No.578 "Hurricane Waves" 69 points
Movie on: December 10
Movie location: Broadway Cinema Guorui City Store
Attendance: 15
This year's successive introduction and release of disaster genre films such as "Jurassic World 2", "Raging Monsters", "Skyscraper Rescue" and other box offices have easily exceeded 100 million, and "Jurassic World 2" has even reached 1.7 billion. But overall, the number of disaster films this year is not very large, especially the lack of disaster films with the main love theme. December 7 landed in the mainland theater line "Shock Waves" is a long-lost love disaster film, when released in North America, "Waves of Waves" box office performance is eye-catching, only three days after the release of the box office won 11.5 million US dollars, to the deadline, the global box office has reached 52 million US dollars, however, the film did not usher in the Chinese market "big hit", to the deadline, the product only received more than 8 million box office in four days before the deadline, although the disaster film is very attractive to Chinese audiences, but in the overwhelming wave of "Aquaman", Only 15% of the scheduling is difficult for the audience to see, especially the weekend schedule is less than 10%, and it is normal that the results are not ideal.
Plot A combination of love and disaster
Based on true events, Hurricane Waves is based on the 1983 Pacific Hurricane Shipwreck. As focused on the shipwreck as Titanic, the film tells the story of Tammy Oldham (Sherlyn Woodley), a young seafarer, and her fiancé Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) who encounter the strongest hurricane across the Pacific Ocean, and after the storm, Tammy has to face the destruction of the sailboat, Richard's serious injury, and no rescue, Tammy's tenacious willpower and courage in the face of adversity. "Hurricane Waves" breaks the chronological narrative of most disaster films, and uses cross-editing techniques to break a complete time clue into two parallel story lines, alternating between the male and female protagonists who meet and fall in love and survive after the disaster. This treatment adds to the suspense of the story on the one hand, and at the same time shows that nature will brutally destroy everything without warning after giving the couple warmth. Tenacity and optimism have become the hardest core points of the film.
Creator How beautiful the scenery is, how cruel the disaster is
Born in Iceland, the director of "Crashing Waves" battassa Komaku, who won the Icelandic Ida Award for Best Director three times, was born in Iceland and his early works were known for their excellent visual experience, and what he was best at was shooting real natural survival stories, such as "Desperate Altitude", which was adapted from the real adventure events of 1996, and "The Abyss", which was adapted from the 1984 deep-sea shipwreck.
In order to bring the real events that have caused a sensation around the world to the big screen, Comakku insisted on shooting on the high seas and filming in Tahiti, saying, "When you are in the middle of the sea and let the waves roll, such a feeling is difficult to fake with special effects." In order to shoot the breathtaking scenery and tragic disaster, the film invited Oscar cinematographer Robert Richardson, who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times for Hugo, The Aviator, and The Assassination of Kennedy, and the screenwriters included Aaron Kandel and Jordan Kandel, the two co-writers of the animated film Ocean's Edge.
Characters The shipwreck witness recognizes the performance
Filmed on location in Tahiti, "Hurricane Waves" contrasts the ultimate beauty of the ocean with the brutality of the hurricane, setting off the sweetness of the hero's and heroine's love with a ruthless disaster. In order to ensure the quality of the film that restores the real events, the main creative team consulted a large number of relevant materials during the preparation period, and examined the details such as hurricane data and the degree of damage one by one. Tammy, who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Film, said that she was two-thirds of the ocean scenes, spending 12 to 14 hours a day in the water during filming, and the crew was surrounded by 50 bull sharks. In order to play the role of Tammy, Woodleigh also deliberately met the prototype character Tammy to understand the course of events, when filming in Fiji, Tammy also came to the set for two weeks, after watching the full film, she fully recognized Woodley's performance, in addition, Richard's actor Sam Clafrin, who starred in "The Hunger Games" and "Before Meeting You", he spent 10 days living on the ship, "There are very few action scenes in the film, and most of my scenes are to inspire Woodley with emotion, which is a big test of the performance." ”
The market is too literary to be recognized
Jiang Yong, a film market expert, said that taking "Antarctic Love", which was also a domestic love disaster film in February this year, as an example, "Antarctic Love" unexpectedly received a comprehensive box office of 230 million, at least it can show that the genre itself has a lot of box office space." Therefore, the box office performance of "Hurricane Waves" lies in the word-of-mouth play of the movie. "The Hurricane Waves" was dismal at the box office, the film received a rating of 6.9 on Douban, the overall quality is decent, not amazing, Jiang Yong added, "the budget is $35 million, only a small cost in the disaster genre, no grand narrative, not too dependent on special effects, based on real events and focus on restoring realistic details." "The rhythm is gentle, the photography is beautiful, the literary tone is very strong, and a large number of pages describe the love of the male and female protagonists, so it seems that the genre boundaries of the film are not obvious."
Written by/Beijing News reporter Zhou Huixiaowan