned out that this person was sent by Eunuch Zhao.

Eunuch Zhao is an eunuch, and he wants to kill Wei Zhongxian, put aside his relationship, join the emperor himself, and be his admiral of the East Factory.

So he falsely preached the imperial decree and asked the three elder brothers to kill Wei Zhongxian. After Wei Zhongxian was killed, he tried to kill the three elder brothers to silence them and eliminate the traces of the false imperial edict.

It turned out that Wei Zhongxian was not dead, and Wei Zhongxian still had many guards under him. Eunuch Zhao was afraid that both sides would be hurt, so he dared not do anything.

At this time Wei Zhongxian came up with a solution.

What Eunuch Zhao was worried about was that Wei Zhongxian had troubled him, and Wei Zhongxian promised him that he could leave Daming, so naturally he would not be in danger to him.

But before leaving Daming, Wei Zhongxian wanted to kill the three brothers, because they knew that Wei Zhongxian was not dead.

If there is a leak, the imperial court will send people to arrest him, so he has to kill the three brothers so that he can go back to hiding.

Of course, if given the chance, both Wei Zhongxian and Eunuch Zhao would want to kill each other to completely resolve future troubles.

But it is very difficult, and they are very vigilant against each other, so it is difficult to start easily.

Fortunately, regarding the killing of the three brothers, both sides have common interests, so they quickly reached an agreement to kill the three brothers first.

On the other hand, Shen Lian got the money and planned to redeem Zhou Miaotong, an official prostitute, but accidentally saw Zhou Miaotong kissing me with his sweetheart, Mr. Yan.

The audience originally thought that Shen Lian, who had been cuckolded, would be furious and would have complicated eyes no matter how bad he was, but they didn't expect that Shen Lian frowned, shook his head and left.

This state obviously doesn't look like being green.

Combining the previous details, some viewers speculated that Shen Lian didn't like Zhou Miaotong, but remembered that he tried every means to redeem him.

Could it be that this is actually Shen Lian's sister or benefactor?
The audience couldn't figure it out for a while, but Shen Lian left Jiaoshifang and went to drink and celebrate with his two brothers, only to realize that he was being scouted by everyone in black.

Several people went up to chase, injured the opponent's arm, but failed to catch anyone. Realizing that something was wrong, Shen Lian mentioned to the two brothers that they wanted to be transferred to Jinling to avoid the limelight under the guise of possible revenge from the eunuchs.

But because the boss had doubts about the Jiao corpse, he stopped the plan of the second child.

On the other side, the man in black who fought against the three brothers today was Eunuch Zhao. He realized that the three brothers were difficult to deal with, and he planned to borrow a knife to kill someone.

Ask the three brothers to arrest Yan Yushi. This Yan Yushi is a member of the Jindaomen. There are dozens of disciples in his family, all of whom are masters.

Eunuch Zhao took care of his boss, Zhang Ying, and used the promotion as a bait to force the three brothers into the Yan Mansion.

Jin Yiwei is notorious, and the Yan family does not want Yan Yushi to take risks, and Yan Yushi's son, Mr. Yan, is Zhou Miaotong's good friend.

When the two sides were confronting each other, Zhang Ying outside the gate sent someone to shoot Yan Yushi to death with an arrow. The distraught Mr. Yan planned to kill the three brothers to avenge the killing of his father.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the three brothers wanted to escape, but Zhang Ying sent people to block the gate, so they had no choice but to fight the doormen of Yan's house.

This is another big group beating scene that is not inferior to the previous rainy night assassination, and the three brothers each show their abilities.

During the period, Mr. Yan beheaded the third child violently, but the third child suffered from tuberculosis and couldn't hold on. In a critical moment, in order to save the third child, Shen Lian chopped off Mr. Yan's hand.

Looking at Yan Mansion, which was full of dead and injured, and Mr. Yan, who was clutching his broken arm and muttering to himself what wrong Yan Mansion made, Shen Lian had a complex expression.

