The movie "Love Myth" was fully released in domestic theaters and achieved good box office results.
According to the statistics of Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of the morning of January 19, the box office of "Love Myth" in Shanghai has exceeded the 100 million mark, and the Shanghai box office accounts for 41.6% of the total box office in the country, such as the average ticket price of 46.7 yuan on January 19, about 2.14 million people in Shanghai have watched the film. Some insiders believe that "Love Myth" may have created a mythical record of double harvest of Shanghainese film box office and word of mouth (Douban score 8.3) in the past two decades, and some Shanghai netizens also left a message below the official Weibo of the Morning News " Can I brush three times?" ”
As of 4:23 p.m. on January 19, "Love Myth" ranked first in Shanghai in terms of box office proportion and scheduling
For this Shanghainese film, which many Shanghai citizens call worthy of two brushes and three brushes, in this issue of the Morning News Weekly "Shanghai Parlor" program, we invited four guests, Yang Xiaolin, director and professor of the Film Research Institute of Tongji University, Liu Haibo, professor of the Shanghai Film Academy of Shanghai University, He Fei, a well-known columnist, and Yu Jiali, associate professor of the School of Film and Television Media of Shanghai Normal University, to share their views.
A "drama movie" with an "aftertaste"
Yang Xiaolin: Director, Screenwriter, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of film research institute of Tongji University.
I personally believe that "Love Myth" is a "drama movie" with "aftertaste", telling several love stories "good and complex for demons" and "positive and complex for strange", with real connotations and virtual meanings, virtual reality, multiple meanings, rich meanings, and deep in the essence of "ambiguous narrative". As a "polyphonic film", several love stories are ambiguous (Editor's note: This refers to the ambiguity of film and television language).
Stills from the movie "Love Myth"
Is Lao Wu's "sexual encounter" story waiting for love or doing nothing and escaping from life? Is gloria's surprised marriage story true or false? Is the love contest between Lao Bai and Miss Li true or forced by life? These are all visible and insightful, and the audience makes their own understanding based on their own life experience. As a "drama film", the "lines" (dialogue) of this film also have the characteristics of ambiguity and subtext, more than one pun, often saying here and meaning to the other, in the playful humor or referring to mulberry scolding, or mocking and sarcastic, poisonous tongue and witty words are understandable.
In the movie "Love Myth", Xu Zheng plays Lao Bai, who is also the producer of the film
Mixed narratives originate from the deep-rooted Chinese cultural traditions of the tree. The Confucian "gentle and generous" way of speaking and handling things leaves room for taking care of "face" and not saying broken. The film's ambiguous narrative accurately tells the living conditions of contemporary urban people, and properly shows the life conditions of urban people under heavy pressure, using virtual reality, true and false to maintain self-esteem, and dissolve pain and injury.
Fully recognized by most Shanghainese
Liu Haibo: Professor of Shanghai Film Academy of Shanghai University, doctoral supervisor, and vice president of Shanghai Film Critics Society.
I congratulate "Love Myth" for its box office has begun to hit 250 million (240 million at 4 p.m. on January 19), especially congratulations to 100 million of them from Shanghai. It shows that this film that speaks Shanghainese and shoots Shanghainese has been fully recognized by most Shanghainese, which is the biggest success of the main creative team.
Xu Zheng and Wu Yue talked in the ballroom
The film is a cultural event, shanghai citizens meet to watch the movie like a happy party, with the characters on the screen gathered in the once familiar living room, dance hall and roadside café, watching the movie as if watching their past life, there is a wonderful experience of looking in the mirror. In capturing the subtleties of the audience, there is cultural resonance, gratitude expressed by kindness, and expectations for more similar works.
A good cityscape film,
Prose-style romantic comedy
He Fei: Well-known columnist, member of the Chinese Writers Association, national second-level music editor.
The building blocks of the movie "Love Myth" are cleverly built, and the stories of mature men and women that occur within a three-kilometer radius of the most Shanghainese diamond section with sycamore leaves on the top of the head (Anfu Road, Yongkang Road, Julu Road, Fumin Road and Changle Road), although headless, lazy and loose, and the logic is not strict, the umami has already let the audience ride some.
There are no obvious rushing waves in this area, but there are fireworks, there are records, and they carry certain rules and secrets. People who use too much force will think that this movie is worth two brushes and three brushes, but I personally think that it is a one-way road, a story that has been repeated over and over again, neither swinging around, nor intriguing, playing with the wind and too far away from Wong Kar-wai; but there is still some meaning, so that the two-hour movie experience is comfortable and relaxed, and then rub your mouth to run, leaving some afterscent, it is a good urban scenery film, prose romantic comedy. I look forward to more excellent film and television works in Shanghai that reflect the current urban style of Shanghai!
Every weekend there is a movie-going craze
Jiali Yu: Associate Professor, School of Film and Television Media, Shanghai Normal University, Visiting Scholar, School of Film, University of Southern California.
I looked at the data yesterday, Shanghai audiences have a long interest in the film "Love Myth", every weekend will form a movie boom, the Shanghai box office will be pushed up, weekday box office is always the top of all cities. According to the current situation, the two-week extension of the key before the Spring Festival is very good for the film, and the audience in shanghai who has not yet had time to watch the film will give priority to this film when selecting the film.
Spectators waited at the ticket gate of the SFC Studios Metro store by scanning the health code and itinerary code
At present, the intensive scheduling of films in theaters is still because the film has a good box office performance, and word of mouth continues to ferment. It is difficult to say whether there are other movies in a certain city after that, but also according to the actual situation of the movie. Judging from the current situation of spring festival films, there are no films with great relevance to the city, and I personally think that the theater line will still arrange films in accordance with the laws of the market.
Friends, Nong will go to the movie "Love Myth" to cut?
Morning News Weekly APP reporter Yan Shanshan
Image source: Movie posters and stills from Douban Movie, box office data from Beacon Pro Edition
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai