Chapter Ninety-Eight: The First Day Box Office and Word of Mouth (3/3)
"Tang Detective 2" is bound to strengthen the comedy component for the sake of the atmosphere of the Spring Festival...
Family-friendly!
If you don't add these funny episodes, tell a detective story honestly.
What do you think, a hooligan feng shui master, a young genius in Mune, an immigrant black household with an American dream, a teenage hacker, and all kinds of detectives gather in New York because of a case with a very high reward, and the serial murder case with the five elements of yin and yang feng shui as the core is uncovered step by step, and the genius is tempted on the edge of the law with his resourcefulness, this is a wonderful enough story...
But no, the Spring Festival stalls, you have to consider the market!
Therefore, in the eyes of many people, "Tang Detective 2" is a good-looking movie, but it is not as amazing as the previous one.
Therefore, its Douban score is 7.8 points, unlike the first part, which has 8.2 points...
But it has surpassed all the movies in the Spring Festival file!
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"Tang Detective 2" is very important!
In addition to continuing the style attributes of the "Tang Detective" series, the story rhythm is harmonious, and the "Detective Competition" and "Detective Ranking" have been added as soon as they come up.
The main story of the movie is actually not a "detective competition", but a serial murder case, so the opening paragraph is a "gimmick".
But the biggest effect of this part is to assume the function of information transmission, directly telling the audience that "Tang Detective" is going to establish a movie universe.
The group drama melee caused by the bounty contest is a classic story mode, and the world's famous detectives gather together, which means that the pattern is upgraded, and New York, as the center of the universe, can attract more talents, which is also in line with the background of the story.
Tell the story, due to receiving Tang Ren's invitation, Qin Feng flew to New York, and after entering the lobby, he quickly noticed that something was wrong - according to the guests' attire and movements, Qin Feng found that the wedding was just a scam, and Tang Ren tricked him into coming in order to solve the case.
In New York, a Chinese man was inexplicably gouged out of his heart...
It's a serial killing!
The detective is still the most shining part of the whole movie, the murder in the secret room becomes a serial murder, the case is confusing, the reasoning is peeled off, the details are seamless, and several seemingly flawed plots are cleverly designed with ulterior motives.
The core logic of serial killing, driven by Feng Shui and the Five Elements.
This really continues the setting of "Double Pupils"!
Lu Xiaoran is the kind of director who is willing to bow to the market, although he still has a strong desire for self-expression - at the end of "Tang Detective 2", there is a discussion about yin and yang, as well as about gazing into the abyss, quoting from the quotations of the existentialist philosopher master Nietzsche, it can be seen that his desire for artistic expression is bubbling out.
But "Tang Detective 2" is still a standard type commercial film that meets the public's tastes, neither high nor low, nor following the crowd...
After watching the movie, the family of four was quite satisfied, so they found a small restaurant nearby and ate two bites.
Lu Xiaoran is posting on Weibo:
The difference between "Tang Detective 2" and "Tang Detective 1" is that first of all, the reasoning genre, the social reasoning replaces the original reasoning, which is more in line with the general environment of the integration of the case and the multi-civilian culture in the United States;
Secondly, I can't give you a thriller genre film on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so the comedy part is necessary;
There are still many people who say that the 'detective contest' is not necessary... I deny this, because this is related to the follow-up Chinatown Cinematic Universe...
The "multiple negativity" used in "Tang Detective 2" is also a commonly used plot setting in detective stories, the overall story is inspired by "Astrology Killing Magic", and the screenwriter is my favorite screenwriter Su Zhaobin, he has a horror thriller called "Double Pupils", you can take a look - after reading it, don't scold me for being deliberately scary!
Mr. Su Zhaobin and Shoji Shimada are both screenwriters and creative assistants of "Tang Detective 2"!
Finally, the most important thing to explore in the "Detective Chinatown" series is the problem of the three sexes - that is, human nature, animal nature and divinity, these three sexes are concentrated on the protagonist Qin Feng, so, a little spoiler - how will Qin Feng perform his perfect crime?
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Don't look at him writing so much, in fact, it is to tell everyone: "Tang Detective 2" is not plagiarized, Lao Tzu found two original teachers to bless