Martial Arts Movie

The development of China's swordsmen film follows the law of periodic. With the effects of politics, culture and economy, swordsmen film has continually experienced a course from adjust, bloom and decline to readjust in the past several decades. Especially form the 90th, the concept of entertainment first sprawling in the continent and furious market competition expanding to the whole world, there has been a trend in swordsmen film that it starts to transfer to action film. Since the nineties, the burgeoning CGI has been counting more and more parts of the swordsmen film while it ignored to pay sufficient attention to the humankind's emotions and characters. Therefore, the real swordsmen film today are not as many as before. However, as one of the film genres embodying the Chinese traditional culture and spirits, china's swordsmen film should take on its culture mission and history responsibility. In today's world film structure, the Hollywood film hegemony has sweeped the markets of many countries, but at the same time, South Korea, India and Iraq are guarding their culture position and context strongly by right of their unique national films. So, research carefully the art mechanism of the swordsmen film and dig deeply its aesthetic and cultural values, maybe can help today's china's film get out of the corner, which now is surrounded and impacted by the films of the other countries.