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Chen Sicheng won again.
The new film "Manslaughter 2" was released for 7 days, breaking 500 million at the box office, ranking first in the week, twice as much as "Manslaughter 1".
But "Manslaughter 2" was well received at the box office, but the reviews were poor.
Some netizens suggested that the story is good, and the logic cannot be self-consistent.
For example, a bug at the end of the story: the male protagonist decided to give his heart to the child.
However, to transplant a heart, the height and weight of the donor and the recipient must be close, and the adult's heart is very compatible with the child.
Many people who want to watch suspense blockbusters feel very disappointed after watching "Manslaughter 2", as if watching the web drama "Crazy Heart" and "To the Father's Love We Will Eventually Die", and now the Douban score is only 6 points.
Someone pointed the signs at director Dai Mo.
But "Manslaughter 2" is Dai Mo's debut work, and to achieve such results, there is no shortage of experienced executive producers, Chen Sicheng.
Chen Sicheng, who is a "high-grossing manufacturing machine", how did he make the reputation of "Manslaughter 2" overturn?
The rollover of "Manslaughter 2" is that many people feel that Chen Sicheng's vision is problematic.
But in fact, in terms of script, Chen Sicheng selected two original films for the "Manslaughter" series, namely: India's "Manslaughter" and the United States' "Imminent End", with ratings of 8.6 and 8.4, respectively.
The story is not wrong, the question is how to tell it well.
Anyone who has seen "Manslaughter 1" will feel that "Manslaughter" is a series of heavy suspense, but in the second part it is obviously sensational to overshadow the suspense.
In less than two hours, it is difficult to think of family affection, social fairness, rights, and so many other things.
However, there are also many audience reactions, the film story flaws are not hidden, even if there are some small loopholes, it is still deeply moving.
Is there something wrong with the actors?
Xiao Yang, the star of "Manslaughter 2", because his appearance is not outstanding enough, was also ridiculed by netizens as a "middle-aged father" in "Manslaughter 1".
Before being selected by Chen Sicheng, Xiao Yang acted in the most famous movie, that is, the self-directed and self-acting "Old Boy's Raptor Across the River", with a Douban score of only 5.7.
Image source: "Old Boy's Raptor Across the River"
But in this "Manslaughter 2", the highest evaluation by the audience is Xiao Yang's acting skills.
When the child's operating expenses did not fall, Lin Zhilang, played by Xiao Yang, watched the traffic police issue tickets on the side of the road, and the traffic police had a gun pinned to their waists. A tear slipped from the corner of Lin Rilang's eyes.
Not only did Xiao Yang play beyond normal, but other actors did not step on the pit.
Wen Yongshan's wife Ah Ling, always maintains the forbearance and decency of the poor class, in order to play Ah Ling, Wen Yongshan also specially darkened her skin color, appeared in the camera with a plain face, and performed the dry and haggard of the sick child's mother.
In addition to the protagonist couple, Ren Dahua, Li Zhiting, and Chen Yuzheng are all acting online.
Looking back on his previous experience, Chen Sicheng's casting has always been very set.
For example, in the previous "Tang Detective" series for the first time to use the "small fresh meat + uncle" combination, liu Haoran was only 17 years old at the time, half of the shooting, he also took leave to participate in the college entrance examination.
Chen Sicheng selected Liu Haoran from a group of young men by letting them play Truth or Dare with 20 girls.
After the game, Chen Sicheng asked the girl to write the name of the boy she liked on the paper, and Liu Haoran got the most votes.
Through a game, Chen Sicheng discovered Liu Haoran's audience popularity, and since then he has become the royal male protagonist of the "Tang Detective" series.
It can be seen that the reason why "Manslaughter 2" overturned is not Chen Sicheng's poor vision. So why?
Dai Mo, director of "Manslaughter 2", said: "The two films in the Manslaughter series are emotionally continuous, both are a father who saves a family or protects a family and saves his own children. ”
It also follows some of the original team of "Manslaughter": "The supervising producer is still Chen Sicheng, and the starring actor is Xiao Yang." ”
Good experience can be used, which is the first rule of Chen Sicheng's use of routines that believe that "movies are magic".
For example, robbers must be kind in their bones, and they do bad things because they have bitter intentions.
When the protagonist Lin Rilang coerces the police to find the heart, he pretends to shoot the SWAT officer, which is actually just a pose.
The purpose of this design is to arouse the empathy of the audience.
Another example is to create tension in a closed environment, chains lock all doors, close elevators, and dim lights.
In order to escalate this tension, it is also necessary to add a pregnant woman, so that everyone feels that danger can occur at any time, and even pregnant women cannot escape.
However, the reputation of "Manslaughter 2" has turned over, and Chen Sicheng's routine should not be blamed.
