Ge You, one of the best male actors in China today, has starred in more than 50 movies and more than 10 TV works since his performance; he has won the highest gold prize for domestic performance, and has also won the throne of cannes film emperor.
Ge You's initial path of art was not smooth, and in his early years, he repeatedly failed to apply for various art groups, and became a drama actor under the point of his father Ge Cunzhuang, and the next few years were just running dragon sets on the stage.
Ge Cunzhuang
What really made Ge You on the big screen stage was the 1988 film "Stubborn Lord" adapted from Wang Shuo's novel, his appearance and performance were just in line with Wang Shuo's "cold-faced and enthusiastic" humorous little character, so he played it handily, appeared relaxed and natural, and was also nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor that year. Since then, Ge You's acting career has been smooth as if he had opened up. It can also be said that Wang Shuo was Ge You's first nobleman.
The hit of the year "Stubborn Lord"
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > from "Alive" to "Two Tigers", the quality of Ge You's film is worrying</h1>
In 1992's "The Great Sasquatch" directed by Xia Gang, Ge You's performance has been able to perfectly reflect the style of the film, so he won the Golden Rooster Award for this film. Participating in Zhang Yimou's "Alive", playing Fugui brought Ge You the honor of the 1994 Cannes Film Emperor. It can also be said that Zhang Yimou is Ge You's second nobleman.
"Alive"
Starting from the 1997 film "Party A and Party B", Ge You and his partner Feng Xiaogang created the situation of Chinese New Year movies. After that, "Not Seen, Not Scattered", "Endless", "Big Names", "Mobile Phone" and other New Year's Eve films starring Ge You and directed by Feng Xiaogang have achieved box office miracles in China and are deeply loved by the audience, which also allows Ge You to establish his position in the film industry with comedy. It can also be said that Feng Xiaogang is Ge You's third nobleman.
《Party A and Party B》
After that, Ge You continued to appear in comedy films such as "Kara is a Dog", "No Thief in the World", "Fate Call Transfer", "Breathless", "Do Not Disturb", as well as some different types of films such as "Night Feast", "Let the Bullets Fly", "Zhao's Orphans", playing various roles, and acting skills can be said to have become a state of transformation.
However, in the past two years, the quality of Ge You's film has declined significantly, which is very similar to the famous American movie star Nicolas Cage, that is, he will pick up some inexplicably bad films. Among them, he starred in "Broken Film Dangerous Journey to Seize the Treasure", douban score of 2.9, so that fans are suspicious of him:
Miss Cain – Ge You is not in debt to naked loans
Simon in the Desert – Ge You's shame, awkwardly resembling a whiplash.
The bad review on the Douban of "Broken Pieces of Dangerous Journey to Treasure" was out of the sky
This year, Uncle Ge starred in a comedy movie "Two Tigers", to say that this movie, the beginning is not small, first look at a dialogue:
"When you're young, you want to have two million when you have a million, you want to have ten million when you have two million, you want to have a hundred million with ten million, and then you will find that not everything can be solved with money." 」 - "Two Tigers"
Take a closer look, it makes sense, and when you think about it, it's somewhat familiar, some chicken soup text. To be honest, now rely on such old-fashioned reasoning to impress people's hearts, unless the work is presented very well, or it is not difficult - good, then Equip you with a few old film bones - Ge You, Zhao Wei, Qiao Shan, Fan Wei, Yan Ni, Pan Binlong. It's not difficult to make a comedy movie with tears in laughter and tears, and make this truth clear, right?
- Still hard!
Produced by Beijing Guangguang Film Co., Ltd. and directed by Li Fei, "Two Tigers" tells the story of an absurd kidnapping case introduced by "low-end kidnapper" Yu Kaixuan and "high-quality hostage" Zhang Chenggong, bringing out a series of ridiculous but thought-provoking stories.
