Recently, two more movies have been scheduled to be released in the Mainland.
is a disaster film " Crisis Route " starring Andy Lau and Zhang Zifeng. It has been announced that it will be released on September 30. It will compete with Xiao Yang's "In and Out" and Chen Kaige's "The Volunteer Army 2".
The other one is Zhu Yilong and Qiu Tian's " negative negative is positive ", which is scheduled to be released on the Chinese Valentine's Day on August 10, competing with the light-chasing animation "White Snake: The Floating Life".
Currently, the most popular among theater movies is " " starring Shen Teng and Ma Li. The ticketing platform predicts that the box office of this film will be 3.7 billion, temporarily becoming the highest-grossing film in this summer season.
But on the second day of the film's large-scale release, the well-known director Lu Chuan posted on a certain platform: Twist's low-quality and highly alkaline comedy films dominate the Chinese film market, which is a tragedy for the culture.
also brought up the topic "Is the movie "Catch a Baby" worth watching?" As soon as these words came out, Lu Chuan's fig leaf of jealousy was completely torn off.
So, is the movie "Catch a Baby" really the same as Lu Chuan's review?
1. Box office market analysis.
html On July 18, the single-day box office rankings were released on Thursday. The market grossed a total of 176 million, a decrease of 17 million from Wednesday's working day. Except for "Catch a Baby", the performance of other films was average. The top three ofare: "Catch a Baby", " silently kills " and " Despicable Me 4".
There is no comparison between this summer's summer schedule and last year's. At the same time, last year's "Chang'an 30,000 Miles" is in theaters, Wu Ershan's "Fengshen Part 1" is continuing to be screened, "She Disappeared" and "" The remaining warmth of in the octagonal cage is still there.
And this year, in addition to "Silent Kill", several heavyweight movies have hit the street one after another, firstly Nicholas Tse and Jacky Cheung's " Customs Front " and then Jackie Chan and Zhang Yixing's " legend ".
Who would have thought that Jackie Chan and Tang Jili's movie, which cost 350 million to create, was released in the mainland for nine days and only collected 75.21 million at the box office? This level of failure can be called an epic level. Bona Pictures is expected to lose more than 200 million.
Jackie Chan really can’t move anymore and it’s time to take a rest.
The most regrettable thing is the domestic animation " Falling into the World ". On the seventh day of its release in the mainland, the single-day box office of this film was 1.61 million, and the cumulative total box office was only 21.79 million, basically losing its competitiveness.
The film has a good reputation, but the film schedule has been unable to improve. It was crushed by two Hollywood animations, "Despicable Me 4" and "Inside Out 2". The reason is that the promotion failed to keep up.
Brother Fei feels very unfair for this movie. The film did not have a box office hit, which is really unreasonable. He calls on theater managers to increase the number of excellent domestic animated films so that more people can see "The Fall".
"Catch a Baby" was a box office hit!
There is no suspense. During the screening period, the film raked in nearly 500 million at the box office with a stunning performance. After its large-scale release, it has continued to explode and has won the single-day box office championship for five consecutive days.
once again reported a revenue of 126 million on Thursday, and the total box office in the mainland hit 919 million; on Friday, it will enter the billion-yuan club, becoming the seventh domestic film in 2024 to cross 1 billion in box office.
Based on its trend, it is predicted that the box office target will be 3.7 billion. The summer box office champion, and even the annual box office champion, will most likely be "Catch a Baby". Shen Teng and Ma Li's box office appeal is indeed extraordinary. Extraordinary.
2. Film review of "Catch a Baby".
Back to Lu Chuan’s comment, what is a “low-quality, highly alkaline comedy film”?
Actually, I don’t know the specific answer. After asking AI, I came to the conclusion that it is a video with a low production level and contains a lot of spoofs, exaggerations and nonsensical funny elements. Films like
may appear rough in terms of production, script, and performance, but through absurd plots and exaggerated performances, they try to bring some funny and entertaining effects to the audience.
Is "Catch a Baby" really what Lu Chuan said?
First of all, let's take a look at the plot summary of this film. The film tells the story of successful people Ma Chenggang and Chunlan raising a "successor" together.
Ma Chenggang has two sons. The eldest son, Ma Dajun, was born with his ex-wife and adopted the "rich way". However, the total score of the college entrance examination was only 98 points, so he decided to send Ma Dajun to study abroad. The gold-plated return may be effective. Be better.
The youngest son, Ma Jiye, was born to Chunlan. When he was a child, his grandparents took him with him. He was so chubby that he slept all the time, which gave Ma Chenggang a headache. In order to raise his younger son, he decided to adopt the method of "poor raising".
Just like that, they moved back to their hometown and hired a team of hundreds of people to accompany them day and night. Even the child's grandmother was Teacher Li, whom they hired with a high salary.
The child cannot speak in English class. The team will arrange for his son to meet foreigners on the road and train his English listening and oral expression skills. After many efforts, Ma Jiye has met Ma Chenggang's requirements in all aspects of morality, intelligence, and physical fitness.
Just when they thought they were about to succeed, Ma Jiye discovered a shocking secret...
