"Is it Dong Chou? Sure enough, he's so young. ”

"Uncle Long, hello, I'm Zhou Fangyuan, I'm so happy to finally have the opportunity to meet you. ”

If it is an ordinary artist, Zhou Fangyuan may not be too lazy to talk to the other party at all, like the kind of little fresh meat and traffic in the later generations, even if he meets him in person, Zhou Fangyuan will give a smile at most and it will be over, if he is in a bad mood, he will not bother to give a smile. But Uncle Long is different from ordinary artists, his contribution is too great, he can be said to be using his own efforts to make foreigners' understanding of Huaxia one step closer, although it is a small step, but it is something that many people cannot do in their lifetime.

Not for anything else, just for this, he also deserves Zhou Fangyuan's warm hospitality, don't say that Uncle Long still loves public welfare so much, for such a person, it is not an exaggeration to say that zunzho9ng.

"Dong Chou has won the award, I can come to your company's annual meeting, the month is my Rongxin, and I want this movie week, to be honest, I have to ask, I think I can at least precipitate for another five or six years or even seven or eight years, now, to be honest, I didn't put me myself. ”

"That's why we should cooperate more, Uncle Long, I believe you can also see that our country is now in the field of action movies, and there is no successor, I am very worried, worried that when my child is born in the future, there will be no good action movies to watch, if you want to watch, you can only watch those classics, classics are good, but what if there are no good action movies on the market? ”

The words are high-sounding words, but they are indeed what Zhou Fangyuan thinks.

Action movies, in fact, are not just kung fu movies, to be precise, kung fu movies, police movies, gangster movies, war movies, spy movies, martial arts movies, and Superman series can all be regarded as action movies. Among them, kung fu movies, police movies, and gangster movies must be action movies.

At its core, action movies are meant to have tremendous impact, sustained and efficient kinetic energy, and a series of external thrilling actions and events, often involving chases, rescues, battles, devastating disasters, fights, escapes, sustained movement, incredible pace and speed, and adventurous heroes, all of which are set up to provide the audience with a pure escapist enjoyment.

The origin of action movies is actually very early, not long after the emergence of such a new thing as movies, action movies came into being.

The earliest genre of thriller action movies was actually born out of silent film series and is the equivalent of Edwin Porter's early classic The Great Train Robbery. Notable early series include Edison's "The Adventures of Mary" and "The Adventures of Catherine", most of which depict the adventures of female protagonists.

David Griffiths is well aware of the spectacle of action spectacle, and in "The Birth of a Nation" and "The Party Fights Differently" he uses long-shot battle scenes and action-focused chase and rescue action to capture the audience. While one could claim that these two films were archetypes of feature feature action films, it wasn't until the 20s of the 20th century that thriller action movies evolved into a recognizable and definable film genre.

Action movies of the classic era can be called "adventure" action films, adventure action movies tend to be the heroic age of that time and place, adding romantic female objects in the midst of exotic and adventurous times, combining thrills, action, violence and strange romances to produce a wider appeal. Thus, the key element of an adventure action film is that its characters and conflicts are set in a romantic bygone era, a hostile contemporary setting, and an isolated wilderness jungle unlike everyday life. Adventure action films must create an environment that is different from the everyday world to exaggerate danger and reinforce the protagonist's efforts to overcome difficulties, and the protagonist's ultimate victory will establish its nobility and sacredness. In addition, the bizarre environmental settings and gorgeous action scenes in adventure action movies provide a great opportunity for cinematic spectacle presentation.

Douglas Van Punk, the most famous star of early adventure action films, almost single-handedly created and popularized the "grand theft" genre, making Van Punk the archetype of the first all-American male idol. The Jewish lawyer's son, who studied at Harvard University, married Mary Beckford in the 20's and became Hollywood's most popular king and queen, and the couple co-founded "United Arts" with Chaplin and Griffith, and he was the first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Van Punk has starred in adventure action films such as "The Mask of Zorro," "The Three Musketeers," "Robin Hood," "The Burglars of Baghdad," and "The Man in the Iron Mask," among others.

Unlike Van Punk's relatively pure hardcore image, Rudolfo Valentino, known as the "Latin Lover", injected romantic tenderness and exoticism into early action thrillers, such as "The Chieftain", "Blue Sand" and "The Chief's Son".

When the time entered the 60s and 80s, different from the setting of classic adventure action movies at that time and place, modern thriller action movies appeared.

Modern "thrilling" action movies tend to focus more on the here and now, that is, the United States and the contemporary, while the social reality in the 60s of the 20th century is the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain between East and West, which also created the hero of the adventure action movie "007 James Bond series". According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the "007 James Bond Series" is the most profitable film series in the history of cinema.

James Bond, a British superspy agent who is a modern-day action hero, is basically based on the protagonist of British home Ian Fleming. Beginning with Casino Royale in 1952, Fleming has released 15 007 James Bond films, and there are other writers who have continued to write them after his death, and more than 40 James Bond copies have been released so far. When Fleming first came up with the name for his protagonist, he decided he needed a simple, unromantic, and masculine name, and he named the super agent James Bond.

However, not all 007 films are written by Ian Fleming, it is said that only the first 13 episodes are from the original book, and then the film company buys the rights to the "007" three-character film and then creates a new story to shoot. And during this period, the stars who really dominated Hollywood thriller action movies in the seventies and eighties were a whole bunch of tough guys like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis.

In the 90s, Hollywood's action movies changed dramatically, from classic adventure legends, to modern thrilling romance, and finally to pure violence and audio-visual thrills. Contemporary violent action films also tend to be futuristic and surreal, and the violence of the film is also obviously gamified, machined, abstract and aesthetic, which gives rise to the violent aesthetics of the so-called "John Woo".