The Stars Shine in "Two Tigers"
It can be seen that the director mixed the theme of "atonement" and the form of "Bucket List" in it, but in terms of rhythm control and real presentation and in-depth presentation, it is still shallow. So put a plate of very good ingredients and give it a stir-fry paste!
It was released for 26 days and grossed 223 million yuan at the box office
"Two Tigers" was released for 26 days, with a box office of 223 million yuan, which cannot be said to be a big bad film, but it can be explained from the market reaction that this comedy is also 6.2 on the Douban score, barely passing.
Douban score 6.2
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > which is a comedy movie with "background" and "connections"</h1>
We have to first understand the previous film named "Destiny Express", this movie won three nominations and an award at the First Film Festival in 2015, Jiang Wen liked this movie very much, and incidentally also optimistic about the director of "Destiny Express", Li Fei, although the box office after the release of "Destiny Express" was not good, but it did not affect Jiang Wen's judgment, so Li Fei next did the screenwriter of "Evil Does Not Pressure the Right".
Destiny Express
Jiang Wen and Li Fei
However, at present, the final results of "Destiny Express" and "Two Tigers", from the perspective of word of mouth and box office, it can only be said that Li Fei is still far from a successful director. After all, such a good comedy lineup can only be a "passing" score, which is one step away from the bad film.
You know, the acting skills of each actor in "Two Tigers" are basically not adjusted, Teacher Fan Wei, Uncle Ge, the prince of the massage shop, Yan Nijie, and Pan Binlong, everyone is an acting school that has a firm foothold in comedy.
Seriously, "Two Tigers" makes people feel a little heartache and sadness - big producers, excellent actors, excellent team collectives pay for a director who currently seems "untalented" and "has not yet proved himself", maybe the audience wasted more than 90 minutes watching this movie, and these people wasted months to "promote" such a new director for someone, can't this start from an assistant director or other position? You should know that in the past, many famous directors of Hong Kong films were slowly made from assistant directors, such as and so on. Therefore, there will always be bad films in the Chinese film market, because some people who make movies rely on connections and resources.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > want to play "Black Elements" but fall into unreal clichés</h1>
Yu Kaixuan (Qiao Shan), whose love career has failed, has no goal in life, has no direction, lacks money, is stupid, but there is still a little kindness. Yu Kaixuan wanted to get rich overnight, so he kidnapped a man who had been busy making money for decades, his career was successful, but he had no family and no friends, and suddenly Zhang Chenggong (Ge You), a rich businessman who was desperate for life, planned to extort 1 million, and after Zhang successfully bargained, he actually promised to give 2 million, on the condition that Yu Kaixuan helped him do three things. The three wishes before his death are fulfilled, and these three wishes correspond to his three debts, to his lover, friends and relatives. The kidnappers and hostages hated and cared for each other all the way, embarking on an unknown and warm journey.
The setting at the beginning of the film is nonsensical and unreal - although Yu Kaixuan looks like this, it is not at all to the point of kidnapping people, or the director did not let me believe that Yu Kaixuan will be like this. This unreality is the same as dapeng and Liu Yan's "Beneficiary" before, and I don't believe that dapeng's character will dare to kill people and cheat insurance just because of that kind of life. Now the domestic comedy seems to be caught in a common disease, like to play "black elements", but it is completely incomplete, it will only make people feel unreal at all, but it is all nonsense that is not funny at all, and only a cold field is left.
The motivation of The Beneficiary is also very far-fetched
It should be noted that the arrest rate of kidnappers in our country is very high. Although the logic of comedy movies is not so important, but you also have to be able to come back in circles, or you must be rooted in real life, if you look at the past and "fake big empty", it will only leave the audience with a sense of self-amusement.
True high-rated comedy, let's take a look at Bucket List, which begins with a plot in which black auto mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) loves life and is knowledgeable. A terrible illness forced him to leave his job and family and move into the hospital for experimental treatment. Billionaire Jack Nicholson, the CEO of a healthcare organization, has always adhered to the "one ward, two beds, no exceptions" business philosophy, he also had to share a ward with others after learning that he was seriously ill. Two strange patients who could not be beaten together in the past belonged to two strange patients from different worlds to live together.
