Zhao Wenzhuo's future road is not good.
A few years ago, Zhao Wenzhuo released a movie "Tattoo", the box office results are staggering, only 1.8 million box office rushed down, many people do not even know Zhao Wenzhuo's new film.
To be honest, I actually wanted to see the movie "Tattoo" at the beginning.
After all, this is Zhao Wenzhuo's return to the big screen after three years of "Kung Fu League", which is also quite meaningful today when action stars are scarce.
However, from the perspective of the market, it seems that the audience has long forgotten the existence of Zhao Wenzhuo.
Before the release of "Tattoo", there were still hundreds of people who "wanted to see" in a single day, and the cumulative "want to see" before the release was only more than 7,000 people, coupled with the mediocre publicity response, the heat was cold to the freezing point, which led to the theater manager not taking Zhao Wenzhuo's movie seriously.
By the premiere on January 14, "Tattoo" had only 2.7% of the schedule on its premiere day, and many movie theaters simply did not broadcast it, setting a "miracle" of only 950,000 box office on the day of its premiere.
By the 22nd, the 9th day after the release, the schedule dropped to 0.1% and completely extinguished.
In the end, this Zhao Wenzhuo accumulated 8 days of release date and box office 1.86 million.
Not as good as a net big score.
The results of "Tattoo" are described as miserable, and if this money is placed in the "Zhao Zhen War" period, it cannot even pay for the cost of Zhao Wenzhuo's hotel.
What's more interesting is that just before the movie was released, the official short video account of "Tattoo" also made a job, giving people a show of the director and the producer.
When the director of this film, Lu Yitong, broadcast live, the producer Yu Hongbo came uninvited, the two first looked at each other, then said a few polite words, and then began to spray passionately with each other according to the inner turmoil.
The director scolded the producer:
"You're a producer, now this schedule, why are you going?!"
Producers regurgitate the director:
"Is what you make (good movies)?" The film itself has become a bad film! Now the various ratings have reached an incomparably low! ”
The director blamed the publicity, the producer advised him to find the reason, the director blamed the producer for cutting his own film, the producer said that it was because the director's ability to cut the finished product producer was not satisfied.....
The two talked about market rules from artistic creation, from film production to the macro environment, but the words were filled with the anger of the two losers.
What's more, this live broadcast was not only not "public relations", but also edited by the official account of "Tattoo", divided into 8 paragraphs and written in turn according to the theme of the copy.
In the copywriting, you can even feel the strong emotions:
"Who is at fault for saying that Ang Lee is the fourth director in history to make a film that has grossed less than 2 million?"
After the outbreak of the incident, some people said that it was hype, because it was the official whole work, but some people said that it was really noisy, after all, the schedule of "Tattoo" has no cure, and the use of quarrel hype is obviously useless, and the official media of "Tattoo" also does not do more publicity work for the movie after releasing the quarrel video, which must be tearing up the face.
We don't know whether it's true or not, but the fluttering of "Tattoo" is certain.
Later, "Tattoo" did not take long to quietly launch Mimi on major video platforms, at first it had to cost 6 yuan to watch, and then somehow, it may even be 6 yuan that people are reluctant to pay, and it was free again in a few days.
Finally being able to see the real thing, as a movie account, seeing this movie at the box office is so tragic, and the drama is so wonderful, it really aroused my curiosity.
Just now, I finished watching Tattoos.
The first thought I had when I closed the page was:
I raise my hands to support the producers!
Usually, when I introduce a movie, I will first talk about the plot synopsis, so that the reader can have a profile of the movie.
But this "Tattoo", I must admit:
I didn't understand.
As mentioned above, when producer Yu Hongbo quarreled with director Lu Yitong, he revealed that Lu Yitong said that he was the "fourth director".
In front of them are Quentin, Nolan, and Ang Lee.
Although "Tattoo" is Lu Yitong's first feature film, I still see his infinite yearning for Quentin and Nolan pioneer filmmakers.
If someone else is playing with structure, then he is playing with blocks (under 3 years old).
The overall look and feel of the film highlights a "chaotic" word, the film uses flashbacks to open, take a section of the climactic scene later, and the curtain opens and pours into all the characters.
In the star wars-like shootout, some people died and some people were injured, and after the fight, Zhao Wenzhuo ran to a character and said a bunch of confused words.
Cumbersome names, unclear motives, mysterious lines, all of which make people look confused.
Don't understand?
It's okay, and everyone doesn't understand.
Immediately after, the tattoo artist "Ah Chang" played by Zhao Wenzhuo began to narrate in the first person.
