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Chapter 1431 Martial Arts, Martial Arts

Actually there is a very interesting situation.

Although the current martial arts novels, martial arts movies, and TV series are indeed in decline, mostly replaced by other genres such as fantasy, fantasy, or fairy tales, the fact is that many people don’t like to watch them, not because they are real. I don’t like martial arts anymore.

On the contrary, who doesn't like the kind of life that goes to the end of the world with a sword?

Therefore, it is really not a joke to say that every man has a martial arts dream in his heart.

For this reason, when Li Yi, Chen Weijie and other big stars joined hands, and veteran martial arts stars such as Cheng Hu and Yuan Baye jointly launched: "Once Upon a Martial Arts Dream~The Martial Arts in Your Heart" script collection activity, it was instantly popular Topped the list of hot searches.

The comments from netizens below are also very interesting.

"Martial arts, haha, who didn't want to travel to the ends of the world with a sword, but the reality makes martial arts only a dream!"

"Who says it's not the case? When I was in college, I always dreamed about what my future would be like, but after I graduated, I realized that I was nothing!"

"Isn't the building upstairs a little crooked? Martial arts, martial arts, the key is martial arts!"

"When I was a boy, I watched martial arts. I longed for the world in it, with bright clothes and angry horses, drawing swords in anger, gratification and grudges. But I don't know when it started, and suddenly it became very difficult to watch. Who can tell me, what has changed in martial arts? , or have I changed?”

"It's not that martial arts have changed, it's not that you have changed, it's that this fucking society has changed!"

"Director Dog finally extended his sinful hand to the martial arts section. Do you know how long I've been waiting? Almost every year, I watch every new martial arts film, one after another. But, What’s the result? How great the expectations are, how great the disappointment is. I almost don’t watch TV now!”

"Martial arts films are really in decline. Looking back on those days, blockbusters were almost all about martial arts, but what about now?"

"Martial arts films, as the genre with the most distinctive Chinese cultural characteristics, have actually disappeared. I have to say that this is actually a microcosm of the gradual abandonment of traditional culture!"

"Yeah, there are some experts who say that the custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner should be cancelled. It's true that cats and dogs can be experts!"

"It was my martial arts dream! I hope Director Dog can bring a little surprise this time!"

"Actually, have you ever noticed that when you watch some martial arts dramas you watched before, you can make a lot of complaints, such as the most critical question, where do those damn knights get their money?"

"This is a bit nonsensical. It's a science fiction movie. Why don't you ask, why does this kind of technology appear when it's obviously not possible yet? It's martial arts. It's a fictitious world and fictitious characters!"

For a time, everyone was talking about martial arts, discussing martial arts, and talking about their own martial arts dreams.

"Do you remember the martial arts movies you watched when you were a kid? You saw the heroes in them performing chivalrous acts and drawing swords to help each other. What a carefree and unrestrained life. Did you ever think that you could fly over walls, rob the rich and give to the poor, and be a chivalrous person who enjoys life? Where is the chivalrous woman?"

"So what? The fact is that in many martial arts stories, the world inside is too illusory. The education we receive is that bad guys must be punished and bad guys must die. So I naturally think that bad guys should die, otherwise those who are alive Good people are in danger, and those who die die in vain. So between these two contradictions, we have doubts about those martial arts novels we once liked, thinking that there is something wrong with his thinking and that he is shielding the bad guys. As long as martial arts is A strong bad guy can do whatever he wants.”

"The irony is that as we grow older and have more experience, we gradually understand that although those bad guys kill people, they are just happy to take revenge. They will do whatever it takes to achieve their own goals, and they are very loyal to others. They are very similar to many people around us. , I began to understand that many things in the world are not black and white, right or wrong, but everyone's standpoint is different.

In fact, it is a literary reflection of reality! "

Although most people were just discussing it, many people did start to submit articles and write about martial arts.

For a moment, there was a feeling that martial arts had returned.

Of course, this is always just an illusion. After all, it can be seen from the fact that there are still few martial arts movies on the market that martial arts is really in decline.

