Text | Ling Hu Boguang
The Korean movies in 2023 have all pounced so far, this is not, another top Korean movie with a bad reputation, the quality is not good, the box office is okay because it is a Netflix network movie. That is "Kill Fushun" directed by Bian Sung-hyun and starring Quan Duyan, Xue Jingqiu, Li Su, Gu Jiaohuan, Huang Yanwei and so on.
You know, now Netflix invests in the production of Korean films and television are South Korea's top creators, and this movie is no exception.
Director Bian Sung-hyun's previous works "No Khan Actor" and "Made by the King" are also special Korean directors. The actor Xue Jingqiu is second only to Song Kang-ho, the top older generation actor in South Korea after Choi Min-sik. The actress Jeon Do-yeon won the best actress in Cannes as South Korea's top actress, and she is an actress of Maggie Cheung and Gong Li in China.
It's a pity that such a movie with a top Korean lineup now has a score of only 6.7 on Douban, of course, the Douban score is nothing, the reason is that this platform is very touted for foreign films (especially Korean movies). Now there is only this point, probably replaced by a domestic film with a level of only 5.7, which shows that it is a big bad film.
You know, "Negotiations", "Zhenyi", "Hero" released before 2023, and "Ghost" adapted from the Chinese film "Wind" all pounced, and now with this "Killing Fushun" also pounced, the Korean film in 2023 really ushered in a year of great rout.
So why is that? There is really not much time left for Korean movies.
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Here is still to analyze the movie first, the story plot of the movie will not tell, just think that if you go to the action, I am afraid that you will be disappointed, the plot of this movie is a bit fantastic.
First of all, the plot is confused, this is a big heroine cool drama, the big boss loves the heroine and is not with the heroine, what is the insurmountable gap between the two? In order for the heroine to offend her peers and even her sister was killed, she was willing to send her own head, which can be regarded as touching the heavens.
Looking at the whole film, I don't know what the male protagonist is drawing, nor do I know what the female protagonist is doing. The weight of the daughter is so large, is this an urban drama about the family life of single mothers?
The heroine is a top professional killer, and she is actually a character who loses control when she talks about her daughter. It is said that it is the leader in this industry, but there are only a few people going back and forth in the company, and they have to travel to Russia on their own missions. Is it that there is really no money to hire other actors except for a few leading actors?
Secondly, in terms of action design, it is really not as good as the domestic traffic idols.
It is said that this movie omits a lot of details, and the emotion and logic of the original film are still relatively smooth. But the plot presented now, as well as the opening scene of the scene, is a little dissuasive, actress Jeon Do-yeon's own physical fitness is there, and there is no way to keep up with the action as old as Keanu in "Speed Killer".
The key is that this film is unwilling to be decorated with editing, and also let the heroine use a hand axe that will shake just by lifting it to fight with the opposite short sword, it seems that the action is very large and there is no sense of strength, and the larger fighting scenes in the later few are still remarkable, but they are also surface battles.
The owner of the killer company went to a Russian bar to kill someone, three people pointed a gun at him and did not shoot, and then the camera brought to him to shoot the three people in turn, this film is quite bluffing at first glance, and the heroine's figure is not as good as the intern.
In the end, the heroine hit the boss on purpose, and she deliberately reminisced with him first, and the boss just fell into memories, and the heroine directly launched a surprise attack to have the opportunity to counter-kill. But the final boss battle in the eyes of the audience really has a feeling of a hasty ending, and the ending is a bit like "Kill Bill", I thought that I would kill in one move with the BOSS battle.
Finally, this film is showing that it is imitating "Kill Bill", if it is, then her daughter is most likely really born with the boss. In addition to imitating "Kill Bill", this film also borrows a lot of elements from "Rapid Pursuit", contacts the company to send cleanup workers, knows many different killers, the heroine killer world is famous, high combat power and so on, many settings faintly feel very familiar.
In addition, the Russian scene in the movie is a bit like "Ace Agent".
In the end, many contradiction flashpoints eventually piled up on the company's exclusion, promotion, feelings and other broken things.
"Kill Fushun" is very similar to the Korean sci-fi film "Jung-il" at the beginning of the year. That is, the trailer gives you a lot of high concepts, what robot awakening, human-machine apocalyptic war, and religious ethics and science fiction world. You thought it was some kind of sci-fi blockbuster, but after watching it, you found that it was a bloody mother-daughter love movie.
The same is true of "Killing Fushun", you think it is a Korean revenge action blockbuster with breakthroughs, constructions, and explosions. As a result, it's a tailor set everywhere, the story plot and character creation are messy, and the action design is a mess.
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There is also a "Dark Glory" in the Korean drama in 2023, but the Korean movie is really too miserable, so far it has all been pounced. Why pounce, in fact, the above analysis of "Killing Fushun" is almost already a summary, and I also wrote it when I wrote it before. Korean films do not have many artistic pursuits, but rely on the large scale and theme of black and deep residue to impact the eyeballs.
Korean films have a deep period only in the decade from 2000 to 2010, when top Korean directors Kim Ki-duk, Lee Cang-dong, Hong Sang-so, Park Chan-wook, and Bong Joon-ho had periods. After 2010, it is already the peak of commercial blockbusters, and there are not many artistic pursuits, aesthetic pursuits.
