The film Tianya Yueming Dao and its director Chu Yuan's introduction and comments.

Chu Yuan, formerly known as Zhang Baojian, was born in Guangzhou in 1934 and studied in the chemistry department of Sun Yat-sen University for three years. His father, Zhang Huoyou, is a famous Cantonese opera film actor. 1956, under the influence of his father, Chu Yuan became interested in film production and devoted himself to the creation of Cantonese films under the pseudonym Qin Yu. 1958, he assisted the then famous director Jian Qin in filming Autumn in Wei Zi Garden. In the same year, he began to shoot "Lakeside Grass" and directed it himself. By the end of 1960s, Cantonese movies began to decline. Chu Yuan directed more than 70 Cantonese movies and accumulated rich experience.

1970, Chu Yuan directed his first mandarin martial arts film "Long Muxiang" in Guotai Company, which has a romantic and aesthetic style and attracted people's attention. The Fire Merging (197 1) is Chu Yuan's first work after he joined Shaw, who provided him with excellent shooting conditions and made him famous. 1972, he made a fantasy martial arts film "Love Slave", which was even more colorful, bizarre and unique in style. It is considered as one of Chu Yuan's best masterpieces and is very popular in Britain and Hongkong. The film is about a weak girl whose parents died and was sold to a brothel. After that, she retaliated with her beauty and strange martial arts, killing her enemies one by one, only to be killed by a dying madam because of her kindness. This ending is very in line with Chu Yuan's literature and art, which is the tragedy of love and hate.

1973, the revival of Cantonese movies in Hong Kong. Chu Yuan adapted the pre-war drama and made the Cantonese comedy Seventy-two Tenants, which satirized the society and set a new box office record for Hong Kong films. In the same year, he also filmed the literary film Dancing Clothes, which shows that Chu Yuan is obsessed with literary films and Cantonese films. This literary/romantic temperament finally made him hit it off with Gu Long's new martial arts novels. Gu Long's fantasy martial arts novels became the best choice for Chu Yuan. Since 1976 meteor butterfly sword, Chu Yuan and Gu Long have cooperated many times. It opened a new door for Chu Yuan films and the whole martial arts films. Since then, Chu Yuan has paid more attention to his exotic style, and consciously integrated aesthetic interest and literary atmosphere into it, gradually becoming a more grand and unified film style. At the same time, it also developed a martial arts route different from Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan.

Chronology of works: (definitely incomplete, only partial)

As a director:

1. Li Xiangjun Li (1990) Li Xiangjun Legend

2. Small-headed A Xing thief A Xing (1990) is obscene and dizzy.

3. The Diary of a Gentleman (1988) (literally translated into English title)

4. Ouran Unexpected (1986) The Last Song in Paris

5. Ida Harper Sam Xin Shenyi Yi Sheng (1983) The heavy and wearable clothes of heroes (literal translation of English title)

6. Crazy 83 (1983) Crazy 83

7. Witch (1983)

8. Huan Hua xi Jian (1982) Sword Spirit

9. Rijie (1982) Descendants of the Sun.

10. Lu Xiaofeng (198 1) century showdown before and after the decisive battle (international: English title).

1 1. Record of Shu Jian's enmity and enmity (198 1) The Emperor and his brothers

12. Heroes don't cry in Wei Lei, Xiong Ying (198 1).

13. The tea pond flies south and it is difficult to fly (1980).

14. Butterfly Fairy (1980) Ghost Story

15. Jian Mo Xia Qing (1980) returns from the passionate swordsman.

16. The rich bats in Wuyi border have no wings (1980).

17. The murder plot of Peacock King Chao Peacock Dynasty (1979)

18. Xiao Lou Canmeng (1979) taboo the past.

19. The legend of the bat with the shoulder pole (1978).

20. Ichiro Xiao Lang Jr. (1978) swordsman enchantress.

2 1. Xiuhua Avenue Embroidery Thief (1978) Amazon Tribe (international: English title)

22. The Legend of Eternal Dragon (1978) Heavenly Sword dragon sword

23. Chu Liuxiang Chu Liuxiang (1977) cabal.

24. Jade Tiger Bai Yuhu (1977) Jade Tiger

25. Three Young Masters, Three Young Masters, Sword of Virtue and Health (1977) Death Duel.

26. To Jian Qin ko Wu Qinjian's passionate swordsman ruthless sword (1977).

27. Liu Xing, Hu Diejian and meteor butterfly sword (1976) killer sect.

28. Tian Ya, Mingyuetao Tianya Yueming Dao (1976) magic blade

29. Wudu Luo Tian (1976) The Net of Death

30. Dajie 'an robbery (1975) robbery.

3 1. Heart-body small silver dollar new crying karma (1975) lover's fate

32. Dancing clothes and dancing clothes (1974) Sex, love and hate

33. Hong Kong Gas Stone III Hong Kong 73 (1974) Hong Kong 73

34. Zhumen Zhuyuanmen Powder (1974) worries of the gentry.

35. Tenant No.72: Tenant No.72 of Cheshire Fangjiake (1973).

36. Xiao Zazhong bastard (1973) this bastard.

37. Sunset in xia yang, Yu Ya (1973).

38. Love slaves (1972) The intimate conflict of a famous prostitute in China.

39. Bihu Gecko (1972) lizard

40. Silly Hand Killer (1972) Revenge Knife (USA)

As a screenwriter:

