The movie "The First Burning Incense", which was released for five days, failed the Douban score ↓
The box office is only 30 million ↓
Today, it was also ridiculed by netizens to the second hot search ↓
Publicly named by the big media is a bad film ↓
...... Whether it is the market or word of mouth, the full range of Waterloo. Even if many people have lowered their expectations before watching the film, they are still shocked by such a report card.
You know, for this film to sit, but a top level of gold production team in the industry!
Adapted from Zhang Ailing's novel, the original work has a high evaluation ↓
Director Xu Anhua has won the Golden Horse Best Director Award in the Academy, won the Venice Lifetime Achievement Award, and filmed "The Day and Night of Tin Shui Wai", "Sister Tao", "A Thousand Words" and other masterpieces that are enough to be famous in the history of film ↓
Screenwriter Wang Anyi, who wrote "Wind Moon" for Chen Kaige↓
Photography Du Kefeng, soundtrack Ryuichi Sakamoto, styling and Emi Tada, needless to say, a master artist in the industry.
Starring Peng Yuyan, Ma Sichun, Yu Feihong, Yin Fang, Fan Wei... They are all very powerful actors, and they have masterpieces that they can get their hands on.
Double hard-core support in front of and behind the scenes, and the legend says that walking with closed eyes and feeling dark will not fall.
This lineup saves a play, step back, no matter how bad, make a "beautiful and soulless" exquisite leather bag to please the audience's audiovisual feelings, there is basically no problem!
Or rather, box office and word of mouth, it always has to account for the same.
However, the embarrassment faced by the film now only proves that it wasted a lot of top good resources, a grand failure, and the defeat is regrettable and incomprehensible.
Because, obviously it can do well, it does not; obviously it can avoid such a terrible ending, it still jumps down...
So, what is the problem with "First Incense"?
First of all, it should be noted that this movie is not a bad movie. No matter how fierce the online criticism is, it must be admitted that it is not the same as the spicy bad film in the traditional sense of "no acting, no story and no beauty".
As many people expect, in the face project, "The First Incense" has indeed done a delicate and good look.
The photographic composition texture is high↓
Just take a screenshot of the wallpaper.
Mi Li's retro prop set is very much in line with the luxurious life of the rich people in Hong Kong during the colonial period described in the original work.
There is also the sexy harmony full of color, which is often said to be the sense of atmosphere, which is also in place.
Ryuichi Sakamoto's gloomy soundtrack is just right to set off the feeling of depression that cannot be relieved of the entanglement of desire and iniquity.
However, excellent aesthetics, like the correct three views, can add icing on the cake to the masterpiece, but it cannot send charcoal to the bad pieces of snow. Even in the face of the film's unconvincing story, these high-level beauties make people feel a sense of grief.
Yes, the problem with "First Incense" is mainly due to the lack of "convincing", that is, it cannot make people feel substitution! It is reflected in most of the casting, the acting skills of the main actors, and the storytelling.
Casting
The casting controversy of "The First Burning Incense" has been raging from the beginning of the film, especially the candidates of the male and female protagonists Ge Qiqiqiao and Ge Weilong.
Played by Peng Yuyan and Ma Sichun, from appearance to temperament, they cannot make people match the characters in the original work.
I really don't blame netizens for saying that "First Furnace Incense" should be called "First Furnace Steel", the reason is that the two protagonists are as strong as steel
Ge Weilong written in the novel - her face is a plain and beautiful small convex face, her eyes are long and charming, and the deep marks on her double eyelids sweep straight into her sideburns. Slender nose, small fat mouth.
And because the family conditions are not very good, the figure is slender, and the body is also very petite, and the clothes worn by Mrs. Liang are very large.
The first thing that came to mind was the image of Liu Yifei.
Look back at our pony classmates: tiger back bear waist ↓
Big waist round ↓
Drink three cups of milk tea every day like a chubby round face ↓
Just not Aning's unyielding eyebrows ↓
And the weak and deceived "second-generation social flower" Ge sister in the original can not be said to be exactly the same, can only be a side of the sky.
Ma Sichun in the main film is similar to what was expected. No matter how delicate the makeup, no matter how beautiful the skirt, it can not make up for the image gap.
There is a scene where Ge Weilong decides to return to his hometown shanghai after being injured, but when he regrets it, he gets off the boat and returns to his aunt's house, she walks on the street in a lost soul, and the camera gives Ge Weilong a lot of close-ups on his back.
