Chapter 582 Singing and Advancing

Chapter 582 Singing and Advancing

Chapter 582 Singing and Advancing
【Director Wang Hao really disappoints me! 】

[A large-scale Chinese environmental protection propaganda film? ]

[Anticipatory start but whimpering finish! On Director Wang’s skill in fooling the audience! ]

[From "Inception" to "The Three-Body Problem 1", on the fall of a young great director!

Yesterday, I went to see "The Three-Body Problem 1", which is the most popular movie in China recently.

To be honest, as a senior movie lover, I have watched almost every movie directed by Wang Hao, and I like many of his works.

In my opinion, Director Wang Hao is extremely special among all domestic directors.

It's not just because he is younger than big directors like Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, but also because his works are unique in style, often fanciful and full of wonderful imagination, which is rare in the Chinese film industry.

However, this time, "The Three-Body Problem 1" disappointed me greatly.

I was disappointed not because "The Three-Body Problem 1" was so bad. Objectively speaking, this work was still very good when watched in the cinema. At least I thought it was worth the ticket price and the viewing experience was satisfactory.

But if this "The Three-Body Problem 1" is the work of director Wang Hao, it would be a bit disappointing.

I always have high standards and high requirements for good directors.

You don't have that ability, so I don't expect anything from you.

If you have the ability but don't use it, then I can only say that you are not paying attention or you don't respect the audience.

"The Three-Body Problem 1" is such a work for director Wang Hao.

It's hard to imagine that this kind of movie came from the director of "Inception".

The styles of the two films are not completely different, but at least in terms of the "spirituality" of the films, they are worlds apart.

If compared with "Inception", the script of "The Three-Body Problem 1" is not mature and up to standard. The whole movie looks more like a documentary than a commercial science fiction film.

Apart from the eye-catching opening scene of nanowires cutting an oil tanker, the plot of the virtual game about the Three-Body Civilization can only be said to be acceptable, roughly restoring the content of the novel.

As for the rest of the movie's plot, it can only be said to be lackluster.

The more I watched the movie, the more bored I felt. The content was straightforward, with no dramatic tension or rhythmic changes. I could almost guess the plot of the subsequent movies before I even watched them.

So the whole movie gives people the feeling that it starts well but ends badly, is top-heavy and completely below standard.

It can only be said that China's film market is developing too well nowadays and the competition is not fierce. Director Wang has become lazy under such circumstances and has focused more on running his company, which resulted in the production of such a movie.

Perhaps if Director Wang had taken one more step forward and gone to Hollywood to develop his career, competing with the world's top filmmakers and working with the best actors, the situation would have been completely different.

I just feel it’s a pity that the new filmmaker who made “Inception” is finally old, and there will be no hope for Chinese films. 】

"This article is well written. It praises first and then criticizes. It seems to be praising but it is actually criticizing. It looks pity, but in fact it is weird."

Wang Hao threw the negative comments collected by the public opinion monitoring department on the table, picked up the tea and took a sip.

The head of the public opinion department looked at his expression and asked cautiously, "Director Wang, how about contacting Weibo and having this post deleted?"

"Why delete it? Are you trying to stop people from speaking?

The quality and performance of the movie are here, there are just some minor noises, nothing to worry about.

What you should focus on is the large-scale Black Water Army."

"I know, Mr. Wang."

Wang Hao’s judgment was correct. For a domestic blockbuster like "The Three-Body Problem 1", a few negative comments did not cause much impact.

After all, there are too many domestic audiences. Compared with the national population, sporadic negative reviews can only affect a very small number of people.

Even then we have to exclude those viewers who have little intention of watching the movie and those who don't really believe these reviews. Add to that the positive publicity from Galaxy Group, and the number of people who will ultimately choose not to go to the cinema because of these negative reviews will be very small.

And if we really want to say that the quality of "The Three-Body Problem 1" is very bad, it is not that bad. It is definitely several levels higher than movies like "Shanghai Fortress".

What critics said about the film being too simple and straightforward and lacking depth is essentially because Wang Hao and the film team split some of the original content and moved it to the next stage for the sake of the market and the general public, thus lowering the threshold for viewing the film.

This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that the score on Douban will be lower. The information just submitted to Wang Hao by the public opinion monitoring department contains content in this regard.

