Chapter 762

In the 2007 Chinese New Year War, the first move was Zhang Yimou's "The City Full of Golden Armor", on the first day of release, it collected 60 million, and Zhang Weiping, who had a new picture, was excited, and he couldn't wait to hold a celebration banquet in advance on the same day, although he couldn't help it, he couldn't help but start to look forward to it, "The City Full of Golden Armor" defeated "Hurricane Rescue 2" and became the new domestic box office champion.

But before Zhang Weiping was happy, he was poured a basin of cold water on his head, and the box office on the first day was high, but what followed was not the praise he expected, but the crazy criticism of the army of netizens.

In this regard, Song Zheng is naturally not surprised at all, as a reborn, he is clear about the box office trend of "The City Full of Golden Armor".

The opening is perfect, as for the ending, it can only be said that it is a chicken feather.

Before the release of "The City Full of Golden Armor", it can be said that everyone is looking forward to it, Xiangjiang actor Zhou Runfa, actress Gong Li, Golden Horse actor Liu Ye, treasure island little king Zhou Jielun, star-studded, compared "Ink Attack", people are looking forward to Zhang Yimou will follow "Hero", and once again dedicate a classic martial arts blockbuster to the audience, but Zhang Yimou won the domestic martial arts blockbuster to serve the last dinner.

Ironically, "The City Full of Golden Armor" also arranged the high-tide drama at a dinner party, which was a powerful declaration to the audience after "Night Banquet": The old tune of domestic martial arts blockbusters has been sung.

What a rustic feast this is: big fish, big meat, big steamed buns are piled up, and the blood is tangy, and the filth is like iron, after the dinner, what is left is a mess of cups and plates, and the ground is full of garbage, and there is no more appropriate metaphor than a village wedding banquet.

As the director who is the best at playing with color among Chinese directors, Zhang Yimou's "The City is Full of Golden Armor" still continues the "group array aesthetics" that has been tried and failed repeatedly in previous martial arts blockbusters, and has been brought into full play.

However, such a "group array aesthetics", which was once called a visual feast in "Hero", has undergone repeated repetition of the same position again and again, and has long become visual violence, visual garbage, and visual pollution!

For any audience who is willing to pay out of pocket to go to the cinema for every "feast" to "enjoy", there is no shock and beauty at all, only disgust and disgust, just like a wedding banquet with big fish and meat in the countryside.

As a reborn person, Song Zheng just wants to say to those domestic directors who are clinging to a blockbuster dream, it's time to wake up!

In a sense, the emergence of blockbusters has its reasonableness, in the growing popularity of DVD, people's viewing of films is becoming more and more family-oriented, the traditional film market centered on cinemas in order to retain the audience, the launch of big scenes, big productions is a strategy.

However, the fifth-generation Chinese directors who blindly emphasize the "group array aesthetics" have undoubtedly made the most clumsy misinterpretation of blockbusters, and big productions are not equal to luxury, and big scenes are not equal to crowd tactics, and all productions should be based on reality.

"Titanic", "Jurassic Park", and "Saving Private Ryan" are all big productions, but all the big scenes in these films are aimed at presenting realism, rather than being like these domestic directors, who have no factual and logical basis for swaggering and expanding.

Isn't this a form of visual violence, what is visual pollution?

Film is a kind of visual art, but it is a kind of visual art with "people" as the protagonist, unfortunately, the blockbuster directors in the domestic film industry are only left with a morbid obsession with "vision", and they just throw away the most important person, the truth, goodness and beauty of people!

Compared with the grand emptiness of "Hero", the blunt illustration of "Ambush on All Sides", the absurd chaos of "Wuji", and especially the loopholes of "Night Banquet", the plot of "Full of Golden Armor" barely passes.

When the filming of this drama began, Zhang Yimou swore that the inspiration for this drama was born from the literary masterpiece "Thunderstorm", but compared with the impenetrable and relaxed emotional waves, shocking and tragic broad theme of the original "Thunderstorm", "The City Full of Golden Armor" not only dwarfs a humanitarian work of compassion into a court drama for power, but also ignores the exquisite plot explosions of the original work, which are inexplicably let go, and replaced them with lackluster fights and stunned fights.

These fights can be said to be flashy and bluffing, and there is nothing but leaving the audience with the impression that the people in the play are mentally handicapped and the choreographer is mentally retarded.

An audience with a middle school education and a literary treasure "Thunderstorm" should know that the most dramatic breaking point in the play is "Zhou Puyuan's eldest son Zhou Ping forced Su Yi to drink medicine", "Zhou Ping clashed with his younger brother Lu Dahai in front of his biological mother", "Lu Shiping found out that Zhou Ping and his sister Sifeng had an affair" and "Zhou Ping and Sifeng understand the truth", these plot points contain the delicate observation and deep compassion of the drama master Mr. Cao Yu for the people in the play, especially Su Yi and Zhou Ping.

However, these wonderful highlights were either erased or lightly brought away in "The City Full of Golden Armor", losing its original charm.

