The box office broke 1.1 billion, and after watching Wang Baoqiang's new film, I couldn't help but sigh: This film has too much stamina

Recently, Xing Ye, who has not appeared for a long time, posted a dynamic on social platforms.

I saw that Xing Ye in the picture wiped his tears with a tissue while watching the film, and also had the text:

He is one of the best actors I have ever seen, and it turns out to be an excellent director, served!

What made Xingye so praised was Wang Baoqiang and the new movie "In the Octagon Cage" directed by him.

Not only Xingye, Wang Baoqiang's new film has also been praised by many peers.

After the scheduled trailer of "In the Octagon Cage" was broadcast, it attracted Wu Jing, Zhao Liying, Chen Sicheng and other stars in the entertainment industry to call.

Andy Lau and Liu Ruoying, who collaborated with Wang Baoqiang in "No Thief in the World", not only sang the theme song of the movie, but also praised Wang Baoqiang's new film.

After the film was screened, many media people and audiences described it as a wonderful, touching, and rare good movie.

Writer Mo Yan was even touched by the story in the movie after watching it, and his eyes were moist.

With the blessing of good word of mouth, the box office of "In the Octagon Cage" exceeded 400 million before its release, becoming the box office champion of Chinese film history.

After the film was officially released on July 6, it won 130 million on the third day, surpassing "Disappearing Her" to become the single-day box office champion. Up to now, the cumulative box office is 1.18 billion, and the Maoyan platform predicts that the box office will be increased by 1.9 billion from 1.2 billion, with a Douban score of 7.6.

In the statistics of Maoyan, it has won as many as 35 achievements such as single-day box office champions and summer runner-ups.

With the official release of the film, "In the Octagon Cage" has also aroused heated discussions among everyone.

Bluestone counted, the attention around this film is mainly reflected in three aspects:

First, "In the Octagon Cage" was praised, what is the good?

Second, how did the actors perform in the film?

Third, this film really turned Wang Baoqiang over?

Today we will answer them one by one.

1. What is the good thing about "In the Octagon Cage"?

As we all know, every good movie will have a point that attracts the audience.

For example, the recent hit movie "Disappearing Her", the main focus is on women + suspense.

And one of the reasons why "In the Octagon Cage" attracts the attention of the audience is truth, as Wang Baoqiang said:

This story, it cannot be fake, the audience must be believed. The audience can believe it because it's true.

The prototype of the film's story is the "Fighting Orphan" incident of the Daliangshan Enbo Fighting Club.

As a work adapted from real events, whether "In the Octagon Cage" is good or not, the key is whether it can shoot the "pain" of reality.

From this point of view, "In the Octagon" did it.

In the film, Wang Baoqiang played Xiang Tenghui, based on the founder of the fighting club, Embo.

Xiang Tenghui was originally a martial arts athlete, but his gold medal was canceled because his coach made a bad mistake to take banned drugs, and he beat his coach and went to jail in a fit of anger.

After he was released from prison, he and his cellmate Wang Feng (played by Wang Xun) set up a sand and stone factory, vowing never to touch martial arts again.

By chance, the male protagonist met a group of "car bandits" who used rubble as barricades to rob materials, but this gang of car bandits is a little special.

They are all underage children, some are orphans, and some are too poor to manage their families.

It happened that the operation of the sand and gravel farm encountered difficulties, and under the help of a boss, the male protagonist found the orphans and formed a club to train children in boxing.

The first half of the film is about the children's sweating training on the battlefield.

Or fist-to-flesh fighting in the fighting arena, it makes people's blood boil.

But as the story progresses, the audience realizes that fighting is just a shell of the movie, and what really touches people is the social topic wrapped in fighting.

This is also the "pain" mentioned by Bluestone earlier.

In fact, the male protagonist only wanted to use these children to make a wave of quick money at first, but later when he saw the real living environment of the children, he changed his mind.

In Wang Feng's words: fake drama is really done.

So the male protagonist who decided never to touch martial arts again devoted everything to setting up a fighting club and taking in these mountain children to train them.

