all say that 2019 is a crucial year for Hong Kong-produced films to conquer the mainland TV market. Counting from the beginning of the year of "Integrity", Hong Kong film celebrities have been released in turn. Hong Kong-produced films have been released intensively and broke the box office record. Many people saw the new hope of Xingang's films.
"Sweeping Drugs 2" and "Chasing the Dragon 2" became the peak of this year's Hong Kong-produced movies. When audiences had high expectations, Hong Kong-produced commercial blockbusters were released intensively in the second half of the year, but their box office performance was not satisfactory.
"Hypnosis · Judgment" landed on the domestic movie theater line, it can be said that it came and walked quietly. It was only released for three weeks with a box office of more than 86 million.
This is a work with Hong Kong film elements: a two-hero drama that is both right and evil, mature Hong Kong drama bones + popular mainland stars, a fusion of action, crime, and suspense.
's tried and tested routines in the past, this time it is difficult to even break 100 million yuan. The 28th law is of course the background of this Hong Kong-produced commercial film whose box office performance is unsatisfactory. Even if there are innovative elements at hand, it still cannot save the conservative and conservative routines. The breakthrough of
theme The term
Hong Kong-produced films, everyone is used to saying, in fact, pure Hong Kong-produced films have long gone out of market in domestic cinemas.
The "Home and Everything Surprise" that was released in the Mainland at the end of 2018, is considered a Hong Kong-rich film. I originally wanted to make a good start on the New Year's Day archive, but it ended up quietly.
Among the award-winning films at the Hong Kong Awards last year, only "Wu Shuang" can be recognized by mainland audiences. As for the key awards "Trace", "San Fu", "Fallen Man", etc., as well as the "Wu Shuang" who participated in the entire run. Not a mature woman", I am afraid that few people will mention it. The decline of Hong Kong-produced films began as early as 2000 when Hong Kong filmmakers continued to move northward. The tremendous changes in talents, capital, and the environment made pure Hong Kong-produced films more and more slant.
In fact, films such as "Wu Shuang" and "Anti-Drug 2" should be representative of Xingang films: they draw on the human and material resources of the Hong Kong film circle and use the strong investment and channels of the Mainland to target the Mainland market. The advantage of
is that everyone contributes and makes money together. The overall quality of the film is relatively stable. Over time, Xingang films have become more and more typified, stylized, and capitalized.
Audiences only recognize action and crime themes in commercial movies, and only know Andy Lau, Louis Koo, Zhang Jiahui, and Leung Jiahui, Hong Kong actors born in the 1960s, objectively making Xingang films more conservative and routine.
, like "Tomorrow's War", which features science fiction elements, "Hypnosis·Judgment" was supposed to be a very innovative film. The screenwriter and director Li Zhaojun, Shi Bailin, and Liu Yongtai were very ambitious and chose quite mysterious hypnosis. Starting, let the audience see the possibility of Xingang films.
Previously, Lin Zhengdao's "Master of Hypnosis" was very successful, and "Master of Memory", which was close to hypnosis, relied on Huang Bo and Duan Yihong's acting skills, and the box office performance was not bad. The themes of
hypnosis have been filmed, such as "Old Boy" and "Fatal Magic"; once the relationship between the realism of the plot and the visual display of hypnotic effects is not well controlled, it will become a fantasy film by accident. This is the case with "Hypnosis · Ruling". The crux of the
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From the title, "Hypnosis·Judgment" is a bit sweet but mediocre. The specious title of
is to emphasize the tension of Xu Lisheng, a psychologist, played by Zhang Jiahui, on the open line of the jury and the dark line of finding her daughter. Once the suspense is set, the rhythm is steady, and the protagonist is now on the stage.
Even though he was ridiculed by netizens as scumbag due to his Mandarin, Zhang Jiahui is still a good actor.
In the cramped space and within the limited time, every step taken is like walking on thin ice, and in a calm manner, he successfully created a logically clear, both righteous and evil intelligent businessman.
Regardless of the layering of the characters or every movement and eye look, Zhang Jiahui is able to retract and unwind with great skill, and he almost realized that one person can hold up a play.
Where is he? Obviously, the whole film is very realistic in the characters, environment, plot, and action scenes, but in the specific presentation of hypnosis, it seems so incredible.
"Hypnosis · Adjudication" shows the main process of hypnosis by the male protagonist as comprehensively as possible: looking for weaknesses, creating conditions, using emotions, and effective guidance, only limited in length and scale, andThe director's lack of control makes this process dreamlike and unreliable. Compared with
, Inception is better. From implanting the basic concepts and methods of Inception to the audience, to showing the dream-making process from the shallower to the deeper, allowing the audience to follow the director’s baton intently, and break the game step by step in the press. After watching the whole story, the audience Apart from the imagination of the original creator of Surprise, he was impressed by this true lie.
Persuasiveness is the core of a strong-view commercial film. The crux of "Hypnosis·Judgment" has not been dealt with, but it is actually a routine thinking.
uses the familiar old routines familiar to the audience to make a film with imaginative space and innovative spirit. Although it looks very neat and professional, the main creative ignores the most important factor of commercial films: the audience. The
movie is essentially a dream. Reasonable design and guidance are the key. When hypnosis breaks the environment again and again, when the helicopter saves people, the climax and climax passages suddenly appear. After the audience plays out again and again, finally Angry.
Everything is true, that is, the hypnotic feeling is false. This is the most intuitive feeling that many viewers have about the film "Hypnosis·Judgment".
