"Wandering the Earth" C, homemade sci-fi "Out"

"Wandering the Earth" C, homemade sci-fi "Out"

"Wandering the Earth" stills, Wu Jing plays astronaut Liu Peiqiang, Kutschu plays his son Liuqi.

Last night, the 2019 Spring Festival stalls came to a curtain, both bright spots, and regret. "Wandering Earth" has become the "C-bit" film throughout the period, by the audience as a landmark production of domestic sci-fi films; watching movies as the new folk heat of the Spring Festival is still not reduced, some popular blockbusters are difficult to ask for; Zhou Xingchi, Jackie Chan and other established stars fell to the altar, box office and Word of mouth are disappointing ... After the Spring Festival war, many people in the industry predict that the Chinese film industry may enter the adjustment and consolidation stage.

　　Joy

"Wandering the Earth" opens the New World Science fiction

Before the Spring Festival war, "wandering Earth" pre-sale box office in eight of the same period film only ranked fourth, less than the first three comedies, the film was even once considered "not suitable for the Spring Festival film Atmosphere." Who can think of the Spring Festival, 72 hours after the gong, along with the "far more than expected" "China finally has its own sci-fi film" "Look at crying" and other difficult to hide the excitement of netizens evaluation, the film climbed to the top of the box office list, since then, the title status will be difficult to shake. As of 10th 10 o'clock in the evening, according to the Cat Eye Professional Edition of the statistics, the film's total box office has reached 2.002 billion yuan, the final box office may be as high as 5.147 billion yuan.

The success of "wandering Earth" is much more than the business achievement aspect, but also lies in its breakthrough significance to the Chinese sci-fi film creation. "Opening the year of Chinese sci-fi movies", "Milestones of Chinese sci-fi films", "rebuilding the confidence of Chinese sci-fi films in four years" ... The film sparked a wide-ranging debate during the Spring Festival, making it the first phenomenal blockbuster of the 2019.

"Wandering Earth" is a representative work that allows China to transform and upgrade from a film power to a film powerhouse. Shang, general secretary of the Chinese Filmmakers Association, pointed out that the film uses world-class high-tech audio-visual means to tell the story of human nature and convey the gongqiu of the community of human destiny. "This film can have today, is our national sci-fi imagination, film industrial industry and its technical level of the formation of a result, is the Chinese film industrialization and the Chinese film industry aesthetics victory." ”

Driven by the film, the next year or two is likely to set off a domestic sci-fi film craze.Han Hao, a film critic, said homemade sci-fi could gain a wealth of lessons to learn from "wandering the Earth." "We used to be ' earthy sci-fi ', in the future we can open up the pattern and create a grand epic effect; second, on the basis of the brain hole, we should combine creativity and technology, with better production and implementation; Third, the creative process can be a little bigger, such as" Wandering Earth "in the emergence of a big domestic city disaster Lens, This is the previous film has never had a picture, giving people the feeling of shock and lifelike. ”

　　Regret

Zhou Xingchi and Jackie Chan lose their appeal

Compared with "wandering Earth", the performance of several other films in the Spring Festival is somewhat it's hard.

Qualified but less than expected, perhaps summed up "crazy Alien" "Flying Life" "The King of new comedy" These three comedies. In the "Crazy" series of the Final chapter "Crazy Alien", Ning Hao gave up his best multi-line narrative, single-minded let Huang and Shen Teng amused the audience, although the effect is not bad, but full of hard-working logic, no growth of characters and mediocre lens language but let the film become the "Crazy" series bottom of the work. The film has been the hall le Blossom pictures 2.8 billion yuan in the bottom of the release, but at present the box office less than 1.5 billion yuan, Douban score also fell to 6.5 points. According to the cat's eye forecast, the film's total box office may fall around 2.3 billion yuan, if so, this time the bottom will end in failure.

As Han's third director works, "Flying life" this time added a lot of racing elements, creating a warm-blooded atmosphere is moving enough, but in the rhythm, stories and characters still exposed a lot of shortcomings. "The King of new comedy" basically put 20 years ago the "King of comedy" story again, not only by netizens spit "fried rice" "trafficking feelings", frequent implantation of advertising has also been criticized as "lack of sincerity." At present, the film's Douban score is as low as 5.8 points. "These two works as a spring festival film can be seen, but there is no surprise, there is no breakthrough." "Film critic Liming said.

Compared with the controversy over the three films, "The Spy Pu songling" and "the integrity of the storm" can be described as "silent." "Spy Pu songling" was spit for Jackie Chan version of "Catch the Demon", the film Pu songling the comedy story and Nie Xiaoqian ning Ceichen's tragic love completely severed, even Jackie's signature action drama is gone. "Integrity Fengyun" is completely not up to the previous bomb film "unmatched" level, mediocre boring.

"It's not so much that the Hong Kong film has completely lost its appeal to the audience, but now the audience is no longer divided into what Hong Kong films, Taiwan films, but to see if the story is attractive, the idea is not strange." "Spy Pu songling" is an aging antique fantasy genre, "integrity Fengyun" listen to the name feel 20 years ago has seen, in contrast, the audience is definitely willing to see "wandering Earth." "Han Hao said, the audience is eager to see new things in the film, do not take out a little housekeeping skills certainly no one to buy."

Expect

Structural optimization into a new theme of Chinese film

Compared with the total box office of 5.738 billion yuan in the 2018 Spring Festival, this year's Spring festival is slightly more than last year.

Exorbitant movie fares are thought to be the main reason for the less than expected box office this year. Although the first day set a box office record of 1.439 billion yuan, but the average fare reached 45.2 yuan, the price of 39.1 Yuan rose 6.1 yuan year earlier, and the number of viewers fell by 4% last year. In Shang view, domestic film fares have been expensive, to a large extent to inhibit the audience viewing habits of the cultivation, "in terms of spring festival stalls, the first year, second to a certain extent is just needed, fares more expensive, out of the holiday consumer psychology, the audience can also accept, , watching a movie is one of many options. "In addition, the pirated network resources popped up by several films during the festive season have also affected box office growth to some extent.

Many industry insiders predict that the 2019 Chinese film industry will usher in a period of adjustment. "After years of rapid development, Chinese films are unlikely to maintain this pace of development, and it is time to achieve better and healthier development through structural optimization. "Improving the overall strength of the film industry will replace box office growth and become a new theme for Chinese films," Shang said. "Our system construction should follow up, such as film copyright protection, we should cultivate a diverse and differentiated audience, we should build a more standardized and orderly market environment ... After this stage of adjustment and consolidation, I believe that Chinese film will also show a new landscape of development. ”