July is not a sunny day.
——Chinese cinema.
3.23 billion.
This is not an optimistic number.
Leaving aside the July that was still in the epidemic last year, in 2018 and 2019, the box office of Chinese films in July was 6.966 billion and 5.756 billion, respectively.
The results in the same period are almost waist-cutting.
Obviously, movies (not just Chinese films) are in difficulty inside and out.
The appeal of this form of entertainment to the younger generation is fading visibly with the naked eye.
"Outside", the damn epidemic can not see the signs of "decay", and even the best control of us has encountered a new wave of challenges.
When will the screen be fully lit?
Is it difficult for movies to return to their former glory?
In August, come with some surprises.
Save Donuts: The Great Rescue in Time
Release date: August 6
Expected Value: ★★★★
Director: David Silverman
Starring: Adam Devini/Rachel Bloom
Who is the highest-grossing animation of the year?
Bear Haunting: Wild Continent, 558 million.
Who is the highest-rated animation of the year?
Whitesnake 2: The Green Snake Rises, 7.3.
2021, Animation Year?
As a foreign movie, "Save donuts" can sneak into the "domestic protection month", perhaps to save the animation.
Maximum selling point
Directed by David Silverman.
In the industry for 25 years, the representative work "The Simpsons" episode season 9 points + , the same name movie 8 points + .
Humor and inspiration go hand in hand, adventure and warmth go hand in hand.
It's been a long time since there's been a clean family fun.
"My Father Jiao Yulu"
Director: Fan Yuan
Starring: Guo Xiaodong / Ding Liuyuan / Yan Xiaopin / Jiang Yi / Kou Zhenhai
The whole film is based on the oral account of Jiao Shouyun, the second daughter of Jiao Yulu.
The tall saying goes:
From the three different angles of "a party member", "a cadre" and "a relative", he reviewed the glorious and hard life of Comrade Jiao Yulu.
But Sir is not good at big words.
What impressed Sir was that the netizens who participated in the screening mentioned a line in the movie.
Jiao Yulu's dialogue with his mother's kangtou.
"A star in the sky, a man on the earth." If you are a good person, the star is bright; if you are a bad person, the star is dark; if you are a person who is broken, the star in the sky will not be bright, there will be none. ”
In the moment of worship confrontation, struggle, and overthrow, this simple and continuous goodness should also have its foothold.
Dangerous Memories
Expected Value: ★
Director: Guo Daqun
Starring: Gan Tingting / Li Bin / Qiao Qiao / Li Donghan
Memory is not dangerous to know.
Look at the trailer this shape, this light, this sweeping net smell.
Word of mouth (box office) is definitely dangerous.
"Toward the Bright Side"
Release date: August 7
Expected Value: ★★
Director: Lan Xiya / Li Nianze / Zhao Yi / Yu Kun / Liu Gaoxiang / Liu Maoning / Chen Chen
China's first picture book film.
——Adapted from seven domestic original picture books such as "The Rabbit's Problem", "Firefly Girl" and "Little Train".
Looking at the painting style is indeed "fresh".
But you know
What determines the quality of an animation is the story.
《Chosin Lake》
Release date: August 12
Expected Value: ★★★★★
Director: Chen Kaige / Xu Ke / Lin Chaoxian
Starring: Wu Jing / Yi Qianxi / Duan Yihong / Zhu Yawen / Li Chen / Han Dongjun
Chosin Lake is a key battle in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and "Chosin Lake" is also a battle that must be won in the summer of 2021 Chinese films.
Behind the scenes.
Directors: Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian.
Writers: Lan Xiaolong, Huang Jianxin.
Starring top matching.
Wu Jing, Yi Qianxi, Duan Yihong, Zhu Yawen...
Even the length of the film is "epic" 150 minutes.
—— It is rumored that due to the huge investment (1.3 billion), the film may be divided into two parts, the upper summer file and the lower National Day file.
But in the end, it was a battle.
From the scene, Sir has no doubt that "Chosin Lake" can touch the spire of Chinese films.
But outside the scene.
Sir would also like to see something a little more complicated.
In addition to the confrontation of guns and cannons, there is also the confrontation of politics, the confrontation of human nature, and even the confrontation of fate.
Whether "Chosin Lake" can be crowned epic, look at this.
"Five Splashing Teenagers"
Release date: August 13
Expected Value: ★★★
Director: Song Haolin
Starring: Xin Yunlai / Feng Xiangkun / Li Xiaoqian
It's time to be honest.
Remaking well-known foreign movies is a shortcut and a dangerous move.
As we all know, due to the differences in ideology and aesthetic tastes between countries, it is no less difficult to successfully localize a good story than to be original.
Standing on the shoulders of giants comes at a price.
It may make you see higher and farther, and it is more likely to set off that you are more obscene and small.
"The Dedication of Suspect X", Douban 6.3 points, the original version 8.4 points.
"Everything is good", Douban 6.5 points, the original "Journey to Tianlun" 8.6 points.
Including the recent tragedy
"Sunshine Sister Tao", Douban 4.5 points, the original version 8.8 points.
"Splashing Water Boy" is based on the Japanese film of the same name.
To tell the truth, the box office reputation is hard.
8.4, the 2001 Japanese live-action film box office champion, but also won the 21-year-old wife Satoshi Mu.
but.
