What do you think about the low rating of Zhang Yimou's movie "The City of Golden Armor"?

In my opinion, "A City of Golden Armor" is not the best film directed by Zhang Yimou, but it is definitely an indispensable work.

First of all, what kind of movies do the audience want Guoshi to make?

The audience asked the director to film the classic "Red Sorghum" that pays homage to the classic, the absurd comedy "If You Have Something to Say", the pure love story of the last century "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", or this year's ink painting style "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" film". But none of these works is as good as "A City Full of Golden Armor".

What’s so special about “A City Full of Golden Armor”?

First of all, this is the rarest film about ancient Chinese monarchy in China. Although it is adapted from the famous novel "Thunderstorm", the movie still shows the evil, power struggles and absurd ethical relationships that grew under the feudal dynasty. The current Douban score of "City of Golden Armor" is 5.3, and the IMDb score is 7.0. This huge difference is because domestic audiences do not agree with this kind of subject matter or this kind of story. But if the audience doesn’t agree with it, does it mean it’s not a good movie?

Secondly, this is a huge breakthrough for the national master in style. 2008 was a huge watershed in Zhang Yimou's directorial career. This year he directed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Because of this change, director Zhang Yimou became the leader of domestic industrial films. His film style began to favor grand scenes and industrial production, which later led to the creation of "The Great Wall", "Shadow" and so on.

And "A City Full of Golden Armor" is the first attempt at this change. Whether it is industrial production, special effects, or the use of large-scale scenes, "A City of Golden Armor" far surpasses the previous works of director Zhang Yimou. It can be said that without this "A City of Golden Armor", there would be no Chinese industry The film matures.

The last point, and the most important point, is because I am a Jaylen fan.

The only criticism of the movie is that the story is not good enough and it has a strong commercial atmosphere.

Here I would like to say a few words about "The City of Golden Armor". It is inevitable that it will have a strong commercial atmosphere, and the commercialization of the film industry is also inevitable. It’s not that literary and artistic films must be nobler than commercial films. We can tolerate so many commercial films in Hollywood, but we can’t stand the commercial films made by national teachers? That's too ridiculous.

The story was not told well enough. This reminded me of director Zhang Yimou’s participation in Mr. Gao Xiaosong’s talk show - "Xiao Shuo". Director Zhang Yimou said in the program that he thinks the most important thing about a movie is not to tell a good story, but to see whether the message it conveys is complete. This sentence changed my view on movies, and it is more suitable for the movie "A City of Golden Armor". The amount of information conveyed by this movie is no less than that of "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", "Let's Talk", etc. However, it would be unavoidable for us to deny this movie because of the flaws in the story and ignore the message it conveys. That's ridiculous.