Nowadays, the Chinese-language film market is facing a cold winter, and many internationally renowned film directors have to step down from the "sacred altar" and move towards the "sinking market" of TV dramas. However, just like movie actors, these movie directors who "go down to earth" to shoot TV series are also not accustomed to the local environment.
After three years, the first TV series "Flowers" directed by film director Wong Kar-wai finally meets the audience. Once the series was aired, it received negative reviews due to its slow narrative pace, obscure plot, and confusing historical background. Even the once-praised Wong Kar-Wai aesthetic lens and light and shadow characteristics became useless.
If you take a closer look at the negative reviews from the audience, you will find that the complaints in these negative reviews are all related to the director. The scenes of "Flowers" are full of strong Wong Kar-wai style. Whether it is the sudden slow motion or various close-ups of characters, it all looks like Wong Kar-Wai is showing off his skills. From this, the audience begins to question Wong Kar-wai's aesthetics and even his ability.
"Flowers" was the successor to "Thrush" at that time, and the finale of "Thrush" left a hot spot with a rating of 3. However, after "Flowers" started airing, the ratings dropped again and again, from the peak of 2.6% on the first day to the current peak of 2.3%.
Of course, along with the decline in the ratings of "Flowers" is Wong Kar-wai's reputation. Some netizens even compared Wong Kar-wai and Guo Jingming and called "Flowers" "Little Era 5 Era of Blossoms" to satirize Wong Kar-wai. The filmed "Flowers" is on the same level as Guo Jingming's much-ridiculed "Tiny Times" series.
From the current point of view, Wong Kar-Wai's "going down to earth" to shoot a TV series has resulted in a lot of harm but no benefit. Not only his own net worth, but also his reputation has collapsed. However, this result is not surprising. After all, Feng Xiaogang’s example is already there.
At that time, Feng Xiaogang entered the TV drama industry with great fanfare. He invited an extremely luxurious cast, even his wife Xu Fan joined the cast, and filmed an "all-star cast" film and television drama "North and South", which was widely broadcast. Quietly, with great fanfare, Douban score is 5.0.
After failing in the battlefield of urban themes, Feng Xiaogang turned to the battlefield of suspense themes, and found actors such as Song Jia and Wang Yang to star in a TV series called "Echo". After the show was aired, it also did not create much splash, and its reputation was not very good, with a Douban score of 5.9.
After moving to the TV drama market and ending in embarrassment, Feng Xiaogang returned to his comfort zone and continued to make movies. Unexpectedly, the audience didn't buy his movies anymore. His new film "If You Are the One 3" has received very little discussion, and its box office is expected to be only 100 million. The results of both the TV series and the movie were not good. Now, Director Feng was really in a dilemma!
Two famous film directors have failed in the TV drama battlefield, but there are still people who "do not believe in evil", and he is Zhang Yimou. However, Zhang Yimou did not choose to be a director, but chose to serve as the producer of the online drama "League of Legends". This is my first time filming an online drama, and it is an e-sports subject that I am completely unfamiliar with. Even netizens are sweating for Zhang Yimou.
From Feng Xiaogang to Wong Kar-Wai to Zhang Yimou, a number of famous film directors were all-powerful in the film market when they were young. Unexpectedly, they fell into a "crisis" in their later years. Not only did they have to "come down to earth", but they also had to bear the risk of losing their reputation. I don't know. Does this count as "no guarantee for late holidays" in another sense?
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