In fact, I didn't expect that the movie version of "Love is Delicious" would be cold like this after it was released.
Almost a week after its release, the film's box office only exceeded 10 million, and according to the box office forecast of Maoyan Professional Edition, the final cumulative box office is even difficult to reach 15 million, and the total box office is predicted to be just over 14 million.
Such a box office performance is indeed too surprising.
It is obviously a movie version of a popular high-scoring drama, but it ended up being cold into the box office of a niche drama.
Judging from the confidence of the previous film party in this film and the word-of-mouth feedback of several rounds of the film, I always thought that this would be a small hot spot in recent domestic films.
As a result, it pounced.
Of course, I am not referring to the pounce of word of mouth. In fact, the film has been able to score so far.
Douban still maintains a score of 7.8 points.
The screening scores on Maoyan and Taoqiao tickets also have 9.2 or 9.3 points.
Of course, we can also see some problems from this score. You will find that although Douban has a score of 7.8 points, the number of people who score it is only more than 20,000.
And Maoyan and Taoqiao tickets even only have point screening ratings, that is. The number of people who received scores on several platforms was seriously insufficient.
This also proves from another side that the theater popularity of this film is indeed not so high.
Compared with the base of the Douban score of more than 200,000 viewers in the original drama version.
The popularity of this movie version has indeed dropped too little (in the first week of release, it probably only mobilized one-tenth of the original version of the drama, or even a lower number of audiences to go to the theater).
It just so happened that two days ago, I also watched the movie version together. Compared with the fans of the drama version who were very excited after the previous screening, my perception may be completely different.
Because, I haven't seen the original episode at all, belonging to pure passers-by, who went to see this movie in a lively way.
It is still necessary to emphasize that the next content will definitely be difficult for fans of the drama version to accept, because, for this movie, whether you have seen the previous episodes, the impact is indeed very large. And I, just can use a passerby's perspective that hasn't seen the episode to enter this movie, change the angle, and help find the problems of this movie.
You know, since it has become a movie release, it will inevitably face another part of the audience who has not watched enough of the original series, pure passers-by.
Looking at the problem from a different perspective, perhaps, it is easier to find the reason why the film hit the street at the box office.
I remember when I first watched the movie version of "Love is Delicious", I was a little confused. Frankly speaking, this movie is actually quite unfriendly to non-series audiences.
This is not so much a standalone film version as a special episode, which is the concept of SP.
To do the movie version of the popular series, in fact, there are generally two ways, one is the pure movie version, applying the original characters, background settings, and character relationships. But try to jump out of the plot of the series and make a story independent of the series, which is a movie version completely independent of the series from the plot.
A more popular example, in fact, is biased towards the theatrical version of "One Piece" or "Detective Conan", each theatrical version is a completely independent story, and does not need to be much related to the main line of the series.
And the movie version of the series also has a way, that is, the linkage of the series and the theater version, the story line is closely connected, put together is the complete story line, just like the previous popular "Ghost Slayer Blade" theatrical version, the plot is closely following the TV version, which part you miss, the plot can't be connected.
And this movie version of "Love is Delicious", in terms of plot setting, is actually more inclined to the second way. The plot is not independent, but connected to the series. Moreover, it is said that this show will have a second season, and this theatrical version is probably a bridge movie that connects the first and second seasons.
In fact, there is no problem with this setting, which is equivalent to film and drama linkage, and it is done well to bring heat to each other. It's just that after this, the threshold for the movie version is indeed rising, especially for non-drama audiences like me, which is very unfriendly.
Now it feels like three or two episodes have been pulled out of the episodes and cut into a movie, with no head and no tail. There is no particularly obvious high-end, climax and development, and naturally there will be no ending.
It's just a certain part in the middle of the episode, a transitional movie, which feels so strange. Therefore, some audiences feel that after 120 minutes of acting, it seems that nothing has been performed.
Then, if you go to review this movie, you will find that it is indeed like this, the relationship between the three protagonists and each other, their respective feelings, in fact, has not changed particularly much in this movie, which is equivalent to turning in a circle, and all of them have turned back, somewhat feeling like walking in place.
If it is one of two episodes of a ten-episode TV series, this rhythm is fine, but as a separate movie, this rhythm is actually too slow, and the plot is slightly flatter.
Therefore, after watching the movie, it will make me very curious, this movie that did not show great charm, why was the original drama version so popular?
Then, I found out.
Well, during this time, something did go wrong.
Obviously, the drama version of "Love is Delicious" directed by Chen Zhengdao was successful, and the original drama did not follow the model of the sugar water love film of the previous domestic idol love drama to do a delicate love story in the sky.
