The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 371 Another Year of Spring Festival
The news that "Gravity" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Chen Jingxing won the Best Director caused waves on social platforms almost instantly.

The broadcast time of the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony happens to be in the morning of Huaguo's working day, so both the media and netizens have enough time to keep up with the heat, participate in topic discussions, and even add fuel to the flames.

It should be said that among the several awards received, the one that caused the biggest sensation was actually Chen Jingxing's Best Director Award.

After all, "Gravity" is different from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" 17 years ago, and the best foreign language film is more of a icing on the cake.

As a sci-fi masterpiece with a global box office of more than 10 billion US dollars, it has created the box office record of foreign films in North America, the box office record holder of Huaguo movies, the first space sci-fi movie in Huaguo, and so many other movies. Golden Globe Award The best foreign language film does not add much to "Gravity".

Before the award ceremony, the media and netizens would be amazed at the fact that "Gravity" was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, but after the award was actually won, the reaction of public opinion was not so shocking.

Domestic netizens and media are mainly concerned about Chen Jingxing's best director.

This is the second influential international award that Chen Jingxing has won, the first being the Gold Award at the Orlando Fantastic Film Festival.

But obviously, in terms of authority and recognition, Orlando cannot compare with the Golden Globes.

And whether you agree with the authority of the Golden Globes or not, it is broadcast in more than 70 countries around the world, and its influence covering billions of viewers cannot be erased.

Huaguo is just a live broadcast on the Internet, which is considered low-key. Japan, South Korea, Siam and other countries are all broadcast on TV stations.

In the eyes of many people, the best director awarded by the Golden Globes is not only a compliment to Chen Jingxing in "Gravity", but also includes "Matrix", "Source Code", "Fatal Identity" and many other sci-fi films. affim.

It is an affirmation of Chen Jingxing's identity as a sci-fi film director, and an affirmation of all the sci-fi films he has made.

For a long time, sci-fi films have been an outsider in film awards. Not only comic films have been neglected by film awards for a long time, but even hard sci-fi works like Chen Jingxing are difficult to win awards.

It is the official award of Huaguo. Due to the consideration of cultural output, main theme and other aspects, it is relatively "open" to the subject matter of the film, and it can be regarded as without any discrimination.

However, in public opinion, senior film fans, professional film critics and industry critics have criticized Chen Jingxing's frequent awards in Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers for his works in the past two years.

This has little to do with their love of DreamWorks sci-fi.

Likes are likes, praises are praises, but these are all within the evaluation system of commercial movies.

It does not mean that a good-looking commercial film should be recognized by awards, and it is affirmed by authoritative awards.

The cultural circles in Huaguo, including the film and television industry, are deeply influenced by the European New Wave Movement. Even though the government has vigorously promoted the development of commercial films in the past ten years, the deep-rooted film art evaluation standards have not changed.

The difference is that when Feng Xiaogang took the lead with Feng's comedy, the film and cultural circles, from the authorities to the mainstream of the critics, criticized his movies as kitsch, vulgar, insulting the reputation of Huaguo directors, and destroying Huaguo's film art tradition .

At that time, the debate between film art and commerce was quite heated in the literary and art circles, and there were a lot of articles in newspapers and magazines criticizing Feng Xiaogang's kitsch.

Absolutely no one at that time, including Feng Xiaogang himself, would never have expected that there would be a day when Feng Xiaogang bombarded the audience with low aesthetics more than ten years later.

God knows, Feng Xiaogang started his career by relying on "kitsch".

After more than ten years of development of Huaguo's film market industry, the debate between art and commerce in the cultural circles has not yet determined a winner, but in fact commercial films have won a complete victory.

No one will criticize a commercial film as kitsch after a commercial film has achieved great success.

But the top-level artistic evaluation system has not been shaken, even senior movie fans who gave Chen Jingxing's movie a five-star full score on Douban still stick to this system.

In recent years, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards have frequently awarded grand prizes to Chen Jingxing, but in the eyes of many people, it is actually a bit ugly.

Just like in Chen Jingxing's previous life, high-scoring commercial films such as "Operation Red Sea" and "The Wandering Earth" won the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director and Best Film. Many people gave these two films four stars and five stars. It is difficult to accept the awards for these two films.

