Dominated, 80% of the daily box office is "Disappearing Her", Chen Sicheng is going to win again this time?

Recently, the domestic cinema line has ushered in a long-lost liveliness.

The release of many popular films has made the theater more choices.

In this schedule, there are both the Hong Kong film "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" starring Chow Yun-fat, and the elderly love movie "I Love You" cooperated by Hui Yinghong and Ni Dahong.

Even Wang Baoqiang's directorial work "In the Octagon Cage" was "unveiled in advance" in the form of point screening.

And from the box office, the winner of this Dragon Boat stall is intuitive:

Suspense film "Disappearing Her"

This film, written and produced by Chen Sicheng and starring Zhu Yilong, has achieved a box office of nearly 1 billion since its release.

At present, the single-day arrangement of films has soared to nearly 50%, and the box office on weekdays has exceeded 100 million one after another, no wonder the film's predicted box office has been raised to 3.3 billion.

You know, this is not a schedule that lacks opponents.

At this time, in addition to the domestic films of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are also commercial blockbusters such as "Transformers", "The Flash", "Spider-Man" and so on, but "Disappearing Her" can win more than 80% of the total box office in a single day at this time.

It can almost be said that the theaters in the past few days have been ruled by "Disappearing Her".

At present, the Dragon Boat Box Office Champion is obviously polarized.

There are many people who praise it, and many people criticize it.

For the suspense texture of the film, most netizens gave positive affirmation.

In the comment area, many netizens have given five-star evaluations such as "the surprise of domestic suspense films" and "perfect suspense stories".

In the entertainment industry, many peers also chose to stand for the film.

Director Yi Xiaoxing praised the film as having "international standards", and "Manslaughter" director Dai Mo called this a new "suspense film ceiling".

Celebrities including Wang Baoqiang, Guo Fan, Liu Haoran and other celebrities also supported the film online.

In stark contrast, there is the other extreme of the comment section.

For the plot of the film, there are also a large number of netizens who do not buy it.

They think that "Disappearing Her" stitches a lot of other films, and the hodgepodge look and feel obvious.

In this regard, netizens have gathered Chen Sicheng, who is the screenwriter and producer of the film:

Very ugly! The script stitches up foreign films, opportunistic! No sincerity!

Just like Chen Sicheng's previous work reviews, "Disappearing Her" also presents a situation of making a lot of money at the box office and being scolded at the same time.

So, whether this work should be praised or scolded, we might as well talk about it.

01. There are surprises in suspense, and everyone has a reversal

Anyway, "Gone Her" does have highlights in the plot.

As a suspense film, its suspense flavor is pure.

And the creation of this suspense flavor relies on suspense to pull full, and the other relies on high-energy reversal.

Let's start with the first point, the suspense is full.

In less than 10 minutes of the opening scene, screenwriter Chen Sicheng quickly left the audience N questions.

These questions can be summed up in one lyric:

The lover is gone, to whom to cry out for injustice?

In the plot, the male protagonist He Fei (Zhu Yilong) was separated from his wife Li Muzi after an overseas trip, and the other party has not been heard from so far.

But after He Fei reported the case, a mysterious woman (played by Wen Yongshan) appeared in front of him, claiming to be Li Muzi.

Although the male protagonist insisted that the other party was not his wife, in the face of the woman's various photographs of evidence, even the police chose to believe it.

Faced with this strange situation, the male protagonist also fell into a situation where he couldn't argue.

It seems like a very simple opening scene, but quietly released a number of doubtful mysteries, making people can't help but reason in their brains.

What does she look like when she disappears? Where did she go?

Why is the mysterious woman disguised? And how did she hide from the sky?

On the other hand, the mystery remains.

If what the mysterious woman said is true, then why does the male protagonist refuse to recognize her and go to great lengths to investigate?

The main suspense line entangled in many mysteries hangs the audience's curiosity at the beginning and sets a good suspense atmosphere for the film.

The sense of suspense is there, and then it is a "high-energy reversal".

In the second half of the movie, the plot enters a climactic reversal stage.

As the investigation deepened, almost every main character, including the male protagonist, has a huge change in their personalities compared to when they appeared.

The male protagonist's micro-expression revealed his heart, and the mysterious woman also changed from the innocent painting style in the early stage to gloomy.

Even the detective lawyer played by Ni Ni and the policeman played by Du Jiang have huge personality changes.

From the various intriguing micro-expressions of the characters, the audience has to change the inner "murderer candidate" again and again, and re-examine the truth of "Li Muzi's disappearance".

Until the end of the film, it is really difficult to guess the "big boss" of this reasoning game.

From the perspective of suspense texture, Chen Sicheng did a very good job this time.

02, the two actresses are too plus, but Zhu Yilong is facing the biggest challenge

The styling and performance of the film's twin heroines Wen Yongshan and Ni Ni definitely add a lot to the film.

Under Chen Sicheng's plot arrangement, the two also show their feminine beauty in different ways.

Wen Yongshan, who played "Li Muzi", came to a straight male slash with a charming and gentle painting style.

Flaming red lips, bright eyes and bright teeth, combined with a beautiful red dress, make her long hair fluttering incomparably eye-catching.

In the film, the beach conversation between her and Zhu Yilong is even more unforgettable with an extremely charming painting style.

Under the charming painting style, the character's sometimes innocent, sometimes weird and evil smile posture further deepens its femme fatale flavor.

As netizens ridiculed, Wen Yongshan in the play is shockingly beautiful, but also creepy.

And Ni Ni, who plays the female lawyer Chen Mai, focuses on the beauty of cold and cool women.

Relying on the character of "female elite in the workplace", the crispness and neatness of the role is unforgettable.

From the first appearance on a pulling motorcycle to assisting the male protagonist in the investigation, the character's painting style is extremely distinct.

