Many more literary and tragic viewers watched "Return to Youth" and regarded it as a tragedy, and continued to add many of their own voices to make it into a long and quite sad text.
This is also in line with the trend of society and the Internet. People dismiss positive things and think they are all lies. On the contrary, sad things like this are very much recognized.
Looking at QQ signatures from ten years ago, not many people had positive comments.
It’s not that the young people at that time were all so sad, they just followed the trend and forced themselves to express their sorrow in order to compose new lyrics.
In fact, it is the same now. In WeChat Moments, there are often many people who are very hypocritical and often post sad sentences.
Li Qian considers himself a relatively positive and cheerful person, and he doesn't like others to view his movies in this way, especially when the movie doesn't express that meaning at all.
In road shows and various programs, Li Qian talked a little more.
So, some people agree, some don't, but quite a lot of people are talking about it.
There is such a post on Bhu: "The expression of fate and reality in the movie "Rejuvenation" is negative or positive?"
There have been hundreds of replies below in just one day, making it a quite popular topic.
"Thank you for the invitation. I just came out of the cinema and it's time to share my opinion. First of all, as a semi-professional, I will talk about it from a professional perspective. In fact, the tone of a movie can be seen in its pictures.
For example, in the war movie "Saving Private Ryan", although the war scenes are cruel, the colors are bright, not the usual gray and yellow, and there is a close-up of a green leaf on the battlefield. Therefore, although the protagonist's team is destroyed, the theme of the movie is expressed
Or positive hope and belief.
The same goes for "Return to Youth". It seems to be a tragedy, but in fact it is not. When the whole film recalls the past, that is, the story of all the male protagonists' experiences, the colors are more vivid and bright, especially when the male and female protagonists are together in middle age.
It reaches its peak and the tone becomes richer.
This shows that when Li Qian made this movie, he set the tone and it is a relatively positive movie."
The answer that seemed to make sense was also approved by many people, but there were also professionals who used professionalism to refute him.
"That was the color of the "past", but when it came to the scene where the elderly heroine and her daughter were in the hospital ward, it turned into blue and cold colors, which is the opposite of the past..."
"This is because the heroine is terminally ill, and they are recalling their lover and father who have passed away. They can no longer use bright and cheerful colors. This does not mean anything."
"I think the bright colors of the past are because Li Qian wants to express that the protagonist's process of facing fate and reality is positive, but the final outcome is still negative."
"The ending is not important. As long as you respond positively to life, even if the ending is unsatisfactory, you will have no regrets and will not blame others. This is what Li Qian wants to express."
"I think it's quite right, but no matter what you do, there will still be no good results in the end."
"They all say they have noses and eyes. I'm just talking nonsense here. I've already seen the movie. I can't just talk about my feelings after watching it. Anyway, I was very enthusiastic, excited and moved after watching it. Isn't this all a positive life?
Attitude? In the end, when the male protagonist died, I couldn’t help but want to cry, but that was also a normal death!"
"Anyway, I felt right after listening to what Li Qian said. The future is in our own hands. In the movie, the male protagonist faces misfortune, but he also faces it positively. Isn't his life wonderful?"
"I don't know how you saw it. The war scenes and the mushroom eggs were not exciting. The last Olympic Games and the 60th anniversary military parade in 2009 were not exciting?"
"The emotional scene is still too tragic. I roughly calculated that in the past seventy years, they have only been together for two or three years."
"That's right, but the emotional scenes are particularly negative. The daughter has been born, and the male lead has escaped."
"I think it's okay. If the male protagonist hadn't left, then his daughter wouldn't have a normal father. Other children would definitely make fun of her for having a freak father, which is not good for the child's growth. Maybe there will be a fight.
It tells a bloody story about a young hard-working old father and a rebellious girl.”
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B's call is almost the epitome of online discussions. Some people think that the male protagonist is sad and too negative. Some people think that the male protagonist's behavior is to try his best to prevent himself and his lover from being disturbed by the established reality. I hope they can live well.
Live a normal life.
However, since the director Li Qian has spoken, and there are indeed many exciting scenes in the movie, most people still don't think it is a sad or negative movie.
The movie continues to be a hit, Li Qian continues to promote it, and the audience continues to talk about it lively.
