The theme of "Universal Fan Congress" aired last Saturday was: Wuxia. The guests present were also the eighth master Yuan Heping, who was known as the "world's first martial finger".
Yuan Heping, he is definitely a prominent figure in the world's action direction industry, and has served as the action director of many domestic and foreign blockbusters for many years. "Huang Feihong's Second Boy Should Strengthen Himself", "Kung Fu", "Ip Man", "The Matrix", "Kill Bill 2", "Generation Grandmaster" are his representative works.
Speaking of martial arts, as the host Zhang Bin mentioned at the beginning of the show: If Chinese films contribute a certain category of films to world cinema, then wuxia films are definitely China's first major contribution and the most Chinese film genre in the international market.
It seems that in the mixed cut of any martial arts film, you can see a lot of familiar movies, and at the same time, you can feel the ups and downs of the rivers and lakes.
But the early martial arts films do not seem to be so beautiful, during the recording of the program, Yuan Heping talked about the interesting things about the early martial arts films in Hong Kong, and also mentioned a word: seven days fresh.
In the 1950s, such a "seven-day fresh" situation often appeared, which had a lot to do with the film environment at that time. Later, with the development of the film industry, the situation has improved, generally a film shooting time is between 20 days and a month, plus the post-production, scheduling schedule, etc., may have to wait for two or three months or even longer to be released. But in fact, even today, the cycle of film production is still relatively short, and there are not many filmmakers who are really willing to slowly ponder and carve.