Why didn't An Zhijie become so popular on the big screen of the action movie?
This problem plagues many action movie fans.
On the one hand, An Zhijie has won the love of a large number of action movie audiences with his handsome appearance and sharp skills.
On the other hand, the overall performance of the starring works is bland, and it often makes An Zhijie's film road fall into a bottleneck and it is difficult to have a breakthrough.
In fact, since his debut, An Zhijie has been favored by many famous directors and has also played a lot of popular action IP.
However, in An Zhijie's body, it seems that there has always been a "sequel spell". As long as he takes over the IP sequel, the reputation of this sequel will surely usher in a collapse.
2002's "Black Man 2" and 2003's "Young Ah Hu" seem to have become evidence of this "sequel curse".
In 2010, An Zhijie took over a very market-valuable action IP from Wu Jing's hands, and after the release of this work, it once again confirmed the "sequel curse" on An Zhijie.
It is "Extinguishing the Door" directed by Luo Shouyao.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > Luo Shouyao's "Violent Trilogy" </h1>
Speaking of Luo Shouyao's "Extinguishing the Door", we have to mention the first two works of the series - "Black Fist" and "Capture the Marshal".
In his early years, Luo Shouyao was a producer. Du Qifeng's "Underworld" two-part film is the production work of Luo Shouyao.
In 2005, Luo Shouyao transformed from producer to director and began shooting the action film Black Fist.
In "Black Fist", Luo Shouyao tries to express the story of the film in a dark, depressing style, cold, violent fight.
In order to better perform the camera effect, Luo Shouyao also invited Wu Jing as the male protagonist of the story, and Li Zhongzhi as the action director of the film.
After the release of "Black Fist", although the box office in the Hong Kong film market was dismal, it was very popular in the overseas disc market.
Luo Shouyao, who saw the business opportunity, decided to continue the dark and violent style of "Black Fist" and create his second work. The shooting plan of "Capture the Marshal" also began to gradually take shape in Luo Dao's mind.
In "Capture the Marshal", Luo Shouyao not only continued the style of "Black Fist", but also followed the male protagonist wu Jing of the previous work.
Of course, for the market influence of the film, Hong Jinbao was also invited to participate in the shooting of this "Capture the Marshal".
Assisted by Hong Jinbao, an action superstar, "Capture the Marshal" has also achieved quite good market results in the European and American disc markets.
After "Capture the Marshal", director Luo Shouyao decided to continue this violent style and shoot the third work - "Extinguishing the Door".
However, when filming "Extinguishing the Door", Director Luo encountered some problems in terms of actor selection.
Originally, Luo Dao wanted to follow the production team of "Capture the Marshal" in "Extinguishing the Door". But at this time, Wu Jing has transformed into a director and begun to develop independently.
And Hong Jinbao joined hands with Zhen Zidan to fight in "Ip Man 2".
Faced with the schedule conflict between Wu Jing and Hong Jinbao, Luo Shouyao decided to use An Zhijie and carry the banner of the "violent trilogy".
At the same time, in order to enrich the action scenes of the movie, Jiang Luxia, Lu Huiguang, Chen Huimin, Xiong Xinxin and other powerful stars also participated in the filming of this "Extinguishing the Door".
It is reasonable to say that with the guarantee of "Black Fist" and "Capture the Marshal", this "Extinguishing the Door" should not be worse.
But, there is a but for everything!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > confusing revenge story </h1>
The story of "The Gate" is somewhat similar to that of "The Capture of the Marshal", both begin with a "power struggle of the community".
"Tonglian Shun"'s eldest brother "Luo Xiang'an" (played by Zhang Zhaohui) was captured by the "police" and later sentenced to death.
After Luo Xiang'an's death, who would be the next speaker of "Tonglian Shun" became a controversial issue within the community.
"Tonglian Shun" was founded by Luo Xiang'an's father, and the uncles of the society all supported the descendants of the Luo family and served as the new speakers.
