Yesterday, the much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster action movie "The Expendables 4: The Final Chapter" was released in mainland China. The tough guy legend once again reignited the screen after many years, and the box office successfully exceeded 20 million on the first day. From the perspective of form and content, fighting scenes account for more than 80% of the film. It is still an action film that focuses on confrontational action scenes and adrenaline rush. This time, the action director of the film is Alan Wu, a famous martial arts director from the Marriage Class. The explosive action scenes and high-burning visual impact once again set a new level of violent aesthetics in genre films.
It is reported that in order to better present a fist-to-flesh action feast, director Scott Waugh gave Wu Yonglun (Alan) a lot of space and freedom in action design, and he is not only good at designing actions with special effects scenes, but also pioneered I have made a unique attempt to incorporate some Hong Kong-style elements into the fighting scenes, making the whole exciting battle scene more full and eye-catching. Many netizens commented after watching the movie: "The action design of Dare 4 is so surprising. The fast and fierce movements in many scenes are wonderful, and the fierce battle moves are dizzying and enjoyable!".
Alan Wu once said in an interview that working with the team of "The Expendables 4: The Final Chapter" was an extremely meaningful and enjoyable work experience. He is very grateful to Jason Statham and the director for their recognition and trust in his team, especially It was Jason who would shoot fight scenes directly without any rehearsal from each other, trusting his action team to create the fight scenes without seeing any previs footage. Although it was the first time to collaborate with Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais, their rich experience and high professionalism made the artistic collision on the scene quite tacit, and the direction of the fighting style was also highly consistent.
Alan Ng, who has been interested in Hong Kong action movies and action stars since he was a child, chose to become an action actor when he grew up, and went through the process of acting as an actor's stunt double, then as an assistant director, then as an action director, and finally as an action director. After a perfect transformation, he has now grown into a popular action director and action director in the film industry and has won many awards. He has won the Best Action Director at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards and the Best Action Design at the 50th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for the movie "Zodiac". He also won the 16th Huading Award for the movie "The Lion". Award for Best Action Film Direction.
From "Railway Tigers" and "Project He has practiced his own style in his resume, and has won the favor of many action film directors. It is worth mentioning that "The Expendables 4: The Final Chapter" is his collaboration with Scott after "Sandstorm". Director T. Waugh’s second collaboration. When Director Chan Ka-shang was filming the movie "Storm", in order to restore the Hong Kong-style fighting scenes and gun battles, he specially invited Alan Ng to join him as the martial arts director. The intense fight scene of "Breaking in Fire" is also the climax of the film. Some of them are still talked about by the media and audiences. It is understood that Alan Wu has also served as the action director of the film "Customs Front" directed by Qiu Litao. The film is currently being released, and the new film "The Fury" has officially entered the preparatory stage. We look forward to him unlocking more on the big screen. surprise.
