A movie, from the beginning of the choice of theme, is already doomed to the result.
In 2016, Zhang Yimou's meticulously directed Chinese-Western work "The Great Wall" tells the story of two Americans who came to China and destroyed the legendary food with the colorful army in China because of misunderstanding, and the male protagonist has an indescribable love.
For this movie, a total of 1 billion yuan was spent, but the box office was worth 1.1 billion, and people who did not know how to calculate thought that they had earned 100 million, but in fact, they had lost the investors to tears.
Wang Jing once admitted in a show that he saw Zhang Yimou shoot a third of the film, and I knew that it was difficult to do.
Wang Jing, who can make both bad and good films, has a keen sense of market smell and knows what the film market needs.
Wang Jing, who has the "king of bad films", the reason why he made those "bad films" is mainly to let more old Hong Kong actors have dramas and have a stable meal to eat, and many old Hong Kong actors are grateful for Wang Jing's help.
After Wang Jing visited Zhang Yimou's shooting site, he had thought, "How will Zhang Yimou end?" ”
Other than that, the investment cost alone is huge, the box office needs three billion to protect the capital, and how many domestic works exceed three billion, it is conceivable that the difficulty coefficient is very large.
Moreover, the story at the beginning is not attractive enough, it is difficult to imagine, how to deal with the second half of the scene in the follow-up, this is Wang Jing's view.
Favorite audiences said that "The Great Wall" is a magical work with special effects explosions, and the annoying audience felt that "The Great Wall" was like chewing wax, especially in order to hold two foreign actors, plus a "vase" actor Jing Tian.
Obviously, the cast is ridiculously strong, but it has attracted a lot of ambiguity in the distribution.
The male protagonist, Matt Damon, plays a warrior who fights for his friends.
The heroine is Jing Tian, who has not been popular for thousands of years.
These two male and female protagonists alone have pulled the grade of "The Great Wall" to a higher level.
Even if Zhang Hanyu plays Dian Shuai, Andy Lau, Lin Xinxin, Peng Yuyan and other people as accompaniment, it cannot save the problem of male and female protagonists.
The fight has not been fought, it has been lost first, probably so understand it!
Two foreigners traveled thousands of miles to China for the sake of "black powder", and relied on the courage and wisdom of foreigners to defeat the "gluttony". Yes, after so many years of fighting, sacrificing so many people, and finally relying on the aura of foreigners to win.
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In addition, Jing Tian played a "pioneer" female general, and she had several stronger characters on top of her, and as a result, the female general became the palace marshal, and the plot did not have much preparation.
In addition, the army is dressed in colorful and extremely fancy, turning the battlefield "drama" into acrobatics, which is also one of the "highlights" of this movie.
The reason why Wang Jing can make "bad films" and smooth sailing, he can see clearly what he likes in the market, after all, the film is shown to the audience, so that the audience can see it happily to reflect the value of the work.
And Wang Jing's "bad films" are mostly commercial films, and they are small costs. The most important thing is that Wang Jing rarely makes investors lose money, so Wang Jing has a steady stream of resources to shoot commercial films at the same time, but also to shoot her favorite movies.