After watching the trailer, Sir cautiously looked forward to it.
If nothing else.
The original male flower brigade, the actors are very tanned, from the image to the temperament, they all respect the training facts, respect the unique Japanese youth film secondary blood.
And the domestic version.
The boy was obviously too white and tender.
Do you want to shoot youth, or shoot obscene youth, I hope that "Splashing Water Boy" is not the latter.
"Deep Love"
Director: Sun Zhou/Zhang Yang
Starring: Zhang Danfeng / Wang Zhi / Zhang Yiming / Clara
Tao Hong said something like this:
Xu Zheng was forced to be a director, and after the success of "Spring Brilliant Pig Eight Commandments", the characters who found Xu Zheng were "stupid" and "humble".
Tao Hong's original words:
Because you played an eggplant, all the purples came to you.
Obviously, our Wang Zhi is still addicted to the trap of "Qiu Ya".
Pipilu and The Canned Villain of Rusisi
Director: Yu Fei
Starring: Hong Yuexi / Zhuang Zexi / Tian Yu / Liu Yiying
Some people say.
Zheng Yuanjie, the king of fairy tales, is the god of the 80s and 90s.
But Sir thought
It doesn't matter who Zheng Yuanjie is.
We loved him.
Not because of who he is, but because he inspires us:
Who am I.
In Zheng Yuanjie's creative career of more than forty years, he has created several famous characters who have accompanied generations of people to grow up.
The most famous is the protagonist of "Can Man" Pipilu, Lusisi.
This is the first film adaptation of Zheng Yuanjie's work.
Sir will certainly support it.
As the netizen @荦旯蒯庖 said:
If the movie has a relationship with Lao Zheng himself, I am willing to lie flat as a leek.
But Sir also needs to remind:
Feelings are not leeks.
If it is pure harvest, once or twice it is gone.
"The Lie Detector"
Release date: August 20
Director: Yang Yuanhan
Starring: Mary /Article
Tell a joke.
After Wu Yifan was arrested last night, who was he most afraid of?
Deng Chao.
You see, the weighty actors who have participated in "The Mermaid", the article, Luo Zhixiang, Wu Yifan, all of them are scandalous.
This article starred in the first film since 2018.
Three years, just one.
The reason is clear.
Can this "test of the waters" be successful?
At a time when moral standards are getting higher and higher, it can only be said that it is difficult, it is difficult.
"Loyal Dog Wandering"
Director: Sankai Viduran
Starring: Ding Dong / Ying HaoMing / Wang Shuo
Based on the real background prototype of the search and rescue dog "Ding-Dong".
The story tells that Yang Qi, a firefighter, retired from a military injury during an earthquake rescue and was forced to say goodbye to the search and rescue dog he had been with for many years. Years later, "Ding-Dong" sneaked out of the base, became a stray dog, and spent his life looking for his former owner.
Search and rescue dog "Ding-Dong" starred in its true colors.
The trailer is tear-jerking several times.
Don't you send me
"Jingle Bell" has gone missing
This look alone.
Regarding dogs, the United States has "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog", and Japan has "Ten Agreements between Me and dogs".
This time, it's finally our turn to tell the story.
That's right.
8.26 is World Dog Day.
Rabbit Violence
Release date: August 27
Director: Shen Yu Producer: Li Yu
Starring: Wan Qian / Li Gengxi / Huang Jue / Pan Binlong
Gloomy, damp, dilapidated little southern town.
The mother is full of charm, and the daughter is reticent.
In the moss-covered corners, there is a secret malice.
The story is adapted from the 2011 mother-daughter kidnapping and murder incident in Nanhu, Nanjing.
The 36-year-old mother instigated her 16-year-old daughter to kidnap and kill her classmate.
Wan Qian in the trailer, smeared with red lips, has a sense of unbridled sexiness.
She was a beautiful woman and a derelict mother.
For more than a decade, there has been no news.
Until this moment, the heavens fell in front of the daughter who had not been seen for a long time.
And the daughter Li Gengxi, for this belated maternal love, is willing to give everything.
The film premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival.
Evaluation is polarized.
Bad reviews of "nothing to see", praise of "the best look and feel".
How exactly?
Rushing to the rarity of domestic women's crime movies, Sir is willing to gamble.
That's all for August.
Draw the point.
"Chosin Lake", "My Father Jiao Yulu", "Pipilu and Lusisi's Canned Villain", "Loyal Dog Wandering", "Rabbit Violence", must see.
"Deep Love", "Toward the Bright Side", "Dangerous Memory", "The Liar Detector" and "Five Teenagers Who Splashed the Water", can not be watched.
As for the rest.
Sir expects the "dark horse" to punch in the face.
Finally, Sir wanted to shout two more words for the good movie.
Now being released, "Midsummer Future" and "Fury Case" have shortcomings and overheated, but they are definitely worth watching.
These two are good.
Both have the author (director) being faithful to their feelings.
From this point of view:
"Saving the movie" is not about saving the big stars, it's actually about saving every small but concrete person.
Anyone's tears, smiles, anger, despair...
They are all distant cries, and they are all indispensable part of this world.
It's not that film (art) needs an audience.
It's the audience that needs the movie.
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