In fact, the national teacher should thank the one who gave him some wax. After all, the trailers are afraid to feature gluttonous features. I originally didn't intend to contribute to the overseas box office for this monster movie with unobtrusive special effects. It wasn't until the incident almost turned the corner of mental illness that it was necessary to buy a voice.
My thoughts: I have seen this film and said that it is a "qualified popcorn movie", if it is not a maternal and fetal art (I don't know what a "popcorn movie" means), or I haven't seen any special effects in the past five years Action blockbuster.
First popularize what a "popcorn movie" is. I am very happy when I look at it, but I am very forgetful after seeing it. Generally speaking, there are no profound themes, do not reflect the suffering of reality, do not add to the audience’s life, do not care about artistic achievements, there are big stars to support the stage, there is a happy ending, there are three common scenes that the masses love to hear (fight, kill, kill, sex) Papa, etc) movies whose main or even only value is entertainment can be classified into this category.
So what kind of popcorn movie can be called "qualified"? Since we spend money and time to have fun, Yan Buzhengyan provides comprehensive foreplay and patiently orgasms. The above is the basic requirement to be met. It's not that you just need to poke twice every tens of minutes. If 90 minutes, at least 50 minutes will give the guest the biological signs of soaring adrenaline, fast heartbeat, shortness of breath, and high concentration, right? Otherwise, how dare you say that you are "qualified"? ! Is it bullying certain industries that are not under the control of the Consumer Coordinator?
"The Great Wall" can see the excitement, seriously?
There are many reasons why this film does not work. First, there is the issue of the script.
The opening battle brings out the protagonist and the villain. Following a short paragraph of essays to explain the background of the times and the main contradictions-from here on, the audience should have expectations about how the changes in the conflicting relations between the main characters and the supporting characters will lead to the development of the main contradictions.
A big war villain officially appeared, and the protagonist first showed a halo-the audience should think that this battle cannot be won without the help of the protagonist, and they are anxious from the perspective of a supporting role. After the literary play, the protagonist should gather his friends.
Then there is another battle, the leading and supporting actors team up with a small victory-while the audience is happy, they deduced from the schedule that there must be something to do, looking forward to the reversal of the plot later.
At this time, the villain should open the halo and evolve, counterattack the protagonist and his friends to find teeth, and hang up a pleasing supporting role-it makes the audience feel distressed! You have to fall into despair and anger with the protagonist!
When the protagonist is about to give up, because his wife and children are hot pits or parents are good friends, he is full of blood and resurrects, preparing for the final battle with the fearless spirit of "I have fought with you". At this time, of course, it is necessary to send the halo in time, and the protagonist can add skills or the villain has weaknesses.
In the hands of the audience, the final battle begins, with at least one more important supporting role. After the protagonist finds his teeth all over the floor again, he comes from a desperate situation and fights his last breath to kill the villain.
The above "Excellent Composition for Middle School Students" version of the big production process of Fighting Monsters. The film seems to be the same in terms of structure, but it is obvious that the line of the protagonist and the line of the Forbidden Army are not twisted together. The relationship between the male protagonist brothers (should be brothers, they didn't even mention their surnames when they introduced themselves), and the plots of the red viper stealing gunpowder were actually completely out of line with gluttony. So that the later episode of Red Viper's escape completely turned into a dungeon. Whether he died or stayed alive, it didn't matter at all, it interrupted the main line.
To put it in a reasonable way, you should use gunpowder and gold to buy the cuteness and fight with the Red Viper at the beginning. In the process of fighting side by side, Daomeng developed feelings for the Chinese soldiers, and his spirit was sublimated ("trust" can also appear more naturally). Later, the Red Viper stole the gunpowder and gold, and persuaded Duan Meng to sneak away. Just when Duanmeng had already decided to leave, Taotie attacked again, and Duanmeng who had already run halfway resolutely decided to go back and live and die together. Due to one step late, Zhang Hanyu, Peng Yuyan, and Lin Gengxin hang up one by one. The tragic mood is rendered, so as to send the cute and adorable decisive battle. At the point of success or failure of the decision, the Red Viper will come back to assist (you can hang).
Of course, it is very important to write about the changes in the relationship between the characters in this way. Not only should the characters of Zhang Hanyu, Peng Yuyan, Lin Gengxin, and Lu Han be set and portrayed separately, but also their interactions with Duan Meng should be written. Those who can speak English must make friends, drink wine, eat meat, sing martial arts, and sing songs together (Qinqiang can play when "Meeting Friends With Songs"). Otherwise, their immortality has nothing to do with being cute, and it doesn't affect the protagonist's motivation at all.
