is related to genre movies, and there are two important terms: "non-genre" movies and "anti-genre" movies. Non-genre movies generally refer to art movies and author movies that have nothing to do with genre movies, and pursue individuality and stylization: Anti-genre movies are intentional confrontations, subversions, and parody of certain programs of genre movies, or they may be right. Various types of hybrid collages may also belong to a certain type of film, or may surpass the genre film, and become a super genre film that is difficult to generalize and locate.
From this perspective, there is still confusion and loss in the pursuit of genre in Chinese film blockbusters. "Big genre" is completed in the complex entanglement and conflict situation of type construction and deconstruction, type and non-type, and anti-type. Therefore, Chinese-language movie blockbusters often show characteristics such as different types of movies and a comprehensive mix of multiple types. In other words, expressed in Chinese-language movie blockbusters, the genre, the "other" originating from Hollywood, is still in the process of constantly adapting to the localized reality of Chinese movies. One of the manifestations of
is that the typological pursuit of "blockbuster" is not thorough, and the non-typological pursuit of some art films and author films is inappropriately mixed. The directors of Chinese-language film blockbusters, such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, etc., have all had the experience of making art films, and they have also had the conflicts between the market and art and even the painful "box office lessons". They may actively pursue genre, or they may unconsciously reveal their elite consciousness or artistic film complex in the creation of blockbuster films. For example, the non-typology of "Hero" to martial arts movies firstly lies in the ideological deconstruction of the spirit of "xia". In terms of narration, it is contrary to the narrative rules of the martial arts film narrative power gradually accumulating, and the final showdown duel finale narrative rules, and Is gradually dissolving. "From the generous motives of assassinating King Qin, the heroes gradually realized that King Qin could not be killed. Finally, the nameless took a sword hilt and gently knocked on King Qin, completing the symbolic'Assassination of Qin'.
, again, in "The Banquet" Emperor Li is no longer a single, flat, flat character image required by genre movies. He is extremely complicated, with ups and downs. After actively entering the world and fighting for power and gains, he suddenly abandoned everything and committed suicide for love. Obviously, he did not fit the plot. And the logic of character development. And "Promise" shows Chen Kaige's overly high conception and overly complex theme pursuit performance, as it said, "this movie can actually cover everything." He is obsessed with making shocking images The simplistic narrative carries too much, too abstract, and too complicated themes, which undoubtedly deviates from the expression law of genre movies. The second performance of
is the chaotic and unharmonious genre characteristics. Chinese movie blockbusters have obvious genre fusion. The characteristic of the movie is the synthesis of multiple types of movies. The most important original types are naturally martial arts films and action movies. "Heroes", "Ambush", "Night Banquet" and "Promise" are more or less based on martial arts movies, especially It is even more evident that every movie uses martial arts scenes as the main selling point. However, martial arts have changed a lot from before. For example, the martial arts in "Hero" has become a freehand and beautiful "wuzhiwu" ( Jia Leilei), the water village fight in the opening of "The Banquet" also has this characteristic: the martial arts in "The Promise" has an anime-like surreal style; the intense modern gunfights in the "Assembly Number" can also be understood to a certain extent It is the modern transformation of the cold weapon duel in martial arts movies. Of course, the more important genre basis of "Assembly Number" is the war electric heroism film.
In addition, "The Banquet" is based on the genre of martial arts movies and action movies. Certain characteristics of the genre of romance films are used as the basis for its genre. The genre of "Night Banquet" is jokingly called "the historical action tragedy art film of ancient costume" by critics. It is a hybrid genre, and it is a business model operation. The Hollywood genre combined with the oriental sentiment, the hybridization of the largest international market in the region and the largest audience scale" "Pattern-style film". Similarly, "Red Cliff" is also called a "complex" entertainment blockbuster, which "continues the "patchwork mode" of stories, scenes, actors, elements, styles and styles. The
type fusion itself is not a bad thing. After classical Hollywood, world movies The development trend can be said to be the continuous blurring of genre boundaries, the continuous emergence of anti-genre movies and "super genre movies" that integrate multiple types. However, a film should have a dominant genre, otherwise the audience will be at a loss. Because the audience will have a vision of the genre before watching the movie, the creator can break it, but not too much. For "Crazy Stone"For the representative low-cost comedy movies, the mixed genres and the "wonderful" parody and irony may be the way to win, but for movie blockbusters, especially the "epic blockbusters" such as "Red Cliff", there are too rich and mixed genres. The "parody" style will make the film appear to be "complex".
