Beijing**Client|Reporter Wang Jinyue.
2023 is about to pass, and as a year of recovery after the epidemic, Chinese filmmakers have finally delivered a brilliant answer sheet with their unremitting fighting spirit and continuous innovation ability. As of December 21, the total box office (including pre-sales) of Chinese films in 2023 has exceeded 53.1 billion yuan. This is also the first time that the national box office has returned to a high of 50 billion yuan since the epidemic, indicating that Chinese films have returned to the normal development track, and the fundamentals of stability and long-term improvement have not changed. Among them, the films represented by "Man Jianghong", "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" and "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun" combine strong traditional Chinese cultural elements and patriotism with the spirit of the times and the unique light and shadow charm of the film, blooming with dazzling brilliance, and also making the audience walk into the cinema again and again to be moved and cheered.
Keywords: resuscitation.
Domestic films have become the absolute main force in the market.
This year, the proportion of domestic films in the box office of the film market has further expanded. According to statistics, the top 10 films at the box office are all domestic films, namely "Man Jianghong", "The Wandering Earth 2", "All or Nothing", "She Who Disappeared", "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun", "In the Octagonal Cage", "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", "Bear Infested, Accompany Me "Bear Core"", "Solid as a Rock", "Unfamiliar with Life", these 10 films have a box office of more than 1 billion yuan. In the past, Hollywood imported blockbusters that used to have great appeal in the domestic market performed weakly, and the highest box office was "Fast and Furious 10", which only received 9The box office of 8.4 billion yuan ranked 12th.
The Spring Festival and summer holidays have become the two most eye-catching periods in the market this year. During the Spring Festival, films such as "Man Jianghong", "The Wandering Earth 2", "Deep Sea", "No Name", "Bear Infested, Stay with Me "Bear Core"" and other films are rich in genres and diverse styles, taking the lead in providing a sumptuous Spring Festival movie feast for audiences across the country, and the final box office of 6.7 billion yuan is second only to 2021, becoming the second highest box office in Chinese film history.
The performance of the summer file is even more amazing. "She Who Disappeared", which was released during the Dragon Boat Festival, took the lead in raising the market heat;Followed by "In the Octagonal Cage", "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", "Fengshen Part I: Chao Song Fengyun", "Warm", "Megalodon 2: The Abyss" and other efforts in turn, while "All or Nothing" ended as a dark horse, reaching a new high for the market. In the end, the summer file created the "strongest summer file in history" with a total box office of 20.6 billion yuan, setting off a round of recovery of domestic films this year.
More than 70 new films are fighting at the end of the year, a five-year high, among which domestic films such as "Three Teams" and "Wading through the Angry Sea" have aroused heated discussions among the audience with their excellent quality and cultural connotation.
It is worth mentioning that the films produced in Beijing are still the leading ones in the market, and "Man Jianghong" and "The Wandering Earth 2" will be ranked first and second in the single-film box office list in 2023 respectively, continuing to consolidate their leading position in the national films.
Keywords: cultural elements.
Traditional culture blooms with dazzling brilliance and nourishes film creation.
This year, many domestic films have invariably focused on the excavation and deep cultivation of traditional Chinese cultural elements, and the profound heritage of traditional culture is as dazzling and bright as a rainbow after the passionate creation and interpretation of filmmakers, and it has also aroused a strong sense of national pride and cultural identity in the hearts of the audience.
During the Spring Festival, "Man Jianghong" directed by Zhang Yimou condensed the story in a large mansion, and the film used suspense reversal to tell the story of a group of people with lofty ideals who went to succeed only to obtain Yue Fei's last words. In the summer file, the animated film "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" not only shows the elegance of the Tang Dynasty, but also a rare cultural popularization of Tang poetry through the story of Li Bai and Gao Shi's relationship for many years. The implantation of 48 Tang poems and the appearance of dozens of historical celebrities have given the audience a thorough baptism of traditional culture, and there is a scene of small audiences collectively reciting Tang poems in the cinema, which has become a rare film cultural landscape.
Directed by Wu Ershan, "Fengshen Part I" is adapted from the Ming Dynasty** "Romance of the Fengshen", the film not only has huge war scenes and wonderful visual effects, but also wants to reflect the important impact of the Shang and Zhou battles on the origin of Chinese civilization more than 3,000 years ago through the mythological epic story of the growth of Chinese-style heroes. The box office of the film first fell and then rose, and finally became one of the most watched cultural phenomena in the film market this year.
In addition, in addition to continuing the core plot of "taking the earth to wander", "The Wandering Earth 2" also shows the unique "Chinese plan" provided by the Chinese to save the world in the face of an unpredictable existential crisis, which carries the wisdom of Chinese civilization and the Chinese emotions marked by "family" and "family affection". The innovative "particle ink" animation technology of the animated film "Deep Sea" allows people to fully appreciate the gorgeous effects produced by the combination of traditional Chinese landscape painting and computer technology.
Keywords: realism.
Reality feature films have a good reputation at the box office.
In the past year, Chinese filmmakers have taken root in reality, gone deep into life, told one good Chinese story after another with realism, and contributed a number of films with good box office and reputation.
In the middle of the summer season, the movie "In the Octagon Cage" stood out, which is based on real events and tells the story of a group of children in the mountains, led by a frustrated middle-aged man, who highlight their fate through combat training and explore a way out of life. In addition to reflecting reality, the film also conducts ** on topics such as online violence, which is of great practical significance. The movie "All or Nothing" focuses on overseas online fraud cases, and through the experiences of three ordinary people who were involved in online fraud cases, it reveals the behind-the-scenes truth of this industry in an all-round way, which has caused strong repercussions. Zhang Yimou's "Solid as a Rock" focuses on the theme of "anti-corruption", and the film has a deep excavation of the inner world of the villain Zheng Gang, and fully discloses his unscrupulous criminal behavior, which is alarming after watching it. The popular "Three Teams", which is also based on a real case, tells the story of a former policeman named Cheng Bing who has been unremittingly vowing to arrest the murderer for 12 years.
These films in 2023 adopt a realistic approach, but in terms of storytelling, they are cleverly combined with different genre elements, such as suspense, crime, reasoning, action, etc., and the richness and diversity of genres are also a prominent highlight of the film market this year, which greatly improves the attractiveness of the film to the audience and enhances the viewing effect.