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Chapter 569 Fighting the Wolf
Soon the fourth weekend of August from 21st to 27th will be over. In the latest North American weekend box office list, the champion is still the world's most popular cartoon "Frozen".

And the new film "Allied Spies" took away the runner-up position of "Rage Rescue" last week with US$4642 million. As a spy blockbuster with a production cost of US$8500 million, the first week's results did not satisfy the Hollywood giant Paramondo. Fortunately, critics and audiences have a good reputation for this movie. It seems that the box office next week is expected to reach more than 5 million US dollars. In the end, it is basically no problem to win 1.5 million at the North American box office. As for the box office results, it is estimated that there will be a result of 2.5 million to 3 million US dollars, which is not a big problem.

In the fourth week of release, "Rage and Rescue" slipped to the fifth place on the North American weekly box office list with a score of 1813 million US dollars. The box office trend fell by 57% compared with last weekend, but this is enough to increase his total North American box office. At 3 million U.S. dollars, this achievement is already a huge profit for the investors of "Rage Rescue".

But for "Rage and Rescue", its box office harvesting journey in North America is coming to an end, and there is another week when it will end its North American screening, and the next week's box office will be several million at most It looks like it!It has little effect on its global box office total!
In front of "Rage and Rescue" is "Purge 3" which ranks third with 3512 million. With good reputation and attendance, it can be predicted that there will be a higher box office result in the next week; The new work "Supermodel", starring many second-tier Hollywood stars, ranked fourth with 21, 2% freshness and 59% likes, indicating that this is a disappointing comedy movie.

This weekend, "Rage and Rescue" not only did its best to grab the final box office in various theaters in North America, but also harvested banknotes with different designs on big screens all over the world, as well as praise and praise from fans. talk.In Australia, it received 366 million weekend box office; the United Kingdom 526 million, Germany 252 million, Mexico 3 million, RB, South Korea, Malaysia-the combined overseas weekends of dozens of countries have a total box office of 5 million US dollars.

This figure will decrease as the release date gets longer, so this figure is acceptable to investors and publishers, because before that, they have already won too much box office!

However, compared to the box office in North America and other parts of the world, the Huaxia market is what matters in the end. After all, for Ning Sheng, this is his fundamental place.

However, in China's new week's box office rankings, "Rage and Rescue" has also been squeezed by several new films, and has slipped to the fourth position, ending the previous week's screenings with only 5689 million.

As for the cause of everything, Ning Cheng had expected it long ago. It was Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2", which no one cared about before. The summer file exploded in [-], and all the movies that are currently being released and those that have not yet been released are in a panic and dizzy!

Breaking through 2 million on the first day, there is not much movement. After all, in the current Chinese film market, it is normal for summer movies to break [-] million on the first day. However, when "Wolf Warrior [-]" broke [-] million on the first day, nearly two [-] million, broke [-] million on the third day, continued to [-] million on the fourth day, directly exceeded [-] million on the fifth day, directly exceeded [-] million in a single-day box office on the sixth and seventh days, approaching [-] million After the mark was finally broken before zero o'clock on the seventh day, the media all over the country finally woke up after being stunned by a thunderstorm, and everyone went crazy in an instant!

""Wolf Warrior 2" is very similar to Hollywood movies such as "The Expendables", "First Blood" and even "Hacksaw Ridge". The biggest highlight is the combination of patriotism and action scenes. Wu Jing's fighting scenes Fist to flesh, and a variety of advanced weapons and equipment appeared in turn, coupled with the plot of saving compatriots and refugees in a foreign country, all kinds of large-scale war scenes reappeared, completely hitting the audience's burning point!" - Maggie, Hong Kong "Ming Pao" .

""Wolf Warrior 2" is a movie with both commercial and main themes. On the one hand, the scenes of various fights and explosions make people's adrenaline rush; on the other hand, the story itself can arouse people's inner patriotic enthusiasm. Viewers watched "Wolf Warrior 2" and got visual and spiritual shocks at the same time, it can be said that they fulfilled two wishes at once." - Yang Zifei, Shanghai Entertainment News.

