姿态的极限:香港动作电影作为方法

The Ultimate Gestus:Hong Kong Action Cinema and Its Methodology

香港动作电影的摄制思路与技巧和西方电影方法论有本质的不同。它在20世纪80年代取得了广泛的商业成功,对美国乃至世界电影的制作产生了冲击,间接改变了后者的形式与观念。文章围绕布莱希特提出的"姿态"概念,系统解析了香港动作电影的美学渊源、电影语言、制作方法以及在世界范围内产生的影响力,并以对身体姿态的电影化呈现方法为起点,归纳引申出香港电影中"姿态"的时间性魅力,以及它在哲学理论层面所带来的开拓性启示。

Hong Kong Action Cinema made a huge commercial success during the 1980s.It has developed a package of aesthetics,methodology and arts of production,which was incompatible with the Hollywood production mode.It has occurred a significant impact to the Western cinema and contributes to the innovations of cinematic techniques.The article takes Bertolt Brecht’s Gestus as key concept and analyzes the aesthetic origin of kung fu and swordsmen films,its cinematic language system and production mode,as well as the worldwide influence of its methodology.It refers to Gilles Deleuze’s body and gestus discourse and adopts its philosophical approach to explore the temporal glamour of gestus brought by this cinema.