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wrote this article with a slightly complicated mood.
The movie "Chinese Ping Pong: Jedi Strikes Back" directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei has a lot of fate. It has been fixed several times and rescheduled several times. It entered the Spring Festival this year, and then suddenly withdrawn. It finally officially released on February 17. .
This time, Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, who were always questioned before, finally proved their directing ability. "Chinese Ping Pong" has a surprisingly good reputation, scoring 7 points on Douban.
But the good reputation did not make this movie "fly".
Now, what can affect the fate of a theatrical film?
Word-of-mouth from the audience, and movie theater schedules.
In the Internet age, the ratings of the platform can be watery, but no one can control the true word-of-mouth of the audience.
However, arranging films can be artificial.
Originally, "Chinese Ping Pong" was scheduled for this year's Spring Festival. It was first scheduled for the first day of the Lunar New Year, and then changed to the third day of the Lunar New Year. Because there were almost no film schedules after the release, it was finally withdrawn quickly.
At that time, the film crew attributed the reason to a major mistake made by the publicity team.
Now, the film has made a comeback after the Spring Festival, and many viewers are still sweating for this film, because, this time, the film schedule of "Chinese Ping Pong" is still too miserable.
On February 18th, the second day after the film was officially released, the film schedule of "Chinese Ping Pong" was only 3.9%. The Marvel blockbuster "Ant-Man 3", which was released at the same time, and the four Spring Festival movies that continued to be released, "The Wandering Earth 2" ", "Man Jianghong", "Bear Infested" and "Deep Sea" were crushed.
"Ant-Man 3", which ranked first in the film schedule that day, scored 6.2 points, not as good as "Chinese Ping Pong", but still won 30.2% of the film due to the strong commercial attributes of Marvel Super British movies.
On February 18th, "Ant-Man 3" grossed over 50 million yuan in Mainland China, while "Chinese Ping Pong", which had a dismal schedule, only had a box office of just over 6 million yuan. After two days of release, "Chinese Ping Pong" plus the previous accumulated box office, the current box office is only over 70 million.
Even the audience couldn't stand it anymore. Some audiences who liked this movie spoke out for the movie after the second viewing, feeling that "Chinese Ping Pong" was too miserable.
Many viewers "distressed Deng Chao" and voiced their voices on the Internet, "screaming" for Deng Chao and his "Chinese Ping Pong". Some pessimistically predicted that the film schedule of "Chinese Ping Pong" is not optimistic, "If it is not done well, it will not exceed 100 million, and it will be over."
"If the final box office is about 100 million, the producer can recover the cost of 30 to 40 million at most. This cost is not even enough for publicity and distribution costs. The filming is equal to full compensation." On the same day, Deng Chao's wife, Sun Li, who also starred in the film, also posted with mixed feelings—
"2.17 China Ping Pong Released
Picture 1 is a gift I made for Deng Chao. I named him
A Ping Pong Lover Stupid Sheep
Picture 2 is a photo I took at the place I went this morning, and I will use these eight characters to give to Deng Chao!"
Sun Li felt wronged for Deng Chao and lamented his "stupid sheep" (Deng Chao is a sheep), while encouraging Deng Chao , send eight big characters: the brave are fearless, the wise are invincible.
wrote here, not to say how amazing the movie "Chinese Ping Pong" is, but seeing how it has been withdrawn several times and encountered such a dismal schedule, I really feel wronged for it: This movie should not be treated like this .
In fact, the several postponements of "Chinese Ping Pong" have already shown that it is not easy for this movie to come out.
As we all know, sports-themed movies are not easy to shoot, especially adapted from real stories, the prototype characters are extremelyWell-known sports personalities. The choice of actors, and the reproduction of sports and games in filming, all have to accept the critical eyes of sports fans and movie audiences. In addition to the constraints of the subject matter and various factors, there will not be much room for movies and actors to play.
Especially for sports-themed movies based on true stories, the censorship is stricter than movies with general themes.
"Chinese Ping Pong" is no exception. From the many changes in the names of the characters in the film, we can see that it was not easy for this film to come out.
This movie, named after "National Ball" and emphasizing "adapted from real stories", "Chinese Ping Pong" has attracted attention since the filming started. Difficulties, the story of finally returning to the top. The prototype characters of the
movie include Cai Zhenhua, the head coach of men's table tennis at the time, and the five men's table tennis champions who regained the men's team championship in the 1995 Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships "Jedi Counterattack"-Ma Wenge, Wang Tao, Ding Song, Liu Guoliang, and Kong Linghui.
