Text | Ling Hu Boguang
The Hong Kong movie "When the Wind Rises Again" and the Hollywood blockbuster "Black Panther 2" were released, and the box office of both movies was muted, and they completely failed to challenge the two movies in the Spring Festival file, and the biggest winner of this 2023 Spring Festival file is "The Wandering Earth 2". Originally, the box office of the movie lost to a movie in the same period, but it officially counterattacked and became the first around the Lantern Festival.
You must know that "The Wandering Earth 2" was the first box office on the first day of its release, but the box office was counterattacked the next day, and by February 5, the box office counterattacked the first again, which took almost half a month. But the film's predicted total box office still has not reached 4 billion, and there are still some regrets after all.
In the past few days, I have seen a super classic sentence about "The Wandering Earth 2": Many people still don't know what the movie "The Wandering Earth 2" means to Chinese, I will directly give a conclusion here: this is a milestone in the rise of Chinese pop culture, many people have underestimated it, and when we look back in the future, we will find that this is the "matrix nuclear bomb" of Chinese popular culture! ”
Today, I will not analyze any specific content, it is all Bo Guangjun's self-feelings. I hope that audiences who don't understand the movie can see more details and feel the emotions of the movie. Audiences who have not seen it must watch it once, after all, this movie is really only worth watching on the big screen.
Is it normal to cry in "The Wandering Earth 2"? Normal, because we love "Chinese movies" too much
I went to watch "The Wandering Earth 2" on the first day of the new year, and I cried three times (with tears in my eyes) in the process. Who makes what film, just like what someone with a worldview would do. The most influential sci-fi film in the United States is undoubtedly the Star Wars series, which tells the story of Western medieval princes, princesses and knights.
This is in line with Western historical experience and thinking logic, and the later "Star Trek" is the story of Columbus's discovery of the universe version of the new continent, and the carrier of the story takes place on the "Enterprise", yes, the "Enterprise", not a country, an alliance, a nation, a family, but an "Enterprise".
The purpose of the great adventure is to exchange for economic gain is its essence and the origin of its departure.
The "Wandering Earth" series of movies is the best two sci-fi movies made so far Chinese, and it also reveals Chinese thinking under all the high-tech shells, at least part of the Chinese thinking: in the face of the natural disaster, our choice is to take responsibility, leave the hope of life to the future, and leave the spark of life to continue.
The first time he cried was when Liu Peiqiang interviewed for a lunar astronaut, 550c said that his best solution was to let his father-in-law take the child into the dungeon, instead of letting his wife, who still had 84 days to live, take the child in, Liu Peiqiang's face was twisted and struggling in anger, too much want to use his own efforts and even his own life to exchange his favorite wife for even one more day, who cares what is the optimal solution, if he can only fight for two places, he will choose to selfishly choose according to his own ideas.
But this can't be said, can't be broken, are all relatives, but in his heart who weighs more weight only he knows, even if he burns himself, he can't fight for another place, this is helplessness, this is powerlessness, this is a decision after struggle, damn rationality, he is a human being with feelings after all.
The second cry was in the moon nuclear explosion because of the complexity of the encryption system of various countries, can not be cracked in a short time can only send people to the moon to manually detonate the nuclear bomb, this mission is destined to go back, and finally all pilots over 50 years old took the initiative to stand up to accept the task, here is self-sacrifice, is mentor-apprentice love, is comradeship, is inheritance friendship.
The third cry is that Tu Hengyu played by Andy Lau uploaded his own consciousness 550w, he chose the digital life school, not the spaceship school or the earth party, but his original intention is not completely for himself, but to accompany his daughter who only has two minutes to complete his life. When her daughter opened the door, Mr. Liu stood in the doorway with shock and tears.
Do you say he is altruistic or altruistic? Is he rational or emotional, good or bad? I only see his persistence and helplessness when he tries his best to protect the people he loves the most. There are only two words throughout the theme of the whole film: "responsibility", the meaning of responsibility is altruism, but the performance of responsibility will also experience the calculation of interests and emotional entanglement, each participant has their own calculations, although the plot of "The Wandering Earth 2" has many flaws, but for Chinese audiences is really very rich.
The film also intends to tell us that when we share happiness, we should talk about fairness, and when we want to share suffering, we should talk about responsibility. How difficult the future of human beings is in the movie, but the root of all this comes from human beings themselves. If you give humans a score on the nobility index, I believe it will be a relatively low value.
The vast majority of people are humble and sometimes even mean, but there are always some who are noble; A person spends most of his life behaving as humble and sometimes even mean, but there will be a moment when he or she performs noble deeds. The future of humanity may be pessimistic, but do not give up hope, this precious noble or noble moment is where hope lies.
With planetary engines, space elevators and digital life, The Wandering Earth 2 is a hard sci-fi epic
"The Wandering Earth 2" in addition to the rich emotions, this is still a hardcore science fiction film, not those magic technology films, good logic and self-consistency, although you know that it is science fiction, but you just feel that all this will happen in the future. This is also a disaster film, rarely spend before the moon, rarely chirp me and me, rarely drunk dreams of death, only how human beings will die to redeem themselves.
I remember watching the first part of "The Wandering Earth", when the long 7 and fat 5 launch sites, almost 4 years from now, after watching the first feeling is that Chinese science fiction movies can also get rid of shoddy and rank among the world's first-class level, at that time the same stage was the Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster "Alita", "The Wandering Earth" can be positive and tough and finally win is enough to prove.