Because martial arts is the only hope for these children to get out of the mountains.

They are not just competing for the championship, but also a plight of poverty, humiliation and injustice.

The contrast between fighting and fate at this moment has become the most realistic power of the film.

However, when these children at the bottom strive to pursue survival opportunities with their fists, feet and flesh and blood, the road is still full of obstacles.

For example, the club was locked up and the children were sent back to the mountains.

The male protagonist arranged the adult Su Mu and Sloppy to other clubs, Su Mu was trampled and broken by other club members for refusing to take medicine, and Sloppy returned to his old business and was arrested and imprisoned for robbery.

So the director borrowed the role of sloppiness and said the helplessness of these people:

We are like the stone that is floating in the water, no matter how hard we try to move forward, we will eventually have to accept the fate of sinking.

Faced with such a dilemma, Wang Baoqiang gave a most unpretentious answer in "In the Octagon Cage":

That is to be like a weed, and it is more indomitable.

At the end of the film, Su Muna's constant fist is not only to win the championship, but also to punch fate, using the power of weeds to break free from the "octagonal cage" of fate.

And this is the reason why "In the Octagon Cage" is the most resonant, good-looking and full of stamina.

That is, the audience sees not only stories about fighting, but also a group of orphans struggling at the bottom and fighting against fate.

As director Wang Baoqiang said:

I want to make a film that gives hope to everyone, and I hope that everyone will not be overwhelmed by difficulties at any time.

2, no longer funny Wang Baoqiang and amateur actors, is the acting skills guaranteed?

Unlike the first all-star cast of "Big Trouble", this time "In the Octagon" can be described as starry.

Except for Wang Baoqiang, most of the other starring actors are amateur actors.

The most important thing is that Wang Baoqiang also jumped out of the previous character's kindness, honesty and funny characteristics, playing a low-level character.

Can the combination of Wang Baoqiang + amateur actor, who is no longer funny, present a vivid and full role?

After watching the film Bluestone, I can say with certainty that medium!

Let's start with Wang Baoqiang.

Wang Baoqiang's acting skills needless to say, he starred in "Blind Well" at the age of 21 and won the Golden Horse Award for Best New Actor.

Silly Root in "No Thief in the World", Xu Sanduo in "Soldier Assault", and Tang Ren in the "Detective Chinatown" series, each role is remembered.

And in the movie "Hello! Mr. Tree", Wang Baoqiang's free-flowing smoking action was selected as a textbook-level shot by Beiying.

But despite this, Wang Baoqiang left the public with a role with grassroots and comedy characteristics.

So in "In the Octagon Cage", Wang Baoqiang once again broke through himself and harnessed a complex role that was different from the past.

In the film, Xiang Tenghui, played by Wang Baoqiang, was originally a fighting champion, but was framed and became a downtrodden and frustrated person.

In order to get close to the character, Wang Baoqiang gained nearly 30 pounds.

In terms of performance, Wang Baoqiang's performance is also as stable as ever.

Wang Baoqiang's initial performance has some shadows of Tang Ren, which is a little funny and funny.

But slowly as the characters returned to reality, Wang Baoqiang's performance became more and more forgiving and heavy.

For example, when Su Mu won the championship, he replaced applause with a wordless back.

For example, when he learned of the unfair experience of the trainees who were transferred out by himself, his eyes were full of tears as he drove, and his face was full of guilt and self-blame for the trainees.

And for the growth and change of the male protagonist, Wang Baoqiang also made an accurate interpretation.

From the beginning, I went my own way, followed by the spirit of training the trainees.

After that, he was exposed and besieged by the media, and then he was determined to fight hard for the trainees.

Let people take a look and you can enter the play.

But compared with Wang Baoqiang's mature acting skills, Qingshi likes the amateur actors in the film more.

Wang Baoqiang said when preparing the film that the success of this film is crucial to the choice of young actors.

Because this movie requires children to have light in their eyes, they hope to have the opportunity to leave the mountains and have the opportunity to see the outside world.

