Master Feng has not been a director for many years

Leonel 2022-04-21 09:03:23

"Tangshan Earthquake" is not a movie, but a commodity. The text of this film is not correct, and it cannot be considered a success; but if you look at it as a commodity, it is extremely successful in terms of marketing, and we all know that the so-called marketing is a science of selling garbage as gold.

People are grateful. In the past, the spiritual life of Chinese people was very poor. The famous directors were very popular. Master Zhang, Master Chen, and Master Feng were able to dominate the film industry for decades; and people were greedy. They were able to make films, so when they made products such as "House of Flying Daggers", "The Promise", "Tangshan Earthquake" and other products, everyone took out the mortgage repayment money to watch their movies, but they repeatedly supported the wall and returned. I know... There are very few all-round talents like Luc Besson in the world, who can produce three top-notch works of "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" and "The Fifth Element" in various genres. Even if you can win awards, you can make money. Even so, Bei Dao is gradually declining.
Master Feng has brought a lot of laughter to everyone, as if he has dedicated his beautiful youth to us. Although he has not won a lot of gold and silver awards internationally like Zhang Chen, we don't care, you must know that we I used to love his movies so much.
With the passage of time, he has gained fame, fortune, a young and beautiful wife, and has vitiligo. At this time, the public's aesthetics have improved. The style that Master Feng relies on to become famous cannot create greater business interests. He is old and thinks that As a director, he should leave behind some masterpieces. As a famous Chinese director who has not won an international award, he is under a lot of pressure. He used "Night Banquet" to prove that he could also direct a group of stars to spend money and make money again, he used "Assembly" to flatter the main melody, and he used "If You Are the One" to prove that his true colors still exist, but "Tangshan University" What is Earthquake? Why shoot this subject?
——I think of the college entrance examination in a certain year. The title was "Frustration", and I asked to write my true feelings. Most of the test papers were crying that their parents died but they insisted on studying hard. After reading the first one, the teacher burst into tears. After the 100th composition with the same content, I burst into tears even more - using tragedy to hijack the audience's emotion, what a simple business.

"Tangshan Earthquake", title party. In terms of content, there are too few perfunctory preparations, the time connection is incoherent, and the makeup of the main actors is not in place.
I was only 10 minutes late when I entered the movie theater in a traffic jam. When I rushed in, Tangshan had already started an earthquake. In order to prevent others from watching the movie, I stood in the aisle and watched the earthquake for a while, but I didn’t expect it to be over soon, and I was able to Take my seat quickly. At the end of the film, the part of how the sister and brother recognized each other was passed without explanation, which is inexplicable; the moment when my mother found out that my sister was still alive, this part was also left blank, which I regret. Zhang Jingchu's English is not very good. 40 years old doesn't look much different from 18 years old, but his younger brother looks like 40 years old when he is 18 years old. In the middle, the passage of Chairman Mao's death was very pompous and shocking, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the story of this film. The reason for this passage is well understood.
A common problem with famous Chinese directors is that they do not have the ability to independently write scripts. At present, almost all domestic films that can be counted are adapted from novels. Of course, it is good to adapt novels to movies, and some adapted movies can regenerate the whole story. ——In my opinion, such a director is not a real creator, but an adaptor, or even an operator who turns words into images. I used to think that Feng Xiaogang was a creative director, which was an important reason I used to respect him, but now it seems that he has followed the trend.
As a purely Chinese-style family film, this film has been considered to be well completed, but even if the relationship and contradiction between the characters in this film are separated from the key event of the Tangshan Earthquake and replaced by other accidents, it can still be established. It is the most disappointing part of "Tangshan Earthquake". Contacting the title of the film again, I seem to see how a director sold his conscience to money, what a vivid scene.

The film "Tangshan Earthquake" was not made by a director, but by a businessman. As a businessman, the moment you buy the ticket, he has already completed his friendship with you. As for whether you watch this movie, shed tears, or complain later, it has nothing to do with him at all. .

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  • Li Yuanni: So who took care of you after you gave birth? What about the child's father?

    Fang Deng: He left the country. I lost touch with him.

    Li Yuanni: Didn't you ask someone to help find him?

    Fang Deng: He didn't want me anymore. What's the point?

  • Li Yuanni: [at tomb] Daqiang... you love me so much... that you have sent our daughter back.