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This is the "Knight of Shuangqi Town". This is a real western, thick, thick and full of power. After the film was released, it was widely praised. First, he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Art in China 199 1. In the second year, he won the Top Ten Chinese Film Awards of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the Excellent Film Award of Mainland China Commercial Screening of China Times Evening News. In the same year, he won the Best Film Award of Japan Xizhang International Thriller Science Fiction Film Festival. 1993, Director He Ping won the Young Film Director Award of Berlin International Film Festival.
"This is a legendary story. According to the old man in Hexi, when Haige appeared in the town, it was still a desert. Some people say it was eighty-one years ago, others say it was seventy-one years ago ... "The vague story adds to the mystery of this western story, so a legend slowly unfolds.
Hai Ge, the hero, practiced "Kansai Infinite Knife" with his father since childhood. After his father died, Haige went to Shuangqi Town in Huangsha to find his wife, a good sister of his age.
Knife fighters, a group of groups spontaneously organized by the middle and lower classes in northwest China in the late Qing Dynasty. Because most members of the organization carry a weapon called "Guan Shan Dao", they are called swordsmen. Most swordsmen were born in poverty, hated evil and did many righteous things.
When a child first came into this world, the first person he met was the ranger "Sha Li Fei". He wants to take Tong Ge's dry food and "borrow" half of Tong Ge's money, which was originally given to his wife. "Sha" left a message before he left: "Fiona Fang is in trouble for five hundred miles, come to the grain and grass shop to find me Sha".
Brother Tong, who came to Shuangqi Town, never forgot his purpose and asked everyone about the person he was looking for-a girl with a mole on her ass and a lame father.
When a stranger comes to a closed town, it always attracts people's special attention. When the children's brothers led a horse on the street of Shuangqi town, people's eyes were attracted by him, while outsiders were always unwelcome or even excluded. Therefore, the old man with horseshoe nails told his brother that there was no one he was looking for in this town.
Wrong, the brother of the child found the home of the cripple. Neither the lame man's daughter nor his sister likes this dirty boy. The lame man also refused to betroth his good sister to him on the grounds that his brother was "incapable" and left him at home to help.
In the home of the lame, Brother Tong was coldly ignored by his father and daughter, and disliked that he could not work and that he did not understand right and wrong. Hai Ge swallowed, but his eyes showed his love for his good sister.
As the days passed, my sister's feelings for her brother slowly changed. Once, the lame man asked Brother Tong to cut the meat, and Brother Tong used the martial arts taught by his father. He picked up a knife and cut a large piece of meat in half. The lame and the good sisters looked at their brother with new eyes.
On this day, several bandits came to the lame inn. They were attracted by their good sister's beauty and wanted to do evil. Because the bandits are the brothers of the famous "one knife fairy", none of the diners present dared to stop them.
The "one-knife fairy" is named after its superb knife skills, and it only takes one knife to kill. "One knife fairy" is so powerful that his brother's martial arts is certainly not bad.
The boy who came back from feeding the horse heard his good sister's cry for help and stepped forward to stop it loudly. The gangsters were furious and prepared to kill the nosy teenager first.
I didn't expect this dull boy to be a master at hiding everything. The two men drew their swords and met. After only one round, the robber died. Seeing that the situation was not good, the rest of the bandits rode away.
This will cause great disaster. Within three days, "One Knife Fairy" will come to seek revenge for Brother Tong. The only way to survive is to escape from the desert. Before leaving, my brother and my sister went to church. The bravery and martial arts of the younger brother and children made the lame man and his good sister sit up and take notice, and their attitude towards him also changed.
Brother Hai and his good sister packed their things and were about to go out when the villagers gathered around. The villagers were afraid that Brother Tong would escape, and the "one-knife fairy" would retaliate against him, so they wouldn't let Brother Tong go and sent people to keep an eye on the lame man's house.
