The old man who married Zhao once dominated the screen. Why are all his later works so ordinary?
First, the choice is wrong
He has had a lot of cooperation with Hong Kong directors in recent years, but the quality of Hong Kong films seems to have declined in recent years. Take several films starring William Feng as an example. Although many of them have achieved success at the box office, it is difficult to form high praise and recognition. In fact, William Feng is a very powerful actor, but when accepting the script, he often pays too much attention to the production team of this film, which leads to the inability to really see the quality of the work itself.
With the maturity of the film industry, inadvertently, the audience in Chinese mainland did not pay special attention to film directors and actors. They are developing towards a more rational aesthetic orientation, paying more attention to whether the film itself is good or not, and whether it can bring them inspiration and sentiment. Therefore, it is not difficult to find that the works of those great directors in which William Feng participated are not satisfactory, or they are constantly repeating the past, or there is nothing new and the audience doesn't like it.
Second, choose literary films of average quality.
These films generally have a common feature, the names are quite literary and novel, but in fact they can't meet the standards of art films at all, and they can't perfectly integrate the two attributes of films, so they can only become neither fish nor fowl between commercial films and art films. This kind of film has both the shortcomings of insufficient publicity of most literary films and the shortcomings of old-fashioned and boring commercial films. When buying tickets, the audience's first instinct will not choose such a film. After rolling around in this kind of film for a long time, the actors began to become inconspicuous.
But it is no exaggeration to describe him as a model worker. Although, on the whole, he has not made sensational achievements in movies, the quality of some works is still remarkable, such as Golden Age and See you later. The former caused great controversy at that time, with good quality and strong experimental spirit, but the market was not good. If it is shown now, it may be recognized by the audience and get the market income that the film should have. However, Nothing after the Meeting is actually a successful work, both in artistic significance and commercial value.
His current dullness can be said to be the bottleneck that many actors will face, but this does not mean that the actor's own career has reached the bottleneck. There are many factors that determine success. It can only be said that William Feng hasn't found a suitable path yet, and lacks a clear positioning for his career as an actor. It can be seen from Feng Shu's recent acting trends that he has begun to turn back to the field of TV dramas. May he find his own way and create phenomenal works again.