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Author | Cucumber soda
Caption | Stills from "Four Seas"
This article was first published on the tiger sniff young content public account "That NG" (ID: huxiu4youth). Here, we present the face, stories and attitudes of today's young people.
The most dramatic picture of the Spring Festival stall appeared.
2 days after the release of "Four Seas", #Four Seas Ugly # was on the new hot search.
Up to now, the top results of the 300 million box office have been exchanged for the evaluation that can be equal to the national football team - fraud, refund, disappointment.
Comparing the other players in the Spring Festival file horizontally, the works handed over by Han Han this time are blatantly failed, with only 5.6 points.
The audience ran out of patience with Han Han for the last time. Compared with watching "Four Seas", watching the Douban comment area of "Four Seas" can feel the joy and laughter of the New Year more -
"The camera cuts like a joke, and it has nothing to do with comedy."
"Like a pot of water, it is neither like water nor tastes."
"The whole movie is like a stitching monster, everything is smeared, nothing comes to fruition."
"Look at crying, the first tear-jerking blockbuster of the year. Ugly crying. ”
In order to objectively evaluate this movie, I also spent more than 100 yuan last night to support Han Han's box office in a theater with a full attendance rate.
After observing the whole process, in the part of arranging the laughter points, the whole scene was indeed filled with pleasant air. But the more the film progresses, more and more viewers play with mobile phones. Until the end of the film, several viewers sitting in front of them got up and left, leaving a comment: inexplicable.
A sigh from the passers-by audience punctured the reason for Han Han's defeat this time. As a director, he is paranoid about repeating the same thing: cars, people, cars and people. Like an elderly old man, he constantly talks about his youth.
In the first lecture, people feel fresh and will be entertained; the second lecture, people will feel that it is not bad and will echo it; the third and fourth lectures will not leave any audience.
It is true that if you can read out the flowers, it is a generation of film masters; however, with Han Han's current directorial and screenwriting skills, it is still far from being able to support a movie that can be enshrined, or even regress at a uniform speed.
After the indefinite period (2014) 7.2 points, riding the wind and waves (2017) 6.8 points, Flying Life (2019) 6.9 points, four seas (2022) 5.6 points. Han Han, who was plummeting downwards, gradually stopped buying it.
If you can't get out of the closed loop of self-expression, maybe the next self-written and self-directed Han-style movie will have a lower rating.
Carefully open the lecture, is there any merit in "Four Seas"? Indeed there is.
The reason why this film evokes such a strong public sentiment is because the external conditions are too good to pave, and the expectations are raised.
The scenery of the island makes people can't help but feel that the aesthetic of Han Hanxuan's scenery is as good as ever.
From East Pole Island to Bayinbrook to South Australia Island, each of his film locations is delightful. Putting aside the plot, several large empty mirrors are very comfortable to shoot, and the color grading is also very advanced.
Han Han is a veritable Virgo, and the details can always be cut very carefully. If you pay attention to his film scores, you will find that all of them are carefully selected high-quality music.
Que Sera Sera and Ordinary Road in "After Forever" and "Daughter Love", which bought the copyright. The universal youth hostel in Four Seas and the pain band Flight Without Leaving the Ground. After watching his movies, the playlist can always be full again.
Image source: NetEase Cloud Music
Looking at the casting, I'm afraid everyone can appreciate Han Han's good intentions - how worried is he that "Four Seas" has been screwed up to make such a luxurious card division?
I have every reason to believe that every character in the film is something that Han Han has carefully considered. The whole movie is like a small Spring Festival Gala, calling familiar stars to go through the motions.
The "ordinary leopard print aunt" who only appeared on camera for one or two minutes was played by the ancient beauty Zhao Ziqi, Liu Haoran, who did not even have a few lines, his grandmother was played by the old drama bone Wu Yanshu, uncle Liu who took his grandmother to see the snow was played by Wan Ziliang, and Feng Shaofeng only played a small role of a traffic policeman in it.
Huang Xiaoming, who played soy sauce, was also ridiculed by netizens because he imitated Leonardo's classic actions in "The Great Gatsby". But in terms of heart, the "showta brother" played by Huang Xiaoming is already one of the few playful little highlights in this movie.
In order to highlight the racing temperament of the movie, Chen Xiaochun was also invited to play a racing driver, and as soon as he appeared on the scene, the audience realized: is it to rub the audience popularity of "Head Text D", right? Pretty clever.
Heavy supporting role Shen Teng, although appearing on the far left of the poster, actually does not appear much time. If the family audience or comedy fans buy tickets for Shen Teng, most of them will lose their luck.
In addition, the gold medal Green Leaf Yin Zheng, who assumed the same function as Shen Teng, was also a comedy tool man, but the role of the big brother he played also collapsed in the middle: swimming to swim lost.
One of these two comedic characters disappears and the other goes offline, leaving the audience halfway through and scratching their heads – thinking they're watching a comedy, only to be cheated and have an hour left to wait for you.
To tell the truth, all the actors who appeared, including the young male and female protagonists Liu Haoran and Liu Haocun, all played their acting skills in a targeted and relaxed manner, and it can even be said that basically none of the actors dragged the hind legs of the movie.
But the film still hits the street at a speed of 80 miles. Except for Han Han, no one could carry this pot for him.
As Douban commented, there are too many things that "Four Seas" wants to stitch together. Han Han has made four movies, and he still can't tell only one story at a time.
The rhythm of the whole film is scattered and twisted. After watching it, it shakes off and can sprinkle a lot of labels: father-son affection, brotherly righteousness, romance, road movies, racing movies, comedies, tragedies. Every type is said, and every type is not well said.
