The box office was a fiasco, costing 65.438+0.2 billion yuan. Jet Li tried his best, but the joint efforts of the three superstars could not save him.

Speaking of Jet Li, he is a myth in everyone's mind. A Shaolin Temple made Jet Li famous. At that time, the "Huang Feihong" series fascinated many young and old audiences, and his brilliance was out of control. It can be said that any movie starring Jet Li is a guarantee of box office. However, there are exceptions to everything. Although there was a movie starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro, the box office performance was disappointing. It was the Warlords released in 2007.

The Warlords directed by Chen Kexin is adapted from Stinging Horse. Based on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the Qing Dynasty, this film tells the grievances of three sworn brothers, Pang Qingyun, Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang. Finally, due to their different positions, driven by fame and fortune, the three turned against each other and became enemies, which eventually led to tragedy. Judging from the award-winning record, The Warlords is a success. He won eight awards in the 2008 Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Director, Best Film and Best Photography, and Jet Li won the Oscar Award for Best Actor. In the 45th Golden Horse Awards, The Warlords also won many awards, and won three Golden Horse Awards: Best Plot, Best Director and Best Visual Effect.

The investment in the whole film is as high as 200 million yuan, but its fund allocation is the most shocking in history. The salaries of the three major actors account for almost the whole investment. At that time, the media broke the salaries of several leading actors. Jet Li is 65.438 billion yuan, accounting for nearly 65.438+0/2 of the total investment, Andy Lau is 65.438+0.6 million yuan, and Takeshi Kaneshiro is 65.444. When the news came out, everyone was shocked. Jet Li's salary was so high that it also set a new record before Jet Li's. Many people don't understand why movies spend a lot of money on actors.

In the face of public opinion, Director Chen Kexin expressed his views. "Without Jet Li, we dare not spend more than $40 million to make such a China film. Jet Li is the guarantee of global box office! " Director Chen also said that Jet Li's acting in "The Warlords" was already a friend's price. According to his international status in Hollywood at that time, the filmmakers had to pay Jet Li 65.438+0.2 billion yuan. Because of Jet Li's good friendship with the director, tens of millions of dollars were erased. Previously, the highest paid record for Chinese films in Jet Li was Hero directed by Zhang Yimou in 2002, and Jet Li was in Hero.

However, it turns out that this movie's dream of making money from superstars is shattered. In the end, the box office of the film was less than 300 million, and the loss exceeded 65.438+0.2 billion, which was just equivalent to Jet Li's salary. Later, Chen Kexin repeatedly stressed to the media that Jet Li's 100 million-yuan salary was definitely worth it, because at that time, the producers did not intend to spend so much money on the warlords. It is because of Jet Li that the producers of "warlords" spent more than $20 million shooting grand war scenes and later special effects synthesis. He also said that without Jet Li, "The Warlords" would be a low-budget film, which was far from the filmmakers' expectations.

Director Chen Kexin insisted on using Jet Li because he took a fancy to the outstanding box office of Hero in the United States and invited Andy Lau and Xu Jinglei. As a result, the next week was beaten out of the water by the Li Xiaogang Parliament. In the end, the box office in the mainland was only over 200 million, and the box office in Hong Kong and Taiwan was 20 million, which completely crushed Chen Kexin's dream. The North American box office that Director Chen is most looking forward to is even more terrible, and he only earns money without losing money.

Jet Li's China action film "The Warlords" didn't bring many surprises to the audience, let alone the North American market. This time, it is undoubtedly Chen Kexin's Waterloo to enter foreign markets! After seeing the failure of the North American box office, Chen Kexin couldn't help being dissatisfied with the appreciation level of the American audience. He thinks that Americans only like the ethereal tightrope flying around in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the warlord scuffle shows a real historical scene. The warlord in the photo is real. The war scenes of peasant rebels and the stories of brothers killing each other are impressive, but the realistic style of "dirty, chaotic and poor" in the film is too depressing. This kind of heavy theme film will inevitably cause the audience's resistance.

Despite the tragic loss of 65438+200 million, I have to say that warlords is a work of conscience, which is wonderful in theme, scene making and characterization, which is why it can win many awards. Although Jet Li and other actors get a lot of money, compared with the current movie market, it is better to spend it on small fresh meat. In the era of shoddy movies flying all over the sky, warlords are definitely a clean stream now.

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