The audience outside the screen was also a little bit embarrassed. Yan Fu did not do anything wrong, but because he was as useful as the three brothers, he was used as a knife by Eunuch Zhao.

This kind of helplessness and sadness of being at a low level, being involuntary, resisting and struggling but not necessarily achieving results, is also the theme that runs through the entire movie "Embroidered Spring Knife".

The door opened, and Zhang Ying, who thought she had dealt with the three brothers, saw that it was indeed the three brothers who were bloodstained and exhausted.

Zhang Ying was in a state of desperation, and ran back to the office to sulk, and Shen Lian walked out of the shadows.

His body was still covered in blood and dirt, his face had wounds, and even the knife in his hand was still bloodstained.

Shen Lian remained expressionless. He held the knife in his right hand and placed it inside the elbow of his left arm. He raised his fist and bent his arm, and then slowly pulled out the knife from between the closed elbow. The blood on the knife was wiped off by his sleeve.

This famous scene of Shen Lian bending his arm and wiping the knife with cold eyes was perfectly copied by Cao Xuan, and his demeanor was even better. Many girls in the audience couldn't help but whisper how handsome,

Even those male audiences who didn't know how to count had to admit that Cao Xuan's pose was barely on par with him.

Shen Lian grabbed Zhang Ying and threatened him to issue an official document to redeem him from Jiaoshifang, and took out 300 taels, asking Zhang Ying to promote his elder brother's operation and allow the three of them to be transferred to Jinling.

Under the threat of Yanling Dao, Zhang Ying fully agreed.

The third brother's brother came to blackmail again, but Shen Lian settled it with money. The two brothers also knew that the other had secrets, but neither of them asked.

Back home, the eldest brother told the two brothers that the first assistant Han Kuang invited the three of them to the celebration party.

During the banquet, Han and Zhao promoted the boss, and mentioned that the boss would be promoted to Baihu and given robes to Baihu.

When the boss was overjoyed, Eunuch Zhao mentioned that Shen Lian had given away Zhang Ying’s money. Everyone laughed, and the boss was also a little confused. He had just been invited by Han Kuang to sit in the main seat, and when he pointed out the appointment, he said that the three brothers had asked him to be transferred to Jinling. give up.

All this was a secret transaction between Shen Lian and Zhang Ying. The boss didn't know it at all, and while he was confused and embarrassed, he looked at the instigator Shen Lian in amazement and hesitation.

Shen Lian avoided the boss's gaze, and looked at Zhang Ying full of murderous intent. The other party responded with a disdainful sneer, completely different from the obedient begging for mercy before.

Afterwards, Han Kuang announced that an autopsy would be performed three days later, and he would then know whether Wei Zhongxian was really dead.

Several parties suddenly felt complicated.

In fact, many people's attention in this scene is on the boss being humiliated by Han and Zhao, and at the same time there is a gap in the brotherhood with Shen Lian.

But in fact, there are some confrontations behind it.

Eunuch Zhao humiliated and made things difficult for the boss. The reason for the boss is very simple. He saw that the boss didn't know, so he provoked troubles to make the brothers turn against each other.

But Han Kuang pointed his sword at Eunuch Zhao, and the three brothers belonged to Eunuch Zhao’s sect. If Wei Zhongxian didn’t die, he would be deceiving the emperor, and he could use the three brothers to attack Eunuch Zhao, the remnant of the eunuch.

The boss is just a chess piece that knocks the mountains and shakes the tiger, the dignified chief assistant, he doesn't pay attention to a small hundred households at all, his goal is Eunuch Zhao.

Eunuch Zhao understands this, but he has no time to care about it. All he can do is to quickly solve the future troubles.

Get rid of the three brothers, and then push the matter of Wei Zhongxian's fake death to the three brothers, and push the death of the three brothers to Wei Zhongxian to silence him, he still has a chance.

After the autopsy was completed, Wei Zhongxian was not dead, the three brothers could not escape, and he could not escape the responsibility.

