After watching the premiere of "Avatar 2", Guo Fan once commented: "This is like a love letter written by director Cameron to the deep sea. ”
Now it's his turn to be tested by the audience, I wonder if Guo Fan is a little uneasy?
Everyone will have his "Hamlet" in their minds, so after watching "The Wandering Earth 2", how should we evaluate Guo Fan and this movie?
01, the box office on the first day of the Spring Festival file was released, and "The Wandering Earth 2" won the championship, with a premiere of 472 million
The vigorous Spring Festival file war kicked off, and the fierce battle on the first day of the New Year was in full swing, with a total of 1.34 billion in the market, only 110 million different from the box office of 1.45 billion on the first day of the Spring Festival file in 2019 and 2022.
It can be said that this year's Spring Festival file is of great significance, because it is the first real Spring Festival file since the adjustment of the epidemic control strategy, and its first-day box office provides important data for the recovery of Chinese cinema films.
Obviously, such a large market data of 1.34 billion can tell people that we will soon regain the title of the world's largest ticket warehouse.
The box office on the first day of the new year is freshly released:
Ranked sixth is Tian Xiaopeng's animation "Deep Sea" with 74.1 million on the first day;
"Exchange of Life" starring Lei Jiayin and Zhang Xiaofei achieved 125 million box office, ranking fifth;
The ninth big movie "Bear Haunted, Accompany Me "Bear Core" received 131 million on the first day, ranking fourth;
"Nameless", directed by Cheng Er and starring Tony Leung and Wang Yibo, broke into the top three of the list, and won 136 million box office on the first day;
Directed by Zhang Yimou, Shen Teng and Yi Yangqianxi's "Manjiang Hong" smashed 400 million box office on the first day and won the runner-up, which is really a full house;
Guo Fan's latest work, "The Wandering Earth 2" starring Wu Jing and Andy Lau won the championship, with a premiere of 472 million, compared with the box office of 190 million on the first day of the first "The Wandering Earth", which directly doubled by more than 2 times.
From the backwardness of pre-sales to the premiere box office win, as well as the proportion of film share and attendance, "The Wandering Earth 2" has no suspense and will be the number one seed movie in the entire Spring Festival.
If the stamina is fierce enough, the predicted box office is 4.5 billion, and its final box office can compete with the first work, we believe in the power of word of mouth, the strength of Guo Fan, and the box office appeal of Wu Jing and Andy Lau.
02, the three movie ratings were lifted, "The Wandering Earth 2" won the championship by word of mouth, and Wu Jing and Andy Lau went hand in hand
Just when Brother Brown was writing a book, the three movie ratings of the Spring Festival file were the first to lift the ban:
"Deep Sea" Douban rated 7.6 points, and the ticketing platform scored 9.1 points;
"Manjiang Red" Douban 8.0 points, ticketing platform 9.5 points;
The premiere of "The Wandering Earth 2" Douban had a reputation of 8.3 points, and the ticketing platform got 9.7 points.
At present, among the three movies, "The Wandering Earth 2" has won the championship by word of mouth, whether it is a short review or a long review, looking at it, almost the screen is full of four stars and five stars.
It can be seen from the distribution map ladder that there can be no polarization of scoring this time, Guo Fan really did not disappoint the audience, big data is fair and just, and it is well deserved.
Excerpts from a few highly praised short reviews are for reference only:
"There is no need to compare anything, as a milestone he is already invincible."
"Andy Lau's line is a bit interesting, opening up a new dimension for this series of movies."
"After watching it, I cried in the cinema on the first day of the new year, the kind of Chinese hardcore romance that fights with heaven and people and fate, and only strives for the unknown future and ideals is heartwarming."
"Li Xuejian's character's speech at the conference is really awesome, Liu Cixin's science fiction is really full of Chinese unique pragmatism and sincerity, I like this movie, it's really awesome!"
In addition, "The Wandering Earth 2" is about to land in North American theaters, and overseas word-of-mouth has also been lifted, with a freshness rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and 68 points in MTC media, both higher than the previous work.
"The Wandering Earth 2" has exploded at the box office, which has a lot to do with the fact that Wu Jing and Andy Lau are on par with each other.
First, the causes and consequences of Liu Peiqiang's landing on the space station, the character image is fuller.
The character played by Wu Jing in the film is called Liu Peiqiang, and in the first work, he presented the highlight of the whole film as a special star, but left a lot of regrets, especially the son's incomprehension of his father, which laid a lot of foreshadowing for the film.
"The Wandering Earth 2" as a prequel movie, the main purpose is to write the character of Liu Peiqiang more fully.
wrote about his love affair with Han Duoduo, about his wife's illness, and how he boarded the space station, as well as how his son Liu Qi and father-in-law Han Ziang entered the dungeon.
