In recent days, the popularity of the Chinese sci-fi blockbuster "Shanghai Fortress" has risen again, and there is a tendency to come back to light. Many people may think that "Shanghai Fortress" is like Zhou Xingchi's "Western Journey", the praise has counterattacked? In fact, this is not the case. The resurgence of "Shanghai Fortress" is due to a quote from science fiction writer Liu Cixin.
On November 3, science fiction writer Liu Cixin was interviewed and talked about the failure of "Shanghai Fortress". He believed that this was just an ordinary and normal science fiction film, and it was not as unbearable as stated on the Internet. Douban scores so low. It is abnormal. This is a kind of negative feedback from the Internet. The lower the score, the lower the score. Liu Cixin believes that "Shanghai Fortress" may be a victim.
Can Liu Cixin's words be understood as dissatisfaction with the low score and low box office of "Shanghai Fortress"? In fact, Liu Cixin can indeed express his thoughts in this way, because Liu Cixin is a famous science fiction writer. "Three-body" and "The Wandering Earth" are his masterpieces. The film adapted from "The Wandering Earth" has won 4.6 billion box office. It can be said that Liu Cixin represents an authority in the field of science fiction.
But Liu Cixin still forgot. He is just a writer, not a director and screenwriter. The core director of a movie is the key. The screenwriter is the core of the film plot. As long as the actors complete their tasks, a movie will not be too bad. However, "Shanghai Fortress" made all these mistakes.
In China, sci-fi movies have always been the last type of film that Chinese directors want to touch. sci-fi blockbusters are generally produced abroad, and the emergence of "Flow Earth" does give people strong expectations for domestic sci-fi movies. "Shanghai Fortress" lasted 6 years and invested 300 million yuan, which made people have a strong interest in it. At the beginning of the show, everyone wanted to see it, but Lu Han's hair, romance, plot, and blunt story The plot, these all disappointed the audience. Is this just a fact that can be changed by following the trend and making a low score?
Douban scores do have a lot of water. This is an indisputable fact. Even Wu Jing’s "Climber" was given more than 2,000 negative reviews before it was released. Therefore, "Shanghai Fortress" does not make sense without water, but Wu Jing's "Climber" still won a box office of 1 billion, while "Shanghai Fortress" was only 120 million. This shows that the box office of a film does not depend on Douban's score, but on the reputation of the audience.
Zhou Xingchi's "A Journey to the West" was released in 1995. Once it was released, it was overwhelmed by bad reviews and was even rated as one of the top ten bad films. However,
gradually counterattacked in 1997, and now "A Westward Journey" has become As one of Stephen Chow's classic movies, it is not much better than "Nine Pins of Sesame Official", and has even become a masterpiece of nonsensical movies.
If Hong Kong's movies are not comparable, then look at "The Legend of Journey to the West" which was rated as a bad movie in China.
"Journey to the West" starring Liu Xiaolingtong back then can be described as a classic among the classics. Now it will be rebroadcasted in the summer vacation. Then, "Journey to the West", which was launched in 2000, became the target of the audience. Cao Rong, who starred in Monkey King, is called "Facial Paralysis" Monkey King. The special effects of martial arts are to repeat the same actions back and forth. I believe that many ordinary people can create them with software. The sound effects are reversed from left to right. It can be said that there is no later stage. And looking at the computer special effects staff list, the lead actor Cao Rong is listed. It turns out that he did it himself.
The word-of-mouth of "Journey to the West" was extremely bad, but what about now? Douban score has counterattacked to 7.6 points, what is the reason? Most of the reasons given by netizens are first-class scripts, second-rate actors, and influential post-production. Indeed, the film was completely dragged down by the actors and the later stage, but none of these can offset the excellent plot. The plot of the whole drama is ups and downs, and the plot is compact. At first glance, the screenwriter turned out to be the famous screenwriter Qian Yanqiu, he is the "Detective Di Renjie" Maker of TV series.
Good film and television dramas will always have a counterattack one day. Many shortcomings can be seen from "A Story of Journey to the West" and "Post-Journey to the West", but these shortcomings cannot conceal their advantages. The outstanding advantages give them a day When there was a word-of-mouth counterattack, there was no hope in "Shanghai Fortress".
Although Liu Cixin is also kind, he hopes that more people will pay attention to science fiction movies and have more votes.Investors and directors come to try a lot of sci-fi movies. Only in this way can domestic sci-fi movie production become more proficient, and finally better Chinese sci-fi movies will appear, but blindly supporting "Shanghai Fortress" will not let the audience Satisfaction will not let its failure be redeemed, it will only make people more offensive.
I believe "Wandering Earth" is the beginning of Chinese science fiction, "Shanghai Fortress" is not the end, it is just a small episode. Only a truly well-known movie is a truly good movie. Blindly supporting or discrediting will not change the audience’s true feelings about the movie. A good movie will never be buried. Is "Shanghai Fortress" good or bad? Let time prove everything.