1. Ouran Unexpected (1986) The Last Song in Paris

2. Jade Tiger Bai Yuhu (1977) Jade Tiger

3. The Sword of Three Young Masters and Three Young Masters (1977) is a duel of death.

4. Heart, body, small silver dollar, new crying karma (1975), lover's fate

5. Dancing clothes and dancing clothes (1974) Sex, love and hate

6. Hong Kong Gas Stone III Hong Kong 73 (1974) Hong Kong 73

7. Zhumen Zhuyuanmen Powder (1974) worries of the gentry

8. Tenant No.72: Tenant No.72 of Cheshire Fangjiake (1973).

9. Bihu Gecko (1972) lizard

As an actor:

1. Jade Girl Tintin (200 1) Dummy Mommy without Children (international: English title)

2. Jingzhuang Nanxiong Nandi Hardcover He is my brother (1997) Cao Muyou.

3. Xianggong Huayuegang Nocturne (1995) Xiao Li hong kong nocturne (literally translated English title)

4. Fire thundering (1995)

5. New Nanxiong Nan Di Xin He is my brother (1993)

6. King of Thousand Faces (1992)

7. Shuanglong Club of Shuanglong Club (1992)

8. Banquet of the Giants (199 1)

9. Raiders of Indiana Jones (1990)

10. fierce cloud (1990) bloody battle

1 1. Meng Gui Hu Lijing (1989) The fox returns.

12. Miracle Miracle (1989) Black Dragon, Miracle

13. Xiao xiaojing checked the small police (1989).

14. never to lose II (1988) Jackie Chan's never to lose.

15. Duran Xiong Ying gambling hero (1987) loves gambling by nature.

16. Yuan Zhen-The Legend of Yu Xia and the Legend of Wesley (1986) Dr. Yuan and Cleverly.

17. Never lose (1985) Jackie Chan's police force.

18. Chercher (1984), the final victory.

Life of Martial Arts: Legends of Chu Yuan, Gu Long and Tommy Tam Iron Triangle

Chu Yuan's position in the Chinese-language film industry is obviously not as loud as that of other great directors in the Shaw period, such as Hu Jinquan, Li Hanxiang and Zhang Che in the previous decade. The main reason is probably due to the specific period of his film peak and his personal work style.

Chu Yuan's first film peak was in the era of Cantonese movies, which can be said to be the most important successor of Cantonese movies in 1960s. By the end of 1960s, Cantonese movies had declined. He directed more than 70 works, including The Wind after Poverty, but from the whole history of Cantonese movies, his position is not significant enough. From 1969 to 197 1 to Shao Wuxia. Although he created a new style of martial arts, his achievements were only in the expansion of business routines, and he did not reach the height of art Zen movies in the name of martial arts like Hu Jinquan. Different from Zhang Che, which initiated the masculine school, the male star system has a far-reaching influence on the whole shooting rules of Hong Kong films.

Therefore, the appreciation of Chu Yuan's films, to be exact, is to surprise the most popular schools with the most dexterous and comprehensive film techniques, and to show his unique film aesthetics, such as his early Cantonese films' accusation of Hong Kong reality and sympathy for the lower classes; In the later period, Business Times opened an unprecedented gap in Hong Kong martial arts films with strange themes. If the films of Hu Jinquan and Li Hanxiang are magnificent mountains and rivers, then Chu Yuan's works are like eroded stone forests, with a strange and unusual spectacle beauty. In Chu Yuan's films, there are often images similar to his works, such as Leng Yue in the Sunset, Flowing Bridges and Red Maple and White Catkins. With its unique characteristics, it has innovated a new route of martial arts movies in the history of China movies and extended the life for the development of martial arts movies.

Chu Yuan adapted more than twenty novels of Gu Long, and formed a trinity of Gu Long, Chu Yuan and Tommy Tam on the screen.

According to the time course and types of Chu Yuan's films, it is easy to see two completely different periods. The first period is the realistic drama in Cantonese movies, and the other is the new martial arts movies in Mandarin movies. As for which of the two periods achieved more, it is difficult to draw a conclusion.

Drama: New Realism in Hong Kong

Chu Yuan's famous work should be 1960' s The Wind After Poverty. What's more, this is only his second independent work, which was selected as one of the "Top Ten Hong Kong Film Classics" in Hong Kong on 1999.

