Text: Sports Industry Ecosystem, Li Jiajun.Among the several movies released during the Spring Festival this year, "Flying Life 2" not only set the first pre-sale box office, the box office champion on the first day of release, and the total box office exceeded 2 billion, but also won the applause of moviegoers as a well-deserved word-of-mouth dark horse, and the Douban score was also stable at 7A high score of 8.Edited by Yin Hang.
In the Douban short comment area, there are those who express their racing feelings through the plot, those who praise Han Han's progress, and those who resonate from the ups and downs of the protagonist Zhang Chi to his personal experience, and the fairy tale ending like Nirvana rebirth takes care of the general mentality of moviegoers during the Spring Festival, and takes everyone to have a dream about blood and sprints.
But in the midst of the applause, a slightly glaring comment burst the bubble of beauty:
An elderly driver who hadn't raced in five years drove a substandard broken car on the road and finally won the championship. 」
Putting aside the expense line, this comment can be said to be an accurate summary of the main plot of this movie, in this article, we will take a look at how Han Han, as a former professional driver, made such a sci-fi film-style setting seem reasonable and brought the audience into his own racing feelings.
The lost lead seal is a slightly tragic open ending of the previous part, Han Han used a series of quick cutting shots to explain the current situation of the protagonist Zhang Chi: the loss of the lead seal was invalidated, leaving an injury, and partnered with his navigator and technician to open a driving school repair shop, using his identity as an unofficially certified car king as a gimmick to attract customers, just to pay off the foreign debt owed by the operation.
In the first half of the movie, Zhang Chi played by Shen Teng is decadent and marketable, and he wants to make more money by his own skills, even when the owner of the car factory played by Jia Bing comes to the door and wants Zhang Chi to take his son to invest in the formation of a team to participate in the last Bayin Brook Clara Competition, Zhang Chi is also thinking about how to get more oil and water from it for the first time.
In the movie, the change in the mentality of the main characters is often an opportunity, and for Zhang Chi, the lost and recovered seal is this opportunity.
For spectators who don't pay attention to rally events, lead seals can be understood as stickers on the mouth of the bag by takeaway merchants. If the seal is broken or lost after the race, it is impossible to prove whether the car has undergone improper modification after the inspection, and it is precisely for this reason that Zhang Chi's results in the previous part were declared invalid.
And just like the conversation he had with the head of the Bayingbrook race when he found the seal, he had never been sure how much his record of 59 minutes and 58 seconds had until this moment, and he never dared to see himself as the true King of Bayingbrook. But the lead seal placed randomly in the ** station allowed him to regain the confidence to get back on the track and try to win.
Whether it is the retreat when the car detects a problem, or the emotional release after overturning when training alone, or the departure of Li Xiaohai played by Fan Chengcheng from the lithography team that represents the new force, Zhang Chi's every change in mentality has enough weight to support the event node, which is natural and not bloody, which can allow the audience to keep up with the protagonist's thinking in a fast pace and lay the foundation for the outbreak in the second half.
In the era of electrification, Han Han's stubbornness about "primitiveness" is often one of the most concerned parts for sports-themed movies. Although Shen Teng's more and more relaxed acting skills and the overall fast-paced plot left a lot of impression points on the audience, for this movie, the most word-of-mouth is the presentation of the Bayin Brook Claria in the second half.
As the only double annual champion in the history of Chinese professional racing, Han Han said before he started shooting racing-themed movies: In the era of gradual electrification, I want the sound of the internal combustion engine to exist in this world for a longer time.
As we all know, whether it is the world's top event IP such as F1 and WRX World Crossover Rally Championship, or car brands such as Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz, they are actively embracing the spring breeze of electrification and clean energy because of environmental protection and performance optimization, which has also made internal combustion engines and gasoline gradually become the unique feelings of a generation of racing enthusiasts.
In the sequel "Fuel Car Fighting Spirit", the author of the classic racing comic "Initial D", Shuichi Shigeno portrayed a background of the high popularity of electric energy vehicles and autonomous driving technology, that is, oil vehicles have long been eliminated by this world and reduced to a simple racing tool.
Just as Zhang Chi leads the only pure oil team in the all-hybrid team in the film, this Korean romance has been continued in the plot and production of the film, and the loud noise and roar of the internal combustion engine will always be the most present element in the background in the race scenes that occupy one-third of the film.
In order to maximize the roughness and primitiveness of the oil car in the production process, most of the pictures of "Flying Spur 2" are first shot in real time, and then edited and created special effects, action director Luo Yimin said: Han Han's shooting of racing scenes is the highest I have ever seen, and he requires 'to achieve the best effect in every shot'.
