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On the second day of the Spring Festival, "Flying Life 2" was overtaken by "Hot and Hot", and the position of the box office crown was not guaranteed. Even so, the current total box office has exceeded 3.6 billion, which has far exceeded the first 17 five years ago2.8 billion in total.
Second, there's nothing wrong with that.
In the movie "Flying Life 2", the young driver Li Xiaohai played by Fan Chengcheng finally won the second result, which is enough to be satisfied and inspired. "Hot and Hot" is about how to win once, and "Flying Life 2" is about the driver Zhang Chi played by Shen Teng who didn't think about how to win, but if he lost, he had to lose decently, forming an interesting intertextuality in and out of the play.
From the 2019 Spring Festival file "Flying Life" to the sequel in 2024, the leading actor Zhang Benyu described that the characters have become a little twilight in the past five years, not necessarily heroes are twilight, bears can also be twilight.
This story of the twilight of the bear is still the classic template of the Jedi counterattack after the protagonist group falls into a trough, but director Han Han understands the middle-aged mood and the mood of the times very well, and grasps the empathy point.
Flying Life 2", may be the best Han Han and Shen Teng.
Zhang Chi is old. Compared with Zhang Chi five years ago, Shen Teng appeared in "Flying Life 2", not only telling the passage of time with more pleats, but also revealing an attitude of "recognition" from the inside out.
Many of the jokes in "Flying Life" are produced in the contrast between the flabby mouth, the disobedience to fate, and the cruel reality, he tells his son about his former glory, boasting the title of "King of Bayingbrook".
And the laughter of the second part is a kind of self-deprecation after resigning his fate, the game five years ago was "fighting" in the eyes of others, and it became "planted" in his own eyes. When someone asked him to set up a team to participate in the Bayin Brook Clarion again, he thought about taking over the business to benefit his brothers, saying that "most of the time he does something is to survive".
Five years ago, in the face of the impact of the young car king played by Huang Jingyu, Zhang Chi wanted to prove that he was not outdated in the era of the alternation of the old and the new. Five years later, Zhang Chi has accepted this era of new people, accepted a generation of new people to replace the old ones, and began to bring new people to accept students.
If Zhang Chi in 2019 is a hero who wants to make a comeback in Pingyang and is not convinced of old age, then Zhang Chi in 2024 is a recognition of the bear after the twilight of the bear, and it is a mid-life crisis. Even if you haven't watched "Flying Life", there is no problem in watching the second part directly, because this is a story that echoes the mood of the times.
We used to believe that small setbacks are equal to grinding, and after the storm will be a rainbow. However, the epidemic has imperceptibly changed everyone's life and values in the past three years, and "lying flat" and "rotten" have become social issues. In the movie, Zhang Chi is also thinking about how to lie flat and make money, stop thinking about how to win a game, just lose decently.
Han Han and Zhang Chi in the movie are both over forty years old, which is the age to tell about the mood of middle-aged, but the theme of mid-life crisis is not special to middle-aged audiences. In the past five years, every audience has been feeling the physical and psychological changes, if the small flame that once burned in your heart has faded during this time, then you are the chosen audience for "Flying Life 2".
"Flying Life 2" is a just right desire to promote and suppress, the first half is full of self-deprecation and helplessness after lying flat, but when the team is formed, Zhang Chi will say "I still like to drive" and "It feels good to do what I like".
Then, what we admired was Zhang Chi and his friends doing their best for their dreams.
Han Han is very good at using old songs, and after the end of the competition of "Flying Life" is the melody of "Dedication", Han Han said, "This film is dedicated to everything you love." The end of "Flying Life 2" is Zhang Yusheng's song "I Look Forward" 30 years ago, and the lyrics sing "Return to my original love, return to the innocent look", continue to write about the topic of love, but with some middle-aged mentality.
A very touching scene in "Flying Life 2" is that Shen Teng and Yin Zheng are sitting in the car that is not 100% modified, intending to run the last Bayin Brook Clare Race. Before starting, Yin Zheng said: "If you lose this time, the face of the rest of your life will end here, it's so ugly", Shen Teng replied to him: "Then lose beautifully." ”
When you were young, you had to win passionately, but now you can finish the race regardless of the results, finish the race regardless of the consequences, and compete with yourself without fear of losing.
