This year's National Day file, everyone's eyes are on the three National Day gift masterpieces.
Currently, "My Motherland and Me" is 2.3 billion and "Captain China" is 2.1 billion. Two "Masterpieces of Immortals" are competing for the final championship.
and other movies released silently, such as the new film "Intimate Travel" by Sha Yi and his son Anji, the animated film "Gourmet Adventure Hero Stew" and "Crazy Bullring", etc., without any publicity, the audience is mostly No impression. The name of the movie
is going to talk about this year is "Journey to the West: The Troubles of Growth".
has been fired for twelve years in the "Big Talking Westward Journey IP"
. At first glance, everyone may be surprised.
Yes, Stephen Chow’s "Journey to the West", starring Zhou Xingchi, consists of two parts, "Moonlight Treasure Box" and "The Great Sage's Marriage". In 1995, it was released in Hong Kong and Mainland China, and quickly became popular and became a classic of a generation.
After these two films, in recent years, Liu Zhenwei has made the most IP-themed movies of "Journey to the West".
In 2005, "The Great Sage of Emotions" came out. The movie is full of ubiquitous sentiment cards to make the audience tired enough. Film critics commented: Liu Zhenwei's imagination exceeds his creativity.
In 2010, "Yue Guang Treasure Box" created a nonsensical comedy, Sun Li and Zheng Zhongji joined in, still playing the old "Old Geng".
Until 2016, the movie "Westward Journey 3", a movie with a rating of only 3.6 points, came to the audience again. Liu Zhenwei said:
"From then on, I have nothing to do with "Westward Journey".
When the audience finally breathed a sigh of relief, something unexpected happened again.
You think this series is finally over, but it is not over.
The 54-episode TV series "The Big Story of Journey to the West: Love You for Ten Thousand Years" has changed from the big screen to the small screen, and still has not gotten rid of the suspicion of "bad movie".
That is to say, starting from "The Great Sage of Love" in 2005, to the "A Thousand Years Journey to the West: Love You Ten Thousand Years" in 2017, for 12 years, Liu Zhenwei has been playing with his feelings and style, and the audience has already I'm tired.
"The Troubles of Journey to the West: Growth"
"The Troubles of Journey to the West" of this year's National Day file was filmed by Xiying. The film and television company
has re-screened "Western Journey" twice. For example, in 2017, "The Greatest Journey to the West: Marriage" earned nearly 190 million in the box office, and the footage only increased by 11 minutes. The plot.
Therefore, there is almost no connection between this "Westward Journey: The Troubles of Growth" and the classic "Westward Journey" except for the name. The main feature of
movie is suitable for pupils under the age of 14 to watch. It creates a mythical world to complete the interaction between parents and children.
In the fairyland of the world, on Wuyue Mountain, there are a group of young children who live carefree, innocent and cute. However, with the arrival of spider spirits, they broke the peaceful life of the children and accompanied the game between the two sides. Fighting wits and fighting bravely, the secrets of Wuyue Mountain are uncovered immediately... The main purpose of the
movie is to tell everyone about the responsibility and courage in the process of growing up. In the polish of the plot, the ultimate boss Bull Demon is added. And other classic artistic images, elaborate the theme in a comedy way.
450,000 box office in 8 days
But embarrassingly, this so-called "Westward Journey" did not arouse the audience's interest.
During the National Day file, many parents and their children focused on the gift-giving masterpiece, and did not choose this work. Eight days after the release of
, there is still no one interested, with only 450,000 at the box office, which can be described as a hit.
The author can hardly find any publicity for this movie on the website. There are no long reviews on Douban, only a few short reviews. The screenshots look like this, full of doubts and condemning comments!
Little actor interprets the classic bridges
When it comes to the classic bridges in the first two works of "Journey to the West", it is the dialogue between Zhizunbao and Zixia.
Zhizunbao said to Fairy Zixia:
"If God givesI have a chance, I will say to her that I love you, if I add a time limit to this love, I hope it will be 10,000 years. "The classic dialogue of
has been circulated for more than 20 years, and it has become a classic line for many young people. The classic bridge of
is also restored in this movie. The actors' manners of service are exactly the same. The young actors who come out are still more serious, but because of the level of production, no matter whether it is the picture or the action expression, they have no feelings and feelings of the past.
"If it wasn't for the monsters, who would want to grow up!" "Although
is based on the classic IP, the difference is that it is from the perspective of children, using the perspective of children in the film to explain the mystery of growing up.
has learned the way because of monsters blocking the way. Courage and self-improvement, no one in life is smooth sailing, and there is no one-time life.
Xiaozhizunbao said
“It’s too hard to be an adult. You wake up first every day, sleep at the latest, and rush to the front. "
may really bring forth new ideas and expressions in the face of children.
In the face of difficulties, children can merge together, although there are contradictions between each other, everyone has shown extraordinary wisdom and courage. In the face of foreign enemies, unity, this may be the connotation conveyed by the film.
In recent years, many domestic films have not been able to get rid of the suspicion of "fried rice". A classic IP of
is certainly a powerful factor to attract audiences, but it is still It takes good scripts and new methods to retain the audience and move people, instead of relying on a good IP as a way to make money, this will only outweigh the gains.
Because the current audience is becoming more rational, the aesthetic level has improved, and Will not pay for a certain work without quality!
Therefore, it is the kingly way to develop new IP and strive to improve the quality of the film.