Although the popularity of martial arts was false for a while, the reality is that according to the recent growth data released by several video platforms, the number of views of old martial arts dramas and martial arts movies has actually increased a lot.

Not only that, on the music platform, the playback volume of the theme songs of martial arts film and television works and martial arts-related songs has also increased a lot.

Search volume has skyrocketed.

This is something that many people have not thought of. Doesn’t it mean that martial arts is in decline?
But what the hell is going on?

Of course, despite the noise and excitement outside, in fact, the collection of scripts for this event was really nothing to see.

why?
It’s not that there aren’t great screenwriters in China, but the genre of martial arts has really been outdated for too long.

Therefore, when everyone got together, they all looked helpless when talking about this.

"Hey, I've read all those scripts, and I have to admit that martial arts have been excluded from the mainstream for too long. Even the martial arts stories written by great screenwriters..."

"Yes, a story written by a gold medal screenwriter, too"

Everyone was a little helpless.

The idea before was good, but one fact was ignored.

That is, everyone has not been exposed to the martial arts genre for a long time, so many ideas are still stuck in the past. Maybe some people want to innovate, but they don’t know where to start.

"Actually, this is normal, because now it is difficult for everyone to say that they understand the market, and no one knows what the audience likes to watch. At the same time, because many screenwriters rarely accept scripts of this type, it is difficult to suddenly Just get started, after all, there is no reference!" Li Yi said calmly.

He had actually expected this result.

After all, just because a theme has been popular for a while does not mean it will still be accepted by the audience today.

This is true for martial arts, and the same is true for other types of movies.

Different eras have different environments, and naturally have different thoughts, and even the audiences are different. So how can the same thing be guaranteed to be liked by different people?

Li Yi actually hopes to draw inspiration from these things and activate the golden finger.

In fact, these scripts were not really without merit, but they still made him feel that something was missing.

However, there was a comment from a netizen that gave Li Yi some ideas.The review reads: "In the past, martial arts always focused on grievances and grievances, and grudges and grudges. Now when I look at it again, I suddenly feel that it is really not that good. It seems that our martial arts dreams are not like this, so why? Isn't it the kind of story that combines some real historical events and backgrounds?
For example, during the darkest history of our land in China, there were many real "chivalrous knights" who made praises and lamentations. For example, Tan Sitong who wrote: I am smiling to the sky with my sword, leaving the liver and gallbladder in Kunlun!There are many, many real characters. They are real and do not need to be invented. Why not write stories around these characters? "

This activated Li Yi's golden finger, and he remembered an ancient movie.

That movie was an old Hong Kong movie from another world. The box office of that movie was very low at that time, but was it a bad movie?
Li Yi didn't think so. On the contrary, he watched the movie and had to say that the lines in it were really amazing!
Moreover, some latecomers used this story to tell modern stories with the same core, and as a result, they gained both box office and word-of-mouth success.

But comparing the two, Li Yi felt that the old movie was better!
This made Li Yi couldn't help but think of a poem:

Sing Yan City generously, and be a prisoner of Chu calmly.

Lead the knife into a fast, live up to the young head.

Although the author of this poem was about to make a mistake later, he took the wrong path, ruining himself and the poem.

But there are people who truly achieve the spirit of generosity and sacrifice written in the poem.

And this story is related to this person!
He is Tan Sitong, one of the Six Gentlemen of [-]!

Although the story is martial arts-oriented, it does not prevent the spirit from being shown in the film.

After watching it, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh that this movie was really ill-timed!

But for him, in this era, this movie comes at the right time.

Why do you say that?

The movie is called "One Knife".

At that time, the mainland market was still in its infancy, let alone Hong Kong Island. At that time, the people of Hong Kong Island had been colonized for so many years, and it was difficult for them to like the spirit and story in "One Knife, All That" .

But this era is different. Now the country is prosperous, and the self-confidence of the Chinese people has reached a very high level.

At this time, such a movie, the story in it, and the spirit can definitely resonate with people.

And Li Yi likes some of the lines in it very much.

