"Chinese Table Tennis" Deng Chao's Jedi counterattack work, failure to explode the choice is very important!

According to the original plan, this "Chinese Table Tennis" directed by Deng Chao should be released during the Spring Festival celebration, but for various reasons, the film chose to escape and there was no trace. It was postponed until February 17, and there was a large-scale release.

As of February 23, 7 days after its release, the total box office reached 81.905 million yuan, the box office results were far lower than expected, the Waterloo trend is inevitable, it is obviously a Jedi counterattack, why is it cold and becomes so bleak?

01 Sports-themed films and television films have encountered a difficult period

You must know that most of the film and television works with sports as the theme are not favored by the audience. Some people even think that watching sports-themed film and television works is better than watching sports programs directly, which is really enjoyable.

In addition, compared with other film and television works, sports movies require the actor to master the corresponding sports skills, and it is impossible to stand directly in front of the camera, so it will increase the difficulty of shooting and increase the cost of shooting, and the effect presented is not satisfactory.

Moreover, the formal works with sports as the theme are all lack of innovation, especially the domestic sports form works are often limited to a certain champion, and the humanized touching stories behind them are few.

Therefore, this "Chinese Table Tennis" already has restrictions in terms of subject matter, after all, today's sports-themed film and television works are not very popular. And for the audience, it is impossible to really have an in-depth understanding of sports, which is also a factor that restricts the development of domestic sports films to some extent.

Therefore, this "Chinese Table Tennis" directed by Deng Chao is fundamentally a sports-themed work, and such a theme itself has been limited, and it is very difficult to break through the bottleneck period of cold.

02 Keep changing gears to make propaganda passive

Let's not talk about how the work "Chinese Table Tennis" was filmed, it is a big problem to take its schedule. During the early publicity, the team was full of confidence, making people mistakenly think that they really wanted to be released in the Spring Festival file, but they changed the schedule, but it was released on a small scale on the fifth day of the first year, and it was not released on a large scale until February 17.

This kind of constant file change not only makes the release process full of twists and turns, but also makes the publicity passive. You must know that the early publicity investment of the film is very large, if the schedule is changed frequently, it means that the early investment is lost.

For the frequent changes of this movie, many netizens have also complained: "Withdrawn again, how many times, from last year's eleventh to the first day of the new year to the third day of the new year, enough tossing!" "If you can't beat it, you can run", it's a wise move!" "It's all about making money, there's no need to embarrass yourself, choose to withdraw the gear to change the time, and there is no shame."

"Not only lost in the theme, but also lost in the schedule, which really gives people the feeling that they are not confident and always change the schedule frequently." "Changing the schedule gives people the feeling of playing a rogue, and Superbrother is escaping reality." "It's too miserable box office results, if the sweeping storm of Chinese football can come up with three percent of the true story to shoot, it should be completely popular."

03 The plot cannot be attractive without suspense

After talking about the external factors, let's talk about the internal factors of this film. To know that a successful good movie, the most attractive thing is its plot. Especially the plot full of suspense will make people feel unfinished.

As a sports theme "Chinese Table Tennis", it not only lost in the choice of theme, but also lost in the plot, without any sense of suspense, and even when people see the name of the movie for the first time, they can guess that the final ending is nothing more than winning the victory, how the protagonist in the middle grows and what kind of tribulations he has experienced.

And it just so happens that "Chinese Table Tennis" is a movie that is easy to guess in all directions. Although the movie adds a small word Jedi to fight back to create a sense of suspense, it is still unattractive. Move such a difficult sports work as table tennis to the screen, even if the table tennis ball is big, it can only be almost the same as the egg, and it cannot present the wonderful and exciting feeling of hand-to-hand combat.

04 The characters created are not full

The characters in "Chinese Table Tennis" do not use the "Five Tigers of National Tennis": Ma Wenge, Wang Tao, Ding Song, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui's original names, but in the story of shaping the characters, they are contrasted with these archetypes.

For example, Dai Minjia in the film, because of the "imminent order", he had to return to China in advance to become the head coach, and at that time he was full of confidence and directly boasted of Haikou winning the championship for two years, this role is actually mainly based on Cai Zhenhua.

However, when describing the characters in depth, they directly choose to portray the competition opponent in the way of special effects, and there is a feeling of expanding the description of the opponent's enemy, while the character itself has a less full feeling. Too much emphasis on losing and winning.

Moreover, the sportsmanship shown in these characters is also slightly regrettable. Long-term physical training is not only boring, boring, but also boring, so how these characters break through, there is not much to describe, so the created characters lack a sense of fullness.

05 Let the ping fans not accept to be questioned

If the director of "Chinese Table Tennis" is replaced by Feng Xiaogang or Zhang Yimou, this is undoubtedly acceptable to table tennis fans, after all, table tennis is the national ball of the mainland. It is a pity that the directors of this work are Deng Chao and Yu Baimei.

You must know that the works they previously co-directed "Breakup Master" and "Villain Angel" have a very low reputation and rating, and now the two of them have teamed up again to handle the story of Chinese table tennis, which has caused the dissatisfaction of many "ping pong fans".

Some table fans directly left a message saying: "22 Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, a reporter asked Deng Chao, that one was the most impressive, he answered that the final is the most exciting, for the competition and the audience at the scene is actually compared with the final, the most exciting should be the semifinals, because in the semifinals the Chinese men's team and the Japanese men's team almost lost, it can be seen that Deng Chao's recovery is sloppy. "

If Deng Chao had focused more on ping-pong, he would not have made such an embarrassing answer. Therefore, after not watching the film and knowing that Deng Chao is the director, many table fans will not pay for it.

Box office results are dismal, constantly changing schedules, the doubts of netizens, may be a big blow to Deng Chao, but I still hope that he can recognize the reality, after all, it is difficult to choose to be a director, to know a good film and television work, choice is the most important, once the right theme, choose the right actor may become popular out of control.