With a box office of 30.28 million in 2 days, "The Wandering Blade" has an empty table, and Wang Qianyuan has pounced on 6 films in a row, and it's time to wake up

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2024-05-19 02:39Published in Anhui film creators

"The law will punish them, and it will also give them a chance, and in a few years, they will be able to come out, get married, have children, and be a good father."

"But what about my daughter? She can't live anymore, she never has a chance again! ”

- This is a line from Wang Qianyuan's mouth in the movie "The Wandering Blade".

The movie I've been thinking about for a long time has finally been released, and Brother Brown watched the film with very high expectations, but I didn't expect to be so disappointed, I predicted that the box office would be 1 billion, and this time I was slapped in the face.

In my opinion, "Wandering Blade" is an empty and flashy film, and I will make a brief review based on box office data to remind the audience who are curious and want to see this movie.

1. Box office.

According to the box office report on Saturday, May 18, the market received a total of 111 million, an increase of 60 million from Friday, and the highly-anticipated "Wandering Blade" did not detonate the theater as expected.

The top three are "Spending Money at the End", "Wandering Blade" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes: New World".

A total of four new films broke into the list on Saturday.

Gosling's "Stunt Maniac" fell out of the top ten on the second day of its release, and the box office came directly to a Waterloo, with a total box office of only 4.01 million in 2 days, and the box office hit the street unstoppably.

The performance of the two imported films is average, and "Tonight, Even if This Love Disappears from the World" starring Junyou Michieda only ranked ninth with a box office of 4.91 million; and the premiere of the romance film "April Girlfriend" starring Takeru Sato and Masami Nagasawa received 1.63 million and missed the top ten.

Xu Guanghan's "Those Years That Missed You" was screened and the pre-sale box office reached 8.57 million, it seems that during the 520 schedule, this movie has a lot of origins.

Directed by Zhang Guoli and starring Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu, "Morning Clouds and Dusk Rain", on the second day of the film, the total box office won 9.28 million, barely surpassing "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" and ranking fifth.

To be honest, this film is far from expectations, Zhou Dongyu's box office appeal has fallen to the bottom, and if he doesn't think of a way, he will have to sit on the title of "box office poison".

"The Wandering Blade", which only won a single-day box office champion, was beaten by Jia Bing's "Spending Money at the End" on May 1st the next day, and collected another 18.62 million on Saturday, and the cumulative total box office barely reached 30.28 million.

According to its trend, the share of the film schedule will continue to be divided by the old films on May 1st, and tomorrow Louis Koo and Lin Feng's "Kowloon Walled City" will almost overtake, the follow-up trend of the film is quite ugly, and the predicted box office has also fallen from 200 million in the media to 100 million.

For a theatrical movie, there is definitely no way to recover the cost, if there is no special way to reverse word-of-mouth and film scheduling, it has become an established fact that the box office hit the street.

2. Film review: "The Wandering Blade" has no appearance.

The reason for this situation is that the film's reputation is too mediocre, it has not completely ignited the enthusiasm of the audience, and the online discussion has not formed public opinion, so the box office can only be like this.

"The Wandering Blade" is adapted from the suspense novel of the same name by Keigo Higashino, directed by Chen Zhuo, starring Wang Qianyuan and Wang Jingchun, and starring Qi Xi, Zhang Youhao, Wang Tianchen, Zhou Zhengjie, Aruna and other actors.

The plot is quite simple, it tells a story of revenge.

Li Changfeng, played by Wang Qianyuan, has two identities, one is a construction worker, who gets up early and is busy with work every day, and the other is a single father, who raised his daughter Li Qian (played by Wu Shuang) alone.

On the second day of her daughter's birthday, she had a great time shopping with her female classmates, so much so that she missed the time to go home, and at this time it was raining, Li Changfeng was still working overtime at the construction site, and told her daughter to go home early.

After separating from her classmates, Qianqian went home alone and was kidnapped by three underage boys who dropped out of school on the way......

One of them, Luo Zhicheng (played by Zhang Youhao), a boy who is less timid and can drive, was called back by his father, and he did not participate in the follow-up crime.

Early the next morning, her daughter was killed.

A few days later, Luo Zhicheng found Li Qian's mobile phone in his car and sent a text message to Li Changfeng, informing him of the location of his daughter's murderer.

After that, the plot began to unleash, and Li Changfeng's road to revenge began......

The ending song of "The Wandering Blade" was sung by Wang Feng, and there was an easter egg at the end, fantasizing that Li Changfeng bought a pet to take his daughter home, as if nothing had happened.

The shortcomings of the movie are very obvious, and I have summed up four words: empty and flashy.

Its "table" and "Hua" are reflected in the fact that this movie fits the three junior high school students in Handan, Hebei Province; Its "untruthfulness" completely lost its stamina.

In other words, such a blockbuster good subject matter, but so empty, let alone reflection and emotional resonance.

The specific analysis is as follows:

First, there is a lack of suspense, and the unreasonable plot is too big.

Keigo Higashino's novel tells a suspenseful human story, and this film does not have any reversal plot, all the clues are unreasonable, and more importantly, the case handlers are always one beat slower than Li Changfeng.

Especially the landlady who rented the house for him to live in, her approach is really incomprehensible.

