Zhu Yilong's "Life", whose major event

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I saw life, but did not touch too much death

Death is a complex concept in the concept of Chinese people. We do n’t do it deeply, and few people hang it on our mouths.

So, will a movie describing the funeral be box office in China?

In December last year, the 81st Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film "Entering the Division" HD Fix 4K version was first released in China for the first time. The final box office stopped 66.227 million. 100 million.

From the perspective of the type, lineup, and production level, the two obviously cannot be compared together, but as a way of entertainment, the audience is obviously unwilling to watch a heavy film describing death in the cinema.

The "Life Event" directed by Liu Jiangjiang and starring Zhu Yilong recently, a funeral movie that was originally settled in Qingming file was dragged to the summer season. The cumulative box office of 10 days exceeded 800 million, and the total number of viewers exceeded 19.98 million.

The answer is in the film: only let the audience see the "life" of fireworks, instead of touching too much "death".

Stills of the movie "Life". Figure/"Life Event" official micro

The urban tenderness behind the five funerals

In strict sense, "Life" is not a typical funeral film, but brings the funeral elements into a tender urban story. This story is full of conflicts and comedy elements, which eventually resonates with the audience.

Director Liu Jiangjiang has obsessions on the subject of funeral. His grandfather is a carpenter. Occasionally, he will help the villagers to make coffins and operate the funeral. He followed his grandfather to participate in the funeral since he was a child, which impressed him.

Such experience also allowed him to have a life insight that ordinary filmmakers never had in the process of shaping the story and role, and added a lot of authenticity for the profession of the funeralist in the film.

The plot of "The Great of Life" is not complicated. Mo Sanmei, the protagonist played by Zhu Yilong, released, took over his father's funeral shop, and encountered a little girl Wu Xiaowen (Yang En You) on the way out. Coincidentally, Wu Xiaowen's custody right was obtained. The film presents the process of the two from each other to mutual salvation. The meticulous emotions present are very moving, and many audiences even expressed their willingness to "two brush" movies.

The shape of actor Zhu Yilong in the film, gold chain, flower shirt, and big pants is obviously distinguished from his clean, upright and handsome idol character.

Shooting in Wuhan, the use of Wuhan dialect throughout the process also added a market atmosphere to the characters. The audience saw Zhu Yilong, who "wiped the sense of celebrity", and made progress and requirements in shaping characters.

However, under the situation of tenderness, the turning point of the plot seemed to be stiff and hasty, and it is not uncommon for the bridge section of "sensationalism for sensation."

For example, the sensational paragraph of "Mo Sanmei's rainy night chasing the car", although compared to the operation of Mo Sanmei's hiding partner to return Wu Xiaowen to the biological mother, it can clearly express Mo Sanmei's feelings for Wu Xiaowen, but still seemed deliberate.

The whole article showed five funerals, namely the death of Grandma Xiaowen, the middle -aged couple's funeral daughter, the elderly funeral funeral, Mo Sanmei's ex -girlfriend husband died in a car accident, and Mo Sanmei's father died.

The audience carefully watched the remains after the repair, and they could still see the cotton wool in the nose and nose, but the overall restoration of the funeralist's method is relatively completely restored, which is more real.

The description of these five funerals is wrapped in the shell of the funeral theme. The kernel is the emotional changes of Mo Sanmei and Wu Xiaowen. Discuss the concept of life and death and values.

Stills of the movie "Life". Figure/"Life Event" official micro

With tears and tears in tears in laughter

Funeral themes are called very limited themes by many filmmakers.

The result of great limitations is that the box office is uncontrollable. In this movie market, there are many cases of box office reputation failure, which makes filmmakers look more cautious and conservative in dealing with the subject matter and content.

In fact, it is not uncommon to think about life and death in the international film industry. War films such as "Save the Great Soldiers Ryan", love films such as "Titanic", and comedy films such as "A man named Ouwei decide to die", which can make the audience think about death.

Even Pixar's animated work "Finding Dreams" is also a topic of life and death. "If no one remembers you in the world of living people, you will disappear from this world. This is called the ultimate death."

