How much a movie can be damaged is known by watching Turandot: The Origin of the Spell.
The film was released for four days, the box office was 15 million, and nearly 7,000 people have scored it on Douban, of which one star accounted for nearly half of the bad reviews.
"Chosin Lake" nearly 5 billion box office, the number of scores is only about 400,000, do not know how "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" can have such a big attraction, and only attract bad reviews do not attract the box office, box office and the number of reviews is not a normal proportion, which is eye-opening.
To put it bluntly, there are many people who have not watched "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" and directly gave this movie a bad review.
Realistically speaking, "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" was beaten with such a low score, and this movie has some highlights in terms of plot, characters and acting skills.
First, the story is complete
The story of the original opera "Turandot" is not a good story, to put it simply, a selfish prince of the appearance association, looking at a beautiful princess with a black and cruel belly, the prince indirectly and the princess directly killed the kind and brave maid Liu'er, and the last two people who were not ashamed and had no bottom line finally became dependents.
Such a story is okay when the opera, after all, the audience mainly listens to the song, and watching the plot is secondary. If it is directly made into a movie, then the plot may not be directly judged, too dark, too ruined three views.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoping, the screenwriter of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell", underwent a major operation on Turandot's story, and she organically combined the plot of her novel "Tricolor Bracelet" with "Turandot", and finally formed the script of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell".
Wang Xiaoping's screenwriting masterpieces include "Beijingers in New York", "The Biography of Zhen Huan" and "Gua Sha", etc., is a very successful screenwriter, and her cooperation with her husband Zheng Xiaolong director is also successful many times, which is absolutely unquestionable about the strength of the old husband and wife.
The plot of Turandot: The Origin of the Spell is quite complete, not only has a beginning and an end, but also belongs to the category of positive energy.
Princess Turandot is no longer dark and cruel, but becomes a brave, kind and beautiful woman with love and righteousness.
Karaf is no longer selfish, but has become a true prince who bears a deep vengeance in the sea of blood and bravely fights righteousness and hatred.
Liu Er is no longer a maid who is willing to sacrifice everything for love and loyalty, but has become an extraordinary and eccentric little heroine.
In short, in addition to the slightly awkward role of Master Caraf, the plot and character design of the film can be called a masterpiece.
To put it bluntly, if the plot is complete and the rhythm is tight, Turandot: The Origin of the Spell is even better than "Chosin Lake".
Second, the personnel is very reasonable
Emperor, played by Jiang Wen
Although it is a supporting role and there are not many scenes, the emperor is a very important serial plot character, and his personality is very aura, especially at the beginning of "filling in the holes in this map", it must have a majestic and unquestionable tone.
Therefore, director Zheng Xiaolong is very suitable to find an old partner Jiang Wen to play this role, Jiang Wen is probably the most aura actor in China's film industry, who has played Qin Shi Huang.
As for the appearance of Some netizens criticizing Jiang Wen's pigtails, please, Jiang Wen played the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, according to historical data, the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty is really this dress, which is the shape that Jiang Wen took the initiative to suggest to the director after consulting the historical data.
Queen of Malvia, played by Sophie Marceau
This is also a small supporting role, but this supporting role has a great influence on Prince Calaf's childhood, on the one hand, she must be nurturing and very beautiful and elegant, so that the audience will feel sorry for the destruction of the kingdom of Malvia. On the other hand, she must be brave, so that she will bring the same temperament to Calaf.
Sophie Marceau did not dislike the role of small to take over the film, you can say that the filmmakers took her as a gimmick, but you can't deny that Sophie Marceau acted well, and the character was also designed successfully.
General Po Yan, played by Hu Jun
General Po Yan is the number one villain in Turandot: The Origin of the Spell, a character not found in the opera Turandot, and Wang Xiaoping's introduction of him to the film is a very clever choice.
General Poyan took matters into his own hands and destroyed the kingdom of Malvia, which prevented the Emperor and Turandot from carrying original sin with them. In addition, Po Yan's final rebellion directly contributed to the cooperation between Turandot and Carraf, dissolved the misunderstanding between them, and objectively promoted the progress of the plot.
