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Before the movie "Zombie" was released, the audience generally thought it was a big bad movie.
The biggest reason is director Mai Junlong. He is the son of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, Mai Shaotang, and a famous rich second generation in the circle.
Why is everyone so dismissive of him? Let's take a look at his glorious deeds first.
In 2002, Mai Junlong officially debuted as a singer, winning many awards on the surface, and was often applauded when he came on stage.
In 2004, Mai Junlong changed to the non-mainstream route and won the "Award for Music" with a song "Hermaphrodite". This song has a peculiar style, everyone can go and listen to it, always making people suspect that his father has spent money to hit the charts.
In 2007, Mai Junlong crossed the border to establish his own clothing brand. One operation is as fierce as a tiger, and the result is that the height becomes one meter and five meters in seconds.
Such "tide" clothes, I don't know how many people are willing to try.
In 2009, Mai Junlong crossed over as a screenwriter again, and his first work was called "The Death of the Avengers".
He personally starred in the starring role, acting with Mr. Aoi...
In 2011, Mak Announced that he would become a director and start filming "Zombie", paying tribute to the zombie films of the 80s.
A non-mainstream singer who has never been a director suddenly announces the start of a classic zombie film, and the average person will scoff at it. So before the release of "Zombie", no one was optimistic at all.
Fortunately, he has a rich father, who desperately spent money to do publicity in the early stage, and the poster was full of praise, which gradually attracted some people to watch.
Don't look at it, don't know, look at it and be shocked.
"Zombie" is indeed a rare film.
He knew that Lin Zhengying's Taoist image was insurmountable, so he did not take the rigid set, but used Qian Xiaohao's "passing" as the starting point to recall his feelings.
The scene of the story is placed in the familiar residential building, which is very substitutionary. The visual style of Japanese horror films, cool special effects, and simple and crisp actions all give people a unique feeling.
Several actors are also old faces in zombie movies, and their excellent acting skills add a lot to the movie.
The ending of the story is also very subtle, it turns out that everything is just an illusion, the imagination of a fallen actor on his deathbed.
What's even more rare is that the film always conveys a main idea: what is more terrifying than ghosts is human obsession.
After "Zombie", Mai Junlong's reputation reversed and he instantly became a cutting-edge director.
In 2017, Mai Junlong began filming the high-profile "Wind Forest Volcano". The strong cast has made many Hong Kong drama fans very much looking forward to it, but unfortunately, for some reasons, it has not been released so far.
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In 2000, Xu Ke ambitiously began filming "The Legend of Shushan".
He thought that with powerful computer stunts, he had thoroughly demonstrated his imagination and would definitely be able to break through the previous work "New Shushan Swordsman", but he did not expect to encounter Waterloo.
The cost was nearly 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and the result was less than 12 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, which was a mess. Word of mouth is also not satisfactory, and the audience generally believes that the special effects are too advanced, the plot is not coherent, and it is a bit incomprehensible.
At that time, martial arts was still the mainstream, and there were not many works on the market with fantasy themes. It wasn't until almost 3 years later that "The Immortals" began to be serialized. In addition, in order to show stunts, Xu Ke's plot is relatively weak, so the evaluation is not high.
This movie swept the streets for many years, until the rise of fantasy films later, and various fantasy blockbusters in China emerged in an endless stream. After the audience was sprung up countless times, they suddenly looked back and found that Xu Laowei's "Legend of Shu Mountain" was simply a treasure.
I thought it was the beginning of the Xian Xia film, but I didn't expect it to be the peak.
Let's start with the special effects. Although the film technology was already quite developed at that time, few works could achieve the effect of "The Legend of Shu Mountain". Almost all of them are five-hair special effects, such as Yang Mi's illusion of butterflies in "Ancient Sword Qitan", and Zhao Liying's eating buns in "Flowers and Bones".
In contrast, in "The Legend of Shu Mountain", the Lone Moon Master's only few minutes from the sacrifice of the "Golden Wheel of the Moon" to the demise of the "Porcelain Fragment" were enough to amaze.
There are also the wings of "Danchenko", have you ever seen such a silky shape?
The most amazing thing is that it symbolizes luck with a magic lotus flower. The water droplets on the lotus flowers flew into the air, cracking to form ripples, which was really a wonderful idea.
Let's talk about the plot. In fact, the narrative of "The Legend of Shushan" is not bad, in just one film time, it has established a very complete world view, and the various gate factions and character backgrounds are very clear.
The conflict and ending of the Divine Demon War is also perfect and clear at a glance. This kind of ability to control the field is difficult for many directors to achieve with a TV series.
Finally, let's talk about the kernel. It crosses two lines to talk about two core ideas: "Haoran Righteousness" and "Reincarnation Love".
