text | Linghu Boguang
National Day file's " homecoming " score has been out for a certain period of time, of which Douban scored 7.6, which is already a good score among domestic movies. After all, domestic movies are now 8 points. It is very rare to get seven points, which can be regarded as a classic in domestic movies.
However, last year, there was a similar film in South Korea, " Mogadishu " with a Douban score of 8.1. To be honest, this rating has really turned the domestic Chinese rating software into a joke, although Douban ratings have long been a joke. The score of
's "Homecoming" is indeed not low among domestic movies, and there are two reasons for its low score.
First, there have been too many domestic themed films in recent years, such as "Me and My Series", " Changjin Lake " series, " Climber ", " Wins the Championship ", " China Captain " " Chinese Doctor ", " Fire Hero " and so on, the box office of each movie is higher than the other, but the evaluation is lower than the other, which consumes the audience's reputation.
Second, this movie has a "traffic star" who is currently criticized and given one star in Chinese public opinion.
gave "Homecoming" a low score for this reason, on the contrary, foreign movies do not have these two problems. In fact, because the Korean movie was released last year, people have been comparing before and after the release of "The Journey Home", and some people have asked me about it.
I can tell you responsibly that the ratings for these two films should be reversed. Even the score of "Homecoming" can be higher by one or two points to about 8.23, and the score of "Mogadishu" can be a little lower to about 7.34.
"Homecoming" 7.6, "Mogadishu" 8.1, these 0.5 points make people laugh
The story and plot of "Mogadishu" will not be repeated here, everyone who has seen it knows what it is, and those who have not seen it I don't even know. Anyway, the plot is also very simple. It is the story of a sudden riot in Mogadishu, Africa, the South Korean and North Korean ambassadors lost contact, and then went home together.
"Homecoming" is much better in terms of film and television industry, character building, storyline and expression.
This "Mogadishu" is a medium-to-high commercial type film, regardless of whether it is horizontally compared with similar films in the world, or vertically compared with similar films in South Korea reflecting and , and some people may not believe it. Stepping on Korean movies instead of domestic movies, and then saying how Korean movies are.
OK, so here's a comprehensive comparison.
First, the film and television industry: the background board of the issue of South and North Korea, and the real and detailed third world picture scroll
in the world horizontal comparison, not to mention similar movies in the United States, whether it is the macro war scene " Black Hawk Falls" ", or " Escape from Tehran ", which is more about literary drama, etc.
Hollywood The film and television industry is the first in the world, and people are deeply involved in the third world in reality. Various film and television cultural works have a lot of performance in the third world, whether it is Korean movies or Chinese movies. .
"Mogadishu" and "The Journey Home" are both the pinnacles of the current film and television industry in China and South Korea, but the gap is actually quite far.
Korea's "Mogadishu" can only be said to be a breakthrough in the Korean film and television industry. In reality, South Korea is less involved in third world countries, so there was a lack of film and television works with this background in the past.
There are a few scenes in this film that are very industrial, such as several group scenes of mass riots, and the landscape of the ruined city of Mogadishu after the riots. The filming is also comprehensive and detailed, and in all fairness it has reached the international level. .
However, the film and television industry level of this movie is just like this, if it is put into the world, it is the general level. The film and television industry level of
"Homecoming" is far higher than this film, at least one level higherThere is more.
The level of martial arts: The opening scene of "Returning from Thousands of Miles" is a scene of mass violence and armed police clashes, followed by a large number of angry people attacking embassies of various countries indiscriminately and other group scenes, all of which are more tense than "Mogadishu" .
The battle scene in the middle of "Returning from Thousands of Miles" doesn't look very impressive, but whether it's the scene, shot scheduling, and special effects of fireworks and explosions ( gunship was hit and crashed, or almost), but these are better than The last machine gun shooting car next door is more level.
put it this way, many viewers will ignore it if they don’t understand the film and television industry. The most powerful thing in the film industry of is the systematic restoration of the ecological environment after the war in Numia, a third world country.
It started with chaos and desolation outside the airport, then into the busy but chaotic capital city.
At this time, children playing football in the street next to the car after the explosion, people who are still living a normal life. The protagonist group entered the desolation in the city after the exchange of fire, and after the bombing, the city became the ruins of people's lives, beliefs and sufferings. This also involves many different scenes such as borders, trading markets, and deserts. The industrial level of
"Homecoming" has reached the world's top level, and even some realistic restoration and cultural details may not even be so in place in Hollywood. Moreover, if you understand the language of the camera lens, you will know that there are several scenes in "The Journey Home". The director Rao Xiaozhi has the level of a genre master in the use of film language, and it is definitely not a mature commercial film such as "Mogadishu". comparable.
2. Characters and Plot: The old-fashioned routines of Korean movies, and the care of the third world
In terms of character modeling, there are only four complete characters created by "Mogadishu", yes, the four characters in the picture above.
actor Kim Yoon-seok 's Korean ambassador, and Jo In-sung plays the Korean counselor. Then there is the North Korean ambassador played by Xu Junhao and , and his subordinate counselor played by Gu Jiaohuan .
The first two characters are in charge of literary drama, and the last two characters are in charge of martial art.
In this film, the person in charge of literary drama also has dim sum scheming. The two characters in charge of martial arts are there all day long and scolding each other for "Xiba". Zhao In-sung beat the thin and wretched North Korean counselor into a bruised face. In fact, the four protagonists of
have not grown much except for the cooperation from the beginning of prejudice to the final reconciliation. The other roles of
, whether they are the wife of the South Korean ambassador or the little North Korean girl, have no role in acting, and are very functional.
And, can you remember the foreign characters in this film? The policeman who was shot twice by angry rebels was one, but that was basically it.
