In last year's Spring Festival file, Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown 3" was finally launched after a year of audience expectations, but unexpectedly, this work became the worst of the three.
However, due to the fact that Tang Detective IP has a huge fan base, coupled with the fact that the films that have been fixed and withdrawn at the same time have chosen to be released at other points in time, Chen Sicheng must wait until the Spring Festival file, which makes people can't help but wonder, how much confidence Does Chen Sicheng have in "Tang Detective 3", will he choose to be in the Spring Festival file such a fierce film gathering period, and other high-quality works are tough?
Facts have proved that Chen Sicheng's vision is accurate enough, although the quality of the works is unsatisfactory, resulting in unsatisfactory word of mouth, but the box office of more than 4.5 billion yuan still proves that Chen Sicheng chose the Spring Festival file to only make money.
However, the decline in word-of-mouth also made the "Tang Detective" series go to a strange road, although Chen Sicheng left an open-ended ending, but there was no news that there would be "Tang Detective 4", but Chen Sicheng did not fall silent, but quickly launched his new work "Mozart in Outer Space".
Leaving Wang Baoqiang, Liu Haoran, Chen Sicheng's new film ushered in the new Wang Explosive lineup, bringing together Fan Wei, Huang Bo, Yao Chen and other powerful actors, and the young actors chose Rong Zishan, who was popular with "The Hidden Corner". Without making suspense and comedy, Chen Sicheng still did not disappoint us, and the release won 2 championships, and the momentum was quite rapid.
First, choose the right file period to do more with less
Affected by the epidemic, many domestic films have not been able to go online this year, a large part of the works are fixed at the beginning of the year, selected in the Dragon Boat Festival, May 1 these popular files, but due to the impact of the environment have been withdrawn, Chen Sicheng's "Mozart in Outer Space" selected in the summer file, can be described as to ensure the movie-watching crowd, there is enough time for the box office fermentation.
Judging from the Box Office rankings of Chinese movies, those in the front have chosen the Spring Festival or summer slots, of which "Wolf Warrior 2", "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" and "I Am Not a Medicine God" have chosen the summer slots.
Not only that, but there is only one comedy film currently scheduled for July, "Mozart in Outer Space", and the other films themselves are not as strong as this film, and there is almost no possibility of surpassing it.
Closer to this work, it is also a number of romance films in the Tanabata file that can have an impact, but during this period, "Mozart in Outer Space" has long enough time to make a lot of money at the box office.
And the "Life Events" that is being released has also been online for 23 days, and at present, both the proportion of the film and the proportion of the box office are far lower than that of "Mozart in Outer Space", which will not have too much impact on this new film, it can be said that this time Chen Sicheng chose the right one.
Second, there is no threshold for comedy themes
Comedy-themed works have always been pleasing, but at present, there are too few high-quality comedies in the domestic film market, and the last one recognized by the audience is the Spring Festival "This Killer Is Not Calm", which was originally launched this year, but they were continuously postponed due to the epidemic.
Whether it is a young audience or a middle-aged and elderly audience, the acceptance of comedy movies is very high, almost no threshold, so "Mozart in Outer Space" is a work that is very suitable for the whole family to watch.
Judging from the story content told in this film, it mainly depicts the rebellious teenagers in adolescence, from his experience and outlook on life, trying to get rid of the behavior of his father's control, many teenagers can see their own shadows, and roles such as Ren Dawang are the true portrayal of parents.
Third, show the Chinese style of family relationship
Comedy movies that can be widely recognized by the audience, such as "Charlotte Troubles", "Hello, Lee Huan Ying", etc. are all added to the core of tragedy under a comedy shell, and after making the audience smile, they can't help but cry. The main reason for this is that these films have added elements of family affection.
"Mozart in Outer Space" shows us a Chinese-style family relationship, the three grandchildren live under the same roof, the grandfather and grandson are particularly close, is a common generation in life, and the grandfather is very supportive of the grandson's preferences, knowing that he loves astronomy, he bought him an astronomical telescope.
But the grandfather is very strict with his son Ren Dawang, because of amnesia, in his eyes, his son Ren Dawang is in the stage of shaping his life, obviously his son likes rock and roll, but he has to let his son try folk music singing.
Ren Dawang did the same to his son, knowing that he liked astronomy and had an infinite yearning for the universe, but he desperately wanted to cultivate him into Lang Lang, because in Ren Dawang's view, this was the best choice for his son's life.
Both fathers are out of the psychology of not letting the child take a detour, in the name of I am good for you, trying to control their son's life, which is indeed suffocating, but from their body we can see a lot of commonalities. Ren Dawang will rebel against his father, just as his son will rebel against Ren Dawang, and his parents' expectations always feel superfluous.
However, in addition to all kinds of unpleasantness, you can see many warm moments, the father's joy when the son won the award, and the praise of the grandfather, all of which make people feel warm. The Chinese-style family relationship is such that there is resistance and obedience, and it is constantly understood in the heartache.
Fourth, the big coffee gathered together
How accurate is Chen Sicheng's casting? It can already be seen in "Detective Chinatown", but I did not expect that this time in "Mozart in Outer Space" he will bring together comedy celebrities.
Fan Wei's appearance in the film is simply the biggest Easter egg, even if it is only his own monologue, it can make people laugh until they can't stop. Fan Wei wears a colorful vest with a shirt, which has a sense of déjà vu that even as he grows older, he must maintain a gentlemanly posture, but the fake hood and the silk scarf wrapped around his body make him look more and more like a grandmother.
Huang Bo plays rock with pigtails, but wears the most commercial suit shirt, under this regular and wild appearance, hiding a heart that loves rock but is old-fashioned, which is a typical tangled body. The most impressive scene in the film is to beat eggs with the rhythm of music, and it is funny to be able to make such an ordinary action of beating eggs, I am afraid that only Huang Bo can do it.
Yao Chen's comedian attributes were stimulated again in this film, and the villain trio formed by Yu Yang and Xu Juncong, various "extreme operations" that exposed IQ brought countless laughs.
Rong Zishan's performance also did not disappoint at all, playing this role is more suitable for age, his acting skills are far beyond his peers, against Fan Wei, Huang Bo will not be timid.
Chen Sicheng, who is so good at suspense dramas, can also occupy a place in the field of comedy, and this new work is really amazing!