If a person does something he is not good at, few people will attribute this behavior to bravery, and more people are afraid that they will be labeled as immeasurable.

Of course, it can't be said that Feng Xiaogang is not self-conscious, in fact, "1942" is still good, at least compared with most domestic films in the same period, "1942" is definitely of high quality.

The reason why the box office is average and not sought after by the audience is also due to many reasons, first of all, the political color is too strong, Feng Xiaogang's "1942" is known as a disaster film at the same time, it is also known as a historical drama, but he obviously has a strong political color when he restores and interprets history.

For example, when explaining the three-day suspension of Ta Kung Pao, Feng Xiaogang explained that the editorial reported on the Great Famine in Henan. However, Xinhua Daily, which also reported on the disaster, published more than 40 news articles covering the famine in Henan during the period when Ta Kung Pao was suspended.

According to the diary of Wang Shijie, former director of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Government, on February 4, 1943, the reason for the suspension of Ta Kung Pao was: "Ta Kung Pao was suspended for three days because of its accusation of failure to limit prices. ”

Feng Xiaogang connects two simultaneous, but unrelated histories, and his main thrust is political criticism. At the cost of distorting the facts, they attacked the Kuomintang, the Party, and the regime in order to gain political points.

Therefore, in the applause, there is no lack of government support for the effect, and the situation of not applauding, and it is also inevitable that the conscience who understands history will sigh.

Secondly, technically, the bloody scenes are exaggerated too much, and the film is carried out in the sound of gunfire and blood at the beginning, with a lot of bloody and brutal content in the middle, such as Bai Xiude's filming of the Henan disaster, which reproduces the scenes of dogs eating dead people many times.

Chinese mainland films have never had a clear rating system, so directors often like to take advantage of this loophole and use blood to render pathos to win the audience's attention, but this strategy is only suitable for use in ordinary environments.

The film "1942" was released during the "Lunar New Year" period, and the excessively bloody scenes, without the slightest psychological warning to the audience, suddenly broke in and repeatedly broke in, which obviously formed a challenge to the audience's bottom line.

Therefore, although the applause brought by Feng Xiaogang's rendering of bloody scenes is the same, the consequence of challenging the audience's psychological bottom line is inevitably to lose the box office.

Thirdly, structurally speaking, the complete tragedy makes the film lose its audience, and the difference between the film and the film is that the length of the article can highlight the tragedy through the rendering of words, so that people can reflect on it after reading.

But film is an art form that can be as short as an hour or as long as three hours. It is undoubtedly a very bad mistake to intensively show the audience a huge tragedy of broken homes and deaths in such a short period of time.

So when adapting the original book that is completely tragic, most film directors will make some adaptations to the plot, not to make the tragedy thorough, so that there is some hope for the ending.

For example, Yu Hua's "Alive" was originally a complete tragedy, Jiazhen also died, bitter roots also died, Erxi also died, and only Fugui and the scalper were alive.

But when Zhang Yimou adapted the movie, he obviously took care of the audience's emotions and terminated the sad ending on Feng Xia's death, so that the audience can have the time and experience to reflect on the earlier tragedy while harboring hope.

On the other hand, Feng Xiaogang's adaptation of "Reminiscences of 1942" intensively shows the tragedy, lest the audience not be able to accept these tragic facts in a short time.

In the cinema, the tragedy is forcibly instilled into the audience, without the time for reflection, and the feature film is made into an educational film, so the film has to be slowly appreciated and reminiscent in the ample time, rather than being watched and chewed in the cinema, so it is reasonable that it is applauded but not applauded.

Finally, from the perspective of human nature, the complete negation of human nature can only arouse the disgust of the audience, as a literary work, it can describe a lot of the evil of human nature in extraordinary times, because words can contain praise and disapproval through indirect language, and drive readers to make objective judgments on the specific historical environment and historical figures.

But for a film, it is undoubtedly very disadvantageous if there is no pure kindness and true humanity to show. Throughout the film, there is not a single moralized character.

For example, the blind deer secretly sold his daughter for food, and the leash used two biscuits as bait to lure the owner's daughter. Hua Zhi didn't obey the Shao Dong family for food before, and then he said that he was willing to sleep with the bolt because of two biscuits, it seems that it was just because the hunger level at that time was not enough, Lao Fan's character has the most scenes, in fact, the most flat, and his character is like a blank sheet of paper.

In short, no one meets the requirements of morality, this may be a fact of extraordinary times, history should be recorded truthfully, and it can be expressed in this way, but it is very unwise to show it like this in a feature film.

Because the audience has good expectations for the story, shattering this expectation is undoubtedly the enemy of the audience's emotional identity.

In the final analysis, it can be summed up in one sentence, Feng Xiaogang just doesn't take the audience seriously.

In a previous conversation with the media, Feng Xiaogang once said when answering why "1942" was so popular: "The audience is not my God! I have never flattered anyone when I make movies, I think it is interesting, and I can shoot it if I want to." The relationship between the audience and the director is that of friends: I make a film to bring laughter and pleasure to everyone, and the audience gives me a sense of trust, it is an equal relationship, and no one has to buy anyone's good. ”

This argument is undoubtedly wrong, because the director must be looking forward to the audience's box office, but the audience does not necessarily have to watch the director's work.

No matter how well "1942" is filmed, the audience has no obligation to watch it. Therefore, Feng Xiaogang challenged the audience's bottom line with blood, created a complete tragedy, or did not give the audience hope of humanity during the "Lunar New Year" period, whether it was his toughness, but in fact, he put himself in opposition to the audience, and finally lost again and again.

Song Zheng came over today, and he didn't want to help Feng Xiaogang analyze why "1942" didn't please the audience, but since he asked, Song Zheng is a straight intestine, so he knows everything.

After saying that, Song Zheng was happy, but Feng Xiaogang fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Feng Xiaogang raised his head, looked at Song Zheng, and suddenly smiled: "I really don't understand what you see, the road is crooked!"