best represents the movie "About Winter" is not Qi Qin's "About Winter", but "It's a Pity" by Mok Wenwei and Qi Qin at the end.
is a pity.
music IP adaptation film, with the feelings of classic old songs, box office results are in the upper middle. Moreover, on this basis, "About Winter" also invited Qi Qin to star in a special role. On the cast of
, the golden horse actress Ma Sichun, the idol drama hero Huo Jianhua, and the emerging new generation of talent, Wen Qi. On the
schedule, the most recently released films generally have excellent works but no hits. Realistic "The Beneficiary", the main action and adventurous "Charlie Girl", the restored "Sea Pianist", and the historical war blockbuster "The Battle of Midway", none of the performance is strong, nor does it match the drama "About "Winter" hits the subject and poses a threat.
's "About Winter", which occupies the right time, the right place, and the people, should be a quality work in the audience's expectations. However, two days after its release, the film’s reputation did not even surpass that of "Left Ear" four years ago.
In 2015, "Left Ear" directed by Su Youpeng, although the word of mouth was not good, the Douban score of 5.5 did not reach the pass line, but it also got 500 million box office at that time. Four years later, "About Winter", which was also adapted by Rao Xueman's work and the author personally served as the screenwriter, had a box office of 28.229 million on the first day. Maoyan predicted that the total box office would stop at 183 million and the Douban score was only 5.3.
uses Rao Xueman's expression and the core of "Youth Pain". "About Winter" has upgraded "Left Ear" in terms of conception and shooting skills, but the plot and hypocritical lines of the dog's blood are still flawed. A love story that spans nearly 30 years has a "feeling of young age".
upgraded "pain youth"
created the Chinese youth literature market "Youth Pain" series Rao Xueman, in "About Winter" talked about "pain youth", but with the shell of middle-aged looking back, added A "time filter". Before
talks about "About Winter", you might as well take a look at "Left Ear".
Back to 2006, Rao Xueman created "Left Ear". In 2014, the huge fan base "Left Ear" was brought to the screen. Zhang Yang, who plays
Ou Hao, thinks Xu Yi's father has taken away his mother, so he lets Li Ba La, who loves him, approach a good student Xu Yi and retaliate against Xu Yi. After Xu Yi was dragged into the abyss and Li Bara died in a car accident, Zhang Yang realized that everything was a misunderstanding and life was on the right track.
In terms of concept, what the film wants to show may be "dark youth" and the struggles in the growth of adolescents, but it has the feeling of "children playing house". Using "Bala's Death" as the strong plot of the film, trying to connect the changes and growth of the characters before and after, but because of the loose structure and fragmented narrative, it has become one of the masterpieces of "PPT movie".
In the past 5 years, Rao Xueman's new work "About Winter" was also adapted into a movie, with Ma Sichun, who once played Li Bara, as the heroine. The story of
started from the concert of Qi Qin Hurricane in 1991. Taipei photographer Qi Xiao, played by Huo Jianhua, passed the tickets to the stranger Enron because he didn't wait for his girlfriend. The two who knew each other by fate started a relationship.
More than twenty years in the past, An Ran and her daughter Yu Xiaonian returned to China due to a family member's illness. Xiao Nian got acquainted with Qi Yitian, the son of Qi Xiao who was traveling in Beijing, and discovered the past of An Ran and Qi Xiao through old photos.
If it is said that "Left Ear" dominates the trend of the plot is more of the youthful spirit and impulse, which is not easily understood by the audience, then the development of the story of "About Winter" is closer to reality, showing the reality and dilemma. Idealize the conflict of love. Qi Xiao left An Ran to take care of his seriously ill father and pay off the debt owed by his brother, but An Ran was willing to give up everything for him and settle in Taipei. The two concepts collided.
In terms of lens language, Qi Xiao and An Ran, who had solved the misunderstanding, sat face to face, with the curtain of "one period, one meeting" hanging in the box, which coincided with the theme of the film.
An Ran wanted to give up his Beijing career for Qi Xiao, but Qi Xiao dissuaded him. The two embraced after a quarrel, and the sign behind them was "Dream Lake", which symbolized An Ran's idealized love. At the beginning and end of the
film, An Ran got the tickets at the last second and rushed into the venue to watch the idol’s concert. At the end, An Ran’s backYing disappeared at one end of the corridor, but Qi Qin happened to appear at the corner she had just passed. The two passed by, reminiscent of An Ran's words, "Unless I meet Qi Qin on the street one day, I believe in love."
's thin love story
involves three generations of "About Winter", so that the love trajectories of An Ran and Qi Xiao, Xiao Nian and Qi Yitian overlap. Xiao Nian's enthusiasm and impulse are exactly the same as An Ran when he was young. Not accepting the separation, An Ran was willing to forsake Qi Xiao's career in Beijing, and Xiao Nian decisively set foot on the flight to Taipei. This method of allowing different time dimensions to converge at the same story node is a way to cover up the young age of the plot.
