Who could have predicted that the comedy big man Xu Zheng would also have a day of "gluttony" Dapeng.
Xu Zheng used to be the glory of "the first double billion director in the Chinese film industry", and now Xu Zheng's post, most of the envy behind it is sighing for his loss of box office reputation in recent years, and he is still on the sidelines. It is said that the film and television winter, why is Dapeng, who is also a half-way out of the house as a director, making the film market lively?
In the film market in March, there was no Spring Festival liveliness, but Zhao Benshan's apprentice Dapeng was proud.
The end of comedy is in the northeast, but the style of comedy movies in the northeast has gradually become rigid for so many years, and there are not many successful cases. Pretending to be stupid and stunned, the set of the duo turn is obviously unable to meet the aesthetic needs of the audience.
Like other Northeast comedians, the 41-year-old Dapeng has always been very anxious, and in the interview he did not hide his uneasiness in the slightest, expressing his desire to improve his efficiency.
This year, he finally ushered in his highlight with a movie, that is, his fourth film "Keep You Safe".
"Keep You Safe" has achieved very good results in both box office and word of mouth, and the current box office has exceeded 100 million, and the Douban score has reached 7.9 points.
This achievement far exceeds Dapeng's previous movie reputation, you must know that the score of "Sewing Machine Band" is 6.6, while the box office dark horse "Pancake Man" in 2015 only has 5.8 points.
The director of a good film with 8 points, Dapeng has great hope. Stepping into the 10 billion club, it is also expected from now on.
Six years after his last well-received film "Sewing Machine Band", Dapeng finally found the code to success, which is to integrate comedy into real life.
This also finds a direction for the future of comedy in the Northeast. After all, this direction is traceable, and batch replication can be achieved.
"Keep You Safe" tells the story of a stubborn cemetery salesman who relentlessly searches for the truth in order to protect the reputation of his dead customers.
The story is aimed at the problem of online violence that has been very popular in recent years, from this point of view, the movie has won half of it before it has begun to be filmed, and this time Dapeng has indeed performed well in terms of lens language, which shows that he has indeed made a lot of progress in the past 6 years.
These advances are fully reflected in the language of the lens, such as the car wash in the movie, the Internet café fight scene, and the timing of the two white horse appearances.
As soon as Wei Pingan appeared, he was washing the car, a dirty second-hand run, it is obvious that there is a certain meaning in this, although the car wash is just an action, but it has a strong symbolic meaning in the whole film, both Wei Pingan washed away the shame of the past for himself, but also paved the way for him to wash the stigma for Han Lu later, and the trunk that can't be closed is more like a hint of frustration.
When Wei Pingan pursued the rumor-monger in the later stage, the two encountered and got into a fight in an Internet café, and this place also has a very good camera performance, the rumor-monger waved the keyboard and smashed at Wei Pingan, which also implied that the biggest weapon of the online rumor-monger is actually the keyboard.
And when Wei Pingan fell into confusion twice, the white horse that appeared in time was more like the hope and courage that burst out of his consciousness, which has the same effect as the white horse in the movie "Eight Hundred".
How to portray such a male protagonist, Dapeng obviously has his own ideas, he is looking for a visual conflict in the character image to pave the way for the later righteous behavior.
So Wei Pingan's character was so prosperous. Small sunglasses, green hair, sparse figure-eight beard, ninja tattoos on the mouth of the tiger, I don't know if it's a big white Mercedes with a few hands upside down, Guan Gong ornaments with rotating big knives on the car, plus just released from prison, divorced, climbing the building and climbing over the wall in order to watch his daughter's performance ...
Obviously, he is not a successful person, just a little person with a bit of a temper. But it is often these little people who can move people's hearts.
On the surface, "Keep You Safe" only has a main line of customer Han Lu, and the storyline unfolds around her, in fact, there are two important auxiliary event lines, one is the line of Ping An's brother's daughter, and the other is the line of his own body.
Three lines are interspersed in parallel, filling the entire plot aspect with tension.
In particular, this auxiliary line of Wei Pingan's daughter has made many people break their defenses, and both father and daughter are insisting on doing what they think is right, and encouraging each other, which has become a true moment of love for the whole audience.
On this auxiliary event line, the topic of school bullying, which has attracted much attention, has also triggered the same discussion as "Young You".
Objectively speaking, Dapeng's film was shot very cleverly, fading the pompousness of the "Pancake Man" period and adding more current hot topics, such as online live broadcast and online rumor-mongering events. The original exaggerated comedy style, coupled with the realistic theme of current affairs hot spots, it is also an inevitability that the movie can catch fire.
Dapeng has indeed improved a lot, but this movie is not invulnerable, although the content shown is relatively novel, but the routine is suspected of colliding, for example, compared with last year's popular movie "Life Events", there are many similarities.
The male protagonists of both movies are also engaged in the funeral industry, both have just been released from prison, are on the fringes of society, and both tell the common growth between father and daughter. This similar character setting has many benefits and can resonate with many people, but using too much makes people feel unnatural.
Especially the daughter settings of the two movies are very similar, the personalities are strong and rebellious and full of power, stronger than the father, and Wang Shengdi and Yang En are almost similar in style.
More coincidentally, the fireworks that appeared at the end of "Life Events" were also arranged to end with riverside fireworks at the end of "Keep You Safe", although it was very moving, but this déjà vu really has a feeling of abuse.
If you put aside the "coincidence", "Keep You Safe" is very strong in storytelling, and also adds a decryption bridge similar to road movies, so that the whole story rhythm is urine free, I have to say that Dapeng is very smart.
In the final conclusion, Dapeng exposed the second point of contention - selfishness.
The ending sentence of "Life Events" is "Every star in the sky is a person who has loved us", which is very relevant, after all, the stars are mentioned countless times in the film, and the pattern of this sentence seems to be very large. And the closing words of "Keep You Safe" are dedicated to the dashing brother who loves to drink coke.
The sudden tribute, so that the audience is a little confused, the whole story is a cemetery brother, why did the dashing brother appear at the end?
This dashing brother refers to the deceased Zhao Yingjun, and the coke in it does not have much meaning, simply because Zhao Yingjun likes to drink.
Dapeng first thought of making a movie in 2015, and Zhao Yingjun specially composed the theme song of the same name for his first movie "Pancake Man" in order to support him, which shows the deep relationship between the two.
Dapeng also mentioned that it was Zhao Yingjun more than once when promoting the film, saying that he first affirmed the script of the movie, coupled with the close relationship between the two, it is normal for the film to appear at the end of the tribute to him.
But as an anti-Internet violence theme movie, the end of the climax part has this kind of ending, which makes people a little unable to turn for a while.
In fact, from the theme of "refuting rumors", the realistic object that Dapeng should most associate with the audience is Liu Yan.
A living girl with a superior figure but troubled by rumors, even forced into the water, has to apologize to others to round the female star.
Perhaps, Dapeng did not mention his friend Liu Yan who has cooperated for many years for some reason, and did not cooperate with him this time. Could it be that this is some kind of relationship outside the play to refute rumors?
In any case, this film can be counted as a consolation for every girl who has been vilified by rumors, and a gift for sticking to people of good will.