The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero

Director Tsui Hark's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Greatest Hero" uses "The Greatest Hero" as a subtitle. Naturally, the focus is not on the earlier romantic entanglements and feuds of the Jianghu, but on the final war. However, this film is not a war movie, but an anti-war movie. At the beginning of the film, it takes just ten minutes to clarify the content of the first few dozen chapters of the original work. If you have written a novel or screenplay, you know how difficult this is. The screenwriter is Tsui Hark himself, and I guess he must have conceived it a long time ago. Congratulations to Tsui Hark.

The best part is that although Tsui Hark seems to have made many changes, after compression, it is very faithful to the original, especially in the restoration of the male protagonist Guo Jing. It has always been thought that the dramatization of the TV series does not generally focus on the last few chapters, and Guo Jing's important growth stages are ignored, making this character less attractive to audiences than Huang Rong. Xiao Zhan's portrayal of Guo Jing matches the character I imagined while reading the book: determined, persistent, and responsible. His initial simplicity upon entering central China is due to him growing up on the grassland without Jianghu experience.

Tsui Hark's cinematography remains beautiful, the actors are excellent, the special effects are pleasing, the fight scenes are cleverly designed, and the plot rhythm demands full concentration. It is a great movie-watching experience.