[The Epoch Times, 10 Samhain, 2024](The Epoch Times reporter Tong Yijia said) “The Wig” starring mainland actor Huang Xiaoming after losing 30 pounds, will be released on November 16. The film cost more than 100 million yuan (same below), and pre-sales began on November 8. However, as of 16:00, the pre-sale box office was only 21,000, which is terrible.
According to local media reports, the biggest gimmick of “The Wig” is that Huang Xiaoming lost 30 pounds for the role. However, some people in the industry said that Jia Ling was positioned as a comedy star from the beginning, but the contrast was stark after she lost 100 pounds. As for Huang Xiaoming, who started his career as an idol actor, it is difficult for his weight loss image to show a different effect, so the gimmicks of the film do not seem to be attractive enough.
There are reports that Huang Xiaoming’s brutal performance is a highlight of the film. Meng Zhong, played by Huang Xiaoming, can be called the Chinese version of a double-faced man. On the surface, he is a public interest lawyer who advocates for justice for the people, but in fact he ‘conceal an unknown crime.
The film tells that Meng Zhong is a college student who works in law. After graduating, he must pass the legal examination before he can officially become a lawyer. Unfortunately, after taking the test three times in a row, he still failed, which made him give up and despair. One rainy night, he picked up a drink while driving a taxi. He saw the drinker lying unconscious on the seat, so he had a bad intention and stole the drinker’s money.
Suddenly, the drunk man woke up at this time and saw what he had done after Meng Zhong found out, he stopped doing anything and killed the drunk man. No one found out what he did, and he didn’t pay the price for what he did.
After that, Meng Zhong’s life gradually got on the right track, and he became a successful lawyer and made a name for himself. But at this time, a girl named Wei Xian (played by Wang Yinglu) appeared, breaking her peaceful life for a long time, and she seemed to wake up the memory of that rainy night. And behind all this, he seemed to hear the echo of that nightmare: I know your secret…
Feedback from viewers is that although the plot of the film shows that the experience of the main character can be liked by some viewers, the picture of the film is a bit simple and ordinary, as well as there, the main character is mentally ill because of his family, but he was not caught after committing murder.
According to previous reports, Huang Xiaoming lost nearly 30 pounds while filming this movie, and even shaved his bald head for the role, which surprised netizens. According to the mainland self-media “Reliable Movie King”, the production cost of the film exceeded 100 million, but the current pre-sale box office is only 21,000.
Editor-in-Chief: Yang Ming
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