Brother Tong knows that his martial arts is not as good as Dao Xian, and he is very worried. Then I remembered Sha's words: "Fiona Fang is in trouble for five hundred miles. Come to the hay shop and find me Sha Li Fei. So I'm going to the grass shop to ask the big ranger "Sha Li Fei" for help. The villagers were afraid that the boy's brother would run and stop him, and finally they reluctantly believed it under the persuasion of the lame.
Hai Ge found Sha and thought that Sha could promise, but Sha added fuel to the fire and asked Hai Ge for a large sum of money. In order to defeat the "one knife fairy", Tong Ge had to agree. "Sally Fei" immediately promised that she would rush to Shuangqi Town to help get rid of "Knife Fairy".
At the appointed time, many troops led by "One Knife Fairy" rushed to Shuangqi Town. However, "flying sand and stones" did not appear, and everyone panicked. Without "flying sand and stones", Hai Ge's hope of surviving is reduced by a few minutes. The "one knife fairy" approached step by step, and the blacksmith, jockey and lame man stepped forward to stop it. "One knife fairy" began to fall, and three people died.
At this time, Brother Tong has no way out, so he can only live and die. When the two men drew their swords, a burst of yellow sand flew in and covered everyone's sight. When the yellow sand dispersed, I saw two people still standing in the same place. Brother Tong's face was covered with blood. Later, he fell to the ground and died.
The main line of the story is quite simple and there is no complicated relationship between the characters. All the plots took place in an obscure western town, where human nature was exposed.
The film draws lessons from the American westerns with quite mature system at that time. In his Six Shooters and Society, will wright divided the plots of western movies into four types, among which the classic type was "Lonely gunmen save towns or farmers". That is, the hero came to a strange town, where he was cured of violence and finally left the town. And this movie is really the adventure story of the unknown knight in another country.
From the beginning of discussing the script, the goal of film creators is clear and consistent, that is to make a real "western film." For example, the design of action and martial arts, don't want those Hong Kong films that fly around and can't kill people for a long time. If you hit the nail on the head, you will die.
The pursuit of a movie is not to look good, but to be realistic.
In reality, the fighting skills of the enemy are not necessarily good-looking, and the good-looking moves are not necessarily good-looking. This is especially true for swordsmen in the desert. If they want to survive and protect themselves, they must be slow and steady and ruthless. In other words, if you meet someone in a narrow way, the fewer times you get stabbed, the greater your hope of living.
The artistic effect of the film is excellent, deliberately creating a rough feeling of the picture, but also full of texture.
The endless desert and cracked land are the beauty of Shuangqi Town. In this place, yellow is the main color. Primitive and backward town, dirty and shiny sheepskin coat, dark skin, no beautification at all, only truth. It is precisely because of the harsh environment that people living here only have the instinct to survive, so it is logical to kill people in such a place. The story happened in the desert of western China during the Republic of China, a lonely ancient town-Shuangqi Town.
In the whole movie, the hero moves as little as gold, and every * * * makes three knives, and one knife is fatal, while the villain, named after killing without the second knife, only makes one knife not talk, so he simply cherishes words as gold, but once he opens his mouth, it is the last word.
My brother, who practiced Kansai Infinite Knife with his father since childhood, followed his father's wishes and came to Shuangqi Town to find a wife and sister to marry. On Father's Day, Mei Hao and he opened an inn. They were indifferent to their younger brother and children, but because of their kindness, they left him in the inn as a waiter.
There may be many friends who think that I have heard of this film and seem to have seen it, but why don't they think it is so good? Looking back today, it was wonderful and neat. Why do you feel this way?
Because many martial arts blockbusters we see today are highly commercialized, his scene shooting and characterization are more modular. Basically, this routine is widely used now, and you feel a little tired when you look at it.
As an original film discovered by Director He Ping, The Swordsman of Shuangqi Town is a pioneer among many martial arts films.