Then I took a look at the list of screenwriters, and don't embarrass international friends. Although it's not difficult to write this paragraph, it's a straight man, it's hard to talk about women fighting and fighting each other's lives. But these foreigners can't even name a few generals. It is very hard to make a story round and round.
However, these senior and skilled screenwriters shouldn't take "Beast King" as the main task.
In several siege battles, gluttonous attacks were launched and the Great Wall passively defended. It seems that China's appeal is to "delay this wave", and it will be over when the gluttonous food is exhausted. I have never studied and envisaged a way to actively defeat the enemy. Both enthusiasm and enthusiasm are zero. To say that they spend their entire lives to defend their home and country, this kind of passive sabotage is totally unjustifiable. So when Jing Tian said that their reasons for fighting were higher than that of Duomo, I was stunned.
Under the cover of artillery, use a group of surprise soldiers to carry out a sneak attack on the ground, tie the soldiers to the giant arrows and shoot them into the Beastmaster Array to ignite explosives, smear them with huge poison to feed them by killing; or they can play drums to interfere with their wifi signals (At least you can find out how their wifi works); and looking at the size of this group of gluttons, it is clear that animals can also be used to assist, elephants and rhinos-you see, I sit in the cinema for a while. Can think of so many recruits, the wise Chinese nation can't think of a way in 60 years, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has been read into the bladder? !
These waves of death, Quante is stupid!
Please, if you really have the country in your heart and the Li people in your heart, then you have long known that gluttonous food is connected through wifi. Why have you never made any special deployments against the Beastmaster in terms of strategy and tactics? Why always wait for the enemy to attack but want to survive the offensive by sending people away? The main general does not take risks with himself, and makes bold deployments to inspire morale to achieve miracle tactics. Is your use in the movie to lure mercenaries by beauty? Is this the Chinese martial arts? Do you dare to sing "But the Dragon City Flying Commander is here"... also embarrassed!
Did not put the main task on the stage at the beginning, and made many attempts around this (and failed), not only did the audience have no direction for the whole story, but also had no sympathy and no belonging for such a stupid and inactive team, and it was even more obvious. There is no irreplaceability of the protagonist in this story. The cute setting is "God Archer", eh, so? ! If it is not stated at the beginning that "our ultimate goal is to destroy the Beastmaster", and in the process, it is displayed that "all other conceivable tricks have been exhausted", what is the importance of the protagonist being a hundred-step piercing Yang? It's just that one of the three armies can shoot arrows. Even if he ran away, it would not affect the feeling of the main line at all. Naturally, the audience didn't care much about his choice.
In terms of Daguai entertainment films, "the branch line deviates from the main line" and "the main line task is not clear" are both extremely serious mistakes. The characters in the story except the male and female protagonists are reduced to human backgrounds, the male protagonist has no reasonable motives, the female protagonist has no moving moments, and the villain is not threatened-who other than "large numbers" Can you also see what is particularly powerful about gluttonous food? The whole story is based on "the fact that the enemy army is not very strong, but the difficulty lies in the fact that our army is really incompetent."
And gluttonous food once in 60 years is for Mao (not only people outside the Great Wall, but also cattle and sheep, not much better than people)? It’s because of Mao (the Great Wall is so long and there are so many gluttons, so I will dig a hole, so I won’t climb the mountain to break through?) How did I fight back the previous few times (especially before the gunpowder?) ) The villain’s motives and behavior are logically unreasonable!
Who would sympathize with such our army, who would be afraid of such an enemy army, and who would be interested in this kind of confrontation? Is it energetic? !
In junior high school, there were often gang fights outside the school. If the boys from our school didn't attend, we usually walked around and didn't watch it. If it is a boy in his class who is going to fight, not only will he go, but he will also cheer on the side. If it is the boys in their own class who fight with the hooligans outside for the girls in the class, it is even more serious. The girls wear racquet pumps and the like when they look around, and they concentrate on watching them, and they will sneak attack when they find the right opportunity. This is the emotional impact on people's psychological state in the matter of "watching a fight".
Daimeng and Jing Tian fight monsters on the Great Wall because there is no daily description of the common people, because there is no family of generals, because there is no story and no yearning, and they have no emotional relationship with anyone. I don't care if the two of them are eaten. And I don’t think most of the audience—at least the ones watching in the same hall as me—don’t care. A mercenary of unknown origin, a female general of unknown origin, who have no father, no mother, no relatives and no friends, talk to each other some fake nonsense, and don’t even have the hormones to make a girl and a man, how can the audience follow Do they have empathy? The characters in the game are at least controlled by me. Do these two things want me to empathize with Mao? !
