On September 11, with the release of the Disney blockbuster " Mulan ", the mainland Chinese movie market ushered in the second Hollywood blockbuster new movie after the theater resumed work. The bad word-of-mouth when it was broadcast online in North America has already made people feel that the film’s prospects in the box office in China are not optimistic. After it was officially released on Friday, the Internet was almost overwhelmed and criticized, and its first day box office was only 56.74 million yuan. , And its production cost is as high as 200 million US dollars. Disney may not escape losses this time.
The live-action version of "Mulan" has come out after thousands of calls.
The Disney animated film "Mulan" released in June 1998 not only won the global box office of 304 million US dollars, but also scored 7.8 points on Douban, which won a lot of Chinese audiences. Good reputation.
Therefore, since the news that Disney was preparing to shoot the live-action version of "Mulan" in 2017, it has received widespread attention from many Chinese movie fans. On November 30, 2017, Disney officially announced Liu Yifei as the heroine Hua Mulan after auditioning for nearly a thousand actors in five continents.
On August 13, 2018, Disney’s official Twitter released Liu Yifei’s makeup photo, which triggered a heated discussion among Chinese netizens. Many netizens thought Liu Yifei looked good, and the addition of Jet Li , Gong Li, Yen Zidan and other Chinese superstars joined Look forward to this film even more.
From August 14 to November 26, 2018, the live-action version of "Mulan" was shot for more than three months, and then entered post-production. It was originally scheduled to be released in North America on March 27 this year. Unexpectedly, encountering the new crown epidemic, North America changed to pay to broadcast online on September 4, and it was released on September 11 in mainland China.
"Mulan", which was released on the first day in the mainland with only 56 million box-office reputation collapsed, was a hit for the first batch of Chinese audiences who walked into the theater to watch the movie. The director and screenwriter not only made a mess of Chinese history, culture and folk customs, but also arranged for Hua Mulan, a native of Hebei during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, to live in the Tulou that appeared in Fujian during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The ancestral hall was filled with red lanterns that should have been hung outside the gate. , And the characters are also inexplicably portrayed, making it difficult for many Chinese audiences to accept.
If Li Dai is the director and screenwriter of Chinese history and culture for aesthetic needs, so that audiences all over the world can see buildings with strong Chinese characteristics through the film, then the failure in the characters and plot is a complete failure of Hollywood The outer shell of commercial films is rigidly applied to the core of Chinese folk tales. It is reasonable for Chinese audiences to be dissatisfied. Everyone can only vote with their feet, resulting in a box office of 56 million yuan on the first day of "Mulan".
Netizen: Disney owes me a movie ticket
on Douban. Fans’ evaluation of "Mulan" is almost overwhelmingly questioning and criticizing. The characters, plot, lines, stage and culture have been criticized thoroughly. Some netizens posted the title "After watching Hua Mulan, I feel that Disney owes me a movie ticket this time." Some netizens complained that "I want to apologize to Zhang Yimou and Jing Tian after watching", thinking that the film is far inferior to "The Great Wall."
"This film, let alone Aladdin, is compared to Beauty and the Beast. It is rubbed against the wall. Even if it is included in the Chinese film, the Great Wall is stronger than this film. I don’t want to hit Liu Yifei at all."
also criticized: "How did the choreography miss so many beautiful Chinese costumes and makeup in China, and find the one that is the most earthy and most popular in the studio? There are really too many fluorescent colors and painted faces. I don’t know where. The beginning." As for the complaints about the plot, characters and lines, it is even more numerous.
"Mulan" was screened in mainland China on the first day as high as 38.8%, but the attendance rate was only 8.9%. In the end, it only got 56.74 million yuan in the box office (including zero points). Although it won the box office champion of the day, it was not as good as the box office result of 60.52 million yuan on the first day of the release of "Creed" last Friday, and it could not be compared with "Yubai".
Currently, "Mulan" Douban scores only 4.8 points, which can be calledDisney-produced films have the worst reputation in China in recent years. Judging from the current box office trends, the single-day box office of the film on Saturday, September 12 may be counterattacked by "Yu Bai".
