Copywriter | Fourteen North
Editor | Nanfeng
The movie market this summer seems to be in a bad mood.
The box office of " Catch a Baby " exceeded 2.5 billion. It seems to be the biggest winner among all current works, but in fact it is still affected by the successive blockbusters.
And the film studio seems to be paving the way for other works, and the promotion has already been exhausted.
I thought director Wu Ershan could bring another climax.
What was even more unexpected was that the reputation and box office of " " were not very optimistic either.
includes Chen Sicheng's " decrypting ". Although it has just been officially released, the feedback during the screening is completely out of proportion to the investment.
You must know that last year there were frequent hits. The three companies competing for supremacy in " disappeared ", " octagonal cage " and " all-or-nothing " are very exciting.
Is this what the summer of 2024 will be like?
That is absolutely impossible.
The former comedy brother Xu Zheng has made a strong return, and " Retrograde Life " has finally started to be screened.
The audience's evaluation is as sharp as ever. As for the results, let's predict based on the freshly released first wave of word-of-mouth this time whether the movie can add fire to the hot summer -
See the movie name The word "retrograde" in the movie, and seeing the rider costumes all the protagonists in the trailer wear, I think what the public is most worried about in "Retrograde Life" is just one word -
bitterness.
In order to create an effect, they forcibly poked the lungs of the audience. They watched the movie happily and ended up crying. After watching it, they felt uncomfortable.
Today’s audience is no longer so easy to fool.
After seeing most of the comments, I think I can let go of my hanging heart.
The comment area is full of comments, and there is such a sentence-
"I really didn't expect it to be so funny."
"Retrograde Life" focuses on the group of "delivery workers" closest to our lives.
also shows the ups and downs of the lives of the people at the bottom through the depiction of several protagonists with different destinies.
Of course, such a hard work will always bring tears to the eyes, but judging from the clips in the trailer, Xu Zheng will still cleverly add some laughter into it.
For example, when the delivery boy is not understood, and even the other party vents his anger on him for no reason, the unexpected sentence "I will kill you with one fist" is real and can directly make people break their guard and laugh.
In the behind-the-scenes interview, Xu Zheng actually emphasized that he hoped that the actors' performances would be more optimistic and stubborn.
"I don't want to play such a character with great bitterness and hatred."
At the same time, coupled with Jia Bing's blessing, it will be difficult for this film to be bitter from beginning to end.
Comedies that wrap up the core of tragedy are more about small characters that touch the audience, such as "Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots" and " I'm Not the God of Medicine ". When the focus is on the narrative of the characters themselves against fate, rather than on the empty plot, then this film It’s actually hard not to make people smile in a movie.
Although Gao Zhilei, played by Xu Zheng, is middle-aged and unemployed, the huge contrast and the step-by-step integration process are exactly the embarrassing and embarrassing situations shown in the "囧路" series.
I think Director Xu has once again contributed his masterpiece after many years, and also added innovation to his original creative ability.
resonates with people, makes people laugh with tears, and you can find the shadow of the people around you if you taste it carefully. Isn't this a powerful response to many people's criticism that comedies are "superficial"?
knows how to choose actors. This is the key reason why Xu Zheng's transition to director has been so successful.
I think there is no need to say more about his acting skills. When the names of actors such as Jia Bing, Wang Xiao, Xin Zhilei, and Ding Yongdai were revealed, the audience was reassured.
The comment area is full of high praise for the actor. Director Xu has really taken this step very seriously.
First of all, Xu Zheng is still the most eye-catching.
It is said that today's Mesozoic actors have opened up a "wimpy" track. In fact, Xu Zheng is the pioneer of this path.
There is really no one who can play the frustrated "bear-like" (non-derogatory) look of a middle-aged man better than him.
As a director, he is of course the most knowledgeable person among all people, and with his acting skills, he can indeed interpret his understanding vividly.
At the beginning of the film, Xu Zheng opens the film, showing Gao Zhilei's unspeakable state of suffering in a very heart-wrenching manner, and then gradually becomes a fusion of high-end comedy.
Having Wang Xiao come here is simply the icing on the cake.
I dare say that Wang Xiao is one of Xu Zheng’s most capable assistants in the entire movie.
This guy has no baggage. As soon as he appeared on the stage, you wouldn’t know that he was an already famous actor.
Unkempt and disheveled is no longer enough to describe Wang Xiao’s image in the film.
He really brought the old stingy character to the extreme. He was dressed in a cowardly manner, his hair had not been washed for who knows how long, and he wolfed down his food as if he had been really tired all day long.
Especially his smile, swollen eyelids, rough skin with wrinkles, and some scars on his face.
He obviously smiled sincerely, but I could taste a bit of sadness. This was really integrating myself into the character.
Similarly, Feng Bing’s performance was also extremely brilliant.
His performance is more like a delivery boy in life than you imagine.
Before filming, this guy actually went to experience life and did errands for a while. When he saw fans coming to take photos, he hurriedly took photos and quickly said that he still had to deliver the orders.
Therefore, the performance in front of the camera is completely easy, and every smile can draw people directly into the scene.
and Xin Zhilei.
In this genre, the heroine is usually a gold-rimmed existence, but Xin Zhilei can portray the character beyond the original color of the character.
In the play, she plays Xu Zheng's wife, and she instantly stops the play as soon as she enters the picture. It seems that she and Gao Zhilei are really an old married couple, and every word she says is extremely consistent with the character's state.
Also with the help of actors such as Jia Bing, Liu Meihan, Ding Yongdai and Ding Jiali, it can be said that everyone has not dropped out, the veteran actors have performed stably, and the young actors are even more surprising.
This time, "Retrograde Life" may really win the championship.
Conclusion
Realistic themes are always the focus of the film market. Many people want to capture the suffering of the people at the bottom to gain attention, but the public does not like to endure hardship deliberately and sensationalize.
There is no doubt that Xu Zheng can always perfectly hit the audience's preferences. He is not treating it as a traffic password, nor is he emptyly praising it, but he is really describing and telling the stories of little people.
There is no doubt that "Retrograde Life" has a dramatic treatment of group portraits, but the audience can personally feel the shadow of reality in each character. At the same time, in the collision of characters with different personalities, the laughter is extremely dense.
Therefore, what the audience said was not the simple words "laughing with tears", but "I didn't expect it to be so funny."
Perhaps, the real king of this summer season has arrived.
-end-
Nanfeng Entertainment Circle
Quality Entertainment Views
