Recently, "Shangqi" was released in the United States.
Overnight, a bunch of "praise" suddenly appeared on the major platforms, saying that the movie deleted the insulting elements, saying that he had seen it very movingly, playing the scene was wonderful, the special effects were cool, Marvel was very sincere, blabla.
As someone who has seen it, I can only say that this movie and "Mulan" are of a standard, drawing a tiger is not an anti-dog thing, and there is no sincerity to speak of.
As a commercial film, it is neither good to watch nor Chinese, it is completely for those Who are already Americans, and it is difficult to find a sense of substitution Chinese.
In the films depicting Chinese heroes in Chinese culture, those fight scenes are often just performance techniques, and what really impresses the audience is actually the feeling of "the great hero, for the country and the people".
The most typical example is the "Huang Feihong" series.
Most of the post-90s children must have seen this film, and "Lion King" has been placed countless times in the central six sets.
But when we first watched this film, we were most concerned about the fight scene inside, about The Master Huang who had his own stereo and was invincible in his own BGM.
Looking back at this series of movies now, you will find that the story outside the martial arts part of this film is actually very exciting, and many character stories are very realistic even if they are looked at now.
For example, the famous scene of Huang Feihong: "Open your mouth to gentlemanly demeanor, shut up free democracy, and say that you are going to cheat money to look better." ”
Huang Feihong's confusion and thinking in the movie are actually very similar to the current change of young people's "more and more left" thinking.
Hello everyone, I am a pumpkin, today, let's take a look at the first part of the "Huang Feihong" movie, re-see this childhood classic movie, how to rethink and inspire us 30 years later.
1
In that familiar and exciting theme song, the picture of the story unfolds slowly.
As the sun rises and the blue waves roll on the seashore, Huang Feihong is practicing martial arts with his militia disciples.
The empty picture is matched with the lyrics of the proud lyrics, and the tide of the era of Haohao Soup is coming.
However, outside the dilapidated wooden boats of the Qing army outside the port of Guangzhou, it was the strong guns of the foreigners.
As soon as the theme song full of vitality was broadcast, the picture cut to the tea house where the song and dance were raised. To the cheerful tune of Cantonese opera, the camera turns to the street:
On the street were two groups of foreigner soldiers dressed in different uniforms and flaunting their might, and they formed a dazzling contrast with the prisoners who were driven away in heavy shackles, the poor Chinese people and the foreigners in fresh clothes.
Just when the opera class, which symbolizes traditional culture, is louder than the Choir of the British priest, the onlookers do not care who loses or wins, only that they are noisy.
The shot of just a few tens of seconds immediately outlined such a picture:
Our country is in an era of drastic changes in the invasion of foreign enemies and internal reforms, and in the confrontation between the new and old cultures of China and the West, our people are hiding in the tea houses of light singing and dancing, and they are at a loss for all this.
Huang Feihong in the film is the coach of the Guangdong militia and a subordinate of the patriotic general Liu Yongfu, and this setting is the same as in history.
Liu Yongfu was originally the leader of the Black Flag Army under the Taiping Army, and after the failure of the uprising, he led his troops to Vietnam, in order to resist the French invasion, Liu Yongfu and the Qing army general Feng Zicai abandoned their previous suspicions and fought side by side on the front line of humiliation.
Huang Feihong in history served as a martial arts instructor and military doctor in Liu Yongfu's army.
In the movie, when he set out to fight the French army on the Vietnamese front, Liu Yongfu solemnly handed Huang Feihong a fan, and wrote "unequal treaty" in five big characters, and the name and content of the treaty below were densely written.
Liu Yongfu asked Huang Feihong to train his old subordinates well and let them become the backbone of defending their families and defending the country. He hoped that when he resisted the Victory of france, the unequal treaties on the fan would be written off.
It is a pity that the last battle in the life of this old general in history witnessed an even greater unequal treaty, the Treaty of Maguan.
In 1895, the people of Taiwan Province elected Liu Yongfu as the "President of taiwan's Democratic National Congress", vowing to die and refusing the Qing government to cede Taiwan to Japan.
