Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian never imagined that people like Hathaway would associate Batman with any religion!He really never thought of shooting religious metaphors before!Really no!He is a Chinese. He has never believed in Buddhism or Taoism since he was a child. No one in his family believes in Christianity. Where did he go to believe in these things?Not to mention believing in these things, he hasn't even read the Bible, where can he go to understand Western religious knowledge?He really didn't think of any messianic plot before, what he thought of was actually Guo Jing!That's right, what he actually thought of was the phrase "the great chivalrous man serves the country and the people", and what he actually thought of was to show the spirit of "Xia" in a kind of Chinese literature on martial arts, which is unique to China. And the deliberately arranged Batman plot!

What is the core of Xia?It's for Nolan...ah no, it's for the promise, regardless of life and death, to fulfill it!When it comes to Guo Jing and the others, they sacrifice their lives for righteousness, for the country, and for the nation!It is about a fearless spirit of dedication!Such a thing is easy to see in martial arts, but rarely seen in foreign movies, especially superhero movies.So what Jia Hongjian wanted to do was to show Batman's struggle to protect the citizens and the city through all kinds of hardships and oppression for a protagonist like Batman.Isn't this spirit touching?It must be touching, so he wants to make a Chinese-style martial arts film that is actually a Western superhero film!

In such a Batman film, the Western background and various modern technologies are actually removed, and then placed in ancient times. Isn’t that a touching ancient costume martial arts film?For example, such an environment can be placed in ancient China, where a certain knight came out every day incognito to fight for justice.Then when the bandits invaded, the bandits cleverly led the crowd.Let the masses mistakenly think that the knights are actually bad guys, but the knights still fight against bandits in order to protect the masses... Isn’t this actually a martial arts movie?And it seems that the woman the protagonist likes ran away with someone... Isn't there one in "Swordsman"?Wasn't Linghu Chong's junior sister seduced by Lin Pingzhi?These things are all in our Chinese martial arts novels, but Jia Hongjian put them together, and then approved a Western and various high-tech skins!

Of course, this does not mean plagiarism or borrowing.This method of changing the skin is also a very technical test, and it is also very high-tech!It is not easy to change the skin successfully!Why do you say that?Because of Mr. Jin Yong, "Swordsman" actually used foreign stories for skins!Did anyone see it?What has changed in "Swordsman"?Instead of "Romeo and Zhu Yingtai"... Ah no, the skin of "Romeo and Juliet"!Most people are absolutely surprised when they hear this, what? "Swordsman" and "Romeo and Juliet"?Which of these two are not next to each other?wrong!In fact, it was quite close!

Romeo and Juliet, what is this Shakespeare play about?Jia Hongjian had read such an original work, in fact, to put it bluntly, it was two young people from rival families who fell in love, but neither family could accept it.In the end, the two people met and committed suicide.And "Swordsman"?In this novel, Zheng Zheng and the Sun Moon God Sect are hostile to each other?Is Linghu Chong equivalent to Romeo in Decent, and is Ren Yingying equivalent to Juliet in Sun Moon Sect?After these two people met, they fell in love with each other inexplicably. Of course, the orthodox people can't tolerate Linghu Chong liking Ren Yingying, and the Sun Moon God Sect can't accept Ren Yingying and Linghu Chong. together!

Is this the same beginning and development?In the end, Jin Yong made a slight modification, adding the roles of villains to both "families".After getting rid of the bad guys on both sides, these two people can be together!Together at last.This is the end!So in fact, "Swordsman" puts the love story of Romeo and Juliet in an unobvious ancient Chinese background, and then expands a lot of material to make it a martial arts theme of fighting and killing. , joined a lot of other characters and grievances, and finally this is not it?Originally, Jia Hongjian was watching "Romeo and Juliet".Then I wonder why this pair of dogs and men fell in love so quickly, and they were so close to death that they couldn’t be separated—because this is a script itself, so there is actually a limited time to act it into a drama, not two or three. It is necessary to get to know each other and love each other behind the scenes, which of course develops rapidly like a one-night stand.But it passed Jin Yong's move of lengthening and expanding writing.Then let the whole love story develop more slowly and with more details, and it will look more real!But speaking of which, aren't the two original skeleton stories similar?

