Chapter 485 Hot Criticism and Conflict
Chapter 485 Hot Criticism and Conflict
#《Detective Chinatown 2》occupies the Spring Festival schedule#
#Bai Jingting, the top star in domestic entertainment#
#“Detective Chinatown 2” breaks the record of “Wolf Warrior 2”#
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On Weibo during the Spring Festival, several topics related to "Detective Chinatown 2" directly occupied the top ten of the hot search list and have remained there steadily without being squeezed out.
In addition, news and reviews about "Detective Chinatown 2" are also emerging in an endless stream on major news media and Internet platforms.
["Detective Chinatown 2" broke 10 billion in five days, breaking the record of "Wolf Warrior 2" for the fastest domestic film to break 10 billion! ]
[The new force in Chinese entertainment, making movies, still has to be young people! ]
[There are laughter and tears, and under the suspenseful skin, the main theme of "Detective Chinatown 2" is a patriotic heart. 】
[The current living conditions of overseas Chinese, has "Detective Chinatown 2" lifted the fig leaf of the United States? 】
【Science fiction gives new power to suspense.】
[Exclusive interview with Li Kui: My success is inseparable from Wang Hao’s support.]
On Douban, after the release of "Detective Chinatown 2", its score once reached 8.7 points, and then began to slowly decline.
This is enough to show that most audiences are very satisfied with this sequel movie. At least "Detective Chinatown 2" did not deviate from the style and tone given to the audience by "Detective Chinatown 1".
Whether it is suspense or comedy, it has reached above the passing line, and there is no conflict between them, and they are well integrated.
Of course, when it comes to movies, some people like them and some people don’t.
From the audience's perspective, "Detective Chinatown 2" is undoubtedly an excellent commercial film.
The film has a distinctive style, a wonderful story, a simple but profound plot, and a large amount of comedy content. It is indeed particularly suitable for the whole family to go to the cinema to watch on festive days such as the Spring Festival.
However, there are many plots in the movie that hurt some people's hearts.
The year 2015 was the time when the Chinese public's perception of international and cultural trends changed most dramatically.
The growth of young people, the improvement of national strength, the rapid changes, and the convenience of the Internet have led to the emergence of various different ideas. Many opinion leaders and cultural celebrities who were once influential have gradually failed to keep up with the times and have begun to be abandoned by this society. They no longer have the response they once had in the era of paper media.
At this time, the appearance of a movie like "Detective Chinatown 2" that "attacks" the lighthouse in their hearts naturally made these guys very angry.
【Paper-like characters and pale motives! 】
[A hodgepodge of narrative confusion.]
[Ridiculous logic cannot withstand careful reasoning.]
【From a movie, we can see the inferiority complex and lack of confidence of the Chinese people. 】
[It started off well but ended badly. I spent 70 yuan to watch it but it was a waste of time. ]
There are also a lot of criticisms about "Detective Chinatown 2" in newspapers, Weibo, and public accounts.
These people's criticism of the film is not without the rigor and logic of the cases in the story, but this is just a superficial cover.
Their main criticism is still on the ridicule and contempt for the United States revealed in the film from beginning to end.
For example, the well-known American cultural figure Ai Dajin released a special edition of "Xiao Shuo: Spring Festival Movie Watching" just before the Spring Festival, in which nearly three quarters of the content was spent talking about "Detective Chinatown 2".
He didn't dare to touch the tiger whiskers of the big boss Wang Hao, but the director of "Detective Chinatown 2" was Li Kui.
"The world in 2015 is still big enough to be understood.
Dear caretakers, Happy New Year. It's New Year and I have nothing to do. There's not much to do except visiting relatives and friends. After all, most of the shops are closed. Watching a movie is naturally a good choice.
There were quite a few movies released during the Spring Festival in China this year, and I took the time to watch them all.
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In "Detective Chinatown 2", a cultural carnival called "New Year's comedy", we look at everything in New York from a condescending attitude.
This is what I want to talk about. Audiences who are familiar with me also know that I have stayed in the United States for quite a long time and am familiar with that place. At least I should be much more familiar with it than the screenwriter of "Detective Chinatown 2".
At this point, I have to criticize many young screenwriters in China. When writing, one should really listen, watch, and feel. One cannot just make up stories out of thin air or just write stories based on some information on the Internet.
