The cruelty of the entertainment industry is vividly reflected in the 65-year-old Feng Xiaogang

After the popularity of "Crazy" remained high, Zhang Yi fired the first shot of the criminal investigation suspense drama in "Who Is He", and then Feng Xiaogang took out the same suspense drama "Echo" directed by himself to compete with it, and the result was of course a fiasco.

"Echo" roughly tells the story of Ran Dongdong, a female policeman played by Song Jia, who solves a homicide case and deals with her own love life at the same time, and the double line sounds very interesting, but in fact, this is a family ethics drama dressed in the skin of a criminal detective.

When facing the kidnappers who killed people with knives, as a police officer, she acted lifeless, her eyes were empty, and she was more like a kidnapped mass.

When she suspected that her husband was cheating, her phrase "he knows I know he didn't sleep, I know he knows I know he doesn't sleep" is like a tongue twister, only pretentious.

The whole drama is also homely from beginning to end, as if family trivia is the focus of what you want to express, and you don't put the main suspense in your eyes at all.

Feng Xiaogang once insisted on not using plastic surgery when making movies, but now when he makes TV series, he also lowers his standards.

The fake nose and double eyelids of the female number two Wu You in "Echo" are very abrupt, which makes people feel very dramatic.

Whether it is the plot or the actors, it proves that it is no accident that this drama will pounce, from the box office guarantee of the former movie to the current online drama director whose reputation has plummeted, Feng Xiaogang has really fallen to the altar.

From "Feng Pants" to Director Feng

Feng Xiaogang's rise also starts with "The Legend of Zhen Huan" director Zheng Xiaolong, it is precisely because of his introduction that Feng Xiaogang, who comes from an ordinary family, hitched a ride with the noble Wang Shuo in life, Wang Shuo backed the Beijing circle, and his film and television works such as "Forever Lost My Love" and "No One Applauded" were hot in those years.

In order to climb this layer of relationship and change his fate, Feng Xiaogang began to revolve around Wang Shuo, serving tea and water without slack, and even got the name of "Feng Pants", but Feng Xiaogang was not impressed, for the sake of red, he could endure humiliation and bear the burden.

The hard work paid off, but the script was lost when Wang Shuo was preparing to shoot "The Story of the Editorial Department", and Feng Xiaogang volunteered that he could write it down, so he became a screenwriter from a small person who served tea and water, and the success of this drama also made Feng Xiaogang squeeze into the film and television industry, and even founded a company with Wang Shuo.

Maybe everything went too smoothly and something unexpected happened. Wang Shuo's many works could not pass the review, making it difficult for him to accept it for a while, and went to the United States to escape reality.

Feng Xiaogang, who suddenly lost his ally, was also very disappointed, but his talent was not buried, and the director of the Beijing Film Studio found him to shoot a comedy, and he changed the "You Are Not a Layman" left by Wang Shuo to the now well-known "Party A and Party B", and it was also from it that there was a "New Year film", and Feng Xiaogang also made a name for himself.

Then Feng Xiaogang met Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei of Huayi, and the three often made appointments, forming a solid "iron triangle".

Feng Xiaogang and Huayi are mutually beneficial and win-win, Huayi invested in him to shoot many films such as "Endless", "No Thief in the World", "Tangshan Earthquake" and so on, pushing him to the position of another major director in China after Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and he also helped Huayi consolidate its position in the film and television industry, making it a leading boss in the industry.

"Small steel cannon" becomes "small squib"

After directing so many movies with double harvests at the box office, Feng Xiaogang is no longer the forgiving little person who serves tea and water.

He became hot-tempered, and Feng Xiaogang began to frustrate when he faced his poor box office results, and the remarks of the "garbage audience" once provoked public anger.

What became the turning point of Feng Xiaogang's turn from prosperity to decline was the disaster movie "1942" that he had always wanted to make, although the quality and content were good, but after all, Huayi lost money, and Feng Xiaogang was no longer a spokesperson for steady profits.

Throughout the movies made after Feng Xiaogang, the box office and word of mouth have plummeted, and 2015's "Old Cannon" did not have much response even if it invited hot traffic stars.

In 2016, the box office of "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" was only 480 million, but Feng Xiaogang still did not find the reason from his own body, but posted an article to insinuate that there were too few films.

And Wang Sicong, who has always said something, directly replied to Feng Xiaogang, let him reflect on himself, if it weren't for the bad movie, who would have given him such a small number of films.

In 2017, the box office of "Fang Hua" was far behind by "Wolf Warrior 2".

In 2019, the box office of "Only Yun Knows" was even more dismal, and Feng Xiaogang and starring Huang Xuan even went to the live broadcast room of Internet celebrities to sell tickets.

In fact, Feng Xiaogang's fall to the altar and Huayi's decline also have a lot to do with it, and Fan Ye's accident in 2018 made many artists tremble, and her cooperation with Huayi ended.

Huayi has also been in a slump since then, because tax evasion has been thoroughly investigated several times, his own lawsuit has also lost, and the much-watched movies cannot be broadcast, bad news one after another has put Huayi in jeopardy, and Wang Zhongjun can only sell the famous paintings he once collected in an attempt to save the company.

The repeated setbacks at the box office and the downfall of Huayi are actually proof that Feng Xiaogang is no longer brilliant, and the title of "Jiang Lang is exhausted" is often accompanied by their veteran directors who created classics at the beginning, but can no longer surpass themselves.

The movie director, "Xia Fan" failed

And Feng Xiaogang, who can no longer stay in the film industry, finally began to "go down" and filmed the online drama "North and South" in 2021.

The entertainment industry has a natural chain of contempt, from movies to TV series, which is undoubtedly the embodiment of his resource degradation.

Although this drama gathers Jin Chen, Wang Luodan, Lan Yingying and other well-known actors in the entertainment industry, the plot is very old-fashioned and unbearably pompous.

The score of the play is also miserable, only 4.9 points, which can be said to be not even a passing score, which blocks Feng Xiaogang's road in the TV series.

I thought that Feng Xiaogang, who had been silent for so long, was preparing to fight a beautiful turnover.

But I didn't expect that the "Echo" brought by this time was so disappointing, people have to admit that Feng Xiaogang is really cornered.

In today's film market, many directors have emerged. There are cross-border directors like Guo Jingming and Han Han who have a poor reputation but have a good box office, there are also "low-cost" directors with double harvests at the box office such as Wu Jing and Guo Fan, and rookie directors like Zeng Guoxiang, the era of Feng Xiaogang has completely ended.

Due to the decline in word of mouth and the collapse of his old club, Feng Xiaogang exhausted his popularity and could not prove himself with good works.

The cruel reality proves that he can only be abandoned by the entertainment industry with extremely fast replacement and interests first, and finally be overwhelmed by the tide of the times.