It is the end of the year, it is a joyous place for children, they can take winter vacation, wear new clothes, and feast... However, for the young and middle-aged people with greater social pressure, they may not be able to rejoice, just as the so-called "people are afraid of no money, pigs are afraid of the New Year", the people who come and go in the festival are indispensable, but whether it is friendship, love or even family affection, they must have certain material conditions, which is the etiquette represented by "red packets".
In the years when prices are gradually rising, most people are more and more sensitive to red envelopes, before friends married with the share of money is 200 yuan, then 500 yuan, now the starting price is 800 yuan, the relationship is more iron friends, with the red envelope to calculate separately... By chance, I found that the red envelopes I had sent out over the years had accumulated three or four hundred thousand! How do I get this money back? It became a conundrum. Chen Zhong, the male protagonist of the movie "Big Red Packet", released on January 22, has the same troubles as us ordinary people: how to get this money back?
Because the role played by actor Bao Bell before has some controversy, so before watching the movie, there was not much expectation for "Big Red Packet", but after watching the whole film, it was possible to laugh from the beginning to the end, Chen Zhong's character can be said to be the most grounded role in the work of actor Bao Bell, he searched, the city servant, but also kind hearted, these personality characteristics are like the middle management Chen Zong who can be contacted in our lives.
The movie "Big Red Packet" tells the story of Du Ying, the ex-girlfriend of Chen Zhong, a middle-level management employee of the company, who split her legs and made a big deal out of it, and the two broke up in the company. The film opens with a stir-fry, dragging out the dramatic conflict and the disc, and the two smash the table and pose their faces in the office, revealing each other. At this time, the disgraced Chen Zhong applied to the company to transfer his hometown Harbin branch to try to leave suzhou, a sad place. Before leaving, Chen Zhong found that in order to develop business and social networking for many years, leaders, colleagues, customers married, and gave birth to children with more than 300,000 red envelopes.
After some ideological struggle, Chen Zhong decided to take the risk of holding a fake wedding, collect the red envelopes sent over the years, and then leave for Harbin. When he found his ex-girlfriend Du Ying to explain his intentions, hoping that Du Ying could remember to marry and share the money for the sake of love, he was ridiculed and ridiculed by Du Ying and her new boyfriend. The angry and corrupt Chen Zhong vowed to find someone more beautiful than his ex-girlfriend to marry. At this time, the good brothers gave the stimulated Chen Zhong an idea, and the two decided to find a film and television actress to play Chen Zhong's bride, so as to hold a wedding to recover the red envelope. As a result, a good drama is staged one ring after another... At the same time as this series of good dramas is staged, the film is densely laughed at, revealing the reality of the situation, especially the spicy irony.
Thanks to the solid script of "Big Red Packet", Bao Bell's grounded performance style, Clara's sexy performance, and director Li Kelong's subtle observation of human sophistication, the movie "Big Red Packet" successfully became the box office crown 10 days after its release, with the overall box office reaching 150 million and rushing to 200 million. In the current film industry, such a production volume of works can be said to be beyond expectations, after all, there are still 10 days to go to the Spring Festival, and the cinema is still in the warm-up stage and has not been completely detonated.
Film director Li Kelong debuted in 1998, and after nearly a decade of accumulation, he began to direct films independently. "Big Red Packet", an urban romantic comedy theme of theatrical film in the early stage of the schedule and lineup is not optimistic, resisting the pressure to become a box office dark horse, seemingly lucky, in fact, thanks to the precipitation of director Li Kelong for more than twenty years.
People in the industry know that making movies is not as simple as imagined, and it is not easy to make blockbuster movies, especially blockbuster comedy movies. The reason is that people's time is becoming more and more fragmented, entertainment consumption is becoming more and more fast-food, and fewer and fewer people are willing to spend the whole time to go to the cinema to consume, resulting in the gradual loss of film consumer groups in recent years, especially in special periods, it is more and more difficult to create box office miracles in the cinema line. Director Li Kelong revealed the reality of "Big Red Packet", won the resonance of the audience, and achieved good box office results, seemingly accidental, but in fact, it is the accumulation of years of painstaking efforts.
It is very worth mentioning that the actress Liao Weiwei, who has cooperated with director Li Kelong many times, played the villain's ex-girlfriend Du Ying in the movie "Big Red Packet", and her performance in the film is also quite outstanding, and when she plays the female number one Clara, she is very aura and praiseworthy. The "red envelope economy" reflected in the movie also triggered the audience to think after laughing, originally the gift was a kind of joy, why has it now become a social pressure?