On October 18, zheng Xiaolong's film "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" was released on the fourth day of release, and as of the time of this article' release, the cumulative box office was nearly 15 million, and the predicted box office was nearly 20 million.
It is reasonable to say that the release cycle of a movie is one month, and "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse" has only been released for 4 days, and the total box office is predicted to be as low as the cumulative box office, which can only show that the industry is generally disappointed with this movie.
In fact, not only "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse", but also the "Lyceum Grand Theatre" starring Gong Li and Zhao Youting, which was released at the same time, the cumulative box office did not reach 15 million in 4 days, but the box office was predicted to be slightly higher, reaching 25 million, but what difference does this make?
From the perspective of the proportion of theater scheduling, "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" and "Lyceum Grand Theater" are just over 8%, adding up to less than one-third of "Chosin Lake", which has been released for 19 days, and in this case, it is reasonable for the industry to give such a low prediction box office.
However, from the perspective of word-of-mouth reviews, the Douban of "Lyceum Theatre" is divided into 7.4, while "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" has dropped from 3.9 to 3.7 from the beginning, which is exactly one-half of "Lyceum Theatre".
That is to say, "Lyceum Theatre" lost the box office, but saved face in word of mouth, while "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse" was both waterloo at the box office and word of mouth, falling into the "bad film" camp.
This fate, in fact, before the release of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell", there were netizens predicted that Guan Xiaotong and Dylan Sparks, two child stars who did not have representative works after growing up, seemed to be under the spell, and it was not easy to turn over, even if there was Jiang Wen in China and Sophie Marceau abroad, but it still could not save the decline of the film.
And the reason why "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" encountered such a tragic situation, the most important thing is its theme, in the words of netizens, with the eyes of Westerners to describe the legend of the East, this kind of "no matter" theme of the film is difficult to break the circle of success.
However, for director Zheng Xiaolong, it seems that he does not believe in that evil at all, after all, the TV series "Meritorious Service" directed here has a Douban score of 9.1, is the 111-minute "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" more difficult to control than the 33-episode TV series?
The reality is very cruel, "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" finally pulled Zheng Xiaolong into the quagmire of "bad films".
In fact, this can not all blame Zheng Xiaolong, because for this kind of thing-based "no class" film theme, many big directors have tried, and they want to be the first person to break the circle successfully, but so far, they still have not come up with a work that is reasonable.
For example, Feng Xiaogang's "Night Feast", which transplanted the bridge section of Shakespeare's famous drama "Hamlet" to ancient China, although Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Wu Yanzu, and Zhou Xun were found, but the absurd plot finally only scored 5.9 Douban points.
Another example is Zhang Yimou's "Three Guns Shooting Surprise", although there was a small Shenyang that exploded at the Spring Festival Gala that year, coupled with the blessings of Actors such as Zhao Benshan, Sun Honglei, Yan Ni, Cheng Ye, ya egg, etc., but this film that integrates the thick northeast two-person turn style does not shoot the suspense essence of the original "Blood Labyrinth", although visually continuing the impact of Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum", the Douban score of this farce is only 4.7.
This kind of Mixed Chinese and Western styles, as well as Chen Kaige's "Wuji", the film Douban score is only 5.4, leaving aside the box office because the director and actor's fame "attracted" to the box office, the reason for the extremely low reputation of these films is very similar, that is, from the beginning to the end, the audience has never understood whether this is a Chinese film or a foreign film, forcibly twisting the Eastern and Western styles together, and the result is the four differences of "no class".
Back to the movie "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell", the film accounted for 47% of the 1-star bad reviews, while the number of participants was only 6600, which fully possessed the "bad film" characteristics of low attention and poor reputation.
"Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" is a typical depiction of the oriental legend in the eyes of Westerners, but it is not satisfied in the inland water, and some plot designs also make people cry and laugh. The legion, which is good at plain cavalry charge, actually ran to the mountain to build a capital city, plus Jiang Wen with double braids, Sophie Marceau who played for less than 1 minute, Guan Xiaotong with her own X-ray perspective skills, and the bracelet that relied on 3 questions to unlock the curse, the most important thing is that the heroine did not live to the end.
After 111 minutes, the audience watched a "lonely", "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" in the end what to say, the magic version of the service, the subversive cognitive plot, in the screenwriter and director's whimsical thinking, netizens are completely lost.
The vision and concept of Westerners are forcibly integrated into the Eastern story, which is like Wei Zhentian in Transformers who cannot understand why Sun Wukong gave up Zixia, obviously two parallel lines, but they are hard twisted together, and finally make the 3.7-point "Turandot" declare that the "no class" movie has failed again.