Recently, the real-time box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" has exceeded 5.396 billion, although it is impossible to break the box office record of "Wolf Warrior 2", but it has broken another 4-year record.
At 5.396 billion yuan, or $822.8 million, that number surpassed the $822.3 million box office record set by female director Patti Jenkins in the 2017 film Wonder Woman.
Jia Ling officially became the highest-grossing female director of a single film in the world!
As soon as this news came out, two voices immediately appeared on the Internet.
Some people feel that this is the light of Chinese films, and the success of "Li Huanying" proves that the film that can touch people's hearts and resonate is a good movie, and Jia Ling deserves this honor.
Some people think that this is the shame of Chinese films, a sketch adaptation of the film, can actually circle more than five billion box office, Jia Ling is a typical opportunistic trick.
So, "Hello, Li Huanying" is not worthy of such a box office, can Jia Ling crown this crown?
Today we will take stock of the top 10 box office of films independently directed by female directors around the world, and see what kind of position "Li Huanying" is in in these ten films.
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Director: Anne Fletcher
Release date: 2009
Douban score: 7.2 points
Box Office: $317 million
Starring Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock and "Green Lantern" Ryan Reynolds, the film tells the story of a female demon leader who pretends to marry a male assistant to cheat the immigration bureau in order to save her visa, and finally fakes the real thing.
This is a typical Hollywood light comedy movie, a movie that knows the ending at the beginning, but this kind of movie still has a huge audience.
The CP setting in the movie is also very typical, one is a strong woman with a humble appearance and a young girl in the heart, and the other is a male assistant who looks handsome and gasy, and the process of opening the heart step by step from the contract lover is a dream script in the hearts of countless girls.
It seems that foreign and domestic audiences, like those at home, have no resistance to comedy.
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Director: Mimi Ryder
Release date: 1998
Box Office: $335 million
Before 2000, there were various rumors of "the end of the millennium", so many "apocalyptic" movies were born in the film industry.
This "Heaven and Earth Collision" is a typical representative, as a science fiction film, the plot of this film is actually very simple.
Comet to hit the earth, human beings with nuclear bombs to stop, nuclear bombs will blow the comet into a large and a small two parts, small particles of comets have 500 billion tons, hit the earth to cause tsunamis, the city instantly became purgatory.
The large-grained comet is also coming, and humanity is facing extinction, so people have implemented the Noah's Ark plan for a final life-and-death escape.
The film's two main cast members are well known to everyone, and Ilya Wood later became the star of "The Lord of the Rings".
Morgan Freeman played the black president of the United States in the film, and his performance was warm and powerful, which was impressive.
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Director: Nancy Meyers
Release date: 2000
Douban score: 7.0 points
Box Office: $374 million
Like "Fake Marriage", this film is also a typical Hollywood light comedy, and the story is also a love story between male subordinates and female bosses, but it adds a bit of fantasy color.
After the male subordinate was electrocuted at home, he obtained a strange mind-reading technique that could read the woman's heart.
He was dissatisfied with the female boss, so he went to eavesdrop on the female boss's voice, but found that the female boss had a good feeling for him, he wanted to use this good feeling to tease the boss, but he did not expect to mistakenly fall in love with the female boss who was intolerable.
The plot of the whole movie is still the kind of way from the happy enemy to the confidant, but the audience eats this routine, which is why it sold well at the box office.
In 2011, Andy Lau and Gong Li starred in "I Know the Woman's Heart", which was a remake of this film, but because there were too many advertisements in the film, the reputation collapsed and the box office hit the street.
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Directed by: Catherine Hardwick
Release date: 2008
Douban score: 7.5 points
Box Office: $408 million
The film was a real hit that year, the novel of the same name was a bestseller of the year, beating Harry Potter in terms of sales, and the novel was adapted into a movie, which was also very novel at first glance.
After the 17-year-old beautiful girl Isabella transferred to school, her table mate turned out to be a vampire handsome brother Edward, the two fell in love at first sight, but the smell of the girl was the vampire's favorite taste, so our male protagonist struggled between appetite and love, and the two began a wonderful human ghost love.
Looking back on this film many years later, I feel that it is not satisfactory, it is essentially a vampire version of the Mary Sue romance, and the bridges in the film are all leftovers played by Aunt Qiongyao, and it is really boring after putting aside the vampire setting.
Even robert, the actor, said in an interview many years later that he felt that the novel "The Twilight Zone" was smelly and long, and should not be published at all, and the film became a masterpiece that he did not want to mention.
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Director: Betty Thomas
Douban score: 7.1 points
Box office: $443 million
"Rat Noble" is a Hollywood low-child animation film, the main audience is children, the plot is somewhat similar to Zheng Yuanjie's fairy tale "Canned Villain", telling the story of a depressed musician who meets three chipmunks who can only rap, and three little guys help musicians compose songs, this film became the most popular film at the 2008 Children's Choice Awards.
