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The Ashes of Time tells the story of Jin Yong and Gu Long. Why do you say that?

Ashes of Time is an obscure literary film. Wong Kar-wai sewed up the two rivers and lakes of Jin Yong and Gu Long in his own way, emitting the brilliance of two philosophies.

"Ashes of Time" begins with Ouyang Feng, who has been a killer in the desert for a long time, recalling white camel mountain when he sells his business. As a marginal area in the world of Legend of the Condor Heroes, Jin Yong did not write much for white camel mountain. But when people see Ouyang Feng and white camel mountain, this * * world view has actually been established. So Huang appeared, involving a love-hate relationship.

This is certainly not the story of Huang in Jin Yong's rivers and lakes. In the new version of Legend of the Condor Heroes, Huang's love must be a violation of ethical codes, an ambush for Mei Chaofeng in the future, and then an ambush for Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv in the future. In Time Has Changed, Huang's love is love, which is the purity of Gu Long style.

Huang brought a pot of wine to Ouyang Feng, which was called "Ren Pingsheng Drunk". Two people drink, much like the ritual sense of Li Xunhuan drinking in the ruthless sword of passionate swordsman. Qi Hong, a poor young man, rode a camel with his wife and wandered the rivers and lakes alone. Hong Qi's words are full of local accents, but they are not rustic at all. His wife, a typical village woman, disappeared with two ragged people on the horizon of the desert, which made people feel extremely romantic.

But these plots, which had nothing to do with Jin Yong's Jianghu, only continued in the form of words to Jin Yong's ending: in the end, Huang became the evil of the East, became the leader of the Beggars' Sect, and died with Ouyang Feng at the top of Huashan Mountain. In Time Has Changed, the young Ouyang Feng said that he "especially avoided counting seven, so he died", which actually laid the groundwork for the plot in The Condor Heroes.

In the history of China's martial arts novels, Gu Long and Jin Yong have two peerless twins, one is Jin Yong and the other is Gu Long. However, for decades, when Jin Yong's novels were remake again and again, almost all the players in the same role formed a football team, and the characters in Gu Long's novels seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the screen, becoming a bright and ancient historical term like the author's untimely death.

Of course, this is not because Gu Long is inferior to Jin Yong, but because although they are both martial arts novelists, they bring readers two completely different dimensions. Jin Yong gave us rivers and lakes and Gu Long gave us chivalrous men. This difference in dimension is bound to make future generations choose different ways to commemorate it.

So how did Ashes of Time sew Jin Yong and Gu Long together?

The encounter between Jin Yong and Gu Long doomed the release of Ashes of Time in 1994. At that time, Gu Long had passed away for nearly ten years, and Jin Yong had just stepped into ancient times and sealed his pen for more than twenty years. For the audience who are also readers of martial arts novels, the rivers and lakes have long been stereotyped. The setting of Ashes of Time, some have their own strengths, and some are opportunistic.

Back to the real world, Jinlong, the Gemini of China's martial arts novels, still makes people cry. Jin Yong is a newspaper reporter. Such people may not respect martial arts. He wrote martial arts novels to pave the way for newspapers, but he didn't expect to be popular. For such a red, Jin Yong may not feel happy inside. And Gu Long wrote novels to make money. He has no burden, he can be pure. The early death of Gu Long may have added a mockery of fate to this purity.

In any case, the encounter between Jin Yong and Gu Long was doomed. If Wong Kar-wai doesn't do it, someone will. I'm afraid there is no such charm.