Back in the movie, in Guangzhou, Huang Feihong abided by his agreement with Liu Yongfu and trained the vigilante group.
But the change of the times made him gradually confused about whether this training was useful.
The thirteen aunts who returned from foreign countries brought Huang Feihong a lot of western fresh things and made him a suit, but Huang Feihong always subconsciously resisted, saying that in the future, when Chinese wear suits, I will wear them again.
But soon, Huang Feihong's conservative attitude was harshly educated by reality.
There are three groups of villains in this film.
The first group is foreign troops and businessmen led by the United States, who are using force to do evil in China, either bullying the Chinese people or engaging in the criminal activities of human trafficking and opium smuggling.
The second villain is Yan Zhendong, a martial artist from Shandong. This character is highly skilled in martial arts, but extremely depressed, and his first appearance is in the torrential rain, bare-chested and hard-working performance of his family heirloom iron cloth shirt.
Two spears were broken by his throat, and those standing under the eaves cheered.
Unfortunately, this stunt can only be used as a street circus in exchange for change thrown on the ground.
The film specially designed a scene of Yan Zhendong staring at the fish stall in a daze.
In the previous scene, facing the opponent holding the steel knife, Yan Zhendong was calm, and under the blessing of the iron cloth shirt, the sharp blade could not even cut his skin.
But the iron cloth shirt can block the steel knife, but it can't stop the hunger, and in the blink of an eye, he is so hungry that he wants to drink the leftover noodle soup on the street.
In this scene of life, Yan Zhendong is a hard scale, and he must be scraped clean by reality.
The hardships of life made this Haojie eager to become famous, turn to abandon the bottom line, and embark on the evil road.
For the sake of Li Wei, he would tear open the throat of his opponent during the competition, and he would also run to the Huang Feihong family who had no grievances against him for the sake of fame, and no matter how many wounded people were waiting for Huang Feihong's treatment at that time, forcing Huang Feihong to duel.
The third group of villains is the local gangster Shahe Gang, which is composed of rabble-rousers.
This group of people bullying soft and afraid of hard, martial arts are loose, IQ is also very worrying, the first time to see the foreign gun did not know how to use, but also accidentally killed the accomplice.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the world, they have suddenly risen, committed crimes in the localities, collected protection fees, and squeezed the poor.
Such people, who existed in the late Qing Dynasty, during the Xinhai Revolution, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, were typical national scum and opportunists.
Their drinking and eating meat movements, as if the most ferocious beasts were eating their prey; their flattery in the face of foreigners, their panic when they met masters, and their arrogance when they bullied women and old people, were extremely disgusting across the screen.
Surprisingly, among the three villains, the one that makes Huang Feihong suffer one setback after another is the Shahe Gang, which looks the most dishy.
The contradiction between Huang Feihong and the villain originated from a vegetable seller who could not distinguish between the British flag and the American flag and got on the wrong ship, and was indiscriminately shot and injured by foreign soldiers.
For this matter, Huang Feihong took the initiative to find the Qing army admiral of Yamen, and took the people from the government to negotiate with the foreigners, who knew that the foreigners came and beat a rake and said: We do not pursue the vegetable vendors on the wrong ship, this matter is so forgetful.
The Qing military governor, who was supposed to uphold justice for the Chinese people, was respectful in front of the foreigners, but he was high on his toes against Huang Feihong.
This admiral also warned: Now that the capital is engaged in a foreign affairs movement, we must be patient with the foreigners for a while and take a step back, and we must play a big game of chess!
The phrase "Master Yi has a long skill to control Yi", but the Admiral forgot the most important three words.
Outside the negotiation venue, Huang Feihong's apprentice Lin Shirong, in order to protect Liang Kuan, a foreigner who was chased and killed by the Shahe Gang, fought with the other side and went all the way into the Western restaurant where the negotiations were held.
In the melee, Huang Feihong's apprentice just accidentally bumped into the bodyguard of the American captain, and was beaten up by the other side, Huang Feihong stood out for the apprentice, but formed a bond with the Americans.
