In the film market at the end of October 2021, "Chosin Lake" and "My Father and Me" were two National Day blockbusters, and the daily box office was still not a big money.
Hollywood's epic science fiction masterpiece "Dune" (the first part) has attracted the attention of many European and American film fans.
The famous director Xu Anhua's adaptation of Zhang Ailing's novel "The First Burning Incense" has also attracted widespread attention due to the huge controversy over the casting and plot.
In contrast, "Uninvited Guest" (starring Fan Wei, Dou Xiao, and Zhang Songwen), which was released at the same time, as a black crime suspense film with simple scenes, no special effects and low cost, inevitably appeared extremely low-key, with almost no publicity, and there was no topic heat, brushing the hot list of various platforms.
However, the audience who watched the film gave unanimous praise:
On the 6th of the release, Douban 15,000 people rated 7.0 points, which is proof that the box office is also quietly approaching 50 million.
Whether it is the film's reputation or box office performance, it is stronger than the famous director production such as "The First Burning Incense" released at the same time.
Interestingly, Fan Wei, the number one star of "Uninvited Guest", also played a villain male role "Situ Xie" in "The First Burning Incense".
However, compared with the limited tool man role played in this performance space, Teacher Fan Wei in "Uninvited Guest" is the real "yyds", another amazing "big male protagonist" movie, and exerts his acting skills well.
In addition to being a famous sketch actor, he has performed programs at the Spring Festival Gala for many times, bringing laughter and laughter into tens of millions of homes, and the national degree has long been known to all ages and household names.
Teacher Fan Wei has also made remarkable achievements in the field of film and television dramas:
2003: Liu Laogen: Nominated for the Feitian Awards.
2004: "July of the Car Watcher": Winner of the Montreal Film Festival, nominated for the Golden Rooster Film Emperor.
2006: Journey to the Fragrance: Golden Key Award (Special Performance Award) at the Cairo Film Festival.
2009: "Blessed are the Ears": Nominated for the Golden Rooster Award again.
2010: "The Happiness of the Boss": Won the Golden Eagle Award, nominated for the Magnolia Award.
2017: "No Problem": Won the Golden Horse Film Emperor, The Film Emperor of the Beijing Film Festival Temple of Heaven Award.
Since winning the Golden Horse Film Emperor in 2017, the old Fan who is nearly a flower armor has become the hottest "post-60s" in the film industry in recent years, and the film has been continuously improved:
2019: "Two Tigers" (male), "Chang'an Dao" (villain male protagonist),
2020: "My Hometown and Me" (unit protagonist), the perfect play of the personal unit, stunned the Chinese film industry this year, and among the many A-list stars participating in the film, the performance can be said to be "standing out from the crowd"! It made a lot of contributions to the film's final box office of 2.8 billion yuan and the runner-up of the year.
In "One Second", which has been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival and the Saint Cypriot Film Festival, as the male number two, Fan Wei also performed well, and Zhang Yi was a chess opponent.
2021: "First Incense" (male) "Uninvited Guest" (male protagonist) double-film combo,
Next, there are "Railway Hero" (male number two, cooperation Zhang Hanyu), "Broken Bridge" (male number two, cooperation Ma Sichun / Wang Junkai), "Chaoyun Twilight Rain" (male lead, cooperation Zhou Dongyu) and other works, will be released one after another.
These people have different roles, Fan Wei has given each role different characteristics and connotations, not to be confused with each other, with the increase of age, the acting skills have been close to the old Fan, there is no doubt that it has reached the level of "a thousand people and a thousand faces", infinitely approaching the ceiling level of the acting skills of mainland male actors.
Teacher Zhang Songwen in this film, although there are not many scenes, the "big villain" in the first half of the journey to the final unexpected reversal is also amazing.
He played dragon sets for many years in the film and television industry, until 2016,2016,"A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", a supporting role for villains, made literary and art film lovers recognize his strength.
In 2020, a word-of-mouth web drama "The Hidden Corner" that exploded on the whole network, and another supporting role "Zhu Chaoyang's father", perfectly fit the character and became famous in one fell swoop.
In 2021, the "May 1st" movie "Sweeping Gang Decisive Battle" (villain protagonist), "July 1st" "1921" (one of the leading actors), "Revolutionary" (male protagonist), interpreted with heart, paid tribute to the martyrs, and the professionalism won unanimous praise from the industry to the audience.
Nowadays, the October movie "Uninvited Guest" has appeared in his figure again, and today's Zhang Songwen can definitely be regarded as the middle-aged male god of this year's film circle.
The joint work of the two major acting male stars is certainly not to be missed for movie lovers.
In the film, there is another powerful actor, who also performs very well: it is the "human trafficker" played by Hu Ming, a pretentious underworld faction, and when the situation is critical, it reveals its cowardly nature.
If you don't look at the cast list, I'm afraid it's hard to imagine that this is the same actor as "Li Chunlai" of "Longling Labyrinth" and "Zhang Shucheng" of "Mountains and Seas".
And As the male number two, Dou Xiao, from the early stage seems to have mistakenly entered the murder scene of the "takeaway brother",
In the end, the cold-blooded killer who bears the murder, the ultimate evil person with a twisted mind, the reversal presented is also shocking enough.
This young actor from the "Man Scout", from the appearance to the figure is very convincing, is indeed able to attract such a fashion girl as "Lily" (played by Zhu Zhu),
He also has enough personal combat strength to grasp the opportunity and use props and space to complete a series of murderous evil deeds.
His acting skills are also equally solid and calm, the only slight deficiency is that the last attempt to run away with money has failed, and in despair, the highlight one-man show of pushing the ice cube is still not in place, which is a pity.
The film itself, multiple narratives, layers of reversal of the script to kill the story, the main scene only a dilapidated suite, the cost is visible to the naked eye, there is no special effects of the big scene, the current release of 6 days, nearly 50 million box office, has definitely let the producer make a small profit.
However, I still hope that such a good quality (Douban 7 points or more) genre films, the higher the box office, the better.
Obviously, the current Chinese film market, in addition to the heavy industry large-scale production "head films" such as "The Wandering Earth" and "Changjin Lake", in the Spring Festival, Summer, National Day and other key slots, the box office has soared, attracting hundreds of millions of viewers of all ages, have entered the theater.
It also requires a large number of small and medium-cost movies such as "Uninvited Guest" to build a tower of sand, accumulate less into more, and become the first choice for more audiences to watch movies every weekend, so as to subtly cultivate movie-watching habits, expand the viewing group, and maintain the normal operation of the theater.
If there is no sufficient quantity and good quality of small and medium-cost genre films, as the cornerstone of the entire film market, then the best quality of heavy industry large-scale films, it will become a rootless Ping, how can it last?