A good drama that has been watched n times
Text|Linghu Boguang.
Today is still the summary article for 2023, and it will be New Year's Eve soon, I wish you all a happy New Year's Day. This year is a big year for domestic film and television dramas. Movies, TV series, animations, etc. can be said to be frequent, and progress and breakthroughs are very obvious.
But when film and television works were in full swing, I also wrote before, that is, whether it was film awards or TV awards, they were standing still, or even seriously delayed. If the appearance of "The Wandering Earth 2" has taken about three steps forward for Chinese films, this year's Gold Award can be said to have taken Chinese films back five steps.
I believe there is no need to talk about how important this movie is to Chinese science fiction and Chinese commercial blockbusters. In fact, the biggest controversy of this year's Golden Rooster, until now, is probably that "No Name" and "King of the Sky" with traffic have been shortlisted too much, and they have won a lot of awards.
In addition, they are also commercial special effects blockbusters, "Fengshen" has won a lot of awards, while "The Wandering Earth 2" only has a consolation prize.
I wrote when the Golden Rooster Award came out, and in my personal opinion, "Fengshen" is greater than "Ball 1" losing to "Ball 2", not anyone's water army, I have also watched these three movies.
The biggest problem with Ball 2 is that the duration is too long, the rhythm and the level of storytelling, although the core is good, but there are many problems from the perspective of the movie itself. This is also why many ordinary viewers feel that "Ball 2" is not as good as "Ball 1", and some parts are also deliberately sensational.
The Wandering Earth 2" is honest, its biggest advantages in my opinion have three points.
The first is that there is definitely no need to talk about special effects, the second is the breakthrough and management level of China's film and television industry, and the third is the expression of the cultural core and the breakthrough of Chinese science fiction. There are many other advantages, but there are many problems with the storyline level of the film awards, do you give it the best feature film?
Best Actor and Tony Leung played, and Best Actress Wang Zhi had fewer roles.
Best screenplay is a matter of storyline, and it is not appropriate to give it these awards, and it may backfire. But the technical awards such as Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Speaker are all so strong that not only do they not win awards, but they can't even be nominated for them. After all, "Fengshen" has it, and both of them are the same special effects commercial blockbusters.
It's a bit too much to win so many awards for Fengshen 1, it's not particularly good, but it also gives me some surprises. You can really feel the director's intentions from the movie, but these intentions are far from the best director, in fact, "Fengshen 1" is just a very good commercial film, and it is better than other directors who participated in the same period.
The actors who can be nominated for "Fengshen 1" are Best Director, Best Supporting Actor Li Xuejian, and other young actors can only be said to be more suitable for the role, and then there is the props group of "Fengshen 1", and there are some technical awards, which can be nominated and won an award.
As for the best male and female leads, best screenwriters and the like, I can only say that there are better works.
All in all, personally, several popular ** stories at this year's Golden Rooster Awards are quite weak, and they are lacking in winning the best screenwriter. "No Name" is a stylized movie full of authorship, but the weakest thing is the story, "King of the Sky" doesn't need to be told, "Ball 2" and "Fengshen" are too lengthy, and the rhythm is too rushed, all of them are the same.
I don't think "The Wandering Earth 2", or "Fengshen" is so good, it is most appropriate to give them a few technical awards, and the best director can be nominated, after all, the two films have made great contributions to the Chinese film and television industry and the Chinese film and television industry. Neither Best Picture nor Best Screenplay deserves.
Now the best actor, the best female lead, the best supporting actor or something, in fact, the controversy is not big.
These awards are also worthy of their level, their level is not enough to win more awards, don't feel that everyone is satisfied with them because you personally like to be satisfied, and there are many people who feel that their performance in some aspects is very average. In the final analysis, there are still too few popular domestic movies, and a group of short people choose a slightly taller one.
On the contrary, I think that literary films like "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department" are much more complete in terms of storyline, rhythm level, core and expression, and they also have the empathy of the movie itself, but the problem is that this kind of literary film is not very popular. The most popular commercial blockbuster has a certain deficiency.
Therefore, everyone is very dissatisfied with this year's Golden Rooster Awards. Lack of a good movie that most people think is very good, and everyone agrees on it!Every movie has various flaws, and none of the movies are perfect.
However, this year's Golden Rooster Awards is still very funny, because the nomination and award criteria are too strange, or there are no standards at all.