After the heart of the plot is finished, it's the turn of the special effects pot.
I don't know who came up with the gluttonous shape, and it was too perfunctory to hand over the licensed goods. In the animal kingdom, predators usually have eyes on both sides-in order to have a wider field of view. The eyes of the predator are long and front-stereo vision is easy to locate. So what the hell is the "eye under the armpit"? The eyes are long on both sides, but the front is blocking the head and the back is blocking the hand. There is neither stereo vision nor wide vision. If the eyes can spray venom, it still makes sense, but they really only have the function of eyes...not to mention how this group of lizard-like animals can make such beautiful burrows. This image doesn't match the plot at all, and it's not scary at half a dime (I don't have intensive phobia). It's to blame for the strangeness, just rubbing out the characteristics of a little monster.
It's so uncreative, so the positions for fighting monsters must have everything they should have-being under the monster, riding on the monster, stuck in the monster's mouth, hanging on the monster's leg or tail. They are all basic models! Well, even if it is not done, there must be at least a meat-to-body fight with the protagonist's perspective! ! This is really basic! ! However, all! All! No! Have! All the monsters in the film are gluttonous jumping up and jumping forward, and the protagonist attacks from a long distance or with long cold weapons. They have all shot a scene of a combination of humans and beasts, which one says that the special effects are well done? Is the money burned in place?
You have never seen a special effects movie.
I don't want to talk about the performance, there is nothing to say. A dumb and cute expression of "I will go home to sleep soon after the filming of this scene". Compared to the red viper, he was a little more excited. In fact, as far as this film is concerned, Jing Tian's acting skills are not too problematic. All the Chinese characters in this drama have no personality, no fear, no compassion, no worries. They are the same as robots. In fact, they don’t need much acting. Zhang Hanyu is a waste. And I was recently hurt by the cut-out drama, free fall on the requirement of "acting". In general, he has big eyes and prominent "You know how beautiful I am" in acting and level. Lu Han looked a little stronger, because his angle was a bit more. I wondered that it was just that the national teacher did not like to shoot Jing Tian (of course This is purely human guessing, if the national teacher is covered with a cloth one day, don't come to me).
After all, Zhang Guoshi has no idea about the concept of "powerful women".
Unlike many big tails, I don't have artistic expectations of other teachers. Because I've seen the introductory version of "Ambush on Ten Sides"-I was still naive to think that the director had any skill with this "Little Sister Is Immortal" film.
There are two passages that impressed me the most. In the first paragraph, the national teacher said that he arranged for Takeshi Kaneshiro to eat peanuts because he wore the same clothes as Liu Dehua. He was afraid that foreign audiences would not be able to tell who is who, and his tone could not hide his cleverness. Obviously, the second paragraph is when Takeshi Kaneshiro ate peanuts again, Guo Shi repeated the previous paragraph roughly again, becoming more and more proud.
So painting the armor in red, red, green and green this time and creating a scar for Peng Yuyan should have the same intention. Hong Kong Zhen, in this plot, if everyone wears different colors, even I can't tell who is who. Therefore, generals use colors to distinguish them. I have no objection. But the area of this color is too much to look at.
Students who have watched "Cleopatra" should have an impression of the scene in which the queen entered Rome. It is also a wave of red, one green and then a batch of yellow, but it looks bright and does not appear to be the second, because they only! dye! cloth! material! Just give the tassels and the clothes under the armor yellow, orange, red and green. Who is so boring to dye it! helmet! First! Even the arrow and the rope were dyed red and blue. Is it really a normal director’s job just to make the picture look good (in fact, it’s not good), without considering the plot setting of "war" at all?
color! blind! At once! morning! point! rule! what!
Do you also like to watch "The Devil's Altar Fighter"?
There is a job in the animation industry called "Old Master". It is based on the context and background to make cracks, fur balls, and stains on the house appliances and props in the cartoon to make them fit the plot and feel more realistic, so that the audience will not play. The most outstanding example should be "Toy Story". The protagonist's toys in different periods have different degrees of newness and oldness.
