Do older audiences remember a martial arts movie of that year, which was adapted from Jin Yong's "Book of Swords and Vengeance", which was divided into "Gobi En Vengeance" and "Jiangnan Shujian Love" due to the length of the film. Now I looked up the information to learn that this was a film made by Hong Kong director Hui Anhua in 1985, and Jin Yong himself served as the screenwriter. That era was when Sino-Hong Kong co-productions were popular, so there were many mainland actors in this martial arts film cooperated by the two places, namely Da Shichang, an actor who played the Qianlong Emperor, Liu Jia, who played Huo Qingtong, Ai Nuer, who played Princess Xiangxiang, Deng Jie, who played Xu Chaosheng, Gai Lili, who played Qinghua, and Zhang Duofu, who played the protagonist Chen Jialuo.
This was also the first time Zhang Duofu participated in the film, and since then he has been involved in the film industry, and has been engaged in actors, action directors, and directors. At that time, Zhang Duofu was young and handsome, personable, and at the same time, he was physically fit, and there was a sense of everyone between his hands and feet, which was very popular with the audience. After that, Zhang Duofu continued to shoot many costume plays such as "Ranger Black Butterfly" (as Wei Sheng), "Wind And Flow Qianlong" (as Qianlong), "Liangshan Qiqing" (as Shi Nai'an), "New Seven Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" (as Bai Yutang) and so on. Especially in "New Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", Bai Yutang, who he played, and Zhan Zhao, who is now an action director and director Kou Zhanwen, played by Zhan Zhao, and the chivalrous tenderness and superb martial arts shown by the two in the play are fascinating. Zhang Duofu also became one of the first stars in the mainland to specialize in shooting martial arts dramas.
But in the years that followed, the audience rarely saw this handsome and extraordinary "young man". It turned out that he became a director who turned into a behind-the-scenes pro-directing tube, and filmed a number of TV series with various themes, including "My Name is Wang Land", "Plainclothes Detachment", "The Most Familiar Stranger", "Blood Army Flag" and so on have achieved good results on CCTV. As an actor, director Zhang Duofu has portrayed Many characters such as Chen Jialuo, Qianlong Emperor, Shi Nai'an, Da Dao Wang Wu, Bai Yutang and many other characters who are loved by the audience and are popular, and the characters he plays have different personalities and are unforgettable. The TV series he directed has a unique narrative technique, beautiful pictures, strong visibility and profound themes, attracting audiences of different classes and ages. And today's introduction of this TV series "Jedi Gun King" is a work directed by Zhang Duofu, which is filmed and starred in the 2014 war spy drama due to Yi, Zhou Yang and Zhang Luyi. As a TV series that caters to the tastes of the audience and highlights the action drama and entertainment, this TV series is a qualified work. However, from a rigorous point of view, this drama is not a successful excellent work, which has a lot to do with the overall entertainment orientation and market demand at that time.
Those five are descendants of the Manchus, famous as sharpshooters in Changbai Mountain. Master Baoye hoped that he would inherit his mantle and become the leading shaman high priest in the Changbai Mountain area. But everything changed as the Japanese crusade team went into the mountains to sweep up. During a hunt, the five constants inadvertently broke into the encirclement and suppression of a certain anti-coalition team by the Japanese crusade team, and he successfully rescued the female warrior Fu Lan with accurate marksmanship, and formed a bond with the Japanese devil. Subsequently, in retaliation for the five permanents, the Japanese devils killed his grandfather, destroyed his homeland, and occupied the hunting grounds, and his peaceful world was completely subverted. He gave up his grandfather's last wish, violated his ancestral training to use a shotgun, and used all his hunting skills to begin revenge on the Japanese devils. In the contact with the anti-Japanese armed forces and the anti-Japanese coalition troops, the five constants matured day by day, from killing devils at the sight of the devils to clearing and suppressing the Japanese in a rhythmic, step-by-step, planned, and focused manner, which made the invaders feel frightened.
This drama shows the scenes and customs of the ice and snow in the northeast, coupled with the thrilling elements such as war, action, espionage, hoeing, etc., especially the action scenes in the play can be described as spending a lot of thought, jungle parkour, snow gliding, fancy marksmanship, crossbow shooting skills and high-altitude aerial photography, fast editing and other shooting techniques make the use of this drama for action scenes can be called impeccable. At the same time, it also completed the comprehensive upgrading and packaging of the anti-war drama, which met the needs of some audiences for the hot visual perception. However, because its plot design is difficult to get rid of the cliché, the plot is difficult to justify itself, and the emotional drama still revolves around the sadistic love of handsome men and beautiful women, which also makes the sincere creation of the choreographer of the play in vain, and has not been recognized by the audience.
Although there are such drama bones as Zhang Luyi and Zhou Yang in the play, it is difficult to recover the innate deficiency of the script and creative ideas by relying on the acting skills of the actors alone. Therefore, when the audience later evaluated the Japanese officer Maehara Yoshihiko played by Zhang Luyi, his acting performance was very recognized, and the villain played by Zhang Luyi was easy-going and elegant on the surface, warm and humble to others, and he seemed to be a bunch of harmony, but it was difficult to get rid of the cold-blooded ruthlessness and greedy nature of the invaders, and destroying everything that threatened him was his only goal. Zhang Luyi successfully harnessed this role, showing his hypocritical, vicious, and complex side. Guo Dashuang, played by Zhou Yang, has an authentic Northeast accent, a large flower cotton jacket and a cigarette bag in his hand, which vividly shows the image of this typical Northeast girl, and also interprets her personality to the fullest, which is deeply loved by the audience.
As an attempt by director Zhang Duofu, its creative attitude is worth affirming, whether it is the choice to be in the ice and snow of the Changbai Mountains in northeast China during filming, or the bold play of action dramas shows his sincerity towards art and the audience, but the anti-war drama is handsome, the feelings are sadistic, the appearance of the packaging is full of sincerity, the core is still unable to get rid of the strange circle of difficult plot and self-masochism. Therefore, the final evaluation of this drama is not very good, and it makes the "Jedi Gun King 2" filmed in 2016 become a dog-tailed sable.