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After the "Once Upon a Time" trilogy, there are actually still many movie fans and netizens on the Internet asking under Li Yi's Weibo why there is only a trilogy?
  Why don't you keep shooting.

  Li Yi did not respond to this. Although in his memory, there are still movies of this series in the future, but for some reason, Li Yi just feels that the previous trilogy is coherent and can be regarded as a whole. The style is also the same, but after the fourth film, not only the actors and directors were changed, but even the screenwriters were changed.

  Although compared to other Huang Feihong series, it is still good, but in Li Yi's opinion, it can no longer surpass the previous three.

  Then he naturally has no interest in continuing to film. In fact, the trilogy has already told a relatively complete series of stories.

  However, precisely because Li Yi has no plans to continue filming sequels, this trilogy has become more and more heatedly discussed by more and more people.

  According to film critic Du Xianghai: "Compared with previous versions, the plots, martial arts, and ideologies involved in this series of movies are very broad, and the design is complex and exquisite. Even the emotional scenes are just right, which is amazing. It is certain that from the very beginning, no effort was spared in making this series, and no effort was spared in striving for perfection!
  "Arrogant in the face of thousands of waves, his blood is like the red sun." Under the lens of director Li Yi, Master Huang is elegant, resolute, and graceful. He is never afraid of facing strong enemies and is both wise and brave. Looking at him, you will feel that you are full of courage.

  However, facing a woman named Thirteenth Aunt, the hero couldn't help but feel like a deer. I remember this scene. In the light, Aunt Thirteen took advantage of Huang Feihong's ecstasy to imagine why foreign countries were so advanced, and gently touched his shadow with the shadow of her hand. Feihong turned around and asked, "Everything is good in foreign countries, why are you coming back?" Aunt Thirteen immediately stopped her hands and leaned over shyly, pretending to write something, and said, "There are things here that are not available abroad."

  Huang Feihong: "What doesn't happen in foreign countries?"

  Aunt Thirteen turned to look at him, her eagerness to express her love suddenly appeared in the corners of her eyes: "Human."

  This sentence caused Huang Feihong to take a breath and immediately turned back to look at the wall. He saw the shadow of Thirteenth Aunt approaching, as if she was about to kiss him from behind. He immediately turned around in a panic, only to find that she was trying to measure his clothes. I couldn't help but smile when I saw this. Huang Feihong, you are also in a dilemma, and you are so excited!
  This kind of Huang Feihong is no longer the perfect hero. He also has areas where he is not good at, and he also has weaknesses. He is not the kind of meticulous, symbolic grandmaster, but an extremely unique, three-dimensional person with flesh and blood. The great master of the generation.

  When he faces emotions, he will also show the kind of anxiety that is consistent with his age.

  We have always talked about being down-to-earth. The aloof characters in the early years, the heroes who were invincible as soon as they appeared on the scene, were obviously not down-to-earth.

  As for Huang Feihong in front of him, it is obvious that he is very down-to-earth.

  I believe many people will be shocked when they see that scene. How could a great master be so naughty?
  But who stipulates that a great master must be meticulous and serious?
  Closer to home.

  Shadow play is present in every film in the "Once Upon a Time" series. Every time it appears, it can be said that it brings a reserved romance that makes people hesitate to speak.

  Every time the shadow play appears, people can't help but smile.

  But in the trilogy, every heart-warming and heart-pounding emotional scene is very short-lived. After the short-lived warmth in the first part, the camera turns and Huang Feihong opens the fan in his hand. The fan lies between him and Shi. Between the three aunts, "unequal treaty" was clearly written on it.

  The movie uses a fan to remind the audience that Huang Feihong's sense of honor and disgrace in his family and country prevented him from completely relaxing and accepting the love affair of his children. Seeing mountains and rivers turbulent in the wind and rain, foreign aggression and the incompetence of the court, and the woman next to him wearing foreign clothes and playing with foreign gadgets always touched his heart of concern for the country.

  Aunt Thirteen feels that Western things must be learned, "otherwise everyone will know it and we won't." Cameras, railways, and steam engines will inevitably come sooner or later, so she actively and even obsessively touches "foreign things." This is her way of being patriotic and a reflection of her innocence. She saw that advanced foreign culture could make the country progress, but she did not realize that these "foreign gadgets" entered the country along with foreign guns and opium. But this other side was what Huang Feihong saw. His resistance finally broke out when Aunt Thirteen was taking pictures and the word "no" on the fan was burned away by fire.

  This is the most powerful anger I have ever seen Huang Feihong get angry with. This is stronger than his reaction when provoked or persecuted. If Thirteenth Aunt's status as an elder is the reason why he respects, protects and avoids her, then her Westernization of thoughts and love for Western things are the sorrow that Feihong can't bear to express. He loves her, but he has to shoulder the burden of righteousness and worry on the other. It is really "a dilemma of deep love and fraternity." Aunt Thirteen is an innocent and tender woman. When tenderness is poured into such a resolute and reserved hero, she is doomed to be helpless. However, her cuteness is also reflected in her persistent pursuit of this relationship.

