I still want to talk about it specifically.
It's been a few days, and I still can't accept the fact that -
A very favorite director and a favorite actor.
actually made such a "difficult to review" movie.
Ning Hao + Ge You, after "My Hometown and Me", cooperated again to continue the IP of the good guy Zhang Beijing.
"Hometown" won the box office champion of the National Day file that year, and Ning Hao and Ge You's "The Good People of Beijing" is one of the short films with the best reputation.
originally thought that with these two foundations, plus the only comedy bonus in this National Day file, it wouldn't be ugly.
However.
Douban 6.2, with a box office of 16.402 million, has become a small transparent that no one cares about.
Was it an accidental Waterloo?
Sir thinks that Ning Hao's "worst in history".
It didn't come as a surprise -
Explosive good guys
01
Crazy good guys
Ning Hao has always cared about the present.
His habit is to place a person in the current environment, and use the conflict of values to question certain absurd and irrational phenomena.
It's about the human situation.
Take "Mr. Red Carpet" as an example.
The old-school star entered the online public opinion field of the new era and found that the qualities he insisted on at the beginning were invalid.
The performance mistake turned into a "success" -
Liu Weichi (played by Andy Lau) recited the Internet tide phrase "666" while taking a short video on his mobile phone.
Dedicated display has become negative public opinion again-
Liu Weichi posted a video of using a stand-in and dropping a horse in person, who would have expected it to trigger condemnation of animal protection on the whole network.
These.
In fact, it is a total suspicion of self and this era.
On this basis.
"Hot Good Guy" is actually a spiritual continuation of "Mr. Red Carpet".
It's just that the perspective is more public.
The story is that by chance, the rights protection video of the ordinary brother Zhang Beijing (played by Ge You) became popular all over the Internet, and he suddenly became an "Internet celebrity" at the age of nearly 70.
What to do?
He chose to use this opportunity to help more people in order to improve his image.
Thereupon.
The gym ran away, and the card money can't be returned?
"Brother Rights Protection" will expose you to you, and the big guy has to return the money honestly.
The park is occupied by bicycles, and the aunts' dancing skills are nowhere to be used?
The "rights protection brother" did it himself and took the brothers to move their bicycles late at night.
The sound of frogs in the pond in the community is noisy, so that the nearby residents can't sleep?
Don't worry, the "rights protection brother" will go into the water to catch the toad, and let the frog sound become "Wow, what a fragrant fried bullfrog".
"Xuantian in the northwest is an eagle, and Zhang Beijing is looking for rights protection."
As soon as you wear a cowboy hat, only you can't think of it, and there is no Zhang Beijing who can't do it.
Even if he was sent a lawyer's letter and smashed a window with a stone, Zhang Beijing did not flinch, and he wanted to do good people and good deeds to the end.
The question is, can the "good guys" survive in this era?
The answer given by Ning Hao was no.
Thereupon.
Zhang Beijing met the Ami star Li Xiaoqin (played by Li Xueqin) and found that she was drifting north alone with her child.
Seeing that she lost her job and lost her capital because of her rights protection, she sold soap in the live broadcast room where no one cared.
Zhang Beijing's good guy DNA moved, and decided to bring goods and sell soap for Li Xiaoqin.
Can a rights blogger bring goods?
In his opinion, this is the "rights protection brother" doing chivalrous deeds.
But in Internet thinking, this is called "personality collapse".
As a result, a cyberbullying action developed from online to offline, and the crusade against the "rights protection brother" became the traffic password, and countless netizens flocked to it, turning the "rights protection brother" into a "drama brother".
Overturned.
Why?
It's just because in the current Internet culture, there is no good or bad.
There are only topics.
Plainly.
In "Hot Good Guy", Ning Hao wants to reproduce the theme of "Mr. Red Carpet" again: the inability to communicate between people.
What are the thick walls that hinder communication?
On the surface, when the old and new cultures clash, the older faction is blinded by the new cultural world.
But at a deeper level, there is an irrational force that runs between people and prevents the effectiveness of communication.
And the Internet is just amplifying, fermenting, and pushing this to the extreme.