Chu Yuan's father is Zhang Huoyou, a Guangdong movie star. He entered the set, not from the bottom step by step like many directors at that time, but directly participated in the film production as a college student. Therefore, his early works are more literary and artistic, paying attention to the literary aesthetics of movies and paying more attention to the practical significance and social theme of movies. Since The Poor Inherit the Wind, the consistent theme of Chu Yuan's films has laid the foundation, that is, people's critical consciousness in society and group society.

In this film, Chu Yuan described a sad story of a warm and peaceful family who was caught in hunger and illness because of his father's unemployment. Chu Yuan attributed this tragedy to social irrationality and magnified it on the screen, which reflected the reality, but it was not completely realistic in technology, thus increasing the appreciation of the film. This theme is also reflected in later works, such as A Rose with Tears, The Silkworm in Spring and The Seventy-two Tenants. Even in the new film "He is My Brother" directed by 1993 Chen Kexin, I pay tribute to the Cantonese films in Chu Yuan with the lines of "I am for everyone, and everyone is for me". At the end of 1960s, Cantonese films gradually fell behind the times, and Chu Yuan's social dramas also gradually reduced production and lost their creative passion. Later, Hong Kong 73, New Cry and Laugh were all failures, while the game commercial films such as Black Rose were very popular, so Chu Yuan began to create commercial films in pure Mandarin, which ushered in another film peak.

The cult: the strange martial arts of the new sect

Chu Yuan's first martial arts film was Long Muchun (1970). Although it is a small experiment, the tortuous plot and smooth and refreshing technique make it completely different from mainstream movies, which makes people sit up and take notice. Later, the film Love Slave shocked the whole film circle at that time, whether it was the theme (adding a rare gay element at that time) or the creation of atmosphere and rhythm (the opening of the film was expressed in black and white movies, and the snow fell from the patio to the corpse, and then the official entered, and the whole paragraph was full of chill and mysterious charm), which was almost unprecedented in the Hong Kong-made movies at that time. This exploration of martial arts themes has made Chu Yuan a martial arts film writer who is in tit-for-tat with Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che.

Later, meteor butterfly sword and Tianya Yueming Dao, with Chu Yuan-style strangeness, strangeness and literary flavor, finally found the most suitable carrier because of Gu Long's novels. Martial arts movies are no longer the old routine that martial arts determine the status of rivers and lakes. "Fighting wisdom" and "fighting spirit" have become the most attractive elements, and strong suspense and unpredictable film techniques have become the magic weapon to win.

For example, the best adaptation of Tianya Yueming Dao, the original is not excellent. Gu Long once said that this was written in the most frustrated period of his life. The tragic fate of the hero Fu Hongxue, his real enemy, is actually his own fate. If you make a movie according to the original, it will be very depressing, or the director can make it quite "artistic", but the appreciation will be greatly reduced. After Chu Yuan's re-creation, Tommy Tam, the leading actor, dressed as a "lone ranger" (cloak) in Sergio Lionel's film, and he became the Eastwood of the East. It is an interesting story for Lionel fans to combine Gu Long, which is well known to martial arts fans. Chu Yuan made a Hong Kong-style fusion of eastern martial arts and western movies, and made a joke that made fans extremely happy. It is said that Gu Long was deeply impressed, but the beautiful but not rampant action design and interlocking suspense plot run through the film. Since then, Chu Yuan has shot more than 20 films adapted from Gu Long's novels in one breath, and Tommy Tam, who will always be the first protagonist of Gu Long's chivalrous man (besides Fu Hongxue, Tommy Tam also played Chu Liuxiang, Little Li Fei Road and Little Shi Lang), has officially become the iron triangle of "Gu Long, Chu Yuan and Dillon". Although some works were later formulated rather than masterpieces, Chu Yuan can definitely be called the chivalrous theme of Gu Long.

Tian Ya, Tao Mingyue) IMDB number: 0075329.

Scoring:

Type: Action/Story

Release year: 1976

Director: Chu Yuan

Screenwriter: Ni Kuang/Gu Long

Other movie aliases: magic blade

Actor: Luo Lie

Gu Feng

Biao Yuen

Wah Yuan ...

Tommy Tam

Length: 86

Country/Region: Hong Kong

Dialogue language: Cantonese

Mixed: mono

Level: Australia: m

Release date: Hong Kong: 1976- 10-07

Introduction:

Fu Hongxue (Tommy Tam), the fastest knife in the world, defeated Yan Nanfei (Luo Lie) and became the first in Wulin. Later, the two were chased by killers. The intervention of a famous prostitute (Ni Tian) set off another storm. Fu Heyan took part in the battle for the peacock feather, the first of the seven wonders in the world. Yan Nanfei was killed, and Fu Hongxue pursued the truth. After some hard struggle, Fu Hongxue tore off the other person's skin mask. ...