Tokyo Literature and Art Times

Fatty Wang said directly: "Xiao Zhao must be sad."

Well, definitely not together.

But what about the open ending?

Hisaishi Joe at the moment is definitely the most confused one. He has never watched "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji" at all, and he can't understand what Takeshi Iwata and Fatty Wang are talking about.

But it seems like this is a love story.

So……

"Could it be that a man can have multiple wives?"

What the Japanese asked was really interesting.

In fact, what the strong Hisaishi Joe means is the opposite, that is to say, men should not have multiple wives, they should have one wife.

However, Takeshi Iwata suddenly said something, which made Fatty Wang admire him very much.

"If I'm not wrong, at the end of the script you wrote, Zhang Wuji should still be alone. Even Zhao Min wasn't really with him."

This……

"Monkey Sailei!"

That's right, that's what Fatty Wang wrote!

But Hisaishi made it even more confusing. What was discussed before was a man with multiple wives, but now it has become one?

It's really strange!

He doesn't seem to know where he is...

Chapter 462 The Ambition of the Superintendent!

Fatty Wang is convinced, he is completely convinced.

Although, before coming here, he had already thought that Takeshi Iwata must know martial arts.

But he never expected that this Japanese director would know martial arts so well.

It must be something weird, right?

A Japanese, a Japanese, he knows martial arts so well.

It would be fine if he understood Chinese culture, but Chinese culture is extensive and profound, and there are too many things in it.

Wuxia is only a small part of it.

As a result, he, a Japanese, knows so well!

The point is, what does it mean that he is so familiar with Master Jin's works?

Well, Fatty Wang couldn't figure out what this could mean for a while.

Probably there is a Japanese director who knows martial arts, which doesn't seem to be a big deal.

But I just think it's very interesting, great, and very monkey Sai Lei.

By the way, it is like this.

There is a feeling of reunion.

Fatty Wang certainly didn't know why Takeshi Iwata knew so much about martial arts, and he didn't even know what Takeshi Iwata was up to.

In fact, as far as martial arts culture is concerned, it definitely became popular first from our mainland.

The Legend of the Chivalrous Man and the Legend of the Thief ushered in the era of martial arts.

At that time, martial arts at that time were not so vernacular in terms of writing, as if they were contradictory to the New Culture Movement.

However, the martial arts novels at that time were somewhat progressive.

For example, The Legend of the Thief is related to a real event at that time. Generally speaking, this book is anti-foreigners.

A certain warlord kidnapped foreigners and made them hostages, and unfolded through this incident.

If it is not pleasant to say, it is that the martial arts novels at that time did take advantage of ethnic conflicts.

Of course, this really doesn't sound good.

Because in that era, if you can't write about national hatred and family hatred, what else can you write about?

So naturally it is popular.

Then, not long after, martial arts movies appeared.

Takeshi Iwata knew the film history of our country clearly in his heart. He was a major, and these were the test points.

The first film "Dingjun Mountain", but this is a play, not a feature film.

The real first full-length feature film is called "Yan Ruisheng". This film was also adapted from a real case in Shanghai at that time.

General movie fans may not be familiar with what this movie is about, but if you have seen Jiang Wen's "One Step Away", then you should be able to understand.

"One Step Away" is an adaptation of "Yan Ruisheng". In terms of the whole story, that is, the core part, the two movies are similar.

Whether Yan Ruisheng was the murderer, the famous prostitute who died, and how much criticism he received, in short, the story is similar.

Back then, "Yan Ruisheng" became popular all of a sudden. The filmmakers in our country actually understand the model of commercial movies very well, and they are really good at capturing real hot spots.

After that, a lot of sequels were made, and then...well, it started to be crudely produced.

After that, a new path was explored.

That's it for martial arts movies.

The earliest martial arts movie is recorded as "Burning the Red Lotus Temple".

As far as this movie is concerned, it actually used the world-leading special effects invented by us Chinese filmmakers ourselves.

