Why did the martial arts films decline?

First of all, genre films tend to decline periodically, and so do martial arts films. When a type of film becomes too successful, the audience gradually begins to lose interest in this type of film. Some types will come back after a period of silence. I think martial arts movies will do the same, even though the popularity of martial arts is decreasing now.

The decline of martial arts films is also closely related to the decline of Hong Kong films. The legendary swordsman, Ashes of Time, Xinlongmen Inn and Huang Feihong are all produced in Hong Kong. However, many of the backbone of Hong Kong films are foreign. In 49, Hu Jinshuan, Jin Yong and other Hong Kong martial arts founders came to Hong Kong from the mainland. When the Hong Kong market was insufficient and the output was limited, many of them turned to other places. For example, Wong Kar-wai and John Woo went to Hollywood, and more people returned to the mainland.

All the good movies in Hong Kong are forced out. In a tiny place where business is the most important, a box office failure may soon be eliminated. This forces many film creators to practice the ability to make high-quality movies that the audience likes in a short time, at low cost and in a simple environment.

However, in the 2 1 century, Hong Kong films did not fall behind. Many Hong Kong filmmakers went north to enter the mainland, just in time to catch up with a number of mainland commercial films, such as Hero, Promise and Golden Flower. At the same time, it is also a period when the mainland's GDP began to rise rapidly. With a large amount of investment and a growing audience, the pressure on Hong Kong filmmakers in this "not bad money" environment has plummeted, the freedom has increased, and talents have been diverted with capital. It is rare to see a movie that can gather a group of big names from the speaking part, such as Xinlongmen Inn. In many films, we can see that it is very good in photography or sound or clothing, but there are always some other shortcomings, which is why.

Moreover, it has become the norm that high prices do not bring high quality, and many masters have begun to travel.

Of course, the quality of the film itself is not high, which makes them unwilling to bother too much. But some of them lost their true intentions, which made Wushu lose its soul. This is also a very important reason. After all, the most important thing in martial arts is not martial arts, but chivalry. What we see in martial arts films is often not only characters and stories, but also chivalry, history and times. How many people who shoot martial arts now are as well-armed and proficient in Ming history as Hu Jinshuan?

Because of the costume and action scenes, the cost of martial arts films is usually not too low, so investors usually choose a more secure way. Therefore, in order to be published, there will be certain restrictions on the content.

Many martial arts films are adapted from literary works. At one time, martial arts was popular literature. As a high-cost costume action movie, the fan base is also one of the key points for investors to consider. However, with the rise of online literature, many cool articles have replaced the status of martial arts, so the number of high-quality martial arts literature works has decreased. And this also influenced the martial arts movies. The number of fans has decreased, and the martial arts who lost their IP advantage are no longer valued by investors.

However, I believe this state will not last long. After the low tide, there should be another batch of high-quality works in martial arts films, although they may adapt to the transformation of the times like "The True Color of Heroes". But chivalry will never change.

The decline of China's martial arts movies has always had this tone, and I think so. The most intuitive confirmation is that the martial arts movies shown in theaters are basically not as good as the box office, let alone the word of mouth. As far as Tsui Hark's Four Kings of Di Renjie is concerned, it is much better than the richest man in Xihong City in terms of plot, special effects, even the prestige, ability and imagination of the director Tsui Hark, but from the box office, the Four Kings barely exceeded 600 million a month, while the richest man in Tomatoes earned more than 2 billion. Of course, box office is not the only criterion. Time will prove that, from the perspective of the development of the film industry, we will be more grateful to The Four Kings of Renjie for promoting the film industry in China. But judging from the audience's love, people prefer family dramas and martial arts movies, and the audience is really average.

If the cinema of "Four Kings" is cold or individual phenomena are good, then let's look at the time quickly. Tsui Hark and Dong Shengyi's The Sword of the Third Young Master didn't have a box office at all. Of course, there is something wrong with the production of that film, and there is no doubt that it is a bad film; Wong Kar-wai's The Master is really a good martial arts movie. The joining of Zhang Ziyi, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Zhang zhen captured the flavor of the times and was a classic, but the box office was not high. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: Sword of the Green Ghost, although directed by Yuan Heping, joined by Yang Ziqiong and Donnie Yen, is also doomed at the box office. Looking around, Chao-Bin Su's Sword Rain, which was produced and directed by John Woo, is really a masterpiece with excellent texture, but it is still doomed at the box office. If we go further, we can only mention Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which is a classic that shines brilliantly at the Oscars, but it is still rare at the domestic box office.

