Chapter 871 of the Tear-Jerking Director Let Some People Break Their Defenses
Controversy is never a bad thing.
Li Yi never thought "Changjin Lake: Shuimen Bridge" was a perfect movie.
"The more real battles occur in history, the more likely they are to be different from historical reality. After all, movies are not documentaries. Even if they are documentaries, there will be cognitive biases!"
These are Li Yi's original words.
In fact, war movies have always been the easiest to criticize, especially movies that filmed wars decades ago, because many things in that era were only told by those who experienced them.
The truth based on cognition.
What's more, what many people understand and know today are based on the existing foundation. In that era, the background was different from today's, and the technology was extremely different, so you thought and I thought we would never be able to achieve it.
Exactly the same point.
Take chewing gum for example. Many volunteer soldiers at that time had never seen that thing at all, but in the eyes of some unknown viewers, they found it very strange. Why didn't they even recognize chewing gum?
Another example is Wu Wanli's throwing skills. Many people feel that they feel too accurate, and are a bit like an anti-war drama.
But in fact, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, there were indeed combat heroes who relied on the unique skill of using an air blast grenade to annihilate hundreds of enemy troops by one person. This may sound outrageous, but it actually happened.
Li Yi was lying on the lap of Mu Qing, who had become his wife, listening to Director Mu reading a film review to him.
It is mixed with a lot of critical and comparative comments, such as comparing "Sumen Bridge at Changjin Lake" with other movies and TV series, and then coming to the conclusion that "Sumen Bridge" is so bad, saying that this movie is
Harvesting box office in the name of patriotism, etc.
Li Yi was not angry at all, but smiled.
"Why aren't you angry at all?" Mu Qing asked doubtfully, because some critical movie reviews could be said to have denigrated this movie as useless.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
"What's there to be angry about? It's just expected." Li Yi said without opening his eyes.
"An expected thing?" Mu Qing was a little confused.
"Actually, it's normal. Although our country is just different from the past, the cultural hegemony and influence of the United States and the United States cannot be eliminated in a short time. After all, it took people decades to achieve this. In addition, domestic
There is a huge public group that has been dormant for decades, so this is completely normal!”
"As long as it is a main theme movie, especially a blockbuster main theme movie, this situation is very common." Li Yitan said calmly.
"But back then, there weren't so many critics of "Garland Under the Mountain" and "War Meridian"." Mu Qing said a little puzzlingly.
"There are several factors. The story structure of "Garland Under the Mountain" is indeed better than that of the "Changjin Lake" series. The second reason is the difference in the themes of the two movies, although they are both based on historical facts.
The battle is adapted, but it is still very different. Let me ask you, who is fighting in "Garland Under the Mountain"? Who is fighting in "Changjin Lake"?" Li Yi opened his eyes and asked with a smile.
Mu Qing understood immediately.
Li Yi continued: "Actually, many times, you will find that among these critical negative reviews, the most common method is to deliberately use logical traps and pull certain movies to compare the two films. Some threaten to say that as long as our domestic
If the film protection is not cancelled, we will not watch it. Some people like to compare it with a certain TV series, and then say that Changjin Lake and Shuimen Bridge are movies. Otherwise, if we talk about academic or non-academic
, the filming was not up to standard at all, there were a lot of logical loopholes, and then it just kept talking."
Mu Qing turned her head and thought about it, and couldn't help but feel a little shocked, because this was really the case.
"But you will find that when they compare movies or TV series, they never compare them with Hollywood war movies or TV series, because they really have to be more serious. They treat "Changjin Lake" or "Watergate Bridge"
"To the extent that Hollywood movies are also full of all kinds of bugs, they will compare more with domestic movies that are not so popular or not so successful commercially." Li Yi
Said again.
"Why is this? Why is it a less successful work?" Mu Qing asked doubtfully.
"It's very simple, because not many people know about those movies or TV series that are not so well-known and popular. When they compare them, they deliberately treat them with double standards, ignore the shortcomings of those works, and ignore the best of those works.
The shining points are enlarged and then compared with the shortcomings of the "Changjin Lake" series. Because not many people know about those works, they subconsciously feel that what they say makes sense, but what about the reality? And
How many people will really watch those less popular or commercially unsuccessful works?"
"If you take a look, you will find that in addition to the ratings on the Popular Film Critics Network, the ratings of this movie on those ticket-purchasing platforms are actually very high. Of course, I am not saying that the ratings on the ticket-purchasing platforms are necessarily more accurate.
It’s just a different stance.”
"In fact, the public opinion environment that Changjin Lake and Watergate Bridge and the two movies have to face is more complicated than this, because we all know that the movies "Changjin Lake" and "Watergate Bridge" are about old Americans, which is very
Naturally, many people will be emotionally overwhelmed and unable to accept it at all."
"It is mainly the form of output of many cultures and concepts. Movies are a very key carrier, and the output of cultural hegemony is mainly achieved through movies and games. Many people grew up in this environment, so they like to set the pace and work hard.
If you say this is unreasonable, that’s not okay, there’s nothing worth seeing!”
"To put it more simply, among the countries in the world that can make decent movies, it can be said that almost no one dares to make Americans as villains. Of course, this refers to commercial movies, except of course themselves. At most, they only dare to make Americans as villains.
In the movie, a certain person or business organization is the villain, but they never dare and absolutely cannot turn this country into a villain. In fact, this is their cultural hegemony over the world."
Li Yizhen is not talking nonsense, it is the fact.
As long as it's a relatively famous movie and a relatively commercially successful movie, everyone will know it after watching it.
Therefore, whether it is "Changjin Lake" or "Water Gate Bridge", no matter how good your filming is, you will still find faults when you should be critical, and you will still be rhythmic when you should be rhythmic.
This is also why, of these two movies, the box office of the previous "Changjin Lake" was strong enough, right?
However, the rating is not high, because once the rating of this kind of movie is high, there will inevitably be comments such as "trading patriotism" and "over-hyping".
Because some people just can't bear to see this kind of movie become a big hit, or the influence is beyond their imagination!