For example, in "Detective Chinatown 2", there is a shot where the two male protagonists are on the streets of New York. The camera language deliberately creates a street scene with garbage everywhere and graffiti all over the walls, giving people a feeling of "Hey, this is what America is like," in order to satisfy the audience's sense of pride.
But in fact, many street scenes in the United States have their own unique cultural characteristics.
For example, when I was in the United States, I went to their black neighborhood on purpose. The walls there were covered with all kinds of colorful graffiti. There were groups of black guys on the street, wearing big gold chains, hats, and sunglasses.
That is street culture and hip-hop style, but the movie crudely interprets it as dirty and messy, which is obviously a manifestation of ignorance.
In addition, the two protagonists in the movie encountered a street gunfight as soon as they arrived in New York. In fact, according to statistics, the homicide rate in New York City in 2014 dropped by 68% compared to the beginning of this century.
Many people see that the United States does not ban guns, and the news is always reporting shootings happening somewhere, so they always wonder if the United States is very dangerous.
These are all stereotypes. They have their own set of laws to manage guns. The reason why there are so many shootings is that they have such a tool.
There are quite a few murders in our country every year. If there is no gun, wouldn’t it be the same if a knife was used?
The film's portrayal of the American judicial system is a textbook disaster.
The spirit of justice is supreme in the United States.
We learned in junior high school politics that the United States has a system of separation of powers.
There are two related to the law: the legislative power of the parliament and the judicial power of the court. The Supreme Court Justice of the United States has a very high status in the country. They are not even afraid of the president. This is the restriction of the law on American society. In addition, the most amazing thing about this film is that the Chinese community is filmed to be more gangster-like than the mafia in "The Godfather".
During the years I spent in New York, the uncles and aunties in the tea restaurants in Flushing were all discussing Ivy League school applications and 401K pension plans.
The blue dragon and white tiger tattoos all over the streets in the movie seem like outdated material pulled out from Hong Kong movie tapes in the 1980s.
Director Li alienated Chinatown into a lawless place full of triads and underground black industries, completely erasing the century-old law-abiding tradition of the Chinese community - you know, the crime rate of the Chinese community in New York has long been 3.2 percentage points lower than the city's average. "
In the video, Ai Dajin tapped his fan against his palm and took a sip of tea.
“Director Li is not filming New York, he is clearly putting up a Statue of Liberty sticker in Hengdian World Studios.
If you ask me, the most successful trade secret of this movie is that it successfully avoids all real American elements - after all, in this age of entertainment to death, what audiences want is not documentaries or works of art, but the spicy spectacles cooked out of the cultural hot pot.
It’s just that the soup base does not convey either Eastern Zen or Western rationality; it’s more like mixing Erguotou into latte.
Of course, when it comes down to it, the main reason behind this kind of cultural curiosity and distortion of the truth is the creative team's crude simplification of civilized dialogue in the context of globalization.
From illegal transactions in subway stations to the New York NYPD's breaking of the law, the film's carefully crafted "American horror story" is essentially a mirror projection caused by cultural insecurity.
I can't help but ask: In 2015, what kind of collective subconscious is this kind of creative thinking that demonizes heterogeneous civilizations catering to? "
Although Ai Da Jin hasn't written any popular songs in recent years, he is still a cultural celebrity and appears frequently on television and the Internet.
Last year, he officially announced that he had joined iQiyi's "studio strategy", and in June, the show "Xiaosong Qitan" hosted by him began broadcasting.
A few months ago, he and Kevin Tsai served as the team leaders of the debate variety show "The Rap of China" hosted by Ma Dong. The show received a great response among young audiences and also attracted many fans for him.
In addition, the show "Xiao Shuo" has been running for several seasons and has a large audience, so this special Spring Festival edition caused quite a stir on the Internet as soon as it was broadcast, and many people expressed their admiration and support for its views.
Moreover, the wave of criticism raised by Ai Dajin was by no means an isolated incident. After his departure, the sporadic voices on the Internet against "Detective Chinatown 2" suddenly became noisy.
Some outdated cultural celebrities, professional film critics and traditional opinion leaders have come out one after another, creating a dense wave of criticism on social media networks.
Using "Detective Chinatown 2" as a breaking point, they attempted to characterize the industrialized film paradigm fostered by Galaxy Group as a dangerous example of "populist film and television."
Well, the term "populist film and television adaptation" was coined by a certain opinion leader. They put "Detective Chinatown 2" into the same category as "Gravity" and "Wolf Warrior", which means "far ahead" in a sarcastic way.
