The lively New Year stall, the "disappeared" Feng Xiaogang

The year is approaching, and the film market will soon usher in a fierce "fight" scene, including some comedy films.

It's just that in this lively New Year file, Feng Xiaogang, who was once the founder of domestic comedy movies, has not appeared in the New Year file for four years.

In the increasingly booming film market, everyone has not seen his figure for a long time, and Feng Xiaogang's "disappearance" may become the norm.

"Feng Pants" became Director Feng, and "Feng's Comedy" led the way

In 2006, in the TV series "Days Related to Youth", there was a crying nose provocative "Feng Pants".

Director Ye Jing once admitted that some of the details of this role were taken from a friend of his own, who was unknown at the time.

At that time, Ye Jing and Wang Shuo, a group of people who were born in the Beijing circle and already had a certain status in the film industry, Feng Xiaogang, who was a monk halfway, was indeed "lower" to them.

People from poor families, if they want to get ahead, they either fight for a piece of the sky by themselves, or they step on the shoulders of "giants".

The clever Feng Xiaogang chose the latter.

Ma Weidu once commented that Feng Xiaogang "can talk and can come to things"; Ye Jing also said: "Feng Xiaogang is eager to succeed, and he can put down any shelf for success." ”

So before becoming "Director Feng", Feng Xiaogang willingly followed Wang Shuo and others as a small follower, and became a "Feng Pants" who was low and low.

Director Ye Jing once said: "Feng Xiaogang's greatest intelligence is to be good at using smarter people. ”

Ma Weidu later mentioned in the show that Feng Xiaogang and Wang Shuo were using each other.

This is true, Feng Xiaogang met Wang Shuo through director Zheng Xiaolong, and met Ye Jing and other bigwigs in the Beijing circle through Wang Shuo.

Even Feng Xiaogang himself said that the success of his film benefited from the help of a group of writers, and it is self-evident who helped him the most among these writers.

Relying on the big tree of Wang Shuo and later the Huayi brothers, Feng Xiaogang began to kill in the domestic comedy film market.

Gradually, "no Feng Xiaogang no New Year" has become a habit of Chinese people to celebrate the New Year, and "Feng's comedy" has also allowed Feng Xiaogang to gain a firm foothold in the film industry.

In 1997, Feng Xiaogang teamed up with Huayi Brothers to shoot "Party A and Party B", and won 36 million box office, accounting for 3.3% of the box office of that year, ranking ninth in the mainland box office list that year.

1998's "Not Seen, Not Dispersed" directly sold a sky-high box office of 43 million.

The following year, Feng Xiaogang's "Endless" won the box office championship in 99 years with a box office score of 35 million.

In this way, Feng Xiaogang changed from the "Feng Pants" of the year to a big director in the Beijing circle.

Between 2000 and 2005, Feng Xiaogang dominated the top position of the domestic box office with works such as "A Sigh" and "Big Shot".

Among them, the box office of "Mobile Phone" is close to Hollywood blockbusters, while "No Thief in the World" directly sent Feng Xiaogang to the ranks of 100 million yuan box office directors.

The proud movie box office gave Feng Xiaogang full confidence, and looking at this group photo, there are many bigwigs in various industries, but only Feng Xiaogang folds his hands and sits firmly in the C position.

However, with the improvement of his status and the right to speak, Feng Xiaogang's "small steel cannon" attribute began to be revealed, which also laid the root cause for his "disappearance".

"Little Steel Cannon" is merciless, and "Feng's Movie" is no longer fragrant

Perhaps because in the early years, Feng Xiaogang had been a little brother to others timidly, so after his achievements, his waist plate stood up, and even began to become overconfident.

Frightening everyone became the label on Feng Xiaogang's body later.

He blamed garbage audiences for the creation of junk movies.

After the release of "Private Order", word of mouth hit the street, the score plummeted, and Feng Xiaogang angrily called the film critic a "big-tailed wolf".

Because Wanda gave "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" a few films, he publicly questioned him, which attracted Wanda's son Wang Sicong to be positive and set off a series of scolding wars.

Scolding the audience and provoking capital, Feng Xiaogang began to angry at everything he was not used to seeing regardless.

However, the gift of fate had long been secretly marked with a price, and Feng Xiaogang's "true temperament" finally began to make him fall off the altar.

When Sun Haiying bombarded him, Feng Xiaogang confidently said that he was alone and seeking defeat, but this solipsistic situation began to reverse in 2008.

Although Feng Xiaogang is undoubtedly progressive from the perspective of the box office and ranking of movies, if you delve into the quality and reputation of his later works, the gold content of this report card is debatable.

With fresh meat flowers becoming mainstream and Japanese and South Korean culture shock, "Beijing Taste and Witter" is no longer as resistant as before, and Feng Xiaogang's film results have also begun to decline.

As his first work to transform into a commercial film director, "Night Banquet" stacked with stars, netizens gave a not good evaluation, which undoubtedly hit Feng Xiaogang in the face.

Then "Rally" and "Tangshan Earthquake" used the theme advantage to earn back a wave of word of mouth for Feng Xiaogang, but the depth of the movie always seems to be a little different.

