, let’s talk about it in the future-"The Legend of Shu"
20 years ago, a Xianxia big-screen work that cost nearly 100 million yuan, in the end only won more than 40 million yuan in the box office. At that time, almost all people who watched this movie gave it to Due to the bad reviews, Old Monster Xu lost the box office for this work, and his reputation collapsed. I don’t know what his mood was at the time, but based on his temperament, he would only curse in his heart, "Fuck him!"
for this movie Many people born in the 80s and 90s will have an impression. As for the post-95s, most people may not have seen it. There is a line in the "Biography of Shu Mountain", which is the sentence I quoted as a preface: Things in the future will be said in the future.
So today, 20 years later, let’s look back at "The Legend of Shushan" again. What kind of work is this? Is it really a bad movie? The answer is obviously no. Just like Stephen Chow’s most classic absurd comedy "A Westward Journey", it only earned more than 50 million box office at the time. Compared with today's film works that easily exceeded one billion, can you say "A Westward Journey" is a bad film? Some people say that you will laugh when you watch it, cry when you watch it again, you will laugh and cry when you watch it, and you will cry and laugh when you watch it again. This is a classic screen work that can penetrate the years.
"The Legend of Shu Mountain" is called a "bad movie", largely because it is too advanced. At that time, martial arts movies were the mainstream. Tsui Hark was the first movie of fairy tales, and the content was indeed too esoteric. Normally, the audience at the time was unable to interpret such a work, so the result of welcoming it is to fall into the sand. The story of
tells the battle between humans, demons, and immortals. It has lasted for hundreds of years. Such a complicated system is difficult to explain clearly in a movie, so it feels that the plot is more chaotic, and the appearance of the characters is more complicated. In a hurry, without telling the last story clearly, a new branch started, which made people feel overwhelmed, and then it was difficult to accept this work.
Even though the plot is unsatisfactory, leaving aside the acting skills of the actors, the biggest highlight of this film should be the special effects and special effects, such as Master Lonely Moon’s Sun and Moon Golden Wheel, White Eyebrow’s Haotian Mirror, Dan Chenzi’s Tianlong Slash, and super cool The Nanming Lihuo Sword of Nanming gave us a huge shock. Using a popular online phrase, it really "blind our eyes." Later, Tianlong became the darling of the game industry, and the wings of Silver Wing also became an indispensable prop in Xianxia games.
In the history of domestic movies at the time, the most used stunt lens was "Shaolin Football" directed by Zhou Chixing, which used more than 400 stunt lenses, while Tsui Hark’s "Shushan Biography" used more than 1,600 stunt lenses, which is exactly "Shaolin Football" is four times as much, which shows how big Xu old monster's handwriting is.
The box office strength of "The Legend of Shu", the collapse of word-of-mouth, is not because the film production is not good, but the main reason is that the birth is untimely, and the concept is too much ahead of the audience at the time. If it is released today, it will definitely be a record-breaking blockbuster. At that time,
only felt that the plot was blurred, the story was absurd, the content was muddled, weird, and uninteresting. Now it seems that it is really sword-like and full of energy. How can such a work not be seen?
