Chapter 744

For Ning Hao's "The Great Gold Robbery", if you simply stand from the perspective of an audience, Song Zheng's mood is quite complicated, on the one hand, this drama is not boring to watch, and some of the jokes in it can also be called very thoughtful, but on the other hand, I can't help but feel disappointed, I always feel that with Ning Hao's level, I shouldn't make such a thing.

As a director of the new generation, Ning Hao can be regarded as a maverick in the Chinese director circle, and he is also a maverick, and as soon as he debuted, he made several blockbuster works one after another, which made people's expectations for him higher and higher.

In his previous life, Song Zheng, as an ordinary viewer, watched Ning Hao's crazy series, and when he learned that "The Great Gold Robbery" was about to be released, he naturally wanted to see how Ning Hao was going to be crazy.

But after watching this "Gold Robbery", it can't be said that it is very disappointing, but Song Zheng can't find the original Ning Hao in this movie, why is this happening!?

In fact, the main thing is that Ning Hao hurt himself, first of all, let's talk about the script, after Song Zheng read the whole story, the most profound feeling is that no one can build a castle on the quicksand, this quicksand is the script.

The script of "The Great Gold Robbery", whether it is from the main story line or to the specific plot, uses tricks similar to those in TV series, without any novelty.

The main story line is about how a gangster becomes a hero, plus explains his mental journey.

In terms of specific plots, there are plots such as anti-Japanese salvation, deep father-son love, rich girl falling in love with gangsters, etc., these story elements often appear in domestic TV series, and they are the same.

A film that can be refreshing should actively avoid these elements, and if you have to use these elements, then at least play a little trick with the structure.

What is surprising is that Ning Hao, who is famous for playing with story structures, not only did not avoid these plot elements that were enough to make his work fall into clichés, but also omitted the complex narrative structure, and directly laid out the direct narrative, which directly led to the mediocrity of this movie.

It's not that you have to walk like this, for example, the very classic "Inglourious Basterds", although it also uses cliché stories and themes, but at least people have put some effort into the narrative structure, and the actors' performances are also quite skillful, both of which are incomparable to "The Great Gold Robbery".

In addition, Song Zheng didn't understand why Ning Hao gave up his style and changed to Jiang Wen.

This film is a bit deliberately leaning in the direction of "Let the Bullets Fly", but the strength that comes out is not even half of "Let the Bullets Fly".

First of all, "The Great Gold Robbery" also has a dialogue like a cannon, but I can't find the hardness of the dialogue between the bandit and the master at all, which may be because of the actors, after all, it is unprecedented for Jiang Wen, Zhou Yanfa, and Uncle Ge to get together.

Secondly, "The Great Gold Robbery" also has metaphors, for example, "Saving the Congress" used some movie stunts to deceive the Japanese into getting their hands on gold, but these metaphors are more divergent and inconsistent, and there are too many things to satirize, but they can't achieve the effect of irony.

And the satirical thing of "Let the Bullets Fly" is one, the current situation of Chinese survival, and the sentences hit the point, and the satirical effect is very strong.

Third, "The Great Gold Robbery" also explores national character, but it is far less profound than "Let the Bullets Fly".

Regarding the discussion of national character, Jiang Wen is a good hand, in "The Devil is Coming", Jiang Wen has already emerged, and Ning Hao is not good at this kind of profound thing at all.

Whether it is his debut novel "Incense", or the later crazy series, or even "No Man's Land", it embodies a kind of black humor of small people, which is what Ning Hao is good at.

The tone of Ning Hao's film should not be profound, but joking, giving up his own inherent style and pursuing transcendence is an extremely risky thing.

In Song Zheng's previous life, after watching "The Great Gold Robbery", he used eight words to best describe his mood at that time, and he came back one by one, and returned disappointed!

It can be said that "The Great Gold Robbery" is Ning Hao's self-defeating work, he wants to play a deconstruction, deconstruct the revolution with dick silk, deconstruct love with vulgarity, deconstruct the structure with pseudo-logic, and deconstruct the characters with fuzziness, but he played too roughly, and the result was that he played it badly.

After all, absurdity does not mean that the plot is mentally retarded.

It's not funny, although some of the jokes are still very thoughtful in design, but on the whole it's really not funny, that is, Xiao Dongbei hung naked in the church and pretended to be Jesus, Song Zheng smiled, very happy, this is an unexpected joy, and he didn't laugh much at the rest of the part.

Humor, funny, and witty are what Song Zheng expects Ning Hao to bring to the audience, but "The Great Gold Robbery" does not, and he doesn't expect to laugh from beginning to end, but there are only a few places that are too few, and as for the jokes that often kill people, they are too old.

is not witty enough, the story is not creative, if Ning Hao's first attention-grabbing "Crazy Stone", referring to Guy Ritchie's movie "Two Big Smoking Guns", is still a tribute, in "Crazy Racing", it is the second tribute, after all, in the Chinese film industry, where storytelling is difficult, it is rare to be able to tell a story clearly.

But everyone must admit that Ning Hao is imitating, but the originality is really lacking, so when it comes to "The Great Gold Robbery", it is really disrespectful, and there is almost no freshness in creativity. Especially after the crazy series, such a story is basically subpar, I really don't know, what so many editors do to eat.

is not classic, the dialogue lacks personality, the importance of dialogue to the movie is self-evident, there are many characters in this movie, but the dialogue is not much different, oil and gas, I can't tell who is who, especially that Yue Xiaojun, who squatted on the toilet in "Crazy Stone" and sang "The first bubble of in 2002, it came later than before", in this movie, there are almost no bright spots.

There are a lot of other characters, and there is almost no recognition, which is very different from the dialogue of the characters in "Crazy Stone", in short, this is a movie that makes people can't remember any lines.

No image, the characters are really weak, I really don't know what happened to Ning Hao, there is almost no full character image, a bunch of zombies, the protagonist Xiao Dongbei looks like a sling, maybe this is the meaning of the movie, how does a sling become a revolutionary? !

This reminds Song Zheng of Comrade Zhang Yimou's "Hero", the widow read the world as crooked, and what is even more regrettable is Fan Wei at the beginning of the movie, how good the momentum is, it's a pity, it's a pity, in the end, it's just a sauerkraut, it's a violent thing, sour your sister, sour.

It's not romantic, see slings love again, Ning Hao also played with love in this movie, a silver fork rose, a love scene that can't be vulgar anymore, a sling, pretending to seduce a young lady, making the fake come true, and love broke out, and a butterfly was conjured, is this ironic love?

is not exquisite, the plot has many flaws, the intention is to resist Japan, and to save the Congress, this fighting occasion reminds Song Zheng of those anti-Japanese dramas, almost invincible, and he came in an armored car, can it be even more outrageous!

Can anyone explain how such a big guy drove in, could it be that he came out of the ground?

Still playing darts, three or five people, defeated an army, is it a soul possession?

There is also that divine water, which can melt gold and melt all the bank vaults, known as aqua regia, to be used on the spot, the poisonous gas is very big, how did a group of people get in, the Japanese are not pigs, and they have a little brain.

It's not shocking, the scene is big and boring, machine guns, artillery, armored vehicles, and darts, and then the fireworks are popping, one is dead, another is dead, and another is dead, which shows another truth, the richer you are, the more you pay attention to the so-called later stage and the worse the scene.

Why don't you let the protagonist go directly to the bomber?

Ning Hao wants to play a carnival consciousness to show subversion, through armored vehicles or something, to do an absurd extension, understand, but why does it feel so awkward!

If the director of this drama is not Ning Hao, this film is actually quite okay, in the era of brain-dead movies flying all over the sky, this is not the worst, but because it is Ning Hao's work, the audience has no way to buy it, after all, Ning Hao has the aura of a genius director, and the audience likes him deeply and has high expectations for him, and as a result, he came up with such a thing, who is worthy of!?

So, the final evaluation is very simple: bad movie.

Song Zheng admits that this evaluation is a bit of "love and deep responsibility", but even if it is not compared with the two previous works of "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", the fluency of the narrative is not required, and the density of laughter maintains the level of the crazy two-part series, forgetting the signboard of "Ning Hao", and evaluating this film fairly, the performance of "The Great Gold Robbery" can also be said to be useless.

There is no need to analyze the success of Ning Hao's successful works, whether it is imitation or the carving of the script, aside from the technical details, the crazy series makes everyone like to hear about it, and there is only one macro reason why it is unique in domestic commercial films: that is, Ning Hao and his creative team are seriously following the rules of commercial films to create solidly, so the script is exquisite, the performance is exquisite, and the lens editing is also exquisite.

On the premise of understanding the needs of the current audience, the result of doing things in such an exquisite way is to create a good work that meets the needs of the audience.

And these exquisiteness suffered the same ending as the characters in the film in "The Great Gold Robbery": they were wiped out.

In all the criteria that can be thought of to evaluate a movie, Ning Hao and his team seem to be so unsophisticated.

The first thing to bear the brunt of is the script, and planting a heel on the script really surprised all the audiences who had expectations for Ning Hao, because this is exactly where Ning Hao was a big part stronger than others in the past.

It's as incredible as a sling suddenly becoming unsturgeon.

In this regard, Song Zheng can only say that this is how it happened.

Most viewers enter the theater to watch "The Great Gold Robbery", probably expecting to be able to laugh for more than an hour like watching "Crazy Racing".

But when such a wish meets a boring and boring script, they all kneel, not to mention the clever and reasonable coincidence to create this kind of high-level laughter, even the clever language and small jokes are rare.

The only thing that makes me laugh in the whole film is that Xiao Dongbei does the Crucifixion, but this is a bad part of Hong Kong films, okay?

Zhu Yanping is embarrassed to use it now, okay.

Of course, the direction of the plot after that, or it is conceivable that someone will keenly point out that in this film, Ning Hao tries to get rid of the slightly heartless funny of the crazy series and add more elements of emotional sublimation.

Obviously, the personality shaping and trend of Xiao Northeast can be called the dual main themes of domestic films and Hollywood logic: national righteousness and heroism.

