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Recently, the movie "Predecessor 4" was set, although the drama is still starred by Han Geng, Zheng Kai and other original casts, but it has attracted a wave of controversy. Many netizens even questioned such a bad movie, is it necessary to release a fourth part?
But in fact, the number of people who want to watch this movie on many film platforms has even increased tenfold compared to Zhang Yimou's new work "Rock Solid", it seems that the attention of the "Predecessor" series has not decreased, and there are still many netizens who want to go to the cinema to watch the fourth part.
However, some netizens think that the current series of movies, relying on the first one with a good reputation, began to work hard, and the later sequel is basically rubbing the popularity and reputation of the first part. Although some may be because the script is not good, and the actor may change these factors, resulting in the reputation of some sequel movies is not as good as before, but the box office of some sequels will be even higher.
And these sequel films, many of which are too innovative, give people a feeling of changing soup without changing medicine, often guessing the end after watching the beginning, but still will continue to shoot, this situation will only continue to wear away the original reputation of the series of movies.
For example, the "Ex" series, its first work with its light love style, and the enduring topic of discussion of "ex" and "love", made this small-cost film gain a good box office and word of mouth.
Although "Predecessor 2" was replaced by Zheng Kai starring, the overall plot is inferior to the first part, but it still does not affect the fire of "Predecessor 3". Six years ago, "Predecessor 3" achieved an astonishing box office of 1.941 billion, creating box office stories for mainland romance movies, and also caught fire with movie episodes such as "Decent" and "Scattered".
However, this time "Predecessor 4" and "Predecessor 3" have the continuity of the story, and the protagonist has not changed, so some netizens think that this is the old wine and the new pot. I feel that the overall story framework does not have much innovation, and I am not optimistic about the release results of this movie, and I complain just to circle money again.
This also makes many netizens have a big doubt: just to make money and ruin the reputation, is it necessary to continue the series of movies of the dog-tailed mink? And where is their way out?
Take the series of movies such as "Anti-Drug", "Anti-Corruption Storm" and "Detective Chinatown", their first works at the beginning have achieved good results, which can be said to have their own characteristics.
In 2013, "Drug Sweep 1" was released, not only the three male gods of Hong Kong circles, Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun, Zhang Jiahui, but also incorporated a large number of classic features of Hong Kong films, so that this action film achieved good results, and also became the closing film of the 8th Rome International Film Festival.
However, after "Anti-Drug 2" and "Anti-Drug 3" were released one after another, they did not make the series out of the circle again.
"Drug Sweep 3" even suffered a box office hit as soon as it was released, ranking at the bottom of the box office in the same period.
Many netizens complained that the plot of "Drug Sweep 3" is old-fashioned and unnew, and it is stacked with some action scenes from beginning to end, which makes people tired of watching aesthetics and lament that Hong Kong films are becoming more and more unnew.
The same situation is also "Anti-Corruption Storm", the anti-corruption type of Hong Kong film is actually quite wide, and its first film is also a good result.
But the sequel has been filmed in the 5th part, but it is difficult to surpass the good reputation of the first part, and it is complained that it is not changing the soup and no new ideas.
And the "Detective Chinatown" series, its first part can be regarded as the pioneering work of mainland comedy suspense, which can be called applauded and sold, but it is a pity that the sequel has not exceeded the reputation of the first part.
Even the third part began to be complained that the suspense plot is old-fashioned and the plot is not heart-wrenching enough, and some netizens say that it is now a series of movies that want to make money.
These series of movies, originally good at the box office, but now they have become "dog-tailed mink works", it can only be said that they did not put the core of the movie plot in the first place, did not want to innovate, but blindly consumed the characteristics, no wonder it will be complained by netizens.
But there are also some series of movies, which are always constantly innovating to let more people see their characteristics, such as the "The Wandering Earth" series. This series can be described as the pioneering work of Chinese science fiction films, and the plot does not step on the pit of changing soup and medicine.
"The Wandering Earth 1" mainly tells the story of the imminent destruction of the sun, and several protagonists try to escape the solar system with the earth and find a new home for mankind together.
The word-of-mouth popularity of the second part is even higher than the first, mainly telling the story of the protagonists and fathers of the first part, so that the story core of the two works has a perfect link, and also shows the character characteristics of the protagonist group of the two works.
There are also many highlight plots in "The Wandering Earth 2", such as Sha Yi's "Over 50 years old", Andy Lau's father's deep love, which make the core of the work fuller.
At the same time, it also reasonably buried the suspense of the story, making the audience look forward to the third part more.
It can be seen that a good series of movies should have a fuller story core for each sequel, with flashpoints that make the audience remember deeply, rather than changing soup without changing medicine under the same framework, so that each part of the series of movies is full of expectations.