"Flying Life 2" leads the Spring Festival stalls in terms of word-of-mouth, why did Shen Teng defeat Jia Ling?
Someone once ridiculed that last year's Spring Festival movies "No Name" and "Man Jianghong" are essentially the same story, and both films focus on heroism and family and country feelings, but the era is different and the way to tell the story is different. From this point of view, the two films "Hot and Hot" and "Flying Life 2", which compete for the champion of this year's Spring Festival, can also be regarded as a story, both films focus on surpassing themselves in adversity, with an inspirational core, Zhang Chi played by Shen Teng and Le Ying played by Jia Ling also form a subtle mirror relationship, but the way and result of the characters are diametrically opposite, depending on who the audience can empathize with.
The box office of "Flying Life 2" broke 1 billion.
According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 18:37 on February 12, the total box office (including pre-sale) of the 2024 Spring Festival (February 10-February 17) exceeded 3.5 billion yuan. "Hot and Hot", "Flying Life 2" and "Bear Infested: Reversing Time and Space" are temporarily among the top three at the box office. "Hot and Hot" counterattacked the box office on the second day of its release on February 11, relying on the topic of Jia Ling losing 100 pounds to capture the popularity of social platforms, but the reputation of the Spring Festival stalls has always been led by "Flying Life 2". The subtle competition between the two films at the box office and word-of-mouth brings thoughts on film creation.
A hot-blooded fairy tale for a middle-aged man
Flying Life 2 is the sequel to the 2019 Spring Festival movie "Flying Life", written and directed by Han Han, starring Shen Teng, Fan Chengcheng, Yin Zheng, Zhang Benyu, and Sun Yizhou. The film tells the story of the former champion driver Zhang Chi (played by Shen Teng) who became a down-and-out driving school instructor, and the director of the old man Le Car Factory (played by Jia Bing), who was on the verge of discontinuation, offered to sponsor Zhang Chi to form a team. Zhang Chi summoned his old friends Sun Yuqiang (played by Yin Zheng) and Jixing (played by Zhang Benyu), and formed a grass platform team with talented driver Li Xiaohai (played by Fan Chengcheng) and driving school student Liu Xiande (played by Sun Yizhou), who always failed the second subject, to overcome many difficulties and break into the last Bayin Bruclara Li Race, and among them, the biggest difficulty came from the hurdle in Zhang Chi's own heart.
Flying Life 2
Flying Life" harvested 17. in 20192.8 billion yuan box office, but Douban score 69. The reputation is not high. Although sequels to series movies usually cannot escape the curse of declining word-of-mouth, "Flying Life 2" bucked the trend, with a score of 8 on Douban2, and now there are also 8has a high score of 0, leading the word-of-mouth of the current Spring Festival movies. According to Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 18 o'clock on February 12, the box office of "Flying Life 2" exceeded 1 billion yuan, and the final box office is likely to exceed "Flying Life". This time, Han Han undoubtedly surpassed himself.
Flying Life 2
According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, the proportion of male viewers of "Flying Life 2" is significantly higher than that of other Spring Festival films, and some viewers describe it as "a middle-aged man's bloody fairy tale" and "racing epic". The film's portrayal and performance of racing scenes are among the best in domestic films, especially in the last few dozen minutes, the Bayin Brook Clara part of the race can be called the Chinese version of "Fast and Furious", "cool", "burning", "smooth picture", etc., are all elements of the film to attract the audience, and for the audience who are not interested in racing, or are not interested in the car at all, they may be in a state of boredom most of the time.
Flying Life 2
Flying Life 2
"Flying Life 2" may not be a good story if it can infect the audience. The plot of the film is actually very similar to the routine of returning to the top of the down-and-out fairies that Guoman was keen on before. Compared with the ordinary and even somewhat humble Le Ying in "Hot and Hot", Zhang Chi is a former racing champion who fell from the altar, a bit like Yang Jian, who was injured and lost his divine power in "New God List: Yang Jian".
Flying Life 2
If Le Ying's transformation in "Hot and Hot" is more dependent on hard work, Zhang Chi "figured it out". In "Flying Life 2", he suffered a comminuted fracture all over his body, and even after 5 years, his body still failed to recover from its former state. There are many details in the first half of the film that hint at his poor physical condition, one hand does not even have the strength to twist the cap of the bottle, and when he walks, one leg is slightly lame, and it is obviously difficult to return to the racing track. But when he arrived at Bayinbrook's arena, a sentence of "the car is not ready, I am ready", these big problems seem to have become small problems, hand strength is not enough, Sun Yuqiang helped him pull the handbrake, even in bad hail weather, but also relied on small skills to easily resolve, Sun Yuqiang praised, "Zhang Chi, the impact of the wind and snow on you is always the smallest", how can it not be Zhang Chi's confident inner monologue.
Flying Life 2
Once you figure it out, the matter is settled. In the hot-blooded tough guy film, as long as the protagonist's seal is lifted and the buff is full, even if he braves the rain of bullets, he can block and kill God, Buddha block and kill Buddha, step on the accelerator, and rush all the way to the end, let the opponent be a demon, and the bad weather will not prevent the successful breakthrough of the finish line and win the game.