Originally, it was the Shahe Gang that caused trouble, but the admiral who could be reprimanded by the foreigners did not care who was right or wrong, and his mind was full of thoughts: "You fight, which makes the foreigners unhappy."
Since I can't manage the difficult Shahe Gang, then I will take care of your vigilante group, and at the sound of an order, the vigilante group members were arrested by the government.
Huang Feihong knew that this incident was caused by the people of the Shahe Gang, and the thief captured the king first.
The next day, Huang Feihong saw the leader of the Shahe Gang blackmailing the owner of the tea house, and he cleaned up the other party with three fists and two feet, and the onlookers praised Master Huang for his martial arts skills.
At that moment, Huang Feihong still thought that he had won back a round, and he wanted to send this leader to yamen and ask everyone to help witness it.
But as soon as the voice fell, the crowd of onlookers immediately dispersed, and Huang Feihong quickly pulled the boss who had just been robbed, and in turn begged the victim to help him testify, but he did not expect the boss to tell him:
"The two of you are fighting martial arts, and I don't know anything, I don't see anything."
That night, Huang Feihong passed by a shed on the street, and a comprador in a dress excitedly told everyone that there was a country in the world called the United States, where gold was everywhere, and everyone had to be very careful when walking, and if they were not careful, they would step on gold, and even there was gold sand in the river that they held up.
"Do you know why we wear sunglasses? Because gold is so dazzling! The comprador said as he handed out leaflets to work as laborers in the United States.
Hearing this, Huang Feihong, who originally wanted to try western dressing and wearing sunglasses, silently took off his sunglasses.
That night, the Shahe gang, who had rushed back with bows and arrows and a large group of men and horses, took advantage of the night to sneak in and set fire to Huang Feihong's medical center BaoZhilin.
In the panic, even the fan that Liu Yongfu gave him was destroyed by fire.
Huang Feihong picked up the fan that had been burned in the fire, and the fan was burned off a horn, ironically, the "no" word of the "unequal treaty" was burned away, becoming the "equality treaty".
This half-crippled fan deeply stung Huang Feihong.
There are strong enemies invading from the outside, but many Chinese people either bully their compatriots like the Shahe Gang, or just like the spectators in front of them, hiding in corners under the oppression of inside and outside, and choosing to escape. Others dream of getting rich, are sold to the United States as hard laborers, and think that people have gold mountains.
As if we can't see or hear, we and foreigners will be "equal."
This kind of status quo, Huang Feihong is no matter how high the martial arts, it cannot be changed.
The family business was burned down and there was no way to ask for help, and Huang Feihong also fell into confusion and fired the fire on the "foreign things" brought back by the thirteen aunts.
Huang Feihong, who was angry, yelled at Aunt Thirteen, "Let me see these foreign things later, I will smash them like the same!" ”
So when the missionary fooled him into believing, Huang Feihong couldn't help but lose his temper and said, "I caught a bad person, can Jesus help me as a witness?" ”
When he heard that the Admiral refused to arrest the murderers of the Shahe Gang, but instead forbade Huang Feihong to take everyone to practice martial arts, his first reaction was: "If we don't let Xi Wu strengthen our bodies, when foreign enemies invade, what do we rely on to resist?" ”
Even though he knew that foreigners had strong boats and sharp cannons, as a martial artist with traditional thoughts, he still believed that fist and foot kung fu was still useful.
However, the identity of the martial arts master and the leader of the vigilante group was nothing in the eyes of the government, but the missionary came out to testify, and after identifying the Shahe gang in a word, the admiral immediately led people around to arrest the gangsters who set fire.
Seeing that they were being hunted down by the government all over the city, the people of the Shahe Gang thought together: The officials are afraid of foreign ghosts, and we want to mix with the biggest kind of ghosts.
After some trading, the gang became accomplices of American traffickers, who used to act as thugs for the Americans, arresting Chinese women and selling them to the United States as prostitutes, only to hide in the American concessions to save their lives. The Americans relied on them to get rid of Huang Feihong, who was causing trouble for his criminal activities.
The first-class foreigners and second-class officials, the Shahe Gang, who can't read a single word, are good at speculation.