The most thoughtful and terrifying is the ending Easter egg, his dialogue with the artificial intelligence Moss, there is no doubt that this is the full awakening of artificial intelligence and played a huge role in "The Wandering Earth".
"Historically, the fate of mankind has depended on human choices", faced with Moss's answer, Liu Peiqiang responded "I choose hope!" ”
Yes, there is hope for miracles.
Second, Tu Hengyu and the digital daughter are the biggest highlights of the whole film.
The film positions Andy Lau as a special starring role in the new role, in which he plays a melancholic scientist Tu Hengyu, who loses his wife in an accident and his children are about to enter the countdown.
Before that, he uploaded his daughter's personality to an experimental artificial intelligence program, and his daughter in the digital network only had 2 minutes of life, and Tu Hengyu wanted to give her a lifetime.
Every conversation made his heart ache, and he faced his daughter and asked, "Dad, where am I?" I want to go out of the problem" He couldn't solve it, but when Tu Hengyu couldn't complete the task and drowned, the father pushed open the door at the other end of the computer, and finally took his daughter into his arms in the digital world.
This is the biggest highlight of the film, which makes the entire film of "The Wandering Earth 2" instantly sublimated several grades.
Although Wu Jing and Andy Lau have their own merits, in the final analysis, they have to be divided into the emotional category, which touches the most fragile nerves of human beings, just like the father-daughter relationship in Nolan's "Interstellar", which makes people can't help but cry.
03, iron bone tenderness, China has Guo Fan-style filmmakers, hard science fiction why can't you go abroad?
The most praiseworthy is the film's director Guo Fan, whose iron-boned tenderness is reflected in the heart-to-heart love words: "Traveling in space is not important, it is important to give a bouquet of flowers to someone you like." ”
He used all kinds of techniques to shake hard sci-fi.
First, the sentence at the end of the film, "Tribute to Mr. Wu Mengda", touched the audience a lot.
On the occasion of the nearly two years since Wu Mengda's death, it is a unique shock to see him in this way on the big screen.
This is Guo Fan in memory of Uncle Da, in "The Wandering Earth 2" using CG technology to restore Wu Mengda, when he appeared, I was both surprised and moved, I believe many fans will empathize.
Second, Guo Fan used AI technology to reconstruct the voice of old man Li Xuejian.
As early as 2000, Li Xuejian suffered from nasopharyngeal cancer, so he spoke a little hoarsely, and then underwent throat cancer surgery, his vocal cords were damaged, and his speech was unfavorable and slurred.
In the movie, the old man's voice is loud, thanks to Guo Fan's AI reconstruction technology, so that the old artist's voice resounded throughout the venue.
Third, let Andy Lau return to the peak of his appearance.
As said before, Tu Hengyu and his daughter Yaya finally met in the form of digital life, similarly, Wu Mengda really became a "digital person" in this film, and this technology restored Andy Lau's peak appearance.
As every post-80s and post-90s movie fan, Andy Lau's appearance when he was young is still vividly remembered, and Guo Fan once again uses visual effects technology to restore the dream of our generation.
This technology can pave the way for the third part of the sequel, at that time, as long as Wu Mengda's family agrees, he can also continue to star as a digital person, and Liu Peiqiang, who turned into ashes with Jupiter in the first "The Wandering Earth", can also return through a digital human.
It was learned that "The Wandering Earth 3" has been successfully established, Guo Fan continues to direct and write screenplay, Wu Jing is still a well-known coffee, and is expected to meet the audience in 2025.
Hollywood film culture invasion, has always existed, Marvel movies have influenced China for more than ten years, we can not kill with a stick, the purpose of open introduction is to find the gap to make up for the difference, absorb the essence to remove its waste.
Only when their own culture is done can they squeeze out outsiders and stand proudly in the world, and hard science fiction films are equivalent to aerospace technology and nuclear weapons, which can not be created by any country.
Although our hard science fiction is nearly 50 years behind Hollywood, but Chinese hard work, wisdom and bravery cannot be underestimated, besides, there are Guo Fan-style filmmakers in China, why can't hard science fiction go abroad?
04, Conclusion:
A few years later, China's economic recovery, the film industry will also be greatly improved, coupled with the total number of Chinese screens and population base, North America is out of reach, in a few years, China's awakening lion will roar, the world's largest ticket warehouse is just around the corner.
Well, Brother Brown will echo at the end of this article, I commented on "The Wandering Earth 2": "This is like director Guo Fan wrote a love letter of Chinese hard science fiction, great!" It's really great, there are Guo Fan-style filmmakers in China, why worry about the box office not being a hit? ”
What are your thoughts on The Wandering Earth 2?