Although their status is very different, the two have one thing in common, that is, time is short. Carter was not rich, but he had a wife and family that loved him dearly. Although Edward was rich and often accompanied by beautiful women, he lacked the love of his family. Carter recorded on paper the unfulfilled wishes of his life. Edward, who inadvertently learns of the situation, decides to help Carter achieve his wish...
It can be seen that billionaire Edward Cole's "profiteer" business philosophy "harmed" himself, but then let him get redemption, so that a few small reversals, the sense of comedy came out.
Moreover, the two people embarking on the route of the "Bucket List" is not as complicated and difficult as the previous paving. And the second half of the movie, learn to learn, then learn the same as the "Bucket List", is a story of two men completing each other. But the director is not, but wants to turn it into a "chicken soup for the soul" that a winner teaches a loser a lesson.
Zhang Chenggong, played by Ge You, put forward conditions for Yu Kaixuan, played by Qiao Shan, to complete his three wishes, each wish corresponds to the love, friendship, and affection in his life, which seems to be a warm and healing plot, but after watching the film, he knows that all this is the director's self-amusement, the woman who is hurt by himself still loves himself, the friend who is treated coldly by himself does not blame himself, the father who has died long ago is also full of fatherly love for himself, the director tells us through such a plot that successful people are like this, Even if it is a scumbag, it is still loved and forgiven...
Douban film review - Chinese mainland middle-aged creators are very strange, when they reach the age, they like to feel sad, they like to talk about big reasons, they like to play sensationalism, they force the audience to accept brainwashing with the attitude of people coming over, and the posture is extremely narcissistic, obviously doing a genre film, and finally it is forced to be a bad chicken soup with a strong taste, a typical middle-aged greasy man's temperament, and the director of this film, Li Fei, pushed this temperament to the extreme in "Two Tigers".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the overall presentation of the film is not good</h1>
"Two Tigers" is a collection of sketches from the structure, some like the Spring Festival Gala sketch, some like the fixed scene stage play in "Actors Please Take Place" or "I Am the Actor", such a structural form, "Charlotte Troubles" has also been used, Happy Twist is very good at use, after all, they are from the theater. But such a structure is like a drama, very careful about the content of each scene and the string of scenes between each other, if the two are not done well, it will affect each other into a pool of mud...
"Charlotte Troubles" is also a scene structure
In the film world directed by Li Fei, there is no need for reality, no need for details, no need for the story, and the actors only need to read the lines, especially the scene on the zhao wei rooftop and the scene at the end of the restaurant, which is no different from the actors in the stage play reading monologues to the audience. The whole movie is five sketches and a few cutscenes put together, five sketches correspond to five people, Ge You, Zhao Wei, Pan Binlong, Fan Wei and Yan Ni, each of them and Qiao Shan perform a two-person sketch, sensationalism, and even a scene is filmed for ten minutes, and a movie is filmed like this.
A good comedy is more comedic than meaningful, and the value output should not be noisy, while "Two Tigers" is just the opposite, this is a film that gives people the feeling that the director is just to say a reason, not so much as a performance, in fact, it is a skewer of the main theme of the Spring Festival Gala.
The film also has a groove, that is, how it simply and rudely interprets the "two tigers", the two male protagonists are tigers, Zhang Chenggong's father gave him a music box with "two tigers" music, the film finally Zhang successfully gave Yu Kaixuan a music box that puts "two tigers" music, and then the ending song is called "Two Tigers", the soundtrack in the film uses the fragment of "Two Tigers", gone, goodbye.
Anyway, the overall feeling of the movie - everything is wanted, nothing can be grasped. Audiences who want to have fun, just watch a comedy movie, if they want to, just watch it.