The second decade of the 21st century has passed, and Chinese cinema has developed rapidly in this decade.
A set of data comparisons can directly reflect how explosive the magnitude of the change is.
In 2011, the total box office of Chinese films was only 13 billion yuan, and the box office champion "Jinling Thirteen Yuan" sold 609 million yuan.
In 2019, this number has grown to 64.266 billion.
There are two main reasons behind this explosive box office growth.
First, our local films are becoming more and more powerful, in the past we set up a local film protection month, but in 2020, almost all imported films hit the street, "Eight Hundred" not only won the local champion, but also the world's box office champion, although there is a certain special background, but still inspiring.
Second, in the past, watching movies was still a luxury for many Chinese people, and now watching movies has become a daily entertainment habit, and the audience's aesthetic improvement of movies has also stimulated the improvement of the quality of the works by the filmmakers, and the upper limit of the box office of single films has been further raised.
Today, Pigo will take you back to the top 10 movie box office movies in the past decade, each of which you may be familiar with, but you may not know all the stories behind the movie "success".
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"I Am Not a Medicine God"
2018 丨 box office 3.100 billion 丨 Douban 9.0 points
"There is only one disease in this world, the disease of poverty."
"He wants to live, what is his sin?"
"Can you guarantee that you will not get sick for the rest of your life?"
Two and a half years later, these lines are still fresh in people's minds.
"I Am Not a Medicine God" is the best Chinese film in the past decade.
First of all, it is a good movie, the film is adapted from real events, simple and powerful and direct, the whole acting skills of this film are exploded, the "medicine god" played by Xu Zheng, the mother played by Tan Zhuo, the huang mao played by Zhang Yu, the patient played by Wang Chuanjun, and the "fake expert" played by Wang Yanhui are all impressive.
The film does not just rely on selling compassion for the poor, but also puts a real dilemma in front of us .
Poor people want to live, real medicine can not afford to buy, can only buy fake medicine, there is forgivable.
"Medicine God" helps everyone, takes his own risks, sticks to his own pockets, and is a "tainted hero".
Pharmaceutical companies must defend their rights in scientific research, and they are severely suppressed, in fact, there is nothing wrong with it.
No one is wrong, so who is responsible for this human tragedy?
This is the core part of the film, the end of the film seems to have a hopeful ending, but these unspeakable pains and entanglements are all over the corner, so that after two and a half years, many viewers have forgotten the ending, and only remember the entanglement and embarrassment in the process.
Secondly, "I Am Not a Medicine God" is not just a movie, because of it, the relevant departments have stated that they will promote the price reduction of anti-cancer drugs.
Because of it, the audience really sees the power of film, it is China's "Melting Pot", the conscience of Chinese filmmakers, and the pride of Chinese films.
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《Eight Hundred》
2020 丨 Box Office 3.111 billion 丨 Douban 7.6 points
"Eight Hundred" is the 2020 Chinese film box office champion, a milestone work of the Chinese film industry, a new peak of Chinese war films, its appearance has boosted the spirit of the Chinese people in 2020, and also injected a shot of strength into the sluggish film market.
But the back of the glory is a series of "dilemmas" faced before and after the release of the film.
Ruan Jingtian's scenes were all deleted, the rooftop flag could only be given a long-range view, the plot level was questioned as "disrespecting history", and the final closing shot seemed slightly hasty.
But in general, "Eight Hundred" is still a new benchmark for domestic war films, and the audiovisual language is full of points, especially the section in the film where several heroes shout their names and jump off the building to explode themselves makes the audience tremble uncontrollably, and the image of the white horse is also extremely stunning.
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"My Motherland and Me"
2019 丨 Box Office 3.169 billion 丨 Douban 7.7 points
The main theme of the movie is the right way to open, plattering the classic works of the movie.
7 directors with different styles gathered together, with the theme of the motherland, with the major events of the times as a series, each shooting a story, or humor, or blood, or high-spirited, or sentimental, and finally gathered into a song of the times.
