text | Linghu Boguang
I believe that many netizens have seen a piece of news some time ago, that is, the casting issue of the drama "New Romeo and Juliet". In fact, this matter was made public two months ago, and the reason why it has only recently caused a stir is that in order to ensure "political correctness", the crew chose a black African female actor to play the heroine Juliet .
In recent years, the box office performance of Hollywood movies in the Chinese market has been getting worse and worse. It can be said that this has been discussed for a long time. There are only two reasons.
The first point is that Hollywood movies are really bad. There is no creativity, they are resting on their laurels, making sequels and prequels, and political correctness is still rampant. Take "The Matrix", the film that has had the most profound impact on me, as an example. The directors all turned from brothers to sisters, and finally, driven by money, they made another movie "The Matrix 4" more than 20 years later. It's true that the director himself complained about it in the movie. What is the most important thing about
? The box office reputation of the fourth film is actually not good, but some time ago it was said that a sequel will be made.
The second reason is that China itself has become more economical, and those things are no longer so novel. Moreover, the relationship between China and the United States has deteriorated. Most people have seen the true colors of the United States and they no longer care about those movies. Many old and American films are full of individualism, manipulation of intelligence, and cultural export. Nowadays, they feel more and more fake.
At the same time, although Chinese movies are still not as good as Hollywood, the growth is indeed obvious. For example, " The Wandering Earth " is certainly not as good as the science fiction classics of the Golden Age of Hollywood, but it is already better than a large number of Hollywood science fiction films today. To put it bluntly, Chinese audiences have more choices.
Skin color problem, actors’ appearance is getting worse and worse? Hollywood's appearance has been downgraded, more serious than domestic entertainment.
Some time ago, when " Dune 2" was released, in addition to the hero's mother Rebecca, there were also Léa Seydoux (strictly speaking, they were the pre-2010 batch). European and American actresses), Zendaya, the two new generation heroines, is not good. Princess Pugh is also short and tall, so Anya is better.
Anya is actually an atypical beautiful actress, but there are fewer and fewer new generation actresses like Anya in Hollywood.
At the same time, the Oscars were held at the same time. Sister Shitou won the best actress for "Poor Things". I heard that it was a big movie, but after watching it——
I personally suddenly realized something. Now in Hollywood In movies, not only is skin color and race a problem, but the looks of actors are getting worse and worse. It seems that there are fewer and fewer good-looking actresses who are willing to show off. I happened to be browsing short videos and saw a clip from an old science fiction film. The heroine in it was pretty and had large-scale shots, so I went to watch it. It was 1985's "The Devil in the Universe".
The heroine's appearance is like this, whether it is good or not is a matter of opinion.
The heroine's figure is like this. After watching the feature film, you will only admire the beauty of human women.
Moreover, the heroine in this movie is an alien. From the time she was discovered in space to the time she was brought back to Earth without any clothes on, she has been walking around with two white clothes on her head, without any sense of being secretive or unconfident.
Finally, let’s talk about the plot and setting of this movie. I didn’t watch it originally, but I accidentally found that the first half of the movie was pretty good. The human spaceship discovered an alien spaceship in a passing comet, so When they went to explore, the spacecraft was huge and strange. The bat-like aliens they found were all withered. As a result, they found three humans (the three heroines) sleeping in crystal coffins inside.
These three human beings are so perfect, especially the heroine, who has a classical beauty and a good figure. The male astronauts all feel charmed, and then they bring the three coffins back to the spaceship. As soon as the camera turned to the earth, the spaceship crashed, and humans found that the astronauts in the spaceship had withered and died (one escaped, the space protagonist).
Humans on the ground only found those three intact sleeping humans, so they took them back to study and investigated what happened to the spacecraft. As a result, a security guard was seduced by the heroine at night and went to have a secret kiss. The heroine suddenly woke up and sucked the security guard dry. Then he wandered around, and the protagonist on Earth investigated and found that the matter was much more than that -
Later, a soldier protagonist on Earth investigated the truth (brave and perseverant), and the male protagonist in space was charmed and corrupted by the heroine (eventually defeated the devil).
The first half of this movie is really good, with special effects, atmosphere, art, science fiction concepts, actors' appearance and character creation. My evaluation is slightly inferior to "Alien" and "The Thing", and it is similar to the later similar movie " Alien " Well, the continued life of alien creatures in a certain situation is strange and unpredictable. Human beings are greedy and confused, and some have firm beliefs.
Unfortunately, the second half of this movie is really too fun, with horror, gore, supernatural, exorcism, mind control, zombies vs. vampires and the like (the heroine also wears a ). But in retrospect, the plots of many blockbusters nowadays are not as good as this kind of unpopular old movies.
I checked the information about the heroine. Apart from this one, she has also been acting, but they are all less well-known works, and the roles are not well-known. In other words, she has not quit the industry but she has not developed. In that era, she cannot be said to be unknown. , but certainly not a particularly well-known actress.
