The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 419 "Kung Fu Panda" Incarnation of the Gold Swallowing Beast
In all fairness, the quality of "Operation Red Sea" is quite high, but people are always used to benchmarking a movie.

Exceeding movie-watching expectations is a surprise, but meeting movie-watching expectations is not enough.

For many movie fans, the benchmark they look forward to watching "Operation Red Sea" is not "Monster Hunt II", but "Spike II" last summer.

Because of Chen Jingxing's full support for Wu Jing and his comments on the revision of the script, the scenes and plot of "Spike II" have been greatly improved.

"Spike II" with the Spike Special Forces as the protagonist is not inferior to "Operation Red Sea" in terms of fullness of the plot. Even because it was released first, the surprise that "Spike II" gave the audience is difficult to replicate.

This makes "OPERATION RED SEA" not enough surprises in the hearts of movie fans, even ordinary audiences who have watched "Spike II".

The same is true for "Kung Fu Panda", which naturally surpasses "The Return of the Great Sage" only in terms of technology, but there is a gap with "The Return of the Great Sage" in terms of drama and strong emotional impact.

In particular, the ambition and behavioral logic of the great villain Chaos Demon King in DreamWorks' version of "The Great Sage" gave this animation a very deep idea.

The Chaos Demon King doesn't just want to defeat the Great Sage physically, that's not enough. His opponent is the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, whose prestige has been passed down for hundreds of years among thousands of monsters, and whose reputation has been passed down from generation to generation by billions of people.

The Monkey King is a kind of spirit, and the story of Monkey King is the carrier. This kind of spirit and pride is deeply rooted in the hearts of all monsters and human beings through the eulogy of stories from generation to generation.

As long as the "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" does not fall, it is impossible for all the demons in the world to submit to him, and he cannot be allowed to establish a demon kingdom in Dongsheng Shenzhou.

It is impossible for the people of Dongsheng Shenzhou to fall into obscurity forever and become the food of his demon country.

This is a mental confrontation.

The monkey's darkest moment symbolizes that this spirit seems to be trampled by the Chaos Demon King, so Jiang Liu'er's charge as a human being is so precious.

The monkey broke free from the Tathagata seal to stage the return of the great sage, which is also a spiritual resistance, symbolizing the return of the unwillingness, pride and resistance of all beings who were suppressed by the heaven 500 years ago.

The movie name of "The Return of the Great Sage" is highly unified with its content and conception, and it has a strong emotional appeal.

This is also the reason why Chinese audiences can be deeply moved by it. The image and legend created by the Monkey King in the hearts of Chinese people can also make it easy for Chinese audiences to understand this story and the symbolic meaning behind it, even if it is possible to say I don't know, but I can definitely empathize and feel it.

This is also the reason why "The Return of the Great Sage" produced by DreamWorks scored as high as 9.0 on Douban, but only 8.1 on IMDB.

Although all aspects of "Kung Fu Panda" are completed to a very high degree, even the music and sound are excellent. The traditional Huaguo drums rumble in the fierce battle, the stone is broken and gone, and the battle progresses with every musical cue. Ups and downs, it can definitely be called a high-quality family movie that appeals to both refined and popular tastes and is suitable for all ages.

But in the eyes of Chinese audiences, "The Return of the Great Sage" is naturally better.

This is also the reason why some film critics and even ordinary audiences are somewhat disappointed with the two films of DreamWorks in their feedback.

However, the competition for the schedule basically depends on whether the peers are willing to set off.

And the rivals' ability to set off DreamWorks films never disappoints.

Therefore, the proportion of "Red Sea" and "Panda" is still higher day by day. After the Spring Festival holiday, "Operation Red Sea" reported a revenue of 23.4 billion in seven days, and won the box office champion of the 2018 Spring Festival.

"Monster Hunt II", which has an astonishing banknote capacity, followed closely with 18.2 billion.

Dreamworks' third animated feature film "Kung Fu Panda" ranked third with 14.5 billion.

Without any doubt, DreamWorks has once again become the big winner of the Spring Festival stalls.

Of course, "Monster Hunt II" did not lose money. The production cost and the sky-high publicity fee were all paid back, and it was more than enough. Although the box office potential was not great because of the bad reputation, it still didn't have a box office of 21 billion 22 billion in the end. If there is a problem, it is definitely a big profit.

The box office of "Operation Red Sea" is expected to be about 32 billion to 34 billion, and the box office of "Kung Fu Panda" is expected to exceed 20 billion. It will definitely break the box office record of "The Great Sage" at 15.8 billion.

An animated film with a box office of more than 20 billion may shake the Chinese film market far more than "Red Sea".

You must know that although the box office record of Huaguo movies has exceeded 40 billion, there are still only a handful of movies that exceed 20 billion. This is the volume of "box office bombs".

For most live-action movies, 20 billion is still an elusive goal.

At present, there is an animated film that can achieve such a box office. Although the Huaguo film market has been full of surprises in recent years, this fact also makes the media and many people in the industry feel that they cannot keep up with the changes of the times.

