"Maybe I came to the wrong place, but you also tied the wrong child." "
After watching this movie, Chinese audiences commented that it was a "concise and exciting martial arts action movie." In
, the fight scene between Erfeng in the vegetable market and the "Young and Dangerous Boys" in Hong Kong, China The fighting scenes are quite similar. Including in daily life in the play, calling "Ho Chi Minh City" as "Saigon" can not help but remind people of another place-Saigon District, Hong Kong, China! The movie
is an Asian movie. Feminist themes are bolder in terms of expression, combined with local customs, rampant gangs, child trafficking, organ trading, and other scenes exposing the dark side of the Vietnamese region.
For example, the line in the play:
" Never mess with a tigress who is taking care of a cub"! As the local box office champion of Vietnamese film history,
uses violent aesthetic lens performance and fast-paced editing mode to bring this female action film to a new level.
Speaking of this, it is easy to think of Hong Kong-style action movies familiar to China, such as the "Slaying the Wolf" series and the "Young and Dangerous" series. Behind such a dark society, the theme of "salvation" and karma But throughout.
20 years ago, China and Vietnam co-produced a film called "Red Pirate", and the action, fighting, death scenes and popular consumer selling points in the "Two Phoenix" drama are all the same as " "Red Pirate" is exactly the same, and it can be seen that it is also a tribute to "Red Pirate".
The "cold" of "Two Phoenix" in the Chinese market
When it comes to Vietnamese movies, the older generation of Chinese audiences are actually very touching.
As early as 1959, the first feature film "The Same River" filmed in Vietnam was released in China.
In the 1970s, there was a saying in China regarding imported films:
"Vietnamese movie plane cannon, North Korean movies cry and laugh! "
At that time, Vietnam was in a state of war against the United States for a long time. All their literary works can reflect the themes of war in the society. They used airplanes and cannons as the blueprint to express the Vietnamese people's desire for peace.
Movies such as "Afu", "Fire of the Forest", and "Road to Hometown" released in China are all themes reflecting the Vietnamese resisting the US and aggression against Korea. Among them, "Central Line Artillery" won the Moscow Film Festival Award in 1961. .
For so many years, Wu Qingyun has always wanted to bring Vietnamese films to overseas markets. Although the results of "Two Phoenix" were not satisfactory, it was considered a preliminary overseas test.
North American audiences are mostly curious about this movie, and out of curiosity about cultural works in Vietnam, they gave a relatively high score.
For Chinese people, Vietnam is our neighboring country. Many Chinese travel abroad to Vietnam. Therefore, they are relatively familiar with the culture and market of this neighboring country. They are not like North Americans who only watch movies and only watch the East. For action dramas, the production requirements and aesthetic standards of Chinese people for movies will inevitably be improved.
Secondly, the plot of the movie "Two Phoenix" is relatively old-fashioned, and the action scenes are not as superb and beautiful as the Chinese action movies, and there is no corresponding publicity in the early stage, so it quietly hit the streets in China. On the first day of the show, only 2.5% of the lineup and 210,000 box office were won. After the show was released for 10 days, it was hurriedly "abandoned" by the theater.
In addition, when it comes to the subject matter, the performance of Vietnamese films is unremarkable. It has neither the refreshing fashion sense of Thai films nor the depth of reality of Indian films. Therefore, the coldness of "Two Phoenix" in the Chinese market is expected !
However, it will take a long time to open a market in China!