Since ancient times, good and evil are not separated, even if the decency is weak, even if they sacrifice themselves for others, they must exorcise the demons and defend the tao, and everyone should have a "grand and righteous spirit" in their hearts.
Lonely Moon and Heavenly Sect have been reincarnated several times, but with a golden wheel of the moon, they can always find each other. There is no plot of dog blood, but this deliberately suppressed love is unforgettable enough.
To say that the biggest failure in the film may be Zhang Ziyi's line. The scene is very sufficient, but it does not help the plot at all, and it is very embarrassing.
At that time, Zhang Ziyi had just become an "international superstar" with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", in order to use her fame, so Xu Ke forcibly added a lot of drama, but the effect was not good, a bit of a snake to add to the feeling.
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"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a classic blockbuster, but before it won the award, the word of mouth was not good.
Hong Kong people think that the rhythm is too literary. Cloaked in the cloak of a martial arts film, but without a familiar taste, it is not thrilling at all.
Audiences in Taiwan were dissatisfied with the spoken language and felt that Chow Yun-fat and Yang Ziqiong's Cantonese Chinese was very dramatic.
The mainland media feel that it is too Westernized and not authentic enough. There is even criticism from the mainstream media that this is a movie made for Hollywood, not a real Chinese film.
However, after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" swept the Academy Awards, received 10 nominations and won 4 awards, all the criticism disappeared in an instant, replaced by praise.
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In 1993, Wang Jing launched an all-star cast and filmed the classic IP "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon".
Unexpectedly, the box office was only more than 11 million, ranking only 29th in the annual box office list, and the loss was more than 40 million. Such a street-throwing achievement also made the planned second abdominal stillbirth disappear from then on.
Zhao Min's sentence "If you want to save the Six Gate Sect, come to most of them to find me", has also become an eternal regret.
The reason for not selling out is mainly that the plot is too magical, and the audience generally believes that the characters do not match the original work.
For example, Zhang Wuji is a bit dark and sinister, unlike the good old man in the original work. Zhang Sanfeng is also a bit disrespectful to the old and has no image of a grandmaster. The exterminator was even more fierce, and he didn't have a decent look at all.
However, with the continuous emergence of other versions, the audience gradually discovered that the quality of the former "big bad film" was so high.
It is difficult to have another martial arts film that can gather such a strong cast.
Jet Li's "Zhang Wujie", Hong Jinbao's "Zhang Sanfeng", and even Zou Zhaolong's "Book of Song Qing" have become eternal classics.
It is also difficult to have another movie that can make such a stunning beauty.
Zhang Min's domineering "Zhao Min", Li Zi's beautiful "Zhou Zhiruo", and Qiu Shuzhen's eccentric "Xiao Zhao" have all become difficult in everyone's heart.
In addition, there is the classic duel between Jet Li and Cao Rong, and the lustful obscenity of huashan erlast is also difficult to be reproduced.
Although Wang Jing is about to launch the second part, it is a pity that the classic has long gone.
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"Journey to the West" was a well-known "big bad movie" that year.
The leader of the partner Xiying Film Studio publicly said that this is "cultural garbage".
After the soundtrack master Zhao Jiping was impatient with the music, he strongly requested not to sign it, because he was afraid of losing face.
The audience didn't like it either. Originally running for the reputation of Stephen Chow, I planned to come over to see the comedy, but the result was simply inexplicable.
Some people even think that this is the movie that Zhou Xingchi made casually in order to praise Zhu Yin.
The box office of the movie is also very poor, which directly allowed Chow's startup to collapse, and it took a long time to ease up.
"Journey to the West" can turn things around, inseparable from the rise of the Internet and piracy.
In 1996, the Beijing Film Academy gave students a copy of the original film to observe and study, and the results were amazed by these students and deconstructed a lot of new meanings.
Coinciding with the rise of the Internet, these articles were transmitted to the BBS forum, and they were instantly detonated on the Internet, and various classic remarks emerged in an endless stream.
Just as pirated VCDs are rising in the mainland, "Journey to the West" has become the most sought-after movie, and in just one paragraph of meaning, it has swept the mainland and become known to everyone.
People suddenly realized that the core of the original comedy is sadness, and under the laughter and anger, it is all sad and unforgettable.
Some people even said that judging a person's grown up is whether he can understand "Journey to the West".
Since 2014, "Journey to the West" has been re-screened 3 times, accumulating 180 million box office, and now there is still a saying of "returning a movie ticket to Star Ye".
Since then, "Journey to the West" has also been remade several times, such as "Love Epilepsy" and "Journey to the West 3", but it has completely lost the flavor of that year.
It became an eternal myth.