The movie is too long, and there are too many related plots. Many of the plots are long enough to be extended and topical.
For example, those lines in the movie are regarded as classics by movie fans and are pondered over and over again.
However, more viewers were still moved by the movie.
In the community forum of the Future Movie Ticket Purchase APP, the topic with the highest number of replies is: "I cried, but I don't know why."
Countless viewers left their most touching tears in the movie below.
"The sentence that touched me the most was that the male protagonist who became a child actually suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and he said: "I feel like I can't remember what happened before, but I feel as if I have lived a complete life.
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"When he came back to see his daughter and wife, she said, you look really young, but he said, it's just your appearance. I felt very sad when I saw it!"
"I don't know why I'm crying...This is the first time I've cried while watching a movie in a long time...I burst into tears when I saw his daughter reading the letter he wrote to her..."
"I wanted to cry when the old man laughed and talked about his experience of being struck by lightning seven times. I thought I was already unlucky, but I found that I was quite lucky."
"He has been crying since the second half of the episode when he and she had a child. The tears were pouring down and it made my stomach hurt!"
"I don't know why, but I just wanted to cry. I gathered it together bit by bit until it finally exploded!"
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No matter what, touching has always been the first feeling that most viewers have about "Return to Youth", and it is also the most talked about.
With word-of-mouth acclaim and a box office hit, "Rejuvenation" went smoothly and ended its first weekend of screenings without any resistance.
Yesterday, that is, Sunday, and the next day was a working day, the box office decline was minimal. It still achieved a super high box office of 201 million, breaking 200 million for two consecutive days.
Four days after its first weekend, the total box office of "Return to Youth" reached 733 million!
700 million in four days in the first weekend, which is also a new opening record.
As for other movies of the same period, the previous ones such as "A Coquettish Woman Is the Best" and "Once Upon a Time in Heroes Have Dreams" were completely brushed aside by "Return to Youth".
Even if "Return to Youth" is too long and not cost-effective for movie theaters, if it were replaced with other movies, it would be able to line up an extra show and a half a day, but due to the huge gap in attendance, it was ignored by the theaters.
After its first weekend, with its box office, popularity and reputation, no one in the industry doubts whether "Return of the Ages" can surpass "Transformers 4"'s 1.997 billion and become the first mainland movie to break the 2 billion box office.
Two billion. There were only four movies with a box office of over one billion. Now that these two billion have come out, the whole industry is filled with emotion.
It is even a bit embarrassing for other big directors in the industry.
Others are about to break two billion, but you, successful and famous directors, have not even touched the edge of one billion.
Zhang Yimou, who is preparing for the filming of "The Great Wall", was also stimulated by the 2 billion box office. It is not that he pursues box office more, but that as the person who started the era of commercial movies in the mainland, he is so far behind a younger generation. It is really shameful.
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It just so happened that this time the Hollywood studios asked for a pure commercial movie, and it was a commercial theme. Zhang Yimou also made up his mind to make this super blockbuster, which invested nearly 1 billion, into a large commercial production.
Zhou Xingchi, who is far away in Hong Kong, is writing the script for the sequel to "The Truman Show" and is also paying attention to the mainland film market.
My own "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" had just exceeded 1 billion in less than two years, but it was immediately lifted to a higher level, and the box office ceiling was raised to 2 billion in the blink of an eye.
However, Zhou Xingchi is very confident in his own ideas and script, not to mention that it is also a microcosm of himself. Once upon a time, he also hoped to lose all his aura and return to the young and happy Ah Xing.
But, after all, there is no going back!
Zhou Xingchi shook his head, lowered his head and continued writing the script.
In Shanghai, Xu Zheng, who is contemplating the sequel to "Lost in Thailand", is very excited about the box office explosion of "Return to Youth".
Mi Lijian on the other side of the ocean, and Guo Fan observing the special effects production process at Digital Domain's North American headquarters, their faces were full of excitement and excitement.
The three-year period... no matter how long it takes, Guo Fan's days of studying in Hollywood are coming to an end, and he will soon return to China to show off his talents and make the first domestic science fiction blockbuster.
Guo Fan was still a little nervous about such a huge investment, but now Li Qian is about to raise the ceiling of the mainland market to more than 2 billion, and the cost he can afford is also higher.