From such a perspective, Jia Hongjian was able to replace a Chinese-style martial arts story with Western skins, embellished it with various high-tech, and then matched it with the current political and economic situation in the United States. The subprime mortgage crisis, it seems simple, but it is really very difficult to tell the story well and shoot it well!As for him, Jia Hongjian, he was finished!This is where it gets awesome!He knew that such a thing he shot was awesome, but he really didn't expect that Hathaway and others could make him think so awesome!He never dreamed that anyone would think that the film he made had some strong religious metaphors or messianic plots... He doesn't even know what a Messiah is, okay?

On the other hand, in Hathaway's eyes, such a film made by Jia Hongjian is really of Western origin!It is really a subject matter found in the most popular religion in the West. This is really too western and too western. It doesn’t seem like a Chinese can shoot it. It’s like a person who has stayed in the West for many, many years, even What was shot by a Western master who grew up in the West!It can be said that in Hathaway's eyes, now Jia Hongjian is simply the master of masters!Why does she give such a high glance?Just because Jia Hongjian seems to have made some religious metaphors?No!This is also related to the messianic plot for Hathaway and the Americans!

The messianic plot of the Americans is not about how they worship heroes or their personal heroism, but about a kind of thought that the United States has brought to them in such a short history of several hundred years!After the Americans came to such a new world and new continent to develop the environment, it was not so bad. Soon such a country became the number one in the world. In World War I and World War II, it can be said that We won because of America!All of a sudden, Americans feel that they are the chosen people, the so-called Messiah!They suddenly thought—oh, why did the two world wars make other awesome countries into a mess and collapse, but our United States is so awesome?Most people think that this is because the geographical environment of the United States is good, so Americans will wonder why their geographical environment is good?This must be the result of God choosing them!Just because they are the Messiah photographed by God to save mankind, they have the best environment!That's why they want to be the first, so they are the boss!

Then after the end of the Cold War, "value promotion" has always served as a pioneer for the United States to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. "Human rights concern" and "pursuit of democracy" have become the most common reasons for the United States to make irresponsible remarks about other countries.Americans often attribute this motivation to a "Messiah complex."The so-called "Messiah complex" here means that Christian missionaries firmly believe that their beliefs and values ​​have universal significance, so they have a strong desire to spread them.Therefore, "Messiah complex" has been paraphrased as "missionary complex".It should be admitted that many missionaries do have religious feelings of compassion.Regardless of the objective effect of his practice of "doing to others what you want", at least subjectively, it has an idealistic color of "benefiting me and others" and "filling the world with love".

According to Li Ao’s description of the Messiah, it’s like this—they have a very long-standing concept that has a long history, and that concept is called the Messiah concept.What is Messiah?It is in the traditional history of the Jews that their nation has suffered a lot of sorrows, so they believe that after many years, on a certain day in a certain year, a savior will appear in their nation and their country , A prophet will appear to lead them out of the predicament.So the Messianic spirit, in other words, is almost fatalistic and predestined to believe that in our nation, after many years, a prophet, a forerunner, will appear to lead us out of our predicament. If it is explained in this way, it is called the Messiah.

In our China, in Chinese thinking, there is also this similar messianic spirit, but at that time he set it very strangely. He positioned it as 500 years, that is, a saint in the front, a saint in the back, and a prophet in the front , and the latter prophet, the gap between them is about 500 years.In Mencius in China, in the book of Mencius, this 500-year statement appeared twice. Look at Gongsun Chou in "Mencius". Did you see it in the chapter of Gongsun Chou? Did Mencius see it when he left Qi? , Then people suspected that his expression was not very happy, and then asked him that a gentleman does not complain about others, and he does not like others, this is what Mencius said.He said that I am not unhappy, a gentleman does not complain about the sky and does not favor others, at one time and another, in 500 years there must be a king.

Do you see it?In Gongsun Chouzhang, Mencius talked about the emergence of such Messianic characters every 500 years. Mencius not only talked about it once, but also talked about it again. Please read "Mencius". It is also mentioned in the Jinxin chapter that from Yao to Tang, from Yao and Shun to Shang Tang, it is more than five hundred years old, have you seen it?Then from Shang Tang to King Wen, it was more than five hundred years old, did you see that?Then from King Wen of Zhou to Confucius, they were more than five hundred years old, and Mencius talked for 500 years.In other words, he clearly told us that the Chinese Messiah, after 500 years as a unit, there will be saints, kings, and prophets.

But this kind of thing, Jia Hongjian really didn't expect it before, who knew that at such a time, it would be so far-fetched! (To be continued..)