This is the soul of the film, and it is also what Wang Baoqiang wants to pass on to the audience.

So Wang Baoqiang traveled a lot of places and finally chose these amateur actors with no acting experience.

And during the shooting, Wang Baoqiang did not specifically train the amateur actors, but let them show the real reaction of life.

In one scene, Wang Baoqiang temporarily asked the young actor to recite the speech to the leader, but the little actor could not recite it.

But this happens to be the real reaction that Wang Baoqiang needs, if you train in the way of actors, the performance of young actors will be very fake.

And what makes Qingshi frequently marvel is the real penetrating power exuded by the amateur little actor.

They stand there as the characters themselves, and the realism that comes with them is simply impossible to perform.

It can be said that it is precisely because of Wang Baoqiang and this group of amateur actors that the story of the film is full of truth and touches many audiences.

3. From 3.7 points to 7.6 points, "In the Octagon Cage" really turned Wang Baoqiang over?

6 years ago, Wang Baoqiang's directorial debut "Big Trouble Tianzhu" was released, and although it won 750 million at the box office, its reputation was a mess.

Six years later, Wang Baoqiang returned with "In the Octagon Cage".

Judging from the word-of-mouth change from 3.7 points in the previous work to 7.6 points in the new work, Wang Baoqiang fought a turnaround battle this time.

Although some people say that "In the Octagon Cage" borrows from "I Am Not the God of Medicine".

But Wang Baoqiang did not simply set the successful template of "Medicine God" this time, but used a lot of brains.

Thematically, "In the Octagon" was not made into a simple sports fighting film, but cleverly integrated into real issues.

And this also happens to play Wang Baoqiang's advantage, that is, real.

Because he knows too well the hearts of the characters at the bottom and what it is like to change his life against the sky, shooting this group of fighting orphans is like looking back at himself back then.

So we don't see too much blood and inspirational in the film, more of a struggle and self-help.

And it is with this real background that "In the Octagon Cage" avoids the flashy fatal injury of "Big Trouble".

At the same time, in the lens language of the film, Wang Baoqiang has also improved significantly.

Images such as floating stones and octagon cages are used to suggest the fate of poor children being chained.

There are many scenes in the movie where the male protagonist turns his back to the camera, which means that the characters are entangled in choosing the pass.

The scene of changing faces has a strong surreal magical color.

The desperate male protagonist sat in the car and saw a group of people on the street performing Sichuan opera changing faces, and various faces projected on his face through the windshield changed rapidly.

Even if the male protagonist is expressionless, he can still clearly let the audience feel that he is experiencing a tumbling change in his heart.

And the fight at the end.

The color of this fighting scene is from black and white at the beginning to color at the end, and the transformation from black and white to color indirectly shows the rebirth of these children.

It can be seen that this time Wang Baoqiang has worked hard as a director.

But what moved Qingshi more was Wang Baoqiang's sincere heart for the movie and the audience.

In the first film "Big Trouble", when he mentioned the Golden Broom Award that year.

Wang Baoqiang withstood the scolding and became the first star to personally attend to receive the award since the award was set.

And openly said that he owes the audience a good movie.

In order to realize the promise to the audience, Wang Baoqiang reduced the filming of the film and devoted himself to the second work.

In the words of actor Wang Xun:

How many temptations has he had to face in recent years?

All the big dramas that look for him are all good characters. His ability to push these plays away is the first step to success. It's not something everyone can do, and all you push away is money.

I have to say that Wang Baoqiang used his sincerity to bring the audience a touching and far-reaching work.

Even the founder of the Golden Broom Award bluntly said that "In the Octagon Cage" is the No.1 among the domestic theater movies I have seen this year.

Now it seems that the "bold words" that Wang Baoqiang put down 6 years ago have been realized, and the "Golden Broom" award can also be returned.

Bluestone also believes that Wang Baoqiang will bring more good works and good roles to the audience with this "sincerity" in the future.

Because sincerity is an eternal nirvana.

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