""Wolf Warrior 2" is a blockbuster movie with the flag of patriotism flying high. No matter how courageous Leng Feng is, if there is no powerful state machine to act as a dragon, no matter how dangerous he is alone, it is nothing more than personal heroism shaking his prestige. The good thing about this film is that amidst the hail of bullets and the eye-stimulating and eardrum-shocking audio-visual spectacle, it seems that individuals and groups are loving each other and embracing each other affectionately." - Liu Dawei, "Asian Film News".

""Wolf Warrior 2" triggered a movie-watching boom. The popularity of this movie is like a "road show" of the image of Chinese soldiers and national strength in the international community. Through this "road show", China has shown Chinese soldiers to the world" A wolf warrior for a day, a wolf warrior for life" is also declaring to the world from a new perspective-"The prosperity of China is the strength of world peace and the positive energy of friendship." ——Han Hong, "Didu Film and Television News".

In addition to the media, Chinese audiences who have watched the movie are as if they have opened a crazy character in the game. They are excited to recommend this movie to every friend, and they are "tap water" on the Internet. Take the initiative to promote the film, publish various film reviews and your own impressions after watching it!
One of the netizens named Dragon Soul left a message on Douban with emotion, "The enlightenment brought by "Wolf Warrior 24" with 2 billion in a single week: those who win emotions win the box office! The Chinese film market, as far as the summer vacation is concerned, the overall It was bleak. In August, there was only one "Rage Rescue" and a co-production "Pen Fairy 5". In the newly released movie, some people raised expectations for Sawyer Films' "The Evil Man's Announcement", and some people were full of longing for comedy superstar Huang Bai's new crime film "Master of Memory", but no one thought that "Wolf Warrior 5" could be a good match for the movie. How important is the box office of the summer file.

However, this week's box office is out, let everyone see that when "Rage Rescue" and "Pen Fairy 5" are about to end, only "Wolf Warrior 2" can save the game, and its box office is soaring. It shocked everyone.

As a person in half the industry, after going through the ups and downs, I have a vague idea in my heart: the domestic film market is undergoing a transformation from "feelings" to "emotions".

In the past, everyone loved to say "feelings", but the word "feelings" is loose in meaning, and it is estimated that few people can explain it clearly by methods other than examples.In my opinion, the so-called "feeling" that everyone refers to simply means the mood of striving for something, even at all costs.This thing can be a certain song, a certain experience, a certain novel, or more precisely, the feeling when listening to a certain song, experiencing a certain event, or reading a certain novel.

These feelings are difficult to be completely and accurately recorded.The work of "feelings" in the movie is to try to reproduce these feelings.From this aspect, "IP" movies are undoubtedly works of emotion.For example, the movies "The Legend of Wukong" and "Three Lives III", as "IP" movies, the name is the brand. Most of the fans who go to the movies for the title of the movie are to find in the movie the memory of those who first read these movies many years ago. The various feelings of the original novel.

Compared with the bigness of "feelings", the semantics of "emotion" are small and more specific.Although it is small, it can also include the mood and feelings referred to by the word "feeling".

"Emotions" are joy, anger, sorrow, and fear. With the rhythm of "Wolf Warrior 2", it is good at mobilizing the audience's emotions. People who have watched it, no matter whether they are positive or negative, will have emotional waves.Taking "Wolf Warrior 2" one step further, the deeper emotions under the joy, anger, sorrow and fear are concern and regret.

Those who care, such as the National Games.Just look at the present, movie audiences, even those who claim to be the least concerned about politics, must be concerned about the future direction of the nation's destiny, because after all, it is related to their own food and wealth. The whole film of "Wolf Warrior 2" is answering this question in its own way. Maybe you disagree with its way, but the point of view seen by [-] million viewers has been put here.You have cared about the questions answered by this point of view, so you can't ignore it, and you can only join the discussion either intentionally or unintentionally.

Those who are regrettable, such as the martyrs who were forcibly demolished, Leng Feng and Long Xiaoyun who cannot be together; or when the missiles on the warship flying towards the head of the villain are launched, many people probably still think of being defeated by the great powers in the low tide of China more than 100 years ago. Regrets at sea.Therefore, apart from movies, netizens will also pay special attention to news events such as my country's new aircraft carrier, warship escort, and warship evacuation.