Voices such as "Golden Rooster Awards have no integrity" and "Huaguo film art is over" are endless.

Even Chen Jingxing's movie fans are not without guilt, even fans who love sci-fi movies also have the idea that sci-fi movies and film art really do not match.

What are the top three award-winning films in Europe?Can you imagine a film like Source Code winning Cannes and Venice awards?
Just like it's hard to imagine a superhero film winning the best picture Oscar.

Movies with high artistic achievements must at least reflect society and human nature, and must be realistic and critical, right?You are flying around, where is the realism?
It is not reality at all, how to criticize reality and reflect reality?
Even the great sci-fi film "Star Wars" has anything to do with reality?

And this kind of thinking has changed after "Gravity". Movies are an audio-visual language, and "Gravity" has almost achieved the ultimate in audio and video.

Do you think this kind of movie is artistic?
After "Matrix" was released, there were more such discussions, and even many movie fans began to "reverse the verdict" on the genre of science fiction movies.

"Matrix" buries very exploratory philosophical issues under the superficially stimulating audio-visual language and action scenes.

Not even one or two.

Such sci-fi movies cannot directly reflect reality and thus criticize reality, but they can discuss the philosophical monuments erected on the peak of the human mind for thousands of years.

It even expresses criticism of reality from a philosophical level without reflecting reality.

Isn't such a movie artistic?
Directly explore grand philosophical propositions in the form of utopia or dystopia, and then warn or criticize the real human society.

This is a form that the mainstream literary and art circles in Huaguo have rarely seen before, and it has also caused quite a shock to many people.

But now, the argument of Chen Jingxing's fans and supporters of science fiction movies has gained strong support from reality from the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

Therefore, questions such as "Can Chen Jingxing be ranked among the top ten directors in the world?" appeared again.

Chen Jingxing has already won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. If the domestic film awards are awarded to him, there will be no problem. Sci-fi movies can also discuss serious propositions, not just fantasy floating in the air, but also a criticism of human society and reality. Sex will not be weaker than those artistic masterpieces admired by young literary and artistic youths.

However, Chen Jingxing himself seemed to be very low-key, he did not post some "winning speeches" on Weibo after winning the award, he also refused many interviews from the media, and returned to China quietly.

After all, the Spring Festival file, which many film companies must contend for, is approaching.

Although "The Return of the Great Sage" has created a good reputation, the theme of its animated film still set a ceiling for it. Naturally, DreamWorks cannot relax its release.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that on-screen screenings didn’t work. DreamWorks didn’t invest too much in marketing for this year’s Spring Festival.

In addition to "The Return of the Great Sage", "Tang Detective II" directed by Chen Sicheng also has investment from DreamWorks. Since there is investment, there is no way to be a shopkeeper.

Even though DreamWorks was not responsible for the distribution of "Tang Detective II", with the joint efforts of the theater chain and Chengya Films, Chen Jingxing still agreed to be the platform for "Tang Detective II".

Although "Detective Tang II" has the word-of-mouth accumulation of the first film, and has explored the genre of detective comedy, coupled with the blessings produced by DreamWorks, it has a lot of momentum in the Spring Festival.

But the competitors are not weak either. Cheng Long's kung fu comedy "Kung Fu Yoga" and "Journey to the West" directed by Mr. Xu are very strong competitors.

"Journey to the West: Demons" bears the name of Master Xing, and it is advertised as the sequel to "Journey to the West: Demons" in 12. It is directed by Mr. Xu, and the popular first-line superstar Luo Chen joins the starring role. It can be said that it is a strong combination.

Even though last year's "Mermaid" consumed Star Master's reputation and accumulated word-of-mouth, the theme of Journey to the West made up for this consumption on the other hand.

And "Kung Fu Yoga" is Cheng Long's biggest investment movie in recent years. It claims to reshape Long's kung fu comedy, and there are many stars joining. Ready to support Big Brother again.

With such a lineup, even "Tang Detective II" can't guarantee that it can get the first place in the film, and the media even exclaimed that this year's Spring Festival stalls are more crowded than last year's.

"The strongest Spring Festival file in history" was unsurprisingly called out again by the media.

It's no wonder that the animated film "The Return of the Great Sage" suddenly became popular after it was screened, which made the film crews of several major films a little nervous. The meat is really not enough.

(End of this chapter)