Fortress Besieged in Kowloon Castle: Martial Arts in Jianghu Life in the City
Special feature of 1905 film network Kowloon walled city, also known as Kowloon walled city, is located in a besieged city in Kowloon City, which belongs to the historical city of Hong Kong and was demolished in 1993.
On May 1st, the film was released, which was directed by,,, raymond lam,,,, and so on. It is a Hong Kong-style action movie from boxing to meat. With a gripping picture of the times, the Fortress Besieged of Kowloon Walled City vividly reproduces the chaotic zone of Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in the 1980s, which was called "three cares". The film shows the turbulent waves in the notorious walled city and reveals the living conditions of the people at the bottom of society at that time.
The film tells the story of Chen Luojun, a warm-blooded young man, who was framed and issued a chase order by the big boss of the legion. After being seriously injured, Luo Jun was rescued by Weishui and fled to a place where there is no competition — — Kowloon walled city and walled city are all masters of hiding. The only thing that can restrain the big boss is the tornado. The story of the brothers in walled city uniting with the big boss to fight for life and death and defend their homeland.
After the film was released on May 1st, the box office continued to decline, showing an upward performance. After the film was released, its word-of-mouth rose, which triggered a lot of competitions about the value of role force in bilibili. In this programme, starring raymond lam and Professor Suo Yabin from Communication University of China interpret the Fortress Besieged in Kowloon Castle for you.
Who is the first choice for the force value PK of Kowloon walled city?
Raymond lam chose himself. He added that Cheng Luojun, who is played by him, has a very high fighting ability, so more than 90% of the actions are all done by the actors themselves, and all the pain is extremely real.
Liu Junqian, an actor, thinks that Wang Jiu has the highest force value, because in the play, Wang Jiu can fight four times, and he can compete for many rounds regardless of the outcome. Zitong Hu, an actor, chose Tornado played by Louis Koo. In the original work, he was the figure with the highest force value, and his image was handsome and he could fight.
In this regard,forestFengEmphasis: "It seems that there has never been such an action design and such a style in action movies in Hong Kong. It seems that we have found a new language to interpret action movies."
The film critic sharply graded the film.
As a veteran fan of action movies, Suo Yabin, a professor at Communication University of China, scored 7.5 points for Fortress Besieged in Kowloon Castle, and stressed: "If the action scenes of it are taken out separately, I can score 9 points. If those two words are used to describe it, it is the rivers and lakes in the city and the martial arts in life. " Such a high evaluation shows how attractive the action drama of this film is.
Looking back at the development of Hong Kong-style action movies since this century, we can say that there has been great progress in technology. For example, in recent series, Hong Kong-style action movies will focus on the explosion of nuclear bombs; In those days, it was the first time to shoot a martial arts 3D film, and later he filmed underwater martial arts 3D in it.
However, director Zheng Baorui is just taking a different approach. His martial arts film returns to the original intention of Hong Kong action movies, and explores the performance potential of basic physical fighting actions that belong to people themselves. Therefore, Zheng Baorui borrowed a lot of old Hong Kong action movies’ sub-types. For example, the two protagonists in the film are friends but have to fight for life and death because of different positions. In the end, each of them ties a cloth and covers his eyes, which is especially like a scene in Fang Shiyu 2: Ten Thousand Enemies.
For another example, a cook who cooks barbecued pork in the film suddenly becomes a martial arts expert by dancing with two knives. This scene can also find a similar plot in the movie.
Another example is Wang Jiu, who has a magical power to protect his body. He is invulnerable and always reminds people of the films directed by him.
For those who are familiar with Hong Kong films, it is not difficult to find that the source of the Hong Kong film "Fortress Besieged in Kowloon Castle" can be traced back to director Tsui Hark’s filming more than 20 years ago. First of all, "Fortress Besieged by Kowloon Castle" and "Upstream" come down in one continuous line is the vertical design of action. The unique terrain of Kowloon Castle determines that the action design will be extended from the usual horizontal angle to the vertical action design.
Whether walking in the corridor, jumping on the stairs, or even climbing the eaves outside the building, the audience can see that this film is inheriting and innovating at the same time.