With the Shahe Gang as the leading party, the Americans made a plan to plot against Huang Feihong.
They pretended to invite Huang Feihong to watch a play at the dockside, and the Shahe Gang came out to launch an attack, and if the Shahe Gang did not succeed, the Americans would take advantage of the chaos and shoot him.
The progress of things was very similar to what they expected, ordinary means of conspiracy had no effect on Huang Feihong, but successfully made a big mess of the scene, and the American thugs drew their guns at Huang Feihong's back and prepared to shoot the secret calculations.
The plan almost succeeded, and the only variable was that the well-meaning priest intervened to block it, and as a result, he blocked the bullet for Huang Feihong and unfortunately died tragically.
The British soldiers who rushed to protect the commander did not distinguish between the gangsters of the Shahe Gang and the people watching the play, in their eyes, Chinese were mobs, and as soon as the commander gave the order, they shot into the pile, and one of the gangsters did not kill, but killed and injured a large number of innocent people.
Huang Feihong desperately used his medical skills to save the people, but some people still died of serious injuries.
On the rainy night, Huang Feihong thought back to the scene of the people being shot and injured by foreigners, and he was sad and indignant, he carefully looked at the foreign gun bullets he saw, looked at the plaque left by Liu Yongfu, "My Land, My People", and suddenly bounced the bullet out with his finger, smashing the marble screen to pieces.
When I watched this scene when I was a child, I only remembered that Huang Feihong was strong in martial arts, and he was so powerful with a flick of his finger.
But when he grew up and looked at it again, he realized how sad Huang Feihong was in this scene, because he knew in his heart that his hard-working and proud martial arts were only barely catching up with the power of the foreign gun.
Foreigners can easily build countless foreign guns, but China does not have countless Huang Feihong.
That kind of weakness of heart is the one that stings Huang Feihong the most.
At this moment, Huang Feihong finally changed from a person who passively accepted Western technology to an active eye to open his eyes to the world, and he said to His Thirteenth Aunt: Fists and feet can't beat guns, we must change!
The story behind it is mainly about how after the Shahe gang captured the thirteen aunts and wanted to sell them to the United States, Huang Feihong overcame many difficulties, broke into the Shahe gang, destroyed this gang of gangsters, and also killed the Americans who were doing things behind the scenes.
Finally, Huang Feihong put on a suit and took a serious photo, and he finally began to take the initiative to learn Western technology and embarked on the road of self-improvement.
The image of Huang Feihong is a microcosm of the ideological transformation of the intellectual class in that era, and Mr. Zhongshan, Lu Xun, Li Dazhao, and others all realized that China must change in the humiliation of foreigners bullying their countrymen again and again, and began to take the initiative to learn from foreign countries and strive to become stronger.
Hong Kong made the film in 1991, when Hong Kong was at the forefront of the collision of Chinese and Western cultures, so it was inevitable that the creators would have a similar state of mind to Wong Fei Hung.
In fact, when we watch this movie now, we will also feel the same way about Huang Feihong, because we are also in the midst of major changes that have not occurred in a hundred years:
From cultural to political exchanges between China and Western countries, they have gradually become a confrontation of swords and swords;
At the same time, the various behaviors of domestic capital have also gradually made everyone understand the problems existing in capitalism, and Marxism-Leninism did not deceive me, so he began to read those books again.
There is a strong interest in how our country came to be and where it is going.
However, this time, what everyone is learning is no longer the West, but the beliefs that we ourselves once insisted on.
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In addition to the main plot, the performance of many supporting characters in the film also vividly reflects the thinking and struggle of various classes in China in the big era at that time, and some of these roles will be put into the present, which will also allow everyone to find a response in an instant.
Aunt Thirteen is the one who enlightened Huang Feihong, she longs for the technology of the Western world, but she deeply understands that no matter how good the foreign country is, it is not a place to live for a long time, because there is no one she wants to meet.
Another typical representative of returnees is Huang Feihong's apprentice Ya mosu.
Ya Mosu is a descendant of overseas Chinese and a descendant of Chinese workers, who returned to China to learn medical skills with Huang Feihong in order to find his roots.