It is worth affirming that every story, good or bad, abandons the grand narrative, focuses on the small characters, and moves the audience with details.
The head song is sung by Faye Wong, and the audience is instantly infected by the ethereal voice of the Queen of Heaven, and then throws away the stereotype of the main theme and spends 2 and a half hours immersed in the river of years.
Each nameless ego is invisible in the history books, but it is vivid, as if there are real people around us.
Every wonderful story is the dust of history, but it gives us the most real touch with tears in laughter.
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The Mermaid
2016 丨 box office 3.391 billion 丨 Douban 6.7 points
Before the release of this movie that year, everyone said: We owe Star Ye a movie ticket.
Sure enough, the audience said it and really did it, and the pre-sale of "The Mermaid" exceeded 100 million, and the box office exceeded 270 million on the first day, setting a series of new records for Chinese films.
But objectively speaking, "Mermaid" is also Stephen Chow's last emotional film, although it sold well at the box office, but almost exhausted his feelings.
There are two hilarious points in the whole film, the first is the article and Deng Chao's conversation at the police station, which has now become the "source of all evil" and has been adapted into various versions and circulated on the Internet.
The second place is Luo Zhixiang doing octopus teppanyaki, full of bad taste, and this clip in the theater made the audience explode.
Here I sigh, these two people are now cold, from the perspective of their business capabilities, it is a bit of a pity.
In addition to the sporadic highlights, the film is generally stable and decent, and it is a mediocre work in the film directed by Stephen Chow, and Zhou Xingchi's set of nonsense performances can only be controlled by himself, and others really don't have that taste.
Many people say that "Mermaid" is zhou Xingchi's last glory, but Xingye is only 58 years old this year, and he is still young and strong. Pico still believes that one day in the future, Stephen Chow will once again personally appear in the film to give back to the fans who love him.
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Detective Chinatown 2
2018 丨 box office 3.397 billion 丨 Douban 6.7 points
The 2021 Spring Festival movie has opened pre-sale, and "Detective Chinatown 3" has ridden the dust, and the pre-sale box office is more than the other ones combined.
The "Tang Detective" IP can be so hot and directly related to the big sale of the second part.
The release of "Detective Chinatown" in 2016 was also seen as a dark horse, and the box office of 823 million was already staggering.
In 2018, "Detective Chinatown 2" had become the seed player of the Spring Festival file when it was released, and the box office of 3.397 billion made it take off directly.
The first part of this series focuses on reasoning, and the audience is still relatively narrow. The second part focuses on entertainment, with a wider audience and becoming suitable for all ages.
The second story takes place in the United States, a trio of Tang Ren, Qin Feng and Song Yi came to New York to investigate the murderer of the Five Elements, at the end of the film, the appearance of Song Yi directly upgraded Q's identity to the first major doubt in the series, and it is estimated that the third part will make a fuss around Q.
The music of this part also gives people a great surprise, and there is an interlude in the film that is "Welcome to New York" sung by Taylor Swift, which is full of modernity.
The soundtrack of this film is unique, in the protagonist's danger, the soundtrack does not use the instrument as the main part, but adopts the Mongolian Humai as the main part, supplemented by the instrument, creating a different sense of terror.
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Operation Red Sea
2018 丨 box office 3.651 billion 丨 Douban 8.3 points
In 2016, Lin Chaoxian's "Mekong Action" won the National Day file championship, but the literary drama in the film has been nagged and nagged.
Two years later, in the Spring Festival, he completely abandoned literary drama and brought a hardcore action blockbuster "Red Sea Action" that was full of fighting.
This film refreshes the audience's perception of domestic war movies, and the large-scale shots in the film are jaw-dropping: severed limbs, throat cuts, headshots... It's hard to imagine these shots appearing on the Chinese screen, etc.
