Wandering Earth is known as the carriers of Chinese science fiction movies.(Network photo)
The New Year's Day of the Spring Festival, the carnival of Chinese movies.
A wanderer of the science fiction movie that is not suitable for the Spring Festival atmosphere, but under the support of the high reputation, it completed the box office counterattack.By the fourth day of the New Year (February 8), the box office had exceeded 1.1 billion yuan (about S $ 20 million), becoming the first box office.
Wandering Earth is known as hard nuclear science fiction.The film has invested more than 50 million US dollars. Although it is not too high in Hollywood and the Chinese film and television industry, which is not expected to burn money, the brilliant scenes, storyline and logical narratives showed the Hollywood blockbusters.The word -of -mouth box office doubles is reasonable.
Wandering Earth's word -of -mouth and box office are obtained by benchmarking Hollywood blockbusters.In short, Hollywood blockbusters are the gold standards of Chinese blockbusters.In the first 10 years of this century, the fifth -generation director Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang collectively learned Li An's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, setting off a wave of martial arts blockbuster (Oscar) boom.However, these Olympic films have a magnificent scene, and the narrative of the story is insufficient, causing the audience to mockery.This wave of bidding also allowed China to enter the era of commercial blockbusters. China's large box office began to gradually move from 100 million+to hundreds of millions of+, even billions of+.In 2018, the box office of Chinese films was 60.976 billion yuan, surpassing North American box office first.
This means that the Chinese filmmakers have already been well played in the big production and big scene of American Hollywood blockbusters.The huge audience group, the grand market and the capital of the huge market, and the capital of the film and television industry have also allowed Hollywood to pay attention to the Chinese market. From the initial Chinese elements, the Chinese movie star served as the green leaves to the true paid tribute to the Chinese market.It is also difficult to get rid of the iron law of capital and market.
In this regard, the British Guardian once said that in order to please China, Hollywood surrendered to Chinese art.Hollywood movies, as American cultural products MDASH; mdash; symbols of soft power, have been regarded as American cultural aggression in Europe.Chinese Olympic Movies prevailed and the audience was obsessed with Hollywood blockbusters. It was also ridiculed by domestic filmmakers and film reviewers to surrender to Hollywood for Chinese films.In fact, this is the common cultural anxiety brought by strong cultural products.
The influence, soft power, and national hard power of film and television cultural products have a logical relationship.The market influence and integration of Sino -US film products is the strength of China and the United States, or a refraction of deep interest.Interestingly, no matter how anxious the Sino -US film and television culture collides, it is an indisputable fact that the Chinese commercial blockbuster uses the United States as the reference.Hollywood values the box office power of the Chinese market and audiences.Sino -US films are actually win -win.
The wandering earth is known as the masterpiece of Chinese science fiction movies, and is regarded as a new era that has opened up Chinese science fiction movies.The word of mouth and box office of this film even attracted the attention of Cameron, a well -known American director who directed Titanic Terminists and Avatar.He wrote on the new Weibo, wished the tour of the earth's space for a smooth journey, and wished Chinese science fiction movies a good luck.In this regard, Guo Fan, director of the wandering earth, paid tribute to the card god (Cameron) and emphasized that the small ball was broken. You must remember that your uncle will always be your uncle.
Guo Fan's tribute to Cameron is precisely the portrait of the wandering earth's difficulty of removing the narrative of Hollywood science fiction blockbusters.The special effects of the film are completed by American companies. The scene layout is also a replica of the Hollywood science fiction blockbuster. The person who saves the world.The role is also the common earth MDash; the universe mdash; the national mdash; the team mdash; the friend Mdash; the disaster and love in the context of the family.These are the essential elements of the Hollywood blockbuster, and are the commercial guarantees that have been tried and tested in the North American and Chinese markets.
In this regard, Chinese science fiction movies have just started, and they have just reached the standard of Hollywood movies in the production level and film narrative.That is, Director Guo Fan said: We are far away from that (Star Trek crossing Avatar). Just starting, he is a person in a kindergarten of a primary school student, and he is a college student.Therefore, we can't do the interstellar crossing at all in the industrial standard, and Avatar is still far away.
Nevertheless, wandering earth is not easy.If the film has achieved a good market effect in the North American market, it means that Chinese science fiction movies have achieved real market success.After all, as a student's Chinese science fiction movie, it is recognized by the teacher to be a real success.Interestingly, the interests and market competition of Sino -US films also involve complex relationships at the two levels of the country and the people: the country level, the United States has become more and more impatient to Chinese students, and it has begun to hurt.To prevent blue from blue; at the folk level, American audiences are still indifferent to Chinese films, while Chinese audiences are polarized. On the one hand, high -profile praise Chinese movies surpass Hollywood blockbusters, and on the other hand, audiences support Hollywood blockbusters.This can get a glimpse of the controversy of Chinese audiences on Douban.
A science fiction film will also extend to the level of Sino -US relations, which just reflects the complex relationship of Sino -US relations.
Although the wandering earth is full of marks of American stunts and narratives, there are also Chinese feelings that Hollywood science fiction blockbusters do not have.Earth -disaster -style Hollywood science fiction blockbusters, Americans' model is to discard the earth, or find new homeland, or colonial planets.Even the earth disaster model is often the result of alien invasion or human war (nuclear explosion, environmental destruction, self -killing).
However, the disaster of the wandering earth stems from the aging of the sun rather than human reason, which reflects the interpretation of the relationship between Chinese traditional culture and nature.In addition, for the earth disaster, China's treatment is to bring the earth's wandering, and it even highlights the family and country feelings of China.In addition, although the wandering earth is written by the heroism of the Chinese to save the earth, it emphasizes the concentrated leadership of the United Government and the units of the people of all countries.This is also essentially different from the Hollywood blockbuster's public heroism.
Wandering Earth is a science fiction movie for the use of physical West, which contains rich meaning and is worth seeing.
(The author is a senior researcher at the China Chahar Society, a guest researcher at the Chongyang Financial Research Institute of Renmin University of China)
