"The Great Dad" was released for several weeks, with good word of mouth, but the box office performance may not be satisfactory.
Douban 7 points, for Chinese cinema movies, is a good result.
What's more, there are no traffic stars in the whole film, and this rating does not have the slightest "fan filter" moisture.
Although it cannot be regarded as a masterpiece, there is no doubt that there are highlights that cannot be ignored.
Now the film has been officially released for 21 days, and the box office has not exceeded 200 million.
The real-time box office was 145 million, and the final prediction given by the full eye was 153 million.
Judging from the rhythm of the follow-up summer blockbusters, the subsequent box office performance of this "Great Dad" may not be very optimistic.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" >, a moving character. </h1>
"The Great Dad" once again let people see this treasure actor, Wang Yanhui.
In the film, he plays a single father who is particularly difficult.
The wife who ran the marathon died of illness, and the son had the same dream of a marathon, but unfortunately inherited the disease.
Very weak vision, wandering on the verge of blindness.
For this reason, the old father broke his heart and let his son practice walking blind with his eyes closed from an early age.
Let him learn the piano that he does not like, and encourage him to play the piano with his eyes closed.
He was not allowed to get close to the marathon he truly loved.
Eventually, the son's condition recurred and his vision dropped dramatically.
All the preparations that the old father had made for him before were "able to be used", but at this time, the son was discouraged, had no intention of playing the piano, and had no intention of "enjoying" the blind skills he had practiced in advance.
He had been bedridden for a long time, closed himself off, and had no interest in anything.
The old father, through his son's good friend, pretended to be a "job nanny".
Pretending to be dumb, he chatted with his son in the voice of the mobile phone app, trying to take care of him and hope that he was happy.
Although the son almost lost his vision, he still quickly guessed the true identity of the "dumb".
After thinking bitterly, the father decided to accompany his visually impaired son to the marathon, and to complete his dream with him and regain his passion for life.
From the beginning to the end, you don't even feel that Wang Yanhui is acting, that role, that story seems to grow on him.
Kicking slippers, wearing autumn clothes, holding the head of the chicken coop, smoking a cigarette on the balcony, and arguing with the old lady downstairs.
It's so real.
The hardships of the bottom life, the old father's concern, all the emotional expressions are delicate, sincere and moving.
Over the years, he has used one vivid role after another to illustrate that "you can always trust Wang Yanhui".
In "I Am Not a Medicine God", he plays an unscrupulous businessman who sells counterfeit drugs.
At one point, he threatened Cheng Yong (Xu Zheng) and used everything to steal business.
However, after being arrested, he refused to confess Cheng Yong's whereabouts to the police.
Very greedy for money, bad things to do, but in the end to maintain Xu Zheng's point, there is some "theft and tao" warmth.
Directed by Cao Baoping and Zhou Xun in "Li Mi's Conjecture", Wang Yanhui and Wang Baoqiang have a strange sense of black humor after they get on the bus.
The criminal he guest starred in in "The Burning Heart" has always made the audience think that it is "real video material".
From "The Unknown Generation" to "Behind the Scenes Players", from "My Motherland and Me" to "My Hometown and Me", Wang Yanhui's role is always very delicate and in place.
Strong plasticity and high recognition.
Can be "inconspicuous" into all environments, play a variety of small roles;
You can also perform an emotional bomb with great heart, which makes people deeply moved.
It is worth noting that in "The Great Father", Wang Yanhui's performance is good, and Zhang Youhao, who plays his son, has a very remarkable performance.
Unlike all kinds of small fresh meat, the performance is quite solid.
Together, the two worked together to create a very real and moving father and son.
Of course, this can not all be attributed to the performance skills, the sense of landing of the dialect, the realism of the details, and many factors.
The overall completion of the film is not bad.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="126" > two, the power and fault of the emotional point. </h1>
"The Great Dad" is a so-called "tear-jerking" movie, the core of which is the father-son relationship, as well as the love of ideals, a sense of faith, and so on.
The story itself comes with emotional power.
However, the presentation in the film, the degree of control of emotions, is somewhat unbalanced.
Some places make people feel sincere and simple, not deliberately sensational, but natural and moving;
In some places, people feel that the traces of routine sensationalism are too obvious.
The former, such as many clips in the first half of the movie, the simple story in daily life, the light effect is better.
The old father and the old friends of the former band repeatedly pulled and bargained many times, and finally cut down five hundred pieces;
He worked hard to save money, brushed his face in many ways, and paid for the loan in installments, before finally buying an expensive piano for his son.
I found a lot of workers to help, and carried the piano up the long steps to transport it home.
Without mentioning that on the way back from the piano, he had already discovered that his son was disobedient and was still training marathons.
The old piano in the house, which has broken keys, and this brand-new piano that is too expensive, the details are very sad.
In order to save money for his son, the father played by Wang Yanhui was reluctant to buy a bite of meat when eating a box lunch, and also declared to his co-workers that "I do not eat meat.".
When the meal meets the door-to-door business, others are busy eating and refuse to go, only he is willing to work hungry.
Before going, he also picked up a piece of meat from the co-worker's plate and ate it fiercely.
Then instruct the workers to help themselves keep food and hurry to work.
These plain passages, fine and dense, are very touching.
In particular, his action of "eating meat fiercely" before leaving expressed the vision of working hard and fighting very thoroughly;
Incidentally, it also produced a somewhat light comedic effect, diluting the suspicion of sensationalism that may be.
The same is the emotional presentation, and the treatment in some passages in the later stages of the film makes people feel a little too much.
The sensational intent to manipulate the audience's emotions is too obvious.
For example, arranging for children to cry and call their mothers, such as the son seeing the mother's figure running in the sensational background music; these are all conventional techniques, but the strength of the direct is too exposed.
Although the overall appearance is very chicken soup routine, the film is still good.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="127" > three, the gain and loss of the box office. </h1>
Regrettably, a few weeks after its release, the box office still failed to break 200 million.
Of course, the film itself should not cost much.
Wang Yanhui and Zhang Youhao are very good actors, but the salary should not be high.
There are no large number of special effects shots in the play, and there are not too many money-burning scenes, and the overall cost should be within the controllable range.
According to the 45% return rate, the film will receive about 65 million box office accounts at the box office of 150 million.
It should be possible to cover the cost and make a profit, of course, this profit margin will not be too high.
For those who have worked hard for several years to make films sincerely, such achievements are certainly not amazing.
"The Amazing Dad" is not a "classic that can't be missed", but it is also worth a movie ticket.
In the final analysis, the first reason why the box office is not ideal is the lack of topicality and traffic gripper.
Wang Yanhui and Zhang Youhao are very good actors, far better than the strange traffic.
But sometimes things are so helpless, the traffic is acting in a messy drama but can be on the hot search every day, and the 7-point works of good actors with sincerity always lack attention.
Of course, this is also related to the choice of film schedule and the overall trend of the market.
The movies released on Father's Day, in addition to this "Amazing Dad", there is also "Father Trapped in Time".
The latter male protagonist won the Oscar, with its own topic degree.
Although "Father Trapped in Time" is closer to a literary film and is not the structure of a commercial feature film in the conventional sense, the rating is close to 9 and has an award aura, and the box office is still higher than that of "The Amazing Dad".
Since July, the overall box office of the movie has been quite cold, and "Daddy" is naturally very difficult.
Looking forward to the future, these serious films and excellent actors can have more space.