Compared with his brother-in-law, Ya mo su was literate and hyphenated, and his literary quality was polite, representing the Western-educated intellectuals of that era.
But such an intellectual has an extremely contradictory identity.
He went back to China to look for roots, but he couldn't recognize a few Chinese words, and every time Huang Feihong asked him to take the medicine, he knew what kind of medicine it was through the English pasted on the back of the bottle.
He stumbled when he spoke Chinese, but he spoke English fluently.
When he saw foreigners running amok and Chinese being wantonly killed, but because of his bad Chinese, he even helped to save people and was in a hurry, his teeth were broken, and he could not accept the motherland that he regarded as the "root" in his mind, which was such a backward appearance.
He cut off his braids and put on the dress he had before returning to China, and before leaving, Huang Feihong did not half complain about him, but Ya Mosu could not face his friends, and could only silently hold the braid that had been cut, with a look of regret.
But at this time, the people of the Shahe Gang came to take revenge on Huang Feihong, set Bao Zhilin on fire, and after seeing that the master was in difficulty, Ya Mosu put down his luggage and resolutely stayed with Huang Feihong to rescue the oppressed compatriots.
This little person, who struggled and entangled in Chinese and Western cultures, finally made his own choice in the face of national righteousness.
In works of art, the identity of the characters is often a big problem, a big contradiction, enough to directly promote the development of the storyline.
For example, is Xiao Feng a Han or a Khitan at the bottom? Will Yang Kang be the son of the Golden Prince or the descendant of the Yang family? There are also Guo Jing, Zhao Min, Shi Baotian, and so on.
This movie is from 1991, when before the return of Hong Kong, all kinds of forces were exerting their own influence, the United States wanted to subvert our new China, hong Kong as a bridgehead, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China were fighting against foreign countries in culture, and at the same time, there was a dispute between left and right, as well as the colonial control of the British government in Hong Kong, the growth of Hong Kong's local faction, and so on.
The violent collision of multiculturalism here has made Hong Kong people extremely confused about their identity, which is why the role of teeth rub Su is wavering.
At the end of Bao Zhilin's family portrait, Huang Feihong put on a suit, while Yasui Su in turn put on a long shirt, indicating that at this time, he finally found where his spiritual "roots" were.
Even if the role of Tooth Rub Su is put to the present, it is still enough to impress a group of people.
Because international students and overseas Chinese groups will also encounter similar identity contradictions, especially in 2020, when the new crown is raging, the contradiction between the East and the West is directly on the table, and there is no room for neutrality. Again and again, people have to think about what their cultural identity is.
Many of my international student friends around me tell me that in 2020, they have a stronger sense of identification with their Chinese identity.
The reason why the story of Shangqi looks different is because this character abandons the national position and expresses his maturity by trying to "kill his father" mentally and physically, and this Western-style "Oedipus King Complex" cannot be appreciated in China.
Compared with the previous two, the group represented by Liang Kuan is more universal.
He was kind by nature, hardworking and hardworking, and had his own ideals.
In the years of wandering outside, Liang Kuan has learned some jianghu martial arts, and even Huang Feihong praised him for his talent, but he did not get the guidance of a famous teacher, so he has not entered the house. When he saw that the Shahe gang was crowded, he could only flee in soft clothes.
He is willing to work hard for his ideals, but he can never find a clear path, oscillating between "being a good person" and "joining the Shahe gang".
He first planned to work odd jobs in the drama team to earn money, and when he spent all the money, he also wanted to go to the United States to make a living as a piglet. After seeing yan Zhendong's martial arts so good, he wanted to get ahead by learning martial arts with him.
But when he saw that Yan Zhendong had joined the Shahe Gang in order to make money and turned a blind eye to the gangsters' attempts to insult Aunt Thirteen, he resolutely stood up bravely and fought with them in a time of crisis.
This kindness eventually saved Liang Kuan, so that he did not degenerate into a scum like the Shahe Gang, but became Huang Feihong's apprentice.
In other words, Liang Kuan was a microcosm of the most ordinary Chinese people of that era, who had infinite strength and potential, but they were not guided and stimulated.