The opening score of "The Three-Body Problem 1" on Douban was only 8.6, and it dropped to 8.3 two days after its release. It is expected to drop further in the later stages, and it is estimated that the final score will be around 7.5.

This score is not outstanding in Douban Movies, as there are a lot of highly acclaimed movies ahead of it, but the advantage of a low Douban score is that the box office of the movie continues to rise.

After the first week (three days), the box office performance of "The Three-Body Problem 1" in the second week was still extremely impressive.

On the fourth day of its release, Monday, "The Three-Body Problem 1" grossed 3.3 million yuan in a single day.

On Tuesday, "The Three-Body Problem 1" grossed 2.7 million yuan in a single day.

On Wednesday, "The Three-Body Problem 1" grossed 2.5 million yuan in a single day.

On Thursday, "The Three-Body Problem 1" grossed 2.5 million yuan in a single day.

It can be seen that the overall trend of the weekday box office of "The Three-Body Problem 1" in the second week seems to be declining.

But even though the performance declined, on the sixth day of its release, the cumulative total box office of "The Three-Body Problem 1" exceeded 20 billion.

And after the workday ended, the box office of "The Three-Body Problem 1" rebounded in the second weekend.

On Friday, July 7, there were no blockbuster movies released at the same time, and the single-day box office performance of "The Three-Body Problem 28" returned to 1 million.

On Saturday, July 7, the single-day box office of "The Three-Body Problem 29" exceeded 1 million yuan, and the cumulative box office exceeded 4 billion yuan. It has only been 30 days, less than 9 days, since it was released.

This once again broke the record for the fastest domestic film box office to reach 30 billion.

Judging from this trend, it is almost certain that "The Three-Body Problem 1" will become the third domestic film to break the 40 billion box office. Even a box office of 50 billion is not an unattainable goal.

On Sunday, July 7, the single-day box office performance of "The Three-Body Problem 30" continued to exceed 1 million, and the number of moviegoers of this movie also exceeded 4 million on that day.

As the number of viewers continued to increase, the negative comments about "The Three-Body Problem 1" on the Internet eventually gathered from a small range of sporadic comments to a slightly influential scale. This is the same as "Wolf Warrior 2" by Wu Jing, Wang Hao's previous life.

Although the box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" is also outstanding and the quality of the film is above average, there are still many people on the Internet attacking the patriotism and main theme of the film.

The same is true for "The Three-Body Problem 1", especially the content in the second half of the movie, which caused a stress response in some people.

It’s just that at the beginning, the publicity department of Galaxy Group was powerful enough, and the large number of positive reviews and enthusiastic market response suppressed the few unpleasant voices.

Now that the movie has been released for a while, the publicity department has begun to lose strength, and most of the audiences who have watched the movie have returned to their lives, except for some black fans of "The Three-Body Problem 1" who are still persisting.

Therefore, relatively speaking, there seem to be a lot more negative reviews about "The Three-Body Problem 1" in the market. The article titled "From "Inception" to "The Three-Body Problem 1", on the fall of a young director!" was dug up by someone and received a lot of praise on the Internet.

Under such circumstances, the box office performance of "The Three-Body Problem 1" was somewhat affected.

However, soon, when the publicity department of Galaxy Group began to lose strength, the official media, which was a little slower to react, began to exert its strength.

On the third Monday of the release of "The Three-Body Problem 1", which was July 7st, at 31 p.m., CCTV's "News Broadcast" spent more than three minutes introducing the performance of this year's summer movies and the popularity of "The Three-Body Problem 7".

After the "News Broadcast", the following "Focus Interview" broadcast a special documentary about China's "Three North Shelterbelt Project", which focused on introducing Mr. Guo Chengwang who appeared in "The Three-Body Problem 1".

As soon as the news was broadcast, it caused a huge response in society.

Although the news on CCTV-1 is becoming less and less popular among young people nowadays, it still has considerable appeal among the older generation and certain government personnel.

Moreover, Mr. Guo Chengwang’s experience is indeed touching, and the general public’s impression of "The Three-Body Problem 1" has also improved a lot.

Although many domestic films claim to focus on ordinary people and the little people at the bottom of society, the films made by those directors often stand at a higher level and look down on the world below.

Most of their works are critical, and the ultimate focus of the film story is always on the ignorance, suffering and bad nature of the lower classes of society, or the corruption and injustice of the authorities.

