Martial-Arts-Film
The martial arts movie [ mɑ: ʃəlartsfɪlm ] (from the Latin Ars Martialis, " the art of Mars", cf martial ) is a variant of the original Far East action film, in which dominates the aesthetic presentation of stylized martial arts, such as Karate, kickboxing, judo, kung fu or Taekwondo. In partially complicated choreography sometimes the laws of gravity are suspended. As subgenres Wuxia (Chinese swordsmanship films), Jidai - geki ( period films ) or the samurai film apply. Background epoch is often the initial time in China during the great dynasties, often with fantastic elements - or the colonial era, and later also the present. Thematically, the savior or avenger motif is often used, where the plot is often used primarily for showing as many fight scenes.
Development
The genre of martial-arts film became known in the early 1970s by the originating mainly from Hong Kong kung- fu movies Bruce Lee in the West. As a result of counterfeiting the movie with a big wave often sensationally titled and staged films reached an immense international popularity, which was often referred to as "Kung Fu Craze ". The first major director was from the mid-1970s King Hu. From the height of Jackie Chan showed the world especially made known his slapstick and daredevil stunts.
With advent of blockbuster films in the late 1970s kung fu wave ebbed again. Nevertheless, hundreds of English-language dubbed Kung -Fu and Ninja films were produced in Hong Kong continues to sent especially on weekends in U.S. television. In the 1980s, it also came at a young video pane to a brief wave of American martial arts films in which actors play as Jean- Claude Van Damme, Don Wilson, Steven Seagal or Michael Dudikoff the lead role.
Beginning of the 21st century witnessed the Asian martial arts film a renaissance. Elaborately staged films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, four Oscars ) or Hero (2002) with Jet Li impressed the critics and enthusiastic as many Western viewers, while also Hollywood films such as Blade (1998) Mission: Impossible II (2000, directed: John Woo ) were influenced by the Asian martial arts film. Among these films with actors such as Michael Jai White, Tony Jaa, Yanin Vismitananda, Donnie Yen and Scott Adkins have appeared. Some western movies like The Matrix series adapted explicitly stylistics and choreography Asian wuxia films, and action sequences were partially directed by luminaries of the martial arts choreography from Hong Kong. So the fight sequences of matrix of old master Yuen Woo- Ping were staged, which also staged the action scenes in Quentin Tarantino's revenge epic Kill Bill.