This is mixed with the loss and understanding of friendship, family, and love, and the sadness is accompanied by a man's growth experience.

Although this is old-fashioned, cliché does not mean bad, especially for commercial films.

But obviously, the lack of emotional foreshadowing and the extremely unreasonable logic of the plot make every time Ning Hao tries to reach an emotional climax, it seems so abrupt and self-talking.

The three scenes, the death of the father, the death of the comrades-in-arms, and the final battle, are all major and failing.

Whether it is a father, a woman, or a group of robbers, the interaction with the protagonist is extremely lacking.

The result is that the father dies without tears, love is not credible, and at the end of the film, Ju Renna also used such a long time to reminisce, it is really tormenting, and the respectability of the crew and robber group is also very flat because everyone's face is blurred.

This leads to a terrible emptiness in emotion, family affection is not tear-jerking, love is not touching, friendship is not reflected, and national righteousness is like preaching.

Ning Hao showed a very impatient attitude, he probably thought that the audience was like the rich lady in the film, as long as she turned a rose with a fork, she would fall in love without hesitation.

It's a pity that there is no carefully cultivated rose nourished by sunshine and rain, and just having the appearance of a rose is really not attractive.

What's even more outrageous is that the logic of the plot is unreasonable, it has reached the point where it is everywhere, or the old saying, there is no need to compare with the high-end of the multi-line narrative like the crazy series without loopholes, that is, compared with other despised domestic bad movies, the unreasonableness of making people vomit blood is not far behind.

In fact, the pattern and characteristics of the film reminded Song Zheng of the mindless bad films of the heyday of Hong Kong films like "The Rich Army", which is not as good as it to some extent.

The inattention of "The Great Gold Robbery" is all-round, the script is just because of its basic status is particularly hard-hit, like the humor created by the lens language like the smoke in the bullet hole of the taxi in "Crazy Racing", don't think about it at all, the lens editing of "The Great Gold Robbery" actually has such a low-level mistake that the color does not match, this is obviously not a problem of ability, but a matter of attitude.

Ning Hao's sudden loss of ability also includes the training of actors, and almost all the actors' performances in the play are extremely awkward, like a clumsy sitcom between two people on the stage.

The protagonist, a little Northeast hooligan who is not stingy, is easy to come out with, and such an interesting Northeast guy can find a lot in his life.

But Lei Jiayin's performance is blunt and not funny, and it is so natural that Wang Qianyuan in "The Piano of Steel" is so refined that it is simply like a cloud.

The humorous foundation accumulated by the Northeast dialect in the field of sketches and two-person transfer in the hearts of the audience, "The Great Gold Robbery" is actually worse than Zhao Benshan's most unfunny sketch.

The other characters didn't have much room to play, and their performances didn't add color to the roles, everyone was so awkward and so boring.

There are also messy soundtracks, chaotic rhythms, fake special effects, and mixed parody components in the crazy series, which can also be found in "The Great Gold Robbery", Ning Hao's "The Great Gold Robbery" is obviously influenced by "Inglourious Basterds", the setting of the villain, the imagination that is inserted into the old movie to play an introductory effect, and the hearty feeling that the last scene strives to create, can all be found from "Inglourious Basterds".

But if the Guy Ritchie copycat of the crazy series is good and the copycat has a local flavor, then "The Great Gold Robbery" can only be a poor imitation.

Although Song Zheng really wants to put aside Ning Hao of the crazy series and evaluate "The Great Gold Robbery" in isolation, it is obvious that when anyone thinks of Ning Hao, they still can't do without those two movies.

What makes people wonder why Ning Hao, who used to be so exquisite, seems to be so unparticular in this movie, like the father and son in the film who claim to be fastidious, but people don't pay attention to it everywhere, and they think it's funny.

People like Ning Hao, who were obviously very particular in the past, have also fallen, which makes people feel a little sad.

In short, "The Great Gold Robbery" is really too much to say, Song Zheng doesn't know how many people have great expectations for Ning Hao like him, and it turns out that he should be disappointed to make such a foolish work this time.

Now that Ning Hao can say these words, it is obvious that he has recognized the existence of the problem, but unfortunately, at this time, it is too late to rein in the precipice.

Of course, if at this time, Ning Hao proposed to remake it and rearrange the complete "Gold Robbery" in his mind, even if it was divided into two parts to be released, Song Zheng would not object.

However, Song Zheng hopes that Ning Hao can make a mistake in "The Great Gold Robbery", the reason why he thinks so is because Ning Hao has been too smooth since his debut, starting from "Nightclub", "Crazy Stone", "Crazy Racing", let him leap into the ranks of domestic first-line directors, during the filming of "Incense" won awards in Berlin, although "No Man's Land" has gone through twists and turns, but in the end, it was still a sensation, he is really smooth.

Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang have all planted countless heels, and finally they are today, Song Zheng hopes that Ning Hao can also fight, he believes that when Ning Hao gets back on his feet, what he can bring to fans who like him will definitely be more exciting.

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