He is a young actor and has experience in filming martial arts scenes. More importantly, his fighting skills must be good-looking and his appearance must be outstanding. The most important thing is his age, not too old.
Looking at it with fingers like this, in fact, there are not many candidates, and the one right in front of us is Wu Di.
He is handsome and young. The most important thing is that Brother Hai has also watched the performance during the skin change. He is indeed handsome and very eye-catching.
Although Wu Di's role in Meng's Orphans is very small, he still bears the responsibility of bringing the plot to a climax.
Therefore, the person who plays the role must also be chosen well, this is a must.
It was precisely because of Brother Hai's original intention that Wu Di was given the opportunity.
Wu Di himself did not say that dedication is a must, and he would not neglect his performance in the movie just because of his personal grudge with Brother Hai.
At best, he would not participate too much. When it was his turn, he was still well prepared.
With only a few lines, he also carefully designed several expressions, trying to perform well in the limited performance space.
There is an advantage in casting Wu Di to play the role of the killer. He has just filmed the martial arts scene, and the directing team is very professional.
He has gained a lot of relevant experience in the skin re-skin. Haige's martial arts team cannot compare with the re-skin re-skin. However, Wu Di's experience can make up for this shortcoming.
Now, Wu Di can be regarded as half a martial arts master in domestic entertainment.
After all, he is someone who has fought against Brother Zhen!
It was really done with fists and feet, and there is no doubt about the strength!
As a result, on Wu Di's side, the specific operations of the martial arts instructor have to be saved a lot, and Wu Di is very familiar with many moves.
It only takes a short period of training to regain that feeling right away. Of course, others may not be so fast, but who gave Boss Wu the system to add to it?
This system is usually useless anyway, and it cannot help Wu Di win the acting award. It is about to part ways, so it is appropriate to do our best to squeeze out its residual value and let it do more things.
If you don't use it, it's in vain.
With the help of the system, Wu Di's martial arts skills naturally recovered quickly and even improved. Not to mention this, the key is to save money.
After all, the martial arts gift package has been purchased before, and the system is still very particular about rules when it comes to transactions.
Since it has been sold, it can be recycled by Wu Di. The system will not interfere, let alone buy and sell it in one go, leaving Boss Wu to suffer a loss.
Wu Di just discovered such good news. He had never used the gift package he had purchased before.
When Wu Di asked to use it again, the system enthusiastically recommended it. For it, this was like borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha.
Anyway, this is also a common rule in the system industry. Even if the system wants to buy and sell again, the small amount of money will not reach its account, so it will be regarded as a favor sold to Wu Di.
Seeing Wu Di's neat punches and kicks, the team members let out bursts of exclamation.
"What great legs and feet!"
"If you were younger, I would definitely take you in as my apprentice." The old martial arts master was bald and wearing white short-sleeves, and was looking at Wu Di in admiration.
Wu Di is also serious. For him, loving what he does is the most basic principle. Since he is still an actor, he must try his best to play this role well.
Although it was definitely a trap for Heige to cast him in this role, Wu Di also had the ability to fill the trap.
Isn't there a saying, if the show sucks, the people won't suck.
Wu Di has been sitting around on the set for the past few days, his mind has not stopped working, and those two bright eyes are watching.
Visible to the naked eye, the quality of the finished products of Meng's Orphans is comparable to that of Master's. In fact, to some extent, it may even be worse than Master's.
Don't forget that fundamentally speaking, Gu Mei is still a TV drama director. Although she has achieved outstanding results, her main business is still filming TV dramas, and her film shooting experience is still very insufficient.
To be able to film such a difficult subject as Master, to be honest, it can be considered a passing grade.
But Brother Hai...
Then the situation we face is completely different.
On the one hand, "The Orphans of Meng" is a complete historical story, with a plot and an ending, and the core also has a hint of intrigue and ups and downs.
It itself has a certain storytelling quality, so for Brother Hai to adapt such a story into a movie, the difficulty is originally much lower than that of a personal biography like Fuzi.
Think about it, in fact, it has always been difficult for biographical films to achieve high box office. No matter what banner you use, how you promote it, and how you market it, this type of film has inherent shortcomings.
It can only be said that with the support of many big-name stars, both the director himself and market forecasts have had unrealistic filter fantasies about the movie Confucius.
We forget that beneath the surface of a high-investment blockbuster, The Master is also a biopic, and biopics have always been difficult to make.
box office?
Ha ha!
Has there ever been such a thing as a biopic?
To be honest, if you take into account the global box office, even among the biopics with a large audience, there are very few that can dominate the box office.
After all, the focus of this type of movie is to tell the life of a celebrity, using the great things he has done as clues to thread the entire movie.
In terms of narrative structure, this type of movie is definitely more streamlined. How do you put what a celebrity did when he was sixty years old into the front part of the movie, and put the contributions he made when he was forty years old?
To the end of the video?
The time structure limits your narrative structure. You can only shoot according to a person's growth trajectory.
In this way, the audience's perspective will be relatively monotonous, which is also the main reason why many biographical movies are obviously good, but they cannot win the favor of the audience, let alone achieve high box office.
After all, no one wants to spend money to go to the cinema and sleep instead!
To be honest, those biographical movies are really powerful in promoting sleep. People who are not very determined will really not be able to withstand them.
From this perspective, Gu Mei is already much more successful than many directors who are obsessed with filming biopics.
Although the box office of Master is not satisfactory, overall it has reached a certain scale.
This is like many literary and artistic films. Since the project was started, it seems that they have no intention of making money. As long as they don't lose money, it is already a merit.
No wonder a well-known fraudulent literary blockbuster, after a series of difficult marketing, actually achieved a box office of 100 million, making everyone from the director to investors smile so hard!
