To be honest, before I watched the movie Turandot, I was more or less expectant of it.
First, the lineup is reliable.
Director Zheng Xiaolong has filmed "Golden Marriage" and "The Biography of Zhen Huan", and the recent hit "Meritorious Service" is also from his hand.
Screenwriter Wang Xiaoping, Zheng Xiaolong's wife, said that there was "Beijingers in New York" as far away, and "Meritorious Service" as close as possible. Tacit understanding of the husband and wife file, together completed a lot of classic works.
Look at the cast list, Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, the two major film emperors joined forces, and the world-renowned actress Sophie Marceau.
Although the heroine Guan Xiaotong's acting skills are still immature, after all, it is the heroine selected by Zheng Xiaolong from more than 9,000 people, there should always be her shining point, not much to go, not to mention there are several acting schools to escort, the quality is guaranteed.
Second, the theme of the film comes with its own highlights.
The United States has the "Harry Potter" series, but China rarely has domestic magic films, and the impression is that Liang Jiahui, Liu Jialing, and Wu Lei have an "Asura" that collapses badly.
But realistically speaking, China's five-thousand-year culture, countless myths and stories, the rise of national comics, from "The Return of the Great Sage" to "Nezha Devil Boy Descending", brought wonderful mythological stories to the public in a new situation.
However, in the field of domestic magic films, there is still a gap.
And this "Turandot" is originally a Chinese legend in the imagination of Westerners, and it is most appropriate to co-produce chinese and foreign films.
In the 3-year production cycle, many acting schools joined, Chinese and foreign stars gathered together, and as early as before the start of the broadcast, "Turandot" hoisted everyone's appetite.
Who knows, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
In the two days of release, the total box office was 12.32 million.
Douban scored 3.8, a total of 4459 reviews, 43.6% of people gave a one star.
The popular comment is: Audiences who missed "Asura" and "Shanghai Fortress" should not miss this film anymore.
Jiang Wen and Hu Jun are acting in court dramas, Dylan Sprouts is acting in Game of Thrones, Zou Zhaolong is acting in martial arts films, and Guan Xiaotong is showing off his talents.
Of course, the whole movie still has remarkable places, such as the acting skills of Jiang Wen and Hu Jun.
The biggest hard wound of this movie is in the plot.
In fact, the story is quite simple, the prince with amnesia and the princess cursed by the tricolor bracelet fell in love, and the prince unveiled the mystery to save the princess and retrieve his memory.
A plot that can be summarized in one sentence, how to support a 111-minute movie?
The screenwriter's first task is to keep repeating the plot, and the scene of the little queen (Sophie Marceau) family dying appears again and again, from the beginning to the end, intermittently inserted, and constantly flashbacks.
Immediately after, the screenwriter began to control the rhythm again, and the same event was repeated.
For example, the prince needs to answer three puzzles correctly to help the princess unravel the curse.
And every time the puzzle is solved, the princess artificially reads the puzzle, the prince's memory flashback, the decryption timeout, the prince shouts out the mystery at the last moment of being killed, the puzzle is successful, the bracelet in the princess's hand disappears, the palace maid sets off fireworks to announce the good news, and the prince becomes a hero from a prisoner under the steps.
In this process, it is also necessary to join the prince being executed, and his master and friends fight with the evil forces represented by General Po Yan (Hu Jun) in order to save him, the two sides entangled, and several fights were fought, and in this way, it was successfully consumed for another ten minutes.
Of course, in order to ensure the progress of the plot, the screenwriter also set up countless coincidences.
For example, at the birthday ceremony, Princess Turandot accidentally opened the box containing the three-color bracelet, she wanted to share the bracelet with her father Khan (Jiang Wen), the Khan King suddenly brought three bracelets on Turandot's right hand, the three-color bracelet was combined, and the curse was activated.
For example, the amnesiac prince dreams of becoming a fireworks maker, and in the process of secretly learning the art, he accidentally breaks into the residence of Princess Turandot, and just happens to see the righteous courage to save Turandot, who is bullied by General Po Yan (Hu Jun).
The two people came to a magic circle of love, and the small flame of love was ignited unconsciously.
These coincidences are too old to be new.
But the most difficult thing to accept is to force the hero and heroine to lower their minds for the sake of the plot advancement.
On the night of the full moon, the curse of the tricolor bracelet will devour Turandot's sanity, and she asks the prince not to come to her, but the prince does not believe in evil, and when he sees the bound Turandot, he immediately unties her, and says that the palace people are bold and abuse the princess.
And when Turandot's curse was lifted, she also knew the story of the prince, and planned to let the prince go away, just in time to encounter General Po Yan sent someone to arrest the prince, in order to save the prince, Turandot said: "As long as you let him go, let me do anything." ”
And General Po Yan finally said the words: I want you to marry me.
Oh, my God! Turandot was the one who grew up watching Po Yan, when the uncle actually beat his own little niece's idea?
And what is even more speechless is that Turandot actually agreed?
Because of the limitations of the plot, the actors rarely have room to play.
For example, Jiang Wen wandered around the palace all day, either to see his daughter or to fight with Po Yan in a huff.
The queen played by Sophie Marceau has become the most beautiful vase in the whole film, appearing for no more than 5 minutes, and constantly appearing in various forms before, in the film, and at the end of the film.
And General Po Yan, played by Hu Jun, is the biggest villain in the whole drama, and his bad has a stereotype, in one word, it is to kill.
Killing the generals of his own country, and then killing the people of small countries, he has always wanted to kill the Khan King played by Jiang Wen, and even killed the priests who are allied with him.
In the end, he trained the incorruptible body of King Kong, but was killed by the prince and the princess together.
I have to say that this movie really wasted a wave of good actors with acting skills.
As the heroine, Guan Xiaotong has the most scenes, but she can't act in a layer, an expression throughout the whole process, and even the obvious personality changes before and after Princess Turandot, which are completely completed by clothing and makeup.
The cold frost in the early stage is red lips, blue eyeshadow, big makeup, the costume is either white or black, and later becomes gentle, and begins to wear a pink gauze skirt, and a colorful garland on the head.
The acting skills of the male protagonist are also unsatisfactory, and the whole process is a face of pure heart and widowhood, without joy and sorrow.
Handsome is handsome, but can not see the emotion, is a plain beautiful man.
In contrast, the female Sanlin Siyi on the cast list is much more vivid.
She plays Liu'er, the daughter of the prince's master, who grew up with the prince and has a crush on him.
Although Lin Siyi's performance is not much exciting, it is really much better than the male and female protagonists.
At the very least, there was joy and sorrow on her face, there was a wanton smile, and there was also a lament for watching her sweetheart go away.
Then again, Lu Han has "Shanghai Fortress", Guan Xiaotong has "Turandot", a masterpiece for one person, perhaps, this is also another way to show love?