On January 21, Donnie Yen's self-directed and self-starred "Dragon Babu: The Legend of Qiao Feng" premiered online
Although it is not released in theaters, the attention of "The Legend of Qiao Feng" is not bad at all, and it can be regarded as the first Spring Festival blockbuster! This new film is actually quite special, and it also has great significance for Donnie Yen
The film was directed and acted by Donnie Yen
Kung Fu superstars have a directorial dream, but Donnie Yen has not been a director for a long time, mainly because action films such as "The Legend of Wolf Warrior" and "Brother New Tangshan" directed a long time ago suffered extremely bad losses, resulting in Donnie Yen actually not directing many works
The last directorial film was "Apprentice Black Rose" in 19
After 19 years, Donnie Yen is a director again, which is quite looking forward to action movie fans
For online movies, this market has developed for many years, but there are not many real first-line stars who make the Internet, and Donnie Yen, as the banner of Chinese action movies, has also made an online Spring Festival blockbuster, which is of great significance
And "The Legend of Qiao Feng" cost 200 million to produce, and this cost is likely to have moisture, but after watching the whole film, I feel that "The Legend of Qiao Feng" is indeed well-made in the Internet University, which can be called the ceiling of online martial arts films
Spent 200 million, won 3 championships in the premiere, and 59-year-old Donnie Yen brought another vivid new film
"The Legend of Qiao Feng" was launched on the three major online video platforms on January 21, with 9 yuan for members and 18 yuan for non-members, this ticket price is very high in the Internet, after all, if many movie theaters count the special ticket, 18 yuan is enough to watch a movie in theaters
Movie stars gathered, the cost exceeded 200 million, and naturally obtained good results
As of 15 o'clock on January 21, "The Legend of Qiao Feng" won the championship in the popularity of movies on the three major video platforms
It can be seen that although the 59-year-old Donnie Yen played Qiao Feng before the release was controversial, the audience is still interested in taking a look, even if the movie is not good, after all, it does not cost much, judging from the current word of mouth
The action scenes of "The Legend of Qiao Feng" are the most acclaimed, the punches to the flesh, the length of 130 minutes arranges four or five heavy fight scenes, which can be called from the beginning to the end, the action scenes are very violent, but there are still some problems in the film in terms of literary drama
The plot is the most brilliant in Juxianzhuang, and the 37-year-old female number two has the most stunning figure
Wang Jing's 2022 online Spring Festival blockbuster new version of "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon" is most complained about is the perfunctory play and serious magic reform, this time Donnie Yen obviously learned the lesson, but "Dragon Babu" is too grand
Even if Qiao Feng is not the first male lead, it is quite difficult to adapt a 130-minute movie
Therefore, the film will definitely be cut in large quantities
For example, Duan Yu appeared for a few minutes, and there was only one line to save me, and Wuzhu did not appear at all
The whole story is similar to the original
Qiao Feng was adopted by the Qiao family since he was a child, studied martial arts in Shaolin City, was gifted since childhood, joined the Qiao Gang when he grew up, made great battle achievements, and was supported as a gang leader, helping the Great Song to resist external enemies and hoe the strong and weak internally
In the rivers and lakes, he broke through the prestige of Northern Qiao Feng and Southern Murong
The next story is also familiar to everyone, Qiao Feng was revealed to be a Khitan person, so he was driven out of the gang, and soon he was framed as a big evil person who killed his parents and destroyed his master, met Azhu in the Shaolin Temple, took her to find Xue Shenyi, and descended like a god of war in Juxian Zhuang
The plot of "The Legend of Qiao Feng" is of course wonderful, but it does not mean that it is the credit of the screenwriter and director
The movie is actually quite current, completely for the service of the scene, why can the audience watch it, mainly because "Dragon Babu" is really influential, many details even if you don't shoot, the audience can make up their own brains
The biggest adaptation of the movie is to use Murong Fu as the villain
A movie must have a supervillain, but according to the original work of "Dragon Babu", it is estimated that two or three more films will hang
Therefore, the adaptation of the film focuses on the role of Murong Fu, 46-year-old mainland action actor Wu Yue played this role, to be honest, Murong Fu is still quite heroic in the film, it was he who arranged for Kang Min and Bai Shijing to kill the deputy gang leader Ma Dayuan and blame Qiao Feng
It was also he who designed Qiao Feng to give hatred to Duan Zhengchun
The first reason is to let Da Song and Dali fight each other, and take advantage of the chaos to raise troops to revive Dayan
The second is to subdue Qiao Feng for his own use and become the number one general under him, but it is a pity that Wu Yue is more than treacherous, insufficient planning, showing that he is ruthless and knows to grit his teeth, and his acting skills are really crotch-pulling
Donnie Yen, as the male protagonist, although he is 59 years old, his mental head is okay
Playing Qiao Feng's figure is a hard injury, and the lines are also a little Ye Manfeng, but it is already good to play the scene and not drag his feet
The heroine Chen Yuqi plays Azhu, in fact, in the original work, Azhu is fifteen or sixteen years old, Chen Yuqi is obviously not that kind of setting, basically a vase character, the scene where Qiao Feng was killed by mistake, or a little acting
However, the female number two Wang Junxin performed very amazingly
Wang Junxin, who is 37 years old this year, plays Mrs. Ma Kang Min in the film, and plays a femme fatale very well, whether it is Bamboo Forest framing Qiao Feng, or Juxian Zhuang's fake embarrassment, the performance is ruthless, and the fragrant scene in the carriage and Bai Shijing is also very tempting
Worthy of being the runner-up of Miss Hong Kong and the champion of Dancing Miracle 2, her body is maintained excellently
In terms of fighting scenes, Juxian Zhuang is undoubtedly the best and the most expensive, the action scenes and group performances are in place, it is estimated that this is how this fight scene does not have much time, which is really unsatisfactory
The decisive battle against Qiao Feng vs. Murong Fu was actually average
A Zi gave Qiao Feng Duan Zhengchun's sword, so Qiao Feng and Murong Fu used the sword to duel, and finally Qiao Feng used the eighteen palms of the dragon, but he didn't expect Murong Fu to use the Douzhuan Star Shift to beat Qiao Feng into a serious injury, and under normal conditions, Murong Fu defeated Qiao Feng and really made the fans' heads big
After that, Qiao Feng was about to die, comprehended what the master said, and resurrected with blood to defeat Murong Fu, which was too child's play
And Qiao Feng hit a set of dragon falling eighteen palms, this kind of power Murong Fu should be broken into slag, but for the later plot was saved by someone, then the dragon falling eighteen palms are called quit
Overall, as a big network, "The Legend of Qiao Feng" is not bad
In the current situation of the decline of martial arts films, Donnie Yen is still willing to make this thankless movie is not easy, it is worth encouraging, according to the movie Easter egg Donnie Yen wants to create a dragon eight universe, "The Legend of Qiao Feng 2" will definitely be arranged