I thought that "Mekong Action" was already the limit of Lin Chaoxian, but I did not expect that the difficulty of this film was fully upgraded, whether it was the plot or the soundtrack, it gave people a sense of urgency that every second on the battlefield must be fought, from the beginning to the end, the audience watched the movie when the string on the nerves was not released.
Because all the literary dramas are deleted, the character modeling of this film is relatively flat, and the audience cannot get a breather when the pace is too fast, but this sense of oppression is also its charming place.
When "Red Sea Action" was first released, it was not optimistic because of its excessive scale and fast pace, and Zhang Yi at that time could not talk about any box office appeal, but then counterattacked all the way, surpassing "Detective Chinatown 2" and becoming the champion of the Spring Festival in 2018.
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Avengers: Endgame
2019 丨 box office 4.250 billion 丨 Douban 8.5 points
This three-hour movie, in addition to testing the audience's bladder, there are tear glands, which bury too many feelings and stems.
Pi ge is watching the early morning slot, this is the best atmosphere I have ever seen the movie, the fans throughout the spontaneous interaction, the sense of substitution is very deep, often broke out of the collective laughter or sighs.
When the U.S. team raised Thor's hammer, when the U.S. team shouted "Avengers, assemble", when Stark said "Love you three thousand times", everyone in the theater shouted wildly, and I even heard sobs.
Although many professional filmmakers look down on superhero movies, Martin Scorsese said that the reunion series is like a child's family, but for many people, this is indeed a part of youth, watching "Reunion 4" is to say goodbye to the silly white and sweet youth of the second middle.
The Douban opening of "Reunion 4" is as high as 9.3 points, and it has now stabilized at 8.5 points after the fever has finally subsided.
During its release, its high reputation also made the box office climb steadily, and finally won 4.25 billion box office in China, surpassing "Fast and Furious 8", and also won 2.7 billion+ US dollars in the world, surpassing "Avatar" to become the first in film history, and this record is probably going to be sealed for many years.
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The Wandering Earth
2019 丨 Box Office 4.686 billion 丨 Douban 7.9 points
In the 2019 Spring Festival file, among many films, "The Wandering Earth" is not optimistic, because the Spring Festival file needs a family movie, and this hard science fiction work is obviously not temperamental.
However, in the end, "The Wandering Earth" came to the top, relying on shocking visual effects, solid stories and excellent word of mouth, all the way back, won 4.6 billion + box office, becoming the champion of the Spring Festival file.
This film represents a new height of domestic science fiction films, shortening the gap between Chinese science fiction films and American science fiction films from more than 20 years to about 10 years, which is basically equivalent to the special effects of American movies "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012", of course, there is a difference in grade with films such as "Interstellar".
Pigo saw that after "The Wandering Earth" was fired, many fans used it to touch the top Hollywood science fiction films, which is the so-called one powder top ten black ah.
In addition, the phrase "driving is not standardized, and relatives have two lines of tears" in the film has also become a buzzword.
There are also two small Easter eggs about this film.
First, when Chen Ruoxuan originally wanted to star in this film, he also appeared in the opening ceremony of this film, and later he gave up this film for an idol drama "Road from Tonight White" by paying hundreds of thousands of liquidated damages, and as a result, his role was taken by Qu Chuxiao, and he also pasted it, and now Chen Ruoxuan must regret it in retrospect.
Second, director Guo Fan originally wanted to thank Ning Hao for helping him at the end of the film, and Ning Hao said to him to thank Andy Lau for his thanks, and finally thanked Andy Lau at the end of the film.
"The Wandering Earth" launched the "Leap 2020 Special Edition" on November 26 last year, which is 12 minutes more than the original version, adding some special effects shots and transition details to supplement, and the plot looks more complete.
Directors Guo Fan and Liu Cixin also said that "The Wandering Earth 2" will meet the audience in the Spring Festival of 2023, and Wu Jing will also return as a bit, we will wait and see.
