In 1998, "Party A and Party B", which pioneered the Chinese film business model, was born, competing with Hollywood blockbusters and showing us the joys and sorrows of four little people as they bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
It’s a wonderful day trip, but I can’t realize my dream, and I laugh with tears.
In 2001, "Big Shot", which played with black humor and absurd satire, appeared on the stage. With a farce of holding a funeral for a living person, it made forward-looking predictions about the next twenty years.
Real estate speculation, e-commerce, and traffic are king. Regardless of whether you believed it or not, they are all realized.
In 2008, "If You Are the One" was dedicated to the leftover men and women in the post-dating era. It used various ridiculous dramatic methods to deconstruct the love dilemma that pervaded the whole society at that time.
In 2013, "Private Customization", which closely followed the keywords of daydreams, was belatedly released, and staged a deformation plan in which the poor became rich.
Although the film has aroused discussions among many movie fans, it also firmly grasps the basics of down-to-earth and elegant.
In the final analysis, the success of these New Year comedies cannot be separated from the exposure and satire of the real social problems around them and the care for the little people that permeates the lines.
What is still unsatisfactory is that Feng Xiaogang suddenly changed his direction within the next 10 years. Director Feng gave up New Year comedies and started filming one serious drama after another.
"Assembly", "1942", "Tangshan Earthquake" and "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" explore grand propositions and think about realism.
is good, but it can't satisfy the willful requirement of letting people simply daydream again at the turn of the new year.
Objectively speaking, I quite like these feature films with clear artistic pursuits. But to be honest about Chinese movies, there is a huge lack of Feng Xiaogang’s flavor in Lunar New Year comedies. If Director Feng doesn’t make them, we really won’t be able to watch them.
There is a saying that everything comes around every ten years.
What is exciting is that at the end of 2023, ten years later, such an original and pure Feng’s New Year comedy finally appeared on the big screen again.
It is "If You Are the One 3" which was released on December 30.
Director Feng asked the audience at the premiere, when "If You Are the One 1" was released, were you still in school? Now "If You Are the One 3" is released. This is the last one. Thank you for coming to support it.
If you think about it carefully, time does fly.
From 2008 to 2024, sixteen years, I silently witnessed the completion of a series of movies.
Many movie fans who rushed into the cinema immediately posted the first wave of word-of-mouth about this movie
Some people said that "Fei 3" is a handful of warm water, using pure love to send Qin Fen to the audience The final chapter of Smiley Love.
Some people said that after reading it, they sighed for a long time. Such a precious love story that has maintained its original intention after more than ten years is really too precious.
01 Can I still board your broken ship with this old ticket? The
series of movies talks about love, which is not easy to write.
The most touching thing about love in movies is often the dramatic moments of meeting each other and staying together. Growing old together is no match for the ravages of time.
can talk less and less and complain more and more.
After all, most viewers who come to the theater would of course prefer to watch the emotional romance between men and women rather than the story of the crumbling after the seven-year itch.
Recently there are "Zhiming and Chunjiao" and "Chunjiao and Zhiming" by Peng Haoxiang, and far away there is "Love Trilogy" by Ye Nianchen.
The more you shoot, the heavier it becomes, and the more you write, the more fragmented it becomes.
Only the famous European love movies "Love Before Dawn," "Love Before Sunset," and "Love Before Midnight" (referred to as the Love Trilogy) have managed to prevent the love between the male and female protagonists from being overshadowed by the long-lasting love. As time passes, it becomes more mellow and moving.
The two met in the vast crowd, and got closer step by step with curiosity and vigilance towards each other. But due to practical reasons, they cannot be truly together.In the second part of
, they decided to try further, tried all kinds of ways to show their love, and talked about all kinds of life problems.
first separated and then reunited, and finally entered the palace of marriage together.
In the third part, in the blink of an eye, the couple has been married for many years, and their faces and hearts are gradually getting older.
has many problems and is far apart, but we still have the deep friendship for each other in our hearts.
In a sense, the "If You Are the One" trilogy and the "Love Is Here" trilogy have reached a consistent understanding of the proposition of love.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is China's own "Love is Here" trilogy.
Even the filming and production span of the film spanned nearly ten years.
Xiaoxiao and Qin Fen, a flounder who is emotionally fragile and longs for love, and an old fox who is objective, rational, humorous and tolerant.
has experienced a long love journey, getting together and separated again, but they still know each other well.
Only unconditional trust and understanding of your lover is the only magic weapon to overcome the erosion of time.
At the end of "If You Are the One 2", Xiaoxiao decided to get married to Qin Fen because of Li Xiangshan's death and the extremely classic sentence "A long love is about making mistakes."
But at the beginning of "If You Are the One 3", Xiaoxiao traveled around the world alone to pick up trash with environmental protection organizations because of her environmental ideals, leaving Qin Fen alone to look after the house.
has been here for ten years.
For an ordinary person, it would be unbearable for his wife to behave like this. But Qin Fen, who has always been understanding and tolerant of his wife, not only did not complain about this, but also kept clean for ten years. When he received a smiling postcard, he flew a kite. Express your longing for your lover in such a romantic and retro way.