02
Unrealistic creations
Looks like a pretty good satirical movie, right?
Not really.
Just like in the Douban short comment of "Hot Good Guy", there were a lot of doubts.
People say it's-
Outdated, intellectual, vulgar.
Why?
I still remember that two years ago, in "Thirteen Invitations", Xu Zhiyuan asked Ning Hao what was the most suitable construction method for him.
Ning Hao said one word-
True.
That is to say, we must always pay attention to the present and synchronize with the current trend of thought, so as to grasp the trend of the times and walk on the side of the people.
It's a pity.
In Sir's view, the biggest problem with "The Good Guy" is precisely that it is not realistic.
Take a closer look.
There is a dullness to the direction of the times -
For example, the Internet.
That's right, Ning Hao is also questioning this era of traffic.
In "The Good Guy of the Hit", he directly and comprehensively rolled out the online video cultural ecology and told you how the hit was born and how it fell.
Zhang Beijing came to MCN company.
In front of them, there is a live broadcast corridor, separated into small rooms, with mobile phone racks.
The Internet celebrity who controls the joys and sorrows of countless people, at this time, is like an animal in a zoo, locked in a glass room and using eighteen talents in front of the camera.
Beauty, dancing, calligraphy, cute pets, eating and broadcasting, leisure life, 123 links......
Walking all the way is like swiping TikTok on your phone.
They are still just the façade of the network company, the "central nervous system" of the real trade, and they are still behind the invisible stage-
Thousands of mobile phones, connected to countless water armies, control billions of traffic data.
Explosive styles, hot searches, and Internet celebrities, it turns out that behind the scenes, the water army is indispensable to help the fire.
But here's the thing.
If it was a few years ago, this may have been a new topic, but in 2024, isn't it a little superficial to talk about it?
This seems to be what the Internet celebrity that Ning Hao is questioning is doing.
And not all that a well-known director can express.
Meantime.
The reason for the inauthenticity is also misplaced -
Here's an example.
Love scenes.
In Ning Hao's movies, lascivious and a little obscene middle-aged people are almost standard.
In the past, it was a joke maker.
But when it comes to Zhang Beijing, there is a sense of disobedience.
Nearly 70 years old, he talks to his girlfriend (played by Liu Mintao) from time to time, touches his little hands, eats candlelight dinner, and then hints at "what is the time".
This kind of drama.
The audience has watched Ge You play since he was young, and it is no longer romantic or interesting, and it also reveals a smell of oil that can't be washed away even if the person in the film opens it first.
And what's even more disappointing is the unreality here, and the levitation-
Although the film advertises "grassroots comedy for little people".
But in the movie, the little people disappear.
Beipiao's mother, Li Xiaoqin, lives in the basement and does live broadcasts that make ends meet, but there is a big piano at home, and she also found a famous teacher to study.
Zhang Beijing, who was deducted 400 yuan and felt pain, lives in the second ring road of Beijing, with an independent courtyard, and spends 980 yuan to buy a wig.
So what is it like?
It's like a person who hasn't been in close contact with the world and suddenly looks down at the world and discovers some well-known common sense.
There is, of course, a certain amount of truth here.
But this kind of truth is based on a slightly suspended story and a not funny bridge.
In the end, I will tell you from a very godly perspective -
Everything is a floating cloud.
With such a way of creation, it's no wonder that the audience doesn't buy it.
03
Crazy Ning Hao
I don't know if you realize it.
Including Ning Hao, domestic films have advanced by leaps and bounds, and the backbone directors who have grown up in those years have now collectively stepped down from the "altar".
From the summer to the present this year, Chen Sicheng, Xu Zheng, Wu Ershan, and Lu Chuan have not been able to carry the banner of cinema hits as the audience expected.
You may have discovered that these are the only people who come and go with domestic commercial blockbusters now, and they will release a new film in a year or two, pinching the Spring Festival or summer file every year
It's not that these directors are not creative.
It's that after the project they are best at, most interested in, and most invested in becomes a hit, they have to rush to work on a new project, which is inevitably overstretched.
