After 10 days of fermentation of all kinds of information, the box office of Shanghai Fortress has basically stayed around 120 million yuan, and the box office of August 19 was 97.1 million yuan, which has no possibility to rise.
At this time, the director of Shanghai Fortress, Teng Huatao, seems to have let go of his hands and started to review the movie. Recently, he was interviewed by the media “Toxic Movie”, and said frankly that “I used Luhan wrongly, in a type (sci-fi war) that is not suitable for him”, which caused a huge uproar.
In fact, reading through the whole text, director Teng Hua Tao’s main topic is still responsible for the failure of the movie, but it is strange to say that the star of his own movie is not suitable for the genre of “science fiction war” – although Luhan reveals a lot of problems in this movie, it is always strange to get the “verdict” that he is not suitable for a certain genre.
Of course, the director’s intention was to speak for Luhan: “My intuition now is, it’s not that Luhan is bad, but we haven’t made this kind of film before, and we don’t know what kind of appearance the actor will have in it, and whether it’s suitable for an idol like Luhan to play.
But the actual feeling was that the actor was not suitable and the movie had a poor reputation because Luhan simply couldn’t act in sci-fi and didn’t have the ability.
As a multi-billion dollar production, the problems exposed after the failure of “Shanghai Fortress” are actually the most precious – it tells the practitioners to be fearful, but in the end, the failure of the flow star model in the movie market is not one or two days, and Luhan’s existence is never isolated.
When it comes to the issue of hairstyle, director Teng Huatao replied: “I think it might be a (problem), but it’s an irreversible thing, after it’s set and finished, is there any other possibility for me to adjust it?”
Of course it’s hard to adjust afterwards, but as a director, didn’t you think it was a serious problem from the beginning? It even affects the authenticity of the whole movie.
Talking about Luhan’s performance in The Great Wall and Shanghai Fortress, Teng Hua Tao said, “Originally, we intuitively felt that Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow was also a handsome guy, so why can’t I save the world with a handsome guy? How come people can save the world with handsome guys, but not me?”
There are too many slots in this answer. First of all, A Tang is over 50 years old, but he is one of the strongest action stars in Hollywood who takes action scenes to live his life, and Luhan’s ability is not comparable to A Tang’s. Director Teng Hua Tao only sees the word “handsome”. Secondly, has director Teng Hua Tao seen the fine script of “Edge of Tomorrow”, the combination of literature and special effects, and the actors’ performance in place?
I guess not. Director Teng Huatao’s perception of science fiction, and even the conclusion that “special effects and love scenes together is not valid”: “We did shoot a lot of literary scenes, why cut? It’s really contrasted with the special effects, that thing that comes on, and you find it particularly strange how people still have a chance to fall in love when they’re hit like that.”
This is a fallacy.
Almost all science fiction stories, Chinese and Western, have a love line. Did director Teng Hua Tao see that “Wandering Earth” does not have a love line and think it is reasonable to assume that all science fiction movies are like that?
Neo’s final awakening in The Matrix, not a love affair with Trinity?
What about cross-domain virtual and real-life love in The First Player? What about the love of loved ones in Star Trek? What about the love between humans and Bioroids in Blade Runner? What about the understanding of the nature of AI and love in Artificial Intelligence?
Because Shanghai Fortress didn’t produce a love story that combines action and scenes, it’s impossible for special effects and love to coexist?
This statement is the same as “Lu Han is not suitable for science fiction”.
It is true that Lu Han is not the best choice for science fiction movies. It is also true that his acting is not very bright, but a new position, a new haircut, a new role, and some new lines may not be the same as Lu Han in Shanghai Fortress.
Special effects and love are never contradictory, and it’s only your film that is embarrassing.
Director Teng Hua Tao, you emphasize that “no matter from the attitude or technique, you never subjectively want to make a bad thing, just to make a living and make money by sneaking around. I think the public might as well believe that, because who’s going to make something that sucks? Is that bad or stupid?
The subjective desire to do well is a normal part of human thinking. The key is to find out why it wasn’t done well.
But these responses are still a long way from actually identifying the problem, so why not be more sincere since the director has chosen to be vocal?
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