Shaw Brothers Movies? Li Han-cheung 03｜The Sisterhood of the Sinnerman

Lee's version of The Sisterhood of the Sinnerman (1960) is only 79 minutes long and is considered a minor work, but with its classical and elegant style and poetic atmosphere, it is a work of unique taste among Lee's works. Starring Zhao Lei, Lottie and Yang Zhiqing, as well as Tang Ruoqing as Lou Lou, all of them were top-notch actors at the time. The soundtrack is excellent (produced by the famous composer Yao Min), and the costumes and lighting are all exquisite. Although there are not many scenes, there are high platforms, broken houses, a qin pavilion in Lianhu Lake, a Mid-Yuan Festival folklore, and a Wenhan Pavilion selling paintings and calligraphy, all of which have their own flavors. It is clearly explained that the story takes place in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Ning Caichen (Zhao Lei), who describes himself as a scholar who "survives in a chaotic world," is also attracted to beauty, but his integrity is not compromised. Yan Chixia (Yang Zhiqing) dances with his sword and sings, "But I only see the moon hanging over the pine tops, and the air is clear and the sky is clear, and I am aroused, and my feelings of being outside of the world are added to my boldness. Holding the sword in the hand, the earth shakes, foxes and ghosts are all scared", Ning Caichen praised "the chaos of the enemy's fear, the sword like a swimming dragon, can be driven away from the captives in order to pacify the Central Plains". Yan Chek Ha said, "The Xiangjiang River is full of tears, and the Shu Kingdom is full of strings", so he had to persuade him to drink. This is not Pu Songling, is clearly the literati Li Hanxiang feel the time and worry about the country's intentions. The so-called ghosts and monsters, in fact, Ning, Yan's conversation said: the country will die, there will be demons.

Xiaoqian (Lottie) was a government lady, dignified and elegant, stroking the zither and singing "late at night, the sky is like water, leaning on the railing, the breeze secretly sends the fragrance, jealous of the white lotus flower bottom play mandarin ducks. Vermilion Paintings Pavilion year after year, melancholy flowers change, in the middle of the sky and the moon and reunion, like a smile single fur lonely pillow difficult to sleep", Ning Caichen to fill in the lyrics of the two words do not fit the oblique, the two by is bonded. This is not Xiaoqian intentionally sell a crack to lure people on the hook, it is not known. Ning Caichen's painting is inscribed with a poem, "Ten miles of flat lake is full of green sky, the jade hairpin secretly cherishes Chinese years. If you teach the rain cover long can protect each other, only envious of mandarin ducks not envious of immortal." The Jade Hairpin is not a hairpin, nor is it a jade hairpin flower, but a white lotus flower, from a Song poem. In this way, Tsui Hark's version of this love poem has changed a few words, changing the jade hairpin to a green silk, which is really a very poor change.

Lee Han-cheung's filming is quite original (omitting the part in the second half of Nie Xiaoqian where Xiaoqian goes home with Ning Caichen), and the discretionary additions and changes are also very good. Only he is not good at filming fights, although the then unknown Hu Jinquan to help direct, the final fight is still too easy to write. "Ten miles of green lake full of sky" repeatedly used too much, this is Li Hanxiang shoot Huangmei tune movie fall problem. The movie is a great example of this.

The audience is familiar with the story of the "Sinister Spirit", only the film version has been made in three versions. The most recent version was made in 2011, and the word of mouth is not good. 1987 Tsui Hark supervised, Cheng Xiaodong director of the "Sinister Spirit" has long been a classic, and Li Hanxiang version of the comparison, due to the age of the filming of the far away, there is no need to distinguish between the high and low, but it must be known that Tsui Hark's version is not a high and mighty.

Tsui Hark's version of the new wave of power, female ghosts seduced by the living, Yan Chixia singing sighs of the world, all wild and not decadent. The special effects are no longer eye-catching, but the love between ghosts and humans is still real. The love of Ning Choi San (Leslie Cheung), the love of Nie Xiaoqian (Joey Wong), and the wildness and sincerity of Yan Chixia (Wu Ma) are all examples of classic Hong Kong movie roles. However, as a product of the golden age of Hong Kong movies, it is naturally tainted with the characteristics of "overdone" movies of the era. For example, before Ning Choi San went to Lan York Tze, the locals whispered to each other, and when Ning Choi San turned around, the people stopped talking, which is like the game of "Wooden Man", but it is nonsensical when it is repeated again and again. Ning Caichen's attempts to persuade people to fight in the name of love are also nonsensical. The setting of the ghost world, what "people do not see ghosts, ghosts do not see people" of the yin and yang division, Xiaoqian holding the magic sword to give the old demon of Montenegro a fatal blow, but only left himself a burn, the relationship between the urn and the ghosts, are not easy to look into. Journey to the West" and "Liaozhai" worldview settings were not the same, the 87 version of the "Sinister Spirit" will be a hodgepodge, naturally not clear, and Yan Chixia inherited the 1960 version of the "Taoist priests" this setting, and according to the "Legend of the White Snake", Zhong Kui and other legends to develop its image, which is even more heterogeneous. Therefore, the "fighting" scene, although more than lively, can hardly be said to be exciting. We still regard it as a classic, mainly because of its overall temperament and temperament, Zhang Guo Rong Wang Zu Yin style, and the classic soundtrack interlude.