  There are many characters in this play, such as Liang Kuan who first arrived in the provincial capital, several of Feihong's apprentices, the theater owner and the Shahe Gang. What I want to talk about the most is Yan Zhendong in Tiebushan.

  This is a martial artist who is determined to fight for fame and wealth, but he also wants to excuse himself. He said that he could do chivalrous things once he gained a foothold, which was clearly an excuse. In terms of kung fu, he is already strong enough. After many competitions, I believe he himself understands this. However, his personality makes him not allow anyone to get better than him. So I continued to fight all the way, and I think the director was partial to this role. He was really "angry about the character and sad about the misfortune". Master Yan is a man who fights for fame and fortune. At first glance, he seems to have no big fault, but the movie tells us that he will abandon his dignity for fame and fortune. When he arrived on a foreigner's ship and became the master of the Shahe Gang, he was actually a hawk that aided the evil deeds. In addition, his iron cloth shirt kung fu is the representative of fierceness in martial arts. Such good kung fu was killed by foreign guns; "Huang Feihong, no matter how good our kung fu is, we can't compete with foreign guns." This line of his, accompanied by Feihong's angry and sad eyes, impacted my hearing and vision, shocking me. my mind. The first part has ended, and I was looking forward to the second part at first, because I always felt that the first part was a bit over the top, and did not break away from the barriers of traditional martial arts movies. It was still about love, resentment, and hatred.

  In the end, director Li Yi did not disappoint. Compared with the first part, the second part is more exciting in my opinion.

  As I have seen, almost every main character in "Once Upon a Time: Men Should Be Strong" has feelings in their hearts, and they vividly interpret friendship, love, and patriotism in troubled times.

  In the singing of the blind musical instrument, the officers and soldiers shooting everywhere, the crazy White Lotus cultists, the numb people who lighted ingot candles and gambled money, made the whole country full of smoke and devastation. Feihong stood on the high platform and looked around, seeing almost no hope or future. All he could do at this moment was walk up to the person he loved most and teach her self-defense. The shadow plot reappears at this time, and it is light and interesting. Aunt Thirteen faced Feihong and her Kung Fu POSE on the wall, and actually imagined the two of them dancing to Mozart's waltz. It was really a waste of Feihong's good intentions. However, who can blame her for such a cute idea, just like no one can blame her for arranging a breathable window for the audience in the dense air.

  Let’s talk about the scene where Master Huang and Mr. Lu broke into the main altar of the White Lotus Sect and looked up to the sky: amidst mountains of swords and seas of fire, Feihong Yingying was full of vitality and aura. When the White Lotus cultists pretended to accept him as a disciple and attacked with a knife, he kicked the kitchen knife away and knocked down three White Lotus cultists before the knife hit the ground. With another kick, the knife was firmly nailed to the flag that read "White Lotus". In the confrontation with the White Lotus cultists who rushed forward like a tide and were desperate for life and death, Feihong always remained calm in the face of danger. In the end, he actually used the method of "true god possession" to force Jiugong to reveal his true form in front of everyone. The two "gods" fought fiercely at "Chaotianmen". Jiugong's foolishness, cunning, and ruthlessness are in sharp contrast to Feihong's wisdom, courage, and righteousness. A dazzling array of admirations.

  At the same time, Lu Haodong also sets off Huang Feihong. His wandering eyes and surprised expression contrasted with Feihong's majesty. However, who can say that Lu Haodong, a sober pioneer of Chinese literati, is not a patriotic hero with the world at heart? ! He wanted to save the country, leave his children, and leave behind the hope of China. He faced the hopeless countrymen who had lost their will and shouted loudly. I saw his heart bleeding. Ruthless bullets hit his chest, and he resolutely stood up to block more bullets for Feihong. He tore into the roster with his teeth, regardless of the blood on the ground. When I saw him fall beside the fire where the roster was burning, and die heroically in the end, my eyes were blurred with tears, and I felt sad and regretful.

  Nalan Yuanshu is another heart-wrenching character. He also has good martial arts and is patriotic. It's a pity that his method is to maintain a crumbling court and protect a blind and ignorant mob. He couldn't see the road, so he walked farther and farther in the dark night. At the end of his life, he still wanted to kill another group of people who wanted to save the country. It was his competitive spirit that failed him, and it was his conscience that was destroyed in this troubled world.

  Compared with him, Huang Feihong was lucky because Huang was among the people. If Feihong were a member of the imperial court, he would not go astray, but he would suffer more than Nalan Yuanshu, because not only would he be unable to save the country, but his conscience would burn him. Therefore, the character of Nalan Yuanshu can be summed up as "angry at his injustice and sad at his unclearness".

