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Chapter 124 A Way Out for Chinese Action Movies

What does the phrase "I know" 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 fighting... But I also specially contributed a little box office to your recent movie "Front and Cloud". That’s not the case... That movie has twists and turns and a unique structure. To be honest, I can’t believe that the director who made "Front and Cloud" would come to make such an action movie."

In Chen Xi's heart, he had a pretty good impression of Liu Jialiang.

This is a person who really thinks about Kung Fu and is persistent.

Watching the movies he directed before, he has always had a kind of persistence in the head-to-head confrontation.

In the golden age of Xiangjiang movies, kung fu, action, police and gangsters are definitely the three key words, and these three key words have given this golden age more imagination and impact.

In the 90s, due to the lack of special effects in Xiangjiang movies, they had to be hard-boiled, with real knives and guns. The fights were very brutal, but they were also quite classic. It is difficult to create the sense of power from punches to the flesh with special effects. .

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

Spielberg replied to him that these were all done with computers...

At that time, Jackie Chan was a little dazed, and then he said after a while: "Ah, we didn't, we have to punch and kick." This dialogue may sound to many people as no big deal, or even boring.

But thinking of Jackie Chan's injuries, many people will feel sad for it.

But it was also Jackie Chan, Li Lianjie and others who worked hard with their fists and kicks to create the golden age of Xiangjiang movies, and a future where Chinese-language movies still have a huge influence in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, and Chinese-language movies. A place for cinema in Europe and North America...

Later, with more stunts, Kung Fu became more and more fake.

Especially with Cheng Xiaodong, of course, it cannot be said that his ear films are bad... But indeed, he has shot kung fu and action movies to the point of obsession, relying on dazzling editing to create action effects.

But for people like Liu Jialiang, he still has his own pursuit of hard Kung Fu movies.

"This is exactly why I plan to find you. If such a pure action movie cannot create an attractive effect on fighting, it will only make people drowsy... and it is impossible to achieve what I want. I think the understanding of the movement to create a movement that is always attractive, in this respect, you will be very strong!"

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

Chen Xi thought for a while, and then said: "Our action movies have developed to the present, and I think we have reached a path where we can't continue to develop. Pure kung fu movies and action movies are becoming more and more difficult to give people the passion they want. , and our action movies, I feel that there is less and less a real life-and-death threat now! There is a lack of things that can make people scared but also extremely cool! And I think my movie can do this !"

"Europeans and Americans like Chinese kung fu movies at the beginning, which is novelty hunting, but this sense of novelty hunting will gradually disappear. If we can't come up with new things, our action movies will decline!...Of course, we don't need to talk about those big movies. In terms of things, let's just talk about the question of what the audience likes. This kind of movie, to put it a bit vulgarly, is completely an A. movie with violent action and violence. If you add beautiful, rigorous and reasonable movements , then everything will come to fruition!"

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

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

"But it can be released in other places!" Chen Xi said: "This is also the direction of my filmmaking. I think you should also know the final box office of "House of Flying Daggers" and "The Golden Flower". Our film , it can be regarded as a different angle for our weak action movies!"

"House of Flying Daggers" and "Curse of the Golden Flower" both fell short in Europe and the United States, unlike Zhang Guoshi's other films.

However, there is another thing that proves that it is by no means that Europeans and Americans have lost interest in Chinese action movies... It is just that Chinese action movies have not made a breakthrough: last year, "Fearless", a film about Li Lianjie punching and kicking white people , but in the end it was just a film of sympathy with RB people who are also of yellow race, and it still sold a terrifying box office of 2000 million US dollars in the United States!

It is conceivable that the problem is not others, but us.

We spent a lot of time erecting the signboard of Xiangjiang-style action movies, but it took only a few years to smash it all...

In Chen Xi's memory, especially 10 years later, the Chinese film box office market was inflated like cotton candy...

At that time, it was a thankless thing to please foreigners to earn overseas box office. The Chinese market is so high, but if you look for yourself, it is easy to break through a terrible box office.

Therefore, Chinese films are becoming more and more reluctant to make progress abroad, including the once brilliant action films.

Chen Xi's film, of course, cannot be said to be able to save Chinese action films, but he can indeed find a new way of thinking for Chinese films, and it can also allow people in the world to once again establish a new understanding of Chinese Kung Fu .

As far as he himself is concerned, this film will allow him to establish a preliminary overseas reputation, and it can also make some money.

"Okay...you let me think again." Liu Jialiang said: "Actually, I know what you think, and I also hope you can succeed..."

"Well, good! What I hope is that we can succeed together!" Chen Xi said this cleverly, seeing that Liu Jialiang did not show any objection, she was determined.

...Liu Jialiang also took away some of Chen Xi's scripts.

From these few shot scripts, it can be seen that there are many subversions of traditional Chinese action movies...

Indeed, it would be a completely new kind of film.

When Liu Jialiang left, he kept thinking about what Chen Xi said. In fact, many Xiangjiang filmmakers are worried about the decline of this iconic Chinese-language film.

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

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(End of this chapter)