"Manslaughter 2" is scheduled to be released on December 17, and has now opened a screening in the country, with good reviews, and it seems that it will become a major player in the New Year file.
Mentioning manslaughter IP reminds people of the release of "Manslaughter", which was not optimistic two years ago, which grossed 1.3 billion yuan at the box office, becoming the biggest dark horse in the New Year file that year. "Manslaughter 2" was produced by Chen Sicheng and starred by Xiao Yang, and at the same time, the newcomer director Dai Mo was used, and the actors joined Ren Dahua, Wen Yongshan, Li Zhiting and others.
The main tone of "Manslaughter 2" and "Manslaughter" is the same, the film mainly tells the story of Lin Zhilang (xiao Yang) and his wife Ah Ling (Played by Wen Yongshan), and his son Xiao Worm has been living a poor but happy life, until his son Xiao Worm suddenly needs help in an accident, after several twists and turns, the desperate Lin Ri Lang decided to give it a go in order to save his son. He made a shocking plan.....
It can be seen that "Manslaughter 2" still tells the story of the father who let go of his hand to save his children, but according to Xiao Yang, this is not a sequel to "Manslaughter", but a new story of new characters. Can the new "Manslaughter 2" continue the box office miracle? These differences are the main points of interest.
The adaptations are different
As we all know, "Manslaughter" is adapted from the Indian reality movie "Manslaughter and Concealment of Heaven", and the original Douban score of 8.6 is enough to show its wonderfulness. Since then, the remake of "Manslaughter" is mostly the same as the original film, with slight changes at the end of the story. Douban score 7.5, the major platforms have been endless discussions, but also enough to confirm that it is a qualified remake.
The upcoming "Manslaughter 2" is also a remake, adapted from the American film "Imminent". Unlike "Manslaughter", no one is killed in this film, and it also involves complex real-life issues such as "doctor-patient relationship" and "vulnerable groups". If you want to fit the theme of "manslaughter", you must make a larger adaptation, and whether it will be better or overturned is also the focus of everyone's attention.
The protagonist is set differently
The protagonist of "Manslaughter", Li Weijie, has a happy family and is a veteran film fan who has read countless films. When one day his daughter is raped and killed by mistake, he creates a series of fogs to protect her daughter's reputation and fights with the police. Throughout the film, Li Weijie is wary of others in order to protect his family, and does not belong to the villain from a standpoint.
In the new story of "Manslaughter 2", Lin Rilang chose to hijack the hospital because his son's urgently needed heart was stolen and he was forced into a desperate situation without a way to help, hoping to get his heart back. This father's image is more like a good and evil, sacrificing the happiness of others to protect his family. Of course, during this period, Lin Zhilang also experienced the pull of ethics and rules, but he still decided to take the risk in the end. Such a role setting is more layered and more interesting than Li Weijie.
The focus is different
If "Manslaughter" is to cover up the criminal facts of the daughter's murder by mistake or to protect the daughter's reputation, she is forced to fight the police misguided. Then "Manslaughter 2" is the ultimate outbreak to break the tricky dilemma, ask for help from many parties, and suppress to the extreme.
This also leads to differences in the film's shooting methods and plot directions, and the passivity of disguise and the characteristics of the characters themselves combined with the shooting methods of montage add more suspense to "Manslaughter". The initiative of Lin Zhilang in "Manslaughter 2" is stronger, which can also be seen from the several official trailer albums, and the bold guess that the film will explore good and evil and the gray areas in it from the perspective of human nature.
The focus points are different
As mentioned above, "Manslaughter" is intended to highlight the sense of suspense, so it will pay more attention to the laying of details and the perfect closed loop of the plot in the development of the plot, so that the audience can't help but wonder whether each scene has another meaning. The whole film focuses on the image of "sheep", and at the same time echoes the English title of the film, "Sheep Without a Shepherd".
In order to interpret the complexity of human nature, it is inevitable that the film's large plot will be tilted towards the relationship between the characters. From the confrontation between Xiao Yang and Ren Dahua in the trailer, it can be seen that Ren Dahua shouted advice outside through a window, and the eye contact between the two was very anxious. Ren Dahua's final smile also made the audience wonder whether there was still room for this matter to turn around, and that glass was like the last line of defense between Xiao Yang and evil.
Narrative spaces are different
The plot of "Manslaughter" is full of coolness, and in order to have a good sense of texture, the space for describing the entire event is very wide. Involving a number of main scenes such as the hiding place, the police station, and the protagonist's home, the plot line is relatively long, which can highlight the "suspense" and "doubt".
"Manslaughter 2" is more like a group portrait stage, the story takes place in the hospital, and most of the scenes in the film are also related to the hospital, small squares, clinics, operating rooms, wards, etc. The narrative space is relatively limited, and the story unfolded by this is more explosive, and the contradictions and conflicts are more concrete.
The intertwining of family affection and crime, social topics, from the extreme conditions of personal choices to trigger the torture of human nature, this father can successfully break the situation? How exactly did this game come to be won? Let's look forward to it together.