Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian has seen a film like "I Am Legend", and the film itself can be said to be somewhat similar in concept to "The Bellucci Family's War" that Jia Hongjian made in such a time and space - it is all about the world A story of survival after the collapse.However, the film Jia Hongjian made was based on the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. It talked about the war destroying the modern society, and then the order of a city disappeared, followed by the struggle between people.What Jia Hongjian wanted to say was that in such an environment of "the end of the world", human nature is wiped out or people's sociality is greatly reduced, and the trust between people is almost gone. Death is such a story of dissecting human nature.

As for "I Am Legend", it is basically the definition of a traditional American zombie film - it is strange to say, I don't know why Americans like zombie themes so much, there will be a zombie film of this type almost every few years films.The protagonist always fights zombies with all kinds of weapons, even in movies like "World War Zombies", there are as many zombies as sea water, overwhelmingly rushing towards the human stronghold, and then the protagonists hold all kinds of weapons. Weapon strafing zombies.Not only do Americans like zombie themes in movies, but even in the field of TV dramas, there will be a "The Walking Dead" in a few years, which is also a story about zombies everywhere and human survival.Even in the field of games, there are so many zombie-fighting games in a mess!Moreover, this kind of zombie-fighting game is just in line with the car-gun-ball style of American games—everyone says that Americans like to drive, shoot guns and play ball games, so this kind of zombie game is really popular in the United States. !

And such a "I Am Legend" is also a fictional story about zombies everywhere - ignorant human medicine invented a new virus that can cure cancer, but the virus mutated and turned the infected humans into living zombies .A sudden outbreak of a large-scale virus spreads so fast that no one can stop it. No one knows where the source of the terrible virus started. They only know that it is irreversible, irreversible, and incurable. The important thing is that it is artificially created.Colonel Robert Neville was a brilliant pathogen scholar in New York City who served the U.S. military.He spearheaded the government's investment in vaccines against epidemic diseases.Seeing the virus raging in the streets, there is nothing we can do.

This airborne virus eventually enveloped the entire city at an unstoppable speed, so that the president could only order the blockade of the Long Island area, and only those who were not infected could leave the island.One can imagine.This approach caused great panic among the citizens, and New York City suddenly fell into chaos.In anxiety, Robert sent his wife Zoe and 7-year-old daughter Mary to the helicopter out of the city, but witnessed the tragedy of their death in front of him.At such times, death may be the best option, because those who were infected did not die.The body has mutated, becoming a terrible creature, living in the darkness and shadows underground of the city, avoiding the sun-they have the most primitive desire for fresh blood and flesh.Then the protagonist lives alone in the deserted New York City. During the day, he can go to various shops at will, play golf on a fighter jet, and collect all the jewelry in the city to his home. At night, he could only stay in his "fortress" and watch all kinds of monsters come out for food.

In such a play, there is a scene that makes Jia Hongjian feel very moving - the protagonist is researching antiviral serum.A zombie was caught by designing a trap, but the capture angered the zombie crowd.Later, the zombie also designed a trap at night, so that the protagonist was hung up by a noose during the day and fainted at the same time.When the protagonist woke up, it was almost dark, so he hurriedly found a knife to cut the rope hanging from him, but when he fell, he hurt himself.At the same time, those zombie dogs of the zombies also began to appear. During the fight, the protagonist’s dog was bitten. After killing the zombie dog, the protagonist quickly took his own dog home. As a result, while reassuring the dog that it will be fine, he slowly saw himself The dog mutates into a zombie dog.In the end, he reluctantly took the life of his pet dog himself.

When he saw this, Jia Hongjian was really moved, and Will Smith's performance here is also quite good.Later, after losing his beloved dog, Will Smith became frantic.Feeling that life is no longer meaningful, he simply drove out at night to find the Night Demon and died together. As a result, when he was about to be killed by the Night Demon, a bright light suddenly came on and the protagonist was rescued.Insert the plot at this time, it turns out that three years ago when the protagonist's wife and child were sent away.Because of a problem with the newly released testing equipment, infected people with an incubation period boarded the plane, and then mutated on the plane. As a result, a helicopter staggered and collided with the plane of the protagonist's wife and children.