This kind of inspirational is more advanced than the previous work.,As you get older.,The body must be going downhill.,But the spirit can keep moving forward.,Don't run away because you're afraid of losing.,Strive to win with a losing mentality.,It looks like negative energy.,It's actually stronger.。
Since 2014's "The Future", Han Han has been a director for ten years, and five works in ten years are not considered to be highly productive. The "Four Seas" two years ago suffered a box office waterloo, which once overdrew Han Han's credibility. A film promoter who has participated in "Four Seas" and worked with Han Han at close range told the entertainment studio that many directors will blame the publicity for not working hard after the box office failure, thinking that they have no problem shooting, and the biggest characteristic of director Han Han is that he is emotionally stable, does not shake the pot, and will comfort, encourage, and thank the staff.
It is difficult for the audience to ** What kind of mood changes did Han Han have after "Four Seas", because now he has stopped socializing**, during the publicity period of the first four works, Han Han also did an interview to output his views to the outside world, but the biggest feature of the promotion period of "Flying Life 2" this time is that Han Han is invisible.
Han Han not only had almost no interviews during the promotion period, and almost did not convey his director's creative intentions to the outside world, but even in "Flying Life 2", he was trying to minimize Han Han's characteristics and fade his authorship. In the past, when the audience talked about director Han Han, they always said that his narrative could not escape from the young people in the small town. But this time, he is no longer telling the story of a young man in a small town, but conveying more universal emotions and handing over a more mature and more complete commercial blockbuster answer.
The biggest feature of Han Han in the movie is probably only racing, and the design and shooting of racing scenes are still Han Han's absolute domain. This kind of story of the protagonist chasing his dream and achieving self-transcendence after falling to the bottom is not a new narrative template, but through the theme of racing, the story has a double flavor of suppression, burning and coolness.
In "Flying Life", Han Han has already shown his ability to shoot racing scenes. In "Flying Life 2", the excitement of the final game has been fully upgraded.
From the perspective of plot design, the first part of the game reflects the various unknowns and uncertainties of Bayingbrook by showing the opponent's unsmooth performance on the track, while Zhang Chi is facing three major challenges, one is that the navigator is injured, and he needs to go on the road alone to be a lone brave in the race; the second is to face the only fierce rival Lin Zhendong, he wants to win the opponent; The third is that the route at the moment of crossing the line is not easy to control, and in the end, Zhang Chi also rushed out of the track and fell off the cliff at the last moment.
In "Flying Life 2", Zhang Chi's challenges are more layered
One is the framing of opponents, which is a confrontation with opponents, with human nature, and against unfair events; The second is the sudden arrival of hail, which is a struggle with nature; The third is to fight against oneself, to overcome one's weakened body after being injured, and at the same time to control a car that is not ready; The fourth is to fight against your desire to win, and how to focus on the road in front of you after setting off with the idea of "some things need an end" and "lose beautifully", and not let the dream of being the first team distract your mind.
These four challenges build a more burning and refreshing climactic drama, compared to the lonely battle five years ago, another ignition of the second part is the feeling of team struggle.
Han Han said that this is also a major change when he wrote this story five years later: "For a professional athlete, or a person, the further down he goes, the more he may feel the power of the team in addition to individual heroism, and the friends around him can give him some help and encouragement, which is also what "Flying Life 2" especially wants to highlight Although Zhang Chi has a team to help in the first part, he is on the field alone, and in the second part, he not only has a team, but the navigator also sits next to him, This sense of teamwork was a belief that we had firmly established when we were working on the script at that time, and this was the biggest difference from the first part. ”
One of the most burning shots in the race was the final sprint, Zhang Chi saw himself and the racing track of the car five years ago in a trance, and then the two cars merged into one, and five years ago and now Zhang Chi crossed the line together, realizing his dream.
Han Han revealed that this shot was actually the design that I thought of when I first made the script, "In the first part, we broke through Lin Zhendong's car, and in the second part, a goodbye or encouragement to myself is actually very good, because we have also experienced a very unforgettable 5 years, looking back on these 5 years, I will think that if we meet ourselves 5 years ago, we will say something to ourselves, but sometimes I think that I don't need to say anything, It is enough for only one of the self from 5 years ago to the current self to continue to carry on. ”
This kind of shooting of the arrow shot five years ago is now right in the center of the eyebrows, which is sensational and shocking enough, but Han Han uses it with restraint. Another place is that before the car collision test, Zhang Chi stood on the stairs and took the initiative to hum the song "Glorious Years" to Manager Ye, compared with five years ago, the positions of the two happened to be reversed, this scene is Shen Teng's creation and design on the spot, the duet five years ago has now become unresponsive, Manager Ye has changed, and Zhang Chi's dedication to his dream is still the same.
