Liu Zhihao

Liu Zhihao

The most attractive aspects of Liu Zhihao's martial arts design style are full of intensity, rich imagination, wonderful rhythm, distinguishing martial arts characteristics and conforming to the original work, etc. His intensity is not uniform and stable. Take the speed as an example, the front and back paragraphs are not consistent. For example, when many people fight each other very quickly, the feeling of urgency suddenly becomes a buffer, showing the intense feeling in slow motion. It's the same with strength. It's only when you hit the key or think you want to hit the target that you can make the most of it,

Martial arts guidance

Liu Zhihao is my favorite martial arts director. In addition to his aestheticism and cleverness, his martial arts actions also have a kind of cool and intense feeling. Liu Zhihao's actions often give you unexpected surprises. We can appreciate his style in the title of the movie. The whole play is full of light and gives people a feeling of weaving heat. In this impatient atmosphere, it deduces the well-organized human nature. First of all, the song soldiers in the Xiangyang war threw stones down the city wall. After the stones fell to the ground, they exploded one after another. It's amazing how powerful and loud the explosion was. After the explosion, the smoke was rolling, the fog was thick, and it didn't dissipate quickly, which made you feel the unique blasting effect. Although many people used the explosion, who could reflect the blasting so subtly. Then Ouyang Feng came out of the water, and the lake around him surged into the sky like a big wave. Suddenly, another close-up saw Ouyang Feng swing his snake stick, which was more relaxed here, in sharp contrast to the earlier one.

Later, Yang Kang's five fingers snapped on the bowstring and shot a strange arrow through the wheel of Guo Jing's carriage. The speed of sliding through the air was really fierce and accurate. Lu Zhanyuan stabbed Li Mochou with one sword and one sword. After one sword, he immediately returned to his arm, which made people feel clean and neat sword skills. Guo Jing embraces her arms and shows a purple ball of light. Liu's stunt style is not flashy, but also beautiful. Great Xia Guo's double palms let you know what continuous palms are. More than a dozen forces come in a chain, and Li Mochou retreats step by step. In Huashan West poison North beggars fight after the collapse of the sky and fly, two people flying in the sky, interwoven with blue sky and white clouds, below is the earth mountain collapse, a beautiful and spectacular picture is displayed in front of you. The Western poison and the northern beggar run after me. The Western poison flies down to the snow. The northern beggar stabs down with a stick. The action is beautiful and grand. In the snow, the two hands together, you come and I go, the action is simple but very clear. In Chongyang palace, the little dragon girl is wrapped in a circle with silk ribbon to protect her upper body. It seems like a "top" feeling. The power of the king of the golden wheel has a huge impact on this "top". You have never seen this kind of magic bread. With a wave of his iron sword, Yang Guo saw a huge swirling air. The air swirled around the pillars of Chongyang palace for several turns, which was spectacular.

Liu Zhihao's long sword Acacia gives people a feeling of freehand brushwork, without exquisite design. Xinlongmen Inn gives people a feeling of just Yang, but without the difference of martial arts, it also has no exquisite design. Only the divine carving is perfect. It's exquisite and grand. It's also in line with the description of martial arts in the original work. For example, in the period of Huang Rong vs Li Mochou in the inn, the design of the lens and action is very exquisite. Huang Rong killed Li Mochou's men with his quick and matchless finger flicking skill. When Li Mochou arrived, Huang Rong immediately took up the long sword to fight with her. Huang Rong cut and stabbed her. Her movements were light and flexible. She hit her on the powerful dust like chopsticks on a bowl. Huang Rong's flexibility and Li Mochou's ruthlessness are vividly reflected. They rush out of the roof. When they fight in the field, Huang Rong is accidentally rolled over by the dust. Huang Rong immediately stands up straight, returns to her arms and uses her soft fingers to remove Li Mochou's strength. At this time, a close-up shot of Li Mochou pops up a sword. Because Li Mochou has attacked three times in a row, Huang Rong also plays Li Mochou's Secret sword in three different ways, just matching the three close-up shots.

Chongyang palace Yang Guo vs Jinlun Fawang is also one of the most brilliant scenes in the whole play. The Jinlun Fawang takes the wheel to rotate rapidly, splits to Yang Guo, and Yang Guo dodges. Who has seen this kind of lens? Note that this is about splitting to the enemy in the case of sharp rotation, not splitting. There are splitting in many versions of divine sculptures, but how can there be one that turns and splits? The king of the Dharma fell down in mid air. When Yang Guo touched his sword, he could only hear the huge sound of the sky shaking price. Yang Guo's iron sword swept away and forced the Dharma king not to come down, so he had to do somersaults in the air. As soon as the French king's sleeve was thrown, dozens of wheels flew out. Yang Guo turned a little sideways to avoid most of them. With a stab of his sword, he put ten wheels in his sleeve, and his arms vibrated. All the wheels were smashed. Yang Guo tossed the pieces and flew to the king of law. The king of law had to launch another wheel to resist. Unexpectedly, a piece of debris didn't block it and cut himself. Yang Guo stood beside the pillar and made a startling move. A swirling wind surrounded the pillar and extended it to the whole hall. The king of Dharma was also shaken away and made a big hole in the wall.

