"Master" has no chance. When it arrives on December 18, the theater will have the momentum of "I bloom and kill a hundred flowers" again. As soon as it's done, "Looking for the Dragon" will undoubtedly be a big hit. It also deserves a good box office figure, but the movies that hit the schedule with it will be a little worse. I don't know if "Unexpectedly" can rely on the online popularity accumulated for many years to stand firm for a while, but judging from the appearance, the New Year's file will be the world of "Looking for the Dragon".
In fact, this movie is not particularly great, it just achieves all the elements that a good commercial blockbuster needs to do, such as years of popular IP, mature potential audience accumulation, huge capital investment, a professional main creative production team, Discreet screenwriter, director and producer, reliable actor. . . . . . These are all there, and there is no reason why the box office results are bad.
This is really a movie that proves to the world that China can make commercial blockbusters, and it is a representative work of the Chinese film industry.
If a movie like "Nine-Layered Demon Pagoda" can sell for nearly 600 million, then it doesn't make sense that "Long-hunting" is only 1.5 billion.
Yes, this one is the deity of "World Domination Singing".
1. Smart people's games
must be a little stupid when making art, and the same is true for making art movies, there must be a little "madness" and a lot of "feelings". But the film industry is different. The "industry" is a game of smart people. There are all kinds of calculations, calculations on the audience, calculations on various costs, calculations on how to hype, and the ultimate goal is to make money.
Of course "calculation" is not bad. The calculation was successful, and all aspects were very happy, and the audience who was calculated was also very happy. For the vast majority of people, movies are just entertainment, just have fun.
In order to make the audience happy, Chen Guofu, the producer of "Looking for the Dragon", told the screenwriter of the film that I don't care how the film is written, but there must be two things in the story at all times - "love" and "funny".
The screenwriter did a great job, Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang were in charge of falling in love, and Wang Kaixuan and Da Jinya were in charge of laughing. Chen Kun, Huang Bo, Shu Qi, Xia Yu, with their four main characters, it doesn't matter what other plots and characters are inserted.
Commercial films are such a production line. The producer understands what the final product is, so he adds raw materials according to the recipe. If the audience likes to eat sweet, then add more sugar; if the audience likes a little excitement, then add a little sour. The one who pulled the first batch of audience into the theater must be the name of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", but the one who pulled the second batch of audience into the theater was "Sour and Sweet is you".
What is a high degree of "film completion"? That is, you want to make a cookie, you study the recipe, and the final product is the taste you originally thought.
"Looking for the Dragon" is a movie with a very high degree of completion. I think this is the highest evaluation of the entire production team-they did it, and turned the novel language of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" into a video screen, allowing the audience to feel Look, it doesn't deviate much from your own imagination, it's done! After watching the movie, you will think that "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" should be like this. Hu Bayi is like Chen Kun, Wang Kaixuan is Huang Bo, and Shirley Yang is Shu Qi.
As for the rest, it doesn't matter.
Tianxia Bachang is a smart person. He sold "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to a reliable developer and made it directly into a commercial blockbuster. Unlike the third uncle of the Southern School, "Notes on Tomb Raiders" was made into a web drama about "handing over cultural relics to the country".
"Looking for the Dragon" is not like "Master", it is also an adaptation of a novel. "Long-hunting" does not undertake any "tasks" other than entertainment. Xu Haofeng also thinks about relying on "Master" to restore the old history of martial arts in the Republic of China. Among them, he hopes that the audience will enter his play, which is difficult.
And "Searching for the Dragon" is a "play" tailored for the audience. It is not someone's "work", but a beautiful "product".
As for this product, whether the director is willing to "entrain private goods" when he has spare energy, as long as it does not hinder the appearance of the product, the rest are gifts. The audience should have the pleasure of "buy one get one free".
In fact, the director Wu Ershan still carried some private goods in "Looking for the Dragon". For example, he used Cui Jian's rock as an interlude in the movie. For example, he made the villain in it into a mess of the recent fire. "Rinpoche".
For example, he also tried to discuss the problem of "fool" in the movie.
2. The problem
of fools There are many fools in the world who are willing to say to their loved ones: I am willing to die for you at any time!
There are two kinds of these fools, one is cute and the other is really stupid.
As a story of a tomb robbery adventure, the story of "Searching for the Dragon" is actually these fools.
The first group of fools appeared in 1969, a group of educated youth who went to the mountains and the countryside, willing to die for the communist ideals and great leaders, fighting the world, breaking the old and establishing the new, shouting "True materialists are fearless. ', and they really died.
The second group of fools was in 1989. "Master" Ying Rainbow led a group of believers. These believers believed that the world was about to be destroyed and that they could be saved by following "Master". They were "the most loyal slaves". Sacrifice yourself for the "guru" and then they all really die too.
In fact, they are the same kind of fool, not cute at all.
Ding Sitian is a fool. She let go of Hu Bayi's hand in the elevator and sent Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan to escape.
Shirley Yang, of course, is also a fool. While scolding, he still can't let go, and his blood is devoted to Jun.
Wang Kaixuan is a fool. He has been obsessed with a person for 20 years. If his brother hadn't stopped him, he would have sacrificed his life to accompany him.
Hu Bayi is also a fool. Although he no longer feels guilty, but the scene where he sacrificed his life to save Shirley Yang in the end is frightening.
After counting all the characters with her fingers, only Ying Rainbow is a smart person, she is not willing to die for anyone, everything she does is to save her own life. But she ended up in hell, and she had to drag others to hell.
And the person who really loves you will not be willing to let you go to hell. Even if you are a fool who is "willing to die for him", he will only drag you to heaven.
Sometimes we can't tell if fools are really stupid or cute.
On this issue, "Searching for the Dragon" provides you with a sample -
Wang Kaixuan said: For Ding Sitian, if I don't go to hell, who goes to hell?
Hu Bayi said: I will not go to hell, and I will not let the people I love go to hell, whoever loves it will enter!
The two paragraphs above are a bit too wide, and I have to bring them closer in the epilogue.
In fact, it's the same principle both inside and outside the movie. Those who make sacrifices for the ones they love in the movie are also very much outside the movie. Just like those who love art, when they shoot art films, they also have a spirit of "I don't go to hell, who goes to hell?". Are they cute, or are they really silly? There is no standard answer.
But there are really fewer and fewer such fools. More directors flick their sleeves secretly in their hearts and say ruthlessly, "I won't go to hell, whoever loves it will enter!", turning around and throwing themselves into the tide of commercial films in.
May the wise get their wish, and the fools get satisfaction.
——the end——
by He Xiaoxin (WeChat: x-ceanido)
20151216
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