With the investment of 300 million 500 million yuan, Chen Kaige set up a grand battle of "Promise": superstars from China, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, fantasy stories, first-class photographers, beautiful scenery, huge scenes plus Violence and bed scenes, but what came out? I think this is the most boring movie I've ever seen. If he made it for 3.5 million, I would think Chen Kaige was a genius, but for 300 million and 500, he can only be regarded as a narcissistic fool.
Now, I'm beginning to understand what the Chen Kaige-esque master means. He needs 10,000 times more self-confidence than ordinary people to blow things that are inferior to shit into flowers; he needs to be so narcissistic to truly appreciate the smell of orchids; he needs that kind of piety to Without blushing, he took lying as a sermon—if his boasting in various interviews counted as a lie.
I really admire Chen Kaige. I admire that he was able to film this bunch of bad stuff and said that 300 million and 500 million yuan is not enough. You look at those fake weapons that look like paper. You look at the scenes of ghosts and ghosts in Hong Kong low-cost movies. Chen Kaige included them all in the movie. As for the scene of a lot of people on the hill, it is clearly a "stupid" word, as if the age of steelmaking is back: crazy as a belief, no matter the cost of investment in exchange for broken copper and iron.
The Chen Kaige who filmed "The Yellow Earth" is not dead, and the Chen Kaige who filmed "Farewell My Concubine" is not dead either. He still wants to build the ideological empire he is passionate about in "The Promise". It's just that this time he has 300 million 500 million, so at the same time he wants to prove that he can not only bluff people with thoughts, but also bluff people with visual wonders, but unfortunately he didn't do it.
General Patton said that there are four kinds of people in the world, those who are smart and industrious, those who are smart and lazy, those who are stupid and industrious, and those who are stupid and lazy. Chen Kaige has 300 million 500 million, and he finally has the opportunity to prove that he is the stupid and diligent person, which is what Patton said, the most important person.
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