Chapter 531: The Wandering Earth vs. The Rescue, a Clash of East and West
"This is the best science fiction movie I've ever seen, and it's full of details. I plan to discuss it again after watching it again tomorrow."
"I just want to say at this moment that The Wandering Earth is really great. Anyone who doesn't watch this movie will regret it."
"I won't spoil the plot for now. I just want to say one thing: this is Chinese science fiction. Chinese people don't lie to Chinese people. The Wandering Earth is really good."
"Damn, the people who previewed the movie earlier really didn't lie to us. This is really awesome."
"I like The Wandering Earth, but unfortunately I watched the regular 3D version. I heard people say that the 3D IMAX version is better."
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When Bai Suzhen said that she could win, the discussion about "The Wandering Earth" on the Internet reached a new peak.
However, after all, the number of people is still small. But even if the number is small, it is actually not a small number that has been pushed to the hot search at this time.
It is rare for a movie to become a hot topic just by its preview.
But to be honest, if it only relied on the word-of-mouth from the preview, it would definitely not be able to become a hot topic.
After all, today’s hot searches are all about the promotion of the movie “The Rescue”.
Judging from the posters and the official trailer released by the film company, this is a science fiction blockbuster about a lone hero. This type of blockbuster is not unfamiliar to everyone, as it is often the case in Hollywood.
But the only difference this time is that there are Chinese people, and quite a few of them.
Everyone’s ideas are simple, so maybe this is also a story about everyone working together to save the future.
After all, in this movie, the heroine is a Chinese action star, and the hero is the well-known foreign action star Brill, who is also very popular in China. Several movies he starred in also achieved high box office in China.
In addition, the main actors are also quite well-known.
For Xiang Fei, it is impossible for him to spoil "The Wandering Earth" now. Even though "The Wandering Earth" has already had its second round of previews, he still has to wait until the official premiere before he can publish a new film review.
This is also an unspoken rule in the industry. After all, "The Wandering Earth" has not been screened on a large scale.
To be honest, the current previews are only in ten cities across the country, which is far from being a full-scale preview.
However, Xiang Fei is now his own man, and he learned from the publicity director of "The Wandering Earth" that the upcoming previews will not be expanded.
After all, word of mouth has already spread, and now it is a matter of quickly grabbing market share and preparing for the upcoming decisive battle, which is the day of the Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival period, the winner can sometimes be decided in one day.
The first day's screening schedule determines everything.
Why did other movies quickly adjust their strategies after The Wandering Earth started its preview? ? ?
The reason is simple. For cinemas, they wait for this schedule all year long. At this time, of course, whoever makes money will get the money.
When it comes to money, no one cares about face.
For this reason, after the first day of screenings during the Spring Festival, if other movies are not strong, they will quickly fall behind.
Think about the 2019 Lunar New Year box office. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, "Crazy Alien" won the first-day championship with a single-day box office of 413 million yuan. As for "Speeding Life", it won the screening championship with 20.93% of the screenings, and the box office on the first day reached 310 million yuan.
At that time, "The Wandering Earth" was ranked 4th.
Do you still remember who is the third one? ? ?
"The New King of Comedy".
With Stephen Chow's name as a star, the New King of Comedy had a very good screening schedule on the first day, reaching 19%, and it took in 273 million yuan at the box office on the first day. If you only look at the first day, then everyone might think it is quite strong.
As for "The Wandering Earth", the first day plus the previous previews brought in just 200 million.
If we only look at the first day, then "The Wandering Earth" is not very competitive.
But this is when the power of word of mouth comes into play.
The next day, "The Wandering Earth" counterattacked and ranked second in the single-day box office, even only 20 million away from "Crazy Wang Xingren". On the third day of the Chinese New Year, "The Wandering Earth" won the single-day box office championship and has never dropped from that level.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the screening ratio of "The Wandering Earth" was only 11.4, and then it reached 24.2 on the third day of the Lunar New Year. At the same time, the screening ratio increased step by step, and the box office increased.
