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The first wave of box office scuffle at the Marché du Film in April has come to an end.
I thought it would be as deserted as in previous years, but I didn't expect it to be a little surprise.
The biggest winner was Hayao Miyazaki's "What kind of life do you want to live".
It is really surprising that a small animation can earn more than 500 million yuan in an unpleasant small schedule and become a box office champion.
You must know that the "monster fight" next door, "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" only won 600 million box office in 12 days.
and "The World of Grass and Trees", which was originally the most vigorously promoted, only had a box office of 60 million, a difference of only 10 times from the champion.
Director Ming Ming won an award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and Jiang Qinqin won the Asian Film Actress Award with this work.
In various activities, Chen Jianbin showed his affection, thinking that this film could become a niche and high-reputation work, but he never expected that the Douban score fell all the way below 6.7, and only more than 30,000 people scored it.
In fact, everyone's perception is very different.
From the perspective of plot and picture, the style of the whole film is relatively fragmented.
The first half of the story is eloquent, the emotions are progressive, and the climax is also very good, but at the end, there is a deliberate "unfathomable" metaphor.
In order to forcibly echo the beginning, regardless of the rhythm of the middle story, the cliff-like slowing down the process, especially as a feature film, did not give a good ending, and the audience was confused.
In terms of acting, it actually adds a lot of points to the plot, at least it can make the audience sit quietly for two hours, but there is no harm if there is no comparison.
In the previous article, we discussed the plot of "The World of Grass and Trees", this time, let's take a good look at how the few actors in the film perform-
There are two actors in this movie that surprised me the most.
The first place is Wu Lei.
In fact, in the early publicity, most of the focus was on Jiang Qinqin, and at the same time, the highlights of the play that can highlight his acting skills were also given to him.
There is no doubt that Jiang Qinqin has a relatively large space to play, coupled with his own national degree and strength, he naturally does not say anything.
But Wu Lei not only caught the play, but even performed very well.
He Mulian is the male lead in the whole movie, he sold elderly health care products in the early stage, and joined the pyramid scheme organization in the later stage just to destroy the stronghold and rescue his mother.
No matter what stage it is, Wu Lei handles the inner contradictions of the characters just right.
For example, the period of selling elderly health care products.
He didn't want to deceive the old man, but he was forced by life to lose his principles and bottom line.
There are more shots here, in the supporting roles, but as long as Wu Lei enters the camera, that kind of silent, depressed and helpless emotion can rush out in an instant.
Another example is when you lose your temper with your mother, and after you lose your temper.
His eyes widened in disbelief when he saw a room full of foot stickers, and the audience could clearly feel the emotions that were gradually surging up.
roared over and over again to vent the emotions layer by layer, blushing and thick neck but not using too much force, and the sense of substitution was extremely strong.
And one day after losing his temper, he appeared silently at the MLM scene again.
is still contradictory and unspeakable suffering, He Mulian's setting is actually not as clear as her mother, but Wu Lei portrays the characters extremely clearly.
The second place is Wang Jiajia.
I recognized this actor almost immediately, she played Gong Biao's wife Huang Liru in "The Long Season", there is a great contrast between before and after, and the crying scene where Biaozi went offline at the end is still fresh in my memory.
In "The World of Grass and Trees", she is a character full of comedy, and her gestures show the four words engraved in the bones of Northeast people-
Big generous.
In the play, she performed the dramatic comedy elements with a slight exaggeration, and the whole play was full of vitality in an instant, and the laughter appeared in front of the audience one after another.
She can play the tiger strength of the Northeast people, and after cunningly deceiving so many people, she still has a rare innocence, even if it is only a small supporting role, it is still embarrassing.
When everyone is praising Jiang Qinqin's acting skills, I have some different opinions.
There is no doubt that Jiang Qinqin and Wu Moshua are very suitable for the role, and they were really amazed at the beginning.
There is no image baggage, simple and sincere, there is still a trace of hope for life, and the gestures are natural and smooth.
However, it wasn't until Wu Moshua's psychology changed dramatically that it could be seen that Jiang Qinqin really wanted to play hard.
Every time the characters are crazy in the plot, Jiang Qinqin uses all his strength, and he doesn't even have any foreshadowing, just to show his acting skills.
In fact, the director of "The World of Grass and Trees" is not very good at showing the most flamboyant character of the characters, and his style itself comes slowly.
And Jiang Qinqin's "presumptuousness" and flamboyance look a little embarrassing under the director's lens, especially with the inexplicable ending later, the audience is awkward.
In contrast, Wu Lei's performance was a little more restrained, and he interacted with Jiang Qinqin.
And when Jiang Qinqin highlighted the tension of his performance, he was completely immersed in his personal world and did not have much communication with Wu Lei.
This is in conflict with Wu Moshua's special and strong love for her son.
Chen Jianbin of the third time, to be honest, has no sense of existence as the actor Wang Jiajia mentioned above.
What he plays is a dispensable role in itself.
When the audience saw the end, the only description of Lao Qian was-
He's a good guy.
didn't help Wu Moshua's family at all, just a marginal outsider, as if he forcibly came to rub the camera.
Maybe the character design itself has no effect, and Chen Jianbin seems to be a little too "relaxed" in acting.
Even if he is reduced to a supporting role, his background behind the mother and son is almost a posture of watching a play.
I didn't write it well, and I didn't try my best to act, so I can only say that this cameo is really meaningless.
epilogue
If you want to ask about the most worthwhile films to watch in April, in fact, I will still recommend "The World of Grass and Trees".
Although the word-of-mouth is mixed, compared with "What kind of life do you want to live", "The World of Grass and Trees" is still more intuitive, and some conflict points can drive emotions.
is also a fraud, "The World of Grass and Trees" cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with "All or Nothing", and the director's entanglement is actually shown in the film.
His favorite literary style and profound metaphors seem to be not worth mentioning in front of commercial films that can circle the box office, but he can add elements of commercial films, and he can't let go of his favorite style, and in the end it's just four dislikes, and the box office reputation is mediocre.
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