Chapter 123 A way out for Chinese action movies

What does the phrase "I see" mean? Agree or disagree?

Chen Xi was not in a hurry, he also took a sip of coffee and looked at Liu Jialiang.

After a while, Liu Jialiang raised his head: "I read the script you wrote, there is no plot, it's almost a fight...... But your recent film "Frontier" also deliberately contributed a little bit to the box office, which is not the case...... That film, with twists and turns in the plot and unique structure, to be honest, I can't believe that the director who made "Border Storm" would come to make such an action movie. ”

Chen Xi has a very good impression of Liu Jialiang in his heart.

This is a person who really thinks about kung fu and insists on it.

Looking at the movies he directed before, he has always had a kind of insistence on punching to the flesh.

In the golden age of Xiangjiang movies, kung fu, action, and police and bandits are definitely the three key words, and it is these three keywords that give this golden age more imagination and impact.

In the eighties and nineties, because of the lack of stunts, Xiangjiang movies could only fight hard bridges and hard horses, real knives and real guns, and the fights were very tragic, but they were also quite classic, and the sense of power that was punched to the flesh was difficult to create with stunts.

When Brother Cheng Long saw Spielberg, he asked, how did your aliens come out? The model is really well done.

Spielberg replied that it was all done on a computer......

At that time, Cheng Long was a little stunned, and then said after a while: "Ah, we don't, we have to punch and kick." This conversation may sound like no big deal to many people, or even boring.

But thinking of Cheng Long's injuries, there will definitely be many people who are sad.

But it is also the hard work of Cheng Long, Li Lianjie and others that spelled out the golden age of Xiangjiang films, the future of Chinese films that still have great influence in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, and the place of Chinese films in Europe and North America......

Later, there were more stunts, and the kung fu became more and more fake.

Especially with Cheng Xiaodong, of course, it can't be said that his ear films are bad...... But it's true that he has filmed kung fu movies and action movies to the realm of madness, relying on the dazzling editing to create zào action effects.

But people like Liu Jialiang still have his own pursuit of kung fu movies with hard bridges and hard horses.

"That's exactly why I'm going to find you, such a pure action movie, if you can't create an attractive effect in the fight, it will only make people drowsy...... It's impossible to get what I want...... I think that the understanding of movement to create zào has always attracted action, this aspect, you will be strong! ”

"You've dodged my question!" Liu Jialiang directly interrupted Chen Xi's words at this time, and did not listen to his compliments.

Chen Xi thought for a moment, and then said: "Our action movies have developed so far, I think we have reached a road that cannot be developed, pure kung fu movies and action movies, it is becoming more and more difficult to give people the passion they want, and our action movies, I think there is more and more lack of a real threat of life and death!" There's something missing that can be scary but also extremely cool! And I think that my movie can do that! ”

"Europeans and Americans first liked Chinese kung fu movies, it was curiosity, but this sense of curiosity will slowly disappear, and if we can't come up with something new, our action movies will decline! …… Of course, we don't need to talk about those big things, let's just talk about the problem of what the audience likes, this kind of movie, to put it vulgarly, is completely a violent action and violent A. movie, if you add beautiful and rigorous, reasonable actions, then it will come naturally! ”

Chen Xi talked a lot, and his mouth was slightly dry, so he looked at Liu Jialiang and waited for his reaction.

"This movie may be difficult to release in China."

"But it can be released elsewhere!" Chen Xi said: "This is also the direction of my filmmaking, I think you should also know the final box office of "Ambush on All Sides" and "The City Full of Golden Armor", our film can be regarded as a different angle to our weak action movies!" ”

"Ambush on All Sides" and "The City Full of Golden Armor" are all cold in Europe and the United States, unlike Zhang Guoshi's other movies, which are big hits in Europe and the United States.

However, one thing proves that it is not that Europeans and Americans have lost interest in Chinese action movies...... It's just that there has been no breakthrough in Chinese action movies: last year, "Huo Yuanjia", a film in which Li Lianjie punched and kicked Caucasians, but in the end he only sympathized with Japanese people who are also yellow, still sold a terrifying $20 million box office in the United States!

As you can imagine, the problem is not someone else, but us.

We spent a lot of time erecting the Xiangjiang-style action movie signboard, but it didn't take a few years to smash it out......

In Chen Xi's memory, especially 10 years later, the Chinese film box office market has swelled like marshmallows......

At that time, if you want to curry favor with foreigners to earn overseas box office, it is a thankless task, China's market is so high, and it is easy to rush out of the rather terrifying box office.

Therefore, Chinese films are becoming more and more reluctant to make progress to the outside world, including the former glory of action movies.

Of course, Chen Xi's film can't really save Chinese action movies, but he can indeed find a new way of thinking for Chinese films, and it can also allow people in the world to establish a new understanding of Chinese kung fu again.

For himself, this film can allow him to establish an initial overseas reputation and make some money.

"Okay...... You make me think again. Liu Jialiang said: "Actually, I know your thoughts, and I also hope that you can succeed......"

"Well, good! What I hope is that we succeed together! Chen Xi said this skillfully, and seeing that Liu Jialiang did not have any objection, his heart was relieved.

…… Liu Jialiang also took away several of Chen Xi's storyboard scripts.

On these storyboard scripts, you can see many subversions of traditional Chinese action movies......

Indeed, it would be a completely new movie.

When Liu Jialiang was leaving, he kept thinking about what Chen Xi said, in fact, many Xiangjiang filmmakers are worried about the decline of this iconic thing in Chinese films.

So, do you want to try it according to the movie plan called "Raid" proposed by Chen Xi? In fact, this is also a very tempting piece. Confusing things.

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