As another masterpiece of Chen Sicheng, "Mozart of Outer Space" was expected by everyone when it was just released.
I also watched this movie because I admired the great name of director Chen Da.
But looking at it, I really couldn't watch it, I wanted to give up directly, and then I thought that this movie could be used to spit it out, so I endured the torment of brain power and finally finished watching it.
After reading it, I searched for relevant information on the Internet, and I was more determined that there was no problem with my IQ and aesthetics.
The Douban score is only 4.4 points, and the box office is only 200 million, and the bad reviews are one-sided!
Today we will analyze the real reasons for the failure of this film.
First of all, the story of the film is roughly: our protagonist, Ren Xiaotian, a junior high school boy, this classmate has lived in an environment "oppressed" by his father (traditional cultural education ideas) since childhood, and finally got rid of the oppression after accidentally getting the help of aliens. This is in line with the overall market design of Nezha, Wukong and other people who revere independent consciousness and like rebellious ideas in recent years. From this point of view, the story outline is no problem.
Let's talk about the film's hardware and software: actor acting skills online, super first-line actors, tens of billions of film emperors, Huang Bo leading actors, comedians middle-aged and elderly representative Fan Wei special starring, Yao Chen, Jia Bing, Yu Yang, Xu Juncong and other powerful actors to participate, such a luxurious configuration is also super high in this year's movie.
Two post-00s popular idols Rong Zishan and Huang Yangdian are sweet, and their beauty and appearance are also online.
The picture is beautiful and good, the special effects are not bad, and the artistic beauty of dubbing and dubbing can not be faulted.
It doesn't seem to be a problem, so what the hell is going on?
As a sci-fi superhero movie, let's make a simple comparison with Hollywood blockbusters, and maybe get the answer.
Contrast 1, transform into a superpower:
Every child aspires to be Superman
Spider-Man: A high school boy, after being accidentally bitten by a spider, gains the super power of flying over the wall, and then transforms into Spider-Man and begins to fight the evil forces and save the earth!
Such a plot is more in line with Chinese food culture
Ren Xiaotian: A junior high school boy who inexplicably receives a strange plush toy from his half-brother;
The plush toy is accidentally possessed by alien energy and turns into an alien;
Interject, how strong are the aliens in the film?
Aliens can use their minds (energies) to control classmates to move around in place and help Ren Xiaotian resist school bullying.
Aliens can use their minds (energy) to control the football back and forth, helping Ren Xiaotian win the game. (Isn't that a bit of a little soccer?) ）
Aliens can use their minds (energy) to control books, stones, and toy boats to float in the sky and help Ren Xiaotian realize their dreams.
Ren Xiaotian ate the oranges infused with the energy of the aliens, after a burst of cool special effects;
Ren Xiaotian gained the superpower to perceive the sounds of all things, is it Batman?
It is said that this ability is also quite strong, but the movie is over, and I did not see what earth-shattering things Ren Xiaotian did with this super power, and finally only borrowed a little bit and won the championship of the piano competition. Such a tiger-headed plot, such a chicken superpower, it is all tears.
Contrast 2, the first experience of love:
Love is always the most beautiful topic of human beings.
However, even in the United States, such a precocious and open social environment, Hollywood blockbusters cannot target the love of junior high school students as a central plot, starting at least in high school or above!
Spider-Man: Pete Parker is a high school student
The love of a high school student
In European and American countries, whether physically or psychologically, high school students have basically matured, whether it is mental or physical can be artistically expressed by movies, party dating, sexy and hot are common performances in European and American movies.
For example, Transformers: Sam and Mikaela are high school students
Sexy goddess is standard in Hollywood blockbusters
Ren Xiaotian:
In the current environment of the mainland, high school students are still considered to be a child, and it is not allowed to fall in love, which is early love! Not to mention junior high school students, this is a serious mistake in thinking about enlightenment!
Moreover, how much pressure is there for junior high school and high school students in our country, going home after school every day, not finishing their homework, and where is the time to fall in love?
