Chapter 1044 Enlarge Your Horizons (34)

"The Sun and the Moon are in the Sky", the opening work of Huang Yi's trilogy about the prosperous Tang Dynasty...

From a planning point of view, the Tang Dynasty Trilogy is a masterpiece that integrates the entire Huang Yi martial arts world view in the historical line of Huang Yi's novels. It inherits "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "Legend of the Border" and continues from "The Broken Void" ” and “The Rain and the Clouds”.

Huang Yi's unique fragmented worldview is more completely displayed, that is, the collision of the ultimate yang and the ultimate yin, reproducing the process of the triple union.

Huang Yi has extraordinary insights into Taoist practice, which are complete and rich.

only…

The first book, "The Sun and the Moon in the Sky," is a bit boring to read.

In fact, the beginning is very good. As a sequel story to "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "Sun and Moon in the Sky" uses a brand new character as the entry point: Dragon Eagle.

Long Ying's character is a bit of a mixture of Xiang Shaolong and Han Bai. He became the evil emperor of the Demon Sect, but encountered a whirlpool of pressure.

Wu Zhao, who was born in the Demon Sect and was the female disciple of the Witch Huanwan, has become the Empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty and wants to uproot the Demon Sect. For a time, many forces intertwined and wind and rain from all directions met, creating a fierce and attractive conflict and suspense.

Back then, the book "Sun and Moon in the Sky" was serialized on the Internet and immediately attracted countless attention.

Many online novel masters donated rewards to support Huang Yi, and the comment area was unprecedentedly popular.

However, not long after the novel was updated, its popularity dropped sharply, and there were very few netizens willing to support subscriptions with real money. The results were embarrassing. Later, the mainland online serialization of "The Sun and the Moon" was discontinued. This shows how declining martial arts is...

Let’s talk about the second part of the Tang Dynasty trilogy, “Dragon Fighting in the Wild”.

The novel continues the story of "The Sun and the Moon in the Sky", describing the battles in the court, the ambitions of alien races, the genealogy of the immortal sect, the origin of the demonic way, and the pursuit of the ultimate in martial arts.

The novel sets the background of the story during the period when Zhongzong returned to the dynasty, and the fate of Long Ying also experienced ups and downs...

Finally, there is the unfinished "Bright Ring of Heaven and Earth".

The background changed again. The court fell into the hands of Queen Wei and Wu Sansi, and gradually transitioned to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Tian Shang Yuan, the Northern Gang with mysterious origins in the Jianghu, defeated the Yellow River Gang and the Luoyang Gang and became so powerful that even the Zhuhua Gang in the south of the Yangtze River was in danger.

At this time, the protagonist Long Ying travels across the rivers and lakes, dealing with the government and the opposition, and is dangerous and wonderful everywhere.

Unfortunately, with Huang Yi's death, "The Bright Ring of Heaven and Earth" came to an end completely, and the story stopped at the last three words "Chapter 2" written by Huang Yi.

The most exciting part of the story is left blank, which is exactly what "the sky and the earth are brightly ringed, and the dragon and the eagle are no longer seen flying in the world."

In fact, Huang Yi is better at short novels, such as "Ergo Linguo", "Shattered Void", and "Dragon God", which are full of imagination and personal characteristics. The shorter novels "Legend of the Great Sword Master" and "Interstellar Prodigal Son" All pretty good…

Bringing it back, Shen Xudong continued: "It is indeed difficult to discover new things in martial arts movies. The main reason is aesthetic fatigue, because people are too familiar with the plot routines of martial arts movies, and the plot is difficult to attract... This is normal, Western The film used to be the absolute mainstream of American movies, but in recent years it has become rare..."

Xu Haofeng answered: "Last year, a friend of mine got the rights to adapt "The Eagle Flies in September" and wants to adapt... "The Eagle Flies in September". Does Xudong know about it?"

"Of course!" Shen Xudong nodded: "Gu Long's work, "Eagle Flight in September" may not be very popular, but its status is not low. It is the sequel to "The Passionate Swordsman" and it belongs to the second part of the "Border Town Prodigal Son" series." The third part of the "Xiao Li Flying Knife" series..."