On the contrary, "The New King of Comedy" was directly offline due to the collapse of word of mouth. After all, it took 273 million yuan in box office on the first day, but the final box office was only 627 million yuan. This also shows how severe the collapse of word of mouth is.
But it's okay, at least Stephen Chow can still rely on his signature to achieve some success, but as for Jackie Chan's other film, "Detective Pu Songling", there's no need to mention it, everyone is already used to it.
Come to think of it, the movie that really had Jackie Chan's appeal was "Chinese Zodiac". After all, at that time it was advertised as the last box office hit, and many people had feelings for it, and everyone wanted to support it no matter what.
Later, there was another "Police Story 2013", and then a series of movies including "The Forbidden Kingdom", "The Breakup", "Railroad Tigers", "Kung Fu Yoga", and "Beyond the Storm".
When the wolf comes, it’s no fun.
Then naturally the word of mouth will be gone, and the box office appeal will also be gone. Basically, if the movie is good, people will watch it, and if the movie is not good, people will not watch it.
Just like Stephen Chow, in the beginning everyone said they owed him a movie ticket, but later on, this "The New King of Comedy" almost completely destroyed his reputation.
The audience is rational and realistic.
You can deceive the audience once, and you can also sell feelings once.
But it is impossible to deceive the audience again and again.
Firstly, the audience is not stupid, and secondly, no one’s money comes from the wind.
For this reason, industry insiders think that the most interesting thing about this year's Lunar New Year movie season is that several of the more competitive and popular films in this Spring Festival movie season are basically directed by people born in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
This can be said to be the strongest Spring Festival period that is rarely seen.
For Xiang Fei, as a film critic and editor of "Film News", he will definitely be invited to attend the premieres of various movies, and at that time Xiang Fei will definitely write film reviews for every movie.
He is not like other film critics who either come to make a living, or have some travel expenses, or even some other peripheral things. He is a regular soldier. It is not to say that he is very neutral in writing film reviews. After all, the "science fiction special topic" he opened up is to take advantage of the popularity of "The Wandering Earth".
In addition, today, Xiang Fei was also invited to attend the premiere of the movie "Rescue".
Besides him, there are some other film critics.
Xiang Fei took a quick look and saw that people like Zhong Fei and Zhou Yi were there. It was obvious that these people were invited.
Not just them.
Unlike the preview of "The Wandering Earth", today is the premiere of "The Rescue", and many industry stars came to show their support.
It can be said that it is a star-studded gathering.
Xiang Fei was sitting in the last row, an inconspicuous place.
After all, today's protagonists are the main creators of "The Rescue" and the media friends on the scene.
Everyone wants to know what the movie "The Rescue" is like. At the same time, they also want to know how "The Rescue" compares to "The Wandering Earth"? ?
The process of the premiere is basically the same. The host first gives a brief introduction and then starts watching the movie directly.
This movie is also in 3D and IMAX version.
Let me put it this way.
In this year's Lunar New Year movie season, only these two movies are IMAX versions, the others are either 2D or ordinary 3D versions.
In fact, last year, some people said that some of the so-called movies nowadays are fake 3D, or even fake IMAX, just to make more money from ticket sales.
In this regard, this year's Spring Festival period is completely different from previous ones.
Among the three cartoons, "Old Li's New Year" and "Big Tiger and Snake" are 2D versions, while "Cat's Fantasy Time Travel" is 3D.
In addition, "The Fairy Husband" is also in 3D.
Among other movies, Chen Feng's "The World's Number One" is also a regular 3D version.
That is to say, in this year's Lunar New Year period, there are two IMAX versions. Of course, these two films are not only IMAX versions, but also 3D and 2D versions, which are released at the same time.
Apart from these, the remaining 3 are regular 3D versions, and the others are 2D versions.
Xiang Fei will be very busy next. After all, except for Chen Feng's "The World's Number One" which is still in a relatively quiet state, other movie premieres have already been scheduled.
The timing of a premiere is important, but so is the scheduling.
