Looking forward to the stars and the moon, "Mulan" is finally released.
is similar to what I expected. Under Disney's dual mode of "online + cinema", due to the early inflow of piracy resources into the country, "Mulan" has already offset many people's desire to watch movies before it was released.
On the one hand, because the resources are the same as the original film, the advantage of the cinema is cut in half.
, on the other hand, is full of ridicule and bad reviews. From the 5.9 division to the day of the release, it has fallen to 4.7 points and . I think even if I look forward to this film before, I will be daunted.
At present, "Mulan" has just finished its first day of premiere. The total score in a single day is only 53.6 million, let alone over 100 million, and the box office is only 48.44 million, not even half a billion.
Previously, relevant media had predicted that the box office of "Mulan" was around 450 million before the release of "Mulan", but now after the premiere, Maoyan has locked the final box office of "Mulan" at 3.11 billion.
At the same time, the same period of "Eight Hundreds" was busy announcing the extension of the key and taking the oath of sovereignty.
You must know that "Yubai" has only been released for 23 days, and there is still a period of time before the release. The extension is now based on two considerations: one is because in the next half a month, There are no blockbuster films released at all, and there is no opponent that can shake its position.
And another reason is that couldn't help but laugh after seeing the menacing "Mulan" performance so weak after the release.
To be fair, the performance of "Mulan" is not too bad, and the box office of 300 million is also considerable.
But you have to know that this is a Disney movie. Compared with the previous movie "Cinderella", which is also a live-action princess film with a box office of 442 million, the performance of "Mulan" is disappointing enough.
After all, the investment in "Mulan" is twice that of "Cinderella". After all, "Mulan" invested a lot of publicity funds and labor in the early stage.
After all, the home country of "Mulan" is China.
She has an innate audience relationship, but she is not as good as an ‘imported’ Cinderella at the box office, which is enough to prove that this smashed movie, "Success and Xiaohe defeat Xiaohe".
As the director said, the live-action version of "Mulan" is based on Disney's 1998 animation, but what I did not think about is: After 22 years of progress and technological innovation, "Mulan" is based on the success of the animation. There is hardly any change, but has taken a step back. For example,
cut off the playful character of Mushu Dragon, which greatly weakened the entertainment of the movie. In order to take care of the aesthetic habits of the Chinese people, the singing links that Disney is proud of were also deleted.
However, if you say that if you want to make the movie more realistic, the effect of the movie is not considered at all.
The Fujian Tulou where Mulan lived, the red lanterns in the ancestral hall, the giant statues in front of the barracks, the concubine and the concubine wandering at the gates of the Conference Hall,
and even , the emperor played by Jet Li and , are almost the same as the controversial Fu Manzhou.
These are the stereotypes and subjective imaginations of foreigners about China for decades, and they have not respected history and culture at all.
What makes me most uncomfortable is the complete adaptation of the role of Mulan.
Since Hua Mulan appeared on the stage, I felt that something was wrong. The screenwriter changed her to being rebellious since she was a child. She was different. It was commonplace to get into troubles and bad things. For this reason, the whole village had a headache and regarded her as a strange kind.
This is exactly the Hollywood style "bad boy saves the world" routine, it is the background color to compose personal heroism.
Sure enough, Hua Mulan is not only aloof, but there is also a huge secret hidden in her- has a huge "qi" in her body.
In the middle of the film, Hua Mulan relied on this innate "qi" to stand out from the crowd of male soldiers, and with a female body three feet off the ground on the battlefield, surmounted by thorns.. What the hell is this
. The
movie seems to tell you straightforwardly: the success of Hua Mulan is because of her natural supernatural power, she is the son of heaven, and has nothing to do with self-reliance.
This makes the spiritual core of the whole movie cheap and boring, discarding the essence of the 98 version. On the night when Hua Mulan joined the army for her father in the
animated version, the film used a lot of space to explain the entanglement of Hua Mulan's heart and the pain after making a decision, to express how heavy this choice is for Mulan, and it also sets off Out of the embarrassment of women in that era. This section of
, I believe many people have tears in their eyes.
In the live-action version, Hua Mulan made a reservation almost in the middle of the night, put on clothes and left.
