Today is the first day of 2024, the film market continues to remain hot, and many wonderful films have gathered on New Year's Day, making a good start to the New Year. Looking back on 2023, the film industry, which is a major highlight of the mainland entertainment industry, especially the Spring Festival and summer holidays, makes people marvel that "playing is the heartbeat".
Here is a copy of the movie chapter of the 2023 domestic entertainment product manual from the editorial department of "Red Star New Entertainment X Talk", please check.
In 2023, the box office in January will exceed 10 billion yuan, including 129 million moviegoers and 6.758 billion box office in 7 days during the Spring Festival, and from June to August, the box office of 20.619 billion will create the "strongest summer file in history", and the records of the highest box office, the highest number of people, and the total number of shows during the period will be refreshed one by one.
This year, no Hollywood blockbuster could rank among the top 10 of the annual box office list of Chinese films, which was the first time since the introduction of a blockbuster to China in 1994.
Represented by "The Wandering Earth 2", the hard power of China's film heavy industry has been recognized, represented by "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", Chinese-style romantic feelings have resonated, and "Fengshen Part 1" has restored the star-making ability of domestic films.
Entering the new year, it will be distributed in separate lines, AI creation, and horizontal stores will become vertical stores...... The screen will continue to compete with mobile phones for user time, and the cinema has transformed from an incremental to a stock market...... With all the innovations and challenges, every practitioner can only continue to roll, but confidence, like the light on the big screen, is presented on everyone's face.
01.
Brain Awakening Piece of the Year
All or Nothing
"All or Nothing", adapted from a number of real events, reveals the links of the entire industry chain of online fraud in an all-round and three-dimensional way through dramatic narrative, supplemented by a large number of explicit criminal details, such as concentration camp factories, electric stun guns, tearing ears, picking nails and other violent abuses, virtually achieving the communication effect of "edutainment": understanding the dangers of fraud, understanding preventive measures, and resolutely resisting fraud.
The spectacle of the image refreshes the audience, and the social expression makes the audience wake up. What the audience gave back to the movie was a box office hit.
"She Who Disappeared"
The core concept is derived from the suspense film "She Who Disappeared", which is based on narrative magic: perspective switching, trap design, game within a game, play within a play, and the strange echo of the plot with thriller urban legends, metaphorical tropical animals and Van Gogh's paintings, tearing open a social wound of "talking about the tiger's color change", revealing the abyss of human nature that makes the audience shudder.
Although movies are entertainment products, they are a warning that we should keep our eyes open and that demons may be lurking around us.
Wading Through the Sea of Wrath
A revenge tale full of violence and madness, involving a thought-provoking entanglement between two generations.
The on-screen roles of Huang Bo and Zhou Xun seem to be hostile sides who have formed a deep hatred, but in fact, both of them are flawed parents, and behind the deep love for calves, there is terrible neglect and doting.
The film exhibition also unveils the façade of parent-child relationship and the family of origin, warning us that there is a festering of tradition, Xi, and history: any love, or misplaced, insufficient, or overflowing, can become a disaster.
02.
Filler of the year
Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an
It seems that there has never been a film, with such a very romantic penmanship and unbridled imagination, presenting a group portrait of the poets of the Tang Dynasty and the self-comparing immortal Li Bai.
"Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" uses 48 poems and 168 minutes of plot to lead us back to that era of dazzling literature and magnificent waves.
When the poets we have been familiar with since childhood turn into laughter and deep lamentation on the screen, when the Yellow Crane Tower and the prosperous dream of Yangzhou reappear in front of us, it seems that what is resurrected is not only memory, but our youth and the Tang Dynasty that has been lost for thousands of years.
"Wandering Earth 2"
"The Wandering Earth" opened the door to domestic science fiction, and "The Wandering Earth 2" raised the height of domestic science fiction movies to the level of the world's peak.