Judging from these, the decline of China's martial arts films is a fait accompli. But why is this? China's martial arts movies used to be the most popular movie type, while China's film industry is immature, and many types of movies have not taken shape, but only martial arts movies are unparalleled in the world. Judging from Shao's production in those days, they must be excellent. They made countless martial arts movies, starting from Shaolin Temple in the mainland, and then to Tsui Hark's series and Jackie Chan's drunken fist in the 1980s. Martial arts martial arts, martial arts is just a means, chivalry is the purpose, if there is no chivalry constraint, martial arts can only fly around without touching the ground, which really makes people feel that they have lost their foundation. In recent years, Xu Haofeng's new martial arts films, Hiding on the Back of the Knife, Master and Knife Rubbing Hands, have overcompensated the martial arts films, bringing the martial arts back to the ground and gaining a lot of praise. But the decline of martial arts movies is an indisputable fact.

In the past ten years, more and more martial arts movies have relied too much on dazzling movie stunts, but the touching martial arts feelings have gradually declined, and the way out for martial arts movies is really worrying!

Dong Fangbubai.

Ten years ago, the theme of martial arts was the only way for famous directors to move towards blockbusters. However, with the excessive dependence on film special effects, the quality of martial arts films is becoming more and more unsatisfactory, the number is also decreasing year by year, and the box office is getting weaker and weaker. In recent years, martial arts, although there are occasional special effects scenes coming to the legendary swordsman, now has the flavor of the end of the hero!

20 15, The Assassin Nie Yinniang by Hou Xiaoxian, The Taoist Down the Mountain by Chen Kaige, The Sword of the Third Young Master by Dong Shengyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 by Yuan Heping, the combination of big-name directors, action stars and popular young students failed to resist the street reputation!

Monk Comes Down The Mountain

Xinlongmen Inn, Dong Fangbubai in Jianghu, ashes of time and ghost stories. . . In fact, these classic martial arts all illustrate the fact that martial arts should be divided into martial arts and chivalry. Now the so-called martial arts films overemphasize martial arts and ignore chivalry. Martial arts is a special effect, chivalry is a feeling, and it is a distraction!

The ashes of time.

For movies, it is also periodic. Maybe martial arts movies have reached a peak. Without new ideas, they began to transform into new martial arts and new stunt films.

Of course, apart from the reasons of genre cycle, creative reasons are the main reasons, including over-exploitation of the same theme, spending too much cost and money on the creation of visual effects and the remuneration of stars. Of course, this is not wrong, but don't ignore the power of the script itself. A good script is equivalent to a good soup. Only good soup can cook good dishes, and no amount of chicken essence can be put into the soup.

New Dragon Gate Inn

As the film type with the most China characteristics, chivalrous films still have great prospects, and this chivalrous spirit can only breed in the fertile soil of China. I hope that future martial arts films can focus more on the creation of the word "Xia" instead of just working hard on gorgeous pictures, so it is really a sesame seed and a watermelon!

Today's martial arts films have declined, mainly because the social environment has changed. In the past, most of the actors in martial arts films have practiced and all have certain martial arts. Now many actors can't suffer in this respect. They prefer to just stand there and do a few random moves, and leave the rest to the special effects. Is the film made in this way a martial arts film? Obviously not.

I remember Nicholas Tse, a famous movie star, said that when he made a martial arts film, he practiced every day, and there were many weapons at home, so he had to practice whenever he had time. Whether a person has kung fu or not depends directly on whether he can play with weapons.

Yu Rongguang, a movie star, also said that all the martial arts actors at that time were real kungfu. On the other hand, today's actors value personal image most. They always do close-ups and slow motion in film and television dramas, so that they won't get hurt, don't bother to practice, and their income is high. Why not?

In the past, injuries to martial arts actors were common. Nowadays, many actors just scratch their hands and feel that the sky is falling. You can't make a martial arts film with such an attitude.

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The above answer is very comprehensive. I want to add one thing. In the last post, I also wrote a comparison between the current martial arts films and those of the 1990s. Interested viewers can look at the last post.

Why did the martial arts films decline?

There is another important reason besides other reasons.

In the 1990s, Hong Kong martial arts films took the elegant and unique action design road, because Hong Kong reached its peak and it was difficult to break through. Now, the aesthetic of action has returned to the realistic competitive fighting mode.

The elegant action design of Hong Kong martial arts films in 1990s no longer conforms to the current audience's aesthetic view of action films. To put it bluntly, the elegant action design of early Hong Kong martial arts films is out of date.

It is a fact that China's martial arts films gradually declined in 2000, and now it can only be said that there is inheritance. Compared with Hong Kong's martial arts films in the 1980s and 1990s, there is a big gap in its heyday. Tsui Hark's Di Renjie series is a magical movie, and martial arts is only a genre, not a pure martial arts movie.

