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Edited by Mo Guike
The New Year's Day holiday is the happiest three days for everyone, especially on New Year's Eve, when the streets are full of people welcoming 2024 with their lovers and friends.
It seems that these days are full of festive atmosphere everywhere, and the cinema is no exception, and all kinds of elaborate films are being presented to everyone during the New Year's holiday.
There is a comedy atmosphere of "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop", which tells the real life of many social animal workers with a happy plot, although this film has not done much publicity, but it has also won more than 100 million box office in one fell swoop.
In addition, there are many suspense films, which also bring thrilling emotions to everyone during the New Year's Day holiday.
But if you want to say that the most popular movie in the past three days, it has to be the romance film "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star", this web drama broadcast in 2022 became the dark horse of that year.
Now that it is on the big screen again in the form of a film, it has made countless audiences who love it very excited, especially the design of the "snow field", which makes everyone look forward to it.
Just two days after the release of this film, it became the highest box office on the New Year's Day schedule in one fell swoop, but the evaluation of it on the Internet was a big bad review, expressing great disappointment, what is the difference in the film "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star"?
The highly anticipated "snow resort"
As early as a month ago, the film "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star" has begun to advertise that it will open a "snow field" in cinemas on the day of its release, and even many theaters have raised the price of movie tickets in the snow resort.
In many first- and second-tier cities, it is normal for the snow field tickets for this film to sell for one or two hundred, although the price is so high, there are still many viewers who buy movie tickets with expectations.
Finally, on the day of the release, everyone happily came to the cinema, but as soon as the snow field began, the audience regretted it.
This is not a romantic "Zhang Wansen, it's snowing" at all, but "an avalanche", and many viewers are painting beautiful makeup, ready to experience the scene of "white heads" with friends or lovers.
As a result, they were all drenched in soup and went out in embarrassment, who can still notice the plot of the movie, they can only see the snow foam full of white flowers.
This snow field, which was highly anticipated by netizens, ended in such an embarrassment, and many viewers expressed their disappointment, this tragic snow field has made everyone not very satisfied with this film.
And those viewers who didn't grab the snow field breathed a sigh of relief, and they could be regarded as "escaping", but what everyone didn't expect was that the vicious plot and pictures in this film gave the audience another slap in the face.
The film is sparsely edited throughout
In the words of the audience, it is a hearty "fraud", this film adapted from the web series of the same name, the problem is still very big, whether it is from the editing or the plot design, it is very unreasonable.
First of all, judging from the editing techniques of the whole movie, it can be seen that the director of this film is still working with the thinking of making a TV series.
If you want to say that the length of a TV series is definitely more than that of a movie, how to compress dozens of hours of story into two or three hours is a big problem.
In fact, in the online drama, the plot of this drama is a bit dragged, but it can still be fast-forwarded, and the actors' performances are enough to resonate with the audience.
But in this film, it is difficult for the audience to have a sense of substitution, the two-hour duration, the real plot is only a short hour, and the remaining hour is the water time that the director is working on.
All kinds of slow motion and close-ups have simply exhausted the audience's patience, and in the first hour, it is basically Zhang Wansen's secret love diary.
As long as you see Lin Beixing, you must cut to Zhang Wansen's face, and the observation expression frame by frame can also be renamed "Zhang Wansen's Crush Observation Notes".
A look, a change in expression, the director can't let go, everyone is going to look numb when they see Zhang Wansen's face, and they finally enter the plot.
officially started the plot, and it was an hour later, but in many plots, you have to flash back to Zhang Wansen's previous clips, and the shooting is like an emotionless PPT.
These water-long clips made this originally wonderful time-traveling romance film into a boring romance film, which really can't make the audience feel a sense of substitution, and they will fall asleep when they watch it.
It can be said that the director only thought about how to fill the entire two-hour movie, but did not take into account the harmony between the plot and the picture, and it was a bit torturous to watch this film in such a theater where it was impossible to use double speed.
There are also many picture changes, which do not take into account the size of the big screen in the theater, resulting in many pictures that do not fill the entire screen, and it is very uncomfortable to watch.
In addition to these editing and picture problems, the plot design in this film is also very unreasonable.
There is no logical pediatric plot design
In the original online drama, the plot is based on redemption through time, and the story of Zhang Wansen and Lin Beixing redeeming each other also touched many audiences.
In the film, the director also wants to continue to shoot this kind of story, but he can't completely follow the web drama, so he can only create something new.
The novel setting created by this creation has been complained by many audiences, such as Lin Beixing's setting that he can't say Zhang Wansen's name.
And the story of Lin Beixing traveling back to the past to save Zhang Wansen has also become that two people travel to the same world and meet, neither of them tells each other their names, and they fall in love like this, which looks very romantic.
But it's not a thing all the time, and then Lin Beixing saw the registration activity for naming the asteroid, so she began to work part-time to earn money to sign up.
On the way to work, Lin Beixing also went through twists and turns, and was harassed by the gangsters, and the male advocate Wan Sen, in order to protect the heroine, decided to send the gangsters in.
How did he do it? That is, he was beaten up and sent the thugs to the police station, which was too unnecessary.
The later plot is even more explosive, after Zhang Wansen and Lin Beixing solved the misunderstanding, they got on the Ferris wheel together, and then because Zhang Wansen wanted to go to the moon with Lin Beixing since he was a child.
So the Ferris wheel became a spaceship, and the two of them turned into astronauts and roamed the moon to their heart's content, and this plot was also inexplicable to the audience.
How can you suddenly go into space with such a low-cost film and television work, don't challenge the sci-fi blockbuster, this clip is very similar to the commercials I watched when I was a child.
As a rare modern fantasy romance drama in recent years, the theme of "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star" is still very novel, but the plot and shooting techniques are still difficult to meet the threshold of the film industry.
Now this "bad movie" that has been complained about by netizens has also become the No. 1 box office on New Year's Day, which shows the importance of marketing and online popularity.
What do you think of this film?