With the compatibility of sports and entertainment culture, sports themes on the big screen are increasingly entering our eyes, and last year there was India's "Wrestling Bar!" Daddy" is about wrestling; this year there is Japan's "Love Boomerang", which is a table tennis project; yesterday, the Russian movie "Queen of Figure Skating" was released, this time about figure skating. Most of these sports-themed movies take dreams, inspiration, growth, love, etc. as the coat, which is good-looking and fits the viewing needs of young people today.
Breaking the first weekend box office record in Russian film history
After the release of "Figure Skating Queen" in Russia on February 14, it received a double harvest at the word-of-mouth box office, breaking the first weekend box office record in the history of Russian cinema as soon as it was released. Domestic netizens who have seen the screening before said that the film is both inspirational, funny, romantic and moving, and the "Russian-style small beauty" presented is very moving.
Sports inspirational movies are generally adapted from real people, "Figure Skating Queen" is no exception, the film is based on the real experience of former Russian figure skating champion Elena Berezhnaya, telling the story of figure skating rising star Nadia who fell to the bottom of her life due to an accidental injury, but with the encouragement and support of her lover, she once again plucked up the courage to face life.
In the film, figure skating newcomer Nadia, although poor and talented, came to prominence with her mother's encouragement and unremitting efforts, becoming the partner of the world's top figure skating male athlete Leonardo. The two won many awards and fell in love to become the most high-profile golden child. On the eve of the Figure Skating World Cup, Nadia was seriously injured and fell to the bottom of her life, and Leonardo also chose to leave. Disheartened, ice hockey player Sasha appears next to Nadia, and the two develop a heart-warming love from mutual dislike. Nadia also regained her confidence with Sasha's encouragement and set out again, relying on persistence and perseverance to survive a long recovery period. When she can finally return to the field, her injuries are repeated, and her life is faced with another choice.
"The growth story of an ordinary girl" is easy to produce a sense of substitution
As a figure skating power, Russia has given birth to many figure skating superstars, and it is undoubtedly the most appropriate to shoot such a figure skating story that works hand in hand against fate: not only has the most professional technical support, but also has a strong figure skating atmosphere, as well as the most "fall-resistant" high-value young actors. Many netizens were pleasantly surprised to say that they had gained two new husbands. One of them is Alexander Petrov, who played Sasha in the film, who played the male lead in the Russian science fiction blockbuster "The Fall of Moscow". Another is Milos Bikovich, who played Leonardo in the film, who became famous for "Mondevidia: Taste of Dreams", and his elegant temperament made him a princely aura.
This movie tells you from beginning to end that this is the growth story of an ordinary girl, and it is tied to the "ordinary" to make a fuss, so the sense of substitution of ordinary audiences will be very strong. For example, when the heroine first appeared on the skating rink at the age of six, the female coach said to her mother mercilessly, your daughter's coordination is very poor, her legs are not straight enough, if you have a son I can reconsider.
Interspersed with rap and stage performances reinforce the comedic form
In films based on real people, it is especially important to make the story look good without being flat and straightforward. The reporter saw that "Figure Skating Queen" inherited the classic Hollywood narrative mode in terms of play and structure, and several important character conflicts were designed quite fiercely.
The most worth mentioning is that the rap and stage performances interspersed in it strengthen the form of comedy, so that the audience suddenly thinks that they have come to the routine of Indian dance movies, but the protagonist is not the kind of singing and dancing of the big scenes of Indian movies, which is more restrained, but it is helpful for the advancement of the plot. This is most prominent in the final climax, when the audience stood up on their own, sang in unison, and scored a soundtrack for Nadia and Sasha's figure skating performance, which was really too easy to attract tears from the audience, burning and warming.
Netizens are looking forward to China's good sports movies
Competitive sports are favored by the big screen because of their competitive color, strong storytelling and the humanity and feelings embodied in it. In Hollywood and around the world, sports movies are an important branch. Two sports films have won Oscars this year, Bryant's adaptation of "Dear Basketball" for his own experience won best animated short film, and "I, Queen of Tricks" based on true events won the best supporting actress award. Further ahead, such as "Weakness" showing the first football ball in the United States; Stallone's famous work "Rocky", which tells the story of Rocky's halfway out of the house and finally won the title of boxing king, both of which were also favored by the Oscars.
In fact, China has also given birth to many sports masterpieces that audiences are familiar with, such as Xie Jin's "Women's Basketball No. 5", and "Sand Gull", which talks about women's volleyball sports, which have resonated with the audiences of that era. However, in recent years, few outstanding Chinese sports movies have been released, whether it is "The Big Slam Dunk" or later "Guild Wars" and "Breaking the Wind", either poor reputation or box office.
Many netizens have appealed that some of China's sports strengths, such as diving, gymnastics, table tennis, etc., have an extremely wide audience base, and hope to produce good movies in this regard. However, the reporter also found that inspired by the wide acclaim of foreign sports movies in recent years, there are currently many domestic sports movies that have been approved, the famous director Chen Kexin's "Chinese Women's Volleyball Team", before he also said that he wanted to shoot "Li Na"; Han Han's "Flying Life", looking at the content of the title can probably guess, is his familiar racing theme.
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The stepping stone of the "don't brush your face" small language movie is "quality"
In recent years, it has been happy for domestic audiences, and many films in small languages have been released on the big screen, such as last year, the Indian movie "WrestleMania!" "Daddy" is a collection of small language films, and there is also the Japanese "Your Name" ", Thailand's "Genius Gunner", Spain's "Invisible Guest" and other films are also very good, and this year has successively released a number of Indian movies, "Mysterious Superstar", "Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle", and "Starting Line", which makes small language films usher in the spring of development in China. When the audience selects films, they no longer pay attention to language and genre as before, and the dimension of content is expanding dramatically.
These small language films are all "passers-by faces" for Chinese audiences, but these films have received strong attention and have also received good box office, which also fully shows that since they do not brush their faces, the key factor in opening up the box office "Ren Dou Er Vein" is the content quality of the film. These should also bring a lot of benign promotion to the creators of domestic films.
Yangtze Evening News reporter Kong Xiaoping