Chapter 108: Philosophy in the Aesthetics of Violence
The beginning of a movie has always been important for a movie, and this is the case with the movie "Dragon and Tiger Fighting", where the brief fight between Bruce Lee and Hong Sanmao at the beginning has already attracted the audience from the beginning.
Soon, the movie reached the classic discussion of the highest level of martial arts between the protagonist Bruce Lee and his master, accompanied by a deep discussion about the philosophy of martial arts between the two.
Schneider looked at the subtitles, although the English subtitle translation was probably due to the fact that there were too many new martial arts words, so the translation was nondescript, but his intuition told him that the movie was very compelled and the lines were very profound.
"Your martial arts have gone beyond the tangible realm and entered the realm of transformation. In the future, I hope that you will be consistent in body and mind and perform to the highest level. You answer me immediately, what is the highest level of martial arts?" On the curtain, a Shaolin master with a highly respected appearance asked his apprentice Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee replied respectfully: "Hide the skill invisible." ”
"Also, how do you feel when you're facing an enemy?"
"I have no enemies in my eyes. ”
"What does that mean?"
"I just said an abstract concept and didn't mean anything else. ”
"Okay, you go on. ”
"I think fighting is just a game, but I want to play it very seriously. As a good martial artist, you should not be limited to the form, but should melt the martial arts and send and receive them freely. When the other person shrinks, I immediately stretch out. When the other party is stretching, I should be careful and vigilant everywhere. This is to retreat as advance, and advance as retreat. When I'm absolutely in the right place, I don't need to think about it, I can naturally knock the other person down. ”
Bruce Lee said this sentence, which made Schneider shine, and his intuition told him that this word with a philosophical concept would have very good news discoveries in it, and the pen in his hand quickly swiped on the notebook, and this sentence was quickly recorded by Schneider.
Master Shaolin continued: "Yes, the so-called enemy is nothing but a phantom, and the real enemy is hiding behind it, if you can destroy the phantom, you can destroy the enemy's true body. What you call it is nothing more than a weapon that is often abused by martial arts practitioners who have broken their oaths. For hundreds of years, even under the influence of the invention of guns, the precepts of our Shaolin Temple have never changed. What is the thirteenth precept of the Shaolin Temple?"
Bruce Lee replied in a positive voice: "Of course, the apprentice remembers that as a traditional and righteous martial artist, he should be absolutely responsible for his words and deeds. ”
Since then, the contradictions of the film have begun to slowly unveil......
After the movie slowly entered the story, Schneider watched the movie carefully, and at the same time used the spare time to write in his notebook: "The oriental-style free fighting movements shown in the movie are fascinating at first glance, and the violent aesthetics have texture, which will not make people feel boring, which is really a rare screening." In particular, the unique philosophical language about the myriad of philosophical languages in it is also unforgettable, it is hard to imagine that a film full of oriental violent action aesthetics can have such a profound philosophical charm, from the beginning of watching the movie, I felt that this would be a cross-era movie......"
Writing down this paragraph in his notebook, Schneider continued to look up at the movie, as for this comment, it was only a first draft, and it needed to be cut and sorted out when he went back. The content of the film review is nothing more than an exaggeration of the quality of the movie, and if it were not for those expensive public relations expenses, although he had a good impression of the beginning of the movie, he would not have given such a good praise, after all, this would have been published in his own newspaper.
Not only Schneider, but other reporters and film critics who were paid for were also shocked by the beginning of the movie, because the lines in the movie were too philosophical.
After all, they who are not familiar with Chinese culture may understand the connotation of Chinese kung fu movies because they can't understand traditional Chinese culture. However, language is a very subtle thing, and even if you can't understand a nondescript sentence that is translated, you can feel a certain connotation and charm from it.
However, "Enter the Dragon", under the body movements, combined with the philosophical thinking in the language, conveys a charm philosophy combined with individual heroism, which is very thought-provoking.
Of course, reporters and film critics are looking at the connotation of the movie, and the audience naturally sees the oriental violent action aesthetics in the movie.
Because the movies are shown in the open air, there are many people walking around the streets after the various viewing spots. They all choose to choose their favorite movies after the screenings at each screening point, take advantage of the opportunity to watch the curtain behind the viewing point, and then buy tickets halfway through and enter the theater to watch the movie.
This is also the reason why the West Berlin International Film Festival was able to attract many low-income German audiences to watch movies in the early days, because they completely handed over the choice to the audience, and used this people-friendly model to make the audience buy cheap movie tickets without regrets after seeing their favorite movies.
This approach is completely different from those in later generations who used all kinds of publicity and hype, bluntly talked about blockbusters, and then induced the audience to buy tickets and go to the cinema to watch them, only to find that this was a movie that was completely shit, which can be said to pollute their eyeballs and couldn't refund the tickets.
As the movie had more and more fight scenes and became more and more eye-catching, ten minutes into the movie, Walter found that the audience buying tickets in the middle of the front row was also increasing.
From one or two people, seated, to three or five...... There were nearly 400 seats in the venue, from less than 100 people, to nearly half of them, and by about half of the movie, more than half of the seats in the front row had been completely filled......
As for the effect, when Walter saw the stunned expression of the ticket seller who was bored at the beginning and sat lazily at the entrance of the screening point, after watching more and more people enter the movie to watch the movie, he knew that this situation was rare today.
However, even after the movie was halfway through, no one entered the theater again, but there was a queue of people outside the screening point, and they didn't leave, so they stayed outside the screening point in a very orderly manner, looking forward to the screen of the movie playing in the distance, which is very puzzling.
Since you want to watch a movie so much, wouldn't it be nice to pay directly and go to the screening point to watch the movie?
It wasn't until Mike, who had experience with the experience, explained to everyone with a smile that the low-income German audience was going to wait until the next round of screenings after this round of screenings to see them, that Walter understood their intentions.
After all, spending the money of a movie ticket and watching the end of a movie is obviously not a choice for these Germans now, at least until the reunification of Germany and the German economy returns to the top of Europe again.
Of course, those audiences who are densely packed and waiting for the end of this round of movies let Walter know that this film festival, although "Enter the Dragon" came through the back door and had few days of screening, at least in terms of reputation and results, it has been stable......
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