was released, the box office of the movie "Under the Stranger " finally exceeded 100 million!
seems to be good news, but it is also bad news. After all, it has been released for five days. What's even more frightening is that the single-day box office has plummeted, and the film schedule has dropped below 10%. Because of its mediocre performance in the early stage when the film schedule exceeded 20%, naturally the theater manager had to lower the film schedule in the end, which undoubtedly made the box office worse.
Corresponding to the continuous decline in box office is the decline in word-of-mouth. The Douban score dropped from 6.3 to 6.1, and the passing line is in jeopardy!
In the film, he used the words of Xiangxi puppet master Liu Yanyan to make fun of Marvel and DC, but he was slapped in the face!
movie "Under the Stranger", just like the young and ignorant Liu Yanyan, who didn't know what the company was, she was naturally taught a lesson.
This is somewhat ironic to say.
Although Marvel is also in a sluggish state today, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that Marvel is still looking for breakthroughs on its own. Just like the latest blockbuster "Deadpool and Wolverine 3", as the "Marvel savior", it really saved Marvel at the box office alone.
"Deadpool and Wolverine" grossed US$444.1 million at the global box office in its first week. It is the second-largest Marvel superhero film in recent years after "Spider-Man: No Homecoming" and "Doctor Strange 2", and in North America The local box office in the first weekend was US$211 million, ranking sixth in film history, first in R-rated films, and first in 2024!
Although the box office performance in mainland China is average, it has easily exceeded 200 million, directly crushing "Under the Stranger", not to mention the overseas box office.
With such box office results, what qualifications does "Underworld" have to make fun of Marvel. What's more, the company has always been benchmarking against Marvel. If you want to be a Chinese version of Marvel, such ambition and determination are good, but you must first correct your mentality and be humble and low-key.
The movie "Under the Stranger" naturally wants to make a breakthrough in genre. After all, there are not many local comic-book movies like this, and there are even fewer successful ones. Although you have experience, you cannot stick to the old ways, otherwise in today's market environment, you will easily fall short of success.
But the movie "Under the Strangers" is still conservative.
But I have to say that it is still eye-catching in terms of visual effects. The super visual effects rooted in the local cultural system have its own uniqueness. But it’s really difficult to succeed with just visual effects nowadays. Marvel has caused the public to experience aesthetic fatigue, and other visual effects blockbusters no longer have box office appeal, so the risks of such a strategy are huge.
If the story is not told well and the characters are not well created, it is difficult to make a difference today by relying solely on visual effects.
Of course, the real core of "Under One Man" does not lie in the visual effects display.
The so-called conservatism lies in the fact that the story adaptation falls into a cliché and is too conventional.
And its conservatism lies in the problem that comic book movies have always had, how to balance the original work and the casual audience.
Even though "Under One Person" already has animation and drama versions, it is still relatively limited compared to the entire market.
Therefore, the movie wants to make a breakthrough and lower the threshold for viewing, but lowering does not mean negation or magical reform.
But in the end, in order to please passers-by, they made routine adaptations of conventional methods.
allows the originally more profound, layered, and patterned expression to become a traditional confrontation between the pros and cons. In order to match the logic of this story,
chose Shen Chong, the "Bane Seedling", as the biggest villain in the first movie version. There seems to be no problem, but it cannot stand up to scrutiny. Not only is it very different from the original work, but it is also inconsistent with the setting of the world view.
Shen Chong can not only absorb energy, but also energy. He can become any strange person and possess their powers. With such a superpower, wouldn't it mean that he would dominate the alien world? Then why would everyone be competing for the Eight Wonders? This makes the original setting meaningless, not to mention that Shen Chong in the original work has no combat effectiveness.
Such an adaptation not only makes the original story fall into a cliché, but also makes it inexplicable and unbelievable.
Naturally, with the ultimate boss, there must be a decent person to contend with it. In the end, the burden fell on Zhang Chulan. He even arbitrarily belittled Feng Baobao in order to highlight Zhang Chulan. Baobao Feng becomes vulnerable in the film. Not to mention, Zhang Chulan's greatly increased combat power came so unexpectedly and was revealed so prematurely that subsequent content would have to change significantly.
The really exciting parts in the early stage are the story of Zhang Chulan and his grandfather, and the story of Feng Baobao and the Xu family. However, animation is used instead in the movie, which greatly reduces the overall quality.
Of course, although it is a story similar to superheroes, it has traditional cultural content that is unique to us. However, the film only briefly summarizes it and does not present it in depth and comprehensively, so the cultural expression of the film is lacking. In its place is a heavy dose of modern advertising content.
In addition, another core expression of the original work is the self-identity of the new generation of aliens.
From Zhang Chulan to Wang Ye, Zhang Lingyu, as well as Zhuge Qing, Feng Shayan, Lu Liang, etc., they were all influenced by the ideas of the older generation and lost themselves. And after experiencing disasters one after another, they have gradually found themselves again, instead of blindly accepting and compromising.
Although the movie is limited in duration, it is still the first one, but even so, it does not show more about Zhang Chulan's growth in his survival dilemma. It always emphasizes his grandfather's teachings to him, but it is too simple in real life. It was sloppy, just shouting slogans, and naturally the final transformation failed to resonate and identify with the audience.
Although the movie "Under the Stranger" is only the first part of the series, it is crucial as the first work. However, such a beginning makes people dare not have higher expectations for the follow-up. After all, too much content has been changed. This also increases the difficulty for subsequent works.