Of course, it is also a very good commercial genre film, with entertainment effects and full commercial effects.
For example, the gangster film "New World", the action film "Uncle", the special agent film "Berlin", "Iron Rain", etc., this realistic drama film "The Crucible", "The Defender" and "International Market" are more sought after in China, and there is no need to talk about human nature like "Horror Live".
The serious attitude and professional knowledge of the director and drama staff, seeing that there is evil must be eliminated, there will be revenge, a tooth for a tooth is a relief, watching it feels cool, and the grading system can let them let go of some hands and feet, Korean movies are like top web articles, you can really find your coolness.
But film and television dramas are still culture, culture still has to have a little artistic pursuit, Korean films are too commercial and entertainment (that is, popular), and it is rapidly updated under the logic of market economy. Because you can't meet the entertainment needs of the audience, the audience will definitely abandon your cultural goods.
In order to meet this condition, Korean films copied Hong Kong films and Japanese films on a large scale. Finally, combined with its own history, culture, and social environment, it broke out after 2010 and became the peak.
But Hong Kong and Japanese films have long declined, and Korean society and culture have been excavated. In 2018, China's "limited Korea", at the same time the US capital platform fully supported, so Korean filmmakers began a comprehensive learning and imitation, that is, copying the path of American films.
What zombie movies, exorcism movies, superpower movies, modern war movies, science fiction movies and so on.
Korean filmmakers use fixed thinking to copy American movies, I believe that as long as you pay attention to Korean films in the past two years, you will find a current situation, Korean filmmakers are tailoring American movies in various ways, such as the sci-fi film "Zhenyi" at the beginning of the year to set a world view of a bunch of tailors, this "Kill Fushun" tailor "Kill Bill", "Speed Chase" and so on.
Korean filmmakers have lost all their characteristics, and are too entertaining in order to please the audience. The end result is that these films are too little original and stylized enough. Set the world view, story plot, character shaping, what important elements of the theme -
For example, the sci-fi elements of science fiction films, such as the action design of action movies, have not been done well.
In the end, it was all messed up together, all the bad films of tailors who looked like a big battle, and local audiences didn't like to watch them. You know, Korean films have not yet had the influence of political correctness in European and American films, and they are already simple commercial blockbusters.
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Domestic netizens usually say that Korean film and television dramas are on Netflix, what cultural export, what is world-famous, etc., this is the trap of cultural siphon effect, many people do not understand the importance of not mastering capital, platforms and markets.
Netflix dominated other regional markets before entering South Korea, and now it is just copying and pasting the experience of other regions. When I first entered South Korea, some people said that this was to lead wolves into the house, but they were all blinded by the news of the "Parasite" award and the explosion of "Squid Game", and felt that the savior was coming and could expand the influence of South Korea around the world.
Some people in China talk about Netflix, what mainland censorship, Netflix comes in to clean up cows, ghosts, snakes and ghosts, and the spring of Chinese film and television dramas is coming?
Let's not talk about whether you really come to the mainland and face the same censorship standards as the mainland platforms, if the censorship is also relaxed, should you be able to make better film and television works by mainland film and television companies that understand the social environment?
Back to the Korean cultural industry chain, people will definitely give you a little sweetness at the beginning, and now Korean stars give priority to Netflix in their choice of scripts, and the slow death of local film and television production is the price.
What does that mean? Top creators went to Netflix to shoot online dramas, online movies (high salaries), the middle tail and the new generation of talents can not be trained, capital does not want to invest after reading the script, the three major wireless stations are not also bad dramas A bunch of ratings cannot be supported by actors.
Of course, Korean film and television itself will not absolutely die, but market dominance will fall into the hands of American capital represented by Netflix. The local market is small, the most important thing is to keep the local entertainment industry. South Korea is very good for actors in the short term, and you don't have to carry the box office when the salary is high, but when others swallow you completely, you're done.
Just like in Germany, top actors would rather go to Hollywood to play Nazis than in local films.
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Finally, this commercial culture entertainment must still have, and Korean entertainment still has something worth learning, such as the grading system, such as commercial products that meet the entertainment needs of the audience. Watch French movies, German movies, watch Taiwanese movies. They overemphasize the artistry of film, while ignoring or even suppressing the commerciality and technicality of film.
As a result, Hollywood films dominated the film market, while the number of local films and box office shrank significantly, and film practitioners lost their jobs. It is said that Chinese movies have a poor foundation, but when Feng Xiaogang filmed "Rally", he advocated that he found a South Korean explosive team to use jet blasting technology. However, Bayi Film Studio used it when filming "Southern Conquest and Northern War" in 1974, but due to the downturn in the film market, technical personnel were laid off, resulting in the loss of this technology.
Literary films have low technical requirements and do not even need special effects, because they need moviegoers to examine the story from the perspective of bystanders, while commercial films enter the story and pursue a sense of presence. Overemphasizing the artistry of film can only lead to the stagnation of film technology.
And because of the lack of commerciality of art films, the rate of return is low, resulting in shrinking film investment.
It is still good that Korean movies meet the entertainment needs of the audience, after all, film and television are still entertainment products for the public. We just don't do this well enough to make the audience complain so much.
Korean movies have come to this point, can only say that time is also fate, congenital deficiency has no way!
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