After watching "Warm", I want to say: In the future, we must no longer underestimate Dapeng

I thought "Heat" would burn, but I didn't expect it to burn like this.

The sun outside the theater was like fire, but I didn't expect the 124-minute movie to be even more enthusiastic.

After watching the screening, I still feel excited, and I can't calm down for a long time.

Especially in the last ten minutes, it almost didn't set me on fire.

When the powerful sound effects gathered around resonated with the mood of watching the movie, it was as if I was not watching a movie, but at the scene of a street dance competition final, watching Wang Yibo say that at such a close distance——

I admit that I seriously underestimated "Heat" and underestimated Dapeng.

I can't blame me for this, "Heat" is an inspirational sports comedy with hip-hop elements.

Before that, sports movies meant bad hit, comedy was basically equivalent to bad movies, and street dance represented niche.

Dapeng is really powerful, all caught up, if I were an investor, I would not vote for "Hot" in death, because it is impossible to explode and it is impossible to make money.

How to let the audience feel the burning of street dance through the big screen? This is an impossible task, impossible, absolutely impossible!

Good, I was warmly slapped in the face.

If you're in the same theater with me, you'll know why I say that.

Because all the audience, it was burned.

In the first half of the movie, the theater burst into laughter from time to time, especially when Yue Yunpeng and Jiang Long appeared,

By the second half, many viewers had tears on their faces.

By the end, many people have begun to involuntarily follow the beat of the movie. The whole theater is so "warm"!

The film's screening results are also enthusiastic enough.

On the first day of screening, the film was only 4.5%, and the box office had reached 22 million.

Believe it or not, "Heat" is likely to become the strongest dark horse in the second half of the summer season.

Next, allow me to tell you briefly about this movie.

There are a few spoilers below, but it does not affect the look and feel of the movie, because some movies, only in the theater, you can feel, really warm.

1: Look

After watching "Warm", you have to ask me what is the most direct impression, I will use 4 words to describe it, burning to the point of wanting to cry!

"Heat" is definitely the hottest movie in this summer! It's also the movie that turns me into a conspicuous bag.

I, a middle-aged man with a strong appearance, cried when I saw my mother played by Liu Mintao on the stage for Chen Shuo.

When I saw Ding Lei, played by Huang Bo, drinking with his old friends, and Zhao Yingjun was on the screen, I cried.

When I saw Chen Shuo begging Ding Lei to let him stay, I continued to cry.

When I saw Ding Shuo officially perform as a substitute for the first time, I cried again.

By the end of the game, I was already crying like a fool.

And when a movie can make an uncle whose heart is worn harder than the floor by the world, tears are like broken threads, in fact, it proves in turn what a good story Dapeng tells.

In the past, I always thought that Dapeng was just a director who was good at making jokes and making comedy, and even the success of "Keep You Safe" did not change my impression.

Now it seems that this is not the case.

What Dapeng is best at is actually telling the story of a genre film, and this is what domestic directors are least good at.

Before watching "Heat", I went for the high-burning street dance scene. After all, this is a sports movie.

But after watching the film, what I remember most is a line in the film: "Life, how to rebound without hitting the bottom?" ”

Dapeng really used the perspective of small people to make the emotions brought out by the story step by step, and finally completely broke the stereotype of traditional domestic sports movies, so that audiences of different ages, who love street dance and those who are not familiar with street dance, feel that emotional resonance.

It is not only street dance that moves us, but the dreams of ordinary people themselves.

After reading it, I was really shocked by Dapeng.

Here, I can say with certainty: the door of domestic sports comedy has let Dapeng kick open.

2: About the story

Because I can't spoil, I'll pick up a few key plot points and give you a little interpretation.

The main line of the movie is the story of the street dance master and apprentice played by Huang Bo and Wang Yibo who entered the street dance finals step by step.

But Dapeng actually uses street dance as the main line throughout, telling us a touching story about chasing dreams.

In a sense, the items in the movie can be replaced by other sports, but street dance will be more youthful and more enthusiastic.

When the general audience watches a movie, the most taboo thing is to fill the water. After watching the movie for a long time, I couldn't get into the theme.

The most direct advantage of the movie "Warm" is that the plot is fast-paced and does not drag mud and water at all.

Ding Lei, the middle-aged street dance club coach played by Huang Bo, originally just recruited the enthusiastic young man Chen Shuo to come to the club as a sparring partner.

Unexpectedly, he became the most tacit master and apprentice and best friend with him.

From inviting Chen Shuo in, to "expelling" Chen Shuo, to Chen Shuo's first time from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and then to the final competition, the whole story is like a perfect street dance performance, a series of dramatic conflicts, one after another, suspense and challenge one after another, the audience is like riding on the roller coaster driven by Dapeng.

In the end, a street dance competition was used as a sublimation.

Chen Shuo's last street dance performance is not only dancing, but also with the desire for dreams, the hope of urgently changing fate, and the concentrated release of all complex emotions after breaking through himself.

And at the end of the film, the enthusiastic to brilliant ending made the whole story directly warm to bloom.

"Heat" is just a 124-minute movie, but after watching it, the audience seems to have experienced a long journey with this master and apprentice, although it is hard, but warm.