This may seem difficult to understand.
Even Li Xiangshan's ex-wife Mango complained about Xiaoxiao when she visited Qin Fen. She asked nonchalantly, "She hasn't come back for ten years. Are you sure she still loves you?"
Qin Fen did not answer directly. , but asked Mango, do you know what missing is and what is caring?
Missing is what Xintianyou sings. It’s too low to build a temple on a high mountain. Sitting face to face, I still miss you.
To miss you is to be afraid, afraid that you will not live well, afraid that you will be wronged, afraid that you will not come back.
Qin Fen's longing is not only self-moved, but also the ability to reveal his own thoughts when Xiaoxiao finally returns. Sincerity and true love are always the supreme magic weapon to keep love fresh.
02 Director Feng, who is playing with color for the first time, is full of bells and whistles.
If you want to say which director in domestic movies is best at using color expression, it must be Zhang Yimou.
When colors are used well, they can materialize the inner turbulence of the characters and present a wonderful aesthetic effect.
Feng Xiaogang, a "little steel cannon" who has always been outspoken, did not pay much attention to the audio-visual presentation of color in his past works. He preferred to use simple and direct image style to draw and outline.
But Feng Xiaogang did not stop there.
has already played with creative camera narratives in "I'm Not Pan Jinlian", and this time he boldly played with colors in "If You Are the One 3".
The color combination with high saturation and multiple contrasting colors is dizzying.
Teacher Liu Zhenyun, the planner of this film, said that this color scheme is called dopamine color by them. It is the external expression of Qin Fen’s longing for a smile and his “old and pretty” temperament deep in his heart in his later years.
Ge You is old in real life, but Qin Fen on the screen is still charming and even cuter than in "If You Are the One 1".
It may be because of the injection of this dopamine injection that Qin Fen's new image is achieved today.
Of course, there is another saying that the reason why the colors of the film are so bright is because the entire film is a dream of Qin Fen, a beautiful dream.
Dreams are of course colorful and overwhelming.
This is a way of thinking, which directly strengthens Feng Xiaogang's ingenuity in this film. The "dream" directly adds a touch of sadness to the film, which is deep in beauty.
03 Who said the combination of science fiction and comedy will never work?
Yes, you read that right. In addition to the many highlights above, this film actually has an amazing highlight - science fiction.
The story takes place ten years after "If You Are the One 2", when people have entered a new technological era.
Human beings have moved into a near-future house that is both beautiful and designed, and have a smart housekeeper that can customize the weather near the house at any time.
Drones are used to collect express delivery, and facial recognition is used to enter the door without a key. The
ceiling is a high-tech virtual screen that is both real and fake, allowing you to travel across the galaxy without leaving home.
Even the "McGuffin" of the movie story is because Xiaoxiao has not returned for ten years. Lao Fan, who invented the intelligent bionic man, was worried about Qin Fen's loneliness, so he gave him a bionic man who was exactly the same as Xiaoxiao from personality to appearance. give him.
is exactly the same except that he looks younger.
Qin Fen was quite confused about this brand new high-tech product. At first he was embarrassed and dissatisfied because it didn't look like Xiaoxiao. In the end, a smart person with a personality close to Xiaoxiao was customized, and he gradually adapted to it.
But when the real Xiaoxiao finally returned home, the trio of a man, a woman and an android burst out with sparks of laughter and drama.
Before the release of "If You Are the One 3", there were discussions on the Internet, saying that science fiction is serious, and when put together with romantic comedies, the effect is difficult to predict.
Regarding this point, I want to say:
The essence of science fiction is the imagination and interpretation of the relationship between people in the future world. This is true whether it is soft science fiction or hard science fiction.
As long as it is a profound development of people themselves, there is no essential difference whether the style is comedy and humor or serious and dark, whether the story is about romance or the awakening of omnics.
's only evaluation criterion is whether the shooting is good or not, nothing more.
Even Guo Fan, the director of "The Wandering Earth", also lamented at the premiere of "If You Are the One 3":
I feel like I didn't understand the first two movies before. I would use the word "comfortable" for this "Fei You 3" Describe it.
Famous actor Zhang Yi immediately added:
Director Guo Fan laughed the hardest among us, and he never stopped laughing during the movie.
Sun Honglei, who played the most touching supporting role of Li Xiangshan in "If You Are the One 2", claimed that he shed tears in the audience, and kept asking his wife while watching, were we in the same state as Qin Fen and others?
"Youth" star Miao Miao said something that drew applause from the audience: I used to want to watch Director Feng's New Year's comedy every Chinese New Year, but Director Feng hasn't done one in more than ten years, and now I finally like it.
Applause Perhaps Miao Miao spoke out the aspirations of many people.
Over the past ten years, Chinese films have been developing rapidly, and the tastes of the audience have become more diverse.
But Feng Xiaogang’s movies still move us.
Not to mention, this time "If You Are the One 3" not only still has the same flavor as before, but also keeps pace with the times and incorporates science fiction elements. It has many attractions and is definitely worth watching.