In addition, only two directors are worth mentioning. One is Xu Haofeng's martial arts works. In action design, we can compare the work Master with Chen Musheng, the great director of Hong Kong who also has a collection of all-star cast in Hong Kong.

The only actors in Master are Liao Fan and Song Jia, while Liao Fan and Song Yang are not practitioners. Jason Wu, Liu Qingyun, Louis Koo and Eddie Peng Yuyan Swift were included in Thanos, and the lineup was too strong. As a result, Master won the overall reputation and action design.

The other is "Embroidered Spring Knife Series" directed by Chinese mainland youth Yang Lu!

This film is more like a traditional martial arts film, and it also draws on and inherits the Hollywood new era genre film, which is very excellent. Learning inheritance is mainly one thing, just like action design. In the previous Hong Kong martial arts films, Xu Ke flew around in the early stage and was fantastic and elegant in the middle stage.

Embroidered Spring Knife, the action style of stabbing and fighting as much as possible, and the rapid switching of shots are close to the design of Hollywood action movies now.

The number of "Embroidered Spring Knife Series" is too small, and the market feedback is good, but it is far from good. Compared with Wolf Warriors 2's Operation Red Sea, the box office of 200-300 million can't even reach the top spot.

Even compared with Ex-3 and Iron Fist of Shame, the gap is too far. There is no follow-up to whether "Embroidered Spring Knife 3" can be filmed again. Other martial arts films with similar costume can't see any tomorrow.

Judging from the audience feedback in China film market, the quality of Embroidered Spring Knife is not far from that of Di Renjie, but the box office feedback is far from perfect. Certainly not Zhang zhen, the hero of Embroidered Spring Knife, or Mark Chao, the hero of Di Renjie.

Embroidered Spring Knife is much better than Di Renjie in portraying characters. Gay brother in Embroidered Spring Knife 1, Pei Lun in Embroidered Spring Knife 2, and newly played Ding.

The reason is that in China film market, fantasy movies of industrial blockbusters are much more popular than martial arts movies, and the audience in the market also accepts this mode, as well as Wolf Warriors 2, a contemporary military action movie like Operation Red Sea.

So the decline of martial arts films is certain. Now whether Xu Haofeng or Luyang, in addition to returning to realism in action design, genre themes are more in line with the reality of the little people in the big era. In the past, the decline of elegant martial arts films has become a fact, which is difficult to reverse.

It seems that there are not many new martial arts films in recent years, and most of them are remakes of previous martial arts novels. But there are few real new martial arts films. What followed seemed to be another kind of fantasy TV series and TV series, such as Flowers, Qing and to the sky kingdom.

Many people say that this is an era of the decline of martial arts. It is an indisputable fact that fantasy novel emerges one after another and martial arts films decline. So why did martial arts films fall?

There are no good martial arts themes and works.

This is very fatal. Everyone knows that making TV requires scripts. It seems that there are not many martial arts themes in recent years.

Many directors are still keen to shoot the works of Jin Yong and Gu Long. Indeed, their works are excellent, which can be said to be the pinnacle of martial arts themes. But after so many years of remake and revision, these works are not enough to catch the audience's eye.

Because if there is another classic remake, you won't go to the audience again. Most of those masters have stopped writing, and other authors have no good themes, so the audience can only turn their attention to more attractive works with the theme of fantasy Xianxia.

Audiences like other TV dramas and have diversified interests.

This is a change of concept. Wushu can be said to have spread all over the country ten or twenty years ago. However, the new generation seems to have no profound concept about this. On the contrary, they have been exposed to fantasy novels and Xian Xia novels since childhood. I don't seem interested in traditional martial arts novels.

Film and television plays are not attractive to them, and they are not only novels, but also corresponding games, which impact the concept of this generation of new people. Their awareness of the game is definitely much higher than the traditional martial arts content.

The investment in martial arts films is relatively small.

In addition to the remake of the martial arts films made in these years, there is also a role that is not very suitable. Now the flow is on small fresh meat, so their value has doubled, and some even made a movie of hundreds of millions. Moreover, martial arts films will be difficult to shoot, so many traffic students are reluctant to shoot.

This also led to the choice of the protagonist, either an old play bone and an inappropriate age; Either you can't afford it; Or you spend a lot of money and your acting skills are poor. These have also led to the bad reputation of many works. Small fresh meat actors can't suffer, even if the producers invest more, they may not make money, because the cost of actors is too high.

Then if the producers can't make money, they naturally don't want to invest a lot of money to do it seriously, and they can't shoot good works.

