In 2018, in your heart, which American movie is the hottest?
Marvel's "Women's Federation 3", "Black Panther", "Ant-Man 2", "Deadpool 2", or .....
If I had to choose, I would definitely say this big dark horse:
"Picking Gold"
Crazy Rich Asians
As a Hollywood movie starring all Asians, its popularity is indeed unexpected, but it is also very high-profile!
30 million cost earned 200 million! Asian actors have finally come to power in Hollywood!
Rotten Tomatoes has a freshness rating of 92%, and since its release, word of mouth has been blown up.
The American media is frantically supporting it and blowing it into the sky!
Rolling Stone: It's making history!
The New York Post, America Weekly, Vanity Fair... Followed by various blowouts.
ABC, NBC, FOX and other television stations have also given unprecedented attention and high praise.
Film critics use all the praise words they can use, and it is not enough!
It seems that not only will it be blown up into the sky, but also out of the Milky Way!
Stars have also become tap water, adding a fire to the hot scene.
Wen Ziren: "Everyone, go and see this very good romantic comedy!" ”
Reese Witherspoon: "Wu Tianmin's performance in "Picking Gold" is too shiny! ”
"Star-Lord" Chris Pratt: "Wow! I haven't seen such a wonderful movie in a long time! ”
Jessica Chastain: "I know what movie I'm going to watch this weekend." ”
"Hermione" Emma Watson: "My two good girlfriends, impeccable acting, love you guys ~"
Justin Bieber: "This weekend, you must go to see The Golden Harvest! ”
Under the praise of good word of mouth, media, and stars, the audience ate a big Amway.
Especially the Asian community, they have chartered groups, and families of all ages have entered the theater.
The box office of "Picking Gold" is like riding on a rocket, climbing steadily!
Since its release in August, it has become the best in Defeating Mission Impossible 6 and achieving a three-game winning streak at the North American box office.
As a result, it also became the sixth-highest-grossing romantic comedy in North America.
In addition to the history of the box office, the awards received are also wave after wave...
2018 National Film Critics Association Award for Best Group Play.
Best Breakthrough Group Drama at the 22nd Hollywood Film Awards.
And that's not all! The Oscar season has only just begun, and it will continue to win.
The popularity of "Picking Gold" has made the actors red to purple.
Male number one Henry Golding, named Man of the Year in 2018 GQ, also became the first Asian-American male star to appear on the cover of GQ.
186cm tall, handsome and tough, with a stylish figure, coupled with a British accent, he has fascinated many fans.
GQ said of him: "He was handsome, elegant, and had a British accent. The whole country was overwhelmed by it. ”
You know, Henry Golding is not a professional actor, and he doesn't have any acting experience.
He was a former BBC travel show host and a hair stylist.
To be able to eat the actor's meal, even he himself did not think of it.
Female no. 1 Wu Tianmin also appeared on the cover of "Time".
This girl, who had been "auditioning and acting, serving dishes for 10 years", did not expect to become a prominent figure among Asian actors.
With the American drama "First Arrived", she once again tasted the feeling of being a popular spicy chicken.
"Picking Gold" is "the second film after 1993's "Happy Luck Club" to feature all-Asian Americans. ”
After waiting for 25 years, I finally waited for a high-grossing "Asian movie" that was popular all over the United States.
Such a movie that continues to burst the screen in North America finally entered the mainland theater line on November 30.
It is late in its attempt to take advantage of the mainland market to catch fire again.
However, from the day the file was finalized, I have maintained a negative and unopposed attitude towards this.
Sure enough, just released, the Douban score has fallen 6.2.
In terms of cinema lines, the number of major cinemas is insufficient, and the proportion of films is only 5.5%.
From ratings, scheduling to box office, the overall dud, and even a Single Indian film "Daddy 102".
There are many reasons for this phenomenon, and I boil it down to the following two points:
On the one hand, compared with North America, the release time is 3 months late, and the online high-definition resources have long been mature, and many netizens have seen it.
On the other hand, the film's own problems (if the film is good, the audience will still brush it twice) leads to a decline in audience interest.
Although it is in the name of Asian culture, it is only "Asia in the eyes of Americans", which is too far away from our lives!
"Picking Gold", translated from Hong Kong and Taiwan, is called "My Super Rich Boyfriend" and "Crazy Asian Rich". As can be seen from the name of the movie, the movie mainly revolves around one word: "trench".
Wealth-X once counted that the number of super-rich people in the world has reached 256,000 (without me).
Among them, the number of rich people in Asia is the fastest growing, with rich people worth more than $30 million accounting for 25% of the world.
The 55-year-old rich man chose his wife on a reality show and selected a 29-year-old poor girl from 2,000 people.
The rich played the #Falling Stars Challenge's "show off" on Instagram.
They live in a high profile under the spotlight, and their lives have always been criticized by the public.
In the eyes of Westerners, the image of Asian tycoons is: spend money like dirt, buy, buy, buy!
This stereotype has become a "spectacle" in the minds of many Americans.
In order to satisfy this curiosity of Western audiences, "Picking Gold" focuses on the "trench" of Asian rich people.
