If at the beginning of the announcement, the order of serving the gods hung everyone's appetite. Then the box office was 273 million, and Douban scored 5.8, but it became an embarrassing ending that could not be concealed.
The company in front of the curtain is big and the team behind the curtain is strong. Why is the box office still on the street?
I watched the film carefully for three times and found problems.
"By Order of God" tells the story of a master of Yin and Yang who crossed the boundary between a shemale and a shemale, and entered into a contract with a group of monsters to protect Pingjing.
Look, this is a story, not how gorgeous the special effects are and how difficult it is to achieve.
The story is the core, and the jokes, special effects and cast are just icing on the cake.
So, is this story told to serve the gods?
On these three points, I feel that there is a big problem.
The first is the plot setting
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As long as the film involves the order of serving the gods, it will basically emphasize one sentence: "Live and die together and never betray." This should be a place that reflects the emotional bond between master and servant, and it is also a place that is particularly easy to create tears. But in the plot, it seems to be chicken ribs.
The skunk swallowed the scaly stone and was finally killed by a mysterious man with a painted sword.
In other words, the death of the waiter has no effect on the owner.
The enigma was thrown off the cliff by the loving mother, and other monsters thought the enigma was dead, and then the tree demon let everyone break up.
This tells us that the death of the master has no effect on serving God.
The unfathomable has become a demon, and other people's servants have disappeared and dispersed.
This shows that betrayal is still ineffective.
As can be seen from the above, the setting gives enough face, but it is actually useless. The so-called "live and die together, never betray" is just a slogan.
At this point, other films have different ways of expression.
In the movie "Devil Boy Comes to Earth", Nezha also had the slogan "My life is up to me, not the sky", but the movie integrated this sentence into Nezha's behavior and thought, and it was particularly weighty when it was finally shouted.
By God's command, there are only slogans but no actions, which completely deviates from the original intention. In the process of watching, the audience can't understand that connection, and naturally they won't be moved by a few empty slogans.
Tushanjian
When Liu Xiang was raging, the Yin and Yang divisions worked together to create such an artifact and successfully defeated Liu Xiang.
The background is very comprehensive, but the practical application is very skinny.
In the movie, Tu Shan Jian played these roles.
1. After Yuan got the Tushan sword, he waved it at the guards several times. Except for adding some color special effects later, it looks useless, just like ordinary weapons.
2. In the yard, mysteriously killed the mutant skunk with his mountain sword.
3. The inscrutable mountain slips killed the Snow Devil.
4. Tu Shanjian didn't work in word wood and was destroyed.
Look, this is the power of the legendary artifact, similar to the role of picking up a wooden stick by the roadside.
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After Xiang Liu was killed, his spiritual strength persisted for a long time and finally became scales. Later, the people in Yinyangliao put the scales and stones in the golden pagoda to look after them.
In many TV dramas or movies, it is generally set that if the villain is too powerful to be eliminated, it can only be sealed in some form. This is also the first setting of scale stone.
Scale stone is the spiritual force of Xiang Liu, representing the power of Xiang Liu. This is the base 2 of the scale stone.
How does this movie handle this scene?
After unfathomably defeating the loving mother, it is easy to crush the balance. In other words, the balance that has spent so much manpower and material resources to protect is so easy to be destroyed. Then what's the point of others trying to protect it?
Here, the unbreakable setting is broken.
After Liu recognized the master, he gained great power as a mystery. If it is unfathomable, although it has gained the experience and ability of Xiang Liu, there are still so many spiritual powers that it will not explode. As the ruler stone of Xiang Liu's spiritual strength, it can be said that it is the source of strength. A loving mother absorbs scales and stones, which is better than a mystery. Otherwise, what is the significance of scales as the embodiment of spiritual strength?
Here, the setting of scale stone representing power has been broken.
As an important prop, the scale stone, because of the different settings, once again strengthened the sense of disobedience in watching movies.
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It is no problem to set the role of God Music as a person who grew up with monsters.
The problem lies in her attitude towards the unfathomable.
When I was a child, the homeless god was saved by several banshees. Later, the people in Yinyangliao either sealed it or killed these banshees. It is also the inscrutability of yin and yang hermits, and they did not start work in this process, so Shenle made up his mind to recognize the inscrutability.
