2021 is about to pass, taking stock of the action movies released this year, there are very few that can be taken, and "Fury Case" is the most successful film. After watching the film, the author saw that Zhen Zidan, who is nearly sixty years old in the film, is still very capable of playing, and in addition to praising Zhen Zidan's professionalism, he can't help but sigh a few words, our generation of familiar action actors have gradually aged, although they are still young because of proper maintenance, their faces still look young, but the traces of the years can still be seen in the hands and feet. Especially not long ago, when I saw that Jackie Chan's big brother had also shown signs of aging at the International Action Film Week, this feeling was even stronger.
Nowadays, the film market can be described as a hundred flowers, and films of various themes gather on the screen, driving the entire film market to the box office all the way up. However, as an action film of a glorious era, it is becoming more and more declining, and the root cause is that Yuan Heping once mentioned that the working actors are facing the situation of no successor.
In the glory of action movies, the success of the action actors is also countless, the earliest Bruce Lee, Hong Jinbao and other people not to mention, on Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Zhou Runfa, Zheng Shaoqiu and other post-60s actors, which is not many classic action film masterpieces, but with jet Li's shadow, Jackie Chan and other older generation of action actors aging, the only people who can carry the action film beam are probably Wu Jing, Zhen Zidan, Gu Tianle, Zhao Wenzhuo, Xie Tingfeng, Zhang Jin and other people.
Think about the slightly famous action actors, for example, Zhen Zidan, 58 years old this year, Gu Tianle, 51 years old this year, Qian Jiale, 56 years old this year, Lin Guobin is also 61 years old this year, they are getting older, how many years can action scenes be filmed? Wu Jing is the biggest celebrity among the current action actors, and he is also 47 years old this year, and many people think that Nicholas Tse and Zhang Jin may be able to pick the beams, but the 41-year-old Tse Tingfeng seems to be not focused on making movies, single-mindedly engaging in his food.
Zhang Jin is very good at playing, but in the past two years, he has rarely taken on action movies, and Cai Shaofen's family is happy, he is also happy to be a family man, in addition to participating in some variety shows, film and television works have not been filmed much.
For the decline of action scenes and the lack of successors of action actors, many of the older generation of martial arts predecessors have a lot of worries. As early as 2017, when Gu Tianle turned to "playing stars" to shoot "Kill the Wolf 2", Hong Jinbao said that at that time, few people were willing to make action movies, and the country was all small fresh meat, either costume idol dramas, or emotional dramas, and no one made real kung fu films.
Although, now with the popularity of military theme and suspense theme films, more or less brought out some actors who are willing to shoot action scenes, but these films are no longer pure action movies, action scenes are more and more part of many elements of the film, and many action scenes have also added a large number of stunts, special effects, that kind of fist to flesh, real action movies have become less and less.
From the actor's point of view, shooting action scenes also means high risks, if singing a song and dancing can become popular and make money, why do you have to work so hard to shoot the scene?
Look at the action actors we are familiar with, which one has not been injured because of filming? Wu Jing was once exposed that in order to shoot action scenes, he fell injured, his whole body from top to bottom, the bridge of his nose, eyes, arms, waist, left and right hands, knees, and legs were injured, and he was photographed many times in a wheelchair entering and leaving the airport.
Former director of the "Ip Man" and "Kill the Wolf" series, Ye Weixin said when talking about this topic that he believes that action movies will never become obsolete, but he also admits that it is difficult to cultivate good action actors, he said, although there are martial arts champions every year, but the light will be martial arts is not enough, but also have acting skills, audience popularity and other conditions, it is difficult to meet.
Good action actors need a long growth cycle, just like Wu Jing also experienced a long time to succeed, and Zhen Zidan is also. ”
When mentioning why it is difficult for new action actors to come out, Hong Jinbao said: "Now when it comes to making movies in China, it is rushing to the box office of 2 billion and 3 billion, and it must use big names and small fresh meat, how can there be new people coming out? "In any case, it is difficult for new action actors to come out, and it is an indisputable fact that no one will succeed the action actors."
However, as a brilliant era of action drama is not going to disappear, it may not be the protagonist of the film and television drama, but it will never disappear, just like the current popular TV series "Wind Rises Luoyang" there are many action scenes, and The always polite Huang Xuan shoots action scenes as if there is no ambiguity, as long as there are such dedicated actors, the audience who like action scenes still have the opportunity to see wonderful plays, although these actors are not labeled as action actors, but their action scenes are still good-looking! It can only be said that there are not many actors who can only shoot action scenes now, and more actors, as long as the drama needs, can shoot action scenes, which is also very good!