Chapter 4: The Road to Kung Fu!
Martial arts films?
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Or, it can be said that in the current time and space, whether it is the domestic film circle or the TV drama circle, the two have always been regarded as the same type and the same theme.
At least the conceptual differences between them are extremely vague.
So, hearing Li Qian say that he was going to make a martial arts movie, Hu Fei was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at Liu Chengzhang.
In the domestic film circle, martial arts movies have always been one of the most popular themes, since the old man Chu Yuan became a blockbuster, martial arts as a big literary category and film and television category, the carp jumped into the dragon gate in an instant, and in the past twenty or thirty years, it has been prosperous for a long time, and masterpieces have come out one after another!
Let's put it this way, domestic film and television drama directors add together, one says another, at least more than half of them have ever filmed martial arts-themed film and television dramas!
And to put it closer, a director like Lu Ping who definitely takes the route of literary films, his real famous works are all "Ma Mingfeng Xiao Xiao" - an absolute martial arts movie!
So in the past ten years, who is the highest achiever of martial arts movies?
If you want to talk about literature and art, if you can shoot the grandmaster's bearing, of course, Du Weiyun is the first to be recommended, but if you want to talk about commercial production, the director is sitting opposite Li Qian, "The Swordsman and the Monk", 270 million box office, the first domestic film box office!
said in front of him that if he wants to make a martial arts movie, he still needs a certain amount of courage and confidence!
However, what these people here don't know is that in Li Qian's heart, martial arts films and martial arts films are actually two similar but completely different movie classifications-
Martial arts, what is martial arts? Jin Yong's ancient dragon Liang Yusheng, Dragon Gate Inn Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, that can be regarded as martial arts, with martial arts as the carrier, with characters as the warp and weft, it tells the story of the entire rivers and lakes, and sells the faces of all beings in the rivers and lakes.
And it has one characteristic, and that is that it can be surreal.
The reason why it is called an adult fairy tale is because there are many settings that are completely detached from reality.
For example, in many martial arts films, you can fly, and you can directly pass on Yijiazi's skills to others, and for example, in "New Dragon Gate Inn", there is a bone frame left on your legs, and you still rely on internal force to stand up, killing and killing, etc., all of which are impossible situations in the real world.
And what about martial arts films?
Broadly speaking, it is realistic, although there is a certain exaggeration but does not deviate from the laws of physics!
In a narrow sense, Jackie Chan is humorous kung fu, funny and fighting, Bruce Lee is martial arts and kung fu, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Michelle Yeoh, etc., are also martial arts kung fu movies.
To put it simply, martial arts films sell kung fu and personal heroism!
And in the current time and space, in fact, martial arts movies have always existed, for example, the most typical is Zheng Yuan - what he walked is actually similar to the road of Jackie Chan in another time and space, but although Jackie Chan started from that corner of Hong Kong, he eventually went global, and he himself became the spokesperson of Chinese kung fu, and Zheng Yuan in this time and space has always been short of a breath, even if he is already a top star in China, but the momentum is not so big!
In recent years, Li Qian has been paying close attention to the trends of the domestic film market, analyzing various figures, from famous directors and stars, to some big-selling works, etc., to analyze their successes and failures. After careful analysis and consideration, in Li Qian's view, Zheng Yuan's positioning has made a little mistake, which is the key reason why he has never been able to break the bottleneck and go to the next level.
In short: he never fully embraced the concept of "Kung Fu".
He sells fight scenes well, but he has never emphasized "kung fu", and has not raised his movie ideas to the level of "kung fu heroes". In other words, what he sells is actually a handsome word!
Saying that he is a martial arts movie or a kung fu movie, it is better to simply say that he sells idol fight movies.
And corresponding to him, it is also a pity that Guo Yulong, another top star in China, although his kung fu is very good, and his filming is also very beautiful, and even the one who gave him a martial arts finger is still the best martial arts finger in China, Zhou Zhengju, but on the contrary, Guo Yulong has been making martial arts movies - he also does not sell personal heroism!
Therefore, kung fu movies and martial arts films, selling fights and selling personal heroism at the same time, creating top kung fu stars - it is such a seemingly simple road, and it has been proven to be an absolute golden road in another time and space, and it has also successively brought out the path of top superstars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, etc., but in the current country, due to various reasons and backgrounds, no one has gone so far!
