Do you still love the straight male cancer in Kill the Wolf 2？ Support for hard-core kung fu movies
1905 movie network exclusive feature This year’s Dragon Boat Festival is extremely hot, with seven movies released successively, covering action, science fiction, youth, adoration and horror, which can be described as a lot of choices. With the release of the box office monster into the second week, these seven films also have the capital to compete with it. The new force "Kill the Wolf 2" was first released, and the box office on the first day exceeded 60 million, which sounded the counterattack horn of Chinese films.
"Kill the Wolf 2" is a Hong Kong-style action movie about straight male cancer, starring Jason Wu, a mainland kung fu student, and Tony Jaa, a Thai kung fu star. Jason Wu, who doesn’t know the Korean three-letter combination (popular little fresh meat, you know), was promoted to be the spokesman of the universe straight man in the new era because of the big sales of military films, and Tony Jaa, a senior elbow lover in Thailand, made the film straight and bloody, which was somewhat out of place with this small era of weak left ear and unbearable Shengxiao Mo. When three or five kung fu straight men are fighting hard on the screen, the scene of plasma splashing and drooling greets your stomach; When the plot of cutting throat and breaking hands scared Xiong Haizi who wore 3D eyes beside him, do you still love such a straight male cancer movie?
"Wolf Warriors 2" is a Hong Kong-style straight male cancer action movie with a lot of violent scenes.
Nowadays, kung fu films are declining, especially straight male kung fu films with hard bridge and hard horse, which have almost become a rare type in the market. Although there have been such adrenaline-pumping single films in recent years, they are not the same as the hard-core kung fu film creation groups and creative trends formed in the 1960s and 1970s. How do hard-core kung fu films break through the dilemma in the booming China film market, and how do straight male cancer kung fu stars find the right way to play? We might as well open our brains and give ideas to hard-core kung fu movies.
Take history as a mirror: fists are hard but not the times, and kung fu is hard and can’t be domineering.
Kung fu film is an original type of Chinese film, even in the history of film, it can have a place. Hard-core Kung Fu movies appeared in Hong Kong movies in 1960s, which was carried forward by the great director Zhang Che and reached its peak in Bruce Lee. After Bruce Lee, there are still filmmakers such as Liu Jialiang and Donnie Yen who insist on the creation of hard-core kung fu films, but it is hard to find the style of the 1970s again.
The true meaning of the word "hard" in hard-core kung fu films lies in the action, which refers to the action that pays attention to actual combat and routines, and constitutes the direct source of injury by physical hitting, which is different from the staged action in early martial arts films. After the death of Mr. Bruce Lee, Hong Kong has cultivated many fake versions of Bruce Lee. Now Jackie Chan, who is full of stunts and world peace, has also gone through the detour of "becoming the second Bruce Lee". Starring Jackie Chan, it was a copy of Bruce Lee’s model that was released in 1976. It was not until 1978 that a vaudeville film with comedy elements was able to break through the bottleneck and become famous in the film industry.
Bruce Lee pushed hard-core kung fu films to the peak, and Jackie Chan and Jet Li succeeded in creating their own styles.
Jet Li, another kung fu superstar on a par with Jackie Chan, made a hard film before meeting Tsui Hark. Tsui Hark cleverly used Jet Li’s righteous face to create a cold humor, and also found a group of local stars with entertainment spirit to play for him, taking on most of the funny tasks, with great laughter. Looking back on Jet Li’s films in Hongkong, most of them are made in this way.
Hard-core kung fu movies are fast-paced, tense and often accompanied by bloody scenes. It may be a good choice to add humorous elements after fighting to relieve the nervous nerves of the audience. It’s true that Jackie Chan and Jet Li can’t copy Bruce Lee, and now the straight male cancer kung fu stars can’t copy the former glory of Cheng and Li. How to naturally add comedy elements to their films to reconcile the blank time in fighting or fighting scenes is a problem that straight male kung fu stars need to think about. Donnie Yen, the former president of Cosmic Straight Male Cancer, also made a great breakthrough in his career because he took on the role of elegant IP Man after acting in a series of pure tough guy films — — Therefore, a little bend may be more attractive to the audience.