The protagonist wakes up again and finds that there is actually a woman and a child in the room.The two said that they came to look for it after hearing the broadcast from the protagonist, but they couldn't find the protagonist after waiting for a whole day at the agreed place during the day.Then the protagonist showed the woman the zombie he had caught, and said that the zombie had improved to a certain extent, and it should be that the serum he developed had an effect.But at this moment, he heard a voice outside the door, and he hurried to the window to have a look, only to see that the outside was surrounded by zombies - it turned out that the woman didn't wait until dawn when she rescued him, and she didn't take any measures to destroy the zombies. The breath of the neighborhood, so these intelligent zombies tracked to find their home!In the end, when the zombies besieged the city, the protagonist and the others were forced to go to the underground laboratory. The protagonist drew out a tube of blood from the zombies that he caught and had started to improve, and gave it to the woman, saying that there were antibodies in the blood, so he took it out and gave it to the woman. Let the people in the gathering place of normal people continue to study, and then the protagonist will let the women and children run first, and he will buy time after breaking up alone.And after the break, the protagonist takes a grenade to die with the zombies...

To be honest, such a scene actually has a lot to watch. For example, at the beginning, he was hunting deer in the city with a shotgun, and even saw a lion catching small animals in the city to eat!Coupled with the empty metropolis of New York, it really gives people a very eye-catching feeling-after all, modern people have become accustomed to the feeling of crowds in big cities, and suddenly there is no one in the whole big city, empty vision The effect is really amazing!

But other aspects... This drama is a bit lacklustre.On the one hand, it is the traditional routine of the struggle between zombies and humans, which has nothing new at all.Although it is said that this play has given a new definition to zombies-let them have IQ, and even behave as if they are a new species, but this is also very routine!Because such a thing as a robot having an IQ, that was an idea that had already appeared decades ago!Robots have self-awareness, and then they are like a new species, so the struggle between the new species and human "slave masters" often appears in various science fiction films related to robots!And "I Am Legend" is nothing more than installing such an idea on zombies, so that zombies have IQ and consciousness, which looks like a new race.Such a setting is actually okay, the problem is that the feeling of the zombie itself is different from that of the robot!Especially in the previous movies and TV dramas, the zombies are the stuff that can eat people without a brain, and they belong to the category of monsters!As a result, now that they have brains, the audience can suddenly accept that zombies are a new race and treat each other as equals... that is really impossible.In this way, it is impossible for the audience to feel thoughtful after watching the movie, and think that zombies can also be a new species of human "evolution".

So in such a film, there are actually relatively few places for people to think about.On the other hand, although the various gimmicks were done well before the release, the progress of the whole drama is a bit slow, and the highlights are not enough. Although the director and actors have made great efforts to make the film as attractive as possible , but in the end the story itself is still too thin, and Jia Hongjian feels a bit like he has forced a 15-minute micro movie into a 90-minute big movie!So is Jia Hongjian's feeling the same as the market reaction?Jia Hongjian doesn't remember the reaction to such a film in history, because at that time the media didn't seem to be reporting the film's record-breaking box office, and Jia Hongjian didn't specifically look for the film's results.

And in such a time and space, the box office of this film on the first day of its release is really not that good!The movie was released on December 12th, which was a Friday. Logically speaking, the box office should have been very good after it was released, but the movie only grossed 14 million US dollars on Friday!Premiere, only $3000 million!On the next day, Saturday, the box office hadn't risen yet, but it was 3000 million!As soon as Jia Hongjian saw this, he understood that it was absolutely impossible for this drama to exceed 2800 million box office. If it can reach the North American box office of more than 3 million, it is already very good!According to the publicity, the production cost of such a movie is 2 million US dollars, which means that the North American box office of more than 1.5 million yuan is basically enough for this movie to pay back!

Although it is said that it is possible to make money in overseas markets and in the field of DVD sales and rentals, Warner Bros. definitely didn't think so when investing in this film!People are willing to invest 1.5 million US dollars, so they must make more money if they want to make more money. It is best to make money from the North American box office, and then make a lot of money by relying on overseas box office and DVDs!As a result, what they are doing now is just a small profit. Will this satisfy others?

And on the next Saturday, Jia Hongjian and Nolan's "Inception" also began to be screened at night... (~^~)