After all, you can't just premiere today if others are premiering today too.
There is no point in such a competition, it will only hurt both sides and give other competitors an advantage.
For this reason, the publicity and promotion department must have made preparations when arranging the premiere or the preview.
Speaking of this, today is the premiere of "The Rescue" and also the preview of "The Wandering Earth".
There is no conflict here, after all, this is already the second round of previews for "The Wandering Earth".
"here we go."
Xiang Fei collected his thoughts and looked towards the big screen.
Xiang Fei had already seen the trailer before, and a small number of industry insiders who watched the film also gave the film extremely high praise. Under such circumstances, Xiang Fei naturally had even greater expectations for "The Rescue".
The movie officially begins.
"Xiao Min, you have to live. Only by living can there be hope. Daddy can't accompany you anymore. You have to walk the rest of the way alone."
"Believe in yourself and never give up."
"Dad will be watching you in another world."
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The movie begins with a man covered in blood speaking to a little girl with difficulty next to a crashed and abandoned car.
Then the scene changed and a woman woke up in a sweat.
This is a very normal beginning.
I was awakened by a nightmare.
This woman is the heroine Jiang Qinglan, played by Yang Meng. She is a scientist. Twenty years ago, her father died in an accident when he took her to find water.
Because of human beings' uncontrolled exploitation, energy emissions, various environmental pollution, and climate change, nature finally began to take revenge on humans.
The time in the movie is 2080. There is no government leadership here. The survival of mankind is determined by scientists, and the army obeys the scientists' arrangements.
Then the scientists prepared to migrate.
To immigrate to an alien planet, what is needed is of course astronauts, and the best astronaut is Khamis played by Brill.
kindness.
I have to say that the special effects of the movie are excellent, and the betrayal that Jiang Qinglan and Hamis suffered while searching for alien planets, as well as the several times they and the rescue team were in danger, are all thrilling to watch.
Among them, some chose to withdraw, some chose to betray, and some thought that Yuanxing should just be destroyed.
Even Jiang Qinglan was so in love that she wanted to give up.
Only the male protagonist Hamish was determined. In the end, he overcame all difficulties, led the rescue team to find a suitable planet, and successfully immigrated.
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At the end of the film, when Khamis said, "We have found a way to save us," the cheers and applause from people all over the world moved everyone.
Xiang Fei wrote down everything that needed to be written in the little notebook.
He believes that this movie is a pure Western heroic movie, and even the goal of saving humanity falls on Khamis alone, and the others are either supporting roles or stupid teammates.
And even though there are some Chinese people in this movie, it seems that they are just there to make cameo appearances, and the same is true for the other Chinese leading actors.
The movie was okay, but Xiang Fei always felt like something was missing.
As for what is almost there???
He planned to think about it carefully after he returned.
At this time, the lights in the cinema had been turned back on, and some people in the audience had stood up and started applauding spontaneously.
Then comes the interaction between the actors.
For example, some science fiction terms in the movie "The Rescue", even the reversal of time, reversal of space, etc.
Similarly, this is why many people feel that this is completely different from "The Wandering Earth".
In an interview, Bai Susu said: "I hope this movie can give everyone confidence that we Chinese can also make good science fiction."
As for other interviews like those with directors and actors, they are all similar.
At this time, Xiang Fei finally realized what was missing.
What's lacking is the idea.
Think about it, "The Wandering Earth" embodies the unique Chinese thought and the love for our homeland. Therefore, even if we wander, we must take the earth with us.
But what about this "The Rescue"? ?
If you say give up Yuanxing, then give up Yuanxing.
A standard Hollywood movie.
As soon as the premiere ended, Xiang Fei quickly returned to the unit. He had already thought of the script for this episode.
“The Wandering Earth vs. The Rescue: A Collision between the East and the West.”
Because these two science fiction movies are so typical.
Xiang Fei doesn't think "The Rescue" is bad.
But as a Chinese, he prefers to watch "The Wandering Earth".
Of course, most film critics don't see it that way.
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(End of this chapter)
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