It was expected that the TVB tour film "King of the King" would be translated, but I didn't expect it to turn so much.
Has been online for three days, in addition to the early media with the help of Xing Yeh's "trial official", Zhang Daming's "King Song Shijie" output point of heat, to the "King of King" premiere, the market has not given any feedback.
Even Douban, who has always "gathered people" in the wind, has only a few short comments, and everyone seems to disdain to complain about the "king of kings" of TVB.
When it comes to this kind of "king" movies and TV dramas, we have to mention Zhou Xingchi.
Indeed, it was his "trial of death officials", "Nine-grade Sesame officials" and "Dead Grass" that lifted such theme stories onto the mainstream stage of the big screen, especially the film "Nine-Grade Sesame officials", which made it directly into the top 250th list of Douban movies, and moved forward every few years.
I remember that a few years ago, the movie ranked 150,000 on the top list, but now it has been promoted to NO:148 on the top list, which is awesome.
In addition to Sing Yeh's three films, in the later period, TVB produced two well-achieving "King Song Shijie", eventually turning the "King" theme film and TV series into Hong Kong classic IP.
But in fact, if we carefully classify, Stephen Chow's best "Nine Sesame Officials" in the "King Theme" is actually not a typical King story.
In the film, Zhou Xingchi plays Bao Longxing, who is an alternate magistrate. There is indeed a great magnificent Fang Tang Jing in the story, but he is obviously a villain.
Generally speaking, "Jiupin Sesame official" is a story of a small magistrate who successfully petitioned a widow, which is completely different from other stories such as "trial of dead officials" and "calculation of dead grass", whose protagonists are famous "king" in history.
I think that the reason why the "trial of dead officials" and "dead grass" with similar themes is not as popular as "nine-grade sesame officials" is largely due to factors outside the story.
The reason why "Jiupin Sesame official" is so good, first of all, the style of Xing Yeh and director Wang Jing is more in tune, such as Bao Longxing fighting with people in a brothel, one against ten, and then the shrimp, soldiers and crabs that go to the seaside will fly everywhere.
There was also the scene where Bao Longxing swallowed the sword and exposed it directly from behind. Only Wang Jing and Xing Ye could play it together.
As a matter of fact, "trial of the Dead official" is also OK, but the director is Johnnie to, an expert in gangster films, which is obviously different from Stephen Chow's film aspirations. Du sir's films generally have political demands, but Stephen Chow always likes to tease human nature with small potatoes.
The paths of the two people are different, superimposed together, even if the "trial of death officials" uses so many stars, the results are not bad.
There are few familiar jokes in this film, and the only praiseworthy thing is that Gu Mei, who likes to have a big haircut, is more charming.
"calculate the Dead Grass" is a descending work of films like Stephen Chow. Compared with other Chow comedies, the nonsense of "trial officials" is indeed much more vulgar and boring, coupled with the fact that the plot is too perfunctory, and it is also a bit of a desire for GE Minghui to take over Stephen Chow. The popularity of the movie is not a little bit worse!
Coincidentally, when Stephen Chow's "calculate Dead Grass" in 1997 was not good, TVB caught up and lifted out the first part of "No. 1 King Song Shijie", and the overall result was very good.
At that time, I remember that a friend said that he had been poisoned by TVB. He painted the "King Song Shijie" several times and then shouted that he wanted to learn the law!
In addition to "King 1" in 1997, "King 2" in 1999 has taken the series to a higher level. although Song Shijie in this film is not very sensual, I still like TV series very much because of Huang Zihua.
But I don't agree with the current edition of "King of the King".
First of all, many people say that TVB wants to use "King of the King" to save the market, which obviously doesn't make sense. You should know that tvp has a clear plan for the schedule. Generally, the TV series broadcast around November 19 in TVB are called Taiqing dramas, which are key publicity targets. You can refer to last year's "News Queen".
However, after the Taiqing Festival, and two months before the Spring Festival, it is normally known as "cannon fodder", and "King of the King" is arranged in this schedule, which shows whether TVB attaches importance to the show.
And "King of the King" is not a traditional TVB comedy. Director Lin Zicong once said that his "King of the King" has both inheritance and innovation of the classics.
The point of his innovation is that he thinks that Song Shijie, a smart character, should have more abilities not only in the court, but also more than he imagined, so his "King of the King" focuses on his peripheral abilities. I can't see the shadow of the "king of the king" movies and TV dramas in the past.
In addition, the starring signal King is suitable for fashion professional dramas, especially for characters who play cool temperament, it is not suitable to play ancient costumes at all, the appearance and figure are all limited, coupled with no new stories, it is a complete failure.
As for the innovation mentioned by director Lin Zicong, how can it be so easy?
That is to say, Zhou Xingchi's own talent is there, and he does not dare to produce any big film works easily in the past few years. This year, he revealed that he will cooperate with the short video platform to jointly develop and operate the "9527 Theatre." it was also announced that the first short play "Golden Pig Yuye" will be released in May 2024.
Therefore, in comparison, this kind of fried rice "King of the King" or save it, waiting to see our Sing Yeh innovative skits, will be more expected.