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The performance of this year's May Day file is really not as good as in previous years. The most high-profile movie "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" has been backlogged for many years, and it is finally launched, Huang Jingyu partners Wang Yibo, and his appearance and traffic are all quite eye-catching.
But it's a pity that after the first wave of box office blowouts on the first day of the launch of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", public opinion and reputation went into a downturn. According to the data, the box office competition between the movie "Spending Money at the End of the Road" and the movie "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" in the past two days has shown signs of overtaking the former.
The gap between the two films in terms of the number of screenings and attendance is gradually narrowing, and it is only a matter of time before the cumulative box office of "Spending Money at the End of the Road" surpasses that of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team".
Not only that, but the movie "Spending Money at the End of the Road" also broke a record and became the first-day box office champion of the new comedy film in mainland film history.
And judging from the content of the movie itself, "Spending Money at the End of the Road" is definitely the king of cost performance in this May Day file.
The Northeast man performed an inspirational comedy, the plot was hilarious, and he laughed until he burst into tears
The main line of "Spending Money at the End of the Road" is actually a story of Jia Youwei (played by Jia Bing), a Northeast man who picks and searches, and decides to gather three sworn brothers Sha Baihu (played by Xiao Shenyang), Xu Dali (played by Yu Yang), and Dong Jianfeng (played by Dong Baobao) in the first half of his life after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
In 10 days and millions of banknotes, although "Spending Money at the End of the Road" did not have the magnanimity of "Wang Duoyu" back then, it also made the audience addicted to consumption.
The jokes in the plot are basically all in the first half of the movie, before the main line begins, a wave of characters is set up, the male protagonist Jia Youwei is comparable to the ancient Greek god in charge of banknotes, people go to the mall to use a coupon to get a discount, this guy directly checks out with a handful of coupons.
After spending five points in one pass, the audience was still shocked, and Jia Youwei came to the sentence "almost overspent".
It is not uncommon for a character to pick the door, but the character who picks the door to this extent has successfully aroused the interest of the audience. is also because of the extreme slamming of the door, so the big money in the follow-up plot of the movie is more dramatic.
In addition to the laughter, "Spending Money at the End of the Road" has a lot of inadvertent tears, which are laid out in a relaxed and natural way.
Jia Youwei, who has been picking on hamburgers for most of his life, only knows that hamburgers are delicious, but he has never been willing to buy them, and when he decided to spend his money before he died, Jia Youwei wanted to taste what hamburgers tasted like.
The brothers laughed at him when they found out, they hadn't eaten any delicacies from the mountains and seas, and they completely lost their imagination of food.
Jia Youwei just smiled when he heard it, but in the subsequent plot, Sha Baihu played by Xiao Shenyang still bought a hamburger for Jia Youwei, not because of how delicious the hamburger was, but because he wanted Jia Youwei to leave without regrets.
The shaping of these brotherhoods, up to the point, is all in plain sight, there may only be a few lines flashed, but in the aftertaste, it makes people a little sour and teary-eyed.
Judging from the routines of domestic films in recent years, "Spending Money at the End of the Road" can be done without deliberately sensationalism, and it has beaten more than half of domestic movies.
Of course, in addition to the comedy plot that laughs until tears, the shaping of the actors also makes "The End of the Road" more immersive.
To act in comedy, you have to be from the Northeast, which is too positive
In fact, Jia Bing has always been an excellent comedian, his comedy style is very positive, with a strong Northeast flavor, from sketch dance to film and television dramas and even online movies, Jia Bing can double the effect of comedy baggage.
But over the years, Jia Bing has really been dragged down by bad movies.
In "Hurricane", Jia Bing's role is limited, he went offline very early, and he is obviously a villain, but he has become one of the out-of-the-circle characters in "Hurricane".
This time it is the same in "Spending Money at the End of the Road", Jia Youwei portrayed by Jia Bing in the play is an ordinary man, his quality of life is very low, he has to worry about a few cents, but Jia Bing's performance style has no traces of misery, he uses absurd comedy to wrap the sadness and humility of a low-level person.
The audience is smiling and laughing, only to discover the tragic attributes of the core of the characters.
In addition to Jia Bing, several leading actors of "Spending Money at the End of the Road" have dazzled the audience.
Comedian Xiao Shenyang has been low-key on the screen for a long time, and he is an excellent comedian in the audience's memory.
For a long, long time, the audience has not seen Xiao Shenyang play a serious comedy role on the screen.
Another starring actor Yu Yang is also an old acquaintance of the audience, and the character he plays in the play, Xu Dali, who is middle-aged, does nothing, and the hesitation of his youth has been polished into an old security uniform by life.
Yu Yang's comedy temperament has a serious temperament, and he is big talking, although the characters are full of unpleasant labels, but Yu Yang can perform a "reasonable" effect.
The most surprising thing for the audience is, of course, the portrayal of Uncle Jewel, as a non-professional actor, Uncle Jewel's main business is rap, but in "Spending Money at the End of the Road", he is really very harmonious.
may be because he is from the Northeast, so Uncle Gem has the same comedy temperament as Jia Bing, Xiao Shenyang, and Yu Yang. The difference is that Uncle Jewel is a little more frustrated by ordinary people, and the character he plays in the play also lives in an unsatisfactory reality, when the child grows up day by day, there is a contradiction in the communication between parents and children.
These troubles are not only perfectly reflected in Uncle Jewel's language and expression, but also highlighted in Uncle Jewel's physical behavior.
As an actor who became a monk halfway, Uncle Jewel is really talented in acting, especially in comedy performances.
Watching the movie "Spending Money at the End of the Road", it is obvious that the screenwriter and director understand comedy, and the actors also understand the rhythm of comedy. The intentions of all aspects created the box office blowout of the movie "Spending Money at the End of the Road", which once surpassed the release trend of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team".
Of course, no movie can be perfect, "Spending Money at the End of the Road" is a good movie in all aspects, and it is difficult for the audience to find fault in this movie, but from the overall plot framework, it is not uncommon to start a story of squandering life because of a terminal illness, and the vast majority of the audience expected that the ending of the movie was a misdiagnosis before entering the cinema.
Fortunately, simple comedy works do not need to increase the plot, and "Spending Money at the End of the Road" can see the intentions and quality. Finally, what do you think of the movie "Spending Money at the End of the Road"?