"Shanghai Fortress" was officially released on August 9, 2019. This love science fiction war film directed by Teng Huatao and starring Lu Han and Shu Qi cost 2 billion yuan. It took 6 years to shoot, and the Douban score was only 3.0 points. What happened to the so-called "Chinese hard science fiction giant system"? Such a bad review.
From the requirements of the film industry itself: As early as when the film was still not released, someone saw that the leading actor was Lu Han, and immediately decided not to buy it. The fundamental reason is that in recent years there have been too many small fresh-moving movies, and their performance has been mediocre and even disappointing. In the context of the current era in 2019 when audiences are chanting the slogan "Stop traffic, strength is king", "Shanghai Fortress" has turned a blind eye to it. still chooses traffic stars, which will surely make the movie be controversial before it is released. , It can even be said that it is not good to make a first impression on most viewers.
From the perspective of character creation: readers who have read Jiangnan's original work should know that the image of Jiang Yang in the original work is bold and resolute, but there is no lack of emotional and romantic characters. It can be said to be a typical "heart with a tiger, sniff "Rose" form. But obviously, in the movie, you will find it difficult to find the tiger from Luhan, whether it is the bangs that cannot be cut off or the weak lines, only Rose is left. Therefore, the "text is not right" between the role and the actor, making it difficult for the movie to create a flesh-and-blood character with distinctive personality and emotion through the actor, which makes it difficult for the movie to leave a memorable impression on the audience.
"Shanghai Fortress" failed to adapt to Jiangnan’s original work in many ways, but its fatal blow was to shake the main story of Jiangnan’s original work, which is the structure of the story centered on the emotional line and science fiction as the background, and turned it into The complex structure of emotion and science fiction makes this movie so nondescript that the producer later announced that it was classified as a so-called love science fiction film. It is precisely because of this that the movie is difficult to control. As a result, cannot experience the hearty and unconstrained fantasy in science fiction, let alone an audiovisual feast. It is also difficult to immerse people in the emotional aspect and resonate strongly with the movie.
and director Teng Huatao's works since 1995 are almost romantic films, and his representative work "33 Days of Broken Love" also fully reflects his best field is emotional narration. However, he did not choose to focus on love as the core, but to create a "hard science fiction love science fiction movie" with a trial mentality. The result of reality is that in the process of combining the two organically, he has been trying to use blunt and rusty methods to insert science fiction into his emotions. The result of not only fails to achieve the expected results, but also makes him good at love. The narrative part has become a mess, making the theme of the whole movie divided and nondescript.
is a special effects giant that was born under the banner of hard science fiction, but "Shanghai Fortress" has its own ideas. is not in line with the main theme of the near-future style of service, and illogical service is everywhere. Therefore, 's service in "Shanghai Fortress" has almost become the first talk of the audience after watching the movie, which affects the film's political style.
In terms of special effects, the special effects producer hired by "Shanghai Fortress" showed the audience the shortcomings of its Korean team at a glance. The magnificent sci-fi scenes under the big lens, the close-up modeling and animation are shoddy. Its "hard science fiction" road is drifting away, will look at the "Shanghai Fortress" with the same eyes as the high-standard domestic science fiction masterpieces like "The Wandering Earth" and naturally will not be labeled "hard science fiction". Buy it. People in
often say "Peaches and plums are speechless, but they are self-contained", word-of-mouth masterpieces or super IP, even if the high-intensity and high-precision announcements are not carried out in the early stage, a large number of audiences will buy it. But the producer of "Shanghai Fortress" obviously didn't figure out his position. As a film adapted from a novel, the original work of "Shanghai Fortress" itself is also very small, not a big IP. However, in the early stage of the media, the negative reviews and the collapse of word-of-mouth were not able to remind the producer that the focus of the announcement should be shifted from star fans to specific social groups. Still immersed in the joy of earning full attendance when star fans clicked on the show, does not carry out a large-scale launch of reasonable and accurate announcements, but I don't know that this is just picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelon.
All in all, "Shanghai Fortress" really failed in the movie itself, butIt is not necessarily a bad film that has no effect at all. I think in future domestic science fiction creations, people will be more aware that if you want to make a good movie, you can only do real things, and understand that traffic and gimmicks will gradually become inapplicable in the next era. In my opinion, the emergence of domestic science fiction movie alarm bells is inevitable, but under the influence of various factors, "Shanghai Fortress" took the lead. It can be described as a "tragic character", but it is therefore indispensable in the history of Chinese science fiction movies. One stroke.
