On October 15, the epic blockbuster "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" was released as scheduled.
This annual masterpiece that brings together the famous director Zheng Xiaolong, the top actress Guan Xiaotong, the Hong Kong star Zou Zhaolong, the film emperor Hu Jun, the film emperor Jiang Wen, the international superstar Sophie Marceau and other big men, really lived up to expectations - rotten to pieces.
It turns out that just looking at trailers and posters can really predict whether a blockbuster movie is a bad movie or not.
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Before the release of the film, Jiang Wen's pigtail style was on the hot search.
When many netizens first saw this shape, they thought that the foreign team had come to Ho Ho Chinese history again.
A Yuan Dynasty Khan played by "straight man of steel" Jiang Wen, a 24K titanium alloy pure macho man, how can he tie two small braids?
But the main creative team insisted that according to the serious historical theory, the Yuan Dynasty nobles really looked like this.
In the face of this explanation, netizens are of course not convinced.
Is this a question of history without history? It's about whether it's reasonable and makes the audience look good.
If you have to go to extremes in history, then the men in "The Emperor of Han Wu" should wear open crotch pants, and the men in "Kangxi Dynasty" should have sparse hair. This is clearly something that the audience does not want to see.
Taking the extreme of historical knowledge and using history as a shield for strange shapes will only get farther and farther away from the audience.
Regardless of the shape, just saying that the role played by Jiang Wen is really not loved.
As the emperor of the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, the audience did not know from beginning to end that he was the grandson of Kublai Khan, and was simply a virtual emperor.
When the emperor is like a joke, every day is either to accept the worship of small countries, to take the stubble to talk about the passages, or to make the little princess happy, no serious business.
Jiang Wenren's acting skills are online. Like Cao Cao in "Guan Yunchang", how to act is Jiang Wen's own appearance.
I know that this is Jiang Wen acting in a costume play, and those who don't know also think that Jiang Wen is filming costume photos, while filming while nagging with the staff.
The aura is really enough, but there is nothing but the aura.
We can't help but ask, this is all 2021, how can there be a director who believes that "the film emperor has a miracle"?
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In addition to the eye-catching Jiang Wen, Guan Xiaotong, as the female number one of "Turandot", is also the hardest hit area of hot eyes.
It is no exaggeration to say how exciting the lineup of Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, and Sophie Marceau is, and how desperate it is for Guan Xiaotong to play Princess Turandot.
It feels like a group of superheroes who have a hard time assembling to fight a group, suddenly chaotic into a beautiful sheep, and must also fight the main force.
On the blood at the corner of the mouth, is it difficult to eat the hot pot dipping sauce and forget to wipe your mouth?
It's not that traffic star acting must collapse. Guan Xiaotong, who was a teenager, also acted in good dramas and held the honorary title of "National Girl".
However, with the increase of age, a variety of high-cold mature women, costume beauty roles, Guan Xiaotong played a rollover once, the audience are frightened.
Who is Princess Turandot? The beautiful princess who fell in love with the country, the prince trembled at the sight of her.
This kind of beautiful role that has been lifted too high, Chen Hong and Liu Yifei in the peak period can act, and several Hong Kong sisters in the golden period can act, how can the "national girlfriend" Guan Xiaotong act?
With a "amiable" face, insisting on showing the "I am so beautiful, I am so cold" model, how does the audience enter the play?
Sorry, this eyeshadow is really cheap
When the little yellow-haired prince kisses Guan Xiaotong, the picture and music frantically hint that "this is an epic kiss".
But what we see is that foreign students and Chinese female students are in love...
In terms of acting, after the training of the Beijing Film Academy, Guan Xiaotong still has not gotten rid of the "Yang Mi style performance" - it is cute and loveable when encountering the right role, and it is strange to meet an inappropriate role.
Princess Turandot has two faces, a black princess who has been cast by black magic and a white princess who has been disarmed from black magic.
It is reasonable to say that the black princess is cold, gloomy, and emotionless, and the white princess is pure, kind, and has just opened her heart, and there should be a very obvious difference.
But the effect presented by Guan Xiaotong is basically no different, and it all depends on makeup to distinguish.
The reason why "Turandot" is called "Turandot" is because Princess Turandot is beautiful, mysterious and charming.
After Guan Xiaotong's performance, the foundation of the story was directly shattered.
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On the day of the premiere of "Turandot", the bad reviews on various platforms were overwhelming, and the fancy spit did not have heavy samples.
Some netizens commented: Jiang Wen and Hu Jun are acting in court dramas, Zou Zhaolong is playing martial arts, Dylan is playing "Game of Thrones", Sophie Marceau is acting in "Days on the Clouds", and Guan Xiaotong is showing his talents in "Aces to Aces".
It can be seen from this that the pot of "Turandot" is not carried by Jiang Wen and Guan Xiaotong. (But I still want to say to both of them: Why are you suffering?) ）
This fantasy epic movie that combines Chinese and Western cultures has big problems at the beginning.
From a genre point of view, "Turandot" is obviously in the same category as Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall".
The difference is that Turandot is even more outrageous.
The rot of "The Great Wall" is attributed to the Sino-US co-production. Zhang Yimou recalled in the "Thirteen Invitations" program that he knew that this film would be rotten when he was halfway through the film, but the director served the project and there was no way.
Turandot is different. Just like someone wrote Chinese book with a "translation cavity", "Turandot" made a domestic film with a foreign accent, and the whole thing is a "pseudo-co-production film".
The idea of adapting the Italian opera Turandot into a Chinese film and returning the story of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty to China was a good idea.
Unfortunately, Turandot: The Origin of the Spell did not intend to make a real Chinese story.
It is whimsically satisfied with "pseudo-co-productions", frantically mixing ancient and modern Chinese and foreign story elements, and losing the minimum sincerity of a good movie.
Facts have once again proved that in the matter of filmmaking, the director is strong, the lineup is strong, and the IP is strong, which is not really strong.
In addition to pulling the tiger Pila banner, getting some hard goods for real goods is what the audience wants to see.