Chapter 534: A New Era of Martial Arts
Many directors in Hong Kong are very busy and busy, especially those directors who can sell well at the box office, and the filming cycle in Hong Kong is very short, the fast ten days and half a month, the slow one or two months, and three or four months is very long, so generally not to mention the actors, even the directors are all spinning, and it is normal to shoot two or three dramas a year.
However, Xu Ke is the exception inside, of course, the exception is his good friend Wu Yusen, who only has a good book after joining Qiao Feng's company, otherwise it will be more than a year after a break.
Although Xu Ke is diligent, Xu Ke has also rested since filming A Chinese Ghost Story, not to mention his own job as a director, even if he likes to do the director's job but has the title of producer, he hasn't done it for more than a year.
On the contrary, his wife Shi Nansheng has been busy all year round, and has been in the United States for a few months in the past few months to be responsible for cooperating with several companies in the United States.
Then Qiao Feng saw that Xu Ke was too idle to look at it, so he directly took two notebooks and threw them to him.
Both books are martial arts films, this is also Xu Ke's best project, don't look at the current Xu Ke seems to be operating projects are action comedies or fashion action movies, and there are even literary films, but Qiao Feng knows that this guy's best has always been martial arts.
And take the martial arts film that should have come out a few years later for Xu Ke to shoot, Qiao Feng also has his own considerations, because of the original time and space, the real popularity of martial arts films is 90 years later.
And the decline of martial arts was also at that time, but it was precisely at that time that the highlight of martial arts was at that time.
At that time, there were really a lot of classic martial arts films, but the box office of those martial arts films was not ideal, just take Zhang Min, who Qiao Feng has always been obsessed with, and the Demon Sect Leader of Heaven and Dragon Slayer, such a classic, and a movie full of big names, a sentence I am waiting for you in most of the cities, has made fans wait for almost 30 years without waiting.
Of course, the bigger reason was that the film market at that time was weakened, and then the most popular martial arts films at that time fell into bad luck.
The leader of the Demon Sect of Heaven and Dragon Slayer, because it is obviously a good film, and the investment is quite large, they are the hottest stars at that time, but after the box office came out, it was miserable, and the investment at that time was a loss, and who would dare to shoot a martial arts film of that level and with so many stars in the future.
No one dared, and they couldn't afford such a big loss, so most of them waited for thirty years, and it was only then that the original director Wang Fatzi Wang Jing vaguely revealed the news that he was going to make a sequel.
But at that time, Si Ren was already in his prime, and he was basically not filming because of his illness, only focusing on charity, Zhou Zhiruo married a lame rich man, Xiao Zhao also married a rich man, and he had been in the shadow for many years, Zhang Sanfeng could only run back and forth in a wheelchair, and as for the county lord Zhao Min, who everyone remembered, he stopped filming several times and then came back and again.
When it is clear that the movie market is no longer good, even if the classic martial arts films are doubled, it cannot prevent the market from continuing to decline.
Qiao Feng felt that instead of repeating the trajectory of Hong Kong movies in the original time and space, it was better to take out those good movies that did not meet the expected box office reputation because of the bad film market, so that Hong Kong films could reach a higher level on the basis of the highest glory and prosperity, in that case, even if it was destined to decline due to market reasons, it could persist on the road of decline for a few more years.
If it can support the mainland film market, then there is still something to be expected for Hong Kong films.
Over the years, Qiao Feng has invested in so many movies in North American Hollywood, all for such a purpose, so that Hong Kong filmmakers' eyes can look at Europe and the United States, and don't dare to try again if they fail once.
And over the years, it still has a bit of a role, at least both Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are different from the original time and space, Golden Harvest not to mention, in addition to Cheng Long's movies, they also began to shoot some other European and American film projects, Shaw Brothers is actively cooperating with Qiao Feng at the same time, they will also invest themselves, or consult Qiao Feng for some suggestions, and then invest in some film projects that Qiao Feng is optimistic about, but lack of funds and need financing.
Hong Kong's two biggest film giants are leaving, which has a great influence on Hong Kong films and filmmakers.
There are two major stages in the prosperity of Hong Kong martial arts movies, one is the martial arts era of Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che, and the other is the martial arts era of Xu Ke and Cheng Xiaodong.
Among them, the most far-reaching influence is Hu Jinquan.
If Xu Ke's change to martial arts movies is in form, then Hu Jinquan's change in martial arts movies is in the core, in the artistic conception, and in the spiritual culture.
Hu Jinquan was born in Beiping, studied ancient Chinese at home since childhood, loved painting, and liked to watch martial arts in Chinese dramas.
In February 1953, on Chinese New Year's Eve, he married Feng Yi, Li Hanxiang, Jiang Guangchao, Ma Li, Shen Zhong and Song Cunshou at No. 107 Boundary Street, Kowloon, known as the "Seven Great Leisures"
These people are all big names, and the most famous of them are Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and Song Cunshou.
Li Hanxiang and Hu Jinquan and Song Cunshou all developed in Hong Kong, and later Li Hanxiang left Shaw Brothers and formed the League of Nations, and Song Cunshou also followed him to Taiwan, and then he also photographed out the window and discovered Lin Qingxia, the first beauty in Southeast Asia.
Li Hanxiang and Song Cunshou directed more film styles, but Hu Jinquan stepped into the martial arts world from a variety of styles in his early years, which completely changed the pattern of martial arts movies, and then martial arts became Hu Jinquan's only symbol.
A drunken man established Hu Jinquan's solid position as a new martial arts master, and then he conceived and wrote a generation of martial arts classic movies with the initial name Xie Xie and finally the Dragon Gate Inn.
Later, she won the Grand Prix at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or for Best Film (nominated), the 28th Cannes Award for Best Technical and Visual Effects, and the Honorable Mention at the 1st Psychic Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.
This is the first time that a Chinese film has won a top award in Cannes, many years earlier than Cheng Kaige won the Palme d'Or with Farewell My Concubine.
If you talk about the popularity of world movies, Hu Jinquan at that time was far beyond the sworn brother Li Hanxiang.
As early as more than a year ago, Qiao Feng wanted to take out the new Dragon Gate Inn to shoot, but Lin Qingxia was pregnant, and the actress was pregnant with a baby, so the movie could only be put on hold temporarily.
Now, Lin Qingxia has also given birth to a baby, and the child is getting older, so she doesn't have to be accompanied by her mother all the time, and Qiao Feng is ready to restart the filming of the new Dragon Gate Inn.
After Hu Jinquan, the top director, changed the pattern of martial arts films of the old school, another martial arts master wants to make new changes to the existing pattern.