"Yangtze River No. 7" can be regarded as a sci-fi children's film, which naturally involves fiction and fantasy. There is a certain risk in such things appearing in Chinese films. Especially in the early years. Although Chinese audiences accept Hollywood's violence, pornography, fiction, fantasy, and model dramas very well, it is a little wrong to put the same settings in Chinese people's own movies, and the same lines are spoken by Chinese in Mandarin. .
For example, in 1998, Feng Xiaogang's New Year's film "See You or Not", at the end, the hero and heroine kiss in the bumpy plane. It was a good plot, but I still clearly remember the uncomfortable feeling at that time. My classmates and I complained to each other: watching it was awkward, not like watching a foreigner bang.
Another example is the "Shawshank Redemption" that was praised to the sky. If the background is changed to a Chinese prison, and Morgan Freeman is changed to a Henan native, he still uses the close-up of the face of "Shaw" and spends all day in prison. Thoughtfully and meaningfully talk about something ideological and philosophical. See if you guys still buy it.
This reminds me of the "laughter" problem that blockbusters have frequently encountered in recent years, and the reasons may be similar. Those serious plots that lead to laughter seem to be not uncommon in Hollywood movies. It's just that the audience can be more serious with the movies when they watch Hollywood movies. When watching Chinese films, they lack the necessary sense of distance, so they are more sensitive to prudence.
On this issue, "Changjiang No. 7" is quite tricky. First of all, it is a comedy, so you don't have to worry about the problem that you can't pretend to be deep (actually, the audience thinks that Xing Ye is too deep). But it is still a little risky for sci-fi plots to appear in Chinese movies. It is also a question of whether the audience will buy it or not: the audience can happily watch the Americans send a spaceship to the sun to save the world (there is such a movie), but can they calmly watch the Chinese do the same by themselves Well, that's a big problem.
Judging from the current results, "Yangtze River No. 7" did not screw up on this issue. The audience did not have many criticisms about the sci-fi content of the movie, at least not as uncomfortable as watching Ge You and Xu Fan exchange saliva. This is the cleverness of "Yangtze River No. 7", and it also shows that the audience has improved.
But there is only one plot that is unconvincing for the audience: how can the son of a migrant worker go to an aristocratic primary school.
That is to say, people can accept aliens coming to earth, and they can accept the resurrection of the dead, but they can't accept "the son of a migrant worker went to an aristocratic primary school".
This kind of reaction is really touching.
Some people say that Lord Xing is from Hong Kong and does not understand the situation in the Mainland. After all, Zhou Xingchi is in his 40s. He is someone who has seen the world. For Shaolin football, he is willing to write inspections to the leaders of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. I don't believe he can naively think that in reality the children of migrant workers can afford to go to aristocratic schools. His "Yangtze River No. 7" is a dream for children. In the dream, the world can be less harsh and more good wishes, such as world harmony; for example, as long as migrant workers work hard, their children can be with the rich. Children enjoy the same education; for example, a child can speak out generously, and he will be an upright poor man in the future.
But this scene in the dream woke the adults up. They didn't wake up when they saw the aliens, but they woke up when they saw the children of migrant workers appearing in the aristocratic schools.
Are we too desperate, or is reality too ruthless?
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