"Luo Xiangfu" (played by Ren Dahua) is Luo Xiang'an's eldest brother, who has considerable seniority in "Tonglian Shun". Surrounded by everyone, Luo Xiangfu sat on the seat of the speaker.
After the new speaker has been selected, there is still one more problem that needs to be solved urgently, that is, money!
Luo Xiang'an, the previous speaker, transferred all the assets of "Tonglian Shun" to his own name. In order to stabilize people's hearts, the new speaker Luo Xiangfu decided to return the money to the society.
However, the problem is that Luo Xiang'an left a will before his death, and his own property distribution must wait until all 4 brothers and sisters of the Luo family have arrived before they can be made public.
Therefore, Luo Xiangfu gathered several other brothers and sisters to come and announce the will.
After the people of the Locke family arrived, Lawyer Huang (played by Lin Xue) read the will to the crowd.
Before his death, Luo Xiang'an decided to leave half of his property to his fourth sister "Luo Liping" (played by Liao Bi'er), and the other half of the property was divided among the fifth brother "Ah Fu".
Luo Xiangfu was obviously very dissatisfied with the content of this will. He believes that the money should still be returned to the community so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
Shortly after the will was announced, Lawyer Huang fell to his death. The fifth brother "Afu", one of the beneficiaries of the inheritance, also died in a car accident.
Luo Xiangfu believes that behind these two accidents, there must be someone who is making a ghost. So he arranged for his subordinates Ah Guang (played by Lu Huiguang) and Ah Xiong (played by Xiong Xinxin) to find out the truth.
Late at night, Ah Xiong was in a boxing gym and was attacked by a mysterious person. During the fight, Ah Xiong discovers that the mysterious person is the third elder of the Locke family, "Ah Niu" (played by An Zhijie).
After a fierce fight, Ah Niu killed Ah Xiong.
So, is Ah Niu the one behind the trickster?
However, it is not.
After killing Ah Xiong, Ah Niu fell into memory. It turned out that after the fifth brother Ah Fu had a car accident, the fourth sister Liping came to find Ah Niu.
Liping told Ah Niu that the car accident was actually designed by Luo Xiangfu for the money in the will.
Although Luo Xiangfu is the eldest brother of several people, he is actually the adopted son of the Luo family. It is precisely because there is no blood relationship that the affairs of the Luo family, large and small, are decided by the second brother Luo Xiang'an.
Li Ping said that now that the second brother has died, the third brother Ah Niu should stand up and not let Luo Xiangfu, who is not related by blood, do whatever he wants in the Luo family.
It was precisely because of the encouragement of the fourth sister that Ah Niu attacked Ah Xiong late at night.
Ah Niu is a kung fu master, he not only has his own kung fu, but also a dumb girlfriend "dumb sister" (played by Jiang Luxia).
After killing Ah Xiong, Ah Niu decided to strike again to solve Luo Xiangfu's other two right-hand men, "Ah Guang" (played by Lu Huiguang) and "Brother Shan" (played by Chen Huimin).
Knowing that his ability alone is limited, this time Ah Niu, bring his girlfriend dumb sister to act together.
After a fierce fight, Ah Guang and Shange were both killed, and Ah Niu was also injured in the confrontation. After eliminating the 3 right-hand men, Ah Niu decided to attack Luo Xiangfu to avenge the fifth brother Ah Fu.
Before the action, Ah Niu told the fourth sister Liping of his plan to deal with Luo Xiangfu. However, the fourth sister suddenly struck and killed Ah Niu.
Why did the fourth sister suddenly take a shot at Ah Niu?
It turned out that Ah Niu was the illegitimate son of the Locke family. In the eyes of the fourth sister, Ah Niu, like Luo Xiangfu, is an outsider, his own brother, only the second brother Luo Xiangan and the fifth brother Ah Fu.
After killing Ah Niu, the fourth sister came to "Tonglian Shun", she proposed a duel to Luo Xiangfu, and also said that whoever won was the new speaker of "Tonglian Shun".
The uncles of the society all saw that it was not too big to be lively, and they all agreed to the "ridiculous proposal" of the fourth sister.
