, in a corner that no one knew about, director Feng Xiaogang began to act like a monster again.
wrote a long and eloquent article. It is about energy conservation and environmental protection, and it is about Russia and Ukraine. It is like a kind of people who have a good meal at a dinner party. Regardless of the international situation or the toilet in the village without paper, they are confused and go around in circles. , in the end we have to come back to a topic: not appreciating talents, and blaming the sky and the earth.
"The darkness in my heart will eventually come back to me. It is better to live a good life than to hate others to death."
"Be easy-going. You must have friends. You can't catch anyone and fight with someone. You have to keep up with 90% of the people in the village and the company. People make friends instead of enemies."
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According to our understanding of Director Feng, under normal circumstances, posting a short essay like this to express "openness" and advocate "kindness", and strive to appear transparent, can There is a strange atmosphere everywhere, basically there is only one reason, the movie is a hit.
When "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" was released, the response was not good. He thought it was because Wanda didn't schedule the film, so they just wrote "A Letter from Pan Jinlian to Mr. Wang Jianlin", which was so bitter that people and people were chilling.
In today's terms, Director Feng has broken his defense. Moreover, the content of the whole letter is outdated, his thinking is backward, his attitude is arrogant, and his low popularity among passers-by makes it worse.
In contrast, Wang Sicong's response at the time was really straightforward:
"You are only allowed to arrange films to squeeze out others, and we are not allowed to lower the film arrangement because we are not optimistic about your films?"
"To be reasonable, no one follows the money. If your movie does well at the box office, we will definitely increase the number of films according to the programmed process."
also added a smiling face emoticon at the end, full of sarcasm. I just don’t know if people of Director Feng’s generation really think this is an expression of goodwill.
Wang Sicong mocked Feng Xiaogang, "As a director, wouldn't it be better to speak with proven works?"
It can be seen as the mutual quarrel between Huayi and Wanda, or it can also be seen as a young man's distrust of Feng Xiaogang. : You can’t do it anymore.
Although Feng Xiaogang is a veteran, he is at his wits' end when encountering real capital and behaves in an ugly manner.
To be honest, in my opinion, Feng Xiaogang is still very capable whether he is an actor or a director.
"I'm Not Pan Jinlian" did not do well at the box office, but the reviews were not that bad. Then they met Xiao Cui, and Pang Bing became an amateur from then on, but Feng Xiaogang could still have works like "Youth". The box office is more than 1.4 billion, Douban 7.7, the audience definitely approves.
As directors and actors, no matter how much they act like monsters, as long as their work is good, no one will really care.
Feng Xiaogang's current embarrassment is that he hasn't had a really good work for a long time. Zhang Yimou has also been scolded, but he is really good at making movies, as long as he can make one movie, let alone he has more than one movie.
On the other hand, Feng Xiaogang's army was almost completely wiped out after "Youth".
"If You Are the One" grossed 1.5 billion at the box office when it was released in 2009. Feng Xiaogang fully thought that the series could continue its glory, but it turned out to be nothing more than a continuation of the success.
The concept of "Lunar New Year movies" started with Jackie Chan's "Red Zone", but Feng Xiaogang's movies are definitely representatives of Lunar New Year comedies. Those films of his are indeed remarkable and can stand the test of time as they ride the wave of the times.
"Party A and Party B", "Endless", "See You or Be Parted", "A Sigh", "Big Shot", "Mobile Phone", "A World Without Thieves"... almost everything goes smoothly. Until "If You Are the One", everyone still recognized it very much.
Feng Xiaogang may have taken this recognition for granted. If
sells well, it’s his own fault; if
sells poorly, it’s the audience’s rubbish.
Director Feng may not have imagined that one day the combination of him + Ge You + Shu Qi would not be able to sell at the box office. That's Ge You, that's Shu Qi.
From the perspective of an ordinary viewer like me, it’s not that everyone has a problem with the actors and director, or that Yu Shuxin is not very popular, it’s that everyone is simply not interested in the story.
I don’t understand why there is a third part. Wasn’t the second part already abandoned?
"Old Pao" did very well at the box office, but its reputation is no longer good, but Director Feng still misunderstood that everyone likes to see his virtues as an old man in the Beijing circle who can point out the country.
"Northern and South" is an urban inspirational drama, but it ends up stepping on the common people's faults everywhere.
Migrant workers in Beijing commute four hours a day and often work overtime until late at night. The heating in their old small apartment doesn’t work very well, and they have to live in a shared apartment.
In Director Feng's drama, everyone can easily spend hundreds of thousands or millions, start a business if they want to start a business, and have nothing to do except drive a party ladder and drink heavily.
Da Sa Mi throws money everywhere, gives away washing machines when we meet, and a few people get together to open a restaurant without any trouble.
There must be people in this world who live so easily and comfortably, but if you have to tell me that this is the life of a migrant worker in Beijing, the audience will only think you are insulting.
Are you forced to watch you rich people show off your wealth while teaching workers to "take fame and fortune lightly", and then you have to stand up and applaud after it's over?
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The most popular comedy at the end of last year and the beginning of this year was probably "Can't Stop the Annual Meeting". The box office has been rising all the way, and the Douban score is 8.1, which is a pretty good result.
The audience knows how difficult it is to create original local stories, especially comedies.
Even though there are 123 stars of negative reviews on Douban, especially if the bad things seem to be done by traitorous ministers, and the big boss is innocent but was blinded, this irony is still too weak.
But in most of the process, the movie still resonates with ordinary people. All kinds of baggage perfectly represent the current pain points. Anyone who has experienced the workplace can immediately understand the bitterness and sorrow.
Netizens jokingly called the roll call section in the movie "Death Note". This "sense of dislocation" is a common burden on the traditional folk art stage, and it is found in many classic Spring Festival Gala works that everyone loves.
is very traditional, very friendly, and very difficult to write. It must blend well with reality in order to be convincing and make people laugh tacitly.
Therefore, although the movie is full of old jokes, it still gets good reviews. After all, if you can laugh sincerely these days, you don’t need a bicycle. It has indeed aligned the comedy review granularity and opened up the underlying logic of the workplace.
The comedy here has evolved to the black humor of eating 10,000 migrant workers. Over there, Director Feng is still obsessed with "two women fighting to serve one husband" which is boring and obscene. Even Uncle Ge and Shu Qi can't bear it. It's more boring, outdated, and out of date than when Pan Jinlian's tone was yin and yang. Stories like
are essential issues that cannot be concealed by any images, colors, traffic, or concepts. It looked like it was very thoughtful, but I just didn’t want to look at it.
It’s hard to imagine that Director Feng had a work like “Big Shot” that mocked Laman, as well as the realism of “Mobile Phone”. Decades later, it’s still scary to watch.
But Director Feng probably really doesn’t understand what today’s audiences like to watch, and he obviously doesn’t want to understand what the audience’s real tastes are.
cannot keep up with the pace of the people, and simply isolates itself from the people. "Film trash is audience trash", this logic is comparable to the fan circle's "Those who don't like my idols are all stupid and stupid", a perfect closed loop.
Back then he was quite empathic with ordinary people.
"A Day Trip to Dreams" connects all kinds of hypocrisy and hypocrisy in real society in a very absurd way, and countless lines are still hot memes that the audience talks about.
Many lines in "Big Shots" and "Party A and Party B" have become golden sentences that directly hit the pain points 20 years later. Feng Xiaogang is talented.
But now he has joined the class he dreamed of at that time, and his dream has come true. He still wants to pretend to pay attention to the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of ordinary people. No matter how he tries to be tender and affectionate, he seems arrogant and alienated, and he cannot eat meat.
To this day, probably only people who have enjoyed Director Feng's films, such as me, still care about his big break and feel unwilling to see him.
He is not Ang Lee. Even if the movie fails, people still trust the director himself. What's more, Ang Lee's gentle ironing is something he will never have. After all, his wife believes that "it's the male in our family anyway, and it's not us who suffer."
's talent in movies has been exhausted. If he doesn't scold others, he will really be completely ignored.
is like the female star in "Party A and Party B". On the surface, she is tired of everything in the industry, but in fact, she panics when no one pays attention to her.
"The wheel of history is rolling forward, and the trend of the times is mighty. History will only favor those who are determined, those who strive for progress, and those who struggle, and will not wait for those who hesitate, those who are slack, and those who are afraid of difficulties."
Over the years, I have become more and more able to understand The reality of this passage.
Personal glory is always temporary. The east wind of the times will not tell you in advance whether it will favor you or abandon you. The so-called struggle is actually vigilance and compromise all year round.
When you cannot understand reality and are unwilling to change, your era has long gone.
