"What movie is the highest-grossing movie right now?" Fist + pillow! ”
Yu Entai's words in "Fame and Fame" really exhaust the current film market. It can be seen how stingy the director of this movie is, really dare to say anything, and a sentence seems to scold everyone in the film circle.
After the film was released, Wu Jing, also by Amway, publicly expressed his expectations.
"Fame and Fame" is a complete fire, the production cost is only 50 million, the 27th broke 500 million, as of the 29th box office accelerated, has exceeded 600 million. It seems that it is difficult not to become a dark horse.
Douban scored 7.6 points, which is already a good performance.
However, who could have imagined that 1 year ago, the film was almost "stillborn", no wonder the director wanted to make various sneers about the film circle in "Fame and Fame", it seems that there is really a reason.
Director Liu Xunzimo is a new face, he said in the interview, he said of his sad past, "We spent almost a year to make this script, at that time all the groups were established, but for some reasons the investors withdrew, suddenly disillusioned." ”
The withdrawal of capital has a great impact on Liu Xunzimo, but there is no way, after being forced to be helpless, Liu Xunzimo became an actor and filmed some short dramas, "At that time, I felt particularly confused, I didn't know what I was going to do, people casually gave a little creativity or something, I have been drilling the tip of the horn to think, have been drilling." ”
But for this play, Liu Xunzimo has not given up, and later "Fame and Fame" can finally be filmed, so he added the emotions of these two years to the film as it was, which is also one of the reasons for the various accusations and curses of the film circle in the early stage of the film. Here, I really have to admire his courage.
Although everyone is relatively unfamiliar with the director Liu Xunzimo, he is definitely very familiar with the producer of the film, that is, Han Han.
Han Han has not participated in many movies, and his fingers can be counted, "After The End", "Riding the Wind and Waves", "Flying Life", but all the movies he participates in basically belong to the state of word-of-mouth and box office flying together.
For the film, Han Han said in an interview that everyone saw their own shadows in the movie. Obviously, through this movie, Han Han wants to reflect on all sentient beings. It is precisely because of Han Han's joining that the film quickly rose to a new dimension after sarcastically speaking in the film circle.
So what is it?
The film tells the story of a script that leads to reasoning and murder. There are many characters in the film, investors who are about to go bankrupt, actresses who are regarded as fire bottles, screenwriters who are banned, directors who have made bad films, old actors who have been angry, and a kung fu stand-in who runs dragon sets in Hollywood, their identity is basically to include all the people needed for the whole movie, and from them we can find a common feature, they are all Losers.
The real identities of these losers are ripped apart step by step in the film, and the seemingly decent appearance is actually already embarrassing, and everyone has their own ugly things and tricks. This group of beings seems chaotic and disorderly, but in fact it implies a very crucial point.
For this key point, fans have seen a lot of controversy after watching it, and it seems that it is necessary to choose the leader of this team from so many people. Some people think that it is Lee Ka-fai, played by Yin Zheng, and some people think that it is Lu Ziye, played by Chen Minghao.
It is believed that Yin is the protagonist of the film, mainly because he is given the most shots, and he is responsible for driving the development of the whole story.
Yin Zheng first discovers that the so-called advisers arranged by Lu Ziye are actually murderers and policemen, which pushes the film into the first climax. Later, he discovered the secret of the exit of the chamber of secrets, so that everyone gradually got closer to the truth of the matter.
Most importantly, the final reasoning of the case is also completed by him, which is simply a Conan-like existence, almost to the sentence "There is only one truth".
And think that Boss Lu is the core person? Mainly thinking that he is equivalent to the Tang monk of this team, is the main person in charge of the project, in order to make a blockbuster movie, in addition to finding Yin Zheng and other people, but also through the dredging relationship to get the murderer and the police.
When everyone wanted to break up, he arranged for people to lock the manor and re-enjoined everyone with bold words, such a figure is naturally very critical and in line with the temperament of the leader.
In fact, these two characters are very critical, but also the core of the team, similar to the role of Tang Monk and Sun Wukong, one is charging forward, and the other is responsible for the general direction. But in the film, as coordinators and key points, they are still almost on fire. We can look back at the promotional poster of "Fame and Fame" and find that in fact, in the poster, the story ending of each character has been revealed.
In addition to the faces of the characters on the poster, the largest proportion of the page is a painting.
This painting is also depicted in the film. As an important physical evidence at the scene of the crime, although this painting is mainly used as a stepping stone in the play, the amount of information it hides is the largest, which is very unsimple.
The painting was painted by the Romantic master Delacroix, whose best-known work is the world-renowned "Freedom Leads the People".
The painting that appears in the film is called The Death of Sadanapala. Sadhanapala was the king of the ancient Assyrian kingdom, and after his defeat, he chose to commit suicide. This painting depicts him before he committed suicide.
There are also many characters in the painting, including black slaves leading horses, warriors with knives, cowardly servants, and beautiful women, and each person has a completely different expression, there is anger, there is a cry for help, there is struggle, there is indifference. The whole painting is filled with tension, slaughter and even numbness, which forms a strong interaction with the film.
In the movie, the murderer is an aide-de-camp who leads the horse, and when he kills people, he also uses a short knife, and the three elders are also extremely happy with the sound of dogs and horses, and the red tone of the painting is also consistent with the ending of the film where the villa is burned. At the end of "Fame and Fame", the accident between two ships in Vietnam that was inadvertently revealed also implied that a killing spree was underway.
When these clues are connected together, we will find that in fact, this painting is the core and key point of the whole movie, everyone is actually a character in the painting, and everyone's fate has long been arranged.
It is precisely because of this arrangement of God's perspective that everyone becomes the protagonist, not just one person. This is also the main reason why everyone likes this movie, because everyone is pleasantly surprised to find that we can actually find the character we like in the film.
As the director said, "How to make every character like the audience and do it more full is also a more difficult thing." Now it seems that different audiences have their own favorite characters, and I think that our efforts have not been in vain. ”
Interestingly, at the end of the film, when these filmmakers learn the truth, they do not choose to escape, but bravely stand up, and they finally choose to promote justice even if they sacrifice, which is in stark contrast to the initial conspiracy.
From the early revelation to the rise of the later stage, the film uses a seemingly great ending, to prove that the filmmakers' conscience is still there, and they can also achieve a big cause. No wonder that for the ending, many people say that this movie is a love letter written by filmmakers to the audience.
When the film was about to be released, the director posted a paragraph on the social platform with special meaning, "This movie is going to be released today, called "Fame and Fame", it also has a name, called No Shame. ”
This obviously has a soul-stirring meaning for other filmmakers. So frank and positive energy, it is no wonder that it is very good for the taste of the true temperament of The Man Wu Jing.
In fact, it is not only the filmmakers who are full of expectations, as Han Han said, there will be a shadow of each of us in the play. Although we are not necessarily brave in life, just like the final choice made by the characters in the play, it is worthy of the heart, that is, to complete a kind of "fame" in the heart.