As the saying goes: Celebrate the Spring Festival happily. When the Spring Festival is approaching, the shadow of Lunar New Year films is naturally indispensable. Since the great success of my country’s first Lunar New Year film "Party A and Party B" in 1997, the annual Lunar New Year files have been particularly lively. Chen Sicheng’s "Chinatown Detective" "Was also first released in the Lunar New Year file. This is a rare domestic suspense comedy. The box office on the day it was released exceeded 50 million. Because the work was well received by the public, in 2018, the same series of "Chinatown Detective 2 also made a comeback. Although the total box office reached 3.3 billion, the word-of-mouth has dropped significantly compared to the previous one. Some people even said that the first one was as pleasant as the second one, and the second one was as disappointing. Now Chen Sicheng has spent a lot of money on filming "Detective Chinatown 3", but in the eyes of a little confused, he wants to win this turnaround battle. .
"Chinatown Detective" stills
Time, location, and people are all unreasonable
In the film industry, almost no director is willing to set the shooting cost above 1 billion. However, this time Chen Sicheng seems to have a "blood capital". The filming cost of the entire movie is as high as 1.3 billion. According to past data, including the initial publicity cost, if the film wants to return the cost, the box office must reach 4 billion.
Behind-the-scenes photo of "Detective Chinatown 3"
So far, there are only four movies with a box office of more than 4 billion in China. They are "Wolf Warrior 2" (5.639 billion) and "Nezha: The Devil Child" (49.34) 100 million), "Wandering Earth" (4.618 billion), "Avengers 4: Endgame" (4.205 billion), Douban scores 7.1, 8.5, 7.9, and 8.5 points respectively. It is not difficult to see that "Wolf Warriors 2" has reached a certain level of education, and the film has been publicly released on educational occasions; "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World" is a top domestic animation film in China; "Wandering Earth" is considered It is the first step of a Chinese science fiction film; "Avengers 4" bears the expectations of generations, and is the final battle of twenty movies. These films are not only because of the plot and acting skills, but also have a deeper meaning. As a suspenseful comedy, "Detective Chinatown 3" is not easy to reach this height.
"The Devil Boy of Nezha"
Besides, the first part of "Detective Chinatown" got a score of 7.6, and the second part only got 6.7 points. The reputation of this series of movies is declining, and it is far from the previous work. Two years have passed, and with the decline in word-of-mouth, the popularity will naturally not be too high. In this year's Lunar New Year stalls, its competitors are not small. There is an animated film "Jiang Ziya" that is enthusiastic about "Nezha's Devil Child", and "Emergency Rescue" that may surpass "Operation Red Sea". Whether it is the time, the right place or the harmony of people, "Detective Chinatown 3" thinks To break out of the siege, it is difficult to get at least 4 billion in the box office.
"Emergency Rescue" stills
exposed many inherent problems in the movie
aside those external factors, whether Chen Sicheng can make a more exciting movie is worthy of people's deep investigation. In "Detective Chinatown 1", the plot is coherent and complete. As a comedy film, many laughs can make people laugh. As a suspense film, the process of solving the case is not naive, the completeness of the case is relatively high, and the most important logical aspect does not have too many loopholes. The last masterpiece. On the other hand, in "Detective Chinatown 2", the laugh point is very embarrassing. There is a point deliberately created to make people laugh, but the deliberate laugh point is often the most difficult to withstand the test. People want to laugh but can't laugh at all. The reasoning part is even more flawed. The suspect appeared from the beginning, and finally followed the old routine of reverse pushing, and the reverse part was not satisfactory. Some people even discovered that this movie copied the plot of "Double Pupils" in the Seven Deadly Sins, and everyone even suspected that Chen Sicheng was exhausted.
"Chinatown Detective 2" stills
Director Chen Sicheng won the best screenwriter for "Chinatown Detective", and it didn't take long to reveal that he had exclusive rights to the film and "eat alone". Since he married Tong Liya, he has been exposed many times and derailed. Chen Sicheng's character is worthy of scrutiny. Now he wants to use "Detective Chinatown 3" to fight a "turn over", to gain higher prestige, better reputation, and more benefits from it. A little confused just wants to say four words about this: "He is too difficult. !"