The film is directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, with Deng Chao, Sun Li, Xu Weizhou, Duan Bowen, Cai Yida, Ding Guansen, Sun Xilun, Aruna and others as the leading actors.
Among them, the prototype of the character played by Deng Chao is Director Cai, and the actors of the "Five Tigers" are Xu Weizhou (playing the prototype Ma Wenge), Duan Bowen (playing the prototype Wang Tao), Cai Yida (playing the prototype Ding Song), Ding Guansen (playing the prototype Liu Guoliang) , Sun Xilun (playing the prototype Kong Linghui).
It is worth mentioning that Cai Yida, one of the leading actors, is also Cai Zhenhua's own son (the one in white in the picture below).
Deng Chao plays the head coach of men's table tennis. The prototype character is Cai Zhenhua, but the name of the character in the film has been changed many times. The name of the character in the previously released trailer was called Cai Xinhua. When it was screened before, it was found that it was finally changed to Dai Minjia.
For Deng Chao, playing Director Cai in the film is a huge challenge.
After all, in terms of appearance alone, the two are not alike.
But after watching the film, I found that Deng Chao made up for many of the differences in appearance with the original character with his similarity in temperament, state on the field, and extra points in performance.
Big back head, gold watch, gold necklace, handsome windbreaker, on the street in a foreign land, a figure of a man appeared in the camera, walking chicly. As soon as
opened, Director Dai, played by Deng Chao, locked the audience's eyes firmly with his back, and then he was suddenly robbed and went directly to the Italian police station, which led to his state of being a foreigner coach overseas...
The five prototypes of Ma Wenge, Wang Tao, Ding Song, Liu Guoliang, and Kong Linghui have also changed their names many times. When the "Five Tigers" character posters were released before, the characters in the film were Ma Wenhe, Huang Tao, Ding Feng, Liu Guoliang, and Kong Shuai. When
was screened later, the names of the "Five Tigers" were changed to Bai Minhe, Huang Zhao, Gong Feng, Hou Zhuoxiang, and Dong Shuai.
These changes can already see the traces of the movie being repeatedly modified.
Although the name has been changed, the story and prototype characters remain the same, including Cai Zhenhua, Ma Wenge, Wang Tao, and Ding Song. Several prototype characters have appeared in the "Chinese Ping Pong" special before.
Among them, Ma Wenge was also the technical director of table tennis in the movie "Chinese Ping Pong", which greatly restored the tense and high-burning game scenes back then.
What is more difficult and valuable is that this time the movie "Chinese Ping Pong" is not only about hard work, but also presentsPeople and stories other than to win: chooses and is chosen, trusts and distrusts, is questioned, hidden, and ridiculed after failure.
Actually, before the Spring Festival, "Chinese Ping Pong" has been screened in advance in many cities across the country.
A netizen who watched the show in advance left a message, which can represent the attention of many middle-aged and elderly audiences on this subject and the old Guoping—
"I watched "Chinese Ping Pong" with my dad. He was very excited. On the way back Eloquent, the names of a series of Chinese and foreign players are the same as memorizing tongue twisters... This movie is not only the legendary experience of the athletes, but also his youthful years."
But now, it is finally officially released, and the film schedule is so bleak that the ill-fated "Chinese Ping Pong" once again encountered the "life and death" problem.
This is not what Sun Li said, Deng Chao is "stupid", this is actually the tragedy of Chinese movies.
Now, look at one of the directors, Yu Baimei, who wrote a passage on the day "Chinese Ping Pong" was released, which seems to reflect his state of mind—
"At the very beginning of creating "Chinese Ping Pong", I had such a Definition: This is not a movie about how people go to success, but a movie about how people face failure. "
Look at the various inspirational slogans on the posters of "China Ping Pong" now, "You can't die Xiaoqiang", "The ball never hits the ground, never give up", I still hope that this movie will be stable and can usher in the dawn of filming.
Deng Chao is not the only one who encountered such a bleak film schedule. Before that, Zhang Yimou's movie "Sniper" and Andy Lau's movie "The Crowd" have encountered it. Relying on good reputation, the counterattack was achieved.
hopes that Deng Chao, Yu Baimei and their "Chinese Ping Pong" can hold on, just like the name of the movie: Jedi Strikes Back.
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