370 million box office in 5 days? After watching "The End of the Road", I lamented: Feng Xiaogang is really right

Gotta get a movie

2024-05-05 18:08Posted in Hebei Entertainment Creators

From May 1st to now, the result has surprised everyone.

First of all, the Hong Kong film "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" was screened and exploded.

I thought it was the same as the old three Hong Kong films, but I didn't expect the comic adaptation to return, and the perception was overwhelming, and the box office was rising, and the first shot of May 1st was fired.

Then the schedule officially began, and "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" took the lead.

Word-of-mouth is the worst, but the box office is the best.

Wang Yibo's fans proved with real money that the fan economy is still strong.

But other movies have suffered, among which "There is No Thing That Can't Be Solved by a Hot Pot" is the worst.

Famous outworks, starring Yang Mi of traffic, Yu Haolei of the powerful faction, and Yu Qian, Li Jiuxiao, and Tian Yu, who are naturally popular.

I thought it was a big dish, but it turned out to be rancid.

Soon after the release, word-of-mouth and box office were both cold, and director Ding Sheng was speechless and choked in the live broadcast, and today he temporarily withdrew the file and admitted defeat in advance.

And the most unexpected is "Spending Money at the End of the Road".

The director is a newcomer, and the starring actors are still the group of comedians in the Northeast, Jia Bing, Xiao Shenyang, Yu Yang and Dong Baobao.

No matter how you look at it, it is a street portrait of a big online movie, but after its release, it has become more and more courageous, and has been firmly ranked first in the daily box office list since the 3rd.

With a total box office of 370 million in 5 days, it has become the biggest dark horse in May Day.

Indeed, the box office won.

But the quality is hard to describe.

The word-of-mouth is only 6.1 points, just passing, only a little better than "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", after reading it, I must say:

If it weren't for the fact that there were no other comedies in the May 1st file, would it have this box office?

Middle-aged man's collective obscenity

The name alone makes me feel sick.

The title of this film is the same as the previous "This Killer is Not Calm" and "Li Mao Changing the Prince", all of which are added to some well-known entries or played homophonic stalks.

The original version is from 1991, directed by Ridley Scott's classic film "Crazy Flowers of the End", which tells the story of two women who flee all the way to the oppression and bullying in a patriarchal society, which is a standard feminist work.

But what is this film about?

The consumption carnival of a group of middle-aged men has already constituted a blasphemy on the basis of the original movie.

And the presentation of the script is more confusing and unreasonable.

"Spending Money at the End of the Road" is about "spending money wildly" on the "end of the road".

Jia Bing's "Jia Youwei" has achieved nothing in middle age, and his biggest ideal is to make up enough for one million to live a flat life, but the salary is too small and can only be throttled, and he lives a careful life.

Wash your face with drip water without consuming a water meter, squeeze toothpaste with a rolling pin, and use coupons to deduct all purchases in the supermarket.

But suddenly one day Jia Youwei was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and he only had a life span of almost ten days.

Afraid of responding to Xiao Shenyang's sentence "When people die, the money is gone", he decided to squander his life, and then sold the house to make up enough for 1 million, and called the three children in his childhood to embark on a journey of spending money.

The iron rooster will spend 1 million in 10 days, which is a standard genre piece design.

I estimate that many people are buying tickets in anticipation of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" after watching the trailer, and see how Jia Bing and Xiao Shenyang should play the poor and get rich, and they can also quench their thirst with their dry financial situation.

However, the movie has very little money to spend and is extremely "uncreative".

It's nothing more than that, rent a luxury car, live in a presidential suite, or go crazy shopping in the mall....

These episodes can even be imagined by the audience, and I really wonder how a group of Northeast actors who claim to be the "future of Chinese comedy" can perform so boringly in this kind of standard exam questions.

The only interesting part is to go to the restaurant and order seafood, and then release it to be fresh.

Before he could react, the movie suddenly came to the second act, and Jia Youwei began to pursue the childhood goddess "Wang Xiaoqian" (played by Tan Zhuo).

At this point, the overall tone of the movie suddenly changed.

Jia Youwei began to tie his hands again, I understand that this is a normal psychological reaction when meeting a goddess, but as a person who is about to die with a million, especially if he doesn't care about money, shouldn't he make more funny moves that ordinary people can't understand?

But Jia Youwei just bought a cemetery and bought a few dresses for her by the way.

Even when the creditor found Wang Xiaoqian, Jia Youwei was scared away even though he was rich, and in the end, he didn't take the money to fight with others.

No?

Are we "spending money" or "not spending money"?

There is no inertia in the logic of the characters.

As a result, chasing after the goddess, the hospital suddenly called, saying that it was misdiagnosed, and the truth was revealed.