And when these layer-by-layer emotional explosions are dumb one by one, not only does the final climax of "Full of Golden Armor" lack emotional foreshadowing, but the whole film, especially the first half, is too bland.

If there is still a little bright color in "The City Full of Golden Armor", it is the relationship between the second prince Yuanjie and the queen mother, which provides the only legitimacy for the existence of the film, and also provides the cornerstone of success for the performances of Zhou Jielun and Gong Li.

And this reminds the fifth generation of directors and audiences that the foundation of cinema lies in the real emotions that exist between people, and in the positive and kind humanity that a person embodies.

Looking back at all the domestic martial arts blockbusters, what they lack without exception is precisely the four words "truth, goodness, beauty, and people", and what they lack is real society, real life, real history, real characters, real and beautiful emotions and human nature.

I really don't know if Mr. Cao Yu knew that his work had been changed to this virtue, and he would not be able to scold his mother under Jiuquan.

Returning to this movie, judging from the title, "The City is Full of Golden Armor" is atmospheric and magnificent enough, it is said that Zhang Yimou originally remembered the name "Autumn Memories", or "Chongyang", "Chrysanthemum Killing" and so on, but they were all abandoned because they were not "big" enough, and the final title came from the poem "Not the First Fu Chrysanthemum" by the big hero Huang Chao: When autumn comes on September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom. The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor.

The film tells the story of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the king who turned out to be just a little Duwei framed the original wife to marry the princess in order to get close to the big country Liang Guo, and the princess palace was snubbed and lonely to hook up with the eldest prince Yuanxiang, but Yuanxiang secretly hooked up with the maid Xiaochan.

The king was furious when he found out, and sent Xiaochan, the daughter of Imperial Physician Jiang, to poison his wife's medicine, and after his wife learned about it, in order to save his life and take revenge, he planned to mutiny on the day of Chongyang, and was supported by the second prince Yuanjie, who returned to the city to sympathize with his mother.

But the Chongyang Festival Yuanxiang told his father the truth, so a praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches in the back of the good show, Xiaochan knew that his lover was his half-brother and died tragically, and finally the little prince who intended to rebel and the queen and the second prince were all destroyed, and the king who was a hero but had a different temperament finally ended up in a miserable situation of being alone.

From the perspective of the cast, the most famous Mou girl, Gong Li, who is already an international superstar, has returned strongly after ten years, Xiao Ma Zhou Runfa made a stunning appearance, Zhou Jielun, the little king of Chinese music, made his debut, and Liu Ye, the most popular student in China, joined in, and even the old drama bone Ni Dahong can only be willing to play a supporting role as a green leaf, which can be called super luxurious.

The film has an investment of nearly 300 million, and it is extremely luxurious in terms of stage sets, such as Zhou Yanfa, who plays the emperor, has a total of seven different costumes, with dragon robes and gold armor being the most eye-catching.

It took more than 80 workers more than a month to make the dragon robe, and the whole piece was nailed with 18-karat gold flakes, weighing about 40 kilograms and worth as much as 1.25 million yuan. The whole set of gold armor is made of metal gilding, and the helmet weighs about 45 kilograms, which is heavier than the dragon robe, and in addition to carrying these costumes every day to train his physical strength, the hair boy must also arrive two to three hours in advance to let seven or eight staff members dress him.

Because the two costumes are very valuable, the crew also specially ordered a safe with the same height to store the costumes, and such a large investment finally made the film nominated for the Oscar for Best Costume Design.

Not to mention the plot of the film, with Mr. Cao Yu's Zhuyu in front, this drama is at best a stone in a pit, but the actors have nothing to say about their performances, especially the superstars Gong Li and Zhou Yanfa, who portray the two passionate characters in the play who are full of contradictions and sparks.

But no matter how hard the actors work, it is in vain if they don't have a good plot support, on the contrary, they will leave a lot of complaining materials, which is similar to the current situation of so-called blockbusters.

This is directly manifested in the box office, in the previous life, "Full of Golden Armor" in the box office of Chinese mainland was also high and low, countless people were chasing after it in the early stage, and countless people were complaining in the later stage, as for what "one ticket is hard to find" reported in the media, it is pure nonsense, at least when Song Zheng watched this movie in his last life, there were only two dozen people in the screening hall.

The domestic dismal end, and the North American market, which pinned Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping, was also unsatisfactory, Song Zheng vaguely remembered that the total box office of "Full of Golden Armor" in the United States seemed to be only more than 6 million US dollars, which can be described as a complete failure.

Zhang Yimou filmed this film without care, acting in his proudest audio-visual performance, the film's resplendent reproduces the arrogance and extravagance of China's 5,000-year-old feudal imperial system, and this most eye-catching gold may make the master himself deeply intoxicated, but how can the eyes of ordinary people who watch the movie in the theater bear it?

There is also the beginning of the film, the king returns, and the three thousand beauties get up together to wash, and suddenly the white legs are lined up and the waves are shining, Song Zheng couldn't help but be stunned by the pair of balls when he watched it in his last life.