It is understood that although Bayinbrook itself is a fictional event, this 100-kilometer-long top-level rally track actually exists in Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, which is a gravel mountain road leading to Hejing County, with a length of 109 kilometers. Some of the scenes in the film are from this area, while the rest of the more intense scenes are taken from the Shanghai International Cross-Country Circuit in Shanghai's Fengxian District. It is worth mentioning that after the release of the movie, the Shanghai International Off-road Circuit, which ushered in the heat, has also developed many racing projects open to the outside world, attracting many racing enthusiasts to experience.
Whether it is the gravel mountain road in Ha Tinh County, or the Shanghai International Off-road Racing Circuit, it is not a professional film shooting base, and some of the shooting environments are too narrow and dangerous, coupled with high-speed racing cars, the more common car rocker arm can not be used, the shooting team will make a large number of unmanned racing aircraft (crossing machine) + high-speed camera technology, and also invite the top crossing machine team led by Wu Yanping, the top domestic pilot, to maximize the visual impact and shooting freedom. In the end, the top live-action footage of scene after scene was presented.
In addition, the special connection between the driver and the navigator is also the most sporty touch of the film. Sun Yuqiang's actor Yin Zheng once joked with Shen Teng in a roadshow: I asked you to go left, do you dare to go right. 」
Although it is a joke, it can reflect the absolute trust between the driver and the navigator, the two in the plot set foot on the track together again five years later, but it still reflects a super high degree of tacit understanding, Sun Yuqiang is every word in the whole process, there is no nonsense, every word can help Zhang Chi in the race situation or psychology, the two sing and harmonize, and the exciting rhythm of the game is more exciting.
In addition to Sun Yuqiang, Liu Xiande played by Sun Yizhou as another champion navigator has also been discussed by everyone. Liu Xiande, as a student who has taken the second subject for two years, not only unconventionally has feelings for his driving school, but also becomes the navigator of professional racing cars, which is somewhat suspected because of the plot, but in combination with the overall plot, this may also be a manifestation of cold romance.
How to understand the unrealistic "cold romance" For the whole movie, the scene of Zhang Chi crying in the car after overturning is one of the most important nodes, which not only pushes the emotions of the whole movie to the climax, the plot goes to the core, but also makes the protagonist change his decadent and unconfident mentality.
According to the plot development in many movies, when the setting itself is difficult to achieve, it usually creates as easy competition conditions as possible for the protagonist, or the improvement of personal ability, or the help of nobles, so as to increase the rationality of the entire story line, but Han Han did the opposite, creating the most difficult road for Shen Teng to win the championship.
During the race, Zhang Chi suffered an old injury and was forced to use his right foot to step on the brakes; Sun Yuqiang's road book was lost in the bumps, and Zhang Chi could only rely on intuition to recognize the curve; Manager Ye of the lithography team, together with other teams and event officials, maliciously blocked Zhang Chi's track and sight; Bayingbrook was hit by a rare hailstorm, which made the already underperforming car even worse.
Everything depends on Zhang Chi's own protagonist aura and super god play. 1462 bends are clearly remembered by Zhang Chi, the stone that caused him to brake and rush down the cliff in the first part is used by him today. And when he really dragged the car that was about to fall apart to the finish line and broke his own record, it was inevitable that people would feel that maybe Han Han never wanted the audience to feel that this was a real and reasonable story, but simply wanted to take the audience to have a hearty dream, as long as this dream was bloody enough and had a sense of substitution.
However, looking back at the entire film industry, from superheroes saving the world, to Diaosi counterattacking to marry Bai Fumei, the film medium plays the role of a dream maker many times, through Zhang Chi, who has been betrayed and trampled on by the rules again and again, this movie released during the Spring Festival can resonate and applaud the general public, making people full of hope and enthusiasm for life in the new year, even if this itself is a fairy tale that deviates from the reality of competitive sports.
And just as you are completely brought into the magical story, the common protective signing strategy in the world of racing and sports, the late driver Xu Lang who appears in the C position of the Bayingbrook Wall of Fame, and the familiar afterimage of GT racing gamers, pull people's minds back to the real world of sports, make people resonate, and make this dream have its unique sense of reality again.
Therefore, when many sports-themed movies in the past used the greatest degree of restoration and tribute as the main melody and selling point, the romantic Han Han and the unrealistic "Flying Life 2" also brought some new ideas and opened up some new possibilities for Chinese sports-themed movies.
Of course, Han Han, who sold 2 billion by romance, also recently revealed that he would continue to prepare for "Flying Life 3", and said that it is appropriate to add more professional elements, and the new work will have a completely different tone from the second part, if so, will you watch it?