Nandu News The Korean comedy film "Extreme Occupation", directed by Lee Byung-hyun and starring Yoo Seung-yong, has received high word-of-mouth reviews since its release in South Korea on January 23 this year, and has set a box office record in the local area.
However, the movie's comedic "fried chicken shop" drug-enforcement story reminds Chinese audiences of another movie that has long been released in China, "Lobster Police". According to the understanding, the theme of the two films, "crashing", is not "plagiarism", but the result of a "joint development plan for Chinese and Korean stories".
Different operations for the same script
The film "Extreme Occupation" combines the two commercial film genres of police gangsters and comedy, telling the story of five detectives with different personalities forming an anti-drug team, camouflaged in the form of a fried chicken shop to spy on the opposite side of the drug dealer's lair, but the business of the fried chicken shop unexpectedly and quickly explodes, thus adding many unexpected comedic elements to the confrontation between the anti-drug team and the drug dealer.
The domestic movie "Lobster Police", directed by Li Xinyun and starring Wang Qianyuan and Yuan Shanshan, also has almost the same story framework, the only difference is that When Wang Qianyuan went undercover, he did not open a fried chicken shop of "Korean Oba", but a crayfish shop with Chinese characteristics.
However, this "crash" incident is not an accidental coincidence or plagiarism, nor is it as simple and rude as director Li Xinyun said, "I like to eat crayfish, so I created a script". According to South Korean media reports, this is the result of a "Sino-Korean Story Joint Development Plan". The first version of the script created by a newcomer Korean screenwriter was selected for the plan, while "Extreme Occupation" and "Lobster Police" are based on this original script, and the scripts are polished and localized by different production companies in China and South Korea. The two films began to operate at the same time, but "Lobster Cop" was produced more quickly, so it was released half a year earlier than "Extreme Occupation".
Different outcomes for the same plot
"Lobster Police" was released in China in June last year, but even with the word-of-mouth blessing starring wang Qianyuan and the special performance of the comedy king Shen Teng, its Douban score was only 4.9 points, which was criticized for being barely laughed at. The cumulative total box office in China is only 68.79 million yuan.
It is also a stupid and cute police comedy commercial film that does not pursue deep and dense laughter, and "Extreme Occupation" has made a fully hilarious "stress reduction god film". There is a huge gap between the word-of-mouth box office of the two films, and the reason is of course not that there is any advantage or disadvantage between "fried chicken" and "crayfish". Judging from the color of the finished film of "Lobster Police", the production system behind it is complete, and it is by no means a shoddy work at the production level such as sound and picture performance, so the gap between the two is actually irrelevant to the clichéd gap in the maturity of the Chinese and Korean film industries. The real gap in "Lobster Cop" is that the production team's polishing of the details of the story and laughter points is not serious and high enough, underestimating the audience. On the contrary, "Extreme Occupation" is through the unremitting efforts of the creative team, trying to achieve the ultimate state of commercial films and be worthy of the audience. The creative team's serious approach to commercial films and the amount of effort they put into it are the main reasons why the two films have achieved different results.
Author: Sanshi Konstein