"Slam Dunk": a bad movie made at a high price

Mariane 2022-04-22 07:01:54

As a director, Zhu Yanping is known as the "King of Bad Movies" in Taiwan. He has made more than 100 films. Although the box office is good, he is rarely outstanding in artistic innovation, and the traces of cloning and imitation are extremely serious. "... Long live" in Huang Jianxiang's commentary is an overly outdated burden, and Jay Chou's "shadow play" gift to Lily appeared earlier in other films. The relationship between Zeng Zhiwei and Jay Chou is similar to the relationship between the characters in "Half Cigarette", but the structure is far less brilliant.
The cast is very strong, putting Zeng Zhiwei, Li Liqun and Wang Gang together, but they are not coordinated. Similar to the symbolic "three fools", Zeng Zhiwei is a strange actor. He only shines in pure Hong Kong movies, such as "Sweet Honey", but Li Liqun's style is typed in the film as a "silly gangster". "Symbol, Wang Gang still plays the cunning and cunning He Kun well, in this movie there is really no part of his role and no details. Jay Chou is very good as a singer, but he is really lackluster as a movie actor. Maybe there is something wrong with the director and script he chose. In the few movies he has acted in, from the beginning to the end, he is just Jay Chou. As for the story of the characters played by Chen Bolin and others, it is too light to describe those episodes as far-fetched.
From the perspective of genre films, the genre of "sports inspirational films" is far from mature in China. The play doesn't even reach the level of the 1980s in the United States. The failure of the script is also the biggest failure of the film. The play-film language is very old-fashioned.
From a comedy point of view, this $10 million film obviously fails to clarify one of the most basic conceptual issues: "The difference between comedy and farce." A passage from the predecessor Master Zuolin many years ago still seems to be the truth: " Comedy and farce, our country has not seen satisfactory masterpieces or performances. Some people say that the technique of comedy must be exaggerated - this is a fallacy that is very wrong. The source of this fallacy is probably because the line between comedy and farce has never been The reason is clearly identified. But even if it is a farce, our performance cannot be nonsense. Farce has its rules, its skills. According to the etymology, the Latin Farcio means "I stuffed", which is to pretend to be stuffed in the play. The meaning of jokes and jokes. But what is "stuffed"? How to "stuck"? This is a very specialized skill, it requires long-term training and tireless speculation, and it cannot be "chased" out in three days and two nights stuff." "Slam Dunk" isn't a comedy, it's a farce. In comparison, Stephen Chow's style in recent years has made him gradually approach the direction of comedy master from farce.

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