Instead, in a more life-like and delicate way, it shows the more common love life of the three girls.
The original drama version actually jumped out of the delicacy and routine of that idol film, making the love experience of the three characters more grounded and more resonant with the audience. At the same time, it also shows the feelings and troubles of contemporary women in all aspects of marriage, love, career, and friendship, which makes many female audiences very fond of the description of this drama.
In short, the more I understand the series, the more I understand why so many people liked this drama in the first place, and in the current Chinese drama market, this is indeed a very unique, or rare drama.
It's just that the more you understand this play, the more difficult it is to understand this movie version.
After all, the drama version has tried to break through the routine and make a different boutique drama, and it has indeed achieved this goal and won the love of many audiences.
Back to the movie version, it is not as big a surprise as the series, and it is even a little puffy, like directly moving the TV series to the big screen for screening. Even, some parts of the content are not as good as the episodic version.
For example, I learned that the character of Wang Ju in the original drama version is a woman with very strong mobility. There are many settings in the episode about her ability to kill all sides.
And in the movie, I don't feel that this character is so good.
Just like many fans are also complaining, they feel that this character is degraded in the movie. Of course, because I hadn't seen the episodes, I didn't know she was degraded, and I thought the character had always been like this, so it was difficult to understand her charm.
The so-called wisdom reduction is that this character, as a drama producer with many years of experience, is not even clear about the basic characteristics of the work he plans to adapt (directly some netizens complained that she has not read that work), and even, it is not as thorough as your fitness trainer boyfriend to understand that work, especially through his boyfriend's interpretation, the highlight in the work is quite obvious, not so difficult to find.
So, where is the profession of this character?
We don't see it.
And asking her boyfriend to pretend to help him play games, as well as settings such as voice changers, is even more embarrassing and stupid, and very unreasonable.
However, Wang Ju's part, in terms of feelings, is the relatively fullest paragraph written by the three groups of emotional relationships in the entire movie version.
The scene between the two at the convenience store made me have some memories.
Li Chun's love story is very endless.
It is said that the love story between her and her boyfriend Jiang Shanmu is quite attractive in the series. It's a pity that the movie version pinched this at the beginning, which directly allowed her to start a journey of APP dating.
But because of the limited space and very little talk about this paragraph, the two basically do not have much interaction and development, in fact, it is more of the girl's own digestion of some love setbacks. A clue of the family was added in the middle, which seems to want to take the family line, but it is actually very routine, including the "grandfather wants to eat braised pork, she said to do it another day..."
Anyway, watching the movie, for me who is not a drama audience, I can't understand the characteristics of this character at all, only other friends complain that she is a love brain, but from the movie itself, it is not so obvious.
And her love story is basically no memory point.
It is difficult to understand the role of Zhang Hanyun, I watched the popular science of the series later, only to know that this character is a little princess setting, has always been beautiful and sweet. Of course, relationships and careers also have her setbacks and growth.
From the perspective of the movie version, it also focuses on her career and emotional troubles at the same time. But her boyfriend is pure and faulty! From the state presented in the movie, it is that the desire to control + does not really want to understand her needs.
It seems that in the series, this is not entirely the case.
I see that there are also comments that this is to provide some reasons for the awakening of Zhang Hanyun's character, so it is quite reasonable.
After understanding the situation of the drama version, I probably understand the reasons why fans love this drama. At the same time, it is understandable to project everyone's love into the movie.
It's just that for audiences like me who haven't seen the series and have no feelings for the characters, the acceptance of this movie is really not so high, and it will feel a little perfunctory. Moreover, after removing the aura of the series, more attention will be paid to the various problems of the movie version.
I basically understand that such a movie is indeed difficult to get out of the circle.
In particular, the general movie version is actually to make a comprehensive upgrade for the drama version, which can be called a grand feedback to the audience of the series. For example, some big-name male stars will be invited to make cameo appearances and play the temporary boyfriends or ex-boyfriends of several protagonists as a selling point.
But this time the movie version does not seem to plan to do this, and seems to only see Yin Haoyu.
And this, obviously, is still far from enough, it is indeed difficult to attract more non-drama audiences.
Coupled with the downgrade treatment of the plot and various emotional scenes, the reputation has not completely exploded, and this movie version did not explode in the end, which is normal.
Of course, I don't doubt that the next second season of "Love is Delicious", or still good-looking, will make fans happy.
However, this movie version of "Love is Delicious" can really only be said to be very general.
In the end, it is normal to be cold like this.