This film revolves around the "love" of these children in a vague way, and even mixed in with "love triangle". Director Chen Da was really in a bit of a hurry.
Contrast 3, supported by scientific theories
Science fiction is inseparable from science, and without reasonable scientific assumptions and fantasies, it is not a science fiction film.
After Peter Parker is bitten by a special spider in Spider-Man, the spider's genes are also injected into Peter Parker's body, and Peter Parker's body thus gains the spider's ability!
This seems unbelievable in reality, but in the face of natural science theories such as genetic engineering and physiological chemistry, it is absolutely possible to "real", and the film also sets off this atmosphere through various scientists and laboratories.
Similarly, most of the superheroes in Hollywood blockbusters come from assists or transformations guided by natural science theories, such as Iron Man relying on computers and mechanical technology to assist, such as Captain America through seroforming, Hulk through gamma ray mutation, Deadpool through wolverine genes and cancer cells special changes to reject mutations, Wolverine's ability from Edelman alloys, and so on.
Everything Ren Xiaotian experienced was based on the theory that music is an energy.
First of all, this setting is extremely unscientific. What is music?
Music is a regular sound wave.
This lawlessness is a very subjective human perspective.
The melodic sound waves that humans find to be very regular and very good, called music, are energy.
Humans feel that the irregular noise is not good, and the aliens do not necessarily feel that it is not good to listen to the irregularity is not music, so this theoretical support is really a bit embarrassing.
Contrast 4, the theoretical support of mythological stories.
Handsome for men, sexy for women.
Science fiction is inseparable from science, and without reasonable scientific assumptions and fantasies, it is not science fiction, but mythology or fairy tale films.
European and American countries are advocating deep faith in religion, so if mythology and science fiction are mixed together, it is also natural and smooth, no problem, and it is also "real" and convincing.
For example, Thor comes from, Doctor Strange comes from, Aquaman comes from, and so on.
Long live materialism!
Our national education practices dialectical materialist atheism, and if we make a film that blends science fiction and mythology, it will seem particularly fake, particularly unreal.
Without a sense of realism, there is no sense of substitution. Without empathy, it is difficult to have a good reputation. This is a hard wound in the art creation room, and the director must pay attention.
Contrast 5, a portrayal of common sense in life
American campus
Hollywood blockbusters, although there are also many artistic exaggerations, but the basic common sense of life is still normal. Loose campus management, open community communities, although very different from our way of life, but most of them are realistic.
And what about our "Mozart in Outer Space", junior high school students have such a warm community?
Is this the real Chinese campus?
Is the club leader or a junior high school classmate who is at least 18 years old and has a driver's license?
Junior high school and elementary school in one campus, can freely travel back and forth?
Our national community is closed, let alone high school, junior high school, primary and secondary school?
A junior high school student does not even understand human life and death, how can biology be learned?
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After the comparison of the above five points, I think everyone understands it.
The film looks good, no problem. But it is: the birth is not timely, the positioning is wrong.
If this movie had been placed in the 90s and 30 years ago, it would have definitely exploded throughout the country, and it would have been crowded with thousands of people, comparable to "Little Dragon Man" and "Magic Mobile Phone"!
If this movie is positioned as a fairy tale film, it is definitely far beyond the jianghu status of "Happy YangYang Gray Wolf" and "Bear Haunting"!
How, in recent years, Hollywood blockbusters have educated domestic audiences too smartly, what parallel worlds, what Marvel universe, what quantum theory, what genetic variations, and the tight seams of various theoretical research are airtight. If domestic science fiction movies are not paid attention to, they will attract a lot of ridicule.
Of course, the director has many breakthroughs in this product, but in the end, it is doomed to failure because it does not meet the national conditions, does not conform to the times, does not conform to science, and does not conform to the crowd market!
Cinema is a culture, but also a way of life.
What the audience needs is actually to feel different lives through movies.
Good movies are like people's second lives, there are sorrows and joys, there are sour, sweet and bitter.