Yes! Same as childhood...
"The Promise" gorgeous rotten film
Is Promise a bad movie?
Yes.
Still a gorgeous piece of shit.
In 2002, Zhang Yimou made "Hero" , which became China's first film with a box office of over 100 million yuan, and Chinese films entered the "blockbuster era".
Chen Kaige , who is also a fifth-generation director, also wants to join the team of making magic blockbusters and get a piece of the pie.
Later, when he was running on the treadmill, he had a sudden inspiration and wrote the script of "Promise" . Moreover, he is very optimistic about his work, and firmly believes that "Wuji" will become a phenomenal magical epic masterpiece in China, which is popular at home and abroad.
So he invested 300 million yuan and invited top actors from mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan. I also found Bao Dexi to do photography. You must know that Bao Dexi is the one who won the Oscar for Best Cinematography with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" .
Chen Kaige's ambition is to send "The Promise" to the Oscars.
In the end, "The Promise" was indeed popular, but it was criticized. It was word-of-mouth first, and then all the limelight was snatched away by the spoof short film "Murder Case Caused by a Mantou" . So the work that Chen Kaige was most optimistic about became his pillar of shame instead. He threatened that no one could understand Wuji within ten years.
But ten years later, everyone still "can't understand".
When the actors were seated, the "audience representative" Li Chengru still taunted "The Promise".
In fact, it is difficult to explain in one sentence what "The Promise" is about. Chen Kaige created an overhead oriental world, trying to pour out grand propositions about fate and human nature. As a result, the pace was too large, and the content did not keep up. Only the gorgeous composition and picture are left. However, the picture is too beautiful, the audience dare not look at it.
In Eileen Chang 's words, Wuji is a gorgeous robe covered with lice.
300 million investment and fifty cents
In 2005, Chen Kaige wanted to use "The Promise" to usher in the era of Chinese blockbusters. But the audience said that "The Promise" created the era of bad films in China.
Chen Kaige wrote the script himself, and the plot is unsightly.
If you are a director yourself, you have to spend a lot of money on everything, and you have to be real, and the effect is not obvious.
For example, the scene of the bison fight in the film. Chen Kaige insisted on using real yaks to shoot, so the crew found more than 100 yaks. But it was too hot at that time, and the yak was so thickly clothed that they were crowded together, and more than half of them died of heat. The rest of the yaks were too small to make the scene of the galloping cattle that Director Chen wanted.
Director of photography Bao Dexi suggested that Chen Kaige cancel the scene. But how could a person with such conviction as Director Chen agree. And when they asked investors for money, they were looking at this "human cow war". For the joy of the gold master's father, nothing in this scene can be deleted.
But time is too tight and funds are too scarce. Director Chen could only compromise, using a small part of real yaks and completing the rest with special effects. There were not enough yaks, people came to gather, and finally even the staff came on stage. The results were predictable and horrific.
Chen Kaige's final stubbornness
Chen Kaige once said: I made a splurge on my life with "Wuji".
As a glass-hearted and careful, Chen Kaige can't tolerate others saying a word about "Wuji".
Back then , when the spoof short film "Murder Case Caused by a Mantou" became popular, the always elegant Chen Kaige lost his demeanor and scolded him for being shameless.
Liu Yan had just made his debut and interviewed Director Chen. She asked the director what would happen if "Promise" did not fare well at the box office? Just this sentence made Chen Kaige furious and angry on the spot. Chen Kaige's wife, Chen Hong, could only call the staff and temporarily suspend the interview. But Director Chen was still reluctant and publicly accused Liu Yan at the press conference. So the next day, the headline of unscrupulous reporters cursing Chen Kaige appeared on major news headlines, scaring Liu Yan to have a nightmare for a month.
Another old iron of Director Chen, Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine" , broke the news in the show: After watching "The Promise", he commented that "The Promise" was a failed movie. Chen Kaige got angry again when he found out, and never contacted Reed again.
Fifteen years have passed, in the recent "Actors, Please Take Your Place", when Li Chengru boldly opened the microphone and said that he hadn't watched "Wuji" because of the bad reviews, Chen Kaige immediately shot back, saying that he couldn't keep up with the times and would only fight crickets, so Can't understand new age movies.
Fifteen years ago, Director Chen said that it would take ten years to understand "The Promise". Now everyone doesn't know if they have understood "The Promise", but Chen Kaige is still so conceited and careful.
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