15 years ago, Feng Xiaogang teamed up with Ge You and ** to launch the comedy romance movie "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", which was released in the Chinese New Year file and received 2The high box office of 600 million yuan has also consolidated its status as the "king of Chinese New Year films".
In 2010, the original team collaborated again on "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2", and still achieved box office and word-of-mouth success, among which the brotherhood between Qin Fen played by Ge You and Li Xiangshan played by Sun Honglei made many people cry, and the funeral held in advance at the end of the film was full of creativity and tears in laughter, which made many people remember it vividly.
Now, for the third time, he has cooperated with old friends such as Ge You and ** to launch "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3", after the film was released on December 30, it only achieved a box office of 25.1 million yuan on the same day, and the attendance rate ranked last among all new films in the same period, which is embarrassing.
Feng Xiaogang set the story time in 2031, two weeks before the 70th birthday of Qin Fen played by Ge You in the film. **Liang Xiaoxiao, who plays the role, has been away from home for ten years, the reason is that once the two went overseas to play, and suddenly Xiaoxiao saw a group of environmental protection volunteers picking up garbage at the beach, and her heart was suddenly touched, so she left Lao Qin without hesitation. During this period, Lao Qin was unable to contact her at all, except for the occasional postcard from Xiaoxiao. At this time, Fan Wei's Lao Fan has already established an Acapani (English "accompany" transliteration) android technology company, which has designed androids that are almost identical to real people. In order to help Qin Fen solve the pain of missing Xiaoxiao, Lao Fan gave him a bionic Xiaoxiao on his birthday, and the two made a lot of jokes in their short relationship, but they also slowly cultivated their feelings. At this time, Zhen Xiaoxiao suddenly came back, it turned out that she had also been thinking about Lao Qin in her heart all these years, but the most important thing is that with the mass popularity of androids, the promising profession of picking up garbage will also disappear. It is said that he is cowardly in his hometown, and Zhen Xiaoxiao also felt that it was difficult for him to face Lao Qin, who had been "widowed" for many years, so he pretended to be a bionic person and smiled, and began to test whether Lao Qin still had true love ...... for him
Obviously, Feng Xiaogang also realized that if the 66-year-old Ge You continued to fall in love with ** on the screen, it didn't seem right. In order to make up for the discomfort brought to the audience, Feng Xiaogang designed a bionic robot Liang Xiaoxiao in the plot, which was customized according to the appearance of Xiaoxiao before she ran away from home, and the laughter of the story also arises from the gap between these two "true and false smiles": one is willful and shakes his face, choking Qin Fen's smile at every turn, and the other is based on the computer program setting, smiling at Qin Fen with low eyebrows and 100 obedience.
Even in the face of the most common sci-fi "android" theme on the big screen, Feng Xiaogang still shows the keen observation of an artist, and there are many golden sentences in the film for the characteristics of androids, such as "You (androids) are calculations, we (humans) are calculations" and so on. The film is also designed to test the truth of laughter with "blowing" (androids can't blow), "multiplication of numbers" (humans can't count at once) and jealousy (androids don't), etc., these details have the characteristics of previous Feng's comedies, which are not esoteric but have the function of making people laugh.
The biggest feature of Feng's comedy is the Beijing-style language, and this film continues this, for example, Lao Qin smiled at the real smile who was sitting on the side and pretended to be an android: "Do you know what it means to miss?"."It's too low to build a temple on a high mountain, sitting face to face, and I still miss you." ”
Immediately afterwards, Lao Qin said:
Do you know what it means to be concerned?"To worry is to be afraid, afraid that you will have a bad life, afraid that you will be wronged, afraid that you will not come back. ”
After a few words, the real smile moved to tears, and at this time Lao Qin found out, so he reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, licked them with his tongue, and said in astonishment: "It's actually salty, and androids also have tear ducts?"Look at this technology!”
The above line design is full of twists and turns, playful and vivid, and full of feelings, which reminds people of the classic line that Qin Fen laughed at in "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", "Some people are Xi Shi in the eyes of lovers, but it is not too much to say that you are Xi Shi in the eyes of enemies." ”
is different from "Do Not Disturb", "Do Not Disturb 3" deliberately played the "nostalgia card" to the extreme this time. At the beginning of the film, the funniest and most touching scenes from the first two movies were all cut into the movie, and this deliberate magnification can clearly see that Feng Xiaogang wants to shorten the distance between him and the audience this time, and even "deliberately please" is not an exaggeration.
In addition, the main actors in the first two films, such as Fan Wei, Li Chengru, Wu Yicong, Yao Chen, etc., all returned, and even the pictures of the deceased Li Xiangshan played by Sun Honglei before his death also continued to appear, the only difference is that the founding of the country in the film was replaced by the actors Feng Yuanzheng and Liao Fan in the first two films, and the current Chang Yuan.
Of course, the advantage of this is that it can fully satisfy the audience's sense of nostalgia, but it also brings a very fatal shortcoming, that is, the story can only be advanced on the basis of the first two films, such as Qin Fen and Fan Wei in the new film The old Fan is "rock-paper-scissors", compared to the clever trick of using the "divergent terminal" to divide the winner in "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", the new trick that Qin Fen came up with this time is not so amazing, after all, good ideas are hard to find.
The most exciting thing about the film is Feng Xiaogang's insight into love. In the film, after Qin Fen and the android smiled and got along for a long time, the two also had true feelings, and when they saw "True Smile", his swing between the two "true and false smiles" and the pull on the balance of inner emotions were very well handled by Feng Xiaogang. Of course, in the middle of the film, the identity of the real and false smiles was cleverly "replaced", and the joy generated by this dislocation is believed to be guessed by a discerning person at a glance.
Why can't a top-level romantic comedy suddenly fail to attract audiences?The author believes that there are two reasons: one is that the actors in the film are too old, even if Feng Xiaogang explained that this was "a dream" made by the elderly Qin Fen, but when he saw Ge You appear on the screen, he still felt too old, and his facial expression when acting in emotional scenes completely lost the relaxed and casual sense of humor when he acted in "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", after all, he was only 50 years old at that time. Another reason is more critical, during the viewing process, it is obvious that Feng Xiaogang is particularly cautious this time, the self-confidence and aura of the "king of Chinese New Year films" who used to "give up who else is me" are gone, and the large number of references to the first two works in the film seems to be shouting to the audience: "Come and see, my previous works are so good!".”
Paying too much attention to oneself is a reflection of the lack of creativity and confidence. used to be the "king of Chinese New Year films", but this time he failed to save some face for himself.
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