To "Rat Noble 2" or continue the first part of the low juvenile wind, on the basis of the original version added three female chipmunks, the personality is almost designed according to the male version, the plot is still a shaping plot, but added a little male and female fight small material.
Although "Rat Noble 2" sold well at the box office, it was also criticized by the audience as a money-grabbing sequel.
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Director: Sam Taylor Johnson
Release date: 2015
Douban score: 5.4 points
Box Office: $570 million
The film that was all the rage at that time began to blow god-like.
As soon as the film was released in France, it was full, and more than 80% of the movie theaters were women, including an 80-year-old grandmother who came to watch the movie on crutches.
In China, its popularity is also very high, in fact, this movie is a movie that will not feel awkward when watching movies with parents.
The male and female protagonists are bluffing most of the time, watching you like a needle felt, to put it bluntly, it is a game of family between the male and female protagonists.
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Director: Felida Lloyd
Box Office: $610 million
A lively and jubilant song and dance film, how thin the story is, how explosive the dance is.
007, the female devil, Amanda, Cooper and other big names danced on the screen without a word, very happy.
The whole movie is full of a crazy and stupid temperament, filmed on a small Greek island, but under the background of awkward songs and awkward dances, it seems to be contaminated with the temperament of the square dance aunt, which makes people dizzy.
It is suitable for when you are in a bad mood, go without a brain, and after reading it, you will completely empty yourself.
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Director: Lu Yinrong (Korean)
Release date: 2011
Douban score: 8.0 points
Box Office: $666 million
It is another typical Hollywood cartoon, because there are a lot of Chinese elements, which really caught fire in China ten years ago.
The stories of this series are very simple, but the laughs are dense, the action scenes are also fully integrated with traditional Chinese martial arts, and the rich Chinese cultural elements are shown in many details.
At that time, this film hit us hard in the face, when Chinese filmmakers blindly made blockbusters to flatter foreigners, and they did not expect that foreigners would use a simple story to show the connotation of oriental culture in full.
Unfortunately, 10 years later, Chinese films have not made an animated film comparable to "Kung Fu Panda".
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Directed by: Patti Jenkins
Release date: 2017
Box Office: $822.3 million
In the context of Marvel's mid-rise and DC decline, the emergence of this "Wonder Woman" has greatly boosted the morale of the DC Universe.
This super British film, the script is solid, the characters are plump, the narrative is smooth, the action is sharp, and the key is that it is filmed by an unknown female director.
Female directors are the best at filming women, and Gayle Gadot in the film shows what is called a goddess in all directions.
In addition, the film also shows the advantages of female directors, who can use a lot of preparation and visual filling to show the emotions of the characters under the premise of ensuring the scene and visual effects.
The female perspective in the film is also very interesting, such as the female protagonist saving the male protagonist, and the female protagonist watching the male protagonist take a bath.
The only deficiency is that the villain shapes Guo Yue weakly, and the shape is also powerless to spit out.
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Director: Jia Ling
Release date: 2021
Douban score: 8.1 points
Box Office: $5.396 billion ($822.8 million)
Finally speaking of "Li Huanying", about the praise of this film, the audience has heard calluses in the past few months.
From the technical point of view of the film, this movie is full of loopholes, and the actor's acting skills are not too explosive.
But it wins primarily in sincerity.
On the one hand, the movie has the setting of the funny plot of the happy twist style, and on the other hand, it has the kind of directly poking family affection expression that the happy twist does not have.
And this sincerity is not created, but Jia Ling is refined according to her own real experience, it cannot be copied.
Therefore, it is foreseeable that after the success of "Li Huanying", there will be a large number of "small category movies", but "Li Huanying" is destined to become a lone product in the history of film because of its emotional uniqueness.
Well, the above is the top 10 at the box office for female directors.
Here's a little Easter egg for you.
In fact, strictly speaking, the Wachowski sisters, the directors of the "Matrix" series, are also female directors, and the trilogy of this series has a box office of $466 million, $742 million, and $427 million, respectively, and the numbers should be included in this list.
But because Wachowski was still two brothers at the time of filming the series, they only underwent gender reassignment surgery to become women a few years after the film was released, so this list does not have them.
Okay, back to the theme.
To be honest, before the inventory, I still lacked confidence in "Li Huanying", after all, this movie is a chinese self-contained sketch film, and it is difficult for foreign audiences to recognize.
However, after taking stock of the other 9 movies, we can see that "Li Huanying" stands out from the box office and the word of mouth of the movie.
Other movies are either love gimmicks, or juvenile cartoons, or Assembly Line Hollywood comedies, or super British movies and vampire movies with no humanistic connotations.
The sincerity of "Li Huanying" is particularly precious in these films, it should become the glory of Chinese films, and the honor of Jia Ling, the first female director, is also full of gold.
I hope that in the future, we can see more and more records being broken by Chinese movies, we should not be arrogant, let alone arrogant, Chinese movies, really good!
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Mu Yi)