Overseas box office reversed! "The New York Times" bombarded "The Wandering Earth 2", but was slapped in the face by his own people

The box office exceeded 2 billion in 6 days after its launch, and its reputation was firmly ranked as the champion of the Spring Festival film on the five major platforms.

"The Wandering Earth 2" surprised the domestic audience, it not only completely surpassed the previous work in terms of technology and world view structure, but also strongly proved that Chinese science fiction can also show infinite light on the top track.

At the same time, "The Wandering Earth 2" has also achieved great results in overseas markets, and it still won a premiere of 500,000+ (USD) at the box office when there was only a small release in North American theaters, and the North American weekend champion in attendance.

When others saw the news of the overseas release of "The Wandering Earth 2" and were about to buy tickets, they found that the venue was almost full, and the attendance screenshots posted by netizens were quite high, and the difficulty of buying tickets was a match with the domestic IMAX hall.

In many areas, theaters that feel the word-of-mouth and box office charm of "The Wandering Earth 2" have begun to silently increase the number of scenes, but in the face of the lightspeed growth of "The Wandering Earth 2", some "people" are anxious.

The New York Times couldn't wait to come out and sing the song, accusing "The Wandering Earth 2" of "losing all joy, intricate narratives, undercooked themes, clearly sanctioned subtext, nationalism."

In this regard, netizens are quite calm: He is in a hurry? Then I am relieved.

Without waiting for the domestic audience to fight back, the New York Times was madly slapped in the face by "its own people", and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes and popcorn index of "The Wandering Earth 2" soared, and the IMDB reputation was as high as 8.2 points.

Many overseas professional film critics believe that "The Wandering Earth 2" has spectacular special effects, wonderful plots, and strong empathy ability, which is very similar to the feelings of most domestic audiences, it can be seen that the excellent film can break through aesthetic differences.

Ordinary audiences have also turned into overseas "tap water" and actively expressed their love for Little Broken Ball 2.

"Surpassed the previous game".

"It is the best science fiction film in China at the moment, and it will be the face of science fiction movies for a long time."

"Looking forward to "Ball 3"" (Guo Fan don't rest, hurry up and shoot 3!) ）。

In response to the "nationalism" repeatedly emphasized by the New York Times, the audience also had something to say:

"I saw the relevance of the film, without what they said."

Attacks that override objectivity can never compare to the most real feelings of the masses, and if you carefully examine the accusations of the New York Times, you will find that there are too many familiar flavors, or prejudices that cannot be concealed.

They complained that the brain hole of humans bombing the moon with nuclear weapons was "ridiculous" and a "stupid narrative idea".

Obviously, the design of the nuclear explosion moon in the eyes of the New York Times is suspended and mentally retarded, out of the normal theoretical range, but if you criticize science fiction on this ground, and are keen on super-powered American science fiction, isn't it more stupid and ridiculous?

After all, there's a typical American sci-fi logic that wipes out 50% of humanity over there.

The exploding moon in "The Wandering Earth 2" has a rigorous calculation of the phase matrix arrangement of nuclear bombs jointly given by global scientists and quantum computers, a complete detonation process, and a meticulous Roche limit estimate.

Even the shot of the nuclear bomb did not save brain power, but designed the landing airbag buffer, from macro to small details, all integrated with a certain amount of physics knowledge support, can not be 100% reasonable, but as much as possible to give the audience real resonance.

The sense of "science fiction" presented by the "Wandering Earth" series has always been well versed in the essence of the original author Liu Cixin's science fiction novel, and "fantasy" always relies on "science", rather than pure superpower fantasy, or theology to represent science.

This makes the sci-fi part of the whole story not only have a brain impact beyond reality and excellent dramatic effects, but also give the audience an unexpected real appeal: our future world should be like this.

And the American science fiction solution to "fantasy", sometimes rigorous, sometimes not at all with you basis, Thanos' "snapping fingers" style "strong plug" techniques abound, which is more in line with the "ridiculous, stupid" comment?

The answer is clear, but there are always people who are reluctant to face reality.

But ours, is it stupidity? Theirs, is it an epic sci-fi blockbuster?

For their own science fiction films, the "science" part can be "created" at will, and the right of interpretation belongs to themselves; For our science fiction films, but ignore the rigorous science and fiction brain holes, not their own common, and criticize them wildly.

This kind of criticism for the sake of criticism, and belittle because of prejudice, this is really "ridiculous stupidity".

As for the "nationalism" they constantly emphasize, I believe that many netizens have felt numb, and they can never leave the double standard taste, I export values to you is correct, you dare to export the other way around, that is, nationalism.

The most typical is the discussion about "The Wandering Earth 2" "over 50 years old, out of the ranks".

Netizens who have watched the movie should know that this is one of the biggest tears in the plot, which not only conveys the collective contribution spirit of the Chinese people, the sense of mission of the soldiers, but also the antelope flying proposition of human beings in desperate situations to win the survival of the race.

This spirit is not only the inheritance engraved into the DNA of Chinese, but also the spirit of contribution that all human beings can empathize with, as an audience, whether domestic or overseas, what everyone sees should be the shock and emotion of the community of human destiny.

To regard the sacrifice of a group of heroes and the solidarity of all mankind as nationalism is inherently narrow.

What's even more ridiculous is that the values we export are very different from the values of American blockbusters, but there are also a lot in common, similar antelope flying propositions, they will not adopt when making certain choices? Not.

In "Titanic", when only a small part can be selected, no one will criticize the inappropriate handling of "women and children boarding", and even, this paragraph is a recognized tear point in the movie.

As Zhou Zhezhi emphasized, "in the face of crisis, there is only responsibility" and "only" is because there is no choice, we can only choose to go all out to solve the crisis, support responsibility, and fight for the continuation of human destiny.

But similar choices, the same touches, and what they get, are both praise and disapproval.

The story of a team for one person in "Saving Private Ryan" once touched the global audience, but in "The Wandering Earth 2", the collective protection of human beings by soldiers over 50 years old around the world has become "nationalism".

A few years ago, when Wu Jing used "Wolf Warrior 2" to completely revitalize the domestic war film market, they ridiculed the film for its Chinese personal heroism, selectively ignoring that they were the mass producers of real individual heroic blockbusters.

Now when "The Wandering Earth 2" conveys the core of the unity of all mankind, the criticism has become "nationalism", "political subtext", "certain people", when can we unify our own standards?

As long as narrow-mindedness and prejudice exist, this phenomenon will never disappear, but "The Wandering Earth 2" will prove its place in the history of science fiction, and in the future, I hope that Chinese blockbusters will continue to shine and hit the face without stopping.

I also hope that our market and theaters can give positive feedback to excellent films, at present, "The Wandering Earth 2" has a reputation in the first place in the Spring Festival file, but the arrangement is not ideal, but an excellent sci-fi film, the cost is proportional to the quality.

The box office is the cornerstone of the continuation of the cost of the series of films, only if the market feedback is enough, "Ball 3" can have the starting conditions, I hope that this excellent work can get better arrangements, so that our sci-fi dream continues to extend.