There is only half a month left in the 2024 summer season. However, compared with last year's summer season, this year's movie box office has dropped off a cliff. As of 19:10 on August 10, the total box office for the 2024 summer season has exceeded 9 billion. " " catches the baby " " silently kills " and " there is a canteen by the cloud" are temporarily among the top three. At 17:29 on August 11 last year, the total box office for the 2023 summer season had exceeded 16 billion, with " The Disappearance of Her ", " Octagonal Cage " and " Fengshen Part 1 " ranking in the top three .
From this series of data, we can see how miserable this summer's summer season is. Except for the box office of the movie "Catch Me", which exceeded 3 billion, and "Silent Kill", which exceeded 1.339 billion, the box office of other films did not exceed the 1 billion mark. You must know that the films released this summer are no worse than last year in terms of director strength and cast, but the results are disappointing.
" decrypted " directed by Chen Sicheng and starring Liu Haoran, Chen Daoming, and Daniel Wu had a box office of only 302 million in 12 days of release; directed by Wu Ershan and starring Hu Xianxu, Li Wanda, and Feng Shaofeng, the box office in 20 days of release was only a pitiful 118 million; Zhang Ruoyun's new work " safely evacuates from the 21st century" had a box office of only 106 million in 13 days of release.
Even Xu Zheng's much-anticipated new work " Retrograde Life " has suffered from word-of-mouth and box office failure, which is disappointing!
The film "Retrograde Life" is directed and starred by Xu Zheng, and also has Xin Zhilei, Wang Xiao, Jia Bing and many other powerful actors joining the cast. It can be called an all-star cast. This film is also Xu Zheng's first after "囧Mom" in many years ’s new film is also the only realism-themed film in the summer season.
tells the story of Gao Zhilei (Xu Zheng), a middle-level executive in a major Internet company, who suffered a mid-life crisis and lost his job. Facing the pressure of life and family, he chose to become a delivery boy.
"Retrograde Life" is also the first domestic film to focus on the group of delivery workers. However, the film has been controversial from the beginning. Some people said that it was "consuming suffering and beautifying suffering", and some netizens even bluntly said, "It is acted in the movie. But I am real." Netizens were talking about it for a while.
Xu Zheng's original intention in shooting this film was to show the difficulty of adult life by showing real and vivid portraits of a group of delivery workers, thereby arousing strong resonance with reality. The starting point was good, but the final effect was not ideal.
After the release of "Retrograde Life", the box office performance was dismal and the reputation was mediocre, with a score of only 6.8. The comment area was even more polarized. Some people thought that "rich people playing poor people" was praising suffering and consumption suffering, but some viewers said that this It's reality, just acted out in a movie way.
Director Xu Zheng recently responded to this. He denied the suffering of consumption in "Retrograde Life" and said: "I find it very difficult to make movies now, because making a movie cannot satisfy everyone, and everyone's feelings are different. It’s the same, but it’s not fair to a movie to just criticize it without watching it.” He also said that after watching the movie, he accepted both positive and negative reviews.
Director Xu Zheng's response is quite pertinent. It is true that you have to watch the movie before you can evaluate it. Everyone has different feelings about the movie, but it is really inappropriate to say that the movie is about consuming suffering. Is it true that " I" Isn’t the God of Medicine consuming patients?
So the best way to face controversy is to practice, and don’t be led away! What do you think about this matter? Welcome to leave comments and messages!