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Among the major directors, there are some who are excited, excited, disappointed, and some who are very nervous. Jiang Wen and Wu Yusen, who have a movie about to be released, are quite nervous.
Jiang Wen is okay, although Wu Yusen is very confident in his movie, but seeing the box office explosion of "Rejuvenation", I still feel uneasy.
"The Wheel" is about to be released in three days, and Wu Yusen is also constantly running around to promote the movie.
As a rival in the same period, Wu Yusen will inevitably be asked whether he has the confidence to face such a powerful opponent in "Return to Youth".
"Of course, I have been preparing for the movie "The Wheel" for four or five years, and I have been working on it carefully just to satisfy the audience.
This story takes place in a magnificent war at a turning point in the times. The complex human nature reflected in the war is not just a simple shipwreck like "Titanic".
When the tragedy of "The Taiping" happened, China was going through the biggest change in hundreds of years. Everyone was worried and uncertain about the future. No one was in the mood to care about the more than a thousand lives on this overloaded ship. The disaster was nothing more than a disaster.
A small bubble in a pot of boiling water disappears in an instant.
In such troubled times, the fate of individuals is insignificant, whether they are generals or soldiers, doctors or prostitutes, everyone is involuntarily pushed by the world, running counter to their own goals..."
As usual, Wu Yusen boasted about himself, and unlike the previous promotion of "Titanic" from the East, he simply said that "Titanic" has more depth than "Titanic".
There is no way, it seems that the audience is not very interested in Oriental's "Titanic", so we can only promote it more boldly.
Then the host asked about the fact that there are many war scenes in "Return to Youth", and the same is true for "The Wheel". As a rare domestic commercial film, there are large-scale war scenes, and asked Wu Yusen what he thought of it.
In the past few days, I have been asked in interviews many times what he thought of "Rejuvenation". Wu Yusen was also a little disgusted. In addition, he was very unhappy with Li Qian. This time he was his opponent again, so he simply stopped talking about the scene.
He smiled slightly and said, ""Tai Ping Huan" hired the world's top special effects team to shoot the war scenes. I can say that in terms of war scenes, it is definitely world-class. There are still some gaps in domestic war scenes."
There is a gap in civil war dramas. "The Wheel" is world-class, so I just have to say that you are all rubbish and that labor and management are the strongest.
The host's eyes lit up. Isn't this what they wanted to see in the program, so he continued to ask.
Wu Yusen continued, "Actually, I have also watched "Return to Youth", and it is very different from the Beibang War in my impression, especially the three battles between the two armies. You came and I went back and forth. The Zhiyuan Army won for the first time.
, then the second time the Mi Army won, and the third time the Zhiyuan Army won again. It seemed like a contest between two equally matched opponents, but in fact the Zhiyuan Army was far weaker than the Mi Army.
Moreover, the movie does not express the power of the Zhiyuan Army. This view cannot be supported. Except for the sniper played by Zhang Yi, none of the ordinary soldiers are particularly powerful.
I couldn't find any place to support it, and I read a memoir of the American army. In it, a soldier of the American army recalled that when the war started, he could always see countless Zhiyuan troops in all directions.
Soldiers, this is the biggest advantage of the Zhiyuan Army. The human sea tactics drown the opponent regardless of sacrifice.
A miracle in which the weak defeated the strong and relied on countless sacrifices was portrayed in the movie as a war between two opponents of the same level. In fact, this is unnecessary. We should respect history and not just care about our own inner vanity."
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Wu Yusen's interview was immediately posted online intact, both in text and video, and attracted the attention of many movie fans.
Although he has been quiet in recent years, he was still a major international director at that time, a director who directed A-level large-scale productions.
Coupled with those classic films of the 1980s, Wu Yusen's reputation can easily be ranked in the top ten in the Chinese director circle, and he is also a very well-known director to the public.
And in the news in the media, it became something like "Wu Yusen criticized Li Qianqian and Rong Aiguo, and the war drama did not respect history."
Of course Li Qian also saw it, and I don’t know where Wu Yusen got the confidence to talk about war scenes. He knows a lot about hammer wars, but the war scenes in "The Taiping Wheel" were shot like shit.