Let’s talk about movies first, then think about it.
This is Jackie Chan's first major production in the Emperor. It uses a mix of Chinese and foreign teams, and it still focuses on the global box office market. Therefore, it adopts the method of re-engraving the rush hour mode. The protagonists are still two Interpols, but the case has become a little bit. Fantasy.
Because of the fantasy case, the underlying logic of the movie has completely changed to another logic, from a two-hero police solving a case to a true and false undead story. This is a major mistake made by the screenwriter. When the setting used in the case is too innovative He will definitely subvert the original established framework.
The audience's perspective has changed from watching the police solve a case to watching the birth of Marvel's first superhero, the birth of the undead. These are purely two different routines.
Because of the changes in the underlying logic, other events in the film are more or less affected, and the original effect has not been achieved. Therefore, although this film adopts commercial film techniques, the whole process is high-energy, and the rhythm is lively, it will make the viewers feel a little bit. baffling.
But if you look at the flow of events, you will find that he still did not make any fundamental mistakes in the routine of the two heroes solving the case. The appearances, transitions, clues, climax, reversal, happy ending, all online. . . Actions, details, comedy elements, beauties, and elements are all there, and Nicholas Tse all cameo as a waiter in it.
From this point of view, this film probably has three stars, but this is Jackie Chan and it is a big production, so actually for the audience, points will definitely be deducted, because they feel that their IQ is humiliated...
So next I want to write about the thoughts that came to me from this movie, that is, the title part.
Pure action actors in China are probably Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Wu Jing, Donnie Yen, and of course a series of supporting roles such as Zou Zhaolong.
Foreign countries are probably Jean-Pierre, Stallone, Governor, Bruce Willis, half of Statham, and half of Fan.
One of these action actors counts as one. They are very fierce at their peak, and bad movies are also very fierce.
These actors have quite a personal style, and the movies they perform will surpass the characters written by the screenwriters and become themselves. In order to break through the needs, they don’t want to become themselves and they will look for all kinds of strange themes to try, and then form a strange Vicious circle. . .
In the past, technically speaking, everyone lacked sufficient research on these. Compared with film companies, from a commercial point of view, they belonged to the low-end industry where the elites were relatively lacking. The high-IQ people in the mainstream society did not serve this industry. Singing songs with hot pot, a movie came out.
Having said that, not only action actors have encountered such a bottleneck, but the entire Hollywood of the United States has encountered a script crisis. The Big 6 has become the Big 5, and independent production companies like DreamWorks are dead. Not only that, the Big 5 has now shrunk to double digits every year, and it’s not a series of films that hardly ever shoot. Just look at the global box office. Except for Chinese films that win by population, almost all of them are IP, 007, Fast Passion, Mission Impossible, Marvel films, without exception.
According to this logic, why do we look at Jackie Chan's film on the street again?
In fact, the screenwriter mainly changed him into a superhero ip film with Jackie Chan style as the core and the fantasy setting of immortality. In an instant, all the underlying logic will be no problem. It's a dead servant, right?
You see Ryan, Tom, Ben, Bell, Fan are not action actors, but the main characters and action director money is in place, who is not an action movie? They are all more profitable IP series, far more than pure action actors.
When talking about the governor, the first thing that comes to mind must be the Terminator, and when it comes to Stallone, it's still Rambo. It's the same reason.
More than half of Jackie Chan's action films are police officers or Interpol, but they are almost the same, and almost all of the top-grossing films are police officers.
There will be more characters created by Jet Li, but these characters are real or well-known to the public, such as Zhang Wuji, who is actually an IP, Zhang Sanfeng, Huang Feihong, Fang Shiyu, Huo Yuanjia, and these are historical figures, so although he also seeks changes, But the essence is still playing IP, so the box office is not bad, and it will not fluctuate as much as Jackie Chan. On the contrary, it is the black man he played, the brave and the mouse that are relatively embarrassing, including the Chinese hero that he invested in, not to mention the Shaolin Temple. Proper mainland top IP. The one that is really original is a bodyguard and the other is a killer. In fact, the two films are very exciting in terms of plots, and the action scenes are not familiar, so the box office is much worse.
So after such an analysis, and looking back, the action actors are really hurt by the understanding of the backward industry. In fact, based on their peak period of at least 20 years, there is no problem in creating 2-3 top IP series.
Although Jackie Chan's Drunken Fist is also a series, it is not a character IP, but a practice IP. What the audience understands and recognizes is only the public ranking of Drunken Fist, not the character behind it, which will be relatively embarrassing.
The screenwriter needs to create a character, which should include his overall costume, voice, small movements, etc., just like Bruce Lee's movies may be regarded as one IP when they are combined together.
I think the ip logic of Jackie Chan playing the undead will be a little weirder. After all, he is not dead. The action is not so critical. Coolness and special effects are the key.
Wu Jing has figured out this point. The Wolf Warrior series he shot actually started to create his personal things. Is this series patriotic or the personal style of the protagonist? I think I have to watch Wolf Warrior 3 before I can make a decision. If it's just a plot series, I don't think there is any future.
The plot series relies too much on the screenwriter, and if there is a little problem, it will be gone, but if a character who is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people stands, in fact, the audience also likes to watch it.
Well, today's thinking ends here.
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