Depressive Screenwriter

And then, the fight scene where Kenshin savagely beats a group of armed samurai and criminal thugs left her stunned.

In many action movies, when the protagonist is ganged up on, the villains act like idiots, attacking one by one. Even when they surround the protagonist, those behind don't stab him in the back, always waiting for the protagonist to deal with the enemies in front before turning around to deal with them.

But in a real gang fight, who would turn their back on the enemy?

It's all about high-mobility guerrilla warfare in a confined space.

But most actors don't have the physical fitness or skills to film such scenes.

And in the movie, a one-minute fight scene basically doesn't switch scenes from the front.

Kenshin Himura just swung his sword on the dojo floor and rafters, jumping down, climbing up, and moving around.

The speed made Qin Yishan, the moviegoer, a little dazed.

There are plenty of parkour videos online, but you definitely won't find a video of someone doing parkour while fighting, and with such fluid movements.

Moreover, the almost one-shot nature of the scene also confirmed to Qin Yishan that Su Yan, the actor playing Kenshin in this movie, didn't use auxiliary equipment such as wires to film this scene.

Equipment isn't that flexible. Without switching shots, it's impossible to jump up and down and fight like that.

"Is this even human?"

The boy in the couple sitting next to Qin Yishan whispered in surprise.

"Honey, can that Su Yan you usually like do action scenes this cool?"

"See? I always tell you to play less games and watch more TV dramas. Now you know why I like his work."

The girl's voice was smug, but also a little shocked.

After all, the movie version of Kenshin had a high investment, and the opposing villains were of a high standard, allowing Su Yan to perform better. The quality of the fight scenes was a significant improvement compared to the TV series version.

Qin Yishan's expression was bewildered.

She came to see this movie with a critical eye, but what was there to criticize now?

Criticize the plot?

There's nothing wrong with the plot!

Even without this level of action, a former killer, after peace has come to the era, wielding a reverse-blade sword with the premise of "not killing," using the blade to protect himself and those around him...

This is better than those inexplicable fights and killings in Xia country fifteen or twenty years ago, where the protagonist, as an ancient master, clearly knows that the female lead likes him, but insists on raping her, and then, when the woman asks him why he did this while crying, the master replies, "I'm used to it!" What a speechless plot.

Qin Yishan continued watching.

After watching a long, uncut fight scene, Qin Yishan was tired, but Kenshin, played by Su Yan, wasn't even out of breath.

"I'm convinced," the last bit of Qin Yishan's desire to criticize this movie disappeared.

She is a pragmatic person.

A movie is good if it's good, and bad if it's bad.

From the perspective of a martial arts action movie, she couldn't find anything wrong with this movie.

As the plot progressed, Kenshin saved Kaoru Kamiya with his reverse-blade sword, making her understand his true intention of using the reverse-blade sword. She also accepted this former "killing demon" who had saved her twice, and let him live in her house, essentially taking him in as a freeloader.

The next fight scene was a meeting between Kenshin, who was arrested and imprisoned for fighting, and his old rival, Hajime Saito.

Because he wanted to recruit Kenshin and was shocked by Kenshin's vow not to kill, feeling that he was just pretending and was still a killing demon at heart, Saito challenged Kenshin to a duel.

Here, Su Yan spent a lot of money to hire a true martial arts school successor from the Sakura Island area to film Saito's scenes.

After all, martial artists also need to eat and make money. The charm of money is everywhere.

Strictly speaking, although there were traces of choreography in Su Yan and his opponent's real sword fight, Qin Yishan couldn't tell.

Because the fighting speed was too fast, dazzling, with flashing swords.

Due to the plot setting, Kenshin was injured in the shoulder and released because he had no intention to kill and was no match for Saito.

Then, the villain Kanryu Takeda wanted to use money to buy Kenshin, and a conflict broke out between the two sides.

This led to the introduction of a character, Sanosuke Sagara, one of the protagonist's group's important combat members in the original work.

A burly teenager carrying a large sword, nicknamed Zanzo (Sano).

From the beginning to now, the plot has been constantly fighting.

Qin Yishan had lost count of how many times she had been shocked by a series of Kenshin's fights in the movie.

On the contrary, she didn't have much time to think about the plot.

But after successive fights, the plot of the Remembrance arc began to emerge, elevating the theme of the story.

