spent 360 million yuan to produce, but only received 120 million yuan in the box office. The movie "Shanghai Fortress" directed by Teng Huatao and starring Lu Han and Shu Qi was worthless. No one thought that the "popular traffic niche" with more than 60 million fans "Lu Han will actually experience "high investment, low return" movies.
When everyone is frustrated, when they have not completed their performance, with a meager income, they feel that the future is bleak. This month's mortgage is about to be paid again, but I feel weak and stressed. There will always be times in life when we feel that we have lost our fighting spirit and live a decadent life, but when we hear a word of encouragement from someone, hear a song, or see a movie, we feel that our state is again Immediately "recover blood" , any difficulty can not stop me, and film artists, through the film method to inspire frustrated us to regain confidence, such films are often full of positive energy, teach us forever Don't admit defeat and move on.
The movie I want to talk about today is an inspirational film "Rocky". This film was released in 1976 and starred by the famous Hollywood action star Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone. This investment is only The $1 million small production film was an instant hit that year. It was shocked and won more than $100 million in the box office. It also won the Oscar for best film , which can be described as the "box office myth" of the year. "Low investment, high return", "Rocky" and "Shanghai Fortress" are two extreme films, and Stallone also became famous with this film and became a hot action star. In
, Rocky, played by Stallone, is a gang member and an amateur boxer. He often acts as a companion. At the beginning of the film, Rocky is playing with a boxer. You come and I fight very fiercely. Everything broke. In the end, Rocky still won. When the screen changed, it turned out that Rocky was playing black punches in an underground boxing gym. Both of them have discussed in advance who wins and who loses, and both are paid. Their games are just for entertainment and watching, and sometimes Rocky will act as a companion.
Everyone looked down on him, thinking that he was just a useless third-rate boxer, only worthy of being a sparring partner, and often personally attacking Rocky. Rocky had no choice but to turn around and leave.
Rocky, who is forced by his livelihood, usually acts as a thug for the local gang, to collect accounts, in order to get some reward. During a collection process, the gang boss was very angry and humiliated Rocky because he had not received as many accounts as requested by the boss. In fact, it was because Rocky felt unable to interrupt the debtor's hand, indicating that Rocky was still kind in heart.
Rocky lived a muddy life every day, collecting debts and punching black punches. One day he went to the boxing gym and sent a message that his locker could not be opened for some reason. He tried to open it repeatedly but failed, so he took the fire extinguisher and broke it. After closing the lock, he found that his cabinet was full of other people's things. Rocky was very angry because the cabinet had been used for six years. At this time, the cleaner came in and told him, "Coach Mickey packed up your things" means that he doesn't need to come to the boxing gym anymore. Rocky doesn't understand why the coach wants to do this. He went to ask the coach, and the coach said that Rocky was not motivated at all, and he was muddled all day long.
Rocky’s life is terrible every day, but he also has a favorite girl, that is, Arian, a female employee of a pet shop next to his house. Every day he goes to the store to chat with Arian and make jokes, but Arian He seemed very indifferent and completely ignored Rocky, so Rocky found Arian's brother and asked him why he went to Ariane every day, but she ignored him. Brother Arian said: "It would be a miracle if you can impress her sister," because Arian's brother thinks her sister is "ill" and seems not interested in anything.
Boxing champion Apollo wants to hold a 100th anniversary boxing match in the local area. However, his opponent had to retire due to illness, so the boxing champion had an ingenuity and wanted to hold a boxing match to give low-level fighters a chance. I am more famous. So the mediocre Rocky was selected as the opponent of the boxing champion. Here, Stallone's nickname is "Italian Stallion". I think if it is a senior Stallone shadow mini, you know what it means.
On Thanksgiving Day, Rocky finally invited his favorite girl Arian to go skating. After the two established a relationship, Rocky finally moved Arian’s self-closing heart.
gained the love of Rocky, and at the same time he knew that he was selected as the opponent of the memorial boxing champion. He felt incredible and was also very excited. He was an unknown person who could compete with the world boxing champion, so he found coach Mickey. , I want the coach to train himself. The coach said, "You could have been a good fighter, but when you helped a second-rate loan shark," Rocky said "I was for life", and the coach said "You are wasting your life." ", refused Rocky's request. Rocky walked away in silence.
