On July 1, the two major movies "1921" and "Revolutionary" were officially released on the same day, the two movies have the same theme, and they also gather many big-name actors, and the actors also intersect, such as Zhang Songwen, who played He Shuheng in "1921", and Li Dazhao in "Revolutionary".
Because the genre and theme are the same, it will naturally divert the audience, the two films in the same period of positive pk, the current box office has been divided into high, as of the morning of July 3, "1921" cumulative box office reached 210 million, while "Revolutionary" is only less than 36 million, the gap is too big to catch up. Some people may say that before the official release of "1921" had several rounds of screening, the two films are not on the same starting line, but from the perspective of the proportion of scheduled films and attendance, "1921" is 10% more than "Revolutionary", but the attendance rate is still leading, indicating that "1921" is indeed more popular.
Let's first analyze the reasons why "1921" is ahead. Co-directed by Huang Jianxin and Zheng Dasheng, in addition to focusing on that magnificent history, the film is more attractive than the super cast, which is indeed more powerful than "Revolutionary".
There are nearly 100 actors who are familiar to the audience in the film shooting, Huang Xuan and Ni Ni have more scenes, Wang Renjun, Liu Haoran, Dou Xiao, Zhang Songwen, Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan, Ou Hao, Zhang Yunlong, Hu Xianxu, Chen Kun, Li Chen, Ni Dahong, Feng Shaofeng, Liu Shishi and other stars are difficult to count, including both powerful actors and eye-catching traffic stars, watching "1921", almost all of the stars who can give close-up shots are well-known stars, so one of the pleasures of watching "1921" is to count the star faces.
moreover. The stars in "1921" are really not just going through the motions, everyone is working hard to play their roles, of which the most fans are Huang Xuan and Ni Ni, two people playing husband and wife in the film, the scene of dialogue on the balcony and tears is not in the script, but two people have feelings, which is indeed admirable. The strong cast and online performance determine that the box office of "1921" exceeds that of the films released at the same time, and with the subsequent large number of private shows, the box office will continue to lead.
However, on the contrary, the Douban score of "1921" is the lowest in the same period of film, only 6.7 points, more than 55,000 viewers participate in the scoring, and 41.9% of netizens play Samsung, indicating that most viewers feel that this is a general movie.
"Revolutionary" has a good reputation, with a Douban score of 7.5, and 38.5% of the audience has scored four stars. However, the highest-rated Irish cartoon "Wolfwalker", released on July 3, scored as high as 7.8, but the box office was the worst, with less than 2 million at the press time.
In the past, word of mouth determined the box office, but this time it was the other way around. It is worth thinking about, the same theme, the same genre, "Revolutionary" can be recognized by the audience, in the end than "1921" in the end, what is better? There are two main advantages.
On the one hand, "1921" is a bit scattered from the characters, but "Revolutionary" has two characters as the core, which is easier to capture the audience. As mentioned earlier, "1921" has a strong cast, with more than a hundred actors causing each role to not have many scenes, and even some roles only have one or two shots. The film is limited in length, and each character is difficult to dig deeply, and it will not leave a particularly deep impression on the audience, so it is not easy to touch the point where the audience is moved. But "Revolutionary" is the opposite, there are not so many actors involved, Zhang Songwen and Li Yifeng have become absolute starring, the most scenes in the movie, so there is enough time to complete the shaping of the role, plus Zhang Songwen's acting skills are really outstanding, several major plays are full of tension, emotions spew out, especially infectious, so that many viewers are crying, it can be said that "Revolutionary" is more impressive than "1921", so it is easier to get high scores.
"1921," on the other hand, is more like a documentary that follows the timeline and lacks novelty. For well-known reasons, this year's TV series with the same theme are also particularly numerous, before the release of the two movies, it has taken turns to meet the audience through the TV screen, and the history around 1921 has been repeatedly interpreted, and by the time of the movie "1921", there is really nothing new.
Although it is the same theme, "Revolutionary" takes Li Dazhao as the core and tells the story of that period of history through a special perspective, whether it is the plot, characters or rhythm, it is better, and it is more like a movie, which is also one of the reasons why "Revolutionary" has a better reputation.
Looking at the main theme movies released in recent years, "My Motherland and Me" and "My Hometown and Me" have achieved excellent box office results, in addition to benefiting from the advantages of the National Day file schedule, the two films are grounded, so that there are laughter and tears, closer to the audience, "Climber", "King Kong Chuan" and other movies have the advantages of special effects and large scenes.
But "1921" and "Revolutionaries" on July 1 failed to change the downturn in the film market, failed to effectively pull the audience back to the theater, and even the weekend market was generally sluggish, which also proved that it is difficult to attract audiences by relying on the star lineup alone, or the film itself has a selling point! Next, look forward to the release of "Chinese Doctor" starring Zhang Hanyu, Yi Yanqianxi and others on July 9! Hopefully, it will boost the box office.