Exclusive film review： The Sword of the Third Young Master, a slightly melodramatic Jianghu.

Poster of "The Sword of the Third Young Master"

Special feature of 1905 film network　From the most essential level, it actually describes the process from the birth of the hero’s third young master to his re-birth. However, the first birth is the practice of the body, not the inner self-redemption. The forced re-entry into the WTO is an atonement for one’s crimes and past, and thanks to the assistance and money of Yan Shisan, he was finally born from the inside out. Looking at Tung shing Yee’s new version of The Sword of the Third Young Master from this line of thinking, the logic of the story will be clearer, and the mentality of Xie Xiaofeng, played by Kenny Lin, and the entangled relationship between the characters will be more clearly seen.

　

Is it rivers and lakes’ enmity or children’s resentment?

In Gu Long’s martial arts world, love and chivalrous hatred have always been the focus of his construction. As far as the new edition of The Sword of the Third Young Master is concerned, the reliance of chivalry lies with the Third Young Master and Yan Shisan. Yan Shisan appeared at the beginning of the film, and a fast and fierce fighting scene laid a good foundation for the whole film in terms of technology and vision. This opening is simple and effective, which not only makes Yan Shisan appear as a ghostly image, but also lays out the visual style of The Sword of the Third Young Master, a kind of "virtual reality" under the mixed presentation of real action design and digital technology.

Snowy night, white cloak and bamboo hat are the opening moments of martial arts aesthetics in the film.

In some interviews, Tung shing Yee said that he wanted to restore Shaw’s visual style, so he made a retro imitation at the visual level such as setting scenery. But in fact, the visual characteristics of the old version of The Sword of the Third Young Master are largely due to the constraints of technology and funds, which is a style forced by the situation. But when it comes to the new version of The Sword of the Third Young Master, this combination of pursuing the lost times and being keen on new technology is a bit neither fish nor fowl. For example, the three-dimensional presentation of high-definition images can easily reveal the details of various scenes, but a large number of late special effects in The Sword of the Third Young Master can only be seen from a distance, and some salutary mid-close scenes are also full of gorgeous artificial flowers. Indeed, the technological age has created quite a lot of visual possibilities for the creation of martial arts films, but the act of creating wonders with fake scenes like this film is really not worthy of admiration.

The shed shooting scene on the Weibo in Tung shing Yee

This kind of thinking is accompanied by Yan Shisan’s appearance and the first part of the film, the encounter and transaction between Yan Shisan and Murong Qiudi, the provocation of going to Excalibur Villa, etc. Most of the scenes look beautiful and elegant, but they can’t stand any careful scrutiny. Of course, the visual age pursues the first surprise, but since Tsui Hark is the producer, can we carve more details? However, thanks to Tsui Hark’s help, The Sword of the Third Young Master has done a good job in three-dimensional vision, and the interaction between the three-dimensional performance of some dynamic pictures and the audience does have a strong sense of reality.

Beautiful and elegant Yan Shisan boating across the lake.

During this period before the appearance of the Third Young Master, the film is mainly about Yan Shisan and Murong Qiudi. The former is obsessed with finding the Third Young Master and wants to prove his first and unbeaten, while the latter is also looking for the Third Young Master and wants to fulfill his wronged feelings. At the same time, it brought out the sinister and disputes of the whole Jianghu through Excalibur Villa. It can be seen that these preparations are all about personal desires, and the key point to solve the problem lies in the third young master played by Kenny Lin.

The third young master incarnates dull Aji.

Kenny Lin’s appearance is not amazing, but he is really connected with the third young master written by Gu Long. After all, the third young master pursues chivalry more than domineering self-respect. Therefore, the second part of the film is burying suspense for the audience. The third young master became Aji, a "nobody" figure who lost his identity and past. But for the audience, they can probably guess that he is the third young master who has died in his father’s mouth.

Aji’s down-and-out appearance

At this time of the third young master, obviously want to be born. That’s why he hid his identity, cleaned in brothels, picked dung for farmers, and so on, trying to escape from the past that he didn’t know enough. At this time, Tung shing Yee used some brief flashbacks to reveal the suspense for the audience step by step. At the same time, it is also building the emotional connection between the third young master and the prostitute Xiaoli. But this is also the problem of shaping Aji in the film. Deliberate identity concealment is understandable, but there is no need to portray Aji as a dull person. Since the birth of the Third Young Master at this time is an active choice of the self, there should be some meticulous inner drama to express its inner contradictions and conflicts in a three-dimensional way, so as to truly show the growth of the role of the Third Young Master completely.

Facing Xiaoli, the third young master has a new emotional sustenance at the bottom of society.

When the rivers and lakes became aware of the whereabouts of the third young master, his own idea of being born naturally wouldn’t work. This is a typical "tree wants to be quiet but the wind will not stop". The film also leads to a philosophical question, individual and rivers and lakes. When the rivers and lakes are restless and the heart is unknown, the hidden birth is only a temporary escape, not the highest realm of chivalry.

　

The ending is finally wonderful.

Therefore, when all passers-by came to hunt down the third young master and hurt the innocent, the third young master had to join the WTO again. At this time, the film began to reveal a lot of suspense for the audience. For example, the third young master’s demons, his entanglement with Murong Qiudi, and his sympathy with Yan Shisan’s heroes and so on. It can be said that this paragraph is the most wonderful part of The Third Young Master’s Sword. There are wonderful fights, the tension of group play, and the adhesion of human nature … … Murong Qiudi became a crazy woman, and Zhu Yeqing became a sad character captured by demons.

The third young master returned to Excalibur Mountain Villa to fight against the Buddha.

Visible Tung shing Yee will be the ultimate weapon in the last part, very plot tension. The characters die or are reborn one by one, and when the third young master personally ends these chaos, the trend of the story becomes more romantic. At the top of the mountain, the Third Young Master and Yan Shisan frankly faced their true selves and staged a heroic battle with artistic conception for the audience. Yan Shisan was born completely by death, and the third young master was able to jump out of all the chains attached to himself, and was born completely, and finally really completed the growth of the main characters in the film.

The ultimate duel between the two in Baihua Forest

On the whole, there is nothing wrong with the structure and thinking of the play "The Sword of the Third Young Master", but the failure of the film is all in the details. The performances of some actors are really embarrassing, and Zhu Yeqing, although expensive as a deity, has become the biggest joke in the film. Too modern and Qiong Yao’s lines have greatly damaged the texture of Gu Long’s martial arts world, and the lack of description of the Jianghu atmosphere in Gu Long’s films has made the pattern of the films quite small. Although Tsui Hark can help the film visually, he still can’t make the film go better on the road of "martial arts movies".