Gu Long and Jin Yong are the representatives of martial arts novels, and their works have been put on the screen many times, creating a generation of Chinese martial arts dreams. With the death of Gu Long and Jin Yong, the gradual decline of the martial arts theme film and television drama film industry, many people feel that the era of martial arts is disappearing. On September 26, 2021, bad news came again, and Zhang Pengyi, a well-known director who had directed "The New Biography of Chu Liuxiang", "The West Wind of Cema Xiao", and "The Legend of the Hero of the Great Banner", died of illness, which once again aroused the attention of netizens.
It is reported that director Zhang Pengyi suffered from advanced stomach cancer at the age of 80. Previously, in May, he was preparing a new play in Hengdian, but unexpectedly found that he was in the terminal stage of stomach cancer, so he returned to Taiwan for treatment, but he did not expect that from the discovery of cancer to his death, 4 months later, director Zhang Pengyi suddenly passed away, which made people regretful.
Zhu Yanping, a director who has directed films such as "The New Oolong Courtyard of the Laughing Forest Boy" and "Laughing Jianghu", learned of the bad news of the death of director Zhang Pengyi, and posted condolences on social networks to express his grief. Zhu Yanping said that director Zhang Pengyi is half of his master, and has always used "Xiao Zhu" to call him, which shows the promotion of the predecessors to the younger generations. Zhu Yanping also said that director Zhang Pengyi walked suddenly, and he was shocked to think that his heart was also greatly shocked, and he could see his reluctance and sorrow for the death of director Zhang Pengyi between the lines.
Perhaps many people are not familiar with the director Zhang Pengyi, after all, he has been in the industry for many years, many people have only seen his works, but know very little about himself, especially the younger generation of audiences may have only seen his works when they were young, but this does not mean that his contribution to Chinese martial arts film and television dramas has been worn away, on the contrary, he has also reflected a glorious era and left a lot of classic martial arts works for the audience.
Director Zhang Pengyi worked in Hong Kong Shaw films in his early years, and it should be known that Shaw created an era, Shaw Company not only cultivated many well-known artists, such as Liang Chaowei, Zhou Runfa, Chow Sing Chi, Zhao Yazhi, Yuan Yongyi, etc., the films produced by Him were mainly costume martial arts movies, kung fu movies, etc. "Drunken Man", "One-Armed Knife", "Meteor Butterfly Sword", "Chu Liuxiang's Ghost Mountain Villa" and other martial arts movies are more classic memories of a generation.
Zhang Pengyi grew up in such a working environment, and he also formed an indissoluble relationship with martial arts, and he was even more affectionate with Gu Long novels. During shaw's work, he has directed many martial arts films adapted from GuLong novels, and in 1985, he turned to China Television and invited Zheng Shaoqiu and Lin Qingxia to star in the TV series "Chu Liuxiang New Legend of Midnight Orchid", "Chu Liuxiang Finale", the plot continues the plot of Hong Kong TVB "Chu Liuxiang", seamless connection makes Hong Kong drama into Taiwan drama, which is rare.
After that, Zhang Pengyi went to the mainland to shoot the ancient costume martial arts drama "Cema Xiao Xifeng", which was also based on gulong novels "Tianya Mingyue Dao" and "Meteor Butterfly Sword", and Wu Jing, Yu Feihong, Tao Hong and others starred in the play. And this drama is also a childhood memory in the hearts of many people, and some people have bumped the CP of Wu Jing and Yu Feihong.
Zhang Pengyi's martial arts films, martial arts scenes are very exciting, he is very good at using different camera positions and angles and the rapid conversion of the camera to present the crisp and neat martial arts scenes, the audience can also experience the thrill of life when watching the drama, let people immerse themselves in the world of happiness and vengeance, and come and go in the world of difficult and dangerous people.
Look at director Zhang Pengyi at the age of 80 and still insist on shooting new dramas, and his love for movies and TV series is not comparable to ordinary people. The older generation of artists has always been like this, sticking to their jobs all their lives and maintaining a lifelong love. The spirit of being able to turn a loved one into a career and fight for it for the rest of your life is truly admirable.
For the death of director Zhang Pengyi, netizens have expressed regret and hope that the old man can go all the way. For many people, director Zhang Pengyi is a symbol of the times and a feeling. The reason why people always reminisce is precisely because there are too many beautiful things hidden in the past, which belongs to their youth and cannot be replaced by anyone.
In the current situation of ancient puppet dramas, xianxia dramas, etc., and the decline of ancient costume martial arts, it is difficult for the audience to see an orthodox representative martial arts drama or kung fu film, and it is even more difficult to see the vigorous fighting, the neat and neat martial arts moves, and the great righteousness of the country and the people and the children's love in front of the screen. Some are just dazzling special effects and slow motion of spinning and jumping without hesitation.
Over the years, more and more outstanding actors and directors of the older generation have passed away, as if to tell the audience that the brilliant and brilliant era of martial arts will never return, and the ancient costume martial arts will decline, and I don't know when it will return to the peak. The death of director Zhang Pengyi is undoubtedly telling the audience that everyone's youth is over.