“The New Temple of Shaolin” ( Kit. 新 少林寺 ) is a Benny Chan feature film in the action movie genre. The film is a remake of the film “Shaolin Temple” , [1] (the first actress of Jet Li in big cinema), but the action takes place a thousand three hundred years later, at the beginning of the 20th century, in the period after the Xinhai Revolution in China.
| Shaolin | |
|---|---|
| 新 少林寺 | |
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| Genre | action , drama |
| Producer | Benny chan |
| Producer | Benny chan Albert Lee Yabo Han Sanping |
| Author script | Zhang Zhiguang Zhang Tan Alan Yuan Jinlan |
| In the main cast | Andy lau Nicholas Xie Fan Bingbing Jackie Chan |
| Operator | Anthony Fan Yaoming |
| Composer | Nicholas Herrera |
| Film company | Beijing Silver Moon Productions China Film Group Corporation Emperor Motion Pictures Huayi brothers media |
| Duration | 131 minutes |
| Budget | $ 29 million (estimated) |
| A country |  Hong Kong  China |
| Tongue | Cantonese ( Yue ) putonghua |
| Year | 2011 |
| IMDb | ID 1533749 |
The premiere took place on January 20, 2011 (in Russia - May 19).
Content
Story
The first years of the existence of the Republic of China . Enmity between Chinese warlords reaches its limit. In an unrestrained desire to conquer neighboring territories, they plunge the country into the abyss of discord.
General Hou Jie seized the city of Dengfeng , which houses the Shaolin Temple , and chased the former ruler of the city. He killed him in the Shaolin Temple , where he tried to hide.
Son Hu - called brother Hou Jie tried to usurp the captured city. To avoid this, Hou Jie decided to kill the named brother during the engagement of their children.
However, Cao Man , deputy Hou Jie , outwitted both by deciding to kill them all with their families. When mercenaries attack, the only daughter of Hou Jie dies, and he himself finds himself in the Shaolin Temple.
In Shaolin, realizing the fallacy of his former values and repenting of his actions, Hou Jie is engaged in martial arts and finds peace of mind and enlightenment.
Meanwhile, Cao Man , seizing power, under the pretext of building a railway, sells the ancient Chinese relics to the British, killing people who work for him as undesirable witnesses to his unseemly deeds.
Spiritually and physically renewed, Hou Jie , with the help of the monks, opposes the British army, rescues the peasants who worked for Cao Man , and even more than that, Cao Man himself saves his life and attacks on the Shaolin temple at the cost of his life, redeeming his sins and sins Cao Man .
After the British attack, the Shaolin Temple was completely destroyed, most of the monks were killed.
Cast
- Andy Lau - General Hou Jie
- Nicholas Xie - Cao Man, Deputy Hou Jie
- Fan Bingbing - Wife Hou Jie
- Jackie Chan - Cook
- Jackie Wu Jing - Jing Nan
- Shin Yu - Jing Kun
- - Son Hu, named brother Hou Jie
Making a movie
Filming began in October 2009 and took place in Hong Kong and mainland China . The film's budget is $ 29 million. The film uses Chinese dialects of Putonghua and Cantonese .
Historical Prototypes
- The plot of the film is fictional, however, allegorical parallels are traced between its three main characters - the commanders dividing the city of Danfeng and betraying each other, and the “three revolutions” in China , as well as the three real military cliques of the so-called “ Era of Militarists in China ” ending in 1928 year. In the same year, Shaolin was almost completely destroyed [2] .
- The prototype of the main character, General Hou Jie, is apparently Yuan Shikai , who took an active part in the overthrow of the imperial dynasty in China in 1911 , but then tried to become an emperor himself. At the same time, with his ambivalent policy, he spawned hostile military cliques of the “ Era of the militarists .”
- The prototype of the deputy Cao Manya , who betrayed the protagonist, General Hou Jie, and sold, at the cost of his people’s life, the national historical values of the British, apparently, is the Zhili clique and the famous warlord-traitor , who in 1928 ordered the Shaolin monastery to be completely burned . At the same time, unique ancient manuscripts kept in the monastery were destroyed [2] .
Notes
Links
- Shaolin (English) on the Internet Movie Database