As early as when the costume movie "Man Jianghong" was released, many people complained:The miracle of "Man Jianghong" cannot be replicated, because Zhang Yimou's reputation has been consumed by "Man Jianghong".
Although "Man Jianghong" has a high box office, it has borne too much scolding along the way, and was scolded at the beginning for being suspected of stealing the box office and ghost box office.
was also scolded for disrespecting women, and moved the scene of prostitutes saving the country to the movie, putting women under the aesthetics of a male gaze to highlight the male gaze and harvest male audiences.
The last drama encountered so much criticism, Zhang Yimou definitely does not want to be labeled as "disrespecting women" anymore.
So this time in "Article 20", the actress cast is half the sky.
Many beautiful stars such as Ma Li, Gao Ye, and Zhao Liying have joined, and Lei Jiayin is more like a side dish.
On the whole, there are still many highlights of Zhang Yimou's play, and some of them are not lost to "Man Jianghong" that year.
First, from the name of the film to the content of "Article 20", it echoes the legal provisions, and places a number of issues of concern to everyone in the theme of social reality.
Just to do our best to awaken people's attention to legal principles and reasonableness, and also to make people perceive the practical power of the law, from this point of view, there is still a certain sense of social responsibility.
Secondly, "Article 20" handles the comedy part more well, and there is no single trick made into a serious social film, and everyone doesn't want to see overly heavy movies in the Spring Festival.
Therefore, Zhang Yimou's cooperation with Shen Teng and Ma Li is also to make the movie more funny and witty, some of which are really interesting and interesting.
At the end of the movie, the theme was also sublimated, and many netizens believed that Han Ming, played by Lei Jiayin, was expounded at the end of the movie as much as "the whole army recited Man Jianghong" in "Man Jianghong", which became the highlight of the whole movie.
In "The Wandering Earth", Han Duoduo's speech also played a similar role, bringing hope to people and witnessing the power of reality.
However, at present, the box office results of this "Article 20" are slightly embarrassing and cannot become the second "Man Jianghong", and the box office results are trampled under the feet of the animated film "Bear Infested".
There is a reason why this is the case.
The first is that the film itself integrates social cases and warm families, which is a particularly novel idea and gives people a very wonderful feeling.
But it's just limited to novelty, and when the novelty is over, all the flaws will be exposed.
Many people will feel that the movie forcibly creates a comedic atmosphere, but it can't cover the shadow of some tragedy itself.
This kind of tragedy is combined with the whole movie, which makes people a little unsure whether to cry or laugh, and the combination of sensationalism and warmth is not very good, but gives people a cramped feeling, and it is filmed into a hodgepodge of stew.
Secondly, the movie forcibly kicked back the foothold to the word "family", but in fact, it made the same mistake as the previous "Exchanging Lives".
"Exchanging Lives" was about the exchange of life and romantic comedy at the beginning, and in the end, it forcibly kicked back to the theme of family affection and happiness, which made people feel a little confused by the second monk.
If you are not talented and can master any subject matter, it is better not to try to make a movie like this, it is easy to give people the feeling of forcibly catering to the market.
I have to say that Zhang Yimou's Spring Festival stalls in the past two years have brought us different works.
And both works have their own highlights, and it can be seen that he also works hard to make a good movie and tell a good story.
Perhaps from the box office, "Article 20" is indeed not successful enough to replicate the box office results of "Man Jianghong", but it can be regarded as a bold attempt.