3: About the hip-hop scene

Dapeng shows the level of a first-class commercial film director.

In the handling of the song and dance scenes, Dapeng is very skillful, without dragging mud and water, direct, pure and enthusiastic.

On the one hand, the picture texture is remarkable.

The scene and fortune are very cinematic.

Especially the editing of the final final, which is very sharp and very burning.

On the other hand, the film's presentation of street dance is also quite standard.

Including the "Qingdao Dance King" Huang Bo and Wang Yibo, many supporting roles have dance foundations, and of course, the top dancers in China. For example, the health dancer who showed off a one-legged flip - George who drank tea.

Every piece of street dance in the film is quite stunning and very designed, so that audiences who do not understand street dance can easily feel the difficulty, technique and movement of street dance.

Especially the final street dance scene, from the enthusiastic audience on the scene to the psychology of the participating dancers, Dapeng used all kinds of audio-visual techniques to present a youthful, dynamic and fashionable street dance competition scene, on the one hand, the enthusiasm and excitement of the audience, on the other hand, the oppression and tension brought by the stage, the audience seemed to be immersed, even a blind dancer like me couldn't help but beat along with the rhythm.

It was the "magic moment" that belonged to the movie.

But the best thing is not the street dance scene itself, but the director through these street dance performances, let you integrate into the story, understand the persistence of Chen Shuo and Ding Lei, feel the blood burning, experience the throbbing and moving of the street dancers, and in the end, all the visual scenes actually turn into two words: love.

Dapeng's best shot also lies here: the film does not require the audience to know the skills of street dance, because the story itself is universal and sincere enough.

You may not be able to name specific hip-hop terms, but everyone understands the weight of dreams.

Therefore, even if you have never seen a street dance performance before and do not know anything about street dance, you will be infected by the nervousness and persistence of the contestants, the excitement of the audience's cheers, and the atmosphere of the competition itself.

And after watching the street dance scene of the finale, I understood why Chen Shuo said to Ding Lei that as long as he could stay in the exclamation point, he could do anything.

You can not show your face, you can be nameless, you can not be paid, you can even not play.

Because love itself is priceless.

This is also why the movie is obviously a comedy, but it makes people tear up, because the reality behind the laughter is sentimental, and it can best produce "empathy" with the audience.

Through every movement of street dance, you can feel the kind of emotion that the film wants to express for the sake of perseverance and perseverance to the end.

Hip-hoppers certainly want to win and then change their destiny.

How can this not be the case for ordinary people in reality?

Jump to the bottom and do not admit your life.

But what if you lose? And how? You still have to jump to the end!

Seriously, most of the people who can empathize with "Heat" are also ordinary people, ordinary people who are eager to change their destiny and play between reality and dreams every day.

Let the hip-hop movie dance out of the hip-hop itself, and Dapeng wins.

4: About Huang Bo

Like everyone, before the successive releases of "Feng Shen" and "Warm", I was skeptical of Huang Bo's performance.

I don't doubt Huang Bo's acting skills, but Huang Bo's performance in recent years is indeed not as dazzling as before, and the audience will naturally question, can Huang Bo still do it?

Some people will even ask: Does Huang Bo still have acting skills?

I think if "Feng Shen" proves that Huang Bo is still the best comedian, then "Warm" proves that Huang Bo is still the best actor in China.

This time, he definitely showed his actor-level acting skills.

I think that his role as Ding Lei, Li Xuejian as Ji Chang in "Fengshen ", and Wang Baoqiang as Xiang Tenghui in "Octagonal Cage" are the best three acting demonstrations in the summer so far.

The character of Ding Lei was famous in the hip-hop circle when he was young, but he lost in the final and failed to hold the championship trophy after retirement.

Now that others are middle-aged, they run a powerful street dance troupe, "Exclamation Point", which has become a veteran of the street dance circle.

Experience, worldliness, sleek, no less.

Huang Bo's role is like the reality chassis of the film, and whenever Wang Yibo's role ignites, Lao Ding pulls the audience back to reality.

Chen Shuo said that he didn't want money, and Lao Ding called him a fool.

Chen Shuo begged him: I can not compete, I can continue to be a sparring partner.

Ding Lei said: It is me who wants to let you go, or abandon you, I don't need you anymore.

But Huang Bo also let the audience see another side of Lao Ding, and when he saw Chen Shuo's stupidity of not wanting money, his eyes would be a little moist.

When he kicked Chen Shuo out, as soon as he turned around, he put a large pile of money in front of Chen Shuo and let him——

The real actor-level performance is never explosive, but his smile is telling a story.

Lao Ding's story is not only the story of a successful street dancer, but the story of a middle-aged man who is accustomed to giving smiling faces to others and leaving pain to himself.

Because he understands reality too well, Ding Lei will say: Anyone, anything, it has a price.

Therefore, he will also let Chen Shuo recognize the reality: the strong make choices, and the weak are chosen.

But in the end, it was he who overturned reality with his own hands.

Huang Bo's performance full of realistic tension, coupled with such dense laughs contributed by Yue Yunpeng, Xiao Shenyang, Jiang Long, Zhang Zixian, and Zhang Youwei, the film has actually surpassed most domestic films at the performance level.