It is the first time to show the inner world of the characters in this martial arts way.
One shot killed me, one shot missed me, and I drifted away, leaving me stunned within seven steps. The routine looks simple. There was neither a glimpse of the knife nor the sound of breaking the wind, but the fierce point was the knife and the final blow. The knife is driven by air, and the knife is full of air. When the hand shakes at the critical point, the knife can't be drawn out, and the tip of the knife has hit the opponent. That is, one shot to death.
The knife light only flashed for a moment, and when his hand moved, the knife light flew! No one can describe the brilliance and brilliance of this knife, and no one can describe the speed of this knife.
This is He Ping's violent aesthetics:
So where did He Ping's inspiration for violence aesthetics come from?
In fact, it is also a kind of life. Many of our friends watch this martial arts now, which means they are neck and neck. Actually, that's not right. This is just a real battle. Why did it take so long? Just once or twice about hitting people. So many people see this, they feel less mysterious than in martial arts novels and movies. The fierce struggle between the two made the scene clean and tidy, and the inner world of the characters was so stirring.
Therefore, when we review the whole lens of the double-opening town knife man, you will feel fresh, simple and natural. From the beginning of the film, the rich western customs were vividly displayed in the scene, and the experience was simple and vivid, which was different from almost all martial arts movies we are watching now. So you will find it very fresh. However, when the film 1990 was released, many people thought it was too simple, not as fancy as Bruce Lee, nor as shocking as Hong Kong martial arts movies. However, this kind of film has not won a good box office and reputation in China, but many people in the world think that this is the true meaning of the film after watching it.
In recent years, in the film industry of Shuangqi Town, especially those who make martial arts films, this film will be mentioned constantly. Of course, the birth of this film is very tortuous. Director He Ping was not a big shot before 1990. After filming, he wants to improve himself. At that time, The Swordsman in Shuangqi Town was the second film directed by He Ping. At that time, He Ping provided a film named Sunset in the Desert to Xi 'an Film Studio. Later, He Ping filmed Heroes of Heaven and Earth, starring Jiang Wen and Zhao Wei. This is a grand film, but it has not been approved. Why? It has increased the budget too much. You He Ping, a new director, thought, Oh, you look down on such a big movie, and He Ping is helpless. He chose a story from the book Sunset in the Desert:
This kid's brother found his lover's good sister, and as a result, this good sister was entangled by this knife fairy brother. The little brother killed his brother with a knife fairy, and as a result, he chased after him with a knife, and later defeated him with a knife fairy. This is such a story.
This is the birth of the swordsman in Shuangqi Town.
The budget of the whole cast1270,000, 1989 is1270,000. Not too small, but not enough scenery. What about the small cost? I have no choice but to shoot on the spot. Where is it? Looking for a place in the northwest, He Ping led Yang Zhenguang and Meimei to make up for these people and walked more than 10,000 kilometers along the Hexi Corridor. How do we go to so many places? It depends. Which place is suitable or not? Then the color is not enough, or the terrain is not enough, or the flavor is not enough, or the shooting cost is too high. I can't stand it and I'm not satisfied. Finally, it was found that there were many sand dunes separated, which seemed to be something in the distance. When I look from a height, it looks like the ruins of an ancient city observed through a telescope. How many years has this been abandoned? Let's have a look. Suppose watching the mountain is a dead horse when a living horse doctor. You use binoculars on the sand dunes. It's too far to get in by the side of the road. Four people can't. I walked for more than two hours. This place is called Camel City. When I got here, I was shocked to see He Pingding. The ruins of the ancient city are really beautiful. It happened that the sun was setting at that time, and the sunset around the island reflected golden light everywhere in the ancient city, so I decided to shoot here. So the production process of this film is difficult.
Of course, when you say hard work, there are also lucky places, lucky places. These actors are really famous in this film, especially. This film has found grandchildren, who are now old and famous for playing "The Years of Burning Passion" together.