Bad movies often exist, "top bad movies" are not often there, recently there was a "Turandot", a collection of large investment, big production, big directors, top actors, but the top bad movies were made.
Before the release of the film, many viewers still held a wait-and-see mentality, although it is a fantasy theme that is easy to overturn, but after all, it has a super luxurious cast.
Director Zheng Xiaolong, who has created blockbuster Chinese dramas such as "Golden Wedding" and "The Biography of Zhen Huan", is also the general director of the popular "Meritorious Service", and the screenwriter is his wife Wang Xiaoping.
Starring Guan Xiaotong, Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, Dylan Spros, a combination of East and West, the lineup is quite luxurious.
In the trailer given by the film, there is magic and war, there is love and conspiracy, coupled with the mixing of Chinese and foreign faces, the audience has faintly smelled a bad film.
After the release of the film, it really "lived up to expectations", Douban opened a score of 3.8, and now it has dropped to 3.6, 4 days box office 15 million, according to this posture is another "Asura".
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Turandot is one of the most successful operas by the Italian composer Puccini, adapted from the Arabic story collection One Thousand and One Days, and is well-known in both China and abroad.
The movie "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse" is based on the original and the opera, and the story is set in the "Khanate" set in the Yuan Dynasty, the khanate is vast, and all the countries come to the dynasty.
The heroine Turandot (Guan Xiaotong) is a princess of the Khanate, who was deeply loved by her father Khan since childhood, and accidentally tripped over a hole in the map of the ground at a grand ceremony of the Wanbang Dynasty.
Khan (Jiang Wen) came down to coax his baby daughter and found that the map was missing, which meant that the missing little man had not yet bowed to him.
At the order of the Khan, the general Po Yan (Hu Jun) was sent out to subdue the small country, and the general was tyrannical, directly slaughtering the city, and exterminating the small country, except for the little prince who fled to the khanate with his master.
After the general Banshi returned to the dynasty, he brought back countless treasures of the small country, as well as the ancestral tricolor bracelet of the little king queen (Sophie Marceau), and the little Turandot was attracted by the bracelet and put the three bracelets on his hand.
Unexpectedly, this tricolor bracelet came with a magic curse, and the moment it was put on, Turandot was possessed by the spell, and there was only black and white in his eyes, and he could not control his madness on the night of the full moon.
In order to break the spell, you must wait until the princess is married, and the man who comes to court Turandot answers three puzzles, answers the wrong answer to lift the spell, and dies on the spot.
In the blink of an eye, Turandot grows up and meets the orphan Caraf (Dylan Splos) in the palace, and the two fall in love at first sight, and Carraf decides to solve the puzzle in order to save his sweetheart.
In the process of solving the puzzle, Karaf discovers that his origin is closely related to the tricolor bracelet, and it turns out that he is the little prince who fled to the khanate and hates his sweetheart Turandot.
At the same time, the Khan's royal family set off a bloody storm, the general plotted a rebellion, the two men who broke the curse, and were involved in a bloody court conspiracy...
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Magic curses, princesses, heavenly princes... This is the standard Disney princess movie routine, if it is made into a family princess movie step by step, this movie is at best vulgar, not bad.
However, the director wants to change a Chinese legendary story imagined by Westerners into a Chinese film that integrates East and West, and finally performs a special effects plot without sticking to each other.
1. Special effects
In terms of special effects, the whole film of "Turandot" is full of unmistakable five-cent special effects: a three-color bracelet that emits light, a transfiguration of a princess, and various fireworks...
In the war scene, the arrows shot out by the cavalrymen, everything in the camera becomes a CG meteorite, and the fight scene explodes a firework into the sky, and a war is over.
When the general rebelled in public in the court, it was also the special effect of fireworks of different shapes that flew out of the cannon barrel, and the male protagonist ended hastily with a few swings in the fireworks.
2. Plot
In the plot, there is no clear logic, no clear theme, and it is full of awkward and old-fashioned lines, and the whole story looks extremely low.
It is said that it is a love film, the princess and the prince love inexplicably, hate suddenly, there is no foreshadowing in the middle, it is a blunt turn.
After knowing that the princess was an enemy, she immediately turned from love to hate, and after learning that the murderer had other people, she immediately threw herself into the arms of the princess.
When the general confronted the emperor in the court, the way to rebel was to lift the red cloth on the ground, point to the powder keg on the ground and say to the khan: "I will blow you up."
The last opponent scene is even more "famous scene", the general trained into King Kong is not bad after the defection, proposed to fight with the Khan King, the Khan King cut him three times, cut him can not die he abdicated.
The Khan King went down with a knife, the knife shattered the person, but he spewed out a mouthful of old blood, but he did not expect that this mouthful of blood broke the general's King Kong incorruptible body, and the two died together.
There are also fireworks in the film that have a sense of existence second only to the three-color bracelet, the princess and the prince first meet by fireworks, fireworks production is the top secret of the khanate, the prince is obsessed with fireworks, secretly go to the court to watch fireworks production, which has the first meeting with the princess.
When the general confronted the Khan King, he lifted the red cloth on the ground, pointed to the powder keg on the ground and said to him, "I will blow you up", and then fireworks of different shapes flew out of the cannon barrels.
The prince's support for survival is also fireworks, in the finale, the princess died tragically, the prince was very sad, left the khanate, and brought the khanate's fireworks technology to the West to carry forward.
Finally, there are the awkward and unnourishing lines: "Who are you?" "My name is Blue Eyes, guess what my name is?" "Didn't your parents name you Blue Eyes?" "You shouldn't come" "I have to come"
And then there are the three bizarre riddles and riddles: "Women are beautiful because of it, men are restless because of it, and when men and women die, it becomes cold ice", and guess what the answer is? It's "blood."
3. Performance
In the performance, the actors are also "each has its own advantages", the heroine Guan Xiaotong paints exaggerated and eerie purple lipstick blue eyeshadow, wearing a mosquito net all over the sky, as if doing a game in a variety show, using not his own original voice, but Qiao Shi's sweet and greasy dubbing, which is extremely inconsistent with his image.
Compared with Guan Xiaotong, the performance of the male protagonist is even worse, the appearance is originally gloomy and sluggish, always looking like he is wandering, coupled with a dubbing that can never match the lip type, the audience can't watch him enter the play.
Sophie Marceau's scene is not more than 5 minutes, just appeared on the scene hastily received a box lunch, and then lived in the memories of everyone, every time he appeared, he must bring his own death soft light polishing filter, and the painting style can switch at any time to "Water Noble Hundred X Mountain" advertisement.
Only Jiang Wen and Hu Jun can see it, although Jiang Wen's performance is relaxed, but there are not many scenes, and the script does not have room to play, in addition to the people who love their daughters, it is the role of some simple promotion of the plot.
Hu Jun's villain scene is also well done, and Jiang Wen's same frame does have a sense of tension in the court plot, but with the magical plot, even the brave and warlike generals have more of a taste of humility.
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After the release of "Legend of the Fengshen God" in 2016, the netizen who was the first in the Douban hot review wrote: "Within three years, there will be no worse films than him, if there is, it must be its sequel." ”
Unexpectedly, only two years later, "Asura" debuted in vain, once again challenging the audience's bottom line, announcing an investment of 750 million yuan and hastily withdrawing the file three days after the release.
It is hard to imagine that it is 2021, and there is a bad film relay like "Turandot", which really treats the audience as a fool.