Martial arts novels are fairy tales for adults. Martial arts films used to be very popular, but now they are nothing new, too outrageous and not in line with the original. The audience generally think that the remake of martial arts films is not as good as the original, and they all know the general meaning after reading several editions, so there is nothing to see.

Now the new version of martial arts novels is facing a shortage of successors. Martial arts novels still stay in the works of Liang, Jin and Gu Long, always turning over and over, and the audience is numb.

Now, Xian Xia, magic, and the most wonderful military movies and TV programs are very popular with young audiences. After watching them, their blood was boiling, the crowd was excited, and their blood gushed, releasing their passion, starting from "Bright Sword" to "I am a Special Force". The sword is drawn ","I am a special soldier. Jason Wu's Fire Phoenix.

Pursuing novelty, inspiring morale and arousing * * * sound, whoever grasps the pulse of the times will win the market!

Personally, I don't think it's a decline, but now that technology is developed, martial arts films are always remake in various ways. Just remoulding them. There are five special effects that are really hot!

There is also the cultivation of actors. Nowadays, most of the actors are white-faced students, and some of them don't meet the role orientation of martial arts novels at all, so they will play! I can only say that TV is all about ratings, and whoever uses it will use it!

There is also the intervention of those magical martial arts TV dramas! Reading e-books is ok! I can't watch the TV series anymore!

There are no good martial arts novels now, except that the remake is magic, so let the classics stay in our time!

Martial arts films are in decline. ...

Once upon a time, in the golden age of Hong Kong film development! Hong Kong martial arts films can be said to have the status of "goddess" in men's minds! It's very exciting! The master in the play is like a cloud, as light as a swallow, and everyone is stunted! Let us envy!

Today's martial arts films have lost their former glory! More is urban comedy or science and technology action movie! The reason why the current martial arts films lose their competitiveness is that people's understanding and concepts have great reasons!

For example, the achievements of technology development to today! Machines have gradually replaced labor! Automation Chengdu is also getting higher and higher! I used to use a sword, now I have a gun! Compared with the latter, the two are more direct, more exciting and more able to capture the hearts of the audience! Moreover, now both special effects and film production are very realistic! Pay more attention to the visual enjoyment of the audience! Science fiction movies are a good example!

Why are urban comedies also popular? Because, now people's lives are under great pressure! People are eager to spend their leisure time happily in a relaxed and comfortable way! So it's great to go to the cinema and choose a comedy to relax yourself! You don't have to think about anything, just prepare your "smile"! This has also become the reason why the aura of martial arts films is gradually dim!

Wushu?

It is no exaggeration to say that he is an adult fairy tale, whether it is a film and television drama or a novel.

Since childhood, I have been exposed to martial arts the most. At that time, martial arts were represented by novels by Jin Yong and Gu Long.

When watching martial arts movies and TV plays, we often fantasize that we are a character in it, and a knight can jump off a cliff with his sword.

However, fantasy is fantasy, and film and television dramas are film and television dramas. After thinking about it, I still have to return to reality and do what I should do.

Okay, let's get down to business.

Why did Wushu decline? My understanding is about this.

1 point

Out of date, really can't keep up with the changes of the times.

2. There is no better writer to write better words and works. Even if it is written, few people will read it. Most readers will only read it if there is a martial arts plot.

In addition to Jin Yong, Gu Long and Liang Yusheng, we have met other famous martial arts writers such as Huang Yiwen Ryan, Xiao Yi, Wesley and Ni Kuang.

At 3 o'clock, there is no progress, but it is falling behind (as you said)

I remember a writer at Qidian said: Martial arts means saving people and being saved.

There is nothing wrong with this sentence.

The martial arts works we have seen are all two routines: saving people and being saved. Even if Jin Yong has a famous saying: the great man of chivalry is for the country and the people, he has not escaped from the strange circle of "salvation"

Except for one person, his series of "fantasy" and "chivalrous man" broke the strange circle of "salvation", and that person was Huang Yi.

Someone once said: If Huang Yi's Fantasia hadn't been born, we would still be watching Jin Lao's "The Great Man is for the Country and the People".

4 points, the quality of words and articles

Nowadays, writers (not to mention writers) ignore the quality of content and articles in order to write more words and earn more money. Actually, there's nothing I can do about it. It's all forced by the website. When a writer writes something new and is lucky enough to sign a contract with a website, you have to hurry up and code words with your hands and keyboard.

Conclusion: In fact, Wushu has not disappeared, and it is impossible to disappear. Just exists in another way. "Alien", yes, it has evolved into a carrier related to "fantasy" and "alien"