In today's entertainment industry, stars are not satisfied with being trapped in their own fields, but hope to try other things, shine in another field, and continue to achieve great things. For example, many actors have changed careers to directing films. But the profession of directing is very difficult, requiring a lot of professional knowledge and practical experience, so many actors who cross the border as directors are making a big gamble, either the final work is on fire, or they lose badly.
Wang Baoqiang, who came from the grassroots, was also not satisfied with the status quo like other actors, and began to change his career as a director to make his own films. A few years ago, Wang Baoqiang directed his first film "Big Trouble Tianzhu", but Wang Baoqiang lacked experience in directing plays, did not understand what the audience liked, and the needs of the current film market, so the final film did not come out of a good effect. Although the final box office was 790 million, the word of mouth was extremely poor.
Many viewers who have seen the film said that the quality of the film is very poor, the plot is boring and there are no highlights, and the laugh points are also very blunt and vulgar. Originally, I went to see Wang Baoqiang at the beginning, but after watching it, the audience was very disappointed and had a feeling of being deceived. The film brought Wang Baoqiang under attack and insults, and also won the ninth Golden Broomstick Most Disappointing Director Award, and he was also the first filmmaker to go to the scene to receive the award. This award became a stain on his life, and he was ridiculed all the time.
But after experiencing the last failure, Wang Baoqiang still did not want to admit defeat and wanted to continue shooting movies. Recently, some people found that Wang Baoqiang's new movie "In the Octagon Cage" is in preparation. The film tells the story of a veteran with a high sense of honor and martial arts dreams who have endured hardships and taken in children from poor areas to practice martial arts, and through this sport, they have changed their fate. Judging from the information of the movie, this film should be an action martial arts movie with military elements, and Wang Baoqiang is still a soldier in the film. In fact, acting in this type of film is like returning to his comfort zone for Wang Baoqiang, which is his strength.
But from the perspective of film themes, Wang Baoqiang's movie action film has long been in decline, although in the 70s and 80s, martial arts movies were all the rage, but with the progress of the times, the withdrawal of the older generation of stars, action movies have long lost his market, basically no one will watch. Martial arts stars like Zhao Wenzhuo, Xie Miao, Wu Jing, etc., are now also trying to shoot action movies, but except for Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior", other people's works are not cared about.
Wang Baoqiang's "In the Octagon Cage" is also uncompetitive in today's film market, just from the name of the movie, the audience has lost interest, coupled with Wang Baoqiang's previous "Big Trouble Tianzhu", leaving a "deep" impression on everyone, with the previous lessons, netizens will naturally not easily buy it. So it's very likely that this movie will also pounce.
Wang Baoqiang has starred in many film and television dramas, mostly comedies and war films. Created a lot of silly and cute classic roles, such as Shunlu in "My Brother Is Called Shunshun", as well as Tang Ren in "Detective Chinatown", and Wang Bao in "Man on the Road", etc., he is not a talented actor, but he is working hard, so his acting skills are slowly getting better.
However, acting well does not mean that you will direct the play, acting only needs to shape your own role, and the director needs to take care of many things, and needs to learn a lot of things to take up this position. But Wang Baoqiang just lacks a lot of such expertise and experience, so it is caused his Virgo to eventually become a failure. But then again, people will always keep improving, the last failure does not mean that this time will also fail, I believe Wang Baoqiang can learn the lessons of the past, more diligent to produce this new work.
People are not to compare with others, but should be compared with themselves, Wang Baoqiang should surpass should be himself, as long as he does his best, does not perfunctory audience, better than the last time, the audience will see in the eyes, no matter how the future of this movie results, are not ashamed.