That is to say, I saw my relatives killed by people from Liao Division of Yin and Yang, and I didn't do one of them, so I am grateful to him and even want to follow him at all costs? The unreasonable motives of the characters here are almost broken. If you don't hate my dog, you will never rise to the level of recognizing it as the main thing.
Is the audience's IQ at this level in the eyes of the director? How dare this logic?
Followed by the story line.
After the film was released, many netizens felt cheated, pretending to be Chen Kun and Zhou Xun, but in fact they were boasting.
Judging from the overall plot, the first half is dominated by Qu, and the second half is Chen Kun. But Woman One is definitely not Zhou Xun.
The reason why the audience has been circulating is because the creative team is too greedy and wants to say two lines instead of one.
A few minutes after Chen Kun missed his face at the beginning of the movie, the perspective began to follow Qu Chuxiao.
Generally speaking, due to the limited duration of the film, the film perspective is to follow the protagonist, especially the heroic plot, but also to seize the main characters. However, serving the orders of the gods uses a very strange technique. The mystery is generally found from Yuan's perspective, and the plot of the villain is promoted from a mysterious perspective. This magical operation directly fooled the audience: who is the protagonist?
The order of serving the gods is different from that set by the two men.
In The Crowd, Andy Lau and Sean are two men, but the story revolves around their identity exchange. Although there are villains, the core story is identity exchange.
On the other hand, Chen Kun's story is the main line, but it takes a lot of space to describe Qu's perspective. Finally,
As a result, it is hard to say both lines, and the emotional line is even worse.
Shen Le and Yuan
Judging from the final outcome, both Shen Le and Yuan are happy endings. However, there is too little foreshadowing in front, which leads to no emotion, no love, only sudden when you see this result. The foreshadowing here does not mean the lack of plot and interaction, but the process of two people's feelings warming up.
I suddenly changed my mind before I followed Ingmar's sacred joy.
Yuan, who has always opposed divine joy, suddenly fell in love with divine joy.
Everything was so sudden.
Mysterious white front
The love line between the enigmatic man and Bai Qian has a result but no beginning.
For their early feelings, the film gives us two scenes: one is chanting incantations to protect themselves in front of the golden pagoda, which is unfathomable and suddenly out of control. The other is that the two signed a life and death certificate to serve God. Then when the camera turned, they said they had deep feelings.
Emotional change is a process, not a point. Because they have experienced some things, grown up and changed their minds, they have feelings. However, the operation of "Order of God" is that the two of them have been in contact before, so it is reasonable for me to set them as lovers.
The question is, is it really reasonable?
Logically, it makes sense, but the viewing experience is unreasonable.
The third is combat effectiveness.
It can be said that in order to serve God, there is no division of combat power, and it is entirely up to the creative team to play freely.
For example, Yinyangliao is a wonderful setting.
As the main team to fight monsters, it is responsible for guarding the demon tower. Only one encounter was destroyed by the Snow Magic, including the elders.
At this level, what demon are you catching?
Yin and Yang were in charge of the scale stone for many years, but after years of tempering, the scale stone became stronger, which led to the failure of Tushan Sword. So the question is, is yin-yang therapy to suppress the scale or strengthen the scale?
Snow Magic, who just showed great power in front of everyone, was unfathomable for a second before waiting for a few minutes.
Judging from all kinds of plots, the snow demon is undoubtedly a tool to set off the unfathomable strength, and it also reflects the weakness of the division of Yin and Yang.
Here comes the problem again. How much fighting power is a mystery equal to?
The collapse of the combat effectiveness system has caused the battle scene to have no passion and oppression except special effects.
I can even feel the creative team saying "the plot is not important, just watch the special effects".
The drama "By Order of God" is not intentional, its special effects are quite good, the background of the characters is also there, and the story line is relatively complete. To speak the truth, you can always feel full of disharmony.
This sense of contradiction actually comes from the arrogance of the creative team.
The creative team is shooting movies from their own point of view, rather than thinking about how to behave more reasonably from the audience's point of view. So in the process of watching movies, we can understand what the creative team wants to express, but there is no sense of substitution at all.
The so-called "laughter" and "tears" are not what we feel after reading the story, but what the film creation team has been telling us in our ears: we should laugh here and cry here.
What is this?
The setting of shots such as "punchline", "teardrop" and "special effects" should rely on the story itself to let the audience feel that kind of emotion through the story. What others force is not what the audience wants, and the unsatisfactory box office finally reflects this.