Nowadays, the Chinese film market is in a cold winter, and a number of internationally renowned film directors have to step down from the "altar" and move towards the "sinking market" of TV dramas. However, just like movie actors, these film directors who "go down" to shoot TV series are also unadaptable.
After 3 years, the first TV series "Flowers" directed by film director Wong Kar-wai finally met the audience. As soon as the series was broadcast, it received a lot of bad reviews because of the slow narrative rhythm, obscure plot and chaotic background of the times, and even the once praised Wong Kar-wai aesthetic shots, the light and shadow characteristics have become chicken ribs.
Counting the audience's bad reviews, you will find that the complaints in these bad reviews are all related to the director, and the picture of "Flowers" is full of strong Wong Kar-wai personal style. Whether it is a sudden slow motion or a variety of character close-ups, it seems that Wong Kar-wai is showing off his skills, so the audience begins to question Wong Kar-wai's aesthetics and even ability.
"Flowers" took over "Thrush" at that time, and the finale of "Thrush" left a hot plate with ratings breaking 3. However, after the launch of "Flowers", the ratings have dropped again and again, from a peak of 2.6% on the first day to a peak of 2.3% now.
Of course, along with the decline in the ratings of "Flowers", Wong Kar-wai's word-of-mouth is also available, and some netizens even compare Wong Kar-wai and Guo Jingming, and make a big comparison, calling "Flowers" "Small Times 5 Flowers", in order to satirize Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" and Guo Jingming's much-ridiculed "Little Times" series on the same level.
At present, Wong Kar-wai's result of "going down" to shoot a TV series this time has done more harm than good, not only his own value, but also his reputation has collapsed. However, this result is not surprising, after all, Feng Xiaogang's example is already there.
Back then, Feng Xiaogang switched to the TV drama circle, and he was also huge, inviting an incomparably luxurious cast, and even his wife Xu Fan joined in the starring, and filmed an "all-star lineup" film and television drama "North and South", which was broadcast quietly and vigorously, with a Douban score of 5.0.
The city-themed battlefield returned with a feather, and Feng Xiaogang turned to the suspense-themed battlefield, found actors such as Song Jia and Wang Yang as the starring roles, and filmed a drama called "Echo". After the show was broadcast, it also did not make much splash, and the reputation was not very good, with a Douban score of 5.9.
After switching to the TV drama market and ending in embarrassment, Feng Xiaogang returned to his comfort zone and continued to make movies. Unexpectedly, the audience didn't buy his movie anymore, and the new film "If You Are the Truth, Do Not Disturb 3" directed by him was poorly discussed, and the box office is expected to be only 100 million. The results of TV series and movies are not good, and now, Director Feng is really in a dilemma!
Two famous film directors have fallen in the sand on the battlefield of TV dramas, but there are still people who "don't believe in evil", and he is Zhang Yimou. It's just that Zhang Yimou did not choose to be a director, but chose to serve as the producer of the online drama "League of Legends". The first time I filmed an online drama, I was completely unfamiliar with the theme of e-sports, and even netizens had to sweat for Zhang Yimou.
From Feng Xiaogang to Wong Kar-wai to Zhang Yimou, a number of famous film directors dominated the film market when they were young, but they did not expect that they would fall into a "crisis" in their later years, not only to "go down to earth", but also to bear the risk of word-of-mouth collapse.
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