Douban score is only 3.6 Jiang Wen, Sophie Marceau filmed together?

Recently, the film market is not short of stardom, but it has not been able to make the film a hit, the combination of Chinese and Western elements of the film "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse" is one of them, not only Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, Guan Xiaotong and other familiar faces of the audience have starred, known as the French national treasure actor Sophie Marceau also appeared in the film, however, according to the lighthouse professional version, as of 15:00 on October 19, the film's box office is still stuck at 16 million yuan, and the word of mouth is all the way down. The Douban movie rating is even only 3.6 points, showing an irreparable decline.

Starlight can not save the box office word of mouth double decline

Bringing together Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, Guan Xiaotong, Sophie Marceau and many other well-known domestic and foreign actors, and by the director Zheng Xiaolong and screenwriter Wang Xiaoping, who have created the blockbuster drama "The Biography of Zhen Huan", the creators feel inspired by one of the world's top ten operas, Turandot, a series of backgrounds that undoubtedly make "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" one of the highly anticipated films in October this year.

However, all parties did not expect that "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" directly hit a squib after its release.

According to the professional version of the lighthouse, after the official release of "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse" in China on October 15, the box office on the first day was 7.0671 million yuan, failing to cross the threshold of 10 million yuan, and since then the daily box office has declined day by day, and on the 4th day of release, the single-day box office has fallen to less than one million yuan. As of 15:00 on October 19, the cumulative box office of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" has just reached 16.141 million yuan, and the total number of moviegoers is 436,000.

It is worth noting that "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" not only did its box office performance fall short of expectations, but its reputation has also continued to decline since its release. On the Douban movie, as of the time of the Beijing Business Daily reporter's release, the rating of the film was only 3.6 points, 49.3% of the reviewers had scored a one-star rating, and the proportion of three-star and below ratings was more than 90%. At the same time, on the two platforms of Taobao Ticket and Cat's Eye Movie, Turandot: The Origin of the Spell only scored 7.5 points and 7.1 points respectively. This is obviously not matched by the market feedback compared to the star-studded film.

The plot and actors raise questions

The double decline in box office and word-of-mouth has made "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" have shown a clear decline. However, the main creative team has previously revealed that the film also spent a lot of money and energy in the creative process.

Zheng Xiaolong said in an interview with the media that as early as 2000, it had been born to shoot films related to "Turandot", but because the conditions at that time did not allow it, it could not be filmed immediately, and the planning was officially launched for many years. At the script level, "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" is based on wang Xiaoping's novel "Three Color Bracelet" as the model, in order to be more suitable for the film, the essence of the part and other Chinese and Western elements are integrated, and finally the film script is created. In addition, some media reported that the investment in Turandot: The Origin of the Spell reached 300 million yuan.

What is it about the audience not to buy this film? The plot logic is messy, the combination of Chinese and Western elements is not matched, the acting skills of some actors are more awkward, and the viewing process frequently makes people play... This is the reason for the audience's criticism of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell". Especially in terms of the combination of East and West, the difference between the different is the main area of the audience's questioning. At the same time, some viewers were attracted by actors such as Sophie Marceau and bought tickets to watch the movie, but eventually found that Sophie Marceau appeared for only a few minutes and played a role of "playing soy sauce", so it was more disappointed.

In response to the current box office performance and audience evaluation of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell", the Beijing Business Daily reporter contacted the film side, but as of press time, there was no response from the other party.

Is the combination of Chinese and Western elements a pseudo-proposition?

Judging from the pre-sale box office in the next few days, "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse" has not entered the top five of the films released on the same day, and has been surpassed by the "old films" that have been released for more than half a month. Immediately after, new films, including "First Incense" and "Dune", will land on the national big screen next weekend, which will further form fierce competition.

In the face of the market feedback of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell", there are also doubtful voices in the industry, is the combination of Chinese and Western elements a false proposition? At the same time, looking at the films released in the past few years, in addition to "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse", "The Great Wall" also caused questions from the audience when it was released, and failed to achieve the desired box office results, and "Asura" is also a representative case of this type of film, just released on the word of mouth fell into the freezing point, and then chose to temporarily withdraw the film.

Director Huang Zhiyong believes that although a number of films that combine Chinese and Western elements have not been able to obtain the ideal box office and word of mouth in the market before, this does not mean that the way chinese and Western elements are combined is a false proposition, but because the creators have not found a balance point to make various elements fit, so it will appear to be unremarkable, making the audience frequently feel embarrassed and playing in the process of watching. If the different elements can be skillfully and naturally integrated, so that both the storyline and the actors and costumes can match each other, presumably the work will also see the potential space and gain the recognition of the market and the audience.

Beijing Business Daily reporter Zheng Rui