In the love that separates the two places, "About Winter" also tries to explore the geographical consciousness and social differences: Qi Xiao, who is a Taiwanese, likes Beijing, but his girlfriend Ye Yuchen is not used to the dryness and coldness of Beijing. However, the film's exploration of intergenerational conflicts and regional differences is only simple, and the impression left by people is not as deep as Rao Xueman's lines.
"The left ear is close to the heart, and sweet words should be spoken to the left ear."
"This kind of girl, once in love, how enthusiastic it should be. This enthusiasm should belong to me, but I always regretfully miss her."
In response to the impression brought by such golden lines, a comment on Douban, "Sometimes I really feel that actors do not like to read books are illiterate, and they are more reassuring than actors who love to read and recite Rao Xueman" and received 160 likes.
From "The Future Meeting", "Riding the Wind and Breaking the Waves" to "Speeding Life", even Han Han has given up the narrative lines. The bloody plot and hypocritical lines of "About Winter" constitute a fragile love story. Before Wen Qi said that he was going to Taipei to "investigate the case", the audience could already guess the whole story.
With the unfolding of the plot, there is basically no change in the character status and the vertical direction of the plot. I want to stretch vertically within the work, but I separate and combine for the same reason, resulting in a flat and long film as a whole.
When An Ran was a student of Beijing Normal University, she was sad because Ye Yuchen claimed to be Qi Xiao's wife. It is understandable that female college students who have not been involved in the world were deceived, but when An Ran grew into a first-line female host, facing Ye Yuchen, who took the initiative to appear on the show, she believed her provocations and lies without thinking.
Ye Yuchen and Qi Xiao are already hot actresses after their divorce, but in order to avenge Qi Xiao and make small moves to "make Qi Xiao painful", she acts as a vicious female partner; "spare" Yu Feng, even if he married An Ran, Being scheduled to die from cancer, to a certain extent creates opportunities for An Ran and Qi Xiao. The concept of love conveyed by the
film is also distorted. An Ran used "I've waited so many years, it's my turn, right?" to retain Qi Xiao who is going back to Taipei, and the protagonist Qi Xiao's "scumbag" image is difficult to completely whiten.
falls into the cliché story, and the values and love concepts it conveys do not meet the cognition and needs of modern audiences for emotions.
The next stop of the youth theme
The youth of "Left Ear" is not worthy of nostalgia; the love of "About Winter" cannot withstand deep thought.
In the heyday of youth themes, "To Our Dying Youth", "Left Ear" and "The Year in a Hurry" led the wave of youth film genres. Adaptations of best-selling novels, starring by young actors, strong plots, and sprinkling of blood, the movie box office can repeatedly record highs. While the adaptation of youth themes intensified, youth literature became lonely, and readers became audiences in movie theaters.
Nowadays, with the changes in the audience’s aesthetics, youth pain IP and scar literature are eliminated by more connotative youth themes. Routine templates and disconnected sections from the youth of most people can hardly make the younger generation feel substitutable. .
Judging from "About Winter", the "Youth Pain" series is also seeking to upgrade, with a higher pursuit of audiovisual and intention, combining with the normal life of life to match the growing audience.
Douban's 8.4 points "You are the Younger", the signal sent is: creators should not only pay attention to the capture of life texture, polish the dialogue, control the performance of the actors, etc., but also consider the audience's emotions towards the movie. Feedback, social expression of movies.
In the current pedigree of domestic big-screen works, works with normal values such as "Youth of a Young Man" and "Thirteen Dogs", and that are not greasy, tweaked, and unassuming when expressed, seem to be precious. .
"Over the Spring" tells the story of a single-parent family who goes to school in Hong Kong during the day and returns to Shenzhen at night to save money for travel and become a "water traveler". "Over the Spring" does not belong to most people's youth, but because of the performance of the details and the emotions of adolescence, the processing and ironing make people comfortable, and there is no lack of real life quality. It was obtained with zero traffic and new directors. Douban scored 7.7 and won the best film at Pingyao International Film Festival.
is no longer confined to love, nor willfully venting dissatisfaction with the world, so that the audience can resonate with the rich and rich core characters and rethink real issues. This is the next stop for youth themes.
Youth is a timeless theme. As long as you can accurately capture emotions and resonate, generations of young people will pay for it. In the era of the proliferation of online video and high-definition resources,
regrouped the audience in the dim movie theater:
faced the same screen, allowing the characters and stories in the film to stir emotions, bringing himself back to his youth, and Strangers share moments of laughter and crying, and reminisce about their years of life. The moment when the cast and the main creator list were scrolled on the screen, there was sparse applause from the audience, applauding for the 90-minute youthful memories they had achieved, and applauding for themselves in their youth.
No one will always be seventeen, but someone will always be seventeen. Some people are youthful and some people miss youth. We all look forward to seeing better youth movies in the future.
I hold up my song, hold up a string of notes that have been disappointed
walk into a spring dusk
a dusk, a wrinkle-free dusk
and in the dusk, no longer missed appointments
no longer missed appointments, forever Never miss an appointment again