However, this actress's appearance, figure and acting skills are simply a dimensionality reduction in today's era. But can she play the heroine? Can it be favored by capital? Will he be attacked for not being correct enough?
Even excluding the actors, the first half of this film is pretty good in every aspect, beating a lot of so-called flashy Hollywood blockbusters nowadays.
In addition to appearance and skin color, Hollywood blockbusters are now so bad that I can’t bear to look at them.
To be honest, you may not believe me. Although I personally like handsome men and beautiful women, sometimes I am interested in the bodies of handsome men and beautiful actresses, and then I go to them. I come to watch films that are devoted to art, but they are not essentially addictive films. For example, I have watched Monica Bellucci, Eva Green, who are also the most famous in China, "Nine Songs" and "The History of Anna" ” and other movies.
But actresses like the heroine of "Universal Demon" were indeed not well-known in the 1980s.
For example, someone said that Jane Fonda was the most famous actress of that era. I had vaguely heard of it, but I had never seen any of her movies. Then I looked up the actor's information. This actress was indeed so beautiful. She was the top of her era. She was a beautiful actress, and she showed herself openly and confidently. The atmosphere at that time was the same as that in China and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. It was really different.
Actually, I think the appearance of actors nowadays has declined and skin color problems can still be saved, because if the concept and story of the movie are good, I can still tolerate it, and I don’t watch them all day long, but the story plot is getting worse and worse, and it is also forcefully indoctrinated. Values are really intolerable.
I remember that there was a romance movie in the United States about ten years ago called " Heartbeat ", which left a deep impression on me. The male and female protagonists in it were actually atypical handsome guys and beauties, but the female protagonist was brave, kind, confident, and smart, and the male protagonist looked a bit arrogant. , my heart is still sweet. It's an older work, and I've never seen a domestic drama with such a heroine so far.
The domestic heroine Mary Sue seems to be suffering from a serious illness. The British films "The Person I Fall in Love with is a Weird Girl" and "What the Fuck World" were filmed in a way of mutual redemption and sympathy, while the domestic dramas filmed redemption mostly in vain. Also, I really don’t understand why romance movies have to look like workplace dramas.
If you can really make films of the quality of "Bad Debt", "Morning News" and "Public Relations", forget it. All you make are peppers, a waste of film and an insult to the profession. It's not complete if the screenwriter doesn't bring out all the disasters in the profession. .
Finally, let’s talk about Hollywood movies. This was ten years ago. Although the appearance has declined, the actors are still watchable.At the same time, the plot of the story is very exciting, and it is also touching to watch. In fact, watching movies does not necessarily have to be based on looks, but if you have nothing, then what else are you watching?
Why are Hollywood movies no longer popular in China? This has nothing to do with whether it is introduced or not
In fact, this movie can be subdivided into many categories, but there are roughly two types.
One kind is the kind of commercial blockbusters that most people have seen. The actors' appearance is getting worse and worse, the political correctness is becoming more and more obvious, the concepts and stories are getting worse and worse, and most ordinary people naturally don't like to watch them.
Another type of film is personal expression films, which are separate from literature and art. After all, people's needs change a lot. In the past, many films were rich in genres and could satisfy this type of audience, but now there are fewer and fewer such films in Europe and the United States. , even if it can raise a24, it is not as good as before.
Commercial films originally use "routines" to make money, which is understandable. After the audience's viewing level improves, they can definitely favor niche independent films. There were a lot of martial arts, martial arts, and gangster movies in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s, but the real masterpieces are still far inferior to the mediocre ones.
The real problem now is that under the restrictions of "ideology" and "political correctness" in Hollywood movies, the range of possible permutations and combinations is getting narrower and narrower.
Bad political correctness, in the eyes of people with upright views , is an embarrassing preaching.
I won’t mention this, just talk about the movie itself. Hollywood has become rigid since its scripts, falling into the so-called commercial clichés.
They have a series of script writing "manuals" there, it seems to be called Save the Cat or something, I can't remember the exact title, there are several books and a series. The name is quite novel, but the content in the book makes you want to fall asleep while reading it. It is very rigid and teaches you how to use routines. How to write the beginning of
, how long to put in murderous elements, how long to put in pornographic elements... How do the good and bad characters appear at the beginning, how does justice win, how does evil take revenge, how does justice win the second time with difficulty, humor and humor/Sui Shijing A good transition plot, how evil comes back and multiplies its power...
Put all kinds of wine into this bottle. This business routine is also a marketing routine. We don’t know how it does market segmentation. Maybe it thinks that most people are just like that. It's fun to watch, if you don't follow this routine?
is not good, no money, no investment, no studio, no stars, no schedule, nothing. Nowadays, Hollywood film capital only thinks about marketing and regards the people watching movies as data on statistical tables.
could not satisfy the public before, and could not satisfy the niche after.
Hollywood movies are no longer popular not only in China, but also all over the world.