She watched half of the video, and she didn't know for what purpose, to help the wanted criminal Li Changfeng for free, if she wanted to say that she could hide it and not report it, she could still talk about the past, but she actually drove to help him find the second murderer.

Eldest sister, this is a cover-up crime and an accomplice, a person who violated the criminal law, who has a criminal record and ruined three generations, the screenwriter is legally illiterate, are you also legally blind? Don't you know this basic common sense?

Li Changfeng stabbed a murderer in the front, and Liang Jun (played by Wang Jingchun) in the back also persuaded him that he could watch the villains being tried in court, and lied to the ghosts, don't you understand the law when Li Changfeng is liar?

There are 2 people left, this is a big case, it should be particularly shocking in the local area, but there are few people who handle the case, Li Changfeng is running around with a dangerous murder weapon, and it doesn't matter if he can't find any clues, but at least the whole city is under control, and there should be a search for the mountains.

It's a pity that not only are these not, but there is also a plot in the middle where Liang Jun released Li Changfeng. What is this, dereliction of duty! Obviously, you Liang Jun is sympathetic to Li Changfeng for personal gain, big brother, but you are the captain of the criminal police.

Second, the tangled psychology of hesitation.

The name of the movie is "The Blade of Wandering", I just want to ask the director, what is "hesitation", what is your intention to make this movie?

Then let me tell you, hesitation means wandering around, hesitating, not knowing which direction to go, but also refers to the tangled side of the heart, how to choose?

It can be seen from the end that the director doesn't understand what "hesitation" is, and he interprets it as Wang Qianyuan who is dizzy because of physical exhaustion.

Third, the theme is preachy, and the end of the large subtitles adds to the snake.

Everyone knows that the theme of this movie is family education, and if you can't even see this, I'm afraid you haven't passed the nine-year compulsory education. What is the purpose of the director to let Liang Jun dictate a family education at the end?

What's even more infuriating is that the large subtitles are used as a backing, and once again underestimate the audience's level of understanding, the director is incompetent, don't treat the audience as if he is the same as you, okay?

Such a shocking theme is so mediocre, and I don't know how the director did it, "The Wandering Blade" wants to rub on the three minors in Handan in all aspects, but the main creator has no diamond diamond, and the porcelain work is a mess.

Brother Brown personally rated two and a half stars, one star for Wang Qianyuan's performance, one star for the theme, and half a star for the entire crew, 6 points couldn't be higher.

Third, it's time for Wang Qianyuan to wake up.

Wang Jingchun and Wang Qianyuan in "The Wandering Blade" are both at the level of actors, and there is naturally no problem with the performance, but there are many unreasonable points in the plot of the movie, which should be proposed to the director.

Similarly, in this movie, who is the most brilliant is none other than Wang Qianyuan.

I love Wang Qianyuan very much, in "The Piano of Steel" and "Rescue Mr. Wu", he has proven himself with his acting skills, especially in "Rescue Mr. Wu", the attention even exceeds Andy Lau.

Before, his ability to carry the box office was still okay, for example, the box office of "Big Man" and "Crackdown" was 380 million and 538 million respectively, and Guan Hu's "Eight Hundred", he was the first actor, with a total box office of 3.1 billion.

But since "Crackdown", Wang Qianyuan and Bao Bell have become obsessed with Japanese and Korean remakes together, and their representative works include "Breaking the Game", "Big Man", "Lobster Detective", "You Are a Murderer", "What's in the Zoo" and so on.

In recent years, Wang Qianyuan's works have been pounced on five times in a row.

In 2022, the box office of "Hunting Slaughter" and "The Person Who Loves Me Most in the World" will be 12.55 million and 7.64 million respectively;

In 2023, the box office of the three movies will all be beaten, "Storm" will be 42.06 million; "Shocking Rescue" 42.04 million; "Procuratorial Situation" 61.83 million.

The above movies also have a common feature, that is, the word-of-mouth is very mediocre, and there is no high-quality masterpiece.

At this point, Wang Qianyuan should really wake up.

First of all, reduce remakes.

Now in fact, Wang Qianyuan is the big Bao Bell, if the remake continues, the reputation is as unsatisfactory as ever, then it will completely become Bao Bell, and in the end, his road will become narrower and narrower.

Second, carefully select the script.

Reject all bad scripts, don't star in bad movies for the so-called salary, even if you have top-level acting ability, you can't stop the mediocre creator. In this regard, Zhou Dongyu is a good example.

Finally, there was silence and a single blow was hit.

With your acting ability, there will definitely be no shortage of scripts, especially for crime and suspense genre films, your appearance is too much, and among many scripts, find excellent directors and actors to work with.

Excellent original scripts are hard to come by, and you will definitely be able to meet a director like Wong Kar-wai and a script like "Flowers", and when they come back again, they will definitely have a bumper harvest at the box office.

IV. Conclusion.

"The Wandering Blade" has a lot to do with director Chen Zhuo, who was able to remake the high-quality suspense film "The Invisible Guest" into "Hiding from the Sky and Crossing the Sea" with a score of 5.8 on Douban.

It is conceivable how mediocre his creativity is, so many good actors have been ruined by him, and Cao Baoping's "Wading through the Sea of Anger" is simply not the same volume.

Chen Zhuo, you took a good shot, please don't shoot next time!

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