Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

No, I can't say that the Japanese people, it should be said that people in the entire East Asian cultural circle will like this "Love in the Rain".

The movie "Love in the Rain" originally came from an animated film "The Garden of Words and Leaves" by Cao Zhiqiang in his previous life. It also combined some Chinese elements and added a few popular songs. It was shot with real people, and Cao Zhiqiang The audio-visual production type dream space has done some post-production.

The effect presented in this way is that the picture is like a dream, and the sound is like an illusion, like a live-action movie and a CG movie.

To put it simply, in this era, this movie can give people a shocking experience in terms of picture and sound effects, coupled with an excellent storyline and rich character settings, it is definitely a good commercial movie .

That's right, Cao Zhiqiang positioned this film as a commercial film, not a so-called literary film.

However, in view of the teacher-student relationship in the storyline, and the special relationship between an older female teacher and an underage male student, in this era, it can also be regarded as an art movie.

Because in 1983, whether it was China or Japan, the social atmosphere was relatively conservative, and the relationship between teachers and students was relatively taboo, so this can indeed be regarded as a literary film.

Needless to say in China, the relationship between teachers and students in high school is not only to be poked in the back, but also a serious violation of discipline.

Even in Japan, teacher-student romance is prohibited in high school at this time, because students are underage, and compared with teachers, they are out of a disadvantaged side, so teacher-student romance in high school has always disgusted Japanese parents in this era.

But the 80s was the most rebellious era for Japanese teenagers. They like to subvert all traditions and rebel against all traditional thinking.

Therefore, the storyline in "Love in the Rain" is actually the most suitable for Japanese young people, especially teenagers.

It stands to reason that this kind of storyline, even in Japan during this period, should be banned, at least it cannot be viewed by the whole age group of G level, it should be the kind that minors cannot watch.

But the storyline of this movie is a coincidence. In addition to describing the teacher-student relationship, and describing the teacher-student relationship beautifully, it also wrote another theme, which is tolerance and restraint.

Throughout the movie, although anyone can see that the hero and heroine love each other and heal each other, but the two of them never took the taboo step from the beginning to the end. Everything is just in the heart and ends in etiquette.

That is to say, although the male and female protagonists like each other and know that the other party likes themselves, they did not break through the constraints of tradition and etiquette, but instead tried their best to restrain themselves.

Needless to say, the heroine's restraint, the male protagonist has also been restraining himself, until the final outbreak, the two just hugged each other tightly.

A touch like a hug is naturally not enough trouble.

Even if you can say that in private, the two must have sex, but that's just what you think, at least it didn't show it in the movie, and the hero and heroine didn't even kiss in the movie.

Of course, you can also say that the mutual restraint of the male and female protagonists has its own reasons.

For example, the heroine's restraint was because she had already attracted criticism because of a certain student's affairs at the time, and she didn't want to cause trouble for the hero.

The male protagonist's restraint is that he still has younger siblings to raise, he cannot make mistakes, he dare not make mistakes, after all, he is not alone.

And the domestic environment does not allow this kind of teacher-student relationship in high school. In fact, there is nothing wrong with it. After all, most of the students are underage and immature in all aspects. If you let go of the teacher-student relationship, you will be in big trouble. up.

Therefore, the restraint and forbearance of the male and female protagonists are not only like holding back a big move, holding back the final climax, but also avoiding the fate of a difficult trial to a certain extent, and pointing out another way, or in other words, telling people cryptically. Others have another truth.

That is true love, which must stand the test of time, not just pursue short-term happiness and momentary happiness.

In the final ending, the heroine leaves and the hero reads the letter, which actually indicates this truth.

In other words, for true love, age is not a gap, distance is not a problem, and even education and work are not a barrier.

As long as each other cares about each other, then one day lovers will finally get married.

For example, the male protagonist, he was underage when he fell in love with the female teacher, it doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't make mistakes when he was underage, and then when he grows up, surpasses it, and can work, he can naturally pursue it again That female teacher.

The same goes for the female teacher. Although she left temporarily, she also left the controversy and turmoil. She can go to a place where she doesn't know her and start again, waiting silently.

