Among the various materials before the release of the feature film, the filmmaker has already determined the style of the "weird" route to the end. But whether a trailer that covers a lot of mix-and-match elements can make the audience have enough desire to watch the movie in just one or two minutes, this effect can only be said to be a matter of opinion. At least I felt weird after watching the trailer and the movie MV, but I didn't think it attracted me to watch the feature film. Instead, I was a little confused... The conclusion I came to after rethinking after watching the movie is: " The Tai Chi series itself is the creation of a new style. When the public is faced with a completely new thing, they lack sufficient understanding. At this time, they still use traditional movie trailers to output various large scenes in a short period of time. The results obtained may not be shocking to the audience, but more likely It's to confuse the audience...
After complaining about the previous materials, let's talk about the feature film. There is no doubt that "Tai Chi" is full of director Feng Delun's personal preferences. Role-playing, love development, action fighting, and even casual mobile games... A large number of ACG elements are used, and the comic-style and game-style plot advancement surprises every senior video game lover, and at the same time, it is also for Feng Delun, the "same ethnic group". "My own people" have identified with him, and I can only say, "Feng Delun, you are really cunning...".
When seeing so many rich elements, it can be predicted that the evaluation of the "Tai Chi" series will inevitably appear polarized. Over the years, the public has already had an established thinking and understanding of kung fu movies, and many people have designed them specifically to watch martial arts. Such a film that subverts everyone's concept, the fighting is slanted, and the expression is innovative, will inevitably make a large number of kung fu fans who are used to seeing Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Donnie Yen shouted (in this regard, "Tai Chi" is indeed a bit weak, Only the kitchen battle with Yuan Biao in the second part can be regarded as one-off to make up for all the action designs owed to everyone before). To put it bluntly, in fact, it is not used to it. But I never thought that before the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Oscar, it was also scolded by a large number of audiences as "rubbish" because it was different from the previous martial arts films. When it won the Oscar, it was accepted and studied by the public in turn, thus establishing a new style of martial arts. By the same token, who knows if the "Tai Chi" series will become the pioneer of a new popular style years later?
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