expected TVB's tour film "The King of the King" to be flipped, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful.
It has been three days since it was launched, except for the early stage ** with the help of Xing Ye's "Judge of the Dead" and Zhang Daming's "Song Shijie", to the premiere of "The King of the King", the market has not given any feedback.
Even Douban, which has always "gathered people's heads" when there is wind and grass, only has a few short comments, and everyone seems to disdain to complain about TVB's "King of Kings".
Speaking of this kind of "king" film and television drama, we have to mention Stephen Chow.
Indeed, it was his "Judge of the Dead", "Jiupin Sesame Official" and "Counting Dead Grass" that brought this kind of theme story to the mainstream stage of the big screen, especially the movie "Jiupin Sesame Official", which directly entered the Douban movie TOP 250 list, and the ranking goes up a few places every few years.
I remember that a few years ago, the movie was ranked 150+ in the top list, but now it has been promoted to NO: 148 in the top list, which is very bullish.
In addition to Xing Ye's three movies, TVB also exported two good "Song Shijie" in a row, and finally turned the film and television dramas with the theme of "King of Champions" into a classic IP in Hong Kong.
But in fact, if we carefully classify them, Stephen Chow's "Jiupin Sesame Official", which has the best results in the "King of Champions", is actually not a typical story of the King of Champions.
Bao Longxing, played by Stephen Chow in the film, is an alternate magistrate, and there is indeed a big man named Fang Tangjing in the story, but he is obviously a villain.
"Jiupin Sesame Official" is generally a story of a small magistrate successfully petitioning for a little widow, which is completely different from other stories such as "Judge of the Dead" and "Counting Dead Grass" where the protagonist is a famous and surnamed "King of Form" in history.
I privately think that the reason why "The Judge of the Dead" and "Counting the Dead Grass" with similar themes are not as popular as "Jiupin Sesame Official" is largely due to factors outside the story.
The reason why "Jiupin Sesame Official" is so well filmed, first of all, Xing Ye and director Wang Jing's style is more compatible, like Bao Longxing fighting with people in a brothel, fighting with one against ten, and then going to the beach to fry shrimp soldiers and crabs will fly everywhere.
There is also the bridge where Bao Longxing swallowed the sword and exposed directly from the back of his buttocks, which only Wang Jing and Xing Ye can play together.
"The Judge of the Dead" is actually okay, but the director is gangster film expert Johnny To, and Stephen Chow obviously has some differences in movie appeals, Du Sir's movies generally have political demands, but unfortunately Stephen Chow has always liked to ridicule human nature with small people.
The number of paths of the two people is different, and even if "The Judge of the Dead" uses so many big stars, the results are not embarrassing or embarrassing.
There are almost no familiar jokes in this movie, and the only thing that is commendable is that Aunt Mei, who likes to wear a big hair knot, has a stronger personal charm.
"Counting Dead Grass" is a downward work of movies like Stephen Chow, compared with other Zhou's comedies, the nonsense of "The Judge of the Dead" is indeed much more vulgar and boring, plus the plot is too perfunctory, and I kind of want Ge Minghui to take over Stephen Chow's meaning, the movie is not a little bit worse!
Coincidentally, when Stephen Chow's "Counting Dead Grass" in 1997 did not perform well, TVB caught up and brought out the first part of "Song Shijie", and the overall results were very good.
At that time, I remember that a friend said that after being poisoned by TVB, he brushed this "Song Shijie" several times, and then shouted that he wanted to study the Fa!!
In addition to 1997's "King of Shapes 1", 1999's "King of Shapes 2" brought this series to a higher level, although Song Shijie in this part is not very good, but because of Huang Zihua joining, I still like TV series very much.
And I don't agree with the current version of "The King of Kings".
First of all, many people say that TVB wants to use "The King of the King" to save the market, which obviously doesn't make sense, you must know that TVP has a clear plan for the schedule, and generally the TV series broadcast around TVB Taiqing November 19 is called Taiqing drama, which is the key publicity object, you can refer to last year's "News Queen".
However, after the Taiwan Celebration and two months before the Spring Festival, it is normally called "cannon fodder", and "The King of the King" is arranged in this schedule, in fact, it can be seen whether TVB attaches importance to this drama.
There is also "The King of the King" is not a traditional style of TVB comedy, director Lin Zicong once said that his "King of the King" has both the inheritance of the classics and its own innovation.
His innovation lies in the fact that he thinks that Song Shijie, a smart character, should not only be able to be in the court, but he may be more than he imagined, so his "King of the King" focuses on his peripheral abilities, and there is no longer a shadow of the "King of Shape" film and television dramas in the past.
In addition, the starring signal king is suitable for fashion professional dramas, especially the characters with cool temperament, who are not suitable for ancient costumes at all, and there are restrictions on appearance and figure, coupled with a story with no new ideas, the failure is very complete.
As for the innovation that director Lin Zicong said, how can it be so easy?
This year, it was revealed that he would cooperate with the short ** platform to jointly develop and operate the "9527 Theater", and announced that the first short drama "Golden Pig and Jade Leaf" will be launched in May 2024.
So in comparison, this kind of fried cold rice "The King of the King" is still provincial, waiting to see the short drama innovated by our star master, and there is more expectation.