Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-fifth
"Longmen Inn" created a martial arts film mode, character, narrative, scene, and rhythm, which allowed the audience who were addicted to Shaw Brothers' fake flowers and grass studio to see another possibility. From then on, martial arts films must strengthen the sense of history, pay attention to the nature of the landscape, design the rhythm of fighting, understand the spirit of the times as its foothold in the times, and gradually become a poetic film product. These are the changes Mr. Hu brought to martial arts films, and Mr. Hu is a veritable master of martial arts."
In the underwatch studio, Xu Ke held a detailed script and cast in his hand, but his eyes were looking at the Longmen Inn directed by Hu Jinquan on the screen. The poetic scenes inside were extremely sighing.
"Indeed, in terms of martial arts, Director Hu used Peking Opera techniques to innovate martial arts scenes. Several characters appeared, and with the cooperation of music, they were as impressive as the appearance of Peking Opera; during fighting, the step-by-step advancement with music and the beat of fighting, all became the object of imitation of countless martial arts films later. The innovative fighting style of the film also made martial arts films in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even mainland China finally emerged from the shadow of Japanese warrior films, establishing a fighting method with unique self-character charm, and now, it has finally become a unique genre film among Hong Kong and Taiwan films with great achievements. " Qiao Feng nodded in agreement.
In fact, it is not only the previous directors that were affected, but also in the past few decades, those martial arts films have been deeply influenced by the martial arts film styles directed by Hu Jinquan.
Even Xu Ke in front of him, this martial arts master in the future, was still deeply affected. Xu Ke is even a director who perfectly inherited the martial arts style of King Hu. Whether it is the New Longmen Inn in the original time and space, the Swordsman, Huang Feihong, Qingshou, etc., these martial arts movies can be said to be re-created based on the martial arts movies laid by King Hu. These starting points began with a successful example of "Dragon Inn" established by Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films.
"Do you have the confidence to shoot well and be very far away from this classic directed by Hu Jinquan?" Qiao Feng pointed at the movie that was still on the screen, and asked with a smile.
"Mr. Qiao brought together Li Lianjie, Qingxia, and Zhang Manyu, as well as Cheng Xiaodong, an old partner, as a martial arts coach, and the script Mr. Qiao wrote so well. If I don't have confidence anymore, I would be too sorry for Mr. Qiao's attention."
Although Xu Ke said that Li Lianjie, Lin Qingxia and others were the guarantee of success, in fact, in his heart, the greatest confidence comes from himself.
Qiao Feng knew Xu Ke very well, so he smiled and shook his head: "You are not honest. You are obviously confident in yourself, but you just want to be treated as someone."
Xu Ke laughed and changed the topic and said, "Since the hero chose Li Lianjie, then the final villain Cao Shaoqing, we must also choose someone who can match Li Lianjie's kung fu, otherwise I am afraid that the final fight will be difficult to be exciting."
Qiao Feng deeply agrees with the question raised by Xu Ke, because this question exists in the original time and space.
The original Xinlongmen Inn in Time and Space is played by the male protagonist Zhou Huaian, while the villain Cao Shaoqing has practiced martial arts since childhood and has excellent kung fu.
Although Liang Jiahui has watched many martial arts kung fu movies, he can't even have any kung fu. So after the movie was released, many people complained that Zhou Huaian's martial arts skills were too watery, and they were not as good as Qiu Moyan and Jin Xiangyu kung fu played by Lin Qingxia and Zhang Manyu, and they played well.
The most exciting thing about fighting in martial arts or kung fu movies is that both sides are equal in size.
Take Li Lianjie as an example. His most classic fight scenes include several fights between Fang Shiyu and Zhao Wenzhuo and Ji Chunhua, as well as the fights between Huang Feihong and Xiong Xinxin, the fights between Jingwu Fengyun and Zhou Billy, the fights between Tai Chi and Zhang Sanfengli and Qian Xiaohao, etc.
All of these most classic and most talked about are equally matched, and both sides are duels between martial arts masters.
Zou Zhaolong, who has had rival scenes in movies such as Li Lianjie in Zhongnanhai Bodyguard, Adventure King, The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Demon Sect Leader, etc., said that among the actors he has worked with in his life, it is the most comfortable to work with Li Lianjie, because everyone has good kung fu, and they can catch the other party's moves back and forth, and the fight is exciting enough, fun enough, and comfortable enough.
"What do you think of Yuan Heping's apprentice Zhen Zidan?" Qiao Feng thought for a while and said.
"Zhen Zidan?" Xu Ke was a little confused. The name sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember when he had heard it.
"Well, Zhen Zidan. He is Li Lianjie's junior brother. He was first discovered by Yuan Heping to star in Xiaotai Chi. Then, not long ago, he and Zhang Xueyou, Ren Dahua and Cheng Yuling starred in a police and gangster film, and the special police slaughtered the dragon." Qiao Feng said with laughter.
"Oh, it's him, I remembered it." When talking about the specific movie, Xu Ke immediately matched the person he remembered.
When Xiao Tai Chi was released in 1984, the box office was pretty good. The box office of more than 6 million was very good when the box office could exceed 10 million. The local box office alone made investors make a lot of money. As for the box office abroad in Shanghai, they could make millions more.
Therefore, at that time, Zhen Zidan was a new star who emerged in the film industry, especially in martial arts movies.
But unfortunately, the drama became popular, but it was not popular either. Zhen Zidan felt that she was not developing well in Hong Kong, so she returned to the United States and returned to Hong Kong to film again this year.
That is, Zhen Zidan's mother Mai Baochan and Yuan Heping's sister are good friends and good sisters. Otherwise, if Zhen Zidan was highly praised by Yuan Heping in the past, but then she would not care about giving up the lead and running back to the United States, Yuan Heping would never give him a second chance.
After returning to Hong Kong this year, Yuan Heping once again promoted Zhen Zidan. Among them, the special police slaughtered the dragon, so that Zhen Zidan had the most fighting scenes, revealing Zhen Zidan's personal characteristics.
"Singapore Dragon Slayer" is one of the earliest excellent Hong Kong action films, with exciting plots, intense action, exquisite martial arts fighting, and fierce gun battles. Unlike Wu Yusen's legendary depiction of gunfire flying, the style of this film is more rigid, more like the Miami Dragon in its heyday.
The producer of this movie is Debao, which is also one of the few pretty good movies that Debao and Princess Jin have fallen into a falling out and have participated in the establishment of Xinbao Cinema.
Pandison also brought the film to the Cannes Film Festival this year, making it widely circulated in Europe, making Zhen Zidan also praised there.
However, although this movie became popular in Cannes, it performed very well after it was released in Hong Kong.
Chapter completed!