I looked at my watch, and the mystery was announced in just an hour, and the support point of the script was gone, so what was the next 40 minutes to play?

The screenwriter waved his pen and said 2 words:

Meanness.

After discovering that he was not sick, Jia Youwei suddenly turned back into an iron rooster, crying and fussing to keep the last money, and also spoke ill of his buddies and in the same room.

A few days of getting along with him did not bring him any transformation, and the character arc was zero.

But the house was sold, the money was gone, and I had to sleep on the street and in the cemetery.

At this point, the title of "Spending Money at the End of the Road" has become invalid, and it has been replaced by another completely new script.

The movie suddenly turns to brotherhood, Jia Youwei was moved to snot when he saw the brothers' notes in his cemetery, and then suddenly changed his mind and wanted to help his three friends fulfill their wishes.

And in the first half, the foreshadowing of the roles of the three friends began to be rendered.

said that Sha Baihu (played by Xiao Shenyang)'s wife is a successful anchor with goods, and he has no personal career and can't help his wife, and he has no sense of existence at home as if he is transparent.

Dong Jianfeng (played by Dong Baobao) is a single father who raises his son alone, and his relationship with his son is not harmonious with his low salary.

Xu Dali (played by Yu Yang) is even more miserable, advocating martial arts when he was a child, fantasizing about fighting invincible opponents all over the world, but when he grows up, he can only be a security guard.

Indeed, this is "miserable", this is very "middle-aged".

But the problem is that these three characters can't arouse the audience's empathy, because the reason for their hardship is not shown.

Sha Baihu's family status is low and has no sense of existence.

But the screenwriter writes about how hard he works, how he wants to help his wife, or make some kind of tangible achievement, but still doesn't get his wife's approval?

No, he just silently accepted the dividends brought by his wife and was willing to be a family cook.

Xu Dali wants to participate in boxing matches and wants to make a splash.

He has a life goal worthy of respect, but the way he pursues his dream is to leave his post without permission during working hours.

Dong Jianfeng and his wife divorced and lived with their son, and he couldn't provide anything for his children except for buying a tablet, so he only showed sporadic fatherly love by studying rap hard.

One eats soft rice and eats hard, one leaves his post without permission, and a good father in words.

The three middle-aged men seem to be oppressed by life, but in fact, they are all to blame.

The screenwriter is too lazy to spend time on the characters or delete some scenes, just saying that they are very bitter, but they don't know why, there is no specific social contradiction, and the contradiction can only return to the characters themselves.

Suffering becomes deserved.

In the end, the reconciliation of the characters can be said to be simple and crude-

Jia Youwei feeds back to his friends and fulfills three wishes respectively.

Xu Dali signed up for a boxing match and was blasted, and Dong Jianfeng sang rap on stage and was accepted by his son.

Sha Baihu's party is the most disgusting, it seems that he pressed his head to let his wife confess to her husband in public, begging the other party to "marry yourself in the next life." ”

But why?

Why?

There is no fragment of Sha Baihu and his wife's relationship foundation, and he did not help his wife's career in the end.

A role that has no value or transformation at all still needs to be recognized in the end.

Is it also an ability to eat soft rice and hard food?

The ending is even more incomprehensible.

The second half took nearly 30 minutes to portray the feelings of the four brothers, and the four of them went from eating and drinking as children to the grievances and grievances of their fathers, and now they finally got back together after abandoning their previous grievances-

But the money to take over the hotel came from Sha Baihu's wife.

Why do you have four dreams to make irrelevant people pay?

This is not only contrary to the brotherhood expressed in the movie, but also belongs to the mechanical séance in the structure of the script, and it feels like I don't know how to end it, so I just pull someone to forcibly summarize the statement.

The four brothers were deeply in love for a long time, and finally came out with a big head to pay?

Then why are you crying for a long time?

I thought you were going to call Yoko Rame.

epilogue

In short, the overall look and feel of "Spending Money at the End of the Road" is extremely torn.

The first act is a low-profile version of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", the second act becomes "Parents' Love", and the third act is a hearty middle-aged lewdness.

In contrast, although the script of "This Killer is Not Calm" is shallow, at least the script as a whole is still on the protagonist's actor dream, and the gap is self-evident.

Of course, many viewers will say:

It's just a comedy, why are you so particular, I'm just for fun.

This is also the sentence that was said at the beginning -

If it weren't for the May 1st gear, "The End of the Road" would definitely not sell this box office, and the Chinese would have too much demand for comedy during the holidays.

But this is also the main reason why there are so many domestic comedies.

Sometimes the more benevolent the consumer, the more cruel he is to the market.

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