Throughout the film, Ni Ni always appears in a similar cool painting style, showing another straight male chop that is completely different from Wen Yongshan.

With sharp eyes and brilliant shape, her iceberg beauty posture that makes people dare not look at it is here.

While the two goddesses received praise, the style comments of the male protagonist Zhu Yilong were different.

This new king golden rooster actor challenged a role that is extremely difficult to interpret - the male protagonist He Fei.

In the plot, the character's character undergoes multiple layers of subversive changes, and the painting style before and after is very different.

It is like a poor husband who is anxiously looking for a wife, and a violent man with an explosive temper, and even has some micro-expressions that are indistinguishable between good and evil.

For this extremely complex character, Zhu Yilong does not play a crotch.

However, due to the difficulty of interpretation, his explosive performance failed to impress some audiences and was labeled as "too strong".

Although Zhu Yilong's courage to challenge the role this time is worthy of recognition, the effect seems to be only moderate.

03, the script is "déjà vu", which has become the biggest slot in the whole film

For ordinary audiences, the suspenseful taste of "Disappearing Her" is definitely enough.

But for suspenseful reasoning lovers, this film will make it difficult for them to say a word.

The prototype of this film is referenced from the 2019 Thai pregnant woman falling off a cliff.

But judging from the plot presentation, Chen Sicheng did not shoot this case, it seems to be a "hodgepodge of reasoning IP".

Many netizens pointed out that from this film, they saw the shadow of many high-scoring reasoning works.

Around the suspense point of "The Disappearing Wife", the core trickery and character style are reminiscent of the British Queen of Reasoning Agatha's works "Murder on the Eastern Train" and "Roger Mystery".

The scene design and large-scale exploration of the human dimension are reminiscent of the Japanese mystery writer Keigo Higashino's "Kamen Villa".

The characters of some of the protagonists are quite similar to the Spanish suspense god "Invisible Guest".

A one-man scene by the male protagonist Zhu Yilong in the film is somewhat close to the end of the thriller master Hitchcock's work "Psycho".

Under the summary of these similar plots, many people also questioned that Chen Sicheng, who was in charge of screenwriting, was too "take-ism".

Here, it should be pointed out that "Disappearing Her" is indeed not a complete "tribute" to other works.

Many plot details can still see Chen Sicheng's ingenuity.

For example, the plot of the male protagonist He Fei stepping on the dead scorpion in the process of running in a hurry implies that the character is not kind in his heart, laying the groundwork for the subsequent plot.

In the roles of Ni Ni and others, there are also many clues that echo before and after.

Stepping on the shoulders of giants and adding his own ingenuity, this is obviously Chen Sicheng's thinking in this film.

But at the same time, Bluestone can also understand the disappointment of many netizens.

For a work known as the "ceiling of suspense films" and an estimated box office of 3.3 billion, if the core plot comes from "others", the hat of lack of novelty obviously cannot be removed.

04, following the IP of "Tang Detective", Chen Sicheng exposed his "little cleverness"

In fact, in his past works, Chen Sicheng cleverly operated a lot.

The cleverness at the screenwriter level is reflected in the "borrowing power" of the plot.

The movie "Tang Detective 2" directed by him is highly similar to the classic Chinese film "Double Eyes" in terms of core tricks, which has triggered a lot of public opinion discussion.

In his self-written and directed Chinese drama "Great Expectations", the character of the main character Thirteen Taibao is also obviously borrowed from the 84 Hong Kong film "Shanghai Beach Thirteen Taibao" in the framework.

For the inheritance of character incisions such as the original "Teaching Head Quick Knife, Student Young Master" and other characters, there is also a corresponding character correspondence in "Great Expectations".

Chen Sicheng, who is learning the advantages of his predecessors, is very shrewd in this regard.

The thoughts outside the plot are reflected in the "strike while the iron is hot" for the work.

Compared with his predecessors, Chen Sicheng, who has put all his thoughts on one work, often continues to develop IP after making a good film.

After the small-cost "Tang Detective" broke out at the box office, Chen Sicheng reversed direction and further expanded the IP universe.

After making 2 theatrical movies and online dramas in a row, Tang Tan's IP has extended from a single case in his first work to the confrontation between the protagonist group and the evil organization "Q", and his world view has become particularly strong.

After the movie "Manslaughter" received praise, Chen Sicheng also chose to expand the IP.

After the previous work had explained the ending of the male protagonist Li Weijie's family, Chen Sicheng still insisted on starting "Manslaughter 2".

To this end, he simply used a "manslaughter story" associated with the plot 0 of the previous work as a sequel to continue the IP.

It is worth mentioning that at the media meeting of "Disappearing You", Chen Sicheng seemed to have similar ideas.

At the press conference, when talking about the fate of the characters, Chen Sicheng once said with deep meaning:

Their stories must have a lot more to come and go.

Under the interpretation of many media and netizens, the entry of "The Sequel to "Disappearing You" also appeared on the Internet.

I have to admit that Chen Sicheng's "shrewdness" is visible to the naked eye.

From a box office perspective, his "little cleverness" really works.

Accurately grasping what the audience seeks, he has done a successful job in the commercialization of films such as "Tang Detective" and "Manslaughter".

Under the continuous expansion and extension of the series universe, his appetite was further raised.

But from the perspective of word of mouth, his "cleverness" will also be a hidden danger.

With the "lack of innovation in the plot" and even questioned "plot splicing" in recent years, his careful thinking in his works began to be discovered.

For a long time, the patience worn by the audience is also destined to be reflected in the decline in box office data.

Obviously, Chen Sicheng's current success depends on this little cleverness, but he should also be careful not to be delayed by his "little cleverness" in the future.

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