Wen Wang Zhongzhong
After watching the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games on Sunday, the Olympic Games are over. "Sports fans" like me, who are limited to the Olympic period, will see you in Paris next time.
A thousand words in one sentence, TOKYO 2020, never to be seen again.
Counting the European Cup, which was full of topics some time ago, this year seems to be a rare sports year. But presumably, some people have found that our attention to sports events is often not out of love for sports itself, but more like a "watching the lively" mentality.
It's easy to verify this, think about it, can you count more than five well-known sports movies? I can't anyway.
Don't search for it, don't know, look at it and be shocked. Currently Chinese mainland the top fifty at the box office, and none of the sports films made the list.
If you have to pull the relationship, the "racing theme" of "Fast and Furious 8" ranks 15. But does anyone really watch it as a sports movie?
On August 3, the State Council just released the "National Fitness Plan (2021-2025)", mentioning that the proportion of people who regularly participate in physical exercise in the country has reached 37.2%. It is not a long way to face the era of "sports for all", but why are sports movies not popular?
It needs to be made clear that loving sports is not the same as loving sports movies, and sports fans and sports movie fans cannot be simply equated. And there's a bigger problem, it's extremely difficult to turn sports fans into potential audiences for sports movies.
"Those who understand sports don't understand movies, and those who understand movies don't understand sports." Last year's "Win the Championship", which focused the story on the Chinese women's volleyball team, is a ready-made example of this sentence. In the end, the unsatisfactory results of "Win the Championship" can also be said to be unexpected.
So, how many points do you give Win the Championship?
Many people will mention when criticizing "Win the Championship" that its problem comes from "excessive artistic processing", but it is under the sign of restoring real historical events, and it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of hanging sheep's head and selling dog meat.
Sports films that also flipped over on "art processing" were the Russian film "Kill Munich" released in 2017.
"Kill Munich" tells the story of the men's basketball team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. In that match, the former Soviet Union defeated the United States team, which had never been defeated in the Olympic Games, by a score of 51:50, and won the Olympic gold medal for the first time.
Personally, I actually like "Kill Munich", after all, it is also a skill to shoot the routine so blood-boiling.
The most criticized is a highlight character in the film, captain Paul Skas from Lithuania. In the movie, he is set up as a "two or five boys" who are bent on defecting. He had already contacted the fleeing helpers before the final, and only at the last moment did he find out in good conscience and return to the team.
In reality, Paulskas never defected and was a patriotic activist. And many of the bizarre plot settings of dog blood in the movie are far from reality, simply to deliberately create contradictions and conflicts to strengthen observability. Therefore, the family members of the prototype character expressed strong opposition after the release of the film, and once took the film to court.
Still, for pure fans, it's a good movie that "doesn't hide its flaws." After all, as the seventh art of film, "artistic processing" is a necessary change.
Virtually created sports movie stories are also moving, like my favorite Million Dollar Baby.
In sports movies, sports elements are only appearances, and the core lies in how the protagonist solves the problems faced in life, and then realizes a complete self-redemption and ideal sublimation.
The last sports movie that became popular in China should be the Indian movie "Wrestling! Daddy". Professor Zhong Bingshu, vice chairman of the International Coaching Education Committee, once analyzed it, "In the past, when writing about how small people become stars, they did not reveal the behind-the-scenes story from the perspective of human nature. In fact, we have too many champions, such as Wang Junxia and Geeta in the film from the grassroots of society. The film presents the growth experience of ordinary people becoming champions, and the aftertaste and experience of an ordinary person becoming a champion."
Sportsmanship is also an instinct of human nature. / Wrestle It! Daddy
People want to know why these people became champions, but we need to know more about how these people became champions. Sports movies have never lacked wonderful realistic materials, and the key is how to tell the story well from the perspective of human nature.
Hopefully, when we talk about a successful sports movie in the future, we see not only sports, but also life.