The two "Do Not Disturb If You Are Insincere" pulled back some word of mouth and box office, which made Feng Xiaogang regain a little confidence.

It's just that the short-lived success of "Do Not Disturb" is more like a "return to light" on the road of director Feng Xiaogang.

As a director from the edge of the compound, Feng Xiaogang has a heart that he wants to make a film with depth and thinking to prove that he can not only make comedy.

As a result, a painstaking "1942" came into being.

It's a pity that the movie failed miserably at the box office in the end, and even affected Feng Xiaogang's old club Huayi.

Although "1942" failed, Feng Xiaogang was not discouraged, and made another serious movie "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", and as a result, after the movie was released, everyone still regarded him as a comedy.

Coupled with the scolding battle between Feng Xiaogang and Wanda, the movie was completely ignored.

The successive failures of the two movies made Feng Xiaogang feel uncomfortable in his heart.

But in order to make up for the losses of the previous "1942", or to express his dissatisfaction, Feng Xiaogang filmed "Private Order" like a "gamble", and easily won the box office of 710 million yuan.

When everyone thought that Director Feng was going to return to the road of "Feng's Comedy", his words at the award ceremony completely broke the hearts of the audience.

When Feng Xiaogang received the award, he came directly to the sentence: ""Private Order" was taken by me casually. ”

The implication is that the movies I make well, you don't watch them, I shoot things casually, everyone pays.

As soon as this remark comes out, the negative impact can be imagined, after all, play and play, make trouble, don't joke with the audience.

Until 2017, a "Fang Hua" full of Feng Xiaogang's feelings used a box office of 1.423 billion yuan to save a lot of respect for Director Feng.

However, the real blow has quietly arrived.

A "mobile phone" hit Director Feng hard, and literary and artistic films and TV series all failed

In 2018, Xiao Cui was a report, which directly pushed Feng Xiaogang's and the "Yin Yang Contract" to the forefront.

Huayi's stock fell sharply and lost a bottom; "Fan 800 million" opened a precedent for fines for domestic entertainment stars.

What about Feng Xiaogang? He almost disappeared from public view, and he was not seen in various vanity fair and public opinion fields.

Even the only dynamic on his personal social platform throughout 2019 was to promote his movie "Only Yun Knows".

"Only Yun Knows" was quietly released in the posture of a literary film in an embarrassing stall that is neither the New Year nor the New Year file.

The final box office of the film was fixed at 156 million, which was reduced to the box office of 1 billion by "Manslaughter" released at the same time.

From comedy to commercial films to literary films, Feng Xiaogang had success, but the repeated failures of his later works also made him start to miss his glory in the "No Thief in the World" period, and his words also showed a little sadness and embarrassment.

Just like the "sixth master" he played in "Old Cannon", outsiders respectfully call him "sixth master" for face, but in front of the new, young speaker, he still touched a nose of ash.

It's just that Feng Xiaogang is not willing to be abandoned by the times like this, so he decided to leave the film industry and return to the field of TV dramas.

In 2020, when the news that Feng Xiaogang was going to direct the TV series "North and South" broke, the industry was shocked.

First, more than twenty years have passed since Director Feng last directed a TV series; The second is that there is a "chain of contempt" hidden in the film and television industry: movies> TV series> variety shows.

Director Feng, who is in a good position, actually "went down" to the circle of TV dramas, how can it not be shocking.

It's just that Director Feng's condescension did not allow "North and South" to escape the suspended and empty plot, and a failing score of 4.9 on a certain platform once again slapped Feng Xiaogang in the face.

"Feng Xiaogang can no longer make good films", which seems to have become everyone's tacit consensus.

The "back wave" advanced sharply, and Director Feng "disappeared" into the norm

Since 1997, Feng Xiaogang has knocked on the door of New Year movies with "Feng's Comedy", and even everyone acquiesced that as long as he is there, the quality of the film and the box office will be stable.

Five Huabiao Awards, two Golden Rooster Awards, eight Hundred Flowers Awards, three Golden Horse Awards, and 18 heavy trophies all prove Feng Xiaogang's success.

However, with the emergence of younger comedy directors one after another, such as Xu Zheng's "Tang Tan" series of movies, Chen Sicheng's "Tang Tan Universe", these works have both box office and word of mouth.

Slowly, the New Year stall began to change hands, and Feng Xiaogang gradually lost his position as the leader of the dragon.

Before 2010, Feng Xiaogang's name appeared 12 times in the annual top ten movies ranking, and after that, his name was gradually photographed on the "beach" by the "back waves".

There is a line in Feng Xiaogang's movie that may very much represent his heart: "1997 has passed, and I miss it very much." ”

epilogue

The more lively the New Year stall, the more it can set off Feng Xiaogang's "quiet", and the latest news about him is everyone's speculation about whether he has immigrated.

From a generation of famous directors to the box office of the work has repeatedly broken into the sand, Feng Xiaogang's disappearance in the New Year file has become a norm, and the reason for this situation, in addition to the impact of the changes of the times, Feng Xiaogang himself may also have to take some responsibility.

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Author: Joe May

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