There are two crises in the film: the space elevator and the moon falling, and the two concepts: the digital life plan and the mountain moving plan, collide with each other, not only showing the production level that the Chinese film industry can achieve and achieve, but also highlighting the spirit of "foolish people moving mountains" that only Chinese can deeply understand.
Two thousand years ago, Qu Yuan asked the heavens, and two thousand years later, "The Wandering Earth 2" answered with a community of destiny.
"Man Jianghong"
Compose tragic songs with comedy tunes, reverse history with suspenseful labyrinths, and graft the soul of the nation with humble characters.
Deep house compound, narrow alleys and Hillhouse, a group of small people, with a series of schemes, against authoritarianism, to defend memory, an indelible memory forged with blood, words and truth - Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong".
This is not only an impassioned display of family and country feelings, but also an emphasis on emphasizing that words have the power to transcend history, good and evil, life and death, and it is worth defending it at all costs.
03.
Hematopoietic tablets of the year
"Fengshen Part 1: Song of the Dynasty"
walked out of the darkest moment at the beginning of the release and became a much-anticipated fantasy blockbuster, the counterattack of "Fengshen Part 1" not only achieved the film itself, but also the pleasure of "rectifying internal entertainment".
The young actors who broke out of the "Fengshen Proton Camp" finally achieved an amazing transformation after various extreme challenges and resistance to pressure such as cruel body shaping, martial arts training, and literary and artistic knowledge. They (they) are powerful, wild and vigorous, and have excellent talents, which makes the audience refreshed, and the Chinese film and television industry has also had a group of new forces.
The face of internal entertainment has changed since then.
Space Exploration Editorial Department
Kong Dashan and Wang Yitong, who are not only the two screenwriters of the film, but also the director and the starring role respectively, they are young, not famous, have a limited budget, rough images, and cheap films, but they have the poetry of wilderness temperament and the fierceness of not being afraid to ask the meaning of life.
Under the shadow of commercial blockbusters, they created a film that can go down in film history with great talent and spiritual talent.
This is a breakthrough of poetry and philosophy, and a brave and successful attempt to advocate ideas over technology. The two Kongwang are worth remembering.
04.
Heart-to-heart piece of the year
"Mistake by the River"
The original film is from Yu Hua in the avant-garde literary period. He created a drama of the absurd, in the midst of upside-down, chaos and madness, satirizing the ineffable absurdity of an era.
Director Wei Shujun planted a complex and foggy storyline on this ridiculous soil, with characters who are difficult to distinguish between fiction and reality, accompanied by surreal techniques such as dreams, hallucinations, and auditory hallucinations, to complete a heartfelt writing: how a rational person gradually degenerates into a madman.
When "going crazy" becomes a general mood of the times, "Mistakes by the River" is its best endorsement.
The Light of the White Tower
Director Zhang Lu poetizes a city as the nostalgia of middle-aged people.
This nostalgia is composed of the famous "broken voice" in Beidao's "Polish Visitor" and a melancholy and lost transposition of "Welcome to Beijing", which almost brutally writes about those who have lost their shadows in the corners of the city, the ups and downs of life, and the tide of the times. "The Light of the White Tower" is too close to our daily life, and thus arrives at a kind of scorching reality.
We go to our hearts, we cry, we dance, we hope to find our own light under the white tower.
"I love you!"
In a mortal body, seeking the possibility of love - director Han Yan's gaze is different.
He used the extremely energetic Chang Weixian, the extremely sad Xie Dingshan, and the extremely grieving Mei Ruoxian to paint the situation of the elderly, thinking about their relationship with the young world, so as to create a panorama of the elderly. In this picture, each viewer can find their proper place and be inspired.
For those who are worried about "old age, sickness and death", there is still one prescription, and that is "love". This vulgar answer is invaluable. Han Yan was willing to repeat it repeatedly.
Red Star New Entertainment X Talking Stories Planning and Producing Editor Jiang Qing
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