director of the millennium

In addition to "Detective Chinatown 3" and "Hello, Li Huanying", Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei were not idle in the evening. They continued to watch a movie that was also released during the Spring Festival.

That is director Lu Yang’s new film "Assassination of Novelist" following the "Embroidered Spring Knife" series!
The biggest highlight of this movie is undoubtedly the visual effects. The construction of the alien world is gorgeous and magnificent, and the several fighting scenes in reality are also quite interesting, but the overall plot is a bit weak, too much of a middle school idol, and not enough surprises.

Relying on the excellent literary foundation of the novel, it creates a blockbuster-like appearance that is rare in Chinese films.

Under the entertainment cloak of adventure narrative, visual spectacles and hot-blooded comic style, it is not a simple expansion of a certain genre. The two parallel worlds of reality and fiction that influence each other, like "Inception", interweave the corresponding structure of different character identities, and also point to a metaphorical space that can be played with and interpreted.

If compared with international standards, the level may not be good enough and the plot is indeed a bit weak, but if compared only with domestic standards, this movie is really well done.

At least when Wu Yuan saw the imaginative novel world in the movie, he was indeed shocked by the pictures and special effects.

Apart from him, there are actually other domestic directors who can play with such a fantasy style. It is really interesting, especially when Gatlin appears in the Final Fantasy, it feels like seeing the Chinese version of Green Lantern.

After watching these three movies, the two people's first day of the Lunar New Year's Day movie-watching activities came to an end.

There are many other movies during this Spring Festival, but Wu Yuan doesn't want to watch any of them except his own "Bruce Lee".

Including "The Order of the Samurai" starring his good friends Chen Kun and Zhou Xun.

It's a bad movie, just watch it once.

Yes, he had seen this movie in that life, in his dream.

Chen Guofu once again served as the producer of a fantasy-themed film after the "Detective Dee" series, which is both a guarantee and a constraint.

The fantasy world of "The Order of the Samurai" is very solid, but it is very difficult to find another breakthrough from the already mature fantasy film system.

The plot of the relationship between the characters in this film is very thin.

Qingming lacks unforgettable love and friendship with Bai Ni, and lacks unforgettable friendship with Yuan Boya. The strength of the main characters is also a mystery, and the Yin Yang Bureau has been severely weakened, which makes it difficult to convince.

More importantly, this is a movie full of "Japanese style". It's not that there is discrimination against Japanese legends, but for most Chinese movie fans, people are actually not very interested in this kind of legendary stories from the Japanese Heian period.

The popularity of the game "Onmyoji" does not mean that this background theme will be popular in China.

You are making movies, not the two-dimensional world, and the market for Chen Kun and Zhou Xun has never overlapped with that of two-dimensional paper people.

Wu Yuan can completely understand why Chen Kun took on this movie, because he himself is a person who loves playing games and COS, and is quite into the second dimension.

He is even a player of "Onmyoji". A real player, not one invited by a game company to cooperate with promotions, but one who has really played the game himself.

It is estimated that he agreed to take the role because the movie was adapted from the game "Onmyoji", and then he also asked his good sister Zhou Xun to join in the filming.

As a result, the actual story development of this movie is very frivolous, with two main character development lines: "Chen Kun + Zhou Xun" and "Qu Chuxiao + Shen Yue". However, as the story develops, the plots come one after another, and even the final battle against the villains is hastily concluded.

There is nothing wrong with the acting of the two actors, but the script can't support the acting, so everything is in vain. It is almost certain that this movie will not do well at the box office.

In addition to "The Order of the Samurai", other movies such as "Raging Fire", "New Gods: Nezha Reborn" and "Boonie Bears" will be released during the Spring Festival.

Wu Yuan has no plan to watch these movies with Liu Yifei.

"Raging Fire" is starred by Andy Lau, and directed by Rao Xiaozhi, an emerging director who also directed "The Unknown". From "The Unknown" to "Raging Fire", Rao Xiaozhi continues to tell absurd comedy stories of small people, but with Andy Lau, everyone understands, the quality of the movie will make people worry.

This really cannot be blamed on Andy. It can only be said that there is something mysterious about Andy in recent years. As long as he is the leading actor in a movie, even if the cast is top-notch, the resulting movie will always be mediocre, neither good nor worthwhile.

Wu Yuan, who has experienced this many times, does not intend to fall into this trap again.

"New Gods: Nezha Reborn" is an adult animation. It was a bold decision for the team to put the adult animation during the Spring Festival. What was even bolder was that they did not rely too much on the popularity of the team's previous work "White Snake: Origin".

This movie is quite good. Wu Yuan vaguely remembers that it had a very good reputation, which continued the good reputation of Chinese animation since "The Return of the Great Sage". However, he has never been interested in watching Chinese animation. After all, he is not an animation director, so he will not join in the fun.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Wu Yuan still brought his wife to the cinema, but he only planned to watch one movie, which was his own "Bruce Lee".

It's interesting to say.

Even though he had no expectations for the movie's box office in mainland China, Wu Yuan did not expect that the mainland release of "Bruce Lee" would still bring him a surprise.

While "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Detective Chinatown 3" were selling like crazy, "Bruce Lee" was able to sneak in despite the pressure from "Assassination of Novelist" and "Raging Fire", and its box office on the first day exceeded 1 million RMB!

Although this number cannot be compared with the first-day box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Detective Chinatown 3".

But "Bruce Lee" is a movie that has long been available in high-definition Blu-ray resources on the Internet!

The release of this movie is almost like a completely leaked movie finally arriving in theaters.

Under such circumstances, it is already an outrageous thing to be able to get a box office of 1 million on the first day.

You should know that the first-day box office of "The Order of the Samurai" was only 8000 million RMB, with a 9.6% screening share, but only 4.7% of the box office share.

On the contrary, "Bruce Lee" only accounted for 7.2% of the screenings, but took 6.8% of the box office share, which means that the average attendance rate of this movie is higher than that of "The Order of the Samurai"!

Even though the number of screenings scheduled in cinemas was not as many as that of "The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity", it was still able to surpass this movie at the box office and compete with "Assassination of Novelist", which somewhat stunned Wu Yuan.

He even wanted to post on his Weibo: Don’t love me too much
He was really touched that his fans could still come to the cinema to support him under such circumstances.

When the box office figures for the second day of release came out and showed that the daily box office had increased instead of decreased to 1.2 million, Wu Yuan's heart was warmed.

I am so touched! (End of this chapter)