This is probably the case with every human emotion.So those who get emotions get box office. "

There is also a professional film critic Wu Qi's comment is also very interesting, she said, "Wu Jing was consecrated when he made this film, right?!

This is the most pertinent evaluation of "Wolf Warrior 2" I have seen.

To be honest, "Wolf Warrior 1" seems to me to be a water-testing work by a director who has just entered the industry.At the beginning, I didn't intend to watch this movie. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, "The Evil Man's Annunciation", which women voters want to see, has a good reputation, so I changed to watch "Wolf Warrior 2" temporarily.To be honest, it really doesn't look like it was filmed by the same director!
If "Wolf Warrior 1" is a military-themed patriotic film, the sequel is completely in the mode and routine of a Hollywood popcorn movie.If it wasn't for the expert guidance behind it, it can only mean that in the past two years, Wu Jing has suddenly been enlightened on the career path of directing, and the blessings of various halos will have the effect he has today.

Characters: From Special Forces to 007
At the beginning of the film, the director transformed Leng Feng from a soldier in the first film to a "retired special soldier" through the design of the plot.Please note that this identity is very important. On the one hand, it can draw a clear relationship with the country's image and endow the characters with high flexibility; on the other hand, the identity of special forces is also a necessary prerequisite for many subsequent fierce battles.Therefore, in Hollywood blockbusters, many images are based on retired special forces.

From "Wolf Warrior 2", you can see Wu Jing's ambition. Leng Feng is not just an excellent Chinese special soldier, he wants to build him into a lonely hero like 007 and Captain America.

Supporting roles: single to colorful

Except for the sacrificed comrade who talks about his daughter every day, do you still remember the other supporting roles in "Wolf Warrior 1"?After I came out of the theater, I reviewed this film again. The director gave some characteristics to Leng Feng’s comrades-in-arms, including a man who spoke broken Mandarin...what’s his name?You see, [-]% of you will not remember their names.

In the first part, the director hoped that the supporting role would not become a public image of facial makeup, but the way of handling it was obviously not ready enough.But "Wolf Warrior 2" is different, not to mention the big supporting roles such as Secretary Dakang and Mr. Yutang, the duplicitous Uncle Yu, the black kid whose mouth is always full of food, and the black aunt who is a meatball. The images are vivid.This is due to the fact that everyone has their own label, and such labeling is also a routine owned by mature movies.

If you take another look at the types of characters, you will find that many supporting roles in Hollywood movies are matched according to this model.One is in charge of supporting strength, one is in charge of showing growth through experience, and the other is in charge of adding laughs --- so you said, such a big leap in strength, if it were you, would you be surprised?
Intention: Echoing back and forth to run through the audience
"Wolf Warrior 1" also uses intentions to bury the ground, that is, the "surrounding the corpse" that both Leng Feng and his father encountered.Speaking of conscience, this point is used well, and it reflects the protagonist's growth and part of the background interpretation.

However, compared with the second bullet, the improvement is not a little bit.The first appearance of the bullet, borrowed from Uncle Yu's mouth, set up suspense for the audience: how did it come from?who diedHow did it get into his hands?The second appearance is related to the doctor, tells the origin of the bullet, and uses flashbacks to explain the story line of the protagonist and his real girlfriend.The third time it appeared was a big showdown with the villain. A bullet added to the rationality of the battle for the hero, linking national grievances and personal grievances together.

In other words, this bullet connects 4 characters in series and directly promotes the development of the plot.It may even affect the next part of the sequel. This wave of operations can also be said to be very 6.

Some friends commented that after Cheng Long and Li Lianlian, there will be no decent phenomenon-level action stars in the new generation of China.It is not difficult to see that Wu Jingzheng has such an ambition to carry the banner of a new generation of action movies.If his third work can continue to grow at such an enlightened growth rate, all we can do is support and silently praise! "

With the explosive box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" in China's summer, Ning Sheng's "Rage Rescue" quietly began to disappear from people's eyes, and Ning Sheng himself began to put down his work completely, ready to fulfill his promise, Take Xinxin to the beach to play!
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