Famous directors sit in the town + big names gathered + full film special effects = rating 3.5, how "Turandot" turned over

Chief reporter of Jimu News Rong Yu

"Chosin Lake" continues to dominate the October film market, attracting almost all the attention of the audience, and making most of the new films released this month become "box office cannon fodder". Among them, the fantasy movie "Turandot", directed by the famous director Zheng Xiaolong, starring Guan Xiaotong, Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, and the famous French actor Sophie Marceau, not only performed poorly at the box office, but also had a Douban score as low as 3.5 points, which was characterized as "Zheng Xiaolong's overturning work".

But in fact, Zheng Xiaolong's "rollover" has long been expected by fans, because there are very few domestic fantasy movies that can not overturn.

Expected rollover

"Zheng Xiaolong, that year the apricot blossoms rained slightly, and all the beauty brought to me by "The Biography of Zhen Huan" has now been paid off, and from now on, you and I will not owe each other." This is the feeling of netizens "becoming Xiao Yan Hongzhi" after watching "Turandot", which has now become the top hot comment of Douban.

This sentence has written the voice of many netizens, and also expressed the confusion of the vast majority of fans: How did Zheng Xiaolong, who can shoot 9.3 points "The Biography of Zhen Huan", 8.5 points "Golden Marriage", 8.4 points "Beijingers in New York", and 8.2 points "Red Sorghum", how did he shoot "Turandot" with 3.5 points?

From the perspective of hardware conditions, "Turandot" is definitely called a "top student": the strength of director Zheng Xiaolong is beyond doubt, the screenwriter of the film Wang Xiaoping sits in "Beijingers in New York", "The Biography of Zhen Huan", "Gua Sha" and other high-scoring screenwriting works, starring Jiang Wen and Hu Jun are all tough guys from the Central Academy of Drama, and the French "sweet sister" Sophie Marceau, who is most familiar to Chinese film fans, is even more rare to participate in cameos - such a combination, how can such a big mistake.

But in fact, as early as before the release of "Turandot", many fans have asserted that the film will become Zheng Xiaolong's "Waterloo", because it combines various elements that are easy to "step on the thunder".

The film was inspired by the classic Italian opera "Turandot", the screenwriter adapted it in Chinese, telling the story of the princess played by Guan Xiaotong who was possessed by a magic spell, and the three men around her: the Fanbang orphan who admired her (played by Italian actor Dylan Spros), the father who loved her (played by Jiang Wen), and the general who coveted her (played by Hu Jun) were all trying to change her fate, and who succeeded in the end, the answer is not difficult.

If it is simply to tell the story of the hero saving the United States, "Turandot" may not have caused ridicule, but Zheng Xiaolong set up an extremely grand overhead background for the film, and the magic, love, adventure elements and unbridled computer special effects are roughly mixed, so that the audience has no sense of substitution. Coupled with guan Xiaotong and italian male actors wearing ancient costumes to talk about love is indeed "0 sparks", Jiang Wen's role modeling that makes people play as soon as he appears, and the illogical setting of the key prop "tricolor bracelet" have made many viewers show a "subway grandfather looking at the mobile phone" expression when watching the film.

In the end, more than 5,000 fans gave the film the lowest score of one star on Douban, leaving the film's rating at 3.5.

Domestic fantasy is always stepping on the thunder

There are also pertinent fans who cry out for "Turandot", believing that "Zheng Xiaolong, who is almost 70 years old", really shoots very seriously, and the helpless combination of East and West seems to always be a false proposition. Just as Chinese audiences cannot understand the significance of Sophie Marceau's appearance in Turandot, foreign audiences will not recognize the "Princess Guan Xiaotong" and the opera "Turandot" for a dime relationship. Countless "box office cannon fodder" have proved that the Sino-US co-production fantasy film, "ten pieces of nine die (dead)". The industry is even more convinced that except for Ang Lee, no director can perfectly integrate Chinese and Western cultures in one movie.

Just when "Turandot" was controversial, netizens also turned over the famous "rollover" work "Asura" in domestic fantasy movies. This fantasy blockbuster with a Douban score of only 3.0 points, despite the help of stars such as Liang Jiahui, Liu Jialing, Wu Lei, etc., still cannot escape the fate of being "ridiculed" by netizens, and its crux is the eternal "plot has no logic + special effects are noisy + the performance is not similar". The big defeat of "Asura" also made Wu Lei, who was at the peak of popularity at the time, carry a super low-scoring work, which was regrettable.

Film critic Chen Diandian believes that the root cause of domestic fantasy always stepping on the thunder is the shoddy creation of the script, the pervasiveness of capital and the lack of basic respect for the audience, "After capital intervention, investors use high film remuneration to attract big cards to join, over-reliance on stars and traffic, ignoring the root of a movie - the story." Wait until the movie is released to know that you can't even tell the story well, and the audience doesn't buy it at all. ”

Chen Diandian said for example, when "Legend of the Fengshen Gods" invited dozens of big coffees such as Jet Li, Huang Xiaoming, Angelababy, Gu Tianle, Liang Jiahui, etc., and finally could only take the douban 2.9 points of evaluation in a mocking voice, "True Three Kingdoms" had Gu Tianle, Wang Kai, Yang Youning, Han Geng, Gulinaza, Liu Jialing to join, but still was burdened by the story of the sky, only got 3.9 points of evaluation, "Now the industry is looking forward to Urshan's "Fengshen Trilogy", filmed for so many years, Maybe it can give domestic fantasy movies a breath. ”

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