mentioned the Spring Festival movies in 2024. The 73-year-old director Zhang Yimou's return to the Spring Festival movie is a highlight. In 2023, he won the Spring Festival box office championship with the movie "Manjianghong". This time he directed the new film "" What will happen to the results of Article 20 ""? You can make a prediction!
Of course, to predict the box office performance of a movie, you must not make empty guesses. Currently, "Article 20" has released the latest trailer. Compared with the previous trailer, the content is much richer, and the audience finally understands The meaning of the title "Article 20".
- It turns out that the "Article 20" in the title corresponds to the provisions of Article 20 of the Criminal Law on self-defense. The entire movie tells the story of three cases involving self-defense encountered by a temporary prosecutor. Starring include Lei Jiayin , Ma Li , Zhao Liying , Gao Ye and others.
After the latest trailer of "Article 20" was exposed, their promotional topic was "The new trailer of Article 20 has a lot of information." I have to say that this promotional topic is very consistent with the facts. To a certain extent, this new trailer The trailer video can even be said to be too big, so many viewers commented that the plot is confusing.
The entire trailer uses interspersed editing, with a large number of new characters appearing. It is almost impossible to see a complete story line. The first shot is of the couple played by Lei Jiayin and Ma Li talking to their son at school. This is the first scene in the film. A case involving self-defense - the male protagonist's son fought with his classmates in order to stop bullying at school.
Then Gao Ye appeared. She and Lei Jiayin played colleagues in the film, and the leader asked Lei Jiayin to cooperate with her work.
Takaye's scene ended, and the plot and editing of the subsequent trailers instantly accelerated the pace. I don't know whether it was intentional arrangement by the film crew or a problem with the editing ability in the later stage. All the clips gave people a noisy and chaotic feeling.
- verbal conflicts, physical pushing and shoving, and at least two criminal cases. The atmosphere was extremely tense. Zhao Liying's scenes were concentrated in the second half, all in an intense emotional state. She played the role of a mother who rushed to the rooftop for her daughter. .
Some netizens tried to sort out the story lines of "Article 20" and roughly clarified three of them. The first one is the hero's son's heroic case, the murder case of Zhao Liying's family and the bus driver's defense case, all involving legitimate defense. .
One movie has at least three storylines packed into it. It also has traffic and comedians, as well as familiar faces because of the popularity of the TV series. The background of the story is typical realistic themes, and there is no lack of profound expressions, but it also manages to do some comedy from time to time. As a result, for example, when the male protagonist told his son that four people beat him so lightly, the female protagonist played by Ma Li immediately responded: "You beast, you."
After watching this, you should be able to understand why Zhang Yimou's new Spring Festival film is controversial - as netizens said, it is a bit too mixed, so mixed that it doesn't match, and it feels very fragmented.
Of course, there is no conflict between realistic themes and comedy elements. For example, "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is still labeled as a comedy, but it is still a masterpiece of realistic themes in recent years.
Judging from the attitude of netizens, it is not so much that the comedy elements of "Article 20" are controversial, but rather that the audience does not trust Zhang Yimou's current ability and the level of the screenwriter of "Article 20".
——This is not the first time that Zhang Yimou has forced laughter into non-comedy themes, and the effect is not very good.
- "Article 20" screenwriter Li Meng was a documentary director before. He started working as a screenwriter in 2010. He has four works under his name. Except for "Article 20", the other three works have ratings of 6.3, 6.0 and 4.4 respectively. .
Some netizens felt that because "Article 20" was released during the Spring Festival, comedy elements could be added to match the atmosphere of the schedule.
So the last question is, some people say that when they saw Zhang Yimou before, they thought of art works, but now they think of box office harvesters. Is this related to the so-called "in order to cater to the atmosphere of the schedule, no matter what film, there must be some laughter?"
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