When "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" was released in China, it happened to be in Pingyao.
Every day, I come out early and return late, and I brush up on the tablets like crazy. While enjoying the joy of brushing the film at the film festival, I also missed this phenomenon-level cinema film.
By the time I finally had time to study this annual masterpiece, the film had been on the air for some time. The douban score of 3.5 points also basically declares that it has been written into film history.
Due to the ultra-low expectation of Douban's 3.5 points, I went to see "Turandot" with very high expectations. Unfortunately, there is still some loss after all.
So, back to the title question: Is this "Turandot" really thunderous?
At the very least, I don't think so.
If you go to see Turandot with the mentality of watching a thunder movie and getting a happy time, you will be disappointed.
Because, the film is far from the level of the thunder. Or rather, you can only turn around on the threshold of the thunderflat.
At most, it can only be earthy, customary, and the aesthetics of forty years ago...
I have found that contemporary people are keen to complain, but they have lost some basic standards. Lightning chips at every turn, super big bad pieces.
Yes, thundershots also have thresholds.
For example, you can say that "Dream Showbiz" is a thunder film, or "Fuchun Mountain Jutu" is a thunder film. It is because these classic thunder films, while showing amateurism and Hu Lai, also dedicate some inexplicable laughs.
The creator's brain circuitry is so weird and the plot development is so bizarre that it will startle you to jump straight out of your chair.
Tema's, how can you still come like this!?
It's like in "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", after a big battle, someone will tell the protagonist, follow me back to the headquarters.
You think it's back to FBI or CIA headquarters. As a result, they returned to the insurance company's headquarters???
What is a surprise?
That's the surprise!
Presenting different, showing accidents, is the real thunder film.
And Turandot: The Origin of the Spell doesn't offer such a laugh at all, it's the kind of movie that's particularly mediocre, very boring, old-fashioned, and even a little confusing.
You'll just get bored and clichéd, and everything is expected.
Perhaps, this film in the eighties and nineties, or will be very sensational. Unfortunately, it's 2021.
First of all, "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" is a more typical combination of earth and ocean films, which is also the conventional setting of domestic bad films. I thought that by adding a little Western elements, I could make myself tide.
Including this poster, it is all mixed and matched to some cheapness.
What I know is the poster of "Turandot", and those who don't know think that the county bar is going to have a masquerade dance
There were a few years when the domestic quite popular story of the combination of earth and the west, the oriental elements with the Western setting, and finally it was a freak film without any sense of belonging.
For example, "Asura", which fell off after a few days.
Creators always seem to feel that this combination will make their works more blockbuster, like Hollywood blockbusters, Oriental stories, Western fantasy special effects.
Unfortunately, it often backfires. In the end, there is always a freak who is not the same.
Including this title, it is also a deliberately westernized name, and the words reveal no culture.
You obviously call it "Turandot", why do you have to add a magic spell to the origin, what is this thing?
You can't understand how these four words are combined, anyway, they are together, just a kind of local law.
It's just, will anyone really care about the origin of any spell?
At the same time, the story of Turandot is also very boring, a cursed oriental princess and a western prince who carries secrets. In the end, the prince solves three puzzles and saves the princess. Although, the princess ended up with a tragic fate. But such a story is basically the old setting of the prince and princess.
We've seen too many similar stories.
Ever since Disney had dogs, such stories have been replicated. As a result, in 2021, I will have to relive this old story. This makes sense.
You'd think, eh?
Isn't this kind of story that is very ridiculous at first glance supposed to be killed at the script stage?
As a result, people not only filmed it, but also invited a bunch of big stars to star.
You can only envy the rich and willful nature of others.
In fact, the movie "Turandot" was once very confused and couldn't understand what the film was all about.
For example, why did this tricolor bracelet have been worn on the hands of the King of the West before, and he immediately went crazy. Turandot wears it, but it doesn't happen until the age of 18, does this thing have an age trigger mechanism? Moreover, people are crazy, why is Turandot going to die, and there is a sexism in it.
And, why answer the three riddles correctly, and the magic spell of the bracelet can lift this rule? So, where do these three problems come from? Did the riddle jump out of the bracelet itself?
If the princess came up with a riddle herself, wouldn't she be able to come up with some simple riddle in order to save herself?
There is also why Hu Jun became a big boss after he obtained the magic of the bracelet.
This gives people the feeling that this bracelet is not bad, what a curse, it is clearly grace.
Including Princess Turandot herself, after wearing the tricolor bracelet, she will have a lot of super powers, all the way to Lingbo micro-steps, high martial arts, basically dominate the country.
Instead, there was no bracelet, and it became a wasted person.
Such a bracelet really makes people hate it!
And the love story of Princess Turandot and the Western prince is also strange to the point of being inexplicable, the two basically have no emotional basis, but do you think that the prince should not be more related to the female second?
There is a feeling that because you are both protagonists, even if you are not so in love, you must make it together.
"Turandot" tells a very old-fashioned and unexplainable story, so that our patience is also exhausted in such a boring story.
However, I still think that everyone is a bit complaining, or not on the idea. For example, Princess Turandot has a stage of styling in the film that is very strange, and everyone will complain about the makeup problems in this film.
But in fact, this should be deliberate. I just want to show that this character has been poisoned too deeply, and the poisonous gas has attacked the face and reacted to the lips and the corners of the eyes.
Her appearance always reminds me of Angelina Jolie's style in "Sleeping Curse", you see, it is also a spell.
It's all eerie, weird.
It also made me think that Princess Turandot was a witch.
In addition, there are still quite a lot of scams in this film, for example, it is said that sophie Marceau was invited, but in fact, she basically belongs to the friendship cameo, and the role is very small.
Jiang Wen's role is quite a lot, but the sobriety he presents in the film is always incompatible with this crazy film.
Obviously, he is a pretended costume fantasy, but he is always sober in the world, and he is very dramatic.
As for Hu Jun, he is also an inexplicable villain, the kind of villain who is a villain for the sake of becoming a villain.
It's hard to understand what he's doing, and it's illogical and without warning. In the end, I can't remember what he did with the character.
I just remember that the close-up of his crotch cloth, just that, inexplicably.
It's really dirty.
Overall, Turandot: The Origin of the Spell is a great disappointment.
Rotten to the point of being featureless, rotten to the ordinary, rotten to the point that people don't even have much desire to complain.
In the end, it's just a dirty and old-fashioned rotten film.
Far from reaching the level of a thundershot, it will soon be forgotten.
It's a pity.
Turandot.