When all the dust settles and everyone stops talking about her, and the male lead has grown up, she can naturally find the male lead again.

Leaving is never the end, just the beginning of a journey.

Don't act recklessly when encountering resistance, and take a smart step back, which may be a better way to deal with it.

Well, at least this statement of taking a step back and waiting for the opportunity is very in line with the taste of the Japanese, and it is also very educational.

Many film critics have seen this and made a lot of comments about it.

Of course, film reviews at this time can only be published in magazines and newspapers, and it is impossible to post them on the Internet in real time, but this method is actually more meaningful and has a longer retention time.

As a result, due to the high quality of the film itself, the follow-up of many film critics, and the tap water of some young audiences, this "literary film" from China, despite the fact that the film schedule is not very good, is full of audiences. .

After the release of this "Chinese literary film" became very popular, the film crew decisively increased the number of screenings, and even many midnight screenings began to show this film.

In addition, it happened that the first three days were cultural festivals, and many people were on vacation, which finally made the movie explode.

Many people actually watched it more than once, but three or four times, and cried once every time they watched it, which can be called a tear gas bomb.

So that when I went to see a movie later, the theater staff would give out a pack of tissues first, which was both considerate and a psychological hint.

Because the movie theater distributes tissues, which is to imply that this movie will make you cry. You have this psychological expectation in advance, and when you see touching places, you will not be able to help crying when everyone else starts crying.

Due to the popularity of the movie, other theaters couldn't bear it anymore after the movie was released for only six days. They approached Dongbao Film Company and Warner Company to negotiate with each other, asking to introduce this movie and show it in their own theaters.

Here I would like to say that the Japanese cinema chains in the 80s were actually in the hands of several major film companies, and different theater lines had different sites,

That is to say, unlike China where all the movie theaters have to listen to the command of a game of chess across the country, Japanese movie theaters are affiliated to different movie companies. show in one place.

Unless your movie has been negotiated with major theaters in Japan in advance, it may be released nationwide, but these movies are often blockbusters, such as Japanese blockbusters or American Hollywood blockbusters.

Like some local low-budget films, or Chinese literary films, there is generally no such treatment.

However, if a movie has a particularly good response during its release in a certain theater, other theaters can follow up in time and negotiate with the theater and the film producer to discuss the introduction of the film.

In this way, although a lot of money will be allocated to the new theaters, but in turn, this is equivalent to expanding the scope of screenings and expanding the scope of sales.

Especially in Japan, the protection of intellectual property rights is in place. Whether it is movies or video tapes, it is basically difficult to find pirated copies. Therefore, expanding the number of theaters and sales scope is the most profitable for the producers.

Therefore, since other theaters also want to share a piece of the pie, Cao Zhiqiang will naturally not refuse. This is a win-win thing.

As a result, after other theaters began showing the movie, the shows were still full, and the popularity of the movie did not decrease due to the increase in movie theater releases.

Many people analyzed that the reason for this is that many people watched it continuously.

Because the biggest selling point of the movie "Love in the Rain" is not the storyline, or even the characters, but the beautiful pictures and wonderful music.

For [-] yen for adults and [-] yen for students, you can go in and enjoy the ultimate audio-visual experience, just like watching a landscape documentary or concert, which is very cost-effective.

Needless to say, this statement is still very marketable, and it also inadvertently hit the point.

Because this movie directed by Cao Zhiqiang was originally learned from the later Lao Mouzi, that is, the picture is good-looking and the music is good-sounding.

In terms of pictures, although many of the scenic spots are taken from Jinling, there are also some places taken from Jiangnan Water Town.

Of course, it's just a purely real scene. In this era, there must be something close to it, but if you add some post-production special effects to make the picture more refined, it will be different.

This is like the various young ladies dancing videos on the video platform later.

Regardless of whether it is the later Douyin or Kuaishou, there are young ladies and anchors in it, one counts as one, and which one is not fair, beautiful and long-legged.

Especially long legs, basically all the anchor girls have long legs.

