The title contains three keywords that popped into my mind after watching "Women Are Not Bad". If you need to continue listing, OK - postmodern, nonsensical, MTV, platter, copycat... In short, I can't find a few good words to describe it. Judging from the film's lineup, production team, publicity and audience expectations: I personally think it is a complete failure. The level is only about the same as the shoddy "Peach Blossom Luck", and as an MTV platter it is not as good as "Love Left and Right" - at least the latter has a few familiar good songs.
Of course, if it is just for fun and entertainment, and if you happen to be an audience accustomed to Korean dramas and Hong Kong movies, "Women Are Not Bad" can still pass the test, with excellent production, beautiful pictures, and a complete plot. , many small details also show their care. However, this is the joint work of Kwak Jae-yong, the dean of Korean youth romantic comedy, and Tsui Hark, the genius of Hong Kong martial arts fantasy film - just such a level is really outrageous! I thought: Those who would find this film enjoyable must either have a tolerant mind like Buddha, or have a mental age of under 20 years old
Let’s start with exaggeration. It seems that Guo Zaiyong's influence is not only in screenwriting. Not only is Tieling an authentic "Savage Series" production, but also various surreal expression techniques and lens switching, as well as off-screen cartoon text narration, fantasy war scenes, etc., are all inherited From the usual routines of Korean comedies: exquisite, exaggerated, artificial, and then coupled with Hong Kong-style nonsensical performances, an urban love comedy between men and women that is said to take place in Beijing has been stewed with the Korean Wave and Hong Kong flavors and turned into a drama. No sense of regional belonging can be found in this international farce. Perhaps because I watched the Cantonese version, I couldn't convince myself that it was a group of people from Beijing acting out a story about Beijing. Without the sense of reality, using such a surreal and exaggerated technique to tell those love scenes that are very life-like in reality, how can the audience get into the drama? If I hadn't been in a theater, I would have had a hard time watching it.
Reflect on this: The reason why the review is so low has a lot to do with my personal aesthetic habits towards comedy: I ??have never thought that the nonsensical exaggerated body shape and funny language have anything to do with the word "humor" , it’s funny at best. For example, being funny is like making you laugh when you see "a fat woman falling into a ditch". It is an intuitive physiological reaction. Humor, on the other hand, expresses the absurdity of things quietly, making you think for 0.1 seconds before laughing out loud. The latter will naturally be much more enjoyable and more memorable. For example, in Crazy Stone, Guo Tao looked at the Nikon lens cap for a long time and said, "Nike also makes cameras?" Another example is what Forrest Gump said: I invested in a small company, but I don’t like its trademark: it’s a bitten apple...
Unfortunately, in this movie "Women Are Not Bad" , not only is there no trace of humor, even the funny scenes are lackluster. The scattered laughter that occasionally echoes in the cinema is particularly harsh. It can be heard that the owners of the laughter are a group of little girls - this is a blessing
The distributor of the film pointed out a clear path: hurry up and organize screenings in major, medium and small colleges and universities across the country! With your current wisdom and post-modern fashion elements, there is still hope for fooling the flowers of the motherland! However, the title may need to be changed to "Girl Looking for Love".
I saw in the report that Tsui Hark admitted: As long as the audience is happy, it doesn't matter how "un-Tsu Hark" the film is! I finally understand that this is the embarrassment of this commercial New Year film: Why do the screenwriters from South Korea, the director from Hong Kong, and the cast mainly from Hong Kong and Taiwan choose to interpret an unfamiliar and inconsiderate Beijing love story? It’s very simple. Mainland China has the largest audience market share! If you don’t try to cater to the taste of the God of Wealth, who is the most numerous, why don’t you make a New Year’s film and still want to win the Palme d’Or? However, success means catering, and failure also means catering. If you cater well, you will naturally gain both fame and fortune. If you cater poorly, you will inevitably get flattered on the horse's legs. It's like being stuck in the shoes, working for a long time in vain, and the audience will feel unhappy.
I wonder if audiences in Guangdong will give it good reviews? I think audiences in most areas will think it is too fake and the product is simply wrong. The Wuliangye bottle contains Remy Martin. Although it is quite expensive, it doesn’t taste like that!
Why is "Cape No. 7" so good-looking? Because it is a Taiwanese drama that can only be produced by "locals". Why is "Farewell My Concubine" so awesome? That's because Chen Kaige's perceptions of drama, the Cultural Revolution and human nature in the first half of his life were all integrated into it! Just like Peking Opera, what the movie wants is the original flavor! Therefore, Kwak Jae-yong can produce pure Korean love classics "Savage Girl" and "Love Is Provident", but he has participated in multinational army works: "Daisy", "My Robot Girlfriend" and this "Women Are Not Bad", All have been criticized to varying degrees. The integration and reflection of different cultures cannot be just pulled together to achieve a positive interaction. In most cases, the method of stewing in one pot will only destroy the taste of each, and stew the original good ingredients into a pot of hodgepodge that cannot be served on the table.
According to the principle of being kind, no matter how bad the movie is, you can’t beat it to death with a stick! If you try hard, you can still find some advantages: for example, "Women Are Not Bad" at least tells a relatively complete story, unlike "The Luck of Love" and "Love Left and Right", the story cannot be justified, so it is simply not round: I am A platter of brine and a collection of sketches, whoever you like can go and enjoy it!
At the beginning of the story, the three heroines had a parallel montage, each of which was wonderful in its own way. It was not until the core prop of the film, the "pheromone" patch, was successfully developed by Zhou Xun that they were able to use pheromones in a restaurant. Putting the three clues together. Explain: The so-called pheromones are chemical reagents extracted from human urine and other substances: as long as like-minded people smell matching pheromones, they will fall in love with each other instantly (but Zhang Yuqi’s performance after smelling it in the film It’s more like taking an aphrodisiac!) This is a theme of human nature and emotion that deserves to be explored, but the exaggerated performances and plot in the movie cannot be explored in depth. It can only be used as a driving force to promote the development of the farce, and it ends inexplicably in the end. At a brain-dead rock concert. The director tells us: Lovers can get married without pheromones! Children, go home, where are the pheromones? Brother Xu and Teacher Guo are teasing you...
In my opinion, two of the four New Year's films for urban men and women with similar themes at the end of this year have been killed, and "Love Left and Right" can be regarded as barely passing. Judging from the trailer, "If You Are the One" is still worth looking forward to. After all, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Guofu are the two most trustworthy people in Chinese comedies that are humorous rather than comical. Also, "Crazy Racing", which has been delayed, is also expected to be released by the end of the year. I would like to see if Ning Hao has exhausted his talents or will he go one step further?
Finally, I would like to borrow the explanation from teacher Luo Yonghao’s blog: to warn viewers who want to laugh heartily during the more than 2 hours of watching "Women Are Not Bad": "There are no quotations. No jokes, no laughter, you are so funny!”