5: About Wang Yibo

In the end, of course, we have to talk about Wang Yibo.

I can understand any ordinary audience's doubts about this top acting skills, in fact, before watching the movie, I was also worried about whether Wang Yibo would drag his feet.

But after watching the movie, I found that Dapeng chose Wang Yibo not because of his own traffic, but because he was suitable.

Because Wang Yibo, like Chen Shuo, is a young man who is persistent in his dreams and a little clumsy, and of course: they both love street dance.

In the end, Wang Yibo also used his performance to dispel my doubts.

One is that he dances a few paragraphs, which is indeed too handsome.

On the other hand, as the core character of the film, Chen Shuo, a kid who pays off debts for his family, works several jobs a day, performs in the troupe during the day, washes and wipes the car at night, and uses the vegetable market and subway as a "stage" every day, which has attracted the audience solidly, and the whole movie has been advancing the plot.

The plot of the movie constantly rises and turns according to his various emotional reactions, and various dramatic flashpoints are also revealed through the fate of this character.

If in the past, Wang Yibo's performance was occasionally glowing, then this time he really completed a role, I think this is the turnaround of Wang Yibo's acting skills.

6: About Dapeng

I think Dapeng is the biggest treasure of the film.

I know what everyone wants to say, Dapeng is also a treasure?

Yes, the play of Dapeng is the key to the success of the film.

One is his perfect scheduling of commercial films.

The shell of this movie is a comedy movie, but it gives you a real high burn.

While being funny, it did not give up control of the rhythm of the movie, and the audience watched the whole movie, both laughing, and at the same time enjoying the pleasure of high burning, feeling like watching two movies, and there was a feeling of earning.

There seem to be few directors in China who can so accurately gain insight and capture the audience's reaction, the audience's emotions are completely led away during the viewing process, immersively empathizing with the protagonist, the film is not deliberately sensational, but your tears will naturally flow.

Dapeng did not pursue the audience crying, but added a laugh point at some moments when the emotions were at the extreme to relax the movie-watching emotions, and the laughter was even more funny.

The audience unconsciously experienced struggle, frustration, rise, excitement, dedication, cheers with the protagonist, and even wanted to rush into the scene in the final session to cheer for Chen Shuo together.

If Wu Ershan is the director who is the best at controlling fantasy epics in China, and Chen Sicheng is the smartest commercial film director, then Dapeng is definitely the director who is the best at mobilizing the audience's emotions.

The second is the "sincerity" of Dapeng's dreams, which makes it easier for the audience to empathize with him.

The essence of "Heat" is actually life.

What Dapeng tells us is that you don't have to win in life to realize your dreams.

Instead, he fought like Chen Shuo, and he fulfilled his dream.

When Chen Shuo can make an action, slam the floor again and again, hurts, get up and put a band-aid, and continue to die, we can actually see ourselves working hard for life from him.

The tear-jerking burning of the movie is actually from everyone's unsatisfactory life, we have failed again and again, but Chen Shuo seems to represent our success.

Dapeng is certainly an extremely intelligent director, who knows how to meet the needs of the audience while carrying the inspirational dreams of small people. But in addition to cleverness, the theme of the movie is actually Dapeng's consistency: the desire to succeed, the desire to change the destiny, but always agree that the loser is worthy of respect, and the failure after hard work is worthy of respect.

In the end, each of us sees ourselves from Dapeng, we and Dapeng do not understand street dance, but we both know how to chase dreams, and the movie array tells us that even if it is an unsuccessful life, it can still be enthusiastic.

On the hardest days, you can also laugh out loud.

7: About the box office

Of course, I don't think it's the only one who thinks it's good-looking, and the comments given by Douban netizens are also surprisingly consistent.

But for the final box office of the film, the industry and audience predictions vary widely.

Just after watching the movie, audiences like me may expect the box office of "Heat" to be more than 5 billion, but there are also calm industry insiders who believe that no matter how good the reputation of the film is, it is difficult to break through 1 billion, because street dance is niche after all.

Previously, my forecast was only 800 million, and now I am willing to raise it to: 2 billion.

Because really good movies have no box office ceiling, and "Heat" is a good movie that can move ordinary people.

The reason why I didn't guess any more is because the movie is so burning and exciting, that some audiences' hearts may not be able to withstand such a high-burning movie.

Regardless of the final box office, I'm sure it will be the biggest surprise in the second half of the summer season.

In the past, the mainland film market was mainly supported by blockbusters with big productions and big investments, and most of the success of waist films was suspense films and comedies.

Inspirational sports movies, it is difficult to succeed, in this sense, the meaning of the success of "Heat" is more than "Heat".

It represents Chinese cinema, new stories and adventures, new enthusiasm.

I look forward to seeing new attempts in different directions of domestic films.

I also hope that more inspirational movies that give us emotional value will be born.

After watching this ending street dance battle, the future seems more worth looking forward to.

I don't know what kind of world Dapeng will be if he continues to move forward.

But I think that the future of good movies, good directors, and good actors is always worth it, a little more enthusiastic.