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"Nezha's Demon Boy Descending"
2019 丨 box office 5.035 billion 丨 Douban 8.4 points
"The Devil Boy of Nezha" is the second film in China to have a box office of 5 billion+ and the second place in the global film box office market in 2019, and also represented Chinese mainland competing for the Oscar "Best International Film Award".
So many awards belong to this domestic animation film.
"Nezha" can be a big seller, in addition to its own excellent quality, there is also an important reason is that "Eight Hundred" temporarily withdrew from the 2019 summer file, so that it suddenly lost its most important opponent, "Nezha" also firmly grasped the opportunity, from August to October, eating two months of box office.
The eccentric Nezha in the film and Trump's Taiyi Zhenren are very pleasing and are deeply liked by children. Many parents have their children with two or even three brushes, and its high box office is not surprising.
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Wolf Warrior 2
2017 丨 box office 5.694 billion 丨 Douban 7.1 points
I can't believe that "Wolf Warrior 2" has been released for 4 years, and its box office record is still as stable as Tarzan.
At first, it was not optimistic, "Wolf Warrior" was decent, how good could "Wolf Warrior 2" be?
Therefore, director and lead actor Wu Jing can be said to have withstood great pressure, went to the military camp to experience life, and borrowed money to shoot big scenes in Africa, and finally completed this work.
"Wolf Warrior 2" was also not alarmed when it was released, and on the same day as it was released, there was another main theme movie "The Great Cause of Building an Army", which was mainly promoted by the official media, and the final box office was 400 million.
Wolf Warrior 2 exploded without warning.
It broke 200 million for 12 consecutive days, and broke 100 million for 18 consecutive days, taking off all the way and creating a miracle.
In the end, the film won 5.6 billion+ box office, becoming the first in the history of Chinese films.
Some people say that the Douban score of "Wolf Warrior 2" is only 7.1 points, and the quality of the film is not good.
However, the number of people scoring on Douban is 770,000, and the number of viewers of "Wolf Warrior 2" is 160 million, which really achieves all-age killing, babbling children, busy middle-aged people, and white-haired old people, who will not score after watching the film.
On the cat's eye and Taobao tickets that better reflect the reputation of passers-by, 5 million cat's eye ticket purchase audience gave the film a high score of 9.7 points, and 5 million ticket ticket purchase audiences gave the film a high score of 9.5 points.
What is a super blockbuster? What is the first in film history? That's it.
Of course, some people are still not convinced, saying that "Wolf Warrior 2" has the advantage of the time and place, and it will not work if it is changed.
However, after the next screening of "Wolf Warrior 2", it is still God blocking the killing of God, and Buddha blocking the killing of Buddha.
As soon as it went online, it immediately attracted millions of people to watch online at the same time.
It has been replayed on CCTV6 many times, and each time it has received the top three ratings in the country.
This is enough to show that the success of Wolf Warrior 2 is inevitable.
Of course, from the perspective of pure film art, "Wolf Warrior 2" is more genre-oriented, but its significance has gone beyond the scope of an ordinary commercial film.
It is precisely because the fire of "Wolf Warrior 2" has broken through the ceiling of the Chinese film box office, attracting a large wave of audiences to enter the cinema for the first time and cultivating a new group of movie audiences.
Before "Wolf Warrior 2", the film box office of 1.5 billion was a hurdle.
After "Wolf Warrior 2", the summer file, the National Day file, the New Year file and the Spring Festival file have broken the box office record for four consecutive periods, and in the words of Feng Xiaogang, a movie that sells less than 3 billion is embarrassed to say hello to others.
Therefore, "Wolf Warrior 2" is a landmark work of the Chinese film industry, it is like Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple", it has become a cultural symbol of the times, and it will be mentioned again and again in a few decades.
Well, the above is the top 10 Chinese film box office in the past decade, the total box office of ten movies exceeded 39.4 billion, each box office is highly linked to the quality of the film, compared with many box office failures, but also proves that there is no market for bad films today.
It is hoped that in the new decade, Chinese films will continue to develop and usher in new glory.
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