Text/Swimming Circle, Naranze Self Media Editorial Department
Recently, the film "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau", produced by Emperor Films, directed by Guo Zijian, starring Lei Jiayin, Li Xian, Xin Zhilei and Ge You, adapted from Ma Boyong's novel of the same name, is being screened. The film exceeded 160 million yuan in the first weekend of release, and now it has exceeded 400 million, performing well.
"Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" has also become a winner in the domestic film market before the year-end New Year slot, in addition to the interlocking, suspenseful and brain-burning plot, many classic lines spoken by the characters have also left a very deep impression on the audience.
First of all, nature is the sentence that has the effect of summarizing the whole text: "When you eliminate all the impossibilities, the rest, even if it is bizarre, is a fact."
Despite the appearance of antique treasures, "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" is still the logic of a suspenseful reasoning drama. The audience needs to follow the perspective of the protagonist group step by step to break through the fog and find the truth hidden behind the scenes.
At this time, how to reasonably explain the logical idea has become the top priority, and many reasoning works have been controversial because their criminal process is not rigorous enough and have been criticized by readers and audiences.
And as "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" said, the most bizarre events, after ruling out all the impossibilities, are facts, after all, reality may be more outrageous than fantasy, and there are countless events beyond imagination in history.
Secondly, it is the old jianghu Fu Gui of the antique industry played by Ge You who said before his death that "the best way to protect you is not to let you take care of this matter."
This role is not much in the original novel, but due to Ge You's participation, the main creative team arranged many original plots for him.
When he first appeared, he was timid and fearful, selfish, and a jerk who only cared about himself and did not care about others. As the story progresses, the complex side of the character's personality gradually emerges. He used the bronze mirror of the mother and son to set up the wish badly enough, so that people could see his cunning side. In the ancient tomb under the Jigong Temple, he picked up a gun against the "Old Chaofeng" gang, and finally said his heart to Wish before he died, which was the biggest tear point of the whole play.
Just because he had made a promise to his old friend Xu Heping, Fu Gui used his life to honor and protect his old friend's son, and I have to say that when the funny characters show a serious side, the contrast between before and after can always make the audience move.
Finally, the protagonist's wishing sentence "I will catch you; I will cut off the undercurrent of counterfeits; I will find the "Chinese Antique Account" and find back all the lost cultural relics one by one" has a summative effect on the whole film and also lays the foundation for the emergence of the second part.
Although the current box office of "Antiques Central Bureau" is still quite good among the many films at the end of the year, it has not been released for two years, and I don't know how many twists and turns there are in between. The high financial cost may make the producer have doubts about the sequel.
From the overall quality point of view, the film's actor acting skills and rhythm are still very good. In order to create a sense of tension that reverses layer by layer, the film has done a lot of exquisite design, but it also sacrifices the logic of some of the story itself, so that many viewers have a taste of suspense for suspense.
In terms of word of mouth, the movie version is currently slightly inferior to the TV series version. In this movie version, the truth of the jade Buddha head and the motivational logic of the character are not well presented. Xu Yicheng coated the shell of the real Buddha's head and created the appearance of the real Buddha's head as a fake, so as to conceal the old pilgrimage and protect the national treasure. But the reality is that he did give the Jade Buddha Head to the Japanese, although he left a backdoor, and the return of the Jade Buddha Head to China itself is unpredictable. Once the Jade Buddha Head remains in Japan, no one will be able to discover the truth.
The main creative team may have wanted to whitewash Xu Yicheng's traitor identity, but fell into another pit, directly turning this character into a "fool". Instead of this, it is better to let him blacken into a traitor, and wash away the shame of the family through the words and deeds of the male protagonist who makes a wish, which may be more pleasing to the audience.
In the end, as said in the film "Antiques Bureau", human temperament is like the pulp of antiques, unclear and unclear, but you can feel it at a glance. The same is true for the movie, the audience may not say too much, but they have always had a scale in their hearts, good or bad.
I hope that "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" can realize its own distinct advantages and disadvantages, and can also have the confidence to come up with a more powerful sequel, so that audiences who love this genre can see more and better movies of the same type.