2021 epic war blockbuster " Changjinhu " won 5.77 billion yuan in box office, ranking first in the Chinese film history list. With this blessing, the male lead Wu Jing has firmly held the position of the first male lead.
By this year's National Day, most film companies actually wanted to copy such success, so they formed a main theme model for all members. Several new films released have taken the main theme route, except for cartoons.
This has actually caused the audience's rebellious mentality to a certain extent. The theater movie market has been cold, and the overall box office of the National Day holiday has only reached 1.49 billion, which is 20 million more than the 2021 movie " My Father and My Parents ". The results of
are also attributed to the strongest dark horse "The Road Back" this time. As of now, it has earned 1.09 billion yuan in box office. In the same period, the box office of " Ordinary Hero " exceeded 130 million yuan.
However, there is indeed a certain gap between these two videos. I watched them once, and I can only say that one can't watch them, and the other is ready to swipe them for the second time.
Excessive sensational "Ordinary Hero"
"Ordinary Hero" is adapted from a real event. It tells the story of a 7-year-old arm being slammed by a tractor and completing emergency rescue in the golden eight hours.
The original story of this film is actually very touching, but the film company's technique is a bit eager to achieve success and wants to become popular through sensationalism and rendering the main theme. Unfortunately, the backfire. Some plots in the middle of the film can be said to make people feel numb.
even said that some people or staff's lines are memorizing the central idea, completely misinterpreting the original meaning of the plot and the event. Everyone was watching the plane fly away and had to recite some empty words on the spot. They had already separated from the masses, and it was more like shooting an aviation promotional video.
Half of it saw it, I felt like I spent money to take an educational class. The primary meaning of the movie is spiritual enjoyment and the way to relieve stress. If you are still bound by too many dogmatic theories in the theater, this actually deviates from the original intention of the movie.
The problem is that the audience spends money, and the film company doesn’t want to be too perfunctory, so they directly turn the movie into a musical. Let’s just say that although the background is in Xinjiang, it is their instinct to rap sings, dance and play musical instruments.
On the plane, when all the staff took out musical instruments to perform music, they could endure guitar tambourine , but it would be too much to take out accordion .
Then the children cried and sang. I really don’t know who was thinking of a scene with a cramp in his brain. After singing, they had to add slogans and shout for cheering. These children were unlucky enough to meet this crew.
And the protagonist's profession in this film is a doctor and a captain. This configuration looks too familiar. It seems to be a combination of " Chinese Doctor " and " Chinese Captain ". In addition to some regional characteristics, the film company has cleverly interpreted it with music, so I won't go into details.
These two contents are already common in domestic main theme works. The film was taken out for a secondary use. It was just a sewing and patching for another three years. It was made by perfunctory means of stir-frying cold rice. No wonder the audience didn't buy it.
and Li Bingbing , Huang Xiaoming , Feng Shaofeng , at most, the acting skills of the three starring actors are just average. Feng Shaofeng doesn't look like a decent smile in the trailer. You can imagine the performance in the movie. I left the show directly without seeing the end of this movie. It was terrible.
"The Way Back" has both realism and tear points
"The Way Back" is also adapted from real events, using the relatively rare theme of hiding evacuation of overseas Chinese , which tells the story of war breaking out in the Numian Republic, and former diplomat Zong Dawei (played by Zhang Yi) and newcomer Cheng Lang (played by Wang Junkai) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were ordered to help evacuate overseas Chinese.
During the process, I accidentally discovered that there were a group of compatriots who came to carry out emergency tasks under the leadership of Bai Huan (played by Yin Tao).
After watching so many main theme works, everyone understands that the most taboo thing about this type of movie is fake and empty space. "The Road Back" successfully avoids lightning. From this film, the audience can truly feel the arduousness of the task of evacuating overseas Chinese, the cruelty of the war, and the sense of security of the motherland.
The video is basically full-time high energy, but every time everyone holds up the red passport and national flag, the sense of belonging makes the audience in front of the screen feel hot inside, and the sound of gunfire is repeated, and the masses are panicking.
And diplomats are just the most ordinary people. Zong Dawei's wife is pregnant and he wants to return to China, but unexpectedly, everyone came out after eating hot pot together, and was affected by the war. His friend was shot and died unexpectedly. He had to be ordered to rush up with a tough bullet in the face of danger.
Zhang Yi's performance even reached the level of the god-level conquest. When he watched his friend leave, he did not have a hysterical close-up shot. At first, his body trembled. His astonishment and fear were the most obvious characteristics of ordinary people.
Then he watched his friend's life gradually fade away. His eyes were filled with grief that could be seen with naked eyes, but it did not explode. Tolerance and restraint made the audience feel tight.
The highlight moments in the video are simply unsatisfactory. In that Russian turntable game, he really trembled all over, because he wanted to bet with his life and had to bet. He raised his pistol and rushed straight to his temples. After three shots, he was frightened.
After the final third shot, Zhang Yi's emotions were particularly complicated, and he interpreted the glory and some relief after the disaster as a result.
After returning to China, Zhang Yi looked at the Tiananmen outside the car window with tears, but it did not shed. That kind of eye scene seemed to interpret "tears filled with eyes". The moment he hugged his wife, it seemed that the long separation of a different life triggered the tear point again. Zhang Yi's acting skills were really amazing.
月0, the wife of this friend, Bai Huan, is not a professional diplomat, but she bravely stood up at a critical moment and wanted to take her trapped compatriots to find her way home. The grief of losing her husband did not burst out as much as possible, but kept tense of this emotion.
Whether facing the threat of the rebels or the impact of guns and bullets, Bai Hua insisted on his belief until the moment she boarded the plane home, she finally got unprecedented relief, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.
In addition, the young actor Wang Junkai in the film also made obvious progress to the naked eye. Supporting roles Li Xuejian , Cheng Taishen , Zhang Zixian , Wan Qian , Wang Xun and other powerful actors gave extraordinary performances, with many surprises. This wave of movies was really in vain, and the second brush was ready.
In short, although "The Road to Return" and "Ordinary Heroes" are both main theme films, the quality of the material selection and content is very different. These two films can still be directly distinguished, but which one do you want to go to the theater to support?
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