"The Journey Home" Zhang Yi 's Zong Dawei will not say, Wang Junkai 's Cheng Lang, Yin Tao 's Bai Hua, Liu Minghui, Zhang Ning and other characters are standing still, this film also portrays a little girl , The driver's uncle Wadier, the side mirror officer Hassan and the big villain Mufta are four local characters with distinct images and different positions.
Here is another point that everyone has not paid attention to. This kind of film and television culture has always secretly conveyed cultural awareness.
Similar commercial blockbusters in the United States rarely show such characters who care about ordinary people in the third world, either a friend who helps the protagonist (often yearning for the United States), or an exotic beauty who has sex with the male protagonist, and finally is brutal and stereotyped Impression 's villain.
Korean movies don't have such an international perspective, except how good it is that they can bond with North Korean brothers, almost all foreign characters that appear are mainly negative, even if his father's American characters are the same, not to mention the third world Country background board. The plot of
will not be repeated, because it is the same asCharacter building together is expression.
3. The level of expression: the Southern and Northern Dynasties, compared with the "community of shared future for mankind" of Chinese films in the new era
"Mogadishu" is still the old-fashioned Northern and Southern Dynasties. Compared with its own similar films vertically, is actually a Korean film The biggest problem at present is that the cultural development has reached its peak and cannot break through the pattern problem brought by reality. Rooted in local history and reality will be more profound, grafting to the international exaggeration is obscenity.
Korea has made a bunch of movies about the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and there are a lot of profound classics rooted in history and reality.
For example, in the war film "The Tai Chi Flag Flying" because of the pain of brothers falling in love and killing each other in the context of the times, there is also the persecution of ordinary people by the political forces behind. The film and television industry of the film
is a sign of the rise of the Korean film and television industry, and directly asked Feng Xiaogang to invite the Korean special effects team to shoot " Assembly No. ".
For example, " Common Security Zone ", soldiers on both sides of the border came together by accident and became good brothers. As a result, tragedy happened due to the division of history and real politics. The movie
can be regarded as a suspense movie in terms of genre. The heroine played by Li Yingai and investigates the case and finally restores the truth step by step, which is profound and shocking.
For example, in 2018's " agent ", the two governments behind the two countries are in opposition on the surface. As a result, the political discord behind the scenes continues, which eventually leads to the helplessness, pain and persistence of middle and lower-level workers.
Among these works, there are also works that break away from the local reality and try to internationalize. I think "Berlin" and "Iron Rain" have done a good job. The former grafts the story of the Northern and Southern Dynasties into Germany, which also has East and West Germany in history. I got a coat of a highly completed agent action movie, which is simply too good-looking.
"Iron Rain" is a commercial blockbuster of the political game between the North and the South, and it is not bad from the perspective of a commercial genre film (the ending is also ridiculous).
has the same core, but in terms of genres, films such as "Peninsula Crisis" and "Iron Rain 2", which want to learn from the United States to save the world, are basically completely reduced to pornographic works. You can't help laughing when you think about it for a while. Voice -
Let's take a look at "Homecoming" again. The expression of this film is not only about returning home from the evacuation of overseas Chinese, but also the dark lines of war and peace, truth and lies. The little girl's "One Thousand and One Nights" Fairy tales and reality, etc., and even concern for the third world.
This new era of China's community with a shared future for mankind, how can "Mogadishu" have such a pattern?
is also " evacuation film"? Compared with "The Journey Home", "Mogadishu" is not worthy of
The expression of film and television culture cannot be separated from reality. South Korea has made many classic films about the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The horizontal comparison of "Mogadishu" is a small-scale commercial film of the same kind in the world, and the vertical comparison itself is probably "Together 2", "Berlin" and "Iron Rain". Although the completion of
is still very good, the overall level is not as good as the last two movies ("Together 2" has not yet been watched).
Some people may not believe it, so let's compare "The Journey Home" vertically and horizontally. Comparing
longitudinally with the domestic main theme movies, "My Series" is not worthy of the platter, "King Kong River" and "Changjin Lake" platter director's theme movies also have a low degree of completion, "Chinese Captain", "Chinese Doctor" and "Climber" ” and other movies is the same.
"Wolf Warrior 2" was 5 years earlier, and now it seems to be a lot behind in all aspects. I always feel that the ending of this movie is a failure (you refer to the ending of "Homecoming", the theme of the theme is too much and it has a negative effect).
" Red Sea Operation " is that martial arts are too strong, but literary dramas are too weak.
The main theme blockbuster with the same high degree of completion in recent years is only " outsmart the tiger""Mountain " and " Mekong River Action ", these two films were made by Hong Kong directors. The problem is that the above is not enough. The former is a martial arts film, while the latter is a shootout film.
In fact, "Homecoming" is " The Wandering Earth ", a heavy industry blockbuster with the spirit of Chinese culture in the new era. It doesn't talk about the main theme and Chinese cultural characteristics everywhere, but moisturizing things is silent and the main theme and Chinese cultural characteristics are everywhere. , which is the "community with a shared future for mankind" that we advocate.
You can take it to the whole world for comparison. For example, the sci-fi film "The Wandering Earth" is not very high in the history of sci-fi movies, but Liu Cixin 's sci-fi concept, the core of Chinese culture, and the expression of Chinese spirit in the new era, I believe that veteran sci-fi fans will also see it.
The film and television industry, martial arts, literary drama, character creation, story plot and core expression of "The Journey Home", etc. Although there are obvious routines and shortcomings, it is much more complete than "The Wandering Earth". Domestic netizens have always praised foreign movies, but it is really a joke.
ps: I started to look forward to " Wandering Earth 2", Guo Fan You can't lose to your brother Rao Xiaozhi, and Lu Yang has to cheer up.
