According to a colleague, since this movie, apart from the Journey to the West series, the costume martial arts movies in the Chinese movie market have become increasingly difficult to sell. So I also watched the movie with the mentality of looking for the reason.
I watched this film without watching the trailer at all, Yuan Xiaochao's appearance was the beginning of the film's stylized graphics, I thought it was a comedy.
Such stylized graphics, I personally think there are good and bad. In my judgment, this belongs to the secondary creation during the editing of the film, because I think such packaging and film can be integrated better. If there was such an arrangement in the early shooting, these graphics should be more dramatic - but it has been done well so far.
Let's start with Yuan Xiaochao's appearance, except for this role, the starring roles of other roles can be named. However, despite the starlight of this film, I don't think their temperament and corresponding characters are completely suitable. Except for Leung Ka Fai, everyone else is too beautiful and clean. Especially Chen Sicheng, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that he was not at the same pace as Chenjiagou's character design.
Steampunk and the end of the Qing Dynasty are a very interesting and creative endeavor. Just judging from the experience with Cowboys and Aliens , the mashup of steampunk and something else is risky. As far as I know steampunk, it's a mashup, it's very rich, and it's a bit too much to add other things. It's better to honestly do a confrontation between Chinese kung fu and cold weapons, and the tragic and solemn filming of "The Last Samurai " is not bad.
One of the details I like very much is the montage of the preparation section before the final battle of the Qing army and the battle. The scene of the fresh buns being distributed to everyone, there is also a similar scene in "The Lord of the Rings 3 ". This kind of point and surface effectively makes Chenjiagou more three-dimensional. Thinking about it this way, Chenjiagou is actually shaped very three-dimensionally - the villagers who need to pass the battle, the masses who can't help but move and comment, even the humble post office boss also contributed to the key plot: This is better than advertised as a rural area. The movie " Shouting the Mountain " is not sure how three-dimensional it is - the villagers in the latter are all pieces of paper, which is a group performance.
It must be pointed out that the sound of this film is generally unpleasant. Music styles are not immediately acceptable. There are some conventional Foley sounds that are too obvious and exaggerated, which is actually reducing points without realizing it.
The overall plot lacks eye-catching surprises, and the new graphics can't make up for such flaws. Maybe this is one of the reasons people feel boring about ancient martial arts films. Speaking of which, Angelababy feels that letting a fool into the family to save him from the bad luck of abolishing martial arts can actually be more profound and sincere emotionally, but the pen and ink are more focused on introducing the sequel. It was unexpected that two episodes would be released back to back like this.
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