  The impression that Huang Feihong left on me throughout the whole play was that of a frowning, even worried person. This also reflects his worries. Such a responsible and rich movie, with wonderful fights and implicit love added to it, how could the audience not like it!
  In the third film "The Lion King", Eastern charm and Western technology collide fiercely again. The steam engine, the darling of the Western Industrial Revolution, was moved to a pharmaceutical factory in the capital, and it was Huang Feihong's father Huang Qiying who opened this pharmaceutical factory. Some people say that the third part shows too many fighting scenes, and I think so too. But there is a profound meaning in doing so: Li Yi showed a complex and chaotic social ecology of the late Qing Dynasty in the third part. The arrogant and incompetent imperial court, the foreigners who look down on them, the Guangdong Guild Hall that combines the East and the West, and the martial arts masters who are eager to win and do whatever they can to win. Huang Feihong was sometimes pushed to the front and sometimes pushed to the middle in this crowd. Director Li Yi's great love for Huang Feihong did not let him sink to the bottom.

  In the complicated social environment, Huang Feihong didn't want to fight but had no choice but to do so.

  I don't know when it started, but even online novels began to popularize the "house", "goo", and "privacy" ethos. However, because of this, in troubled times, in addition to affirming Huang Feihong's noble integrity, he also criticized some people's Dirty and shallow.

  This mutual strife and attack is precisely the shortcomings of the people they want to expose. I admit that the third part was a bit more ambitious, but I am still grateful for this exciting third part. Especially at the end, Huang Feihong's ambition is promoted to the extreme. Those martial arts masters who were like "vindictive little naughty boys" were lying in a mess after fighting with each other. Huang Feihong stepped forward and stated forcefully that "expanding people's wisdom and integrating wisdom and martial arts" is the way out. In this scene, I seem to see the director's passionate creative feelings behind the scenes!

  The emotional scenes in this film are also shot in the same vein, which can be said to be very cute. At the beginning, Huang Feihong discovers his "foreign love rival" and his love is turned upside down; he walks back from the Meridian Gate to the Guangdong Guild Hall to drink tea without taking the love rival's carriage; he wants to propose marriage to his father, but is distracted by the dancer's thirteenth aunt He blushed and drank the medicine in his hand with a heartbeat; he was kissed by the "steam engine" and his face was as hot as fire; he kicked the chandelier off the eaves and "splashed it with vinegar". Shadow, pay attention to the shadow again, he wouldn't let Aunt Thirteen touch him; Carrying Aunt Thirteen, she proudly floated past her love rival. Even at my age, this is still the strongest version I have ever seen. Haha.
  These short passages that are so short that people can’t get enough of them show the lovely aspects of the love between the two. More expressions of Huang Feihong's love for Thirteenth Aunt have been added, and they are still to the point, without being tortuous in etiquette. This is a very Chinese and very touching love of that era.

  It can be said that there are very few martial arts movies, no, or very few non-love-themed movies, that can make love such a finishing touch, adding color to the movie, but not at all objectionable. Director Gou Good for you! No wonder he can hold a beautiful woman in his arms.

  Because of this, after the release of the Once Upon a Time trilogy, the role of Thirteenth Aunt is no less popular than our great master Huang Feihong. After all, who doesn’t want to have such a confidante?
  At the same time, Aunt Thirteen can be said to have truly played the role of a "good wife", "dream lover", and "who can go out of the hall and into the kitchen". This can be said to be a role that has been favored to the extreme by the director, but this time, he really He brought this character to life.

  In addition, Xiong Jun's performance as Guijiaoqi was excellent. It is difficult for us to imagine that Xiong Jun was just a military substitute before this.

  He is not only great at kung fu! In particular, the relationship between Gui Jiaoqi and Huang Feihong, who first became enemies and then reconciled and became master and disciple, was very touching. There were very few lines in that scene, which was due to the excellent body language of the two actors. Gui Jia Qi collapsed in Baozhilin after his legs were broken. Huang Feihong wanted to save him, but he would rather lie down and go out in the heavy rain than go out. Huang chased him out and was punched hard by him, but he still held on to him. He was beaten again and still didn't let go. Just like that, this man who was as fierce as a tiger hugged Huang Feihong and burst into tears! This scene brings tears to my eyes every time I see it. This is what justice means, and this is how you convince others with virtue!
  Usually this kind of plot often makes people feel aggrieved and "Madonna", but in this movie, it is not offensive, but makes people's eyes moist, and people can truly feel that true virtue is Convincing people, this is what a true master should be like!
  How can people dislike Huang Feihong like this?

  How can one not like watching such a movie?

  So, Director Dog, after writing so much, how about a sequel? "

  (End of this chapter)