那些年我们看过的金庸小说

LW: But before you go on, Jin Yong – he might not be very familiar to a lot [LK: I know], a lot of western – I know, certainly this morning was the first time that I heard him, even though it seems he's influenced a lot of the films and a lot [LK: Oh, he is…] the Chinese media that I’ve consumed over the course of my young life, so maybe you can just explain why he is, he is so revered. LK: Yeah, well, you may have never heard of him, but I mean a lot of westerners may have watched the Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon [LW: Oh, certainly] and also the Kung-fu Panda. A lot of the moves, the scenes, and the, like, how the martial art sects are structured, actually based [on] ideas from Jin Yong's novel[s]. So [LW: Oh really?] he’s like the guru [LW: Okay, understandable] or the founding father of this specific genre. LW: Okay, I get it – it's that I absolutely love, it’s a genre that I've spent a lot of my youth watching. I didn’t actually read anything, I didn't know that that was…I assumed that they were based on some sort of text, but for some reason it never occurred to me that these were novels that were actually adapted to the screen. LK: His famous one's is perhaps the Condor Trilogy. It's three novels, and the most famous one is “The Legend of the Condor Heroes”. It's about…some man, some men fighting each other during the Song Dynasty. Well, two men – like, let's say Brian and Lincoln, you fought together against some invaders [LW: Okay], and then you became so close that you decided that, if you have kids, they're either going to get married or become close brothers. [LW: Okay…] But, your sons turned out really different – have different personalities, and it didn't really work out as you would expect it to happen, so the story was all about that. LW: Okay… BK: So the story was just a disappointment that your children didn't become best friends? LK: Mm, sort of. BK: I'm guessing it had to do to a little bit…greater conflict than that. LK: But, yeah, it was preceded by… LW: Also, I was, I was just disappointed in Brian's son. Wasn't even worried about my own, just got disappointed in his. LK: Yeah, it's, it's huge. Like, maybe not everyone – I wouldn't say everyone in China would actually know the author's name but the mention of any of these novels, or movies, or TV series would instantly ring a bell among average Chinese. In a lot of his novels, there's a sect called the Beggar's Sect [BK: Ah, yes, right], so all the beggars are interestingly like free, they have free mind of spirit, and they like save people, and they cook really delicious chicken. LW: Okay. That's a very… BK: Is there like a Beggar's Chicken? Yeah. LK: Beggar's Chicken is really a dish [LW: Does it…] – a famous dish [LW: Oh wow]from Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province. LW: Well there you go. I'm looking – I'm so intrigued.