On February 14, three love movies were released at the same time, setting several new records in succession.
Ren Min and Ding Yuxi starred in "Ten Years of One Pin Wen Ru Yan", which won 143 million box office on the first day of release, squeezed "The Water Gate Bridge of Chosin Lake" to become the box office champion of the day, and broke 25 film history records.
"Don't Forget I Love You" starring Gulinaza and Liu Yihao, and "I Want to Go to Your World to Love You" starring Shi Baiyu and Zhou Still starred, also grossed a lot of money, and have set new box office records for Chinese Valentine's Day dramas and fantasy films.
Romance films are the first choice for Valentine's Day cinemas, not only the major theaters secretly exert their strength, giving the newly released love movies more scheduled films, even the network platform also takes advantage of this enthusiasm to broadcast a lot of love-themed network movies, and the most well-received of them is "The Origin of the Journey to the West".
Seeing the four words of "Journey to the West", many people will think of Zhou Xingchi and Zhu Yin, a pair of immortal couples, although they have parted ways in real life, but in "The Origin of the Journey to the West", the love between supreme treasure and Zixia is forever immortal.
Once there was a sincere feeling in front of me, I did not cherish it well, and when I lost it, I regretted it.
There is nothing more painful in the world than this.
If God could give me another chance, I would say three words to the girl, "I love you!" ”
If I had to add a deadline, I would like to say ten thousand years!
This classic line in the movie is repeatedly chanted by the real-life idiot man and woman, telling deep remorse and singing the immortality of love.
How many people have a deeply missed person in their hearts, and how many sadness and regrets have left their love in vain?
Now more than twenty years later, this film has experienced the test of time and become a classic that cannot be ignored, and Zhou Xingchi and Zhu Yin have become the supreme treasure and the Purple Xia Fairy that cannot be replaced in the hearts of the audience.
Classics are difficult to surpass, but whenever someone dares to shoot "Journey to the West", the audience will naturally use more stringent standards to judge, at this point, the audience is clear, the actors are clear, and the director is clearer.
Therefore, the director did not try to recreate this story, but used nearly an hour and a half to shoot a prequel for supreme treasure and Zixia, titled "The Origin of the Journey to the West".
In this story, although Zixia and Qingxia love and kill each other, they have not yet synthesized a wick and shared a body. And the Supreme Treasure has not yet become the Qitian Great Saint Sun Wukong who makes a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, he is just an ordinary small-town youth, running a noodle shop with his father, and living a life that can be seen at a glance.
However, the Supreme Treasure would occasionally have a dream, dreaming that he was wearing a golden armor and stepping on the colorful clouds, to marry a girl as beautiful as a fairy.
Everyone laughed at him for daydreaming, until one day, the girl in the dream suddenly appeared, and she told him that her name was Zixia.
Zixia and Qingxia are twin sisters, two of whom make wicks under the Buddha's door, but only one of them can become an immortal, and the other will burn out and disappear.
Zixia's body began to show signs of burning, and it was obvious that the person who was about to burn out was her. She did not want to believe in her fate, so she ran to the Tianji Pavilion to peek at the Heavenly Machine, where she saw the Qitian Great Saint Sun Wukong, as long as Sun Wukong pulled out her sword, she could reverse the Mandate of Heaven.
Thanks to the Moonlight Treasure Box, Zixia traveled through time and space and met the Supreme Treasure. The Supreme Treasure and the Qi Tian Great Saint Sun Wukong she saw looked exactly the same, but unfortunately, in this life, he was just an ordinary little prince of the noodle shop.
No matter how hard the Supreme Treasure tried, he couldn't pull out Zixia's sword, and he couldn't change her fate that would eventually burn out.
I thought it was another doomed miss, but I didn't know it, and the change also came quietly.
In order to save the mortal Supreme Treasure, Zixia did not hesitate to use mana, you know, using mana will only accelerate her burning.
Zixia thought that she was about to die, and finally said her true words, it turned out that she had fallen in love with him in the process of getting along.
"I want to turn you into the way I like, but I can't live without you now."
You are willing to give your life for me, and so am I.
The love of the Supreme Treasure is no less than that of Zixia. He used the Moonlight Treasure Box to travel through time and space, back to the Water Curtain Cave, and Guanyin told him that qi tian dasheng was just a name, and anyone could be qi tian dasheng.
A word awakens the dreamer, the Supreme Treasure decides to transform for love, in this life, he will be her lamplighter, the lamplighter who has been bound to her for three lifetimes.
In the end, he swung thirteen thousand pounds of the Dinghai God Needle with a mortal body, and when he killed the villain, he was already seriously injured.
Before dying, he handed the Moonlight Treasure Box to Zixia, and he said, "If there is an afterlife, that person must be me."
At that time, he knew that his and Zixia's fates were already entangled.
Lighting the lamp is dependent arising, this is the first life, and it meets again in "The Great Saint Marries", which is the second life.
In the third life, he became a Western samurai and hugged Zixia on the castle tower.
This place, they have long been here, it is a fateful reunion, but also a bitter love.
Although it cannot be compared with the first two "Journey to the West", as a prequel, this movie is qualified.
It was released on Tencent Video on February 11, and as of February 15, it was released for 5 days, winning 13 championships and ranking first in the popularity list.
The success of this movie has three points, one is that "Journey to the West" comes with its own heat, coupled with a solid script, both tears and laughter, and the quality of the finished film is much better than that of ordinary network movies.
The second is the participation of Wu Mengda, which is the last film in which Wu Mengda participated, in which he plays the father of supreme treasure, a diligent and life-loving noodle shop owner.
Although Wu Mengda is not the protagonist, his role is not many, and the director even added a memory of Uncle Da in the middle of the film.
From the warm tone, it can be guessed that this is the director's nostalgia for the deceased Uncle Da.
Not only that, at the end of the film, Uncle Da's shooting routine is broadcast as an Easter egg, such a treatment, it is not too much to say that Uncle Da is the lead actor of this movie.
In addition to the IP blessing of "Journey to the West" and the emotional effect brought by Uncle Da, this movie also has a plus point is to choose the right actor, especially the right actress.
The Zixia fairy played by Zhu Yin cannot be surpassed, but the Zixia portrayed by Ma Xinrui can also be remarkable. First of all, from the appearance, the recognition is very high, the eyes are good, the contours are clear, and I don't feel amazing when I first see it, but the more I look at it, the more pleasing it is.
Many netizens have shouted Wang Jing, let him learn about casting, although the net red face is good-looking, but there is no recognition, and it is not durable, let alone can not look closely. It is often the beauty of the retouching drawings that bubble up, and it is unbearable to see as soon as they arrive in the movie.
Ma Xinrui not only looks good with an original face, but more importantly, her acting skills are also very solid.
Ma Xinrui graduated from the Shanghai Theater Academy and has 7 years of acting experience, the school flower Meng Yiran in "A Slight Smile is Very Charming", and the master sister In "Drunken Linglong", all of which are her.
7 years of supporting role experience has honed her acting skills, and this time, she successfully created a more real and grounded Zixia.
At the beginning of the purple Xia Tiger, she couldn't fly into the sky, saying that the Supreme Treasure pulled him, and then showed her arrogant and cute side, and finally, she reversed time and space again and rewrote her encounter with the Supreme Treasure.
The crowd was raging, and she was the only retrograde, walking slowly and sadly.
At every stage of Zixia, she acted out just right.
Many netizens commented that after watching so many versions of Zixia, Zhu Yin was the first and she was the second.
Do you agree?