Secondly, after the large-scale release of "Catch a Baby", Douban's reputation was released, and more than 150,000 people rated it 7.5 points, which is among domestic movies. , is considered a mid-to-high-quality work, with 42.1% of the audience giving it four stars, which is better than 90% of comedies.
Big data makes it clear at a glance that the audience loves this movie beyond imagination. It also shows from the side that the film is by no means a low-quality alkaline comedy like Lu Chuan said, but an excellent film that puts forward thoughts on family education.
Finally, Lu Chuan used "cultural sorrow" to further clarify his attitude. Do movies really have no cultural value? Brother Fei completely disagrees with this point. I think the artistic value of this film is quite high.
"Catch Me" borrows the shell of Jim Carrey's "The Truman Show" to create a local educational reflective comedy film with laughter and tears. It is not a simple show of wealth or low-level and uninteresting film.
Especially the plot where the young Ma Jiye, played by Shi Pengyuan, questions that he lives in a parallel time and space but cannot get the answer, and challenges the teacher in an open class, is more like a thriller. If you think about it carefully, it is the sadness of education in the end.
If it had not used the concept of "The Truman Show", I believe the score would have reached over 8.5 points. Brother Fei gave "Catch a Baby" a thumbs up: It must be liked!
3. Lu Chuan dares to do something but doesn’t do it right.
During this period, mainland directors didn’t know what they were thinking. In the front, Ding Sheng burst into tears in the live broadcast room and questioned the audience’s appreciation; in the back, “Trident” bombed the box office, and the audience cursed the movie. Gao Qunshu directly cursed.
Now there is another Lu Chuan. As a well-known sixth-generation director, why did he make such inappropriate remarks when "Catch a Baby" was a box office hit?
Brother Fei analyzed that either Lu Chuan drank too much that night, or his hand slipped on a whim. In fact, the most fundamental reason for is jealousy, which is also his fig leaf.
This starts from the National Day release in 2015. At that time, "The Nine-Story Demon Tower" directed by Lu Chuan happened to be released at the same time as Happy Twist's first big screen work "Charlotte Troubles ".
Shen Teng's "Charlotte Troubles" cost 21 million, and finally achieved a box office of 1.44 billion and a high reputation of 7.8 on Douban;
Lu Chuan's "Nine-Storey Demon Tower" had a budget of 100 million and a box office of 680 million, but the reputation It scored 4.4 points, which is classified as a bad movie.
Shen Tengma Li, who has no big screen works, and happy twist directors Yan Fei and Peng Damo became famous in one fell swoop, emerging from unknown new actors and new directors.
Lu Chuan had already become famous at that time. His representative works include "Kekexili", "Looking for the Gun" and "Nanjing!" Nanjing! " etc., whether it is quality or box office, he has a place in the mainland film industry.
To use a martial arts novel as an analogy, Lu Chuan belongs to Zhang Sanfeng's grand master level, while Shen Teng belongs to Zhang Wuji, who has just entered the martial arts world. A martial arts master was defeated by a fledgling young man. What do you think Lu Chuan is thinking?
This kind of jealousy continues to this day. Shen Teng has become a box office star in the Chinese film industry. Lu Chuan is frustrated. His production "749 Bureau" has been repeatedly rejected for remakes. After "Catch a Baby" became a box office hit, At this time, I finally couldn't bear it anymore.
A well-known director commented on the box office hit movie "Catch Me". Movie fans quickly gathered around to watch it, and it immediately became a hot search list.
Not long after, this short comment disappeared.
Lu Chuan's company, "Ape Power Pan Entertainment Pictures," clarified: Lu Chuan's platform account was stolen and he did not publish the content. Now the company team has contacted the platform to retrieve the account and delete it.
However, the platform's reply completely tore off Lu Chuan's fig leaf : "The information on the device for logging in, the device for posting, and the device for deleting are all the same." The only difference is that the published IP address is the same.
After this, Lu Chuan still said hypocritically: Lao Shen is a good friend, and Xiao Shi is one of the male protagonists in my previous play, and he is a biological brother. Every movie has the hard work and attitude of the creator, and they all deserve respect. I wish the video a big hit.
In the words of netizens: 's image of someone who dares to do something but dare not do anything is vividly displayed on the page. The self-directed and self-acted realistic black humor story is the best contribution of his career.
4. Conclusion.
Regarding comedy movies like "Catch Me", I can understand its huge success in the Chinese film market, but I also hope that the market can be more open and give other types of films more opportunities.
Looking around, nearly half of the movies scheduled in the entire theater were given to "Catch a Baby". There are also many excellent movies that ultimately failed at the box office because they could not get the movies scheduled.
As for Lu Chuan, don’t be so petty. Movie reviews are all highly individualistic. If you think the movie is not in line with your taste, it’s okay. There is no need to post it and then delete it. You also blame the platform. What kind of account are you talking about? Stolen.
is like this now. Not to mention being slapped in the face, the fig leaf of has been torn off, and the more hypocritical side of has been exposed. This has cast a shadow over the release of "749 Bureau". All fans want to know the quality of this movie. How is it?
Do you have anything to say about the movie "Catch a Baby"?
