Chapter 304: Eighth Master's killer feature
Secondly, the shots and editing are in line with the audience's viewing habits of mainstream movies, the speed is not fast or slow, and the rhythm is relaxed.
To the greatest extent, it is guaranteed to be easy to watch, forget the lens arrangement and focus on the content of the action fight, and do not get tired after watching it.
And his action design does not rely too much on other factors, such as table and chair juggling, camera blindness, and Wia flying all over the sky......
It is a well-behaved fight, and it is all about the ontology of fist and foot kung fu. It is precisely this kind of discerning martial arts style that can be better loaded into movies with other themes.
It's like an easy-going carpenter master, he will make whatever you want him to make, and he will make whatever he wants, without his own so-called upholds or quirks, so everyone loves to look for him.
The second pretending point is:
Goodness is like water, and water benefits all things without fighting.
This is why Cheng Long Donnie Yen can only make his own movies, while Yuan Baye can make everyone's movies.
They can only make a film dedicated to fights, and then confuse a theme to deal with it. And Yuan Baye can make literary films, comic films, science fiction films, philosophical films, main themes, CCTV four masterpieces, and B-grade films......
He doesn't have his own signboard, he doesn't have a so-called grandmaster, he's just a craftsman, and it's just like this that he doesn't have his own focus to achieve the real grandmaster of action design.
After having a stinky temper and a stinky temper, he invited the eighth master to come to the rescue, and he could shoot without saying a word, and he still took the same picture, and he could match Sammo Hung before.
Just an abstract feature: to ensure that the audience can clearly see the reason for each punch and kick, and to determine a chain of offensive and defensive interaction between you and me.
Other than that, whatever style you want to be. It can be very fast and fierce like killing Bill, it can be very slow and beautiful like a night feast, it can be very exaggerated and fly to the sky and collapse like kung fu, or it can be densely woven there like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Matrix......
In terms of hard skills, no one is worse than anyone else in Hong Kong Island martial arts, after all, it has been mixed for decades. The difference lies in the different aesthetic appeals of each, which leads to objective results.
Just like abstract painting and realistic painting, the basic skills are the same, but the most marketable works are often more realistic and slightly more rendering.
Ding Cheng summed up Yuan Heping's action scene in six words:
Understandable,
It's cool to watch!
The so-called understandable, the tricks used and the key points of the attack, such as the finger skimming and other anti-joint force, attack the armpits, waist and other soft parts......
The strength and direction of the fall are the most basic consensus of human beings and can resonate.
The audience can understand, believe, empathize, and bring in.
It is cool to watch that every action scene is a lens stream that accurately reflects the action and vividly renders the action. Shots and editing, in order to maximize the audience's understanding of the action and action logic.
At the same time, there are renderings and exaggerations on this basis, so that the audience can enjoy watching and watching energetically.
With the action elements that you like to see, the focus is on regrouping. In other words, the reflection of the mainstream feature film narrative mode in action scenes.
A smooth chain of cause and effect, clearly allowing you to see. The speed is not fast, not slow, no more, no less. Repeatedly switch offense and defense, two-way tug-of-war. The process has a high gold content, and it is common in life. The mirror language is plain and vivid, never fancy and fancy.
The end result is that the audience will follow the fighting side, and what to do with the character when they encounter every move of the opponent.
In "Huo Yuanjia", Li Chengjie was held up by a strong man who was several times stronger than him, his arms were locked, and he couldn't move, and the rhythm was hovering here, and he was struggling hard......
The audience was thinking about what to do with his situation, and then he slashed into Hercules' ribs with his hand, and the enemy was forced to let go in pain, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
He is a reconciliation of romance and reality, romance is to extend the truth, it is exaggeration, it can fill people's regrets about boring reality, and watching movies is a psychological carnival.
And if you don't grasp the scale well, you will go off the rails, so that the audience will be withdrawn from being willingly deceived, because too fake and too true will make the audience feel annoyed.
There are a minority of viewers who are obsessed with exaggerated styles, there are also a minority of viewers who are obsessed with martial arts realism, and there are also a minority of viewers who are obsessed with a specific style.
Therefore, Yuan's action movies, which are not extreme and decent, cater to the aesthetics of the vast majority of audiences.
What I appreciate even more is the refusal to organize content with something other than fighting, and almost no reliance on dramatic plots, specific cultures, and certain aesthetic styles.
Focus on what is part of the fight, and try to keep the fight pure. Explore the beauty of the details of the action itself, and shoot the competition itself in a disciplined and unique way.
Once the characters fight, it is a long and vicious battle, the scene is closed, the action is coherent, and all the action elements must participate in the attack and defense.
Dance and acrobatic movements, even if they appear in his action scenes, are absolutely no longer in themselves, but are broken down into individual factors, becoming necessary movements in the chain of fighting.
This kind of action design, which is closely related to the things within the martial arts score, can be grafted into other movies at will. Any style combined with it will not be stiff, and it will not contradict its original "distinctive style".
The sci-fi theme will fly higher, the cult film will spray more blood and beat harder, the comic comedy theme will make the action simple and exaggerated, the classical martial arts film will saturate the action a little more, and if you want to be beautiful, let the rhythm be slower and softer.
Cheng Xiaodong's return to realism, Yuan Kui's several films made in Hollywood, and Donnie Yen's Ip Man series coincide with his......
It fully proves the audience's natural appeal to martial arts movies!
In today's film industry, more and more skillful and creative film language cannot replace the kung fu action itself, and foreigners' fascination with our kung fu must be obsessed with real kung fu.
Because they don't understand the so-called martial arts culture, they have also seen a lot of humorous juggling, not to mention special effects.
In the end, only logical and linear storytelling are king, and what can bridge cultural differences is the common experience of human beings in combat.
Fist to flesh,
The knife sees blood,
One move, one style,
Realism!