Because Chen Sicheng is not only good at creating his own routines, but also upgrading routines according to the audience's preferences.
He said: "I insist that filmmaking needs to find a ratio formula that can calculate the input-output ratio. ”
The popularity of the "Manslaughter" series is actually related to Chen Sicheng's good use of routines.
These routines are not Chen Sicheng's original, but Chen Sicheng uses these small routines very exquisitely and plays a plus role.
In the original "Imminent" remake of "Manslaughter 2", there are these routines.
The key is that Chen Sicheng, who likes to play routines, is actually not bound by routines.
As early as after filming the soldier assault, Chen Sicheng was invited by Lan Xiaolong to shoot "My Regiment Leader My Regiment".
But Chen Sicheng refused, because he felt that playing one more similar movie would not help his ability.
Instead, he ran to Lou Ye to shoot "Spring Breeze Drunken Night".
Image source: "Spring Breeze Drunken Night"
At that time, "Spring Wind Drunken Night" was short of funds, people were not together, Chen Sicheng waited for a year without taking other plays, and as a result, "Spring Wind Drunken Night" helped him get a film emperor nomination at the Cannes Film Festival.
Chen Sicheng is very sober about his career plan.
During the opening of the Olympic Games, Chen Sicheng spent a month and a half writing "Beijing Love Story" and told investors: "I have to direct this TV series myself." ”
Image source: Beijing Love Story
After the "Beijing Love Story" fire, someone paid him millions of films to play with Tong Liya and make two more love dramas, which was also rejected by Chen Sicheng.
Chen Sicheng said: "I get two more love dramas, and the biggest status of the jianghu is nothing more than becoming a generation of love TV series directors." ”
Therefore, the rollover of "Manslaughter 2" cannot all let the routine back the pot.
For Chen Sicheng's evaluation, there is a sentence on the Internet: "Tang Detective 1" exposes Chen Sicheng's talent, "Tang Detective 2" exposes Chen Sicheng's ambition, and "Tang Detective 3" exposes Chen Sicheng's arrogance and prejudice." ”
It is not that Chen Sicheng cannot make a movie that is acclaimed and popular, but that in order to get a high box office, he has a low bottom line in catering to the audience, resulting in a decline in reputation.
For example, in the creation of the "Tang Detective" series, Chen Sicheng found that industry insiders and film lovers prefer "Tang Detective 1", and ordinary audiences prefer "Tang Detective 2".
Image source: Detective Chinatown 2
Because the former is closer to the reasoning genre film, but the second part is to be scheduled for the Spring Festival, it must meet the needs of "family fun".
Under such observation, "Tang Detective 3", which is still scheduled for the New Year, the suspense taste has become extremely weak, and even Wang Baoqiang has lost the aura of wit, not only can not reverse the plot at a critical moment, interact with Qin Feng, but also become a vulgar "vase", neither funny, nor acting, becoming the biggest slot point of the movie.
What the audience likes, Chen Sicheng will give, this blind pandering, let Chen Sicheng's box office ride the dust, "Tang Detective 3" soared to 4.5 billion, just released a few days, even if the ticket price is expensive to 100 yuan / Zhang, the cinema is still full.
Image source: Detective Chinatown 3
But it also made his film's reputation worse and worse.
Because Chen Sicheng, who is too smart, promotes the commercialization of the film, which reduces the artistry and thinking of the film itself.
The audience hopes to find freshness in the movie, see the surprise, a movie can be two brushes, three brushes.
Every time Chen Sicheng designs a new series, it is followed by the copy or upgrade of the routine, and the feeling of subversion is getting less and less, and he can't stand watching it a second time.
For such an evaluation, Chen Sicheng is actually not without perception.
But the reason for the blindness is his self-indulgence.
Because Chen Sicheng's success is too early.
In 2001, Chen Sicheng played the male protagonist Zhang Shuai in the movie "Judge's Mother", and won the Best Newcomer Award of the Chinese Film "Huabiao Award" and the nomination for the Best Actor of the "Hundred Flowers Award" the following year.
Image source: Judge Mom
In the later time, Chen Sicheng continued to break through himself and establish an independent film value system.
He believes that thinking about "under what circumstances people will be motivated to buy tickets to go to the cinema to see a film" is something that directors of commercial films must pay attention to.
Such values are believed to be contrary to many film lovers.
After the release of "Manslaughter 2", some netizens commented: I no longer want to watch movies related to the name Chen Sicheng.
The film industry needs big IP, big series, because these can be quickly commercialized and win the box office.
But for movies, box office and word of mouth are indispensable.
Today, although "Tang Detective 3" has a box office of 4.5 billion, it has a rating of only 5.3.
I believe that no one will chase "Tang Detective 4" again with blood boiling like that year.
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