Interestingly, "Flying Life 2" and "Hot and Hot" use the same expression. When Le Ying walked on the field, through the window glass of the corridor, she seemed to see Le Ying, who had a big belly before, standing opposite, smiling and cheering for herself. When Zhang Chi drove the scarred car to the last section of the Bayingbrook Circuit, it was as if he saw the shadow of the car five years ago, the young self in the car looked back and smiled, and the two cars became one in a dramatic moment and rushed to the finish line. This contrast is also the biggest tear point in the two movies, but the difference is that the former is more to show the transformation and growth of the characters, while the latter conveys a complete reconciliation and relief, which means that Zhang Chi finally tore off the last seal in his heart and officially showed his golden body - just like in the first half of the movie, other characters kept emphasizing, "You are the eternal king of Bayingbrook".
Which one is more inspirational is left to the audience to judge.
Achieve the ultimate in the subdivision circle
Compared to "Hot and Hot", "Flying Life 2" is a more vertical movie, with its audience segmentation, the film spends a considerable length showing the preparation of the car, will discuss in detail how much it costs to form a team, how to test and modify it professionally, and does not waste time explaining the terminology. Zhang Chi was invalid in the Bayingbrook competition five years ago because of the loss of the "lead seal", which also became the biggest hurdle in his mind, but what the lead seal is and what it does, the movie has not been clearly explained. Until Zhang Chi inadvertently found the lead seal in the warehouse of the organizing committee, the grief and helplessness in his heart were vented for a while, the characters had highlights, and the plot foreshadowing was smoothly ended.
Flying Life 2
Flying Life 2
Racing is a subject that Han Han has always paid attention to and is good at, and to some extent, it is also his comfort zone, and becoming bigger and stronger in his comfort zone may be the reason why the film has a higher reputation. This can't help but remind people that once scored 8 on Douban2's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" won the hearts of the audience with its high degree of restoration of the game. As long as you don't have the ambition to "both want and want", a fast-paced storytelling with a smooth narrative can make up for the lack of a clichéd story.
Understanding what the audience wants and what they don't want makes "Flying Life 2" have a feeling of concentration and every punch hitting the point. At the end of "Flying Life", Zhang Chi jumped into the air on Bayinbrook's track, life and death are uncertain, judging from the plot synopsis of "Flying Life 2", the movie was originally intended to tell the story of Zhang Chi's son Zhang Fei who made his life choice in the face of Bayinbrook's disappearing track and the phantom record left by his father more than ten years later. This means that the end of the first part is a tragedy, and the second part will change the protagonist to tell a new story, but the plot of the finished film of "Flying Life 2" has nothing to do with it, the character of Zhang Fei does not appear at all, the protagonist is still Shen Teng, who the audience likes to see, and the perspective is basically focused on him, the movie spends a lot of space to depict several inner changes of the characters in detail, shaping the plump and complete, avoiding the problem of the protagonist's thin growth line in "Hot and Hot" because of the hustle and bustle.
In order to focus on how Zhang Chi broke through himself, the talented racer played by Fan Chengcheng won the second place. The role of the traffic actor also stops, Liu Haoran only has a scene of repairing a car, and Yu Shi who is cut back from the easter egg to the feature film, it is probably difficult to find him except for fans. "Life without regrets" "Flying Life 2" also ensures the coolness of the target audience. Compared with Le Ying, who just wants to finish the game, and finally has to face a losing ending, "Flying Life 2" is obviously cooler and more extreme, since they have already come to the Spring Festival, the New Year is to watch cool movies and make dumplings happily.
The audience strives to find the right fit in the film.
Some people found that according to the filing and publicity information of the National Film Administration, "Flying Life 2" was only approved in April last year, started in September at the latest, and was completed in November, and the production cycle is not long. The filming of "Hot and Hot" lasted for a year, and Jia Ling worked hard to lose 100 pounds in order to shape the character, and the difficulty of filming and production is visible to the naked eye. The scenes of "Flying Life 2" are basically not out of Zhang Chi's driving school, Xindi's car park and Bayingbrook Circuit, and the final racing scene also switches back and forth between the distant scene and the close-up of the characters in the car, compared with the boxing match scene in "Hot and Hot", the sense of "actual combat" is not strong.
Flying Life 2
"Hot and Hot" detonated social topics by "losing 100 pounds", but some people felt that the gimmick marketing was too much, so they lost a lot of popularity. In contrast, the box office and word-of-mouth of "Flying Life 2", which is rarely discussed outside of movies, seems to be more solid. According to the Beacon Pro AI box office**, the final box office of "Hot and Hot" is expected to exceed 4 billion yuan, and it may become the final winner.
During last year's Spring Festival, "Man Jianghong", which was filmed for less than 60 days and did not leave a courtyard in Shanxi, won the heavy industry sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth 2" by relying on market insight and storytelling ability.
With the maturity of the domestic film market, many high-grossing commercial blockbusters in recent years have given people a sense of "calculation". In the end, who is calculating, whether it should be calculated, how to evaluate a movie, and how to be considered a "good work" after being small and big again and again, may be worth thinking more.