So Eunuch Zhao went to Wei Zhongxian to borrow someone, claiming that the three brothers must be killed before the autopsy, so that there can be no proof of death.

But in fact, as long as there is any difference in the corpse, the court will know that Wei Zhongxian is not dead, but it is still a dead end.

But Eunuch Zhao doesn't care, and Wei Zhongxian will be slaughtered when the time comes, all the insiders will die, and the truth will be covered up.

It's not that Wei Zhongxian is ignorant of the risks involved, but the initiative is not in his hands, so he can only gamble.

Eunuch Zhao got the manpower and went to find Ding Xiu again, so the famous scene was staged again.

"Who is the father-in-law going to kill?"

"Jin Yichuan, the small banner official of Beizhen Prefecture."

"Who? Father-in-law doesn't know he is my junior brother?"

"People like you still care about this?"

"This is my dear friend... I need to pay more!"

Seeing Duan Long, who was carrying the knife, say those words in a wicked and rascal manner, the entire theater was amused.

Ding Xiu, a very hated character, suddenly seemed a little bit more interesting.

On the other side, after the three brothers fought against each other, Shen Lian also told the truth at that time.

Looking at the three bags of gold, the two brothers also vaguely guessed why Shen Lian was like this. Although they had selfish intentions, they were still for the good of the brothers.

During the silence, the third child suddenly mentioned that he saw the wound on Eunuch Zhao's hand before, which was exactly the same as the wound that the three brothers left on the man in black that day.

Eunuch Zhao is the man in black.

Eunuch Zhao wants to kill them!

By now, the three brothers had finally figured out the situation, and they were involved in a vortex that they couldn't fight against.

The only way to survive now is to run away.

The three brothers split up, the eldest took care of his mother, the second went to pick up Zhou Miaotong, and the third went to bid farewell to the girl from the hospital.

And the killer and backhand arranged by Eunuch Zhao also threw themselves at the three brothers like a net.

The second child went to find Zhou Miaotong, but the other party begged him to save his sweetheart, Mr. Yan, and told him that the reason for his indifference to him was that when her home was ransacked, it was Jin Yiwei who did it.

She hates Jin Yiwei!
It was this sentence that moved me a little, and I went to the Imperial Prison to rescue Young Master Yan, but Young Master Yan was seriously injured and committed suicide.

Shen Lian could only take Zhou Miaotong away, but ran into a group of people who came to intercept and kill him. After exhausting all his efforts, he defeated Eunuch Zhao with explosive seeds, and Shen Lian left with Zhou Miaotong on his back.

On the other side, Ding Xiu used the sachet of the girl from the medical center to attract the third child, and staged the famous scene again.

"This girl is very moist."

The third brother and Ding Xiu fought desperately, and the brothers from the same school staged a duel. Due to tuberculosis, the third brother was no match for Ding Xiu and was knocked down.

The third child closed his eyes and waited to die, but only hoped that Ding Xiu would spare the life of the girl in the hospital. Ding Xiu said that he had never touched her, and he couldn't bear to kill him as a junior.

After all, the younger brother is dead, and he has no one to care about in this world.

Although he comes to blackmail his junior every day, and although his words are disgusting, in Ding Xiu's heart, it may be a different kind of intimacy.

However, Ding Xiu didn't kill him, but the two killers sent by Eunuch Zhao wanted to kill him, and the youngest finally saved his senior brother with his life.

On the other hand, the eldest brother originally wanted to resettle his mother, but found that he was being followed, and knew that he could not escape, so he simply planned to surrender himself, bear the charges, and save his two younger brothers.

On the road, he ran into Wei Zhongxian's guards. After a fight, Zhang Ying arrived and took down the boss.

However, when things came to light, Eunuch Zhao couldn't stay any longer, and killed Wei Zhongxian, who had no guards, and prepared to flee outside the pass.

When Shen Lian rushed to the hospital, he saw only the third younger brother who was dead, flashing back to the scene where the boss was asking about beheading, Shen Lian knelt down and cried bitterly.

