It is true that after filming the musical "If Love", Chen Kexin can be said to be a local director in Hong Kong who combines his personal style with the market response in the context of a Chinese film. Subsequent "Famous Names" held high the banner of the milestone of the costume blockbuster, fully showing the atmosphere and the manly side of the filmmaker who started his career as a literary film. In addition to being familiar with the action scenes, he never lost his own literary and artistic style and style. He has a deep understanding of human nature, so that his subsequent films can often be rigorously structured and won high praise.
Compared with the conservative and heavy-handedness of "October Siege", "Wu Xia" looks like an exceptional work of a Chinese film. Of course, in this film, Chen Kexin still has the basic requirements for blockbusters and has a good grasp of commercial elements, but what impresses me most is that while catering to the market, he can also add his own understanding of the story from time to time. And ideas, due to the diverse perspectives, produce a different interpretation of traditional martial arts, thus showing another possibility of martial arts films.
Interpreting traditional martial arts with a scientific view, freshness is coming. However, new elements are always double-edged swords. Although medicine and law are worth pondering over and over again, the sharp reduction in the chivalrous flavor of the film not only makes it difficult for the audience to feel a sense of substitution, but also pushes the film mercilessly to the extreme of another style. , that is, a lot of suspense and detection. This is the same as "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire", which is a typical example of martial arts. In the face of marketization, the innovation of martial arts films is imperative, and it is normal to add elements that the audience likes to see. Unfortunately, "Martial Arts" did not achieve enough. The destruction and innovation of martial arts style, but it is full of deep nostalgia and respect for traditional martial arts films.
Therefore, in fact, "Wu Xia" and "Kung Fu" are the same as Chinese films. The latter pushes kung fu films to the top of Chinese films with their wild imagination and endless creativity; the former uses old bottles of new wine to turn the world of rivers and lakes established by Tsui Hark and others upside down, with social order and human nature. The true nature of the film redefines and interprets Hong Kong martial arts films, completely breaking people's inherent concept of martial arts films with a new attitude.
For Donnie Yen, "Martial Arts" is likely to be his best film after "Ip Man 2", and also a Chinese film with the best action design. After experiencing the armor of "Jin Yiwei", the bustling hustle and bustle of "Jing Wu Feng Yun Chen Zhen", and the imbalance between the two heroes of "Guan Yun Chang", Donnie Yen finally has a very convincing and deeply personal label. , This is rare for him, who has constant film appointments. But he still used a unique interpretation method to portray the image of a master who was hidden in the city.
It can be said that "Martial Arts" is a film completely different from the style of the "Ip Man" series. In the end, Chen Kexin did not exaggerate the national sentiment and promote the noble spirit of the hero, but, like Zhou Xingchi, competed for power in the crowd. Against the background of the great era of power and greed for glory and wealth, with an indifferent attitude towards life, he forbeared the mantra that "ordinaryness is a blessing".
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