"Those who have always cared about the country will be the ones who will be sad for all eternity."

"The Black Flag Army is extremely powerful. It kills foreign traitors and protects the country. It cannot shed the tears of heroes and cannot forget the hatred of the family and country. It cannot drink all the wine in the cup. It cannot sing the song of farewell. It cannot put down the knife in its hand. It cannot kill them all. Enemy head.”

Wait, wait, it can be said that Li Yi fell in love with this movie right away.

He began to write the script of the play.

This time he wrote very slowly, because you have to admit that the lines in this movie are really very interesting.

Many of them can make him have endless aftertaste.

History is both true and false.Who is it, in the vast corridor of time, composing a series of heart-stirring and majestic chapters?

Some classics have been dusted for a long time, but when I think of them inadvertently, the passion is still there. Every line and every word is the rugged road blazed by a good Chinese man who sacrificed his life.

After finishing writing, Li Yi burst into tears.

Some things can really touch people's hearts.

Then he sent the script to Yuan Baye, Cheng Hu and others.

After that it was all right.

A good work, a good story, everyone can feel it.

Even if they dare not say that the audience will definitely like this movie once it is made, at least at this time, they really love this story so much!

"One Knife" is not a martial arts movie in the traditional sense.

The content of the story is actually not complicated.

The film is set against the background of the Reform Movement of [-] in the late Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of Wang Wu, the sword captain of the Black Flag Army under the command of the famous general Liu Yongfu, who led the sword team to assassinate the commander of the Little Japanese Army. All his troops died heroically. Wang Wu was ashamed of his subordinates and abandoned his sword and jumped off a cliff. However, He survived, and later met Tan Sitong and Yuan Shikai by chance, and went to Beijing together to achieve great success.Wang Wu went to Beijing to help Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong establish the "Qiangwu Society" to cultivate a group of aspiring men among the people, hoping to revive the national destiny.Tan Sitong wrote "Ren Xue" and was determined to reform and reform, but at a critical moment he was reported by Yuan Shikai and was beheaded in the vegetable market. Wang Wu fought against Yuan to avenge him and finally died heroically.

In fact, "One Knife Allure" doesn't have many exciting points, and the tone of the whole movie is even tragic.

You can't help but be tragic.

Because a movie like this will make people sadly ask why it is always so hard for people of insight to realize their ambitions.

"Success or failure is only a thin line, why do we always fail?"Especially in modern times, in this era of internal and external troubles and turbulent times, national conflicts, class conflicts, old and new conflicts are acute, and it is either you who die or I die.

But this is a tragic era!
"I can't shed the tears of heroes, I can't forget the hatred of my family and my country. I can't drink all the wine in the cup, I can't sing the farewell song, I can't put down the knife in my hand, I can't kill all the enemies." "The motherland is not a country, there is a family but no family, the world is so big , where is my place?”In this era of national salvation, "Those who have cared about the country and the people since ancient times have been sad people for eternity." "Those of us who do great things will either succeed or fail."

The reformers, represented by Tan Sitong, decided to break through the trap and carry out reform and reform with the urgency of "ten thousand years is too long, seize the day". "The battlefield is like officialdom. You must act decisively without delaying for a moment. When you want to change, you must To change, there is no room for any favor or hesitation, otherwise once the opportunity passes and the opportunity is lost, it will be irreversible!

It is a pity that he is a man with lofty ideals and benevolence, but he has a lot of enthusiasm and heroism, but he has no real power in his hands and no political experience.Faced with the die-hards who have real power and tact, he is vulnerable. In the end, he can only "I smile to the sky with my sword, leaving my liver and gallbladder intact."He sacrificed himself for justice and died generously.He looked up to the sky and sighed: "Although the world is big, there is no place for me." "I can escape from prison, but I cannot escape from the world."Alas, "if you die before you leave the army, it will make the hero burst into tears."Seeing this scene, I could only sigh and lament.

But this is the essence of this movie. It no longer simply pursues a sense of enjoyment, because in such a historical background, it is a tragic era, so how can it be said that it is refreshing?

(End of this chapter)