At that time, I wrote that you couldn't figure out what the standard was, and you said that "Ball 2" was not academic enough as a commercial special effects blockbuster, okay. But what does it mean that the same commercial special effects blockbuster "Fengshen" won so many awards?You said that there is capital and power behind it**, Beiwen behind "Fengshen" almost went bankrupt, and the director borrowed money to make a special effect.
If you pay attention to the opening of this movie, you will find that except for Beiwen, Penguin and Maoyan, who took over later, there is no big force. And the producer of "Ball 2" is the state-owned enterprise China Film. How much support the country had when the movie was released, everyone saw it.
You said that its background is Nortel and other academic tastes, and they do prefer "No Name", but "No Name" is not the biggest winner. only won Best Director, Best Actor and Best Editing, and the biggest winner was "Fengshen".
Therefore, the judging criteria of this year's Golden Rooster are really incomprehensible, it was very strange for "The Wandering Earth 1" to win awards before, and this year's "The Wandering Earth 2" is so much better than "Ball 1", and it is even more strange that it did not win any awards. I think at least for Best Director, there must be some technical awards, and it would be too strange to not even have a nomination.
The biggest problem of the Golden Rooster in the mainland is that there is no precise positioning, when the Golden Rooster was first born, it loved realistic themes, and the best films for ten consecutive years are masterpieces that reflect social reality. And in the nineties, the golden rooster obviously turned to the main theme, although many people don't like it, but in fact, the quality is also there.
Mainly after entering the new century, the Golden Rooster has made various meaningless adjustments because of the sharp drop in attention, and the result has become four dislikes, and it has become a both want and another end water award. But to be honest, in the past two years, the Golden Rooster has been nominated for water points, and its awards are not very watery.
It can be said that it has actually told the audience the attribution of the award when the nomination is determined, and the most normal thing is the object it wants to award.
So, why are so many netizens unhappy that "The Wandering Earth 2" did not win the award, because it met "Man Jianghong" when it was released, and the word-of-mouth won but the box office lost. When it met "No Name" and "Fengshen" when it was awarded, if "No Name" was not a good match, but it was quite aggrieved to lose to the same commercial blockbuster "Fengshen" in an all-round way.
As I said, if you don't win Best Picture, Best Screenplay shouldn't be so controversial.
But for Best Director, at least a few more technical awards, after all, the cinematography is not good, the soundtrack is not good, the special effects are not good, if you think so, you don't understand movies at all. As a result, not only did he not win the award, but he did not even get a nomination, which is really ridiculous.
It is true that some viewers can't understand "The Wandering Earth 2" and lack the interest to continue, but fans of "The Wandering Earth 2" probably don't like to listen to this kind of talk. They like it so much, because the significance of this movie to Chinese films is indeed quite big.
Most of the audience are young people, and there are very few middle-aged and elderly people like me, so this kind of science fiction film has a certain knowledge threshold, and not everyone can understand it, which also limits its audience base. It is also natural that middle-aged and elderly people don't like to watch it, especially middle-aged and elderly women. It is also difficult for young children to understand, and it is estimated that it is difficult to watch patiently, which limits its audience.
High school students and above, or young men in their twenties and thirties, should be its main audience. Young women may not like sci-fi movies, they may prefer to watch romance movies, and young children like cartoons. Choosing to be listed during the Spring Festival, many families go to the movies with the whole family, the elderly are not interested in science fiction films, young children can't understand this kind of science fiction films, and young children like animation.
These factors will affect its box office, and it is quite difficult to get the first place at the box office when it is listed during the Spring Festival.
Whether science fiction films choose the summer file, now there is only "Lonely on the Moon", which may be easier to get the first place at the box office.
At present, domestic sci-fi films lack the box office of the international market, and they all rely on the box office of the domestic market to support, and our domestic sci-fi films still have to strive to make as much money as possible and strive for the largest box office. There is money to be made, so that Chinese science fiction films can have sustainable development, in case it is short-lived!
What was the situation before Chinese films, I believe there is no need to repeat it. As a result, the box office of the movie did not beat "Man Jianghong", and the award was a joke, which was not what we expected.
In general, Chinese film and television dramas have made great progress this year, and it is completely a big year. But the film awards that should have become a weather vane, from the perspective of business, art, and balance, are seriously dragging their feet, and the Chinese film festival really needs to be reformed.
No matter what some netizens say, as long as you have eyes, you will find that mainland movies in the past few years have long beaten Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. But at the Chinese Film Festival, can the Golden Rooster become the highest award in Chinese?Does it serve the public?Can it become a mecca for all filmmakers in the Chinese-speaking region and Greater China?Are you scrambling to send movies over for awards?
You see, the reason is not very simple!