Japan and South Korea with the same cultural tradition as China, the description of death in the film is two ways. The former is used to the use of martial arts to give decentness and dignity for life, while the latter likes to die again and again through deaths and dignity. Let's reveal social reality issues.

Since the 1990s, domestic directors handled the funeral theme of life and death, and almost chose "black humor".

It was released in 1993. The film "Filial Son and Sun's Sunda to wait for", directed by Chen Peisi and Zeng Jianfeng, tells the story of the second little mother who was afraid of being buried by Chen Erxiao after death, and the second little old man used fake death to make a funeral. "Fake death" has a natural sense of humor. Chen Peis, Zhao Lirong, Ding Jiali, and Wei Zongwan also dedicated their superb acting skills.

The scene of "fake death" was once again used by Feng Xiaogang in the movie "Big Whenee" in 2001. Director Taylor asked You You (played by Ge You) to operate a comedy funeral for him, thus creating a series of laughter stories. Stills of the movie "Big Wheel"

The movie "False Leaf Return" starring Zhao Benshan in 2007 was also the story of the burial of the caring worker's corpse, wrapped in the comedy shell. To this day, the robber paragraph played by Guo Degang in "The Roots of the Leaf" also caused a two -creation boom in social media.

Under the grand propositions of life and death, the conventional operation of domestic films is to escape and do not face up to face. It is accustomed to passing life and death in the black humorous skin to convey its own personality expression, rather than life and death, and interpret life and death.

What Chen Peis is expressed in the process of urban -rural integration, traditional and modern splitting, and irony pursuing the pursuit of face.

Feng Xiaogang may be more abundant, and art products are implanted in advertising, disrespectful intellectual property rights, and commercial hype were stuffed into the fake funeral.

"Is the patient crazy or the doctor is crazy?" That paragraph can still cause people to think today.

"Falling Leaf Return to Roots" is even more vague. Lao Zhao, who has experienced the "1981 Difficulty" along the way with the corpse of the worker, finally returned to the hometown of the workers with the cremated ashes, but it has been demolished there, and the workers are left on the broken door panel. "Dad, we moved ..."

Stills of the movie "Falling Leaf Return"

When "tears in laughter" became our standard for comedy "high level", "laughter in tears" seemed to have become the standard for funeral themes.

Due to the restrictions on themes and review, the absurd funeral arranged by the predecessors, more or less personal expression and thinking, are uniform in "Life".

The extension of life and death in "Life" not only did not take a step forward, but even retracted the tentative legs, as if for fear that one step forward would affect the box office.

So in "Life", it is full of emotions such as "coming to the audience, we cry together", and life and death cannot see that it is a "big event."

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The box office sales of "Life" have made "special theme+warmth" a way to break through the domestic plot film again. Compared with the big production and big card that once made the audience buy, emotional resonance seems to be a domestic plot in the near future for a period of time. The only way to succeed in the film. From "My Sister", to "Send You A Little Red Flower" and "Life Event", this is the way.

Unwilling to think too much in the cinema has also become the main demand for the current audience. And "Life" is also considered the needs and preferences of the audience.

Want to see the fireworks and give the full format on the streets of Wuhan; I want to see the true feelings of the world, and give you the story of the person who releases the orphans of the person who releases the orphans; I hope that fresh meat will transform, shave your short hair, and Zhu Yilong with the golden chain; pay attention to the special industry; pay attention to the special industry He was discriminated against and created a new word "person who planted the stars", and had to say that the director was too smart.

It is scheduled to be released in the Qingming file and was dragged to the summer stall. Today, in addition to the "Dinosaur" ("Jurassic Park 3" from Hollywood ("Jurassic Park 3") around Hollywood, there will be no opponents. event".

After people have experienced more than two years of epidemic life, it is not difficult to understand that the movie will have such a routine. "Support each other, understand, and help, and eventually achieve reconciliation with others and reconcile with themselves." The emotions that these audiences feel from the film are the lack of and desire in their lives in the past two years.

From this perspective, "Life" has done it. Just like the director Liu Jiangjiang was interviewed, "The Chinese funeral is to cure people who live."

Perhaps, for life and death, the Chinese do not need to be a heavy interpretation, but more needed cure.

At the moment, it is obviously more than just life and death.

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Edit: Hu Yun

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