However, in the process of watching movies, there are also many viewers who think that the last four young people exaggerated their drama when they finally confronted Wang Jiu. The reason is that Hong Kong, China’s action films especially like to pursue a tension between realism and freehand brushwork. The way to deal with the action in Fortress Besieged by Heroes in Kowloon Castle is to construct the illusion of action through audio-visual language.
For example, in a narrow corridor, when the enemy is after him, he can jump over this person by jumping in the air and fall across the other side. This is a setting beyond the real physical logic, but at the climax of the film, this setting is becoming more and more obvious.
In action design, the villain was forced to swallow a truncated sword, and the enemy was defeated by using the destructiveness of the truncated sword in the body. With the action design method with fantastic and fantastic supernatural flavor, only when the audience knows how to appreciate the action scenes can they really love and appreciate this movie.
Questioning the plot and characterization?
In addition, in the plot and characterization, "Fortress Besieged by Heroes in Kowloon Castle" has also been questioned by some viewers. For example, the audience thinks that "the characters and the plot are very popular because of the opposition between good and evil" and "the protagonist Chen Luojun became attached to the tornado after entering the city village, and quickly merged into it. This plot is too coincidental and too simple".
Indeed, according to director Zheng Baorui’s previous works, the storyline and characterization in the film "Fortress Besieged by Heroes in Kowloon Walled City" are indeed substandard. For example, Chen Luojun’s growth arc is not reflected in the gradual fullness of his personality and values, but in the gradual improvement of his combat effectiveness, so it will appear that the ideological and psychological depth of the characters is not enough and relatively flat.
In addition, why does the director spend a lot of time to create a plot that the audience thinks is more coincidental and simple? Perhaps the fireworks in Kowloon Castle gave this story a particularly strong realistic color. It can be understood that the literary drama in this part of the film is actually paving the way for martial arts drama. When the realistic color is combined with the action scene behind the film review, it will produce a wonderful tension.
"Hit" Hong Kong-style action "Xintiandi"?
You know, the film’s scenery is as realistic as possible to restore the Kowloon walled city in the 1980s. According to Zheng Baorui, the director, his greatest personal feelings about the castle in this play are "inseparable" and "not staying low (staying)". These two words have profound meanings.
Historically, Kowloon Walled Park used to be a no-holds-barred zone between the Hong Kong government, Britain and the mainland. When the cession treaty was signed that year, it was declared that this piece of land in Hong Kong still belonged to China, but the Central People’s Government did not want to go deep into this area to disturb or be regarded as a provocative act, and it gradually became an anarchic den of thieves.
As a geographical space, the Kowloon walled city was demolished in 1993. In the physical sense, this walled city can’t stay, but it can’t be separated from the spirit and concept it carries. This "three-no-cares" zone, because the current civilized order and legal norms in this space are ineffective, everyone relies on the morality of the rivers and lakes, which also carries the martial arts dream and river lake dream of Hong Kong film directors. Like it or not, it actually has such a layer of charm.
At the end of this "Fortress Besieged in Kowloon City", there is a plane flying above the kite. No matter how high the kite flies, there will be a huge plane hanging over it, forming a particularly distinctive visual oppression. This scene implies that the process of modern life is crushed on the Kowloon walled city like an airplane, and the traditional way of life will be slowly dissolved and eventually passed away under the constant impact of the civilized order of modern social life.
However, is it true that modern civilization will eventually abandon such "wild" and "barbaric" things as Kowloon Castle? I remember saying, "Without humanity, people will lose a lot, but without animality, people will lose everything.".
The vitality of "wildness" is actually the core driving force to ensure that people can continue to go on. Perhaps it is also the case. When many people think that Hong Kong-style martial arts films are beginning to decline, there will be people who are willing to make such great efforts and invest so much to shoot an action film.
The greatest significance of Fortress Besieged by Kowloon Castle is that it provides a new development possibility, that is, an action that has been ignored and abandoned by us — — Fighting originated from human limbs. It still has a lot of room to explore, which may be the next starting point for Hong Kong-style action movies and Chinese-language action movies.