Why, because Mulan is born with supernatural powers, she has no fear, she has no fluctuations in her heart, and she is even complacent to escape the blind date. In the animated version of
, in order to be respected, Hua Mulan spends twice as much time to strengthen her body, and finally defeated men in a series of assessments.
This expresses the strong will of women, and also explains the spiritual core of "women do not let their beards".
But in the live-action version, what Hua Mulan did was not to practice hard, nor to realize the value to be respected. The only thing she suffered was the embarrassment of the same dormitory.
She doesn't care about her anxiety about ability and gender differences.
Because the moment Hua Mulan entered the barracks, she was already stronger than everyone, even stronger than the soldier played by Donnie Yen.
What she has to do is just let her go, fully open her potential, and face the secular prejudice that "women can't have anger"! The true spiritual core of the story of Hua Mulan is "filial piety", which means "two rabbits walk next to each other, and An Neng can distinguish me as a male and female", and "women do not let me be bearded".
However, in the live-action version, the film just shows a person who is always holding the Phoenix's son who is chosen to be willful. Her biggest problem is not the suppression and discrimination of women's rights for thousands of years, but only the "qi" A little bit of prejudice and self-restraint.
is like a child's play, the layout is too small.
In addition, other characters in the movie can hardly escape the character of a tool person. The whole movie of
, the villain Khan, was a conspiracy. The emperor did one thing and was deceived in the whole movie. General Dong plausibly removed Hua Mulan’s name yesterday. He was brainwashed for a second the next day. People stone hammer. The most disappointing thing about
is the witch played by Gong Li. Both are identity anxiety. They could fill the depth of the movie. But before the mood deepens, the moths will fight the fire. can obviously turn into a bat in the sky. The wooden arrow can only fight with fate , forcibly sensational but staggering.
In addition, where did the film’s so-called $200 million investment be used?
didn't have any amazing scenes in the whole film. Several war scenes were like parent-child activities, and even the prospects were extremely taboo. The
decisive battle is that Donnie Yen leads people to dance square dances, Mulan and Khan 1V1, Jet Li did not get started!
saw the Khan’s siege with only a dozen people, and saw that the emperor’s guards were only five or six people. I can’t help but say: next time shoots a Chinese movie, can you watch Zhang Yimou’s movie first? Don't be left behind.
Generally speaking, "Mulan" is a mediocre work whether it is the embodiment of Chinese culture or the quality of the film itself, and it is not even as exciting as the previous overwhelming announcements.
fans are still struggling
In addition, so far, even though almost everyone in "Mulan" has been verbally criticizing, some (fans) are still making the last effort. In the early days of
, they were at the deadlift level, criticizing the audience's poor appreciation, saying that "it is normal for foreigners to shoot Chinese elements well" because "this is originally a Disney work."
has changed a new ethos, replaced by "this is just a princess film made by Disney."", trying to set off the look and feel of the movie by lowering expectations.
To tell the truth, before the "Disney Princess" category, the movie also had a label of "Mulan of China". Why can't domestic audiences give " "Mulan" bad review?
As Chinese, we have a Chinese aesthetic. When Disney shoots movies with stories that originated in China, why should we watch this "Mulan" with the aesthetics of foreigners?
. In this way, don't call it "Mulan" at all, and don't stick to Chinese culture during the publicity period. Wouldn't it be better to change the skin to shoot "Female Jedi"?
Besides, the evaluation of the film abroad is not good.
Popcorn scored 51 points and IMBD scored 5.4 points, making it the worst work in the Disney series.
Don’t use "this is just a princess film made by Disney" at all. Use "this is just a bad film" to lower expectations. , The effect will be better.
Conclusion
Cultural self-confidence needs to be tolerant. Yes, but it is not Disney who relied on its international status to splice and hardly put together a suspended historical background, and then announced to the world that this is "Chinese culture." .
Seeing this kind of behavior of acting on behalf of others and rebelling against customers has caused a group of domestic fans to throw away their helmets and abandon their armor. It is really chilling.
Culture needs respect, not use.
should not become an accomplice to the stigmatization of cultural interpretation rights. .
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