Movies with the name "Xu Zheng" never have to worry about laughing fruit.
From the actor Xu Zheng in "Crazy Racing" and "Man on the Road", to the director Xu Zheng in "Tai 囧" and "Hong Kong 囧", no matter what role he plays in the film production process, he can add a double buff of laughter and quality to the film.
This year, "Behind the Scenes," "Living Together in Time," and the upcoming "I'm Not a Medicine God" are his trilogy as executive producers.
Of course, Xu Zheng, who loves acting, also made a cameo appearance in the film, and today, the official released the deleted clips in which Xu Zheng participated.
After playing the noodle chef of a hot pot restaurant in the movie, after delivering a takeaway for the male and female protagonists, he was trapped in the 90s because of the magical "time gate" of the room.
At the end of the deleted clip, Master Xu was terrified, standing on the street in 1999 and choking up, bluntly saying that he did not want to start another 20 years, nor did he want to live the millennium again, but only wanted to quickly return to 2018 and use his Apple mobile phone and WeChat. This funny performance made many netizens cry out for Master Xu!
Xu Zheng's greater responsibility is to act as a producer and escort the entire film. You know, this is the debut of a newcomer female director, director Su Lun said, very grateful to Xu Zheng for his "torture". Su Lun revealed that Xu Zheng guided her to add a lot of details to her original idea, not only becoming more self-explanatory, but also putting some details of life into it, more grounded.
So we saw an "anti-routine" love movie: no ex, no terminal illness, only "growth".
In fact, the timing of the release of this film is not too good, before there was a super blockbuster such as "Avengers 3", since its release on May 11, "Avengers 3" has been firmly holding the top of the box office and the film rankings, three days before the release, "Living Together in Time" has been firmly suppressed by "Reunion 3".
But just on Monday, it completed the box office overtaking of "Avengers 3" with a low-row film, allowing "Avengers 3", which was released for 10 days, to lose the throne of the Japanese box office for the first time.
Now, because of the good box office results, "Living Together in Time" has gone up all the way, see the proud upward curve in the picture below? It's rare for such a movie to get a scheduling increase after the first weekend!
Now, "Living Together in Time" has suppressed the single-day box office of "Reunion 3" for 3 consecutive days, and overall, this film has broken 330 million in 5 days, which is already the leader in domestic romance films.
Not only is the box office, but so is word of mouth. Looking at the Douban score, there are already more than 40,000 people scoring, with a rating of 7.3, better than 64% of comedies.
The ratings on cat's eye and ticket sales have approached 9 points, and the real box office word of mouth has been double harvested!
What is the mysterious energy of this small-budget romance film?
The story setting is like this: Tong Liya is a fashionable single young woman Gu Xiaojiao who lives in 2018 in the movie, and Lei Jiayin is living in the 1999 honest qing (diao) year (si) Lu Ming, because time and space accidentally interlaced and cohabited.
At first, the two people hated each other, but the interlacing of time and space constantly triggered events and jokes, and the two protagonists gradually sprouted love, and finally they had to face misses and choices because of the interlacing of time and space.
Doesn't that sound very mysterious? Such a subject matter is not easy to shoot, and it will be cheesy if you are not careful, but the completion of this film is really good. (Chicken legs must be added to Xu Supervisor Production!) ）
The seemingly mismatched combination of Lei Jiayin + Tong Liya produced a wonderful spark in the movie. Lei Jiayin's consistent "mourning cuteness" makes him comedic, but Tong Liya is no longer gentle but shrewd and powerful, such a combination of different personalities is unexpectedly CP, if it were not for the fact that both of them have families, they really want to shout "together"...
In addition, the "crossing terrier" is also played here very fresh and vulgar.
Instead of going to the future or the past at the beginning, they meet and "live together" in a wonderful house, a door that opens from different sides and goes to different ages.
Will they end up going back to the past or going to the future?
The film details are also very careful.
Because there are time and space travel elements, the film must show the different styles of the two eras of 1998 and 2018 at the same time.
In one shot, the two sides of the room are the contrast of the two major eras: Lei Jiayin's rental house, from the style of alarm clock and desk lamp, to the placement of bookshelves and bedside tables, to the decoration style of the bathroom and bedroom, all exude a strong nostalgic atmosphere. That green refrigerator is what I used 20 years ago!
Attentive viewers can also continue to find easter eggs buried in the movie.
For example, Tong Liya's girlfriend's husband, the laughter point is not only played by Lei Jiayin's good friend Li Guangjie, but also because of his name... Two words made the audience laugh.
Yes, it is this kind of small fun in the process of watching the movie, so that more and more audiences are willing to go into the cinema to see "Lei Tong CP". There is also a big v said that when watching the whole laugh explosion, after watching this film, the perfect cure after watching "Reunion 3" sad mood.
It is said that the movie finally cleverly linked with "Reunion 3", perhaps It is Thanos who hit a ring finger, so Gu Xiaojiao disappeared?
Netizens on Weibo are also praised and exploded, but the Easter egg at the end makes the single dog very hurt...
By the way, this film has Easter eggs! Be sure to remember the last easter egg, rest assured, not a blade, much funnier than the Easter egg of "Reunion 3".
I don't know if "Living Together in Time" can still sing all the way to the box office? To be fair, such a heartfelt domestic romance film is really worth buying a ticket to the cinema to experience for yourself!
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Xiao Yi)