After introducing his two friends "Yin Yang" and "Rotten Dragon", the head began to play an American woman looking for Achang tattoo, this side just finished playing the background of Ah Chang's relationship with his daughter, and then began to tell ah Chang on a mission in the gang.
Seeing this, you may ask: Do these four things you said have anything to do with the plot?
I actually want to ask the director: Do these four things you shoot have anything to do with the plot?
It can be said that in the first half an hour or so of this movie, the entire film did not have a main line introduced, the narrative focus of the east rake west broom, after the introduction of this role jumped to another role, there is no connection.
In this regard, it is also necessary to rely on a large number of side comments to proceed.
Memories are interspersed with memories, self-statements are interspersed with self-statements, and I am extremely boring in the clouds and fog.
Director, let's just ask for one at the Deyun Society, and talk about the background of five minutes is not solved?
Finally, at 38 minutes and 49 seconds of the movie, the villain found the protagonist, and I couldn't help but stand up and clap my hands: Director, we finally started to enter the main scene!
Then I was blinded by the screenwriter again.
This movie should be about such a thing, saying that the "Ah Chang" played by Zhao Wenzhuo is a gang tattoo artist, who was targeted by the Japanese Asano in an operation because of a sneak attack on a Japanese merchant ship, and went back and forth to find trouble with him.
And then, that's it.
The second half of the story is almost a turn-based game, and Asano's means of revenge on Ah Chang may be based on the real material of the elementary school student fight, that is, endlessly askIng Ah Chang to get a tattoo, and then Ah Chang goes to kill the people around him.
Just, we can assassinate the protagonist but if we don't kill, we will kill his friend.
This trick almost watered the second half of the movie, the plot is that Ah Chang went to the tattoo → the supporting character was assassinated→ Ah Chang was suspected of → Ah Chang went to the tattoo again→ the supporting role was assassinated→ Ah Chang was suspected again....
At the end of the water, at the end of the play, it was reversed according to the convention: in fact, it was Ah Changfa's small secret instructions, and the crackling ended.
This is what this is.
Director, have you seen it yourself after filming? Do you see this for yourself?
And as a movie starring Zhao Wenzhuo, the label of "Tattoo" is action + drama, and the publicity is also based on what "fist to flesh" and "thrilling" as the selling point.
Coupled with the official release of Zhao Wenzhuo's behind-the-scenes video of the shooting action, I am afraid that everyone will think that this is an action movie, right?
However, there are 3 action scenes in the first 2/3 of the film.
Roughly calculated, the first scene is 12 seconds, the second scene is 9 seconds, and the third scene is 4 seconds, and you have to keep your eyes open and hold your breath to capture the action scenes that pass by.
Yes, you read that right, the following GIF is an action scene.
At 1.18.03 seconds of the movie, the samurai monk Yilong appeared.
I thought Zhao Wenzhuo could finally play a game, but the two of them only played for 42 seconds!
In the final armageddon, Zhao Wenzhuo began to fight from 1.29.47, the villain died on 1.33.07, even if a series of trivial scenes such as lines and cutscenes were ignored, it was only 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
Who can imagine that an action movie that flaunts itself as "fist to flesh, thrilling" -
The protagonist has only 4 minutes and 27 seconds of action scenes in the whole film!
No wonder the stills of Zhao Wenzhuo's swing actions are all a scene, and they were all pickpocketed in a scene.
What bothered me the most was that the film invited the famous French action actor David Bailey over.
In the whole film, he can be called an action, and there is only this one jump off the ship action!
Yes, David Bailey!
Starring in Violent Neighborhood!
You can only jump on the boat when you come to China!
Big old and far from France, just to jump a boat!
You may not believe this:
How can a movie that can be released be so bad? Author you scare me!
Come here, I take you to see the bullet screen, through the change of mentality of netizens, you know the power of this movie.
As soon as the movie opened, at first netizens were longing, scrambling to send bullet screens to express their joy at watching Zhao Wenzhuo's movie.
At this time, the audience is still happy.
Immediately after, after watching the first half of the director's tribute to Nolan and Quentin's narrative techniques.
The audience fell silent and began to doubt their own intelligence:
I still can't understand half of it, maybe I'm too superficial!
In the second half, the audience feels more and more deceived, it turns out that it is not that their own IQ is not good, but that they are mentally retarded and have others!
"I don't want to hit a single piece of this six dollars."
In the end, netizens finally couldn't stand the director peeing on their IQ and left the table, the bullet screen receded, and in the center of the huge video, only a sincere question was crossed:
No one?
Of course, this sentence can also be given to Zhao Wenzhuo.
From Jet Li's successor to the big network, and then to the current box office of 1.86 million.
If you continue to shoot like this, there will really be no one.
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