Originally, this was a sad scene where the protagonist wanted to cry without tears, and the viewers were extremely sad, but because Ma Sichun was too strong and too thick, she felt that in the next second she would have to roll up her sleeves and grab buns on the street, she could run three streets wildly, and the stall owner could not catch up with her old life...
Not a bodyshame! The pony himself is good-looking, and it is beautiful enough to find a good angle in the film.
But most of the time, it is really easy to be broken by her thick and rounded image, and the laughter field is continuous.
Seeing that the heroine on the screen still has to eat so many delicious dishes at a meal, I really want to shout on the spot: Baozi, you can restrain it, hold back!
Peng Yuyan's Georgie Joe, just as disastrous.
In the original book, Georgie Joe is a wandering playboy with a grimace, a bloodless face, and black pressed eyebrows and eyelashes.
In short, there is a sense of brokenness in the body.
Zhang Guorong in "Nong Ben Amorous" (adapted from "The First Burning Incense"), in addition to not being a mixed-race child, is very consistent.
Look at your husband Peng Yuyan, three pounds of protein powder a day to raise eight-pack abs ↓
Bronze healthy complexion ↓
The only thing that can be thought of is the hot-blooded youth ↓
Take one enemy ten ↓
Bare ass can fly over the wall ↓
You say, where is this like the gloomy and decadent rich boy brother?! It's like fishing on a plane, it's far from it!
So, when Liang Luoshi's line - "Mixed-race children are more or less gloomy, and there is a little girl's temperament" came out, the camera switched to wearing a tight vest, full of tendon meat, it seems that he can pull a few tons of coal, and when he can go to the gym to give me a personal training class, Peng Ge into the painting, it really makes me epic and laugh- Ah family!
Feeling broken? The feeling of oppression was the level of a small fist pounding my chest and begging me not to die. Yakuza? The Devil's Head is!
The film is big, and the audience is sometimes stupid, but it is really not blind! It's true!!
To say that Peng Yuyan's Qiao Qiqiao is the most in line with the original work, it should be that he looks so strong and does not learn the four bodies of the four bodies and does not feed himself diligently, no wonder he cannot be treated by his father.
Ma Sichun Peng Yuyan is a temperament image that does not conform to the original character, and Mrs. Liang, played by Yu Feihong, is inappropriate against normal logic.
The image of Liang Tai in the original work - white and slightly transparent green, a touch of purple-black rouge on the lips... The beauty is old, but the eyes are not old.
Yu Feihong, who has a graceful posture, plays an old rose on the wind moon field, which is very sticky.
But the goddess Yu in the film is too good to be charming, and there is no sense of illness and twilight of Liang Tai at all.
If the aunt is really long Yu Feihong, still good at dancing with long sleeves, rich and scheming, as long as she wants, what man can't get his hands on, and he can use it to let his niece, the middleman, earn the difference??!!
Other supporting roles, Fan Wei, Yin Fang, Zhang Junning, Qin Pei, Bai Bing, etc., are basically normal.
To say that the most surprising casting should be Ji Jie, played by Liang Luoshi.
Liang Luoshi himself is a mixed-race child, with a very rich temperament, and a port of Pu is also suitable for the original characters. Whether it is in the social field, or confident enough to say things like "ordinary men can't satisfy me", they are all convincing.
acting
When it comes to acting, the protagonist is still in the hardest hit area. It's not that it sucks, but the double drag of the image's non-sticking + lack of spark on the play.
Qiao Qiqiao's gloomy decadence is not there, and Peng Yuyan is not suitable for playing such a delicate role.
Therefore, in the film, he is in an awkward state that cannot be let go and has to act, and the Qiao Gongzi presented is oil in addition to oil.
A lump of oil residue falling down can smash the frame of my glasses!!!!
Ge Weilong, a poor woman who degenerated from a pure schoolgirl into a prostitute in the wind and moon field, should have experienced countless entanglements, contradictions and self-struggles in the step-by-step sinking.
These psychological descriptions, the film is indeed inked, that is, somehow dropped into the whole youth trauma literature.
For example, Ge Weilong suddenly cried, suddenly laughed, suddenly autistic, and suddenly lost sleep and cried... Anyway, it is very sudden, a hard concave, all feelings without skills, and do not explain why it is purple...
Then supplemented by the pony classmate's repeated bowing of the head and shyness ↓
Confused little eyes ↓
There is also the cute smile of SpongeBob SquarePants and the despair of lips opening slightly↓
But those years of youth those pains!