But the fact is that those are the effects of beautification, such as elongated legs, slimming, whitening and so on.

The scenes in "Love in the Guting", or "Love in the Rain" are also in a similar situation, and they are all beautified by special effects.

So the result is that the sky is bluer, the clouds are whiter, the water is clearer, the grass is greener, and even the rainwater is sparkling and crystal clear, which makes people feel comfortable.

Even if it is cloudy, the dark clouds in the sky have been softened, giving people a dreamlike feeling.

There are also characters, all of which have been beautified.

For example, the male and female protagonists have slightly elongated their legs and whitened their skin, which makes the male and female protagonists in it extremely beautiful.

Especially when the heroine is crying, the face full of tears has been softened, making it look particularly beautiful, making people feel empathetic and wanting to hug each other and take good care of her.

To put it bluntly, the screens of the entire movie look normal, and seem to be a good screen selected after many choices, but in fact they are all technological and hard work, and they are all technological screens processed by Meitu.

It's just that this kind of picture processed by Meitu is more natural, and it is on the medium of film, and the ordinary projector of this era is used, so there is basically no problem with the picture that comes out.

Because according to the technical level of this era, if we keep improving, choose the best lighting and the best scene, shoot dozens of times or hundreds of times with one lens, and choose the best picture, we can also achieve this level.

As for the appearance of the characters, it can be done after careful makeup.

Even slight changes in height and figure can be resolved by changing the shooting angle.

In other words, no one saw that this movie added too many special effects. Everyone thought that this was a real picture and real characters. It was nothing more than a different shooting technique and shooting angle, and a beautiful love scene was shot. story.

Compared with the special effects on the screen, there are actually many special effects in the sound.

The sound here is not only a variety of pleasant background music, but also various natural sound effects such as rain, wind, thunder, frogs, and cicadas.

During the actual shooting, there were not many natural sound effects, and most of the sounds were sound effects added by Cao Zhiqiang in the later stage.

Added a variety of natural-simulating sound effects, combined with the interlude and theme song played and processed by Cao Zhiqiang himself, the effect is naturally different.

Of course, there will be no problems with these special sound effects, because they can be credited to the radio.

If you spend a lot of effort on various radios, and then carefully insert them into the movie, you can achieve the sound effects in the movie, which is much easier to hide than the picture.

In this way, the film's total box office revenue exceeded 15 billion yen in just 30 days after its release, which is more than one day in two weeks.

This achievement is unsurpassed in terms of western paintings, that is, foreign films released in Japan during the same period.

Even compared with Japanese local films, this box office performance is firmly in the top ten box office performances of the year.

In Japan, the movie box office is divided into the total box office and the allocation box office.

The total box office is the statistical data after the movie theater sells tickets, that is, the total sales.

The distribution box office, also known as the distribution box office, refers to the money that publishers and producers can get.

The rationed box office is generally half of the total box office, so if the total box office exceeds 30 billion yen, the rationed box office is as high as 15 billion yen.

As for the ration income, not to mention other distributions, the producer, that is, Hongguang Film Factory, can get 15.00% of the ration income no matter how it is divided.

In other words, as of the 15th day of the film's release, Cao Zhiqiang's privately contracted Hongguang Film Studio can get 2.25 million yen for this film alone, which is more than 187 million in RMB.

Don’t underestimate the 187 million. This income is already very good, because if you play it in China, you can get 90 RMB at the top. The current income is more than double, and it is still foreign exchange, and it has not yet come to an end. Properly win glory for the country.

It can be said that even if this movie is released now, Cao Zhiqiang personally has made a lot of money, fame and fortune.

More importantly, the box office results are so good, but the enthusiasm for watching movies remains unchanged, and the shows are still almost sold out.

According to this momentum, if this film can be released normally for 30 days a month without accidents, it is estimated that the final total box office should exceed 50 billion yen. If this is the case, it will definitely be the top box office of Japanese movies this year. List No.1!
Therefore, in terms of this achievement alone, it is not an exaggeration to say that the box office is fierce. (end of this chapter)