It is to really do tricks on the film, and then make the fight look special and magical.

There are also some partitions used when shooting, which has an effect similar to a filter.

All in all, the film is technically very good and, moreover, a great success.

Later, many sequels were made, and it is said that there were more than 100. At that time, the movies were like TV series.

However, those who can watch movies are basically rich people.

Therefore, the core market of movies at that time was Shanghai.

I can't look down on other places.

However, there are more than 100 copies of this movie, so can the quality be good?

And, why are they all legends?

Quite simply, this movie actually has big problems.

Because, I have never made this type of film before, and I have never seen such a magical film. Many viewers have really become movie fans.

They were so fascinated that they went into the deep mountains and old forests one after another to find immortals and imitate Taoism.

Well, it seems that the great era of cultivating immortals is about to begin.

Such a situation naturally met with collective criticism from progressive literary and art groups at the time, especially left-wing writers.

It’s true, the country hates the family, the mountains and rivers are broken, and a group of people go to watch movies and go to cultivate immortals. Have you made a mistake!

This movie is a big poison!

Even the bald head felt that this game was not good, so all the "Burning the Red Lotus Temple" were destroyed.

That... Well, probably in the history of China, the most banned movie is definitely bald, no one else.

However, the business opportunity of martial arts movies has been seen by many people.

At that time, the three major film companies in Shanghai almost all made this type of film, and under such circumstances, an industry black sheep appeared.

It is Tianyi.

This Tianyi is the predecessor of Shaw Brothers.

Tianyi, the company, put up a sign from the very beginning: We release one movie a week!

Their method is also very simple, that is, directly find a troupe to come over, and then shoot their scenes.

Hey, a movie just came out.

In fact, the Shaw Brothers films of later generations often follow this pattern.

It's just that instead of looking for a troupe, they turned into a factory.

All actors and directors, in fact, their work has little to do with art, they are more like operators on the assembly line.

Once, Shaw Brothers gave himself a new contract for Xiaosheng, who was the head of the family, and the Xiaosheng left angrily at that time, because the salary was not as good as that of the operators on the assembly line at that time.

To put it bluntly, Shaw's method is that under the extremely low cost, they are not afraid of any competition.

The simplest logic is that even if the box office is not good, the movies they made didn't cost much.

But let alone, this style of spending less money has had a positive impact on martial arts movies.

At least, this type of film has continued.

In fact, many people probably don't realize one thing.

That's the true status of martial arts movies.

Martial arts movies are the most distinctive genre of our Chinese movies!

To put it bluntly, there are no such films in other countries in the world.

It's more complicated.

Martial arts movies are definitely an art treasure brought by Chinese culture to the world!

And the reason why Takeshi Iwata valued Fatty Wang so much, and why he wanted to shoot the sequel of "The Lord of the Demon Cult" so much.

One of the most important reasons is that Takeshi Iwata knows it very well.

If our Chinese films want to impact the international film market, the real decisive weapon is martial arts films!

Yes, that's what he thought.

Moreover, he is very clear that in the next 20 years or so.

Mainland China's film and television industry is booming, and the genre of martial arts is definitely an extremely important part.

Let’s just talk about Zhang Yimou and Chen Dadao, they have indeed gone international.

However, how much box office did the films of these two great directors get in the world?

Indeed, from the perspective of winning awards, they have been very successful.

Even the Chinese have high hopes for the two of them.

But what about economic outcomes?

Almost not at all.

Well, it can't be said that there are none at all, but really no movie has made much box office.

Until that movie came along.

It is "Hero"!

This is a martial arts film.

So, Takeshi Iwata's whole plan goes like this.

For the movie "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", he intends to stimulate the arrival of the blockbuster era.

The time is now quite ripe.

The theater system reform has achieved initial results.

So, what to do next?

Point the way!

To be honest, this is where Takeshi Iwata was most angry with Chen Dadao.

I filmed "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", and you also filmed one.