It is usually only in Japan that an animated film can achieve such a result, and it is not common to see such blockbuster animation in Hollywood.

Although "Kung Fu Panda" has the elements of kung fu and panda, everyone knows that the combination of these two elements is no match for Monkey King's three hairs.

Although the 15.8 billion of "The Return of the Great Sage" is surprising, many people did not attribute this film to the animation theme, but regarded it as a high-quality Westward Journey IP film. In some people's opinion, if it is not DreamWorks made it stupid to make it into an animation. If it is made into a live-action movie, the box office will be more than that.

We all know how popular Westward Journey IP is in China. There is Sun Dasheng every year, and the audience is not bothered. The performance of "The Return of the Great Sage" is not inexplicable.

But "Kung Fu Panda" is really a genuine original animation. It is neither related to myths or legends nor is it a big IP. 20 billion is indeed too exaggerated.

Kung fu has such a great appeal?Impossible, there are so many Kung Fu movies in Huaguo, and the market for such themes has become worse and worse in recent years.

That is the panda?How powerful is the national treasure?
Of course, some media and netizens can also analyze the reason why "Kung Fu Panda" can achieve such a box office result, trying to prove that "Panda" is expected to get 20 billion box office is not a common phenomenon, there are special reasons, it cannot be said that animated films This topic already has such a large audience.

For example, Huaguo has always lacked such high-quality animated films suitable for all ages. The needs of families with children to watch movies after last year's "The Great Sage" have been fully stimulated in this year's "Kung Fu Panda". .

There is also the "entertainment" of colleagues. "Monster Hunt II" also wants to please the needs of families watching movies, so in the second part, it starts to focus on the cute little monster Huba, and the plot is also younger. Although it is a live-action movie, it is complete. It's pretty much the same as animation.

It can be said that "Monster Hunt II" is just too ambitious and wants to cover all audience groups, so although the amount of CG is not inferior to animated movies, it still needs to maintain the title of live-action movie. If you want to have both live-action and animation, you must have Comedy elements, but also family fun.

As a result, the car was overturned due to insufficient ability, and no one was pleased.

And because there is "Kung Fu Panda" next to it, it has been criticized by film critics and audiences. The whole movie is a farce for young people. It is better to watch "Kung Fu Panda". Other animations are more ambitious and mature than yours.

Half of this evaluation is indeed not unreasonable, and the other half is also exaggerated and ironic.

Although I don't know who invented this meme first, but the ironic memes of "Monster Hunt II is more childish than Kung Fu Panda" and "Kung Fu Panda is a better cartoon than Monster Hunt II" are constantly circulating on the Internet. Upstream.

This rather "sinister" stalk not only brought "Monster Hunt II" to the level of an animated film, but also lifted "Kung Fu Panda" to the level of a family movie that transcends the limitations of animation themes.

For a while, "Kung Fu Panda" became a competitor of "Monster Hunt II" to some extent, and an animated film actually poached a corner of a live-action film.

Many netizens who are more concerned about the box office even ridiculed that "Panda" is releasing ""Demon" is hard to make money".

But no matter how many special reasons behind this contributed to the box office miracle of "Kung Fu Panda", it can't stop the public opinion from being amazed at the performance of "Panda".

"The box office of "Kung Fu Panda" is expected to exceed 20 billion! How can animated movies make money!"

"The box office of "Kung Fu Panda" hits 20 billion, leaving most live-action movies at a disadvantage. The Hong Kong stock market opened on the fifth day of the day, and the market value of the big winner behind it surged by 55 billion in three days!"

"The national treasure panda has turned into a gold-swallowing beast, and the Monkey King is also far behind. Will pandas and Kung Fu be new IP outlets?"

"Without Journey to the West, it can create a miracle at the box office! DreamWorks wants to 'Huaguo Disney'?"

"The best-selling animation in history was born, and animation dramas and movies took turns to stage good shows. Guoman has risen?"

"Experts analyzed that there are six special reasons for the popularity of "Panda". DreamWorks chose the theme very cleverly, one is Journey to the West, and the other is national treasure plus kung fu. These two films cannot prove the domestic film market's acceptance of animated films."

"The producer of Jianghe Culture posted a post on Weibo, insinuating that DreamWorks launched an online blackmail marketing campaign. "Kung Fu Panda" created a miracle by relying on "Monster Hunt II"?"

"The reporter discovered that an animation film named "Pandaman" appeared in the animation filing list of the radio and television e-government platform. It is suspected that it was invested by Penguin Video. The theme of pandas and Kung Fu may become a new trend in animation."

"Panda dolls similar to "Kung Fu Panda" appeared on a certain shopping platform. Netizens lamented Yiwu's quick response. The head of DreamWorks' legal department accepted a phone interview with a reporter and solemnly declared that DreamWorks would have zero tolerance for copyright infringement."

While the whole country was watching the bloody battle during the Spring Festival, Chen Jingxing had already brought the director of "Kung Fu Panda" to the United States, joined with the dubbers of "Panda", and was busy with the premiere of "Kung Fu Panda" in the United States.

(End of this chapter)