Many overseas award-winning films in the 90s and even now follow this pattern.

But Wang Hao's "The Three-Body Problem 1" is different. What he praises is not suffering, but the people who work hard despite knowing the suffering.

Regarding this point, the official mouthpiece newspaper and many publications also published an article.

[On the heroic and people's perspectives of history from "The Three-Body Problem 1"]

The article first promoted the popularity of "The Three-Body Problem 1", briefly introduced the story of the movie, and then began to point out the topic, comparing "The Three-Body Problem 1" with traditional Hollywood superhero movies and "The Avengers" from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[In traditional Hollywood superhero movies, or even more broadly, in many Hollywood blockbusters, we often see stories about a hero or an individual who, after going through hardships and tribulations, ultimately saves the world and achieves success.

This story can be said to be a standard Hollywood movie template, and it has swept the global film market in the past and has been successful everywhere.

However, we have been surprised to find in recent years that this kind of Hollywood personal heroism film seems to be becoming less and less effective in the Chinese market and less and less popular with audiences.

It was at this time that "The Three-Body Problem 1" directed by Wang Hao appeared.

In this movie, Director Wang gave us a movie that is completely different from the superhero template.

Faced with the global crisis caused by the villain organization, China chose to mobilize all the people in the government to solve the problem together, rather than relying on the help of a certain hero or heroic group.

Similarly, in the second half of the film, Director Wang also severely criticized the behavior and thoughts of the villains through Mr. Guo Chengwang's experience of planting trees in the Maowusu Desert.

This approach is in stark contrast to Hollywood's superhero blockbusters.

In the movie, Mr. Guo Chengwang is just an ordinary worker. He doesn't even have any performance in the movie, nor does he say any touching words.

But simply showing the results of his more than 20 years of work is enough to make Western environmental elites feel ashamed.

There are many ordinary workers like Mr. Guo Chengwang, both in and outside the movies.

"The Three-Body Problem 1" is unique in that it abandons the focus on "heroes" in traditional commercial blockbusters and instead focuses on working people like Mr. Guo Chengwang.

Perhaps some people would also say that Mr. Guo Chengwang’s behavior and experience are themselves a kind of heroism, and he is still a hero, an unsung hero.

But it should be noted that this kind of heroism is completely different from Hollywood's personal heroism.

Mr. Guo Chengwang's heroic behavior emphasizes that ordinary people can also be heroes if they do extraordinary things.

The heroes in Hollywood movies are unique and cannot be replicated. Some of them have superpowers, some are genetically modified, and some are aliens. Even if they have a mortal body, they are also wealthy and intelligent, transcending and superior to ordinary people.

Therefore, it is clear at a glance which one means "Every man has his share of responsibility for the fate of his country" and which one means "The greater the ability (rights), the greater the responsibility".

This is the heroism that is unique to China, based on the people's historical perspective. It is different from the heroic historical narrative of personal heroism in Hollywood.

The people's historical view regards heroes as part of the people, and it is this whole that creates history. The people's historical view does not deny the achievements of heroes, nor does it separate heroes from the masses.

"The Three-Body Problem 1" directed by Wang Hao undoubtedly illustrates this point well.

There are individual heroes in his films.

We can see that among the important characters, some are also heroes in their respective movies, playing extremely important roles and performing far beyond ordinary people.

But when they gathered together in the movie "The Three-Body Problem 1", the abilities they demonstrated were unable to play a decisive role in the global crisis.

This is in stark contrast to the scenes in Hollywood where a group of superheroes team up to fight a more powerful enemy and then defeat it.

Therefore, in the movie "The Three-Body Problem 1", the victory of the protagonist team ultimately requires relying on and mobilizing the masses, and using the deeds and power of the working people to influence the villains.

Of course, many people would also say that as a result, when watching the movie, they feel that the story is not exciting enough, not thrilling enough, not ups and downs enough, and it feels a bit fake and empty.

This view is completely a personal heroic historical perspective from the perspective of the elite, always hoping that there will be a hero or savior to save the world.

But is it really true that telling the story of the people’s heroes is not interesting or brilliant?

Perhaps we are not able and qualified to comment on this point, but let's just look at the performance of "The Three-Body Problem 1" and see what kind of work that the people love to watch is like.

The people will tell us the answer! 】

(End of this chapter)