英文摘要 |
The production of martial arts films had become a trend in both Hong Kong and Taiwan since 1965 when the Shaw Brothers Studio launched a new style in reforming the genre. In 1976, Hong Kong film director Chu Yuan’s Killer Clansled the second wave of martial arts films by adapting Gu Long’s and Jin Yong’s novels into screenplays. Gu Long is widely hailed as a unique and innovative Chinese martial arts writer whose works strongly inspired Chu Yuan. The artistic chemistry between them resulted in a series of movies with highly stylized visual representations which would later deeply influence some Taiwanese directors.This paper examines the production designs of thirty movies adapted from Gu Long’s martial arts novels from both Hong Kong and Taiwan during 1976 to 1984. This visual analysis brings up the following three topics. First, the similarities and differences of the production designs in Chu Yuan’s Gu Long and Jin Yong cinema of the same period. Second, the cultural differences and artistic influences in the production design of Gu Long cinema between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Third, the intricate relation of Gu Long’s writing styles and Chu Yuan’s visual representations in Gu Long cinema. |