In the battle of Huashan, the Western poison and the northern beggar, they stand on the earth mountain and look at each other in the hot sun. The Western poison is as stable as Mount Tai, and the northern beggar stands tall and upright, full of the wind of great generals. The strong wind and thick fog spread over, and they could not shake their solid bodies. The Western poison robe and the northern beggar's hair were blown by the wind, which could not distract them. When the northern beggars and Western poisons can't wait, the music has been changed again, and they feel anxious. The Western poison finally couldn't help it. It rose to the sky, somersaulted in the air and squatted down in the shape of a toad. At this time, his whole body swells, and his whole body emits steam. The deformation of the expansion is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it can burst. Hong Qigong was always on guard, because this was the insidious part of toad Gong. He pretended to be calm. The more he delayed the attack, the more power he had in his body. Once toad Gong suddenly attacked, he was irresistible. With the Western poison's mouth open, the real Qi in his body rushes out. Even Hong Qigong, who has the greatest martial arts skills, does not dare to fight with him. He flies away with his feet. When the two fight in the air, the Western poison comes with one hand. The northern beggar uses the word picking formula in the dog beating stick method to stir up the whole body of the Western poison. To avoid the Western poison, he has to somersault. After falling on the flat ground, the Western poison parried repeatedly under the North beggar's exquisite stick technique. Suddenly, they unexpectedly returned a few moves. They flew over the grass again and came to the snow. I've introduced them before, but I won't say much about them. When the western drugs and Northern beggars fly into the sky again, the fierce feeling of fighting rises to a higher level, because this is the final time to win or lose. The Western poison is kicked away, and the northern beggar is solved.

Two people in the air began to use the palm, this time into close-up, basically only see four arms, let you clearly see the palm moves. At last, Hong Qigong pressed it with a hard fireball, like a red hot iron. When you press it on Ouyang Feng's shoulder, Ouyang Feng vomites blood. Ouyang Feng also presses it with a crystal bubble. When you press it on Hong Qigong's shoulder, Hong Qigong vomites blood. Two people straight fall down, at this time a group of pigeons were scared out, two people one by one to seize the pigeon legs fly to the snow. After landing on the ground, they both admired each other, laughed, and discussed the problems of life. Hong Qigong said: "the purpose of martial arts is just that people can't stop pursuing." Ouyang Feng also said: "life is for this time!" Then they looked at each other with a smile, and saw white clouds floating in the sky, which seemed to imply that it was a pity that the two great masters died.

Design style

For example, in xinlongmen Inn, the proverb of "smile vs. Zhou Huai'an" is that the three strings of "smile" hit Zhou's belly, which is really cruel and unique. Huang Rong vs. Li Mochou fought in the field. Li Mochou changed from trying with a brush to covering the enemy's hanging wall. He was extremely powerful and hit Huang Rong in the stomach with a poisonous needle, He hit Huang Rong in the abdomen with one hand, then rolled Huang Rong upside down, dodged the magic power of snap fingers, used the hidden weapon in the dust to force Huang Rong to side, and quickly hit Huang Rong in the chest. Huang Rong was seriously injured in the chest and abdomen, and couldn't support it any more. He vomited blood and was in a coma. Or it was slow at first, and then it came down sharply. For example, the Western poison and the northern beggar slowly palmed their hands, and they were merciless after hitting. Imagination, needless to say, swirls around the pillars. The king of the golden wheel made a big hole in the wall like a catapult. The omnipotent magic power of snapping fingers, concealed weapons, acupoints, and helping hands. The trick of turning a dog beating stick into a rattan. Little dragon girl like a top. In the long sword Acacia, there are bubbles rising from the sky, in the new dragon gate Hakka, there are long swords that can be used as whips, and three strings that can control rocks. It's also a good way to distinguish the nature of martial arts. It's hard, heavy, gentle, fast, slow and clumsy. It's reflected in the five elements of yin and Yang. For example, XiaoLongNu's lightness skill is the fastest in the whole play, Huang Rong's sword skill is the most compact, Ma Yu's softness, Qiu Chuji's quiet inaction, northern beggar's hardness and Western poison's softness and hardness. Almost no one in the play has the feeling of repeating with others. And the strength and speed, which are big and extraordinary. It seems that animals of human size can't achieve that strength, but in these martial arts films, they do.

Moving the mirror is also a major feature. In Liu's play, it is almost impossible to see two people standing up straight without touching hands. Because of this situation, we will use close-up to show only the hands, and can not see other parts of the body, which shows that the picture is clean. There are not many close-up shots in ordinary martial arts dramas, but they often appear here, and they are very rhythmic. After a few shots in the distant view, there are close-up shots immediately. You always see delicate moves, hand to hand, weapons and weapons. The martial arts designed by Liu Zhihao is not simply martial arts, but a kind of deep culture. It carries forward China's broad and profound martial arts and excavates the essence of martial arts novels. I hope he can guide more and better martial arts dramas. At the same time, I hope his style can be inherited.

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