As the capital of a country, it really embodies the virtue of "thrifty governance", and even the clothes of the palace maids have saved a lot of fabrics, but the milking men are salivating and thinking about it, I am afraid that countless people will sincerely thank Director Zhang for the "meat feast" carefully cooked for them.

The king learned that he was married to Imperial Doctor Jiang and decided to promote Imperial Doctor Jiang, and before leaving, the king lay on his stomach and said to Imperial Doctor Jiang's ear: "Your inner man is fine, she will also go with you." ”

When Song Zheng heard such a sentence at that time, he immediately sprayed, damn, such a naked greeting to someone's daughter-in-law, what did the unsuspecting Imperial Doctor Jiang think, and what did the general public think?

What is even more worth complaining about is that the duel scene outside the palace adopts the tactics of crowds, and the maximum number of extras is 20,000.

But Director Zhang is not bad for money, and because "Hero" has been criticized for using computer stunts, Director Zhang decided to use real people this time, the Chinese nation is a big country, and the most important thing is people, with this, Director Zhang should be on "News Network", which solves the employment problem of how many people!

But there are too many real people, which makes the martial arts design very difficult, the whole battle scene is chaotic, and Chou Dong, who is responsible for martial arts, can't show his kung fu, so he can only keep waving knives in front of the camera, swinging knives, swinging knives!

When Song Zheng watched it at the time, he almost shouted in the movie theater: You TM hurry up from the palace!

Even when he watched Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet" in his last life, Song Zheng didn't have such a strong feeling, hoping that a drama would end quickly, and "The City Full of Golden Armor" successfully did it.

It's not so much a visual feast as it is torture, and the bright and bright piece alone is enough to upset people.

He was tortured once in his previous life, and this time, Song Zheng naturally won't be abused again, and it will be the first day of the Lunar New Year, so he won't go to the cinema at such a good time for the Spring Festival to enjoy such a thing as Lao Mouzi's epic masterpiece.

Only one day after its release, there is basically no way to escape the fate of the previous life of "The City Full of Golden Armor", although Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping still do not give up in the face of the media, they are crazy about the gorgeous scenes of "The City Full of Golden Armor", but the audience does not buy it, this is the truth.

TM is cruel!

The most ironic thing is that the drama itself gradually lost people's attention, but it was the second cooperation between Zhang Yimou and Gong Li, the old lovers, after many years, which attracted people's attention.

Isn't that!

The next day, Song Zheng's "Lao Paoer" and "Ink Attack" produced by Orange Sky Entertainment were released at the same time, although the early publicity of "Lao Paoer" was not as strong as "Ink Attack", but over the years, as Song Zheng, who is the conscience of the industry, has never missed a movie he made.

In view of this, from the moment the major theaters began to sell tickets publicly, the box office statistics of "Lao Paoer" steadily overpowered "Ink Attack", as for "The City Full of Golden Armor", although it has only been released for one day, it has basically become a thing of the past.

In addition, in terms of the scale of the premiere, "Lao Pao'er" is obviously not comparable to "Ink Attack", Song Zheng has been operating for so many years, there are countless friends in the circle, and the invitation letter is scattered, except for a few really important things and can't be there in person, the rest of the two words are not said, all of them are present, and even those who didn't come also made a special trip to record VCR and expressed their support for "Lao Pao'er".

Celebrities from all walks of life have come to cheer, and the audience is also full of expectations for this movie in which Feng Xiaogang played the leading role for the first time.

Director Feng's first time, it's exciting to think about, especially, as the director, it's still Song Zheng, the last time the two of them collaborated was "No Thieves in the World", that time it was Song Zheng as the leading actor, Feng Xiaogang as the director, this time it's just the opposite, although Feng Xiaogang's honor is not welcome, the key is that this combination is powerful, and people also want to see what kind of sparks can burst out of the cooperation between these two people again.

At the premiere, the host naturally asked this question, to which the two people's answers were completely different, Song Zheng said: "I am very satisfied with Director Feng's performance, this role is like tailor-made for him, in fact, from the beginning of the decision to shoot this drama, I never thought of finding someone else, if this role is played by another person, it will definitely not be that taste, although there are many good actors in China, but I can perform the feeling I want, I can't find another person more suitable than him!"

Song Zheng can be said to have given Feng Xiaogang enough face, but when Feng Xiaogang spoke, his tone was indeed full of resentment: "Next time I work with him, I will definitely not act, I will definitely not act, I will never act, I always felt that being a director was too tired, and it happened that he had to find me to act, I thought it was easy to film, so I agreed, but as soon as I started filming, I found that it was not like that, so next time if there is a chance to cooperate, I will direct, he will act!"

From Feng Xiaogang's increasingly bitter expression when answering questions, it is not difficult to see that he was tossed by Song Zheng this time when filming "Lao Paoer".

After the end of the show, it was time for the film to be screened, almost from the first scene, the first scene, the audience who came to the scene was moved by the full feelings in the film.

Although this play is about a little person who has been eliminated by the times, but is still immersed in his own world, everyone can feel that although Zhang Xuejun is a small person, this old man is absolutely upright.

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