Four years ago, the movie "Detective Chinatown" grossed more than 800 million yuan, and won two golden horse awards for best styling design and best action design, leaving a clue at the end of the film: next, see you in New York! However, some viewers feel that the dark horse of "Detective Chinatown" is just a flash in the pan.
Last year's Spring Festival, "Detective Chinatown 2" was released, when the audience generally believed that it was bound to fall into the "strange circle of sequel weakness", "Tang Detective 2" exceeded the imagination of many people, broke the spell, and obtained 3.397 billion box office.
Even if, this series was not optimistic at first.
"Detective Chinatown 3", which is scheduled for the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2020, is likely to trigger a new round of discussion after another: can it still maintain the standard of the previous game this time or even surpass it?
What is certain is that the success of the "Tang Detective" series is inseparable from Chen Sicheng's persistence.
Before the release of "Northern Ireland", investors hoped to shorten the film by 20 minutes, so that each hall of the theater could queue one more time a day, and the box office could be much more. For the sake of the integrity of the story, Chen Sicheng refused.
Before the release of "Tang Detective 1", someone hinted at cutting out the 10-minute-long plot, and Chen Sicheng did not agree: "Maybe only 1% of the audience or even fewer people can read it, and I have to put it in." ”
In film and television works, there is Sherlock Holmes in the West, there is the great detective Polo, in the East there is Edogawa Conan, there is the young Kaneda Ichi, while in China there are only "ancient" Bao Qingtian and Di Renjie. China lacks a classic modern detective image.
And this is the most praiseworthy place of the "Tang Detective" series: the successful creation of The combination of Tang Ren + Qin Feng, a pair of living treasures, has a distinct style and has a very trendy element; in addition, there is a combination of comedy + reasoning.
This combination of "comedy + reasoning" is refreshing. More importantly, today, when the world is imitating Hollywood, "Tang Detective" has found another way and created a modern detective IP that belongs to China.
Not only that, in the series of films of "Tang Detective", a large number of iconic scenes and props of Chinese culture are used, colliding traditional cultures such as yin and yang five elements, tai chi bagua, feng shui, Chinese kung fu and foreign local cultures, and serving the audience a multicultural feast.
The communication method with an international perspective quietly allows China's traditional culture to collide and integrate with the cultures of various countries, expressing the cultural self-confidence of Chinese films.
The setting of the "CRIMASTER World Famous Detective Ranking" in the movie makes the sense of pattern and world view of the "Tang Detective" series expand geometrically.
In the past, many directors imitated Hollywood, and the result was that they were not in the same place, and they were criticized by the audience because they did not tell their own stories well in the fundamentals Chinese.
The "Tang Detective" series opens up a whole new situation.
There is a bureau in the bureau and a case in the case. The plots of the two films have foreshadowing and presets, advances and analysis, and are interlocked. Seemingly inadvertent prop chalk armor, seemingly indifferent passerby doctor B, are the gray lines that have long been hidden behind the truth, rich and layered.
There can also be extremely unexpected reversals at the end of the first part, especially the penetrating smile of the little girl at the end of the first part, which is a stroke of Genius.
Counting excellent domestic movies, after watching it, the "Tang Detective" series that can still be repeatedly mentioned in the plot is definitely one of them.
The final open-ended ending of "Tang Detective 2" also made the audience addicted, and left an Easter egg for the future Tokyo chapter.
In this way, the ambition of "Tang Detective" seems to be not only satisfied with making a better sequel than the previous work, but also to create a real Chinese detective IP, a real Tang Detective universe.
And in addition to movies, the "Tang Detective" series is improving its own IP through online dramas and other forms, and perhaps one day, when the latest season of the "Tang Detective" series was born, many fans have been waiting for a long time and competing to buy.
Detective Chinatown 3 is coming! The Spring Festival file will be released on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2020!
The film tells the story of another major case in Tokyo after Bangkok and New York.
Tang Ren Qinfeng accepted the invitation of detective Noda Hao to solve the case, and many detectives on the world famous detective list will also go, and the Q who ranked first appeared, making the Tokyo chapter more intriguing.
In the trailer video, Tang Ren Qin Feng took a flight to Tokyo, Tang Ren played by Wang Baoqiang is still an unreliable look, and Liu Haoran playing Qin Feng is directly a slap on the wrist, which instantly recalls the "Tang Detective" series of "blood thicker than water" drama, and the familiar comedic effect makes people feel very intimate.
In addition, the first poster released by "Detective Chinatown 3" also hides mysteries, when the two lead actors stand on the streets of Tokyo's Akihabara, some familiar faces appearing in the "World Famous Detective List" of "Detective Chinatown 2" hidden in billboards, including Song Yi played by Xiao Yang, KIKO played by Shang Yuxian, and Q, the god of reasoning who has not yet revealed his true body.
The cast of the film continues the classic combination of Wang Baoqiang + Liu Haoran, and also adds many mysterious celebrities. In addition to the wife Mu Cong and Zhang Zifeng, who have already confirmed the return, the Thai boxing king Tony Jia of netizen Reuters may also join, and it is revealed that "Detective Chinatown 3" will convene a super luxurious cast that can be called a dream group, which makes people look forward to the official announcement of the role lineup of "Detective Chinatown 3" after that.
"Detective Chinatown 3" is still carefully created by the original team of the first two films led by Chen Sicheng.
It is worth surprising that Shoji Shimada, a famous contemporary speculative fiction writer and the founder of the "New School Of Character Reasoning", also visited the crew of "Detective Chinatown 3", and could not help but wonder whether Shoji Shimada would have follow-up cooperation with the "Tang Detective" series.
Compared with the first two films, "Detective Chinatown 3" has more elements to play, set in Tokyo, in this reasoning country, there is the famous detective Conan that we are familiar with, there are many mystery novelists, and countless wonderful reasoning stories... If it can be related to the plot of "Detective Chinatown 3", it is bound to give people an Easter egg-like surprise.
Chen Sicheng, who is obsessed with the film, will tell a Chinese detective story in the third part, and in what form will he use to solve the foreshadowing he laid before?
On the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2020, let's wait and see!