There are always people who are very interested in cult films, saying that "Bostrike Club" is a cult film, and "120 Days of Sodom" is also a cult film. Anyway, as long as it is a little different and has some colors, it is called a cult film. I don’t know. Which big xianer stipulated it.
Whether a movie is cult enough requires a period of testing and the constant enthusiasm of fans. "Napoleon", released in 2004, is such a movie. From the protagonist to the passerby, the film is almost all weird. The protagonist, Napoleon, is a four-eyed frog. He looks plain, unresponsive, and looks like a dick. This kind of non-fresh meat naturally became a poor worm in the school who was bullied by the little overlord and turned blind by the little beauty. Napoleon had only two friends, one was Pedro, the only Latin in the school, and the other was Debbie, a girl who was extremely shy and inferior.
Pedro and Napoleon are both dicks, and they can only sympathize with each other and comfort each other. One day, Pedro suddenly wanted to run for class leader. His opponent was a blond school girl with big breasts and no brains. In fact, he had no chance of winning at all. Unexpectedly, a crazy disco with spicy eyes turned the situation around. The performer is his good friend Napoleon. When Pedro's boring speech ended, Napoleon stood on the platform for him and performed his talent. I saw him dancing expressionlessly and swinging his waist frantically. He actually had a weird sense of comedy and won the audience's cheers! In this way, Pedro defeated the beauty and was successfully elected.
This film was written by a director who just left school. In addition to a few words of encouragement to "support younger generations" in this small production of lo-fi (low fidelity), film critics almost all gave negative reviews. But the audience didn't care about any comments. The film was a big success as soon as it was launched. The film has a global box office of about 50 million U.S. dollars, which is 100 times the production cost! It was also voted as one of the "movies with the most inexplicable reason for success".
Of course, what feels the most inexplicable is the "film critics" who don't understand how such cheap movies without any high-level thinking can be sought after by teenagers. They racked their brains to think about the reasons, and kept analyzing and deconstructing the movie. Could it be that the audience was so concerned about the fate of Napoleon and his friends? Is Napoleon's heartlessness similar to the postmodern interpretation of the classic line "I don't know what to do except die" in "Rebellion Without Cause"?
It is a pity that all interpretations of cult films seem pale and weak. If you feel cool after watching this movie, feel enjoyable, and feel that you should tell your friends to share, then this movie is a good movie.
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