Even, "insincerely" -
There is a lack of the creative impulse that comes from the heart.
Ning Hao once said frankly in "Thirteen Invitations—— 。
Short films are brain-draining, and long films are brain-consuming
The short film is like a proposition composition, with brain power, with hand feeling, exquisite carving, and can basically make a beautiful job
But what about feature films?
You have to really put in a piece of the director's life-
A creation is like a harvest of painstaking efforts
The mind needs time to regrow the flesh and blood.
Sir believes that Ning Hao's strength is far more than that.
But seeing his tired state in "Thirteen Invitations", I am more worried about whether he still has enough time and mental energy to devote his real talent to a work.
There is such a scene in "Hot Good Guy".
Zhang Beijing was hacked, so he drove a car and looked for "trolls" everywhere.
As a result, he found that the people on the Internet were still a group of children in elementary school.
Of course Sir knows.
Ning Hao's intention is to show the irrationality and immaturity of this network power, after all, what primary school students represent is naïve and irrational, and there are a large number of such immature "older children" on the Internet.
But think about it the other way around.
Aren't those voices of praise coming from the same people?
When their understanding of the world is this kind of criticism and praise, then what is the difference between their so-called observations and most TikTok authors?
They are essentially disconnected from the bottom.
This leads to the fact that "The Good Guy" is a high-concept, low-fun movie.
The high concept is to explore the clash between old and new cultures.
Low interest is not interesting in the treatment of the story and characters.
But is that all?
Apparently not.
Sir even felt that Ning Hao had no intention of grasping the direction of the market.
He exudes a willful, freewheeling signal.
How so?
In an interview, the reporter asked: ("The Good Guy") is actually a way to look at the banter to puncture some of the truths of the traffic era? Can it be understood in this way?
Ning Hao's first reaction was: Can you still see this meaning? We thought it was fun, and when this scene came to this point, it was so interesting to shoot like this.
We don't actually think more about this thing, what is reflected behind it, we just think about what the creation should be like here, what the person will do, it is actually the natural connection and transition in the creation. ——New Weekly
In other words.
What Ning Hao is making now is no longer a commercial film, he does not consider the audience's taste, but his author's expression.
Even in earlier interviews, he had already signaled a break from commercial films.
But I haven't made another film in the past few years because I don't know what to make. It's not because I don't have time, it's not because I'm tired, but I don't think it's meaningful to shoot something, what to shoot? There are not many commercial films in the world, and there is no shortage of commercial films. If movies were entertainment, I wouldn't want to make them. I still hope that film is an idea and a work of mine. - "People"
And that's exactly what happened.
We look at Ning Hao's two "commercial films" this year, both of which are surprisingly slow, "Mr. Red Carpet" has few shots like a literary film, and "Hit Good Guy" is so mild that it looks like a movie from the last century.
They are extremely "minimalistic".
It can even be called a pseudo-commercial film.
Why is this happening?
Maybe it's confusion.
He has expressed more than once that in this era when numbers are everything, and in an era when movies are no longer the kind of movies they understand, what is the point of making movies.
When the doubts themselves begin to be questioned.
Can the previous set of artistic standards still stand?
And this confusion.
It is also the common confusion of that generation of creators, including Xu Zheng.
Speaking of which, Sir remembered the end of "Incense".
That was Ning Hao's first movie.
The story goes that the Buddha statue in the temple collapsed, and the little monk who lived on incense went into the city to make money.
The little monk is very religious.
insisted on not returning to the vulgar, in order to deal with people, he learned to smoke; The money of the illegal fate was confiscated, and he began to pretend to be a fortune teller.
In the end.
He finally scraped together enough money to repair the Buddha statue.
But I received a notice -
The government wants to build a "road to get rich", passing through this place, so this temple has to be demolished.
In a sense, Ning Hao may be the little monk.
He originally hoped to create a hit to "repair" the loss of the previous one, so he worked diligently and tried to meet the public's preferences.
It's coming.
After being busy for a long time, the hit became an upset.
And themselves.
I can't understand why this world has become like this.
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