Before the screening, one of the things that was criticized in "Flying Life 2" was that there was an all-male class lineup, and there was not a single female character. But in fact, in this story, it is better not to give the actress a rimmed vase role. This time, Han Han is in the field he is most familiar with, magnifying what he is good at shooting, and subtracting the plot and character relationships. Compared with the first part, a lot of fragmented and trivial plots and character relationships have been reduced, and even joke-style jokes have been abandoned, focusing on character building.
Han Han is a good actor, and Yin Zheng and Liu Haoran, who were once controversial in other movies, have returned to the audience's favorite appearance under Han Han's lens.
The most worth mentioning is Shen Teng, who was born with a happy face to restrain him to a certain extent, and many works also stereotype him in the framework of a comedian, using the part of his ability to make people laugh. In recent years, there have also been some bad movies that have overdrawn Shen Teng's market reputation, consuming his acting career and box office appeal. Han Han wrote a good role for Shen Teng with his heart, from "Flying Life" to "Flying Life 2", Zhang Chi's character has a complete character arc and growth line, which also gives Shen Teng space to show another side.
High-level comedy should be laughing with tears, and the laughter of "Flying Life 2" is restrained laughter, and crying is also restrained crying. Han Han said, "I personally don't like to shoot crying scenes, because once the emotions are not in place, it is more hypocritical, and Brother Teng is also a person who is more afraid of excessive sensationalism and hypocrisy." Such two people brought two wonderful crying scenes in "Flying Life 2", which also became the tears of many audiences.
After the first game was nothing, Zhang Chi restarted the car and told himself that the way to overcome his fear was to face his fear, but he accidentally overturned the car, and he hung upside down and burst into tears.
Han Han revealed that this scene was filmed for several all-nighters, first of all, the technical difficulties, "It is necessary to use Weiya to tie people upside down, but it is difficult for people to support them upside down in the car for too long, and people will be upside down when the seat belt is loosened, but if the seat belt is suspended, it will not be hung for a long time, the person is crooked, and it will look a little uncomfortable in the movie." After overcoming this technical difficulty, Shen Teng also has to challenge the relatively novel way of crying upside down, which is an explosive scene in the dead of night to vent his emotions, and the audience rarely sees Shen Teng who explodes in this situation in the movie.
What's even better is that after this scene, there was a joyful scene of Shen Teng and Fan Chengcheng talking on the street, and at the end of the chat, Shen Teng looked up to the sky bitterly and laughed unbridledly. In Shen Teng, this laugh that looks natural is actually not easy to play, because it is an emotion born after a calm chat, Fan Chengcheng told the entertainment studio that in this scene, Han Han actually made him laugh first at first, but he couldn't laugh no matter how he laughed, "It's hard for me to talk like this by myself, and suddenly there is a paragraph, Brother Teng will come as soon as he says, give me a startle, he laughed and I laughed with him, and finally the editing became my brother laughing alone, because the effect was so good, I kept him alone and cut me." ”
Another crying scene is when Zhang Chi finds the lead seal in the warehouse, Shen Teng said to Zheng Kai, "I don't want the grades, I can't want my innocence", "It's not in the past, I just accept it", and all the grievances rushed out at that moment.
When filming this scene, Han Han told Shen Teng in advance to take a look at the scene first, but when he filmed the first one, Shen Teng's emotions were already full, and the acting was very accurate, "He said that when he saw the machine passing by on the side, he felt that it was a close-up shot, so he suddenly broke out the grievances of Zhang Chi for so many years, and later after the filming, I said that Brother Teng is very good, but this is a back, Brother Teng said, yes, he said that after half of the performance, he also judged that it was a back, but the emotion was still very difficult to suppress." ”
This scene is a success of the multi-directional coordination of the camera rhythm, soundtrack, and actors' performances, and Shen Teng, as the protagonist in it, gave a very sincere performance, with tears and snot underneath, completely regardless of the image.
The acting skills of comedians are often ignored, "Flying Life 2" allows the audience to see Shen Teng's performance, under the audience's favorite joy, there is also sincere appeal, the ability to interpret small people, and the richer understanding of people after middle age, interwoven into a better actor Shen Teng.
At the premiere of "Flying Life 2", Han Han once said that when preparing for the second part, he was worried that if it was not as good as the first part, it would be better not to do it.
Judging from the current box office** and online ratings, this is a movie that comprehensively surpasses its predecessor.
is a better Han Han and Shen Teng, and it is also a more qualified commercial blockbuster for the Spring Festival. The breakthrough self-pursuit in the play is very burning, and the progress outside the play is also worthy of praise.