Although Hu Jun does not want the outside world to treat him as a martial arts actor, you have to admit one thing, Hu Jun is very brilliant in both appearance and martial arts scenes in "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell", and the lines and acting skills are not to worry.
Liu'er, played by Lin Siyi
Willow in the opera Turandot is a tragic character, but in the movie Turandot: The Origin of the Spell, Willow becomes a comedic elf. She was not Karaf's maid, but became the daughter of his master, and grew up with the prince. Although the two are brothers and sisters, Liu'er has a crush on the prince.
Willow has a good kung fu in the film, but also smart and clever, this role is very popular, can be called the biggest surprise in "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell".
What is even more surprising is Lin Siyi's performance, the face of this little girl seems to be very suitable for big movies, not only looks heroic but also very three-dimensional, the actor's actions, expressions and lines are also excellent, in time, Lin Siyi should get more and better roles on the big screen.
The performance of several major supporting roles has nothing to say, in contrast, it seems that the two leading actors are more or less flat.
The foreign handsome Prince Kraf played by Sprows, the appearance of handsome is really handsome, but the role is a little too perfect, the most important thing is that the handsome man's acting skills do not seem to understand the role thoroughly, this male number one compared to Jiang Wen and Hu Jun is too ordinary.
Comparatively speaking, the female No. 1 Princess Turandot played by Guan Xiaotong has more depth, the personality has twists and angles, the makeup has changes and characteristics, and the eyes are more than a variety of looks.
However, Guan Xiaotong playing Turandot is somewhat difficult, not that her acting skills are not good, to be honest, Guan Xiaotong's acting skills are still at a level, and she interprets the multi-faceted nature of Princess Turandot to a relatively good position, not as good as Hu Jun, but much stronger than the foreign brother of male number one.
The reason why Guan Xiaotong is a little difficult is probably that her appearance is somewhat modern, and her figure is also thin, so that people will not feel the amazing sense of Princess Turandot's graceful and luxurious country. This is indeed a bit difficult for the director, according to conscience, how many Chinese actresses can play a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old princess?
Therefore, if you look at the film elements such as plot, characters, acting and picture, "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" does not meet the standards of an excellent film, but it is no problem to give a passing score, the evaluation of about 6 points is relatively objective, and the evaluation of Douban 3.7 points is obviously too unfair.
Third, the root cause of bad reviews is Guan Xiaotong?
Some of the massive bad reviews that Turandot: The Origin of the Spell have encountered have some truth.
For example, some netizens commented that the story of "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" is not in the middle, saying that the ocean is not foreign, and it is as difficult to arouse the audience's empathy as "The Great Wall".
This is indeed a very pertinent evaluation, "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" since it is based on the Italian opera "Turandot", the unoccupied temperament is equivalent to "fetal belt", which is difficult to overcome.
Besides, the opera of "Turandot" itself is a non-foreign thing, Western thinking deconstructs the story of the East, Westerners look OK, most Orientals are difficult to understand, at most listen to "Nobody Sleeps Tonight" to make a hilarity.
But some netizens and self-media evaluation is very speechless, such as self-media impressively claim that "Turandot: The Origin of the Curse" is a money laundering bad film, please, if you do not have real hammer evidence, this can be a rumor slander, to bear legal responsibility, give a bad review to give, which can be so open-mouthed.
Some netizens' comments went directly to Guan Xiaotong, which made people feel even more puzzling.
For example, in the bad reviews on Douban about "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell", three of the four reviews with the highest praise are almost directed at Guan Xiaotong, and there is almost no substantive review content.
Bad reviews of Guan Xiaotong's "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell"? How to say it, this has basically left the category of film criticism, become very unobjective, and even more like simply venting dissatisfaction with a certain star.
The author still holds a point of view:
The evaluation of a certain movie, simply saying that the "fan circle review" of the star love beans to say good films is very unobjective and not worth advocating.
The evaluation of a certain movie, simply saying that a star is a bad film", the "black powder review" is also very unobjective, and it is also not worth advocating.
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