Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang
Chapter 534 New Era of Martial Arts
Many directors in Hong Kong are very busy and busy, especially those who can sell at the box office. In addition, the filming cycle here in Hong Kong is very short. The fast filming cycle is ten and a half months, and the slow one is only one or two months, three or four. Months are very long, so don’t talk about actors, but directors are always spinning. It’s normal to shoot two or three plays a year.
However, Xu Ke is the exception inside. Of course, his good friend Wu Yusen is even more exceptional. After joining Qiao Feng's company, only good books will be shot, otherwise it will take more than a year to take a break.
Although Xu Ke is a bit more diligent, Xu Ke has also rested since the filming of A Chinese Ghost Story. Not to mention his job as a director. Even if he is doing the director’s job as his favorite, he has the title of producer for more than a year. Nothing.
On the contrary, it is his wife Shi Nansheng who has been busy all year round. Recently, she has been in the United States for a few months in charge of cooperating with several companies in the United States.
Then Qiao Feng saw that Xu Ke was too idle and couldn't stand it anymore, so he took two notebooks and threw them to him.
Both books are martial arts movies, which is also Xu Ke’s best project. Don’t look at Xu Ke now, it seems that the projects he operates are action comedies or fashion action movies, and even literary movies, but Qiao Feng knows that this guy is the best The cow has always only martial arts.
As for the martial arts film that should have come out a few years later and let Xu Ke shoot, Qiao Feng also had his own consideration, because of the original time and space, the martial arts film really became popular after 90 years.
The weakness of martial arts was also at that time, but the high-gloss era of martial arts was at that time.
At that time there were quite a few classic martial arts films, but those martial arts films were not ideal at the box office. Take the look back of Zhang Min, who Qiao Feng has been thinking about, and the leader of the Demon Slayer, they are so classic, and A movie with a lot of big names, I’m waiting for you in most of them, but I’ve been waiting for you for almost 30 years. The reason is not other, but the martial arts movie was weak at that time.
Of course, the bigger reason was that the movie market at that time was weak, and then the hottest martial arts film at that time fell out of luck.
The leader of the Demon Sword and Dragon Slayer was clearly a good film and the investment was quite large. They were the hottest stars at the time. After the box office came out, they were terrible. At that time, the investment was lost. Who else would dare? Shooting martial arts movies of that level with so many stars.
No one dares, and can't afford such a big loss, so most of them have been waiting for 30 years. Until then, the original director Wang Fatty Wang Jingkouli vaguely revealed the news that he would make a sequel.
But at that time, the people of Sri Lanka had already lost their years. The teacher advocated that Wuji was no longer in filming because of illness. He only focused on charity. Zhou Zhiruo married a lame rich man, Xiao Zhao also married a rich man, and had been in the shadows for many years. After running back and forth, as for the princess Zhao Min, who everyone has never forgotten, he reappeared again and again.
At a time when it is clear that the movie market is not so good, even if the classic martial arts films double out, it will not stop the continued decline of the market.
Qiao Feng felt that instead of letting the trajectory of the original Hong Kong film repeat itself, it would be better to bring out those good films that did not reach the expected box office reputation because of the poor film market, so that Hong Kong films would be the most prosperous and prosperous On the basis of, go to a higher level. In that case, even if it is destined to decline due to market reasons, it can continue to decline for several years.
If it can support the rise of the mainland film market, then Hong Kong films still have some hope.
Over the years, Qiao Feng has invested in so many films in Hollywood in North America for the same purpose, so that Hong Kong filmmakers can look at Europe and the United States, and don't dare to try again if they fail once.
After all these years, it is still somewhat useful. At least both Shaw Brothers and Jiahe are different from the original time and space. Let alone Jiahe, in addition to Cheng Long's movies, they have also begun to shoot some other European and American film projects. , Shaw is actively cooperating with Qiao Feng, but also invests itself
The two largest film giants in Hong Kong are all leaving, which has a great influence on Hong Kong films and filmmakers.
The prosperity of Hong Kong martial arts films has two major stages, one is the martial arts era of Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che, and the other is the martial arts era of Xu Ke and Cheng Xiaodong.
Among them, the most far-reaching influence is Hu Jinquan.
If Xu Ke's changes to martial arts movies are in form, then Hu Jinquan's changes to martial arts movies are in the core, artistic conception, and spiritual culture.
Hu Jinquan was born in Peking. He studied ancient Chinese at home since he was a child. He loves painting and enjoys watching martial arts in Chinese dramas. Later, he came to Hong Kong and worked as props, drawing and design art.
In February 1953, on the New Year’s Eve of the Guisi New Year, Feng Yi, Li Hanxiang, Jiang Guangchao, Ma Li, Shen Zhong, and Song Cunshou became brothers of the opposite sex at No. 107 Boundary Street, Kowloon. They were called the "Seven Daxian"
This group of people are all big coffee, the most famous are Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan and Song Cunshou.
Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan, and Song Cunshou both developed in Hong Kong. Later, Li Hanxiang left the Shaw Brothers and formed the League of Nations. Song Cunshou also went to Taiwan. Then he took pictures outside the window and discovered Lin Qingxia, the number one beauty in Southeast Asia.
There are many movie styles directed by Li Hanxiang and Song Cunshou, but when Hu Jinquan entered the world of martial arts from his early years of multiple styles, he completely changed the pattern of martial arts movies, and then martial arts became the only symbol of Hu Jinquan.
A big drunk man established Hu Jinquan's stable position as a new martial arts master, and then he conceived and wrote a generation of classic martial arts movies with the first name and the final name of Longmen Inn.
Later, she won the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Technology Award, Palme d’Or Best Picture (nominated), the 28th Cannes Best Technology and Visual Effects Award, and the Honorable Mental Film Festival at the First Spiritual Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.
This is the first time that a Chinese-language film won the top award in Cannes, many years before Cheng Kaige won the Palme d’Or with Farewell My Concubine.
In terms of popularity in the world of movies, Hu Jinquan was far ahead of his brother Li Hanxiang.
As early as more than a year ago, Qiao Feng wanted to take out the New Dragon Inn for filming. As a result, Lin Qingxia was pregnant and the actress was pregnant with a baby. The movie could only be temporarily shelved.
Now that Lin Qingxia has given birth to her baby, and the baby is getting older, she doesn't have to be with her mother all the time, and Qiao Feng is about to restart the shooting of the New Dragon Inn.
After Hu Jinquan, the top director, changed the pattern of old-school martial arts films, another martial arts master wanted to make new changes in the existing pattern.