Mozi sorrow silk, dyed in the cang is cang, dyed in yellow is yellow.
What Liang Kuan became in the end all depended on the direction in which he was guided.
For example, Liang Kuan once wanted to listen to the compradors and run to the United States, but only gave up because he had no money.
A Chinese worker who escaped from San Francisco revealed these comprador lies to Huang Feihong.
In his early years, he listened to the tricks of the compradors, went to the United States to work, and as a result, they fell ill on the ship and did not give treatment, and they were directly thrown into the sea, and countless companions died in the middle of the road.
Even if the people who came to the United States alive were deceived into signing deeds of sale and doing heavy work like cattle and horses, they could not make money at all, and in order to control them, the Americans also forbade them to marry and marry and prevent them from having offspring.
When mentioning these tragic past events, the film inserts a picture of the waves rolling over, which at first glance looks very similar to the scene where Huang Feihong takes everyone to practice boxing, but if you look closely, the waves are dirty and yellow, and they are dead.
The upsurge of the waves is not only huang Feihong's undulating mood, but also the roar of countless Chinese workers in that era.
This Chinese worker and the Shahe gang are two of the several end points of the fork in Liang Kuan's fate. Fortunately, Liang Kuan did not become one of these people.
The most tragic color of the whole drama is probably the number of villains Yan Zhendong.
In the movie, this martial artist who is strong in martial arts and confidently comes to Guangdong from his hometown to wander, but he lives on the street because he has no money.
At first, these blows did not make Yan Zhendong give up his ideals. He is willing to make hard money by selling art, so that he can stay and duel with various masters and make his own name.
Because Liang Kuan brought him half a bowl of noodle soup when he was most hungry, he regarded this young man he had just met as a disciple, taught him his own kung fu, and let the new worshippers call Liang Kuan "Master Brother".
In a sense, Yan Zhendong is another Huang Feihong.
If the audience is careful, they will find that Yan Zhendong's appearance is accompanied by heavy rain.
He sells his art in the rain, duels with the Yue family knife in the rain, and also goes to the door to find Huang Feihong in the rainy night.
Finally, when Liang Kuan and Liang Kuan shared a bowl of noodle soup in the rain, the prostitute next to him sharply mocked: "Two men share a bowl of soup, it is really lacking in morality!" ”。
This is obviously not a coincidence, but the director's intention.
Rainy days are one of the most common methods used by directors to set off the atmosphere in the film, some are used to promote the development of the plot, and some are used to show the transformation of the character's personality...
Here, it hints at the pressure of life, so that Yan Zhendong, an iron man who can't enter the knife, eventually rusts and changes color under the rain.
When dueling with the Yue family knife boss, the background is a bonfire, symbolizing Yan Zhendong's ideals and fighting spirit. But after he killed his opponent in order to make a name, the campfire was extinguished by heavy rain, and Yan Zhendong was completely shrouded in night, implying the blackening of this character.
After giving up the bottom line, Yan Zhendong was willing to be a thug for the Shahe Gang that did not enter the stream, obviously with extraordinary skills, but he became a lackey of the foreigner's lackey, at the bottom of the chain of contempt.
The film arranged two scenes for Yan Zhendong to "sell art and collect money". The first time was when he appeared, and the second time was when the Shahe Gang promised to pay for him to open a martial arts hall.
The first time he performed martial arts to passers-by and picked up the reward, Yan Zhendong's eyes were still full of indomitability, and "selling art" was just a stopgap measure.
The second time he picked up, it was the black money that the Shahe gang had put on the table and overturned by Liang Kuan.
After hearing that these gangsters paid for their own museum and worshiped themselves as a teacher, Yan Zhendong excitedly punched and flew up and down in the dock warehouse, playing the family martial arts like acrobatics.
This scene made Liang Kuan unable to stand it, and in excitement, he overturned the money box.
Amid the roar of the Shahe Gang, Yan Zhendong picked up the scattered silver coins as usual, because he was used to giving up his dignity.
When Huang Feihong came to rescue the abducted women, Yan Zhendong played a trick for the tiger and stopped in front of Huang Feihong.
