my time as a director

Chapter 556 "Harder Science Fiction War Movies"

It's the end of July. At this time in previous years, the summer vacation has entered the second half.

Although there is almost no off-season for the box office in China, at most it is the opening season in September and March after the Spring Festival. In the off-season of these two months, there are festivals such as Qingming, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival in April, May, and June.

However, in fact, it is normal, even in the summer and Lunar New Year, the box office is concentrated in one month.

Although the summer vacation lasts for two months, the box office in July during the summer vacation period is much higher than that in August. It is not a surprise that it is two or three times higher.

Generally competitive films are released in July.

But this year, it's only a few days before July, but the summer vacation is only halfway through.

The box office of "The Wandering Earth" has exceeded 45 billion in three weeks since it was released, and it is hitting the 50 billion mark.

The two new films "Heroes of Fire" and "Sweeping Drugs 2", which were released together last Thursday, are also doing well at the box office and word of mouth.

"Heroes of Fire" is a disaster blockbuster with the main theme adapted from a rare fire in the world's firefighting history that happened in Bincheng in 2010.

The oil tank exploded, the fire flowed like a raging wave, the metal lamp post was bent, and the fire was raging in the sky, the ground and the sea, with a fire area of ​​6 square meters, and Marina Bay was in danger.

2830 fire officers and soldiers built a firewall with flesh and blood to fight to the death. After 15 hours of extreme fierce fighting, they experienced unimaginable suffering and saved the oil depot area, creating a miracle.

Although ten years have passed since now, there was a major explosion in Tianjing Port in the past two years, and it was basically known through the spread of the Internet.

For a movie adapted from reality, the audience must first know what it is.

The word-of-mouth of the film is quite good, and the box office took nearly [-] million in the first four days.

It is obvious that the movie starring Huang Xiaoming, who is already a greasy uncle in the hearts of the audience, can achieve this box office.

The plot is very simple, because of an accident, a recruit under Huang Xiaoming died in the fire.

The adults slandered him, the children spurned him, and even his former comrades-in-arms scolded him. He saved people countless times, but he made a mistake once.

Having sequelae again, he was transferred to another fire squadron, where he helped fellow villagers catch cats, dogs, pigs and sheep all day long.

Then when the accident happened, when it became uncontrollable, as a "sinner" and "coward" in the eyes of former and current comrades-in-arms, Huang Xiaoming and his leader resolutely asked Ying to go to the fire site to turn off the valve and saved the fire.

As a 2D movie, the effect is already very good, and the plot is also good.

Whether it is the protagonist or the supporting roles, there is no major problem.

The biggest problem is that it is too sensational, so sensational that it loses its sense of reality.

Just like Yang Zi's monologue after Ou Hao's sacrifice, which instantly lowered the movie to the level of a third-rate idol drama.

This is not because of acting skills, the crying scene was quite moving, the problem lies in the script.

Idol dramas like to let the characters who lost their lover hug each other's corpse, crying like a chatterbox and saying: "I haven't watched the sea with you yet, you promised me to get married, stay with me for the rest of my life, and grow old together when you come back You come back I want you I want you"

This kind of tears can't express grief, on the contrary, it's even more fake. It's used in idol dramas, but it's used in this kind of theme.

When a person has just lost a loved one, it is the time when he least wants to talk. If you have experienced this kind of grief in your life, or seen others go through this kind of grief, you will understand that at this time, people either hold back their emotions, Either blow it up.

The people who were blown out had no logic at all, they could only cry loudly, or repeat words that people could not understand.

In the scene after the earthquake in "Tangshan Earthquake", the reaction of the people in it is very real, either crying at the top of their throats, or cursing, hysterical, no matter what the reaction is, the reason is the same, that is, venting their emotions irrationally.

There are too many deliberately sensational plots, which are distorted.

There are also actors' lines. At such a dangerous moment in the fire scene, it is related to the life and death of millions of people in the city. The lines of the firefighters did not have much tension, no ups and downs, and no sense of tension.

There was also Huang Xiaoming and another firefighter who twisted the valve and stopped for a while while racing against time. Even if there was something to say, twisting while turning is not much better than stopping.

If there are too many details, it will be embarrassing.

From the first second of the whole movie, a warm atmosphere of "you are ready to start crying, you are not from the earth" is being produced.

Of course, in the real event, it will definitely be more sensational, but it is not this kind of forced sensationalism.

This has also led to the fact that it is possible to sell well, but it is impossible to become a hit.

Another "Sweeping Drugs 2" can't compare with the first one, and it can be regarded as a pass, with 4.1 million in four days in the first weekend.

The popularity of the first part is not small, especially Zhang Jiahui's sentence, "I'm sure about Duan Kun, Jesus can't keep him, mine!"

This lens can often be seen on the Internet.

The cast of this second film has been changed, and Liu Dehua and Gu Tianle starred.

The plot is a bit weak, and if you look deeper, it looks a bit like a political thriller about scheming and human nature, but it looks like a popcorn movie.

Two films that broke 40 million on the first day, and "The Wandering Earth", which broke [-] billion, kept the popularity of the summer archives continuing.

"Magic City Fortress" is also about to be released. A month ago, this was considered a hit in the summer.

However, just a trailer showing the male protagonist wearing military uniform and long hair caused the movie to encounter countless doubts in just a few days.

The pre-sale on the first day was only 5000 million, which is still a bunch of tickets that Maoyan gave away.

On Weibo, Tieba, Huohu, and Douban, you can see fans giving tickets.

This pre-sale basically understands the attitude of passers-by and audiences, most of them are waiting and watching, and did not buy tickets hastily.

However, Teng Huatao, as the director, still has a glimmer of hope when things come to an end.

During interviews, he frequently compared "Magic City Fortress" with "The Wandering Earth".

The day before the release, when talking about the similarities and differences between the two films, Teng Huatao also bluntly said: "If "The Wandering Earth" is a poem, which is quite romantic, then "Magic City Fortress" may be even harder. It's a bit of a sci-fi war movie, after all, he is the real deal, the aliens have invaded, and here in the magic city, we will head-to-head with the aliens!"

It's harder than "The Wandering Earth". To be honest, Li Qian doesn't know whether Teng Huatao is holding on, or if he is really stupid, but looking at it like this, maybe he really thinks so.

At nine o'clock in the morning on the 25th, the film was officially released nationwide, and the audience will have a conclusion whether it is hard or not.

In less than a day, not even the prime time in the evening, word of mouth on the Internet has already collapsed.

The glamorous uniforms of Ultraman, the soft light filter lighting of idol dramas, and the doomsday spaceships and alien robots that were only popular in Hollywood in the 90s, only ghosts can look good.

A film that has not much to watch from the beginning to the end is enough to be included in the annals of Chinese film history as a classic bad film.

In the plot, a domineering female president of a dog-blooded idol drama fell in love with me.

In the future world, when aliens are calling, they can still celebrate and go to nightclubs, without the atmosphere of a disaster movie at all.

Others are busy beating aliens, Jiang Yang is also busy talking about love, thinking about Chun all day long.

For a while it was "how can she notice me", for a while it was "finally sat in the commander's position and fought side by side with her", for a while it was "I still couldn't muster up the courage to say that to her", and even went to the battlefield The last thing before was to confess to Lin Lan.