"Yes, my friend wants to make a post-apocalyptic martial arts, a different black martial arts... but he can't find investment..."

Shen Xudong chuckled: "To be honest, your friend obviously doesn't understand genre films. You have to create genre films with their unique appeal in order to have a market. If you just want to tell them in the guise of ancient costumes, There is no market for a story. No matter how exciting your story is, if the martial arts effect you present is not good, it will not be a qualified martial arts film!"

After a pause, Shen Xudong added: "Thrillers, police and gangster movies, and science fiction movies are available in every country, but martial arts movies are only available in China!

Why do audiences want to watch a martial arts film? It can only be because martial arts films provide something that other types of films cannot. So what other types of films cannot provide but what martial arts films can provide is what the film is about. The martial arts world you present is not liked by the audience. Why should he watch a martial arts movie? A martial arts movie is not a costume movie. Instead of finding a story and setting it in an ancient setting, it is a martial arts movie! "

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Martial arts movies are really difficult to make...

I remember that Er Dongsheng worked on a movie called "The Sword of the Third Young Master", but the essence was all in the trailer...

But it’s not that there are no good works.

"A Thousand Miles Away" and "Condescending" are both okay.

"Defiant" received a lot of attention because of Xie Miao, while "A Thousand Miles Away" received a lot less attention.

In fact, "A Thousand Miles Away" is also good, with the shell of a western film and the expression of a martial arts film.

In fact, martial arts movies are pretty useless.

There are so many classic works by predecessors. It is not easy to be successful if you do it well, but it is easy to get scolded if you do it poorly.

After "The Sword of the Third Young Master", there are almost no pure martial arts films on the market!

Wang Jing instigated two movies of "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer" and chose to broadcast them online. Following Donnie Yen's example, "The Legend of Qiao Feng" also chose to broadcast online.

I'm really worried that Xu Ke's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Greatest Hero" will also be broadcast online...

Shen Xudong will definitely continue to do martial arts!

He understands martial arts movies as popcorn movies among Chinese movies.

Martial arts, popcorn is definitely number one...

In the past, we called martial arts movies martial arts movies!

You can add the factors of family and country, but when we watch "Once Upon a Time", what we are most looking forward to is the Foshan Shadowless Foot. Master Huang's noble sentiment of caring about the country and the people is certainly worthy of admiration, but if there is no Shadowless Foot, who would be able to ride a horse? Care about this stuff?

Let’s go back to the basics and discuss the loftier things...

What’s the most important thing about popcorn?

Feeling good!

Therefore, "The Empress' Martial Arts Strategy" is very popular...

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After finishing his trip to the Shanghai International Film Festival, Shen Xudong returned to the capital.

Attention is refocused on the film market…

Oh, "Transformers 4" is released. The box office exceeded 200 million on the first day, 230 million on the second day, and 210 million on the third day. The record set by "Sunny Day" has been refreshed again...

Not only that, after the release of "Transformers 4", only 6.5% of the film schedule of "Sunny" is left, which is only 3,000 shows a day...

Again, before Marvel, "Transformers" dominated the Chinese market.

Shen Xudong looked at the box office report for the latest week. "Li Ge", which was released at the same time as "Metamorphosis 4", did well at the box office, taking in 97 million in its first weekend...

Chen Xi sighed: "I really didn't expect that under the pressure of "King Kong 4", "Li Ge" could perform like this!"

"...There is a gap in box office dominance..."

"We didn't invest in ticket replacement for "Li Ge", it was all done by Maoyan himself..."

Shen Xudong: "Competing for market share is understandable..."

"Taopiaopiao placed bets on "Oldboy: The Dragon Crossing the River" and "Beijing No. 81"..."

Shen Xudong smiled and sarcastically said: "...Ahri's horizons are really small. He is so rich, why not guarantee the production of "Transformers 4"?"

Chen Xi was surprised and asked: "Guaranteed Hollywood movie?"

"...No way?"