The fourth sister usually does not show the mountain and does not leak, but in fact, she is also a kung fu master.
After a fight, Luo Xiangfu died at the hands of the fourth sister. And the fourth sister also began to recall the ins and outs of the matter.
It turned out that before Luo Xiangan was executed, the fourth sister had visited in prison.
At that time, Luo Xiang'an planned to make his eldest brother Luo Xiangfu the next speaker of the society, and the property under his own name was also planned to be returned to the society.
However, the fourth sister believes that the eldest brother is the adopted son of the Luo family and an outsider, and should not inherit the Luo family's property. So she tampered with the will, killed Lawyer Huang and the fifth brother Ah Fu, and set up a poison plan to inherit the society step by step.
After becoming the talker, the fourth sister thought that the overall situation had been decided, but Ah Niu's girlfriend, the dumb sister, knew the truth and came to the fourth sister to avenge.
The mute sister injured several of her men, infiltrated the Locke family, and fought with the fourth sister. After a fight, the dumb sister was not the opponent of the fourth sister, and she was captured.
However, the fourth sister did not kill the dumb sister to extinguish her mouth, but instead forced the dumb sister to ask, why did she come to the assassination?
Immediately after, the most thunderous scene of the film happened. After nearly 5 minutes of questioning, the fourth sister finally realized that the dumb sister was a mute and could not speak at all.
Therefore, the fourth sister gave up the persecution and planned to kill the dumb sister. At this moment, a grenade magically appeared in the hands of the dumb sister.
The dumb sister pounced on the fourth sister, and with an explosion, the story of "Extinguishing the Door" ended.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="73" > An Zhijie's "sequel spell"</h1>
In the "Violent Trilogy" directed by Luo Shouyao, this "Extinguishing the Door" is undoubtedly the most crotch-pulling one, whether it is an action fight or a story plot.
First of all, it is worth affirming that An Zhijie, Jiang Luxia, Lu Huiguang, Xiong Xinxin, Chen Huimin and others have performed very well in the action performance of this "Extinguishing the Door".
However, as a series sequel to the "Violent Trilogy", the action scene performance of "Extinction Door" is still a little less interesting than "Black Fist" and "Capture the Marshal".
The action scenes of "darkness and violence" have always been the characteristics of Director Luo Shouyao's "Violent Trilogy".
However, compared with "Black Fist" and "Capture the Marshal" with "strong contrast between light and dark tones" and "blood plasma flying", this "Extinguishing the Door" is very convergent in the performance of action scenes.
It is worth mentioning that from "Black Fist" to "Capture the Marshal" to this "Extinguishing the Door", the work of action design is all done by Li Zhongzhi.
The changes in the action style of the works before and after also make people wonder whether it is director Luo Shouyao who is deliberately seeking changes in the fight scene.
The change of the fight scene has made this "Extinguishing The Door" lose the original style of the series, and the abnormal play of the story plot has made "Extinguishing the Door" a work with many thunder points.
On Douban, this "Extinguishing the Door" only received a rating of 4.3. The bugs in the story plot have also become the focus of fans' complaints.
After watching this 2010 "Extinction Door", it is always reminiscent of 2002's "Black Man 2".
At that time, "Black Man 2", the situation was almost exactly the same as "Extinction".
From "Black Man" to "Black Man 2", the action director is Yuan Heping, but the fight scene presented by the two works is the difference between cloud and mud.
In terms of plot performance, the behind-the-scenes teams of "Black Man" and "Black Man 2" are also the same class of people, but the story presented is difficult to say.
The "sequel spell" also seems to have become a disaster that An Zhijie's fate cannot avoid.
In fact, a star-hit, just relying on the sequel of others, is not enough, the key is to carry their own exclusive action IP.
Zhen Zidan, who has been working hard in the film industry for many years, has embarked on a new peak in his career with the "Ip Man" series. And Wu Jing also swept the Chinese box office market because of the "Wolf Warrior" IP.
The road ahead is long, I don't know if anything can also meet his own exclusive action IP on the future Chinese big screen.
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