In March of this year, "The Legend of Yan Chixia Hunting Demon" starring Shi Xiaolong was broadcast on the Internet only one day after it was released. In the end, word-of-mouth at the box office collapsed, sparking heated discussions among netizens about "outdated child stars".
Last year, Jun Cao, who was born as a child star, asked with red eyes, "Am I still suitable to be an actor?" Although several directors expressed their opinions, they did not change the result of his elimination.
Similar to Shi Xiaolong and Cao Jun, there are still many smashing child stars, but now they have lost high-quality resources, such as Hao Shaowen, Xie Yunshan, You Haoran...Although they hope to become popular again, But there has never been a big wave. However, these people do not include Xie Miao.
In 1994, Xie Miao became popular with the "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" cooperating with Jet Li. Although the Hong who played in the play was young, he was a man of veteran and respectful martial arts, leaving a deep impression on the audience. Later, he starred in "Peter Pan", "God of Gamblers 2", "Red Dragon" and other works, establishing his status as a popular child star.
Later, Xie Miao gave up the performance and returned to school, which caused his early audience to gradually disappear. When he returned to the show business circle again, he found that the market and resources had changed a lot. However, Xie Miao has never given up acting. Now he is turning to the Internet and has created many excellent works, which are gradually becoming popular.
In 2018, the online movie "Dakhan Thirteen Generals: Bloody Battle in Shule City" starring Xie Miao won 12.71 million box office and won the best actor award in the online film unit of China Yinchuan Online Film Festival.
In 2020, "Xin Qiji 1162" starring him won 15.28 million box office.
Later films such as "The Monkey of the Gods" and "The Fall of the Demon in Shaolin" also achieved good results.
It is reasonable to say that Xie Miao has a firm foothold in the field of network science.We should cherish feathers and bring more high-quality works. However, the two online movies "The Boss" and "The Awakening of Master Ip Man", which were released in succession this year, reflect the problem that Xie Miao did not pay enough attention to the choice of scripts.
If "Lady Boss" was endorsed by Wang Jing and Laquer, Xie Miao relaxed his vigilance, then the recently released "Master Ip Man's Awakening" is a work with no highlights, this " Xie Miao can only carry the pot.
"Master Ip Man Awakening" was released for 4 days, and the box office was only 1.37 million.
Netizens give them a high degree of uniformity, 90% are one star and two stars.
"super ugly"
"spicy eyes"
"Why insult Ye Wen?"
Procrastination, failure of characterization, and perfunctory play.
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The main line of this movie is Ip Man, who is studying in Hong Kong. He accidentally smashed the British to kidnap and traffic Chinese women. Driven by justice, Ye Wen drew his sword to help, and his thoughts were further sublimated.
From the plot point of view, "Ip Man Awakening Master" and Yen Zidan's "Ip Man" series have many similarities, which also include national justice and conflict of positions, but the only difference is the timeline Push forward.
The Yen Zidan version puts the timeline after Ip Man's marriage, and Master Ip Man's awakening is still young. Although it is a way of changing the soup without changing the medicine, it is also acceptable to some viewers who like kung fu movies.However, the setting of the story and plot exposed the carelessness of the director and screenwriter.
In the early stage of the movie, a large number of plots were used to portray the relationship between Ye Wen and Afeng and Xiaochan, whether it was a plot to eat or celebrate a birthday, or a plot to make money by pulling a cart. The information revealed in these plots may be explained clearly in a few sentences in other movies.
As for the depiction of the villain, there were only a few scenes in the first few minutes, and the middle was when he was kidnapped by Ye Man. What is even more puzzling is that one in the early stage has an advantage over one, and it does not promote the development of the later stage.
Xiaochan was kidnapped because she wanted to be an actress. Even if she didn't have a good impression of Ye Wen, as an acquaintance Ye Wen would still save what he should save. At the beginning of the movie, a man punches and kicks the robber, making him appear weak and unwise in front of the British. His domineering and fear of hard work have no practical significance in promoting Ye Wen's "awakening". However, the British with few cameras are the real enemy that Ip Man must face.
The most prominent problem of this movie is that there is no priority and the plot is delayed. Even if you drive at twice the speed, you will feel that the plot is very slow. Because the preliminary preparations have no practical meaning, so in the end, directly defeating the British is over. But what is even more embarrassing is that even if the play is over, Master Ye Man is very perfunctory.
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Ip Wen is playing against the British in the arena. According to the normal process, I can't play in the early stage. It will be more interesting to turn it over in the later stage, but it must be logical.
The most direct treatment in the movie is that Ye Wen was crushed by his opponent in the early stage, and when he was about to be killed, he closed his eyes and beat his opponent to the ground. What is the logic? It's too obvious.
Finally, Ye Man broke into the enemy’s lair,Defeated all of them alone. Facing the combined offensive of the British and Americans, Ye Wen defeated them both with no effort.
The consciousness in front of Ye Wen can explain the sublimation of his thoughts, but why should his martial arts improve? Not a super Saiyan transformation. And the setting of the late losers conflicts with the previous forcible addition. If Ye Wen was so strong, he would be able to defeat the enemy in the first place, and he didn't need to bend over behind him.
In recent years, many types of online movies have erased the traffic of classic movies. Among them, "Ip Man's Kowloon City Village", "Master of Ip Man", "Ip Man's Juvenile Critical Moment", etc., are all below the passing line without any accidents, only three to four points.
The reason why many obscure directors love to spoil traffic is obvious: classic movies are originally based on audiences. Compared with rewriting a story, the characters, plot, and logic do not need to be pondered, which gives a lot of new ideas. The director provided mobile phone training courses. It's just that careless works are destined to have no good results from the beginning. After all, the audience is not stupid.
The only surprise is that Xie Miao, who has been working on the Internet for many years, will actually take over this unintentional script. This is especially detrimental to his image for some people who are turning red. In fact, Xie Miao has been working hard in recent years, and many works are released every year. However, it is more conducive to long-term development to ensure quality than to brush the sense of existence by volume.
In a few days, "Smoke at Humen" starring Xie Miao will be released. I hope he can use this drama to restore some reputation and image. After all, once an actor is labeled a "bad movie", it is difficult to take it off.
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