The opening scene is Shen Teng and Liu Haoran father and son playing.
The father who was not present, the son of the rebellious period, was almost the immutable motif of Han Hanyuan's universe. When you are full of excitement and anticipation, thinking that Han Han is going to dismantle a movie from the perspective of father-son reconciliation, Shen Teng's part suddenly stops without end.
Shen Teng's father, who has gone away and returned to look for his son, has almost no other narrative function except for throwing out the harmonic stems of "Wu Renteng" and "Wu Renyao" and a few skit passages that scratch the itch of his boots.
Immediately after, the film continued the brotherhood between Yin Zheng and Liu Haoran.
In order to catch up with Yin Zheng's sister Liu Haocun, Liu Haoran joined Yin Zheng's blind streamer motorcycle team. One second it was brotherly love, the next second Yin Zheng fell into the sea. People are gone, and only a bunch of online loans are left for the male and female owners to pay off their debts.
The brotherhood was also so trembling that it broke.
In order to repay Yin Zheng's debts, the male and female protagonists ran to Guangzhou to work.
The whole film is once again plunged into realism, focusing on how hard it is for small-town youth to work in the city. But Han Han may not have experienced the hardships of small-town youth, the second half of the film is very suspended, to be honest, this aspect of the creation should ask Jia Zhangke for advice.
After tossing and turning for half a day, the love between the bottom worker and the factory sister was not filmed.
The love line can't find an anchor, only the strands of literary and artistic lines float in the air——
"The sky won't give you the answer."
"Let's not help each other."
"Have you ever been trapped?"
"A fool would fall into it."
"I wish you an early breakfast in the future."
Looking back at 2014's "After The End", Han Han can at least write out "children make choices, adults only look at the pros and cons", "like is wanton, love is restraint" This kind of look looks quite neat at a glance, and when he looks back, he finds that there is no nutrition at all.
By 2022, even the so-called "Han Han-style golden sentences" have regressed, and they can't even find a movie line worthy of being disseminated by the Internet.
No matter how ungrounded these lines are, like a migrant boy walking on the way to work and suddenly starting to chant poetry, there is no Woody Allen's life but Woody Allen's illness.
The bigger drawback is that there are too many plots that end up in a vacuum.
For example, at the beginning of the film, it lays the groundwork for how important Grandma is to Liu Haoran, and as a result, after sending Grandma away to see the snow, the audience does not even know the whereabouts of Grandma. Did Grandma see the snow? Did you go home? The director patted and forgot.
And the sudden meaningless black screen, the inexplicable transition, the rhythm of the whole movie is cut off like a PPT -
Just thought it was the rhythm of comedy, the next scene was suddenly sensational; I was preparing to try to replace the sensationalism, and the next second there was a grand and tragic soundtrack; the tragic and strong did not slow down, and became a hot-blooded racing teenager; the hot-blooded racing car was not finished, and began to talk about the ignorant love. Halfway through the love affair, I have to go to the big city to experience the torture of reality.
The audience usually begins to wonder at the second time.
You say it's a racing film, then it's a hundred "Flying Life" with "Head Text D"; you say it is a growth movie, then it is not even as good as the debut "After Forever"; you say it is a love film, and the male and female protagonists have not been in serious love the whole time; you say it is personal heroism, and the strength is far from enough. Too many side branches cut the story line of the male protagonist into a very chaotic way.
Confused viewers, in addition to going to Douban to play bad reviews, can't even say what they have watched.
I saw a comment on the Internet that said that "Four Seas" is an extremely personal film by the creators, "People who like Han Han's article may like this film." ”
I don't think that's exactly right. Because I myself am a reader who likes Han Han's articles, but I am not an audience that likes Han Han's films.
As an IP Han, from his small lotus to his sharp horns, to his limelight and fierceness, most of the followers and onlookers are post-80s and post-90s. It is also this group that accompanies Han Han to complete the transformation from writer to director to businessman. In other words, we are even a group of people who grow up and grow old together.
The New Concept Essay Contest's "Peeping in the Cup", the "Triple Door" written in class, and then "A City", "Glory Day", "Like a Teenager Flying", "His Country". I have to admit that when I was a student, most of my classmates had several books on their desks. In our middle school days, looking at Han Han was a deliberately rebellious taste label. Learning Han Han's playfulness, humor and cold expression was the unconscious collective trend of middle school students at that time.
This filter allows us to go to the theater and applaud "After Forever". Until now, opening the Douban film review of "After The End", you can still see the affirmation from the public in 2014, as well as the audience's pull on Guo Jingming and "Small Times".
Whether it is a literary youth or a passer-by audience, the public defaults that Han Han is more likely to make good movies and make commercial literary and artistic films that truly belong to our generation.
But Han Han didn't seem to be able to catch this overly eager expectation. His films, after all, are a long history of narcissism.
The first time in the movie to lay out ungrounded literary and artistic lines, it can be said that the technique is unfamiliar and excusable. But eight years later, it is still using the same unclear lines to promote the plot and shape the characters, that is, there is no progress, even as a director's regression and laziness, can no longer hide under the golden bell cover of "personal style" and stagnate.
Racing, brotherhood, first love face heroine, Han Han style three-plate axe has now been rolled. The audience is tired of Han Han's repeated storyline for eight years, repeating the human painting skin, and repeating the golden sentences.
If he still can't find a new narrative expression and film core, then Han Han's film can only be Han Han's film after all.
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