It seems that Master Xing is a "professional producer of bad movies". Every movie will cause great controversy and win the box office, and then he is specially approved by a large number of people as "not funny as before", "no special effects" and "Master Xing has changed and commercialized".
After the filming of the whole film A Chinese Odyssey was completed, Xiying had objections to the finished film. Zhang Zien, then deputy director of fine arts, thought that the film could not represent the artistic pursuit of Xiying Studio, and even thought that A Chinese Odyssey could only be regarded as cultural rubbish.
As for the box office, even in the hottest Hong Kong market at that time, it was 25 million in the end. The Wedding of the Great Sage, which was released more than two months later, ended up with only 20 million. Although it can recover the cost, it is far from Stephen Chow's previous films. In Beijing, A Chinese Odyssey is regarded as a failure case. 1996 In February, the Moonlight Box was released as a winter vacation film, and the Great Sage wedding took place in May. Both films only ended at about 200,000 box office, and some film companies decided to replace A Chinese Odyssey with a domestic film two days later to avoid greater losses.
The man in the photo looks like a dog. No matter what he shot, it must have been a bad film at that time, and countless keyboard men would jump out and say, "This dog has changed. This dog used to make us laugh. Now this dog does nothing but make money! "
Master Xing sees the changes of the world clearly. He never argues, just like the well-known saying, "Look, everyone is scolding him. Did you see who he cursed? "
He changed from a teenager with black hair to a middle-aged man with white hair, and he changed from a dead walk-on to a great director. And why should we be so harsh and let him be a dog, wagging his tail and yelling at you?
Let's take a look at the movies that were scolded before. At that time, Master Xing also suffered from the word "changed".
First, "A Chinese Odyssey", whose reputation and box office were disastrous-
Compared with other comedies, Stephen Chow's A Chinese Odyssey is different. The upper and lower parts add up to nearly 200 minutes, and the elements of time and space travel, past lives, magical powers and so on are intertwined, and even it is difficult for people to clearly understand the structure of Let Go after watching it once or twice. The creative intention behind the screen seems to be only a vague feeling, but the sound that can cause * * is difficult to describe.
The most wonderful thing is that we don't need to know all the ins and outs of the plot, but we can be moved by the feeling conveyed by the movie, as if everyone can get something suitable for them: different people may get different hints and be moved for different reasons, but it is the same to fall in love with the movie.
On the other hand, a Chinese Odyssey is "very China" because it is full of the charm of China culture. There is a story about an international student sitting in a foreign cinema watching an American movie. Although there is no obstacle to his English, it is still difficult for him to appreciate the humor when foreign audiences in the cinema laugh in unison for an interesting conversation. At this time, he remembered the "Sister Guanyin" in Tang Yan's A Chinese Odyssey, thinking that no matter how well he learned Chinese, foreigners could not feel the charm, so he had a sense of cultural estrangement. Thinking that I have actually been "transformed by China culture", I was immersed in the memory of A Chinese Odyssey and burst into tears.
I searched many similar film reviews in Douban, Zhihu and Weibo. Now a Chinese Odyssey has been regarded as a classic and has been deconstructed many times. Who can say it's a bad film? I'm afraid of being sprayed with dog blood.