"The Great Wall" obviously does not have this position. I should have never thought of it at all. Everyone was neatly dressed in new armor, sitting in the new room (at a glance, the newly built film and television city), talking, using brand-new weapons. Even the walls of the Great Wall are of the same color, and there is no trace of wind and rain or flames of war for thousands of years. Oh, all generals don’t take off their cloaks when they go into battle (this is just a status symbol, okay, do you wear them in a fight for fear that you can’t trip yourself or want to cos too much), soldiers do not take off their helmets in the kitchen (you wear A metal dishwashing is enough, there was no stainless steel back then). It's already such a bullshit plot, speechless performance, perfunctory special effects, coupled with these blind details, I play every minute, and the inner barrage is comparable to the storyline and the expressions of the actors. Much richer!
The charm of entertainment films that are willing to pay is that it allows the audience to sink into the illusory scene of the virtual world within a few hours, and work with the imaginary characters to work hard to kill the imaginary enemy, so forget the bill. Forget about housework, forget about official business, and forget about children, relax as a hero and experience life and death. The director of an entertainment film is to use all resources to meet the needs of the audience.
All the entertainment films that make people play are unqualified!
In the past, I at least recognized that Guo Shi is "the very few professional directors in China who can manage large-scale productions in terms of experience and ability." In fact, China is very short of directors who can manage big capital and big productions. It's like fighting a war. Only Han Xin dared to say "More is better," and Liu Bang's leadership will only lead to chaos. The genre film is a piece that the Chinese film industry is striving to make up for. But judging from this movie, the executive power of the National Teacher is actually not as good as Wu Yusen. At least Director Wu is not keen on "tidy and uniform group gymnastics", and will give priority to the needs of the audience during the filming process, rather than his own color hunger.
This subject matter should be said that the boss is best at it. But the old monster has never played with international superstars with so much money, so he can't say that it will be better.
As for the use of "cultural output" to cover shame. I don't know what "culture" you see in this film. gunpowder? Kong Ming Lan? Qin Opera?
I don’t know if you guys know who is the first to use "0" in counting and calculations-this is much more important than the Kongming Lantern or even the four great inventions. It can be said that today's technology of mankind is based on this number. superior. Is Indian. Okay, what Indian culture did you get from this fact? When you were in high school, you learned that Faraday established the concept of electromagnetic fields. What British culture did you understand from it?
The word "culture" and the word "output" are not used in this way, let alone combined in this way. "Science" is a more suitable term. However, only the national teacher will treat foreigners as illiterate. Among the French people I have worked with, at least three have read The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and one is reading the Tao Te Ching. Everyone knows that movable type printing was invented in China. ). Treating others as idiots wholeheartedly, just appearing you are ignorant.
If you want to export culture, you must first have a culture. How can you express what you don’t have and how can you output it?
"Culture" is built on the basis of "society". Without society, there is no culture. Therefore, the most direct and effective way to embody and convey culture is through the words, deeds and thinking of typical characters in a particular society. And in a movie, there are a thousand people in the characters. They neither chant poems nor drink, neither sing nor dance, neither miss their families nor sympathize with others, all have no past and no future, no love, no doubts, neither. There is no hesitation in fear, so whether they are singing Qinqiang or putting on Kongming lanterns, it is just a group of puppets being fiddled with a trick that they think is pleasing to the audience.
Traveling to areas where ethnic minorities gather are often seen in folk villages. How not open one's eyes to think that through these designs for tourists' "funny" hobbies, no matter the context is just a circus show that shows ingenuity and skill, a certain national culture can be understood?
Give it two stars, because I think this is still a domestic movie using foreign actors. With distinctive "Chinese characteristics" thinking, "time characteristics" director and "silly multi-speed" featured actors. So we still have to use the standards of domestic films. Just like I don't use the World Cup standards to watch the national football play.
Oh, I haven't watched the national football team for ten years. Chinese football was undoubtedly destroyed by someone like me.
Regardless of whether you give him some wax or burn incense, I will not watch it. What's not good about saving these 100 minutes? Even if you use it to pull your feet, it's more relaxing and more enjoyable than watching this film.
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I hate movies that take ideology first. I hate movies that are ugly but ideologically cover up. In particular, I hate movies that are ugly and use ideology as a cover in the end to be fake.
A person who can't do his own job well and finds all kinds of excuses for his failures is nothing more than he wants to use ideology to package his failures into tragic heroes. Human shame is the limit at this point.
Originally, I had no likes or dislikes to the national teacher. If mainland China talks about making blockbuster films, I would also say "except him and don't think about others." But fans follow idols. After such a ruckus, I was deeply disgusted. Talking and talking are all ideological things, and it has nothing to do with the movie itself.
From now on, you can hardly use the role of a "director" to see the National Teacher. Ya is just a broker who uses the film as the skin. Pooh.
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