How many dollars does it take to invest in a literary film?
Now that you can actually get a box office of 100 million, how can you still have fun?
That is simply a miracle!
Enough to be recorded in history!
Before this, purely literary films had never achieved such high box office results. Even if the audience who had been defrauded quickly woke up, the box office results fell off a cliff.
But that doesn't matter, as long as they can keep the box office in the first week, it is already a major victory for them!
From this perspective, Gu Dao has actually succeeded, but she is still not satisfied with it. The situation is different with Brother Hai.
Strictly speaking, Brother Hai has never encountered a huge box office failure in recent years, and his movies have always had a guaranteed box office.
Even if it is a bad movie, the box office performance was not bad back then. This cannot be denied.
However, Brother Hai's path is getting narrower and narrower. The problem is not the box office, but the bad reputation.
In the eyes of the public, what kind of person are you, Brother Hai?
You are a respected senior, you are the twin star among the third generation of directors!
You once reached such a high level and were considered a film master in the eyes of many people. How could you slip to that level?
Open your eyes and see for yourself, what is the picture of the steamed bun?
After the failure of the steamed buns, countless movie fans and industry insiders all stared at him!
Let’s see what his next film will be like!
Therefore, with such high attention, there is no need to worry about the box office performance of Mengshi Orphans, there will always be one.
Just word of mouth, it's really worrying.
Brother Hai is neither a fledgling director nor a second-rate director with unstable skills. He is a true master and has won three major recognitions!
World famous guide!
Can the audience have the same requirements for him as Gu Mei?
Now, everyone's appetite has been completely whetted. There is great expectation for the Meng's Orphans.
Not to mention the poor quality, even if it is only slightly flawed, if it is placed in front of the audience, they may not buy it, and they may even criticize Brother Hai.
When the time comes, with Brother Hai's temper, he will naturally not be able to hold back and will definitely jump.
What's more, the quality of Brother Hai's work is really... I can only say that it is certainly better than Steamed Buns.
Anyway, this time, Brother Hai finally told the story clearly, with a beginning and an end. At least this is a major progress.
However, when it comes to quality, it's really not that great.
There are so many stars piled up in vain, and the acting skills of each one are not bad, but the spirit of the story is not captured at all.
And some of the usual shortcomings of Brother Hai's movies have not been effectively eliminated. Basically, they all appeared.
One is that the plots of Brother Hai's movies are often scattered and not cohesive enough. This is an obvious feature.
If you want to make a purely literary film, this probably won't be a problem. Many literary films originally focus on creating an atmosphere, and they also want to express a kind of artistic conception. If we talk about the specific plot, they actually don't pay much attention to it.
There are even some literary and artistic films that are very over-the-top in terms of plot expression. A film can be shot for ninety minutes, which is not a lot of time in terms of length.
But what about the storyline?
That simply doesn’t exist!
All the plots are fragments and fragments. As for what intention the director wants to express, it purely depends on the audience's own understanding.
It's like a chef who makes all the ingredients into semi-finished products and puts them on the table, guess what!
Just take a guess!
What exactly do I want to cook? Haha, I won’t tell you!
What kind of seeking behavior is this?
If the chef dares to do this, he is guaranteed to be kicked out of the restaurant in the next second. However, the director is different. Directors make films, especially directors of many literary and artistic films. They do it purely for love and do not expect to achieve box office results. The public
recognition.
Since people don't expect to make money through movies, they can naturally make something they like. Being willful is inevitable.
As for whether you can understand it or not, that is your business and has nothing to do with me as the director.
As a result, this type of director, who often shoots movies in a hazy and unclear way, has even been put on a pedestal.
He has won the admiration of countless movie fans.
They put these fragmented films together, carefully analyzed the various clues, reassembled them, and made various imaginations.
He looked like he was studying hard, just like Mr. Kong Yiji who was studying how many ways to write the word "Hui".
Movie fans are so enthusiastic, does that prove that movies of this type must do well at the box office?
no no!
Stop being so sentimental.
They are able to gain such popularity largely because their movies often do not have high box office numbers.
They are all praise within a small circle of movie fans, and social awareness is not very high. There are even some movies that were only released within a very small range when they were first released.
It is not a multi-theater public release, but is played in small theaters that specialize in showing art films. The audience is inherently limited.
Therefore, it is very easy to obtain high praise in a small area.
For example, for many genre films, the audience is originally a specific group of people, and it is impossible for all people to accept it.
The most obvious one is horror movies.
As a genre film whose mission is to scare people, although in its own small circle, various judging criteria are also very noisy.
Horror movie fans also analyze clearly what is a good movie and what is a bad movie. There are also sets of theories, evaluation criteria, etc.
But, after all, it was a carnival in a small circle.
Once it is promoted to the public, you can see that many times, purely horror-themed movies are not very popular with the general public.
After all, everyone goes to the cinema mostly to have fun, who goes to the cinema to be scared?
There really aren't many.
Therefore, there will be such a cry, that is, many horror movie fans are complaining about horror movies. On many rating websites, horror movies have encountered very unfair treatment.
In addition to some classic horror films that have reached the top, many films that have a good response in the hearts of horror film fans also have poor scores on the website.
This is all discrimination!
This is all prejudice!
In fact, it is the movie fans who are overly concerned. They clearly know that horror movies are for small-scale self-pleasure, but they often have the illusion that moviegoers on all platforms are very enthusiastic about horror movies.
In fact, there are so many moviegoers who simply can't stand horror movies, and even those who are timid cannot accept this type of movie.
Once they are stimulated, they will retaliate and give the movie a low score. For them, it is just a movie, why should they be scared?