It is worth saying that the authenticity of the life of the rich in the movie is largely due to the author of the novel of the same name, Guan Kevin.
The American version of Gao Xiaosong?
Kevin Kwan's family history is not simple.
His great-grandfather was a founding director of OCBC Bank in Singapore and a well-known ophthalmologist.
Bathing and tying shoelaces do not need to be done by yourself, it is simply a meal to open your mouth, clothes to reach out.
It is said that he also raised $300,000 Arowana as a child.
With this kind of personal experience, portraying the life of a rich person can be realistically restored and incomparably real!
Off Kevin's grandfather's villa
In order to show the "trench" character of the Asian rich, "Picking Gold" throws a lot of money, creating a luxurious and extravagant pomp and circumstance.
When I was not happy, I bought someone else's hotel! It's so wide!
Big bags and small bags were bought frantically, and a group of servants came to serve.
Ordinary earrings can't be seen, and if you want to buy them, you can buy a million-dollar knife.
Especially afraid of crowding, to live in a luxurious villa of 200 million US dollars!
To celebrate the bachelorette party, shop for free on a private island or even go straight to the high seas for a dip.
A wedding costs $40 million, and the trench leaks!
In addition to the curiosity of visual spectacle, "Picking Gold" is also a Hollywood assembly line work with new bottles of old wine.
It has a cheesy, earthy Mary Sue love affair.
The routine of "Cinderella" + "Meet your father-in-law" is nothing more than a yellow skin.
A Cinderella falls in love with the heir of the super-rich.
For the sake of fairytale love, she was forced to see her parents.
Giants are so easy to enter! She needs to pass many levels, fight with her future mother-in-law, fight with the gold worshipper...
The heroine is like a helpless little sheep caught in fairy tale love, for love, she needs to make difficult sacrifices and is bullied by many people.
Here's a bug:
A professor of economics at New York University did not know the family behind her boyfriend.
Come on! That's the world's most famous rich man, do you think this is stupid, or is it stupid?
The male protagonist is a good quality man who is excellent in all aspects and handsome and golden.
His mission is to turn the heroine into a flower fool.
As a result, the movie often emits a hormone that can be smelled across the screen.
The men's team led by the male protagonist frantically exposed their muscles and sunburned their bodies.
This can make the girl with Mary Sue fantasies Harrah zi to the ground.
Of course, the road to love for the giants is bumpy, not to mention in the family in the atmosphere of Asian culture.
In Asian family culture, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has always been ice and fire, and in order to compete for the same man, it is always all kinds of horse grabbing.
This is indispensable for the drama of "palace fight" with the mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law cannot do without her son and looks down on the ordinary daughter-in-law.
But the son was dead set on her and obsessed with her.
What do you say? Persuasion can not be persuaded, threats and intimidation are not enough, then play mahjong.
There's a rotten saying: There's a kind of love called letting go.
The Mary Sue in the movie is still a brain and an independent personality.
As a modern woman in the United States, she thinks independently, maintains her dignity, and does not need big pig hooves at all.
To borrow the director's words, "In the end, the two women sat down and were equal to each other, because they both loved the same person deeply, so they were willing to make concessions." ”
Therefore, "Picking Gold" is more like an assembly line film that caters to the West, cheesy and earthy taste, and the Asian cultural elements in it have become a kind of curiosity.
I think, to some extent, this only deepens a Western misunderstanding of Asian culture, rather than really understanding it.
Although the movie is clichéd, it is not that it is worthless.
The United States has always flaunted freedom and multiculturalism, but there is still deep-seated racist discrimination in Hollywood.
After years of struggle, the black community has won a certain position in Hollywood.
But Asians, on the other hand, have always been marginalized, suffering from unequal treatment and prejudice.
Many times, Asian actors do not have a role, and even if they can receive a play, the role is still a stereotype of a nerd, a sex worker, etc.
One study also noted that about two-thirds of the top 100 films at the box office in 2017 did not have an Asian female character.
Yang Ziqiong once said: "Asian actors have no life and no dreams in Hollywood movies before, and they are all superficial and superficial roles. Don't you see two Chinese in love, and we're wondering in America we don't have love? ”
Today, Asian culture is growing its influence and the contribution of the Asian ticket warehouse is also increasing.
With the popularity of "Picking Gold", Asians can make their voices heard in Hollywood.
So, "It's not just a simple film, it's a reform." ”
That's what it means in history! The significance of the change is far greater than the film itself.
At present, this movie is being released in theaters, and those who are interested can go to the theater to feel the taste of "trenches".
A word of caution: It is said that there are slight deletions in the movie.
The bridge section about the history of the Yang family in the film has been adjusted; the meat section of the bachelorette party at sea has also been adjusted.
Although the global box office of "Picking Gold" has reached $236 million, Warner has made a fortune.
Warner, who has tasted the sweetness, also announced that the sequel "China's Rich Girlfriend" will be filmed in Shanghai, and the original team is also expected to return.
However, this time in the Chinese market, it is unable to pick gold and has been completely cool.
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