In China, because of many factors such as advanced thinking and inconsistent values, the advanced ideas in many films were not understood by the audience at the beginning. With the passage of time, the audience's thinking progressed, and they gradually understood the connotations that they once could not understand. Today, let's take stock of the works that were once mistaken for "bad films" but are now regarded as classics:
1. Liu Zhenwei's "East becomes West"
This film was filmed in the gap between the filming of "East Evil and West Poison", filmed only ten days, only one month later, the film is visible to the naked eye rough, adapted according to the "Legend of the Eagle Hero", but whether it is the plot or the character personality, are far from the original, all kinds of nonsense funny, the actor's makeup does not meet the audience's aesthetics, when the release, Liu Zhenwei was scolded to the dog bloody head, over time, people gradually discovered the excellent core of the film, became a classic comedy movie comparable to "East Evil west poison".
2. Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
At that time, the audience's evaluation of the film was that it was not a martial arts film at all, and director Ang Lee was criticized for saying that he could not make a decent martial arts film at all, which was criticized by the entire Chinese film market. Unexpectedly, the film transformed itself and shined abroad, becoming the first film in the history of Chinese films to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the audience also accepted this kind of literary and artistic different style of martial arts films.
3. Chen Kaige's "Jing Ke Thorn Qin King"
When Chen Kaige was shooting this movie, because he could not find a satisfactory venue, he spent 1.2 billion yuan to build a Qin King Palace, but he did not expect that the film box office was only 10 million, and he lost everything. Similar to "East into West", Chen Kaige also made subversive modifications and reshaping of the deeply rooted roles in the film, making it difficult for the audience to accept, the film style is more poetic, not realistic enough, the audience does not buy it, at that time was scolded bad films, who can think, but now it has become a classic with 8.1 points.
4. Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu"
When "Kung Fu" was released that year, film critics unceremoniously pointed out that the lines were empty, the story was monotonous, and fans bought tickets to support Zhou Xingchi, but came out but criticized it for not knowing what it was called. However, many of Star Ye's movies always have to go through the precipitation of time to truly appreciate its spiritual core, and the same is true of "Kung Fu", which was previously scolded and now has become a classic with an 8.6 score.
5. Xu Ke's "Biography of New Shu Mountain"
When the film was first released, even Cecilia Cheung's influence could not be brought up, the box office was seriously hit the street, and the director Xu Ke was also scolded. In the mysterious world of immortals in the film, the battle between good and evil in your life and death, the shaping of the characters is as sharp as ever, and it looks very different. However, with the rise of online revision novels, "The Legend of New Shushan" has made a beautiful comeback and truly filmed the ethereal feeling in xiuzhen novels.
6. Xu Ke's "Knife Breaker"
This is probably one of Xu Ke's most underrated martial arts films, and the realistic picture style, coupled with a large number of R-rated shots, makes this film put a kind of visual pressure on the audience. The slightly cheesy story structure also made "The Broken Knife Man" unsatisfactory in terms of word-of-mouth and box office at the time of release. But nearly 26 years later, the film's rating on Douban has reached 8.1 points, better than 94% of martial arts movies.
7. Chen Kexin's "Letter of Submission"
This film was criticized by the audience for "hanging sheep's head and selling dog meat", saying that it was a costume war film, but in fact it was a literary and art film, and the director Chen Kexin was scolded miserably, saying that he would only make literary and artistic films. However, after many years, the audience finally understood the ideological realm in the film, understood the naked humanity in the film, and also accepted this form of war film.