Chapter 1,204 The story of the prodigal son turning back?
Although there are many people discussing it, with both praise and criticism, and the topic is hot, local films are still not the mainstream of the market. Although the box office of "Warm Spring" and "Into the Dust" are naturally nothing compared to commercial blockbusters,
However, for local films, both of them successfully grossed over 100 million yuan at the box office, but they have already disappointed many people.
After all, it can be said that for these two films, apart from the director Li Yi, they have nothing to ask for.
And it’s a local film.
It is generally accepted that rural films are not suitable for the commercial market.
Even though "Into the Dust" and even "Warm Spring" are considered to be the best local films in recent years, they still haven't been able to really break out into high box office.
The popularity of "Into the Dust" is not low for those commercial blockbusters, but literary and artistic films are always literary and artistic films, and local films are always local films.
This type of movie has never been very popular in the mainstream market.
For Li Yi, it was enough.
For a movie like "Into the Dust", it is actually more appropriate to go the route of competing for awards, but Li Yi has no idea of taking this film to foreign film festivals to compete for awards.
To be honest, he doesn't particularly like to use this type of film to win awards abroad.
In fact, several major overseas film festivals sent invitations to Li Yi, but Li Yi still declined.
Whether or not he can win an award is one thing. The key point is that he doesn't like this kind of movie to make irresponsible remarks to foreigners.
In the early years, those award-winning literary and artistic film directors were criticized by some people. It was not without reason. You can make such films, but it is not suitable to export them abroad.
At least from a Chinese perspective, it is indeed inappropriate.
In fact, in the early days of the movie's release, Li Yi still had to be busy showing his face and promoting the movie. However, after the movie was released and the topic became hot, he basically stopped going out to promote it.
This kind of movie is different from ordinary commercial movies. The promotion point is actually very limited, and it is also due to the restriction of the subject matter. Therefore, although the box office is considered good or even outstanding among the same type of movies, in fact it is just like that.
Li Yi started to get angry again.
If there is less entertainment, everyone will do the same thing, but it has been more interesting recently.
Suddenly several big news broke out, such and such an actor cheated on his wife, such and such an actress became a good person, etc., and finally a very strange topic broke out.
The prodigal son will never be replaced by gold!
Yes, that's the topic.
It's a very strange topic. The key is that this time the so-called prodigal son's topic is not about men, but about women.
Because several notorious female stars have become good men!
As a result, a lot of news whitewashing these female celebrities appeared on the Internet.
The reason why this topic was raised is because many male actors fell into disfavor immediately after negative news broke.
This triggered a series of discussions about the different experiences of men and women in this regard.
"In the past, when it was said that a prodigal son will never be replaced by gold, he was always talking about men, but now it seems that he is talking about women?"
"Actually, the prodigal son turning back without paying for the money is the same as putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha immediately. You have done too many wrong things. Do you just want to turn back?"
"Then why can those female stars just marry ordinary people, marry honest people, and then turn around, right?"
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From this aspect, it's really interesting.
Li Yi also discussed this topic with a group of friends during a small gathering.
"Actually, the key is not the prodigal son or the prodigal daughter, but the entertainment industry!"
"Yes, as far as the entertainment industry is concerned, their endings are actually the same. When female artists get married, they gradually fade out of the entertainment industry. The same goes for men, but they fade out in different ways."
"It still depends on what the definition of a prodigal is. What kind of things do people do to qualify as a prodigal?"
"Hey, just look at the current film and television works. Who still likes to watch the so-called drama about the prodigal son turning back?"
"There are still some, right? However, the key is to return to the original topic. A prodigal also depends on what kind of prodigal he is. What have you done?"
"Yes, there have been several main theme movies before, and many of them are about prodigal sons turning back and becoming heroes. However, some prodigal sons do things that cannot be forgiven even if they turn back."
"Some small mistakes can be made, but big mistakes are irreversible."
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"People can't do wrong things. Once they do, they may never be able to turn around in their lifetime!"
Suddenly Li Yi blurted out, subconsciously.
Everyone looked at Li Yi with strange expressions in their eyes.
"Why are you all looking at me like this?" Li Yi was speechless.
"We know each other so well? Could it be..." Everyone looked at Li Yi with evil intentions.
Li Yi rolled his eyes. This sentence really came to him suddenly.
However, this was not something he came up with, but a line from a movie.
The same story is about the prodigal son returning home, but this movie is completely different from other prodigal son returning stories.
In other stories, the prodigal son will be forgiven if he turns back, but in this movie, when the prodigal son wants to turn back, it is already too late.
Suddenly Li Yi said: "You think that if a man cheats on his wife when she is pregnant, is it okay for such a man to turn around?"
Chen Weijie and others looked at Li Yi strangely.
"Ahem, don't look at me like that!" Li Yi said with a black line on his forehead.
"I think it should be possible, right?" Chen Wen said hesitantly.
At this moment, everyone turned to Chen Wen with strange looks.
"What about you? What do you think? Xuexiang, from a woman's perspective, what do you think?" Li Yi looked at Chu Xuexiang again and asked.
"If it's just a one-time affair, I guess it depends on the person. I'm afraid most women will choose to forgive, right?" Chu Xuexiang pondered for a moment and said.
As a result, Li Yi said again: "So what if this man, after cheating on his wife, went back to have a verbal argument with his wife, fight her, or even knock her down the stairs and cause premature birth?"
"That's definitely impossible to forgive!"
"No, how can you be a prodigal? This is completely true." Chen Weijie was a little confused about what words to use to describe it.
This time, even these big men felt that such behavior was unforgivable.
"Even if he changes?" Li Yi asked again.
"As you said before, there are some wrong things that you can't go back to. How do you change them? The greatest damage has already been done. How can a broken mirror be reunited?"
"Then you tell me, how do you make a character like this, who everyone knows is a bad man and a scumbag, but can't dislike this film and television character, or even like him?"
"How is this possible?" Everyone shook their heads at this moment.
Li Yi sighed. This was an old movie he just remembered. The male protagonist in this movie was such a scumbag. No one would think he was good, and no one would want to find such a boyfriend! But simply
It's hard to dislike this guy while watching the video.
This is the charm of an actor.
Of course, the reason why that movie became a classic is not that the story tells the story of a prodigal son who never returns money, but that the story is originally about the tragedy of a prodigal son. He really does not deserve to be forgiven, so he paid in the end.
He paid a heavy price, but such a prodigal is really popular with girls. The film is to tell men that even if you look handsome, charming, and unruly young, you will pass. Don’t be a prodigal, and don’t regret it.
People, because regret can't undo anything.
But such a movie is really difficult to make. As Li Yi said before, everyone obviously hates this person and knows that this person is not worthy of forgiveness or sympathy, but they don't hate this character.
Therefore, such actors are really difficult to find.