Naturally, the Internet public opinion department of Galaxy Group was the first to notice the counterattack of this cultural conservative force.
Their group is still very concerned about this matter. As early as after the phenomenal explosion of "Wolf Warrior", the Galaxy Group had already noticed the existence of certain people and unspoken rules.
However, at that time, most of their attention was focused on Wang Hao, the leader, and they mainly targeted him.
However, as the Galaxy Group grew in size, its industrial layout extended from traditional film and television production to animation, games, novels, streaming media, cultural tourism and other fields. Those traditionalists began to be wary of the young new forces in the literary and art world headed by Wang Hao.
You should know that in recent years, a new generation of creators trained and incubated by Galaxy Group has emerged in large numbers, and Beijing Film Academy has almost become their base camp.
New equipment, new teaching materials, new film production concepts, new shooting techniques, more and more new generation film and television creators have begun to accept and try to learn and use the commercial creation methodology proposed by Wang Hao.
Among them, a large number of talents have emerged, including Li Kui, Chen Sicheng, Lu Yang, Guo Fan, Rao Xiaozhi, Li Qian, and Zhang Jinzhan.
And around these young film and television creators, there are also outstanding artists, young and old, such as Wu Jing, Wang Baoqiang, Bai Jingting, Wan Qian, Wang Jingchun, Wang Zhiwen, and Nagasawa Masami.
The emergence of this new circle and the iteration of the cultural industry are what trigger deeper mental anxiety in some people.
To give the simplest example, the release of Wang Hao’s previous life’s "The Wandering Earth 1" and "The Wandering Earth 2" was a milestone event in the Chinese film industry.
The huge sales of the two science fiction films symbolize the maturity of this type of film in China and have greatly broadened the creative boundaries of other directors.
From this point of view, Guo Fan and "The Wandering Earth" series have made contributions to domestic films and domestic filmmakers. He is the one who made the pie bigger.
However, what is the attitude of the traditional film and television culture circle towards Guo Fan and "The Wandering Earth"?
Isolation, exclusion, cold treatment and neglect.
In an era where traffic is king, celebrities and internet celebrities often like to take advantage of traffic.
But when it comes to the hit of "The Wandering Earth", these guys who like to take advantage of the traffic have collectively lost their voices. The entire film industry is surprisingly quiet. Except for the main creators of the film such as Wu Jing and the official media who publicly expressed congratulations, what about others?
Do they not like to take advantage of the popularity? What about "Half Lake Green" which was released at the same time as "The Wandering Earth 2"? There were many celebrities who supported it at that time.
Going back further, Wang Jiawei's "The ferryman, ferrying others and yourself - I like it" blew up most of the entertainment industry. The reactions of some people were so hilarious that they didn't even care about their so-called dignity.
Of course, if these were not obvious, the box office of "Nezha 2" would have broken the record by reaching 120 billion, far ahead of the second place. What about the entertainment industry?
The movie has been released for more than ten days, and the upper limit of domestic box office has been rising step by step, which means that there are more possibilities for domestic films in the future, proving the potential of the Chinese film market.
However, are there any traditional 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th or new generation directors who would like to say a few words?
Are there any young stars, top stars, veteran actors, or pillars of the Mesozoic era who would like to say a few words?
Affirmation, congratulations, thumbs up, even yin and yang sentences are fine.
The results of it?
In addition to Wu Jing and Cheng Long, Guo Bichen sang the theme song of "Nezha 2". Who else?
Even Yammie Lam posted a video in which Yin Shiniang congratulated Nezha 2, and other out-of-date artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan stood up, but some people just pretended not to see it.
What’s funny is that just a few months before the release of "Nezha 2", a big domestic director called on the audience to go to the cinema more often because of the poor box office in 2024, saying that short videos had affected the film industry.
As a result, although "Nezha 2" attracted audiences into the cinema, these people were unhappy again. There were no smiles on their faces, and they did not feel happy or excited about the domestic film market at all.
Why? It’s because Guo Fan from “The Wandering Earth” and Jiaozi from “Nezha” just don’t see eye to eye with the traditional film and television circles.
The head follows the butt; behind the conflicts and criticisms lies essentially a struggle for interests and the right to speak.
Some people just have no sense of the overall situation, no vision, no mind, and no tolerance.
It is no wonder that the movies they make reveal a sense of pettiness from the inside out. They only care about trivial love affairs and are always talking about the same things, which makes people feel sick when watching them.
(End of this chapter)