That night the coach found Rocky again, decided to train Rocky, and advised Rocky to train according to his own training plan. Then Rocky started his daily training. He got up early in the morning to run, skip rope, and hit sandbags. It seemed that the hormones in his body had been mobilized, and even the loan shark who usually looked down on him gave him encouragement.
Soon, the exciting game day has arrived. Rocky is confident in his jersey, boxing champion Apollo is contemptuous of his face, dismissing Rocky, and taunting Rocky before the game begins, and Saying "I want to solve you in three rounds"
In the game, Apollo also used actions to mock Rocky constantly. Rocky kept punching but couldn't beat the champion
. Rocky was not affected by the psychological tactics of the champion and continued to do well. With his actions, defenses, punches, not rushing, Rocky found a gap and hit the champion with an uppercut. At this time, the audience cheered and even the champion was dumbfounded. Unexpectedly, he would be knocked to the ground by a third-rate fighter. The boxing champion
started to get serious, not daring to play unintentionally like before, just teasing Rocky. After all, the boxing champion was still the boxing champion. In the second round, Rocky was completely passive, unable to attack and was always suppressed by the boxing champion. In fact, this is an exhibition match, but since Rocky stepped onto the field, he determined that he would do his best to defeat the champion. He felt that this was a real game. Rocky kept punching, defending, and using his training results to fight against the punches. Wang, after being knocked down, he stood up again, and even his nose was interrupted, the blood flow continued, and the corners of his eyes broke. Only one eye can see clearly. Rocky used his amazing perseverance to hold on to the last round, and Rocky beat the champion too lightly. At the last minute, he hit the champion's abdomen with an uppercut, causing the champion to fracture and unable to compete.
There was thunderous applause from the audience, and the audience cheered Rocky. An unknown third-rate boxer beat the boxing champion to the north. Rocky shouted his lover Arian's name and hugged her tightly.
Why can "Rocky" get a box office of 100 million dollars with just a small production of 1 million US dollars?
First of all, the theme of the film is very attractive. It has created an unprecedented "low-level hero" on the screen and made ordinary people succeed with their efforts. . The Rocky in the film, 30 years old, has accomplished nothing. He lives in a dilapidated hut and lives by helping the little hooligans collect the bills. But Rocky did not give up his favorite boxing. He still trained every day until he was selected by the boxing champion. He knew that this might be a chance to change his fate, and his strength was very different from that of the boxing champion, but he still trains hard every day and is on the field. In the face of a powerful boxing champion, he would also feel scared. He was knocked down to the ground by the boxing champion countless times, his eyes were broken, his nose was broken, but he still had no determination to knock him down. In the end, with his amazing perseverance, he won I won the victory and defeated myself.
Secondly, this movie is also a true portrayal of Stallone's Congying Road outside the play. Stallone in 1976 can only rely on some horns, and he is familiar in Hollywood. Once he saw a boxing champion Ali match, he was deeply moved, so he completed the script of "Rocky" in only three days. He took the script to find the director, but no director liked him. He did not give up. After being rejected hundreds of times, finally a film company was willing to shoot. With this film, Stallone won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Picture. The leading actor has since gone all the way and entered the ranks of Hollywood action stars.
However, the film "Shanghai Fortress" has a vague concept in the positioning of the film. It is a science fiction film on the bright side, but it has actually become an urban love film, making many viewers who buy tickets to watch the movie feel like they are going. Wrong film exhibition hall, spending huge sums of money to create a love theme film with science fiction as the background is not only the "luxury" of the producer, but also a kind of "irresponsibility" to the audience.
Compared with the movie "Shanghai Fortress", "Rocky" has a clearer position for itself, although it is interspersed with loveColor, but action is always the theme element of this film. Stallone’s performance conveys a spirit of never giving up to the audience, just like the sentence in the film: "If I lose, then I will call it". If I could play the whole game, and when the bell rang and I was still standing on the court, for the first time in my life, I would understand: I am no longer a crappy.
scored as high as 8.6 on Douban. After that, a total of six films were made, each of which is a classic. If you feel confused and frustrated, then you can watch this movie series, which may help you. One million US dollars production, in exchange for 100 million US dollars in return, when the film "Rocky" was not released, Stallone was just an unknown artist, 360 million yuan production, in exchange for 120 million yuan in return, the film "Shanghai Fortress" Before it was released, the lead actor Lu Han was already a hot and popular artist. Why are these two films going to the extremes of "expenditure and income"? I believe that the audience who watched the two more films would already be in their hearts. Own answer.