But when he saw Huang Feihong beating up the Shahe Gang gangsters, he forgot to sneak up on Huang Feihong, but instead held the bamboo ladder in his hand and stayed aside, with a bit of loneliness and jealousy in his eyes.
Just when he was comforting Liang Kuan, he also said that "cooperation with the Shahe Gang is a last resort, and when it is developed, it is necessary to uphold justice for the people of the world", which shows that in his heart, there is still the ideal of doing chivalry and righteousness.
At this time, Yan Zhendong was probably blaming why this society did not give him such an opportunity, just like many villains said when they washed themselves.
Compared with Liang Kuan, who is as poor as him but has never given up the bottom line, why did Yan Zhendong not choose to fall in the face of the test of life?
In the competition, Yan Zhendong was beaten badly by Huang Feihong, and the most heartfelt thing is that he was far from being inferior to Huang Feihong in martial arts, but also a failure in all aspects of kung fu, character and temperament.
In the end, he rushed out of the warehouse in a frenzy, seemingly to chase after Huang Feihong, in fact, he wanted to save the last bit of human dignity, but unfortunately he was shot and killed by the foreigner's foreign gun.
Before dying, he stretched out his hand and issued his last sigh to Huang Feihong: No matter how good our kung fu is, it can't beat the foreign guns.
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The film "Huang Feihong" has a depth that ordinary kung fu movies do not have precisely because of these various characters with their own characteristics and combination with the times.
Therefore, the English translation of the film is "Once Upon a Time in China", not "Huang Feihong".
As the first film in Huang Feihong's series, the film's thinking on the theme of "China's Past" has limitations.
For example, when Huang Feihong grabbed the leader of the Shahe Gang and asked everyone to go to Yamen with him to testify, many viewers here could not help but denounce the spectator mentality of these gangs, saying that the inferiority of the Chinese people would remain the same after many years.
But in reality, the unorganized forces must be weak in the face of organized forces. In the face of the organized Shahe Gang, as strong as Huang Feihong was also burned by a fire, BaoZhilin was also burned, and it was not their fault that the people who were not united did not dare to stand up against the evil forces.
In 1961, after Guo Moruo finished reading "Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences", he was wronged by the Tang monks and became very popular, and wrote a poem specifically saying:
The shemale is upside down and right, compassion for the enemy and mercy for friends.
The mantra was heard ten thousand times, and the essence escaped from the white bones three times.
A thousand knives should be used to slash the flesh of Tang Monk, and a pluck of the Great Sacred Hair.
Education is timely and appreciated, and pig wisdom is better than foolishness.
But after the instructor saw this poem, he thought that the sentence criticizing the Tang monk was too much, and also wrote a poem:
As soon as the wind and thunder rose from the earth, there was a pile of white bones.
Monks are fools and demons, and demons will become disasters.
The golden monkey raised a thousand sticks, and Wang Yu clarified Wanlie.
Today, I hail Sun Dasheng, only because the demon fog has returned.
The teacher's meaning was obvious, he thought that Tang Monk was only a mortal after all, he had no ability to judge right from wrong, he was deceived by the monster before he did something wrong, the fault was the monster and not the Tang monk, and the Tang monk was a force that could be united.
In fact, this is also the biggest difference between the Communist Revolution and the previous bourgeois revolution.
It is also the numb spectators in the mouths of some people, after some people have educated them, trained them, and armed them with communist ideas, they have proved with their own performance that they are actually the bravest people in the world.
At the end of the film, the Qing court official and Huang Feihong, who saved his life, are released from the previous suspicions, and they stand together at the bow of the ship.
The Qing court official murmured, "Jinshan?" Is there a golden mountain in the world? ”
Huang Feihong said: "If there is really a mountain of gold in this world, why should these foreign ships come to our port?"
Perhaps, we are already standing on the golden mountain. ”
Huang Feihong's expression here is actually to emphasize that if we want to become strong, in the end we still have to rely on our own strength.
But how to make self-improvement unremitting and make the people of our country strong? Huang Feihong here has not yet figured it out.
And this is the problem discussed in the next movie.