Forget it, get down to business. I've heard about "Smoke Master" ("Five-Road Pursuit") for a long time, but I never thought to watch it. The plot introduction is quite attractive. In order to hunt down a gangster character who was a magician, a big boss offered a reward of 1 million US dollars. Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man, and five people are scrambling to grab this business. Among the bounty killers are retired former FBI agents, femme fatales, simple-minded, violent and bloodthirsty killers... Killers of all styles battle wits and courage with the police on standby to protect tainted witnesses. Casino, gunfights, beautiful women, cops... It looks like a very cool movie.
When I really saw the movie, I realized that it is not only a movie, but also a scripting lesson that is rare and unnecessary.
The film makes almost every mistake a screenwriter can make. You have to admit, it definitely takes some kind of special talent to make a good story like this. If something like "Epic Movie" is like Yang Lijuan, at least her IQ is low and very sincere. "Smoke Master" originally had the qualifications of at least Xu Jinglei, but insisted on making herself into Shen Dianxia's body shape, and then disfigured into a flower-like appearance, and then repeated what Sister Furong did.
First of all, this movie has absolutely no logic at all, of course, this is not a disadvantage now. The entire film is filled with endless dialogue that is neither humorous nor witty. The sole purpose is to explain the plot, and the audience simply doesn't listen to the noise. Since almost all the plot development of this movie is from the lines, why don't I go home and listen to the storytelling? Obviously many directors don't understand this.
The whole story is fragmented and incoherent. The gunfight scenes are like wrangling, and the sensational scenes are very funny. We will not hate a movie without suspense, but we will hate a movie with boring suspense. Apparently the director didn't understand these things either.
The process of making this film project can be speculated. First, a guy with a voice in the film company came up with this idea, and then investors felt that there was a market to try, so they found a genius who might have won the Pulitzer Prize for literature and was almost blind. A laid-off writer wrote this script. After the script was formed, it was sent to a script reviewer who had long complained about the company. The doctor in this script didn't want to insult his IQ, so he added two jokes to make things happen, and didn't waste his life with such a script. Then a director with serious masochistic tendencies rushes in for the project and persuades a long-dead former star to be a dead horse. So the group came to Nevada with a pure longing for the casino city. It was not until the start of the game that they found that the script had forgotten to be revised. So the laid-off writer showed amazing talent and perseverance. Overnight, he wrote more than 120 pages of dialogue. The next day, The crew started successfully.
The question that arises is why don't studios hire a macaw to write a script and an African chimpanzee to direct? In this way, the effect of the movie will not be worse than it is now, and at least there will be a bit of hype.
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