The second part chose to be released during the Spring Festival, there are many competitors, and the face of similar foreign sci-fi blockbusters is still surnamed "A", that is, the giant production "Avatar 2" directed by top Hollywood director Cameron and invested several times his own, but director Guo Fan still insists on being positive and rigid and does not withdraw.
Many people were not optimistic before, and there was no lack of cynicism, but he said in an interview that "Chinese science fiction films should be rooted in Chinese culture", and with such an understanding and the fine polishing of film details, I think he is unlikely to lose.
Over the years, Hollywood has gradually declined, and after the release of an assembly line blockbuster such as "Avatar 2", the storyline can be guessed and a movie can fall asleep. Including the popular Marvel series, from theaters to video websites to points are too lazy to click, it can be said that Hollywood has no story to tell.
Behind the repeated routine is the lack of innovation, coupled with forced political correctness, secretly carrying private goods, accustomed to making quick money plus the impact of streaming media, it has been on the road to decline all the way to stop it, if not corrected in time, it will lose influence a little, to put it nicely, its development direction is off.
And from the perspective of the values embodied in the film, the profound vision and broad pattern of Chinese civilization are gradually emerging, and there are rumors that "China is a civilization disguised as a country", which is actually not bad. From the perspective of history and civilization, we will eventually be able to surpass, we have completed the industrialization process of developed countries for hundreds of years in a few decades, and if we stick to the correct path, the balance of victory will surely tilt towards us over time.
The phrase "our people will definitely complete the task" in the film is a good answer, and the J-20 shown in the film and the Dawning computer equipped with Loongson chips are the best demonstration of reality. The Wandering Earth 2 certainly has its imperfections, but it's definitely worth watching. I hope that in the future, China will create more and more high-quality products, at least not as good as now, obviously the quality of the movie is stronger than "Avatar 2", but it has not yet been released, and I feel that it is not comparable.
"The Wandering Earth 2" is a milestone in Chinese movies? More than that, we underestimate it
Many people still don't understand the meaning of "The Wandering Earth 2", I have always said that the film industry is still literary films, genre films and commercial blockbusters composed of three categories, literary films explore the boundaries of film art, genre films explore the boundaries of film style, and support the entire market, commercial entertainment blockbusters are to make money.
The most ideal state of the world's film industry is Hollywood, from the 70s to the 00s for half a century, after 2010, commercial blockbusters such as Marvel began to crowd out the survival of literary and genre films, and now it is getting more and more serious. The pinnacle of European cinema "French New Wave" literary films, genre films are okay, commercial blockbusters have always been not.
Japanese films and Hong Kong films 70-90 are also very good for more than three decades, and after 2010 both places began to go astray. In addition to literary films and individual genre films, Japanese films have drilled into the tip of the anime bull's horn, and now Hong Kong movies are almost only police and gangster films.
From 2000 to 2010, Korean films were the peak of literary films, the exploration period of genre films and commercial blockbusters, and from 2010 to 2020, genre films and commercial blockbusters ushered in the peak period, which is actually very similar to Hong Kong films after 2000, commercial entertainment blockbusters began to squeeze out the living space of literary and genre films.
This trend is already very obvious, but it is not yet felt by audiences who do not know about Korean movies.
8090 mainland films only have literary and artistic films, and after 2000, it is the era of commercial blockbusters in which the two sides of the strait and the three places cooperate, and Jia Zhangke represents the sixth generation of literary and artistic films. The most chaotic is around "Wolf Warrior 2" from 2010 to 2017, and of course it can be extended to "The Wandering Earth" in 2019, which is almost ten years.
This was a chaotic era in which the financial capital and flow economy entered the cultural industry, and it still has obvious impact today.
In 2019, the traffic economy retreated obviously, and the three fields of Chinese films had obvious starts, and as a result, the impact of the "epidemic" for three years, no one expected that the Spring Festival file that would be released at the end of 2022, domestic film and television dramas are obviously reviving. Literary films, genre films and commercial blockbusters are likely to usher in an outbreak in the future, and there are already signs of this.
Commercial blockbusters are the rise of industrial blockbusters represented by "The Wandering Earth 2", and there will definitely be a large number of movies in the future. The situation in literary films is much better, but many ordinary people do not pay attention to it and are not very clear. The only difficulty is the genre film, because it is the same as the realistic drama film "Medicine God". The restrictions on our side are more serious, and there are many films that are not without talent, and there is really no way to make them.
2 new films are difficult to shake, and the box office finally counterattacked the first? "The Wandering Earth 2" is worth two brushes and three brushes
2017 was a watershed in Chinese pop culture, with TV series such as "Chang'an Twelve Hours", "Hidden Corner", "Mountains and Seas" and so on. The movie appeared "The Wandering Earth" and a ticket of excellent genre films, literary films. Games such as Genshin have brought changes that have clearly affected the entire industry.
The impact of the epidemic has been severe in the past three years, and although the tightening above has a great impact, the entire cultural industry is still benign development.
The trend of the Spring Festival file in 2023 is very obvious, and I insist that the Spring Festival file is not the strongest, but the two super blockbusters, two stylized extreme genre films, the overall quality is much better than in previous years.
With a good start to the 2023 Spring Festival, another vote of domestic movies has recently been set, even if Marvel movies are set.
Chinese pop culture will not take off in 2023, but as long as the previous inventory is released and reaches the situation of this Spring Festival file, then the Chinese pop culture industry is a comprehensive recovery, and even I think this year's domestic film and television dramas are likely to surpass Korean film and television dramas, really! +