Chapter 827: What Is Chivalry (3/3)
Since Yang Ming decided to use kung fu movies as a breakthrough for Chinese films in the international film market, he would not hide the action design and shooting skills he introduced from his previous life.
Moreover, there are other shooting skills like Hanging Weiya, which can be kept secret for a while, but not for a lifetime.
So at this time, Yang Ming didn't want to be a villain.
Moreover, before the old man Hong supported himself in front of the media, he almost scolded Zhou Qiangsheng by name, and Yang Ming would naturally give back to the old man Hong for his kindness.
And Yang Ming's identity is not only the director, but also the boss of Oriental DreamWorks, even though he and the company have achieved a lot of success in the entertainment industry, but the foundation is still shallow.
Yang Ming really didn't have any reason to refuse.
Still, he has something to say.
He said slowly: "Old Man Hong, what do you understand about martial arts?"
Huaxia's martial arts culture and martial arts culture can be said to be one and have a deep relationship, and now Yang Ming wants to take kung fu and action movies as the first breakthrough areas of Chinese films, so he doesn't have any worries about Old Man Hong sending people over to learn shooting skills.
But a successful kung fu movie can be called a kung fu movie if it is not just a good action designer, and it can be called a kung fu movie if it can shoot gorgeous kung fu!
If this is really the case, then Yang Ming believes that it will not be long before countless kung fu movies with empty action and no connotation will appear in the film market.
Although these movies can achieve good box office results for a while, they are very unfavorable to Yang Ming's plan.
The end of kung fu movies in the previous life, even in the back, the post-90s generation grew up to become a new force at the box office, and kung fu movies still could not be recognized by the post-90s.
This is not unrelated to the fact that those directors who made action movies in their previous lives only relied on purely shooting so-called gorgeous action shots to attract audiences.
After watching a movie, except for fighting, it still fights, and there is no other connotation and meaning.
It can be said that this type of movie is inherently no different from Hollywood's pure popcorn movie, but compared with Hollywood's popcorn movie that relies on special effects, Huaxia's movie for the sake of playing is much cheaper.
Get a few martial artists with good kung fu, design some wonderful fight scenes, and then find a few good stars, dangerous actions are completed by stand-ins, if an action movie is fast, it can be shot successfully in a month, and then it can be released quickly to make money.
This kind of unnutritious action movie can be dozens a year, and the audience has long watched it and wanted to vomit, and the final result is that the audience will no longer buy it, and when they encounter kung fu movies, they will no longer be willing to pay for movie tickets.
This kind of uncreative, assembly-line-like action movie that can be produced and filmed every month is definitely well-known for Yang Ming, who wants to spread Chinese martial arts culture.
It can be said that why the kung fu movies in the previous life later became Adou who couldn't be supported is also because those people have long made this type of movie bad.
In this life, Yang Ming didn't want the tragedy to happen again, so he asked Old Man Hong this question, which was related to his future plans, and he had to be cautious.
As a 'literati', the old dean immediately became interested when he heard Yang Ming's question, pondered for a while, and said: "Martial arts, there were in ancient times, happiness and enmity, and chivalrous rivers and lakes, if you really want to talk about it, the "Water Margin" of the four famous books is a manifestation of martial arts culture!"
When Yang Ming heard his teacher's answer, he couldn't help but nod his head and expressed his admiration, but "Water Margin" is an old-style martial arts.
"Bring it to serve, move must be virtuous, virtuous will prosper, and double virtue will collapse. The old dean shook his head and said, "The ancient ranger is becoming more and more popular, and most of the young people are proud of being a ranger. These rangers are always hidden in the mountains and forests, or after a little magic skills, they will drift away, and they don't know what to do, quite like a Taoist priest. ”
After saying these words, the old dean glanced at Old Man Hong with disdain and said, "Do you understand?"
Yang Ming almost burst out laughing when he heard this, these two old men were so funny.
Old Man Hong's face is really not comparable to ordinary people, after so many years of hard work in the entertainment industry, he ignored the old dean's ridicule, and said to Yang Ming: "If you have anything to say, just say it directly, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it for you." ”
Hearing Old Man Hong's words, Yang Ming was silent for a while, and said slowly: "Old Man Hong sent people to our company to learn to shoot kung fu movies, there is no problem, but the people sent here must pass the test of our company, it is really not good, and they must go through our training before they can enter the crew to observe." ”
"Is it for you to say what kind of martial arts?" asked Old Man Hong a little incomprehensibly, he really couldn't understand why it was so complicated to learn how to shoot an action movie.
Yang Ming did not hide it, and then slowly said his considerations, if you learn to shoot this kind of kung fu movie, and do not have a certain understanding of Chinese martial arts culture, then there will inevitably be countless fight movies with empty fights and no connotation in the film market.
And it is very likely that some film companies and crews will take advantage of the moment when kung fu movies are just flourishing to pull a grassroots team and shoot a large number of kung fu movies just for money.
As a result, the film market will inevitably be chaotic.
Hearing Yang Ming's straightforward explanation, Mr. Hong also felt the same way, or that he had a similar experience back then.
Old Man Hong thought about it seriously, nodded, and sighed: "What Xiao Yang said is reasonable, according to what you said, there is actually no difficulty in the shooting of this kind of kung fu movie, but as long as this shooting method spreads, everyone will definitely rush to make this kind of movie circle money, and if there are many bad movies, then for the entire film market, it is equivalent to a bird and a vat of sauce!"
Hearing such an image of Old Man Hong's analogy, the corners of Yang Ming's mouth couldn't help twitching, but what this old man said was indeed reasonable.
"Could it be that if you want to avoid this situation, it has something to do with the martial arts you said?" asked Old Man Hong, still puzzled.
Yang Ming said: "Almost, the success of "Shaolin Temple" and "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" is not only the wonderful and fierce fight scenes, but also the great personality image it creates - this is "chivalry". ”
"Whether it's for martial arts novels, or martial arts movies and kung fu movies, my philosophy is: it's better to have no martial arts than no chivalry. ”
"Chivalry is a kind of behavior, but also an ideal, a kind of will full of dreams and glory, whether it is reasonable or contrary, whether it is contrary to the law, chivalry will always be stubborn in the pursuit of the same in his heart. And this pursuit is to do the right thing for heaven when the heavens are not working, and to enforce the law on behalf of the land when the earth should not be, and when the law enforcement is unjust, when it is reasonable, the chivalrous man suddenly looks back and is born, and acts on behalf of the mission of fair law enforcement and emergency rescue......"