The relationship between Ge Qiqiqiao and Ge Weilong was originally a collision of two sick and charming people. But Peng Yuyan and Ma Sichun had no sense of CP, and there was no spark in the opponent play.
The plot of the two people talking to each other is the bud of love, and it should be undercurrent and seductive, right?
But Peng Yuyan and Ma Sichun, who originally felt wrong, showed a painting style that changed into a tiger girl and a leaping earth playing together.
Or you can call the fitness coach and his slimming female member two or three things???
The feeling is not flirting, but Xiao Peng is talking to the pony about the personal training arrangement plan: if you want to lose fat today, do 20 squats, less intake of carb Oh pure!
There is a scene in the film, it is Peng Yuyan's prank, showing Ma Sichun the big snake he raised, and the woman is frightened and accidentally throws down Peng Yuyan.
How dramatic is this style? It's just confusing. Can a girl easily throw fitness instructor Peng Yuyan on the bed? Seems unlikely. But that girl is Ma Sichun, who is half a month old, and it seems that it is not impossible.
In the process of watching the movie, the editor has not cared about the plot, and the whole process is thinking about whether it is possible to !!!!
There is also, Xiao Peng and Xiao Ma's boat play, when the two are entangled, they feel that they are competing, and they are stronger than who is stronger!
However, although the discomfort of the two images runs through the whole film, the acting skills are gradually getting better and can be seen.
Yu Feihong's Liang Tai, abandoning the irrationality of casting logic, beautiful atmosphere, acting skills are very online.
But the beauty of the goddess is a dignified, atmospheric, bright beauty, which has nothing to do with debauchery, viciousness, viciousness, and morbidity.
Liang Tai's posture is shaking, mysterious and charming, but too righteous, less sick and debauched.
There is a passage in the book: Mrs. Liang is sitting on a gold-lacquered chair, one leg hooks the armrest of the chair, and the high-heeled woven gold slippers hang leisurely on the tip of the toe, and can fall to the ground at any time.
According to the words in "Dream of the Red Chamber", the hooves of the waves that are alive and free.
There is also such a scene of slippers in the film, which is the appearance of seducing Lu classmates, and it is indeed full of feelings ↓
But most of the time, Yu Feihong's aunt was too stable and self-possessed, and she was vaguely handsome, more like an underground party that had broken into the enemy's interior, and would send a telegram to report on the progress at any time.
She was dignified and atmospheric, not the kind of gloomy, psychologically broken beauty.
tale
How to shoot the story of Zhang Ailing's "First Incense", of course, the editor is not qualified to discuss.
Let's talk about empathy as a general audience. "The First Incense" can't make people have much emotion and ups and downs.
Director Xu Anhua's skill naturally does not need to be doubted, after all, she also brought out a director like Guan Jinpeng.
In addition, she should be the most dedicated director of Zhang Ailing's novels among Chinese directors, from "Love in the City" in 1984 to "Half Life" in 1997, she also directed the stage play of Zhang Ailing's novel "Golden Lock".
In terms of visualizing Zhang Ailing's works, it can be said that she is full of experience.
But this time, the story told by Xu Dao lacked the power to shock people's hearts.
Zhang Ailing's novel is not easy to shoot, and director Hou Xiaoxian has said that it is too complicated, too deep, and too difficult to go around. Because she tore open all the things about male and female love to show you, so that you can see that it is full of calculations and does not have a trace of sincerity.
The most irrelevant thing about "The First Incense" is love, and some are just lust and iniquity.
The young girl of the good family willingly degenerated into prostitution, learned the means of communication with her aunt, became a high-class prostitute, married a playboy, and the aunt and nephew served one person, and raised the playboy with the money she sold herself.
It is true that the story is a classic, but in terms of arousing the empathy of today's social audiences, it is a classic that can only be shelved.
A talented and talented schoolgirl, willing to degenerate for the sake of a playboy, falling into the dust? It is not in line with the current trend of thought, and it will only make people feel incomprehensible.
It makes sense to set yourself in the midst of an involuntary turbulent era, a land of drunken fans.
It's just that "First Incense" is more like a calm bystander in showing the desire and struggle of the characters, and has not entered the heart, and the audience naturally cannot feel the feeling of dark tide and cold sadness.
Finally, "First Incense" is not the kind of bad film that makes people sit still, it has its own aesthetic style, and it can be seen as an anti-love brain guide.
But if you really want to experience the shocking power of bone-eating into the marrow, it is recommended to read the original book!