Breakthrough Of Genre Films And Pursuit Of Author

The martial arts film is a type of film with oriental charm rooted in Chinese traditional culture.It is also a unique movie type contributed by the Chinese film to the world movie.It has achieved worldwide recognition.However,in the new millennium,the creation of martial arts films has entered a bottleneck period,not only low output,but also high quality of the few.Since 2010,there has been a new trend in the creation of martial arts films,such as Jian Yu(Su Zhaobin,2010),The Butcher,the Chef,and the Swordsman(Wu Ershan,2011),Wu Xia(Peter Ho-Sun Chan,2011),The Sword Identity(Xu Haofeng,2011),A Touch Of Sin(Zhangke Jia,2013),Brotherhood of Blades(Lu Yang,2014),Mr:Six(Guan Hu,2015),The Assassin(Hsiao-Hsien Hou,2015),The Master(Xu Haofeng,2015)and so on.Let us seem to see a pleasant turn.Although the number is still small.The creators attempt to break through the type of defect,and the pursuit of stylistic expression and author films becomes more obvious.Perhaps this will be the favorable opportunity for the martial arts movie to get out of the bottom and once again flourish.Based on this special cultural scene,traditional academic research practices and the convenience of analysis,the scope of this article is the martial arts film for 2011 and beyond.After clarifying the definition and connotation of martial arts films,I will then sort out the history of martial arts films from the perspective of literary history and film history.On the premise of clarifying the present situation of martial arts film creation and academic research,using the two dimensions of genre films and author film to analyze the martial arts film in the mainland,Hong Kong and Taiwan.It not only grasps the new trend of the present martial arts film from the macroscopic view,but also carries on the concrete case analysis and the text analysis from the microscopic aspect,tries to make a summary of the new trend,and provides some references for the future creation of the Chinese martial arts film.Make a prospect to its direction.The final conclusion is:martial arts film has a lot of new creative trends in the second decade:realistic image style,the seclusion of chivalric expression,the type mixture of martial arts film,the construction of the martial arts film value system.With the participation of many major domestic directors and the increasing maturity of the film industry system,as a commercial film,martial arts film should have more excellent and mature works.The broad market space that has been reactivated should also have a place of "martial arts film with artisty".