When he had nothing to do, Li Qian also thought that if Guo Yulong's kung fu or Zheng Yuan's appearance were used, they could realize the difference between "martial arts films" and "kung fu films" from an early age, and they could realize that although the audience loved to watch martial arts and martial arts films, the contemporary urban environment made them actually more interested in personal heroic kung fu films full of romantic feelings, maybe after a few movies, they would now be Jackie Chan and Jet Li - this is not an exaggeration.
However, by chance, Guo Yulong has become popular to the top, but he is still working hard to make various martial arts movies, telling about the grievances of the rivers and lakes, and in recent years, his popularity has gradually become worse than in the past, and although Zheng Yuan is still majestic and his box office appeal is still strong, he still continues to move forward on the road of selling cool and handsome...... The road is a little crooked, and the result is so far behind.
So, Li Qian has already made up his mind, since you didn't expect it, then I will take it upon myself to bring out two international superstars who can represent "Chinese Kung Fu"!
Because in Li Qian's view, before Hollywood's comic book heroes dominated the film world, the one who once dominated the entire world film industry and attracted global attention was the Chinese kung fu superstar - Bruce Lee!
The development of the economy has made the transportation more and more convenient, the city is getting bigger and bigger, and it is also more and more convenient for people to obtain information, but at the same time, the huge modern social operation system, so that the role of a single person is infinitely smaller, as the modern urban population with no sense of existence like an unknown ant in the metropolis, there are fewer and fewer people who can do their own thing, and countless people are trapped in the life in front of them, trapped in life, very tired, very helpless, but powerless to resist.
As a result, the modern urban society is calling for the emergence of heroes who can be used for quick consumption!
Looking at the decades of film development history in the whole world in another time and space, the way to meet the film consumption of modern urban people in this regard is the kung fu heroes of the East, and the comic heroes of Hollywood!
Although time and space have changed, Li Qian knows that the development trend of society and the essential needs of human nature will not change!
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In the private room of the hotel, Liu Chengzhang frowned at first, and then his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something, and he didn't have time to pay attention to the surprise and puzzlement of others, so he asked: "Have you got the adaptation rights of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"? Or the latest "Dragon Babu"?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the private room was stunned again, but in an instant, Hu Fei and Qin Wei's eyes, like a few knives, stabbed over with hot light!
Of course, no matter how bright their eyes are, they are not as good as Liu Chengzhang!
When drinking and chatting in the crew of "Sword Immortal" before, Liu Chengzhang had sighed more than once that he liked "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" very much, thinking that it was a pinnacle work that had appeared in the current domestic martial arts novels and martial arts culture, so he especially wanted to take the adaptation rights of that book, and even planned to make a series of movies, planning to use four or five pages to tell that story, but it was a pity that he tried his best, but he could not contact the author himself, and the publishing house had no right to sell.
At that time, he was talking and sighing, Li Qian just listened, but didn't say a word.
Liu Chengzhang is a very sensitive person, a typical southern director, from the heart to the camera, is sensitive and delicate, at that time, he had noticed Li Qian's abnormality, and subconsciously thought in his heart that it was very likely that the plan of the two people collided - "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was so popular, Li Qian was already the person who filmed "The Legend of the New White Lady" at that time, and it was normal for him to fall in love with this book.
So at this moment, when he heard that Li Qian was going to make a martial arts movie, his surprise only lasted for a moment, and his thoughts quickly turned to this matter - the author of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" could not be contacted, which was the thing he had never forgotten and haunted in the past year or two!
But at this time, Li Qian made him stunned.
Whether he wants to make a movie or a TV series himself, he is not ready to use them until the entire fermentation of public opinion in that series of martial arts novels has been completely completed in society.
Anyway...... He also has no shortage of good stories.
Seeing that Hu Fei and Qin Wei also looked at it with burning eyes at this time, they knew that those of them who are directors and engaged in film investment were extremely hot for the three martial arts novels published by themselves under the name Jin Yong, especially "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu", so they hurriedly waved their hands, "No, no, the one I want to shoot is a script I wrote myself, called "Huang Feihong". ”
Wong Fei Hung...... This is obviously an incredibly unfamiliar name.
Li Qian had even asked someone to check the historical materials and related local historical records before, and in this time and space, he could be sure that there had never been a Southern Martial Arts Master named Huang Feihong in this world.
However, he is not ready to change his name.
First, to remember the world in my heart, and those classics, and secondly......
No such person?
Don't worry, as long as the movie is good-looking, as long as the movie is popular, some people will take the initiative to help explain and second, for example, according to expert analysis, the historical prototype of Huang Feihong's movie image should be so-and-so...... And so on!