Hollywood is open to anything that makes a living, and while action movies have always been plagued by weak storylines, monotonous male lone heroes or killers, dominant stunt effects, and crazy stunt action, action movies remain one of Hollywood's most lucrative genres. By the 80s, action movies had become more crazy and tyrannical, and they were more expensive to produce. The powerful and indestructible contemporary heroes and extremely violent action movies are already quite far from the action protagonists of classic adventure thriller action films. And many action movies have gradually produced a certain degree of integration with other genres, such as mourning horror films, science fiction films, and thrilling drama films.

The emergence of contemporary violent action movies is also inseparable from the influence of kung fu films on Hong Kong Island. In the early 70s, Bruce Lee, the emperor of kung fu films on Hong Kong Island, starred in "Tangshan Big Brother", "Jingwumen", "Enter the Dragon", "Raptors Across the River" and "Game of Death", which became a popular film cultural phenomenon all over the world. Although Bruce Lee's films clearly imitate James Bond films in terms of overall structure and plot design, the wonderful action scenes and dazzling fast pace of kung fu movies are still echoed by Hollywood groups who are good at learning and borrowing.

The influence of kung fu movies on American cinema first appeared in action movies, Chuck Norris was stationed in South Korea as a member of the US Air Force, exposed to and loved oriental martial arts and karate, opened a karate school after leaving the army, and won the world professional karate middleweight championship from 1968 to 1974, and then joined the film at the instigation of his student friend Steve McQueen. Norris once learned from Bruce Lee and co-starred with Bruce Lee in "Raptors Across the River". He inherited the tradition of Bruce Lee's Chinese kung fu and Japanese karate, and starred in movies such as "The Good Man in Black", "Lone Hero", "A Tooth for a Tooth", and "Unbearable" in the seventies and eighties.

Steve Siegel had studied martial arts in Japan and was the self-proclaimed champion of "Aikido" in Japan. He returned to the United States to teach oriental martial arts to celebrities and wealthy people, became the teacher of Michael Ovitz, Hollywood's number one agent, and has since become a big-name action star, starring in movies such as "Beyond the Law", "Lore", and "Death Mark". In these formulaic action films, Siegel invariably plays the role of a "personal" cop, using slightly irregular means to "dispose of the garbage". In 1992, Siegel won an unexpected success when he played a Navy special forces officer who cooks on an aircraft carrier in "Desperate Situation." After that, he went on to star in "Dead Zone," "Dead End 2: Dark Zone," "Top Secret," and "Lethal Fire," continuing his old action movie routine.

Belgian-born action movie star Jean-Claude Van Dane, a former European karate champion, began his career in the film industry in 1984, starring in several action films, showing that he is still active in the film industry.

In general, the development of action movies in Hollywood is completely traceable, and there is also an obvious timeline. In contrast, the development line of domestic action movies is relatively scattered, but the degree of development is still above Hollywood, after all, the kung fu in our country's traditional culture is too strong for action movies. Look at the previous Hollywood action movies, they have always been hard fists and legs, one board and one eye, stiff and sluggish. But since the decline of Hong Kong Island movies and the transfer of a large number of martial arts to Hollywood, in recent years, the action scenes in various Hollywood movies have become more and more beautiful.

As the birthplace of all this, domestic action movies are naturally superior, which is understandable.

What I want to say here is not this, what I want to say here is that whether it is Hollywood, Hong Kong Island or even China, there is only one word at the core of the real meaning of action movies - tough guy!

Yes, whether you are a grand theft adventure movie, or a thrilling action movie, whether it is a police movie or a kung fu movie, it is always essential to play the role of a tough guy. Of course, the tough guy doesn't mean that he has to be muscular and look like a muscle monster, on the one hand, the tough guy is physically strong, on the other hand, he is also temperamental, and he is resolute in action.

However, this is what the domestic film market is gradually lacking.

With the growth of a new generation of young people, due to the combined influence of Hallyu and other reasons, the trend of weak and beautiful men has begun to intensify. In fact, there are also people in Hollywood who like weak and beautiful men, after all, people's tastes cannot be exactly the same, there are always people who are different. But over there, there are also people who like tough guys, and tough guys also have a way out. But in China, under the general trend, the number of tough guys in the entertainment industry is decreasing day by day. The newcomers are all buttery little people, those who can fight, those who dare to fight, and they can't say that there is no one, but compared with the former entertainment industry, it is really not as good as one day.

Even Zhou Fangyuan heard a very funny thing before he was reborn, it is said that a certain male star, don't say who it is, when filming a movie, his role in the movie is a soldier.

The actors of other military roles all shaved their small flat heads to serve the plot, only him, and his bangs were all insured, and the insurance company did not agree, so he couldn't shave his head. As a result, the movie was made, and the military hat was on the head, and under the brim was a thick bang......

What's the fuss!

Do you want to be famous and want to go crazy or want to make money and go crazy, don't take the film if you can't shave your head, and then act like a nondescript, what is this? Are you kidding?

Zhou Fangyuan has no intention of criticizing anything, he just thinks that the market can't just serve young women and fan groups, it is true that the consumption power of this group of people is the strongest, but it is also necessary to consider the needs of other masses, the number of screen tough guys is gradually decreasing, will this indirectly affect the cultivation of the next generation of young people? In Zhou Fangyuan's childhood, all kinds of screen tough guys emerged in endlessly, he didn't say how much positive influence he had gotten, at least his aesthetics were normal. Men, you should have masculinity, you can be feminine on the outside, but you can't follow feminine on the inside.

Just taking this opportunity, taking advantage of Uncle Long's reputation in the entertainment industry and among the masses, Zhou Fangyuan wanted to promote this aspect of work, and see if he could see that the muddy waters of the entertainment industry would appear a little bit.

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