Wu Yusen's films have a strong personal style, which makes the audience unforgettable, and his classic film "The True Color of Heroes" is even more enduring.
However, although director John Woo is famous and powerful, he is still the first China director to break into Hollywood and is regarded as an internationally famous director.
However, in the past two years, the reputation of director John Woo has gradually declined, and the audience no longer buys it.
How did John Woo step down from the altar? Today we will tell the story of director John Woo.
Because of a movie by John Woo, 10 Hollywood dare not use China as the director.
The biggest feature of Wu Yusen's films is "violence aesthetics", which netizens should have heard of.
Although he only has a middle school education, the films directed by John Woo are full of violence and romance, which makes the audience feel a little sad in the bloody pride.
It was quite lonely in the desert, and the yen in Changsha fell.
In fact, John Woo was not like this at first. Wu Yusen was also a young director who drifted with the tide in his early years.
It can be said that John Woo started badly. The first film he directed in his life, Tender Feelings of the Iron Man, was not only put in the film library for two years, but also released after a lot of revisions. After the release, the box office and word of mouth were defeated.
Looking through Wu Yusen's work experience, his early films were all low-budget films, and many of them were comedies.
This experience made it impossible for the audience to think that John Woo could later shoot such blockbusters as Crossing the Ocean and Red Cliff.
At that time, John Woo was also confused. He wanted to make some movies with style, but the box office was not good. He had to listen to the company and make a comedy.
Although John Woo didn't want to, he had to bow his head under the eaves.
John Woo, unwilling to make comedies, 1986 joined Tsui Hark Film Studio.
With the support and help of Tsui Hark, John Woo made a gunfight film "The True Color of Heroes" that made the audience crazy.
This film is not only very famous in China, but also highly sought after internationally. The theme song "Love of the Year" in the film is still used as background music by variety shows in some countries.
John Woo took great risks when he filmed The True Color of Heroes, because in this film, John Woo boldly tried the style design of violent aesthetics, which was a desperate attempt.
Besides Leslie Cheung, the protagonist of this film was also very famous at that time. Tommy Tam was abandoned by Shaw Company when he was old, and Chow Yun Fat was also called "box office poison" at that time.
So this combination is really unexpected. After the film was released, it was so successful that John Woo successfully created his own aesthetic style of violence.
Wu Yusen made a beautiful turnaround with "The True Color of Heroes" and became famous in one fell swoop.
Next, almost every movie of John Woo is full of tension and romance. There is always a white dove in the intense scene.
Different from other internationally renowned domestic directors, John Woo has a more powerful title, "The first China director to make a career in Hollywood".
At the end of 1980s, John Woo made the film Two Men in Hot Blood, which was once again a great success and even influenced Chinese people all over the world.
Zhang, a good friend of John Woo, used this movie to open the door for John Woo to enter Hollywood.
From 65438 to 0993, John Woo started to go to Hollywood. Although his Hollywood debut was rather bleak, he succeeded with Broken Arrow.
Hollywood saw the magic of this China director, and his films have a market in the world.
In particular, the films Face Off and John Woo, on the basis of his personal violence aesthetics, also incorporated international elements of Hollywood, and Nicolas Cage's interpretation, became the box office champion of the month in the United States.
Time magazine also named FACE/OFF as one of the "Top Ten Best Films of the Year", and John Woo was in the limelight for a while in Hollywood, enjoying honor and applause. So John Woo made persistent efforts to maintain the momentum and become an international director, and the result was terrible.
People always say that the sequel to a classic film and television work is the most difficult to shoot. If you are not careful, you will become a dog's tail and a mink, and Wu Yusen has also been cursed. The film made by Wu Senyu is called Mission Impossible 2. How bad the reputation of this movie is.
Up to now, Mission Impossible series I * * * has made six films, and many film critics have analyzed and explained this film. No matter who comments, it's unfortunate that Mission Impossible 2 directed by John Woo is always at the bottom.
1999 Paramount Pictures is preparing to shoot the sequel to the classic movie Mission Impossible. Because the first film shines brilliantly, the company is also very cautious for fear of losing its reputation. Therefore, under a thousand choices, Paramount chose John Woo, who has been in the limelight for the past two years. John Woo was lucky enough to direct such a film, and naturally he agreed with joy.
In the film, John Woo naturally sticks to his consistent style. As a result, Mission Impossible 2 won the box office championship that year, but its reputation collapsed.
Because many viewers are watching the good impression of Mission Impossible, after watching the second movie, they found that the gap is so big.
Many viewers said that their first thought after watching the film was that it was finally over ..... This was not a positive comment on the film.
In the exciting movie, the movie has been going on for 30 minutes, and the actor Tom is still flirting with the actress. The audience doesn't know what the movie is about. Needless to say, John Woo's favorite white dove scene in the film.
What the audience can't accept most is that at the end of the film, Tom Cruise and the villain have a slow-motion duel. I don't know. I thought I would watch the duel in Hero again. John Woo's reputation began to collapse, and it was irreversible. And because of the failure of Mission Impossible 2, netizens directly don't believe Mission Impossible 3, and the box office is not so good.
Because of the failure of Mission Impossible 2, Hollywood stopped letting China direct action movies for nearly 10 years, and no longer trusted China. John Woo is mainly responsible for this.
John Woo spent 65,438+03 years in Hollywood and was finally forced to return to his hometown to film.
After returning home, Wu Yusen was still very popular at that time because some domestic audiences didn't know the inside story. After all, he came back from Hollywood, the great director, Niu.
So the film and television company spent a lot of money to invite Wu Yusen to make the red cliff series, which was divided into two episodes because of the long film time.
There are also many superstars in Red Cliff, such as ZhangFeng yi, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Lin Chi-ling, and the lineup is very luxurious.
As a result, the audience walked out of the cinema and thought, what is this? The audience thinks that it may be because it is divided into two episodes, so the first episode has a good reputation and the second episode has a bad reputation.
It was not until the audience finally couldn't help it after watching "Under the Red Cliff" that they swore in succession. This movie is terrible. Now online search can also find the relevant content of the film. It can be seen how bad John Woo's reputation was. Although John Woo's personal style made the film fail again, he didn't lose heart. In 2003, he filmed the war blockbuster Taiping Wheel.
This time, because of the length of the film, it is divided into two parts. As a result, the audience's reputation was not as good as that of Chibi, and John Woo lost again.
Now the audience can't accept John Woo's personal style, and John Woo still insists on it, which makes him less and less appealing and eventually falls off the altar.
Wu Yusen's character is also a failure, and his character is also embarrassing.
I wonder what impression you netizens have on director John Woo? Do you still like John Woo's movies?