20多年前的西影厂曾经掀起的“西部电影”的高潮,从形态上讲基本都是艺术片范畴。但这个高潮只持续了五六年。美国大片的引入不仅深刻地改变了观众的欣赏习俗和电影理念,也直接把中国的电影放在了与美国大片竞争的境地。1990年代,西影厂也屡次探索过商业影片的运营模式。但在商业收益方面,除了借鉴好莱坞电影类型片的框架并结合了中国武侠传统的精髓打造的《双旗镇刀客》小有收获外,其他片子或失败,或 The climax of “Western Movies”, once set off by the West Film Studio more than 20 years ago, is fundamentally a category of art films. But this climax lasted only five or six years. The introduction of the American blockbuster not only profoundly changed the audience’s appreciation of customs and movie ideas, but also directly placed the Chinese film in competition with the United States. In the 1990s, West Film Studios also repeatedly explored the business model of commercial films. However, in terms of commercial returns, other films have failed or failed, in addition to borrowing the framework of the Hollywood film genre and combining the essence of the Chinese martial arts tradition to create “Shuangqi Knives”