At the beginning of the year, many movie reports described 2010 as the year of Donnie Yen. At present, "Jin Yiwei" and "Ip Man 2" have both exceeded 100 million yuan. Although "Fighting Warriors" released in the summer vacation is on the same schedule as "Tangshan Earthquake", There is no doubt that it is over 100 million yuan. Donnie Yen's worth has risen to 20 million yuan, and he has begun to leave Tony Leung and Andy Lau.
The above can be said to be the first reason for the success of "Ip Man 2". Donnie Yen, another action superstar in the Chinese film industry after Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. (Note: The first three have been in Hollywood, and Donnie Yen has also been in Hollywood, but they are just minor supporting roles.) Although I like kung fu and martial arts films, Donnie Yen's success, objectively speaking, is well deserved. Now, Donnie Yen has also become a typical image representative of Ip Man. As for Wong Kar Wai's "The Grandmaster", it's pitiful and pathetic. Maybe it will be filmed until the Ip Man craze has passed.
Second, the schedule of "Ip Man 2" is very successful. At the same time, there are only "The Thief of the Years", "East Wind and Rain", "A Side B Side", etc., and then it only needs to face the impact of "Iron Man 2" , However, "Ip Man 2" and "Iron Man 2" face the same problem: pirated, high-definition English version of "Iron Man 2" is already available online, and the Mandarin version of "Ip Man 2" can also be downloaded, and even the DVD is available in the video store All have. Regarding piracy, the mainland market is not regulated, and that's it.
Even though the schedule is very important, I always think that the quality of the film is fundamental. Word of mouth was the key when "Ip Man" was able to win over 100 million box office in the same schedule of "If You Are the One" and "Mei Lanfang". In fact, to be honest, among these three films, I personally think that "Ip Man" has the highest level. I remember my evaluation at that time: a long-lost kung fu movie comparable to "Fighting Heroes". As the so-called hero sees the same thing, in the ratings of netizens on a domestic film professional website, "Ip Man" is also higher than the other two films, and "Ip Man" also won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Film.
Having said that, "Ip Man 2" is a four-star movie. It's a bit far from the first episode. It's not a Yip Weixin movie. To be precise, it's not only a Donnie Yen movie, but also a Huang Baiming movie. In addition to the wonderful fight scenes, the spirit of nationalism played a decisive role. It was very simple. When Ip Man fought back against the British boxing champion until he knocked him down, we heard applause in the cinema. This is a personal experience, and I believe you will experience it when you watch it in the cinema.
Today, after reading an interview with Weixin Ye, it probably means that Huang Baiming has actually suggested revisions to this film, mainly because of the highlighting of the spirit of nationalism. Looking back at the whole movie, what sublimates is: a proper nationalist, didactic, witty otaku. It's a flattering, typical co-production.
In fact, in addition to the successful "Ip Man" series, Yip Weixin's representative works should be "Juliet and Liang Shanbo" and "Burst Detective". I like his little literature and dark humor. In the interview I saw, Ye Weixin also said that although he accepted Huang Baiming's revisions, he still retained a little bit of personal color: when Ye Wen defeated the British boxing champion, he said When people should not be distinguished between noble and lowly, all the foreigners stood up and applauded, but one foreigner shook his head and left.
With the booming and spouting development of Chinese-language films (mainly the mainland), under the current film review system, making such popular films is the only way to go. For example, Gu Tianle, starring in "The Great Inner Detective Zero Dog", has a box office of over 100 million, but his co-starring Liu Qingyun and Wu Yanzu's "Eavesdropping" has not exceeded 100 million. I remember that when I told my colleagues that "Eavesdropping" was very good, I was opposed, "This movie is dark, what's so good about it."
So now I admire Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kexin very much. Movie. So you have to understand why Jia Zhangke and Tian Zhuangzhuang have started to make commercial films. The mainland market is following the path that Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korean films have gone through. However, the audience will also mature, and I hope the directors can take the pulse of the audience.
Farther away, let’s get down to business. The expected "Ip Man 2" will describe that during the reign of the British Hong Kong government, the people were struggling and ignorant in dire straits, and martial arts was to promote the Chinese people's hard work and arouse the spiritual food of the people, and Ip Man is one of the representatives, in the development of the story. In the process, it focuses on exaggerating the dark system of the British Hong Kong government and the ignorance and ignorance of the people, mocking it with Yip Weixin's mocking style, and using Donnie Yen's Wing Chun to wake it up. It is a witty and atmospheric legendary film of the times.
I don't know if Ye Weixin also conceived it this way?
The wonderful fighting drama, supplemented by the strong catalysis of nationalism, "Ip Man 2" was applauded and popular, and the victory was "martial". The box office won, the word of mouth won, I believe Ye Weixin is also lonely, no wonder he said on the scarf that he hoped to cooperate with Wu Zhenyu again.
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