Eleven years ago, on a full moon night, Kenshin killed Tomoe Yukishiro's fiancé, Kiyosato, in the season when white plum blossoms were in full bloom, leaving a reverse scar on his face with resentment.

Ten years ago, in the morning, in the season of heavy snow, his encounter and farewell with Tomoe Yukishiro again, before her death, Tomoe carved another scar of the cross on his face.

The era he wanted to create was an era without people like Kanryu Takeda.

Of course, the story is still advanced through fighting.

For a long time, the plot is driven by action scenes.

To save his captured friends.

Sanosuke Sagara, who became Kenshin's companion and fought alongside him, broke into Kanryu Takeda's mansion with him.

From a plot perspective, this behavior is very irrational, but Qin Yishan was too lazy to think about it at this time.

It was obvious to any normal audience that Kanryu Takeda's subordinates, and even he himself, would be defeated one by one.

Just like in Ultraman tokusatsu dramas, even if the monster doesn't appear, the audience knows that the monster will be defeated by Ultraman.

But who is watching these types of works for the result?

Everyone is watching the process.

The fact that the enemy will be defeated is a predictable and definite fact, but how the enemy is defeated is the highlight of this type of work.

And the Kenshin movie infinitely amplifies this highlight through Su Yan's action scene level.

The same plot, different levels of fight scenes give people completely different sensory experiences.

If someone else were to film Li Xiaolong's movie from Su Yan's previous life, even with the same plot, it would likely be difficult to become popular.

Not only would the other actors' movements not be as good-looking, but they also wouldn't have that kind of spirit.

The more Qin Yishan watched in the cinema as the plot progressed, the brighter her eyes became. Towards the end, she was constantly cheering in her heart along with Kenshin's sword swings, played by Su Yan.

As for the final scene, after defeating Kanryu Takeda and his bodyguards, the final enemy of Kenshin in this work, Enishi Yukishiro, and Kenshin's fight, is the final highlight of this work.

Because to film this scene, Su Yan needed to restrain himself to cooperate with the other actor from Eastern Europe, and in the early fights, Kenshin was at a disadvantage because he was unwilling to kill.

But after Enishi Yukishiro threatened Kenshin with Kaoru Kamiya's life.

Kenshin began to erupt.

The progression of emotions, Kenshin's faster movements, and the murderous intent revealed in Kenshin's eyes to save Kaoru Kamiya in the final scene, and Kaoru Kamiya's self-rescue at the last moment, preventing Kenshin from violating his vow not to kill...

"The manslayer is still a manslayer. I'll see in hell how long you can deceive yourself!"

Enishi Yukishiro finally committed suicide, dragging his heavily injured body.

A tragic BGM rang out.

Kenshin's expression became confused.

Because he was only one step away from violating the oath he once made to Tomoe Yukishiro.

His state of mind was on the verge of collapse.

Behind him, a voice sounded.

"You can save people even if you don't kill!"

Kaoru Kamiya said this sentence to the confused Kenshin behind him, sublimating the plot and hitting the theme.

Kaoru Kamiya may not be as charming as Tomoe Yukishiro as the heroine.

But she is truly Kenshin's spiritual pillar.

Qin Yishan's mind was shaken.

Her expression became complicated in an instant.

The next few minutes of the plot were scenes to explain the aftermath and wrap things up.

Qin Yishan's expression was dazed, and she stayed in the cinema for a long time without getting up.

Thousands of words in her heart.

This movie far exceeded her initial expectations.

Walking out of the cinema with a somewhat complicated expression, her mind was still filled with the large number of Su Yan's fight scenes she had seen earlier and Kaoru Kamiya's last sentence.

You can save people even if you don't kill.

Not having seen the Remembrance arc, she couldn't fully understand how much Kenshin struggled in this movie, but the details revealed in the movie version alone had already generated complex emotions about the character of Kenshin.

She looked at the time. There were still ten minutes left before the noon showing of the "Broken Array" movie she had originally planned to watch was about to begin.

But now she had completely lost that thought.

After hesitating for a moment, she went directly to the ticket office and bought a ticket for the next showing of "Rurouni Kenshin" half an hour later.

She wanted to watch it a second time.

She also found a place to sit in the cinema lobby and directly used her mobile phone to log in to Sakura Network.

To search for the "Rurouni Kenshin" TV series that she had heard about many times from her best friend in recent years, but had always disdained to watch because she knew that this work only had an investment cost of just over a million.