"Third brother, second brother is wrong, second brother is wrong."

Was Shen Lian wrong? Wrong!

But what's more wrong is this world, and what's wrong are those bastards who play with them and applaud them.

So Shen Lian chased Eunuch Zhao for hundreds of miles just to seek justice for the two brothers.

When the final decisive battle came, the audience found that Shen Lian was not the only one who took revenge, but also Ding Xiu, who also came to avenge his junior brother.

Several of his subordinates were killed, and Eunuch Zhao, who was 1 on 2, fell into a desperate situation.

At this moment, a group of cavalry came from afar and asked in Manchu.

Here Cao Xuan unabashedly used Shen Lian's mouth to stuff private goods: "It's a Tartar."

In fact, Cao Xuan wanted to use wild boar skin, but it failed the review. After all, he had to take care of some emotions.

It's not the old and the young, but the ordinary Manchu people. Not to mention, Niang Niang Niang is a Manchu, and her ancestors should be banner people who moved to Hubei Province.

It can be said that using tartar is the name at that time, but using wild boar skin is a bit of trouble.
In addition to the above-mentioned smuggling, Eunuch Zhao's exposed hair is also a standard money rat tail. In order to persuade Zhao Wenwen to shave his head, Cao Xuan took great pains.

And the most brilliant moment of Ding Xiu in the whole movie came, when he saw a pair of Tartars clearing soldiers, Ding Xiu didn't say a word, was slapped on the horse's ass with the knife, and rushed directly to the cavalry single-handedly.

At that moment, Ding Xiu's character was so handsome!
The rest of the decisive battle with Ding Xiu has almost no scenes, mainly Shen Lian and Eunuch Zhao fighting. When Shen Lian kills Eunuch Zhao, the scene is the Qing soldiers all over the place, and Ding Xiu is slumped under a tree exhausted.

At the end of the song, the two of them looked at the grassland, and Ding Xiu said, "Zhou Miaotong and that girl Zhang from the medical center have already been sent to Suzhou. I didn't expect you to hide another one there."

Shen Lian didn't reply, but just said thank you, Ding Xiu waved his hand, and drove away.

The last scene of the movie is Shen Lian galloping on the grassland, and the next second there are two brothers who are also galloping on horses, and the voiceover shows their previous chat.

"Brother, when we leave the capital, where are you going?"

"Me? Go to Quanzhou, I want to show my mother the sea."

"What about the second brother?"

"I'm going to Suzhou, there are people waiting for me there."

"Just ask us, Ichikawa, where do you want to go?"

"I want to take a look outside the pass. I heard that there are the fewest people there. I want to see places with few people."

The backs of the three galloping horses gradually fade away, and they seem to merge into one person again, with infinite loneliness and loneliness.

The movie is over.

"Clap clap clap..."

I don't know who led it, the audience gave him applause, Cao Xuan took the main creative team to the stage and bowed to thank him.

Chen Mao didn't care about these, but wrote down a summary of the whole movie under the dense records.

[Playing]: 5 stars, first-class martial arts movies

[Fuhuadao]: 5 stars, the crew definitely worked hard
[Actor]: 4 stars, mainly for actresses

[Plot]: 4 stars, with bright spots, but overall a little old-fashioned and depressing
[Soundtrack editing]: 4 stars, above the standard

[Concept]: 3 and a half stars, the struggle history of the little people, maybe a different ending will be better
[…]:……

[Total score]: 87
Conclusion: A mature commercial martial arts film with no obvious shortcomings, worth the ticket price.

After thinking for a while, Chen Mao added another sentence: The biggest surprise of this year's summer domestic film is better than "House of Flying Daggers"...

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ps: The Wanzi Dazhang will be gone at night, so I would like to wish everyone a new year in advance.

I wish you all a happy new year, good health, happy family, and all the best!

　It's the last day of this month, if you have a ticket, give a lucky ticket
　　
　
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