In the final analysis, action kung fu serves the plot of the story, and can be used as a genre film, and the elements of action martial arts will inevitably become the visual content with the largest proportion in the movie screen. The terms kung fu, action, and martial arts can vaguely outline this type of film culture inherent in China. With the development of film culture, kung fu action movies are constantly being retouched and even grafted.
Jackie Chan's passive beating-style kung fu comedy mode has become old-fashioned. Ang Lee has shown beautiful martial arts-style Chinese kung fu. Star Lord has paid tribute to the action classics of the golden age. "-style "Martial Arts", and Feng Delun simply played the most trendy and youthful means - game animation. As an anime game fan, this is a phenomenon that I am very happy to accept. When American comic characters such as Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, etc. are transformed into realism, it is not out of line for the essence of Chinese civilization that exists in reality to follow animation.
From "Tai Chi 1", we can see the slightest hint of this series of movies, of course, there are also grand ideas of the producers, maybe we can play the feeling of the Chinese Kung Fu version of "Pirates of the Caribbean". After all, it's not easy for a kung fu film to expect the depth of the narrative to be played, and let the hero and heroine fall in love? Then what about Chinese kung fu... It's enough to play anime in earnest. Anyway, it's just looking at the pictures and talking, what you want is simple and easy to understand, and the visual effects are clear.
From Feng Delun's past director experience, "Tai Chi" really can't give people much expectations, and thanks to Chen Guofu behind the production, the story is also at the level of short stories and jokes. Judging from the cast lineup, the participation of actors, directors, and martial arts athletes from all over the Taiwan Strait and three places feels a bit like a kung fu fight, as well as the madness of "Crooked Boy Scott". The male protagonist of Diaosi, who was born with prodigies, was in danger of studying kung fu, and accidentally became a hero of salvation, but he entered the troubled world and was in troubled waters, facing endless challenges like a pirate Luffy. The story of an idiot becoming a master expresses the The common self-healing voice of diaosi all over the world.
The story may be too "weak", and there is no shortage of love entanglements. With the strong game sense of the picture expression, "Tai Chi" with kung fu as the core content does not need to overemphasize the first two. The martial arts champion Yuan Xiaochao who has no performance experience, as long as he can fully show the good looks of kung fu, he will live up to the title of the male protagonist. Yang Ying is an important heroine who connects stories and roles, and she is worthy of the title of the first sister of "Tai Chi" with her skills and face. Peng Yuyan has a pure and evil spirit in his bones. Although he is a fan-faced scholar, it is through this role that he can introduce another important element of the film, steampunk. You are the Boss of the movie, and the lack of human strength is due to the lack of steam machinery. If you want to say that the Boss is not strong, it is because you are the beginning of the film series, so there must be room for the later Boss to play. What's more, Chinese kung fu is the focus of the film, how can we mess up the priority.
The choreographer's achievement is nothing more than to play with symbolic image packaging in the real Kung Fu scene. The scene is displayed by substituting characters that are often found in the game. Although the subtitle introduction of the character's appearance is the real identity of the actor, it is more like a rant. After all, the fighting scenes are real martial arts rather than fantasy fights. The packaging cannot be materialized like the Qigong of One Yang Finger and Six Meridians Excalibur, which is too fancy. "Tai Chi" is more like a martial arts science and education film. It analyzes and analyzes the action principles of kung fu moves through the screen. Supplementary information is constantly displayed in the screen, and the combination of point and surface looks a little fresh. The supplementary information of these floating transformations is often more eye-catching, making people unable to take into account the martial arts action and the editing of the screen itself, so there are more slow-moving actions. I'm not accusing the director of playing fancy games, it's also an early adopter of a sense of game.
Playing with fancy visual packaging on the screen of kung fu movies can be regarded as an interesting attempt. No matter how unsuccessful Fung Delun’s previous film works are or how high-level Chen Guofu’s previous successful film works are, in the current Chinese commercial film market, in order to play for many years The kung fu movie genre is an effective attempt to play with new expressions, whether it is successful or not. At least from "Tai Chi 1", I can see that the game-like kung fu movie has follow-up highlights.
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