Mention the Italian "Turandot", I believe that people who know something about opera should know the story of this princess who pretends to use the guessing game to recruit horses to avenge her grandmother, but accidentally encounters love and puts aside hatred.
As a result, a Chinese story imagined by Westerners was made into a Chinese film after adding magical elements, which is the recently released "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell".
The film lineup can be said to be very strong, bringing together the famous director Zheng Xiaolong, the top actress Guan Xiaotong, the Hong Kong star Zou Zhaolong, the film emperor Hu Jun, the film emperor Jiang Wen, the international superstar Sophie Marceau and other bigwigs.
However, the collision of Chinese and Western cultures has not become the focus of this movie, on the contrary, it has only brought a strong sense of separation to the film, and the foolish special effects and embarrassing acting skills make this movie even if it has the golden supporting role of Jiang Wenhe and Sophie Marceau, it is impossible to hide the shoddy production of the film itself.
After the release of this movie, it was considered to be not in the west, not in the same class, the audience one star bad review brush screen, Douban open score of only 3.9, and then followed by another drop to 3.5 points, did not expect it to be so bad!
Fuhua Dao is the place where everyone complains the most, look at Jiang Wen's double ponytail + a handful of Qi bangs, what kind of feelings will you have?
I know that this is Jiang Wen acting in a costume play, and those who don't know also think that Jiang Wen is filming costume photos, while filming while nagging with the staff.
Hu Jun, never expected, in the film he contributed two flesh, which caught people off guard.
Some people say that Jiang Wen and Hu Jun have some handle in Zheng Xiaolong's hands to play this, I think maybe the families of the three people have been kidnapped by the capital, maybe they will be filmed for their daughter in the second grade of primary school.
In the film, this Turandot princess, from the beginning of the makeup, makes people quite speechless: blue-green eyeshadow, dark purple lipstick, and sure enough, it is written on the face of the "under the spell".
Many people therefore complain that "Turandot" is a group of big-name students to praise Guan Xiaotong's film, in fact, after watching the film, you will find that it is not like this, because the film really supports the pheasant actor who does not know that he is more than a dozen lines in foreign countries, the role is absolutely dominant, even if the acting skills are far inferior to Guan Xiaotong, with his own strength to perform a stereotypical, silly white sweet, Holy Father heart of the classic Disney prince image, and there is a crying scene that can't even cry tears and laugh to death.
Speaking of cameos in the film, it is still incredible that Sophie Marceau plays the mother of the male protagonist, there are really only two scenes, which cannot show her charm at all, and there is no character shaping, that is, a paper person who can play anyone.
Secondly, the most obvious problem of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" is the production, the magnificent imperial city in the movie, the epic war, the gorgeous fantasy and other big scenes need to be carefully crafted special effects to complete, which is also the point of view that this movie should show, but from the perspective of the finished film, it is obvious that the production funds really left for special effects are stretched, and almost all the big scenes in the movie stay at the level of the big production of the network.
As for the so-called wonderful special effects in the film, it should be a section of the three bracelets that the princess wore and her fused into one, and the high priest was cursed in the mouth, and then the biggest special effect in the whole scene should be fireworks, and I really can't say anything else.
The most stretched thing about this film is the plot logic, it turns out that Turandot killed men in order to avenge the three riddles, hope, blood, Turandot, the prince in the film needs to meditate for hours, now think about it or feel very coke, a serious show of their mental retardation. In the end, the prince guessed the riddle princess but was not convinced. So the prince asked her to guess the name. The princess captured the beard and forced her to confess, and the maid committed suicide. The prince sacrificed the face of his whole princess for love, and as a result, the princess fell in love with the prince and lived a happy life from then on....
And the so-called tricolor bracelet should have become the focus of the film, but it did not play a real role in the plot, in general, such a divine power should not be the target of everyone's contention? Shouldn't it have the energy to destroy the world? However, when the prince answered the third question, the bracelet was completely taken offline, and the princess was saved.
How did the villain end up hanging? He hammered the princess with a punch, and the princess's blood spat on him, so that the special function broke through the defense, and was stabbed to death by the male protagonist, and then the princess also hung up... I can't think of any adjectives other than outrageous.
The last opponent scene is even more "famous scene", the general trained into King Kong is not bad after the defection, proposed to fight with the Khan King, the Khan King cut him three times, cut him can not die he abdicated.
The Khan King went down with a knife, the knife shattered the person, but he spewed out a mouthful of old blood, but he did not expect that this mouthful of blood broke the general's King Kong incorruptible body, and the two died together.
If there is any significance in this movie, it is naturally still very significant.
It tells us that even high-quality human men with artistic pursuits such as Jiang Wen and Zheng Xiaolong have begun to make bad films, so everyone should not be too demanding of themselves, and it is okay to allow themselves to often make small mistakes.
Finally, the film uses the CCTV documentary narration at the end to tell everyone that this is actually a Belt and Road propaganda film, in the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we have brought gunpowder and fireworks to the Western world, which can be said to be the messenger of civilization, or it can be said that it is the image of a responsible big country.