Today (September 16), the fantasy love movie "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" that has been green for three years was finally finalized, announcing that it will be released nationwide on October 15, Zheng Xiaolong will direct the movie after 20 years, and find Jiang Wen and Sophie Marceau, who have not appeared on the big screen for a long time, to help, and the result is that the final trailer is out, and the thick "ancient puppet wind" has caused controversy.
Some netizens said that they "can't even watch the trailer of one and a half minutes", feel that "the middle is not in the middle, the west is not in the west", and Jiang Wen's "double ponytail shape" has also been ridiculed on the hot search. But there are also people who are satisfied with the special effects and action shots, thinking that the release of the film can only be seen.
Feel the 1 minute and 33 seconds of the final trailer:
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"Turandot: The Origin of the Magic Spell" is directed by Zheng Xiaolong (director of "The Biography of Zhen Huan" and "Beijingers in New York"), written by Zheng Xiaolong's wife Wang Xiaoping (screenwriter of "Zhen Huan" and "The Legend of Mi Yue"), and starring Guan Xiaotong, Dylan Splos (Italian actor, who starred in the American drama "The Cruise Life of Xiao Cha and Kou Di"), Hu Jun, Lin Siyi, Jiang Wen, Sophie Marceau, and Vincent Perez (French actor, who has starred in the movie "Big Nose Love"), starring).
The film mainly tells the love story of the Great Khan (Jiang Wen) in order to save his daughter Turandot (Guan Xiaotong), who is possessed by the curse of the three-color bracelet, and the love story of The Orphan Caraf (Dylan Sprows), who has wandered to the Khanate since childhood, and saves his sweetheart Turandot at the cost of his life.
Turandot (Kwan Siu-tong) and Carraf (Dylan Sprouts)
At the beginning of the trailer, it is a shot of the male and female protagonists wielding their swords to show their light skills. The female protagonist's flowing mesh costumes, coupled with the male protagonist's Chinese dubbing, do not look carefully, do think it is a domestic costume idol drama.
The male and female protagonists then began to dance the sword, and the makeup of the heroine's blue eyeliner and purple lips first appeared.
Also gave a big close-up. This kind of "blackened" makeup, which usually appears in the second half of the Xian Xia drama, now appears directly at the beginning, or the makeup that makes the male protagonist fall in love at first sight, which is quite puzzling.
Next, the trailer begins to focus on brushing the face, with The King of Malvia (Vincent Perez) and the Queen of Malvia (Sophie Marceau) appearing, and the farewell scene seems to foreshadow the tragic fate of the characters. Sophie Marceau, 52, was in tears at the time of filming, and people didn't recognize it as the "French Rose" for a while.
But jiang Wenyi appeared on the scene, and the painting style suddenly changed. He plays the big Khan with a pinch of hair cut short in front of his forehead, and there are braided hair on both sides, similar to the hairstyle of Mongolian men in the Yuan Dynasty.
Obviously, he is an anxious father who wants to save his daughter, and under Jiang Wen's interpretation, he has more joy.
On the 16th, "Jiang Wen double ponytail style" also appeared on Weibo hot search, some netizens shouted Jiang Wen "if kidnapped, blink your eyes", and some people laughed that this is simply "Zhen Huan's biography" Yu promised "the same bangs".
After another round of drama, Yu promised: Who called me?
After the release of the final trailer, the configuration of "star-studded + Combination of East and West + fantasy film" made many netizens sweat. Some people said that they "can't even watch a one-and-a-half-minute trailer", feel "not in the middle, not in the west", and the production level and style have a strong "TV series texture", more like a "network movie".
But some people think that the special effects and action shots are remarkable, and the opera "Turandot" is "the oriental story imagined by Westerners", and it is already very good to be filmed.
In fact, the film is not directly adapted from the classic opera "Turandot" by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, but the creator feels inspired by the opera, and the film story comes from the screenwriter Wang Xiaoping's own novel "The Tricolor Bracelet".
The film, which looks like a co-production from its name to the main cast, is actually produced in China, and screenwriter Wang Xiaoping once posted that the film is "using the best actors at home and abroad to make a film completely led by ourselves."
So why not just shoot the story of the opera Turandot? After all, Puccini's classic opera has always been a popular adaptation, not only including the widely sung "Nobody Sleeps Tonight", but also made the Jiangsu folk song "Jasmine" go to the world, and Zhang Yimou and Hao Wei have participated in the opera adaptation.
In this regard, Wang Xiaoping explained that she and Zheng Xiaolong had carefully analyzed the story of the opera "Turandot", which was derived from the famous Arabic book "One Thousand and One Days", "a crazy princess inexplicably killed every prince who came to propose", Wang Xiaoping believes that this is a story that lacks internal rationality and has no value for adaptation.
Until one day they suddenly found the key plot props and starting point of the "tricolor bracelet", that they had the passion for creation. However, because the domestic film market was not mature at that time, Wang Xiaoping wrote the novel "Tricolor Bracelet" while conceiving the film script.
Wang Xiaoping and Sophie Marceau during the finishing of Turandot: The Origin of the Spell
The novel "Three-color Bracelet" re-tells the story of the Oriental Princess Turandot, which is rooted in the ancient myth of the ancient myth of the Common Work, and nuwa refines the stone to repair the heavens, and takes the three-color bracelet with mysterious power as the clue. The script of the movie "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" is Wang Xiaoping adapted from his novel "Tricolor Bracelet".
The film was released in July 2018 and has not been released for a long time, and in an interview with the Yangtze Evening News last year, Wang Xiaoping admitted that the film industry has suffered huge setbacks and blows because of the epidemic.
But Wang Xiaoping believes that good movies, especially large-scale commercial films, must go to the cinema to feel its light and shadow picture and sound. "We have a high production cost of this film, the star camp, the picture is excellent, and the visual effects have also put a lot of effort into it, so we look forward to meeting you in the cinema in the near future."
As for why guan Xiaotong was chosen? Wang Xiaoping said: "In choosing the role of 'Princess Turandot', we used several actor agencies to audition nearly 9,000 actresses between the ages of 18 and 25 around the world. The director personally interviewed nearly a hundred young actresses. Since it is to play a cursed princess, we expect the actress to be tall, to have some aura, to have both gods and forms, and to have a certain amount of acting experience. It's really hard. We did a lot of screening and comparison among actresses of the same age group before finally deciding to use Guan Xiaotong. ”
It remains to be seen what this "oriental fairy tale" with many elements will be made.
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