Chapter 76 Hitting a girl doesn't have to be ruthless

In 1981, in the movie "The Elders" directed by Liu Jialiang, Hui Yinghong played the role of a vigorous showgirl, and won the "Best Actress" award at the first Hong Kong Film Awards. Since then, she has frequently appeared in Hong Kong movies. A special role: "Hit Girl". At the end of the 1970s, Liu Jialiang, who believed that fighting movies need real kung fu, also publicly stated that kung fu movies do not need actresses: "Even if an actress is good at fighting, the audience will not accept it, they only think she is acting. Martial arts movies lose their sense of realism, so what atmosphere is there? Besides, when most actresses pick up swords and guns, they always have bad hands and feet, and they still use men's neatly."

How Liu Jialiang completed the change of mind is unknown, is it because he fell in love with Hui Yinghong's agility in performing songs and dances in nightclubs, or because he has confidence in the influence she received from her godfather Zhang Che, and was played by her in Whether it was because he was keenly aware of the change in film fashion that moved Mu Nianci, it is no longer possible to test. What is known is that Hui Yinghong has achieved herself with the image of "beating girls". Until now, she is the only one who has won Action actress at the Academy Awards. After Hui Yinghong's image of "beating girls" in ancient costumes, Michelle Yeoh used "Royal Senior Sister" to set a precedent for female action movies with a policewoman as the protagonist, making "women with guns" a new image in movies. Li Saifeng's "Angel Action" series, Hu Huizhong's "Overlord Flower" series, and female stars who mainly focus on action dramas such as Yang Lijing, Luo Luofu, Oshima Yukari, Liang Zheng, etc., the "beating girls" are all in the limelight.In the 1980s and 1990s, their names were like a ray of light, illuminating the movie theater, the video hall, and the program signboard with red background and white characters standing outside the video hall with a unified style throughout the country.

"Beating girls" have a common feature, but it's not because of skill or appearance, but—rare emotional drama, ruthlessness is the most important feature of "beating girls".As long as they start fighting, we are very happy. We have no time to investigate the cause and effect, whether it is for revenge or pursuit of justice. The story can develop in a single line. , we are very impatient. "Beating Girls" seems to carry softness and sinisterness, both yin and yang, roughness and delicacy complement each other, and there is no need for emotional drama to intervene to emphasize their female side and increase their chances of making mistakes.

Regardless of Yang Lijing, Luo Luofu, Hu Huizhong, or Oshima Yukari, Liang Zheng, and the new generation of "beating girls" Jiang Luxia, in those movies where they are the protagonists, once they are "beating girls", they will not talk about love , As long as you talk about love, you will make mistakes, and create opportunities for arousing awareness and increasing the will to revenge, such as "Dream Awakening Blood Never Stops".In the 1980s, we can also see this kind of inheritance in the "beating girls" cultivated by the mainland. Once Ding Lan, Huang Qiuyan, and Chen Yongxia entered the movie, they all became ruthless women. It ended with broken silver teeth and leaving with hatred.

Male characters are tough enough to win the whole world—including love, and female characters get tough at the expense of the emotional world.This is the narrative tone hidden behind all strong woman movies, and it also fits well with the situation of professional women at that time. Once they pay attention to this, they will lose the other. Therefore, the warm emotion that Michelle Yeoh possessed in "Sword Rain" is very precious. Although she bought it at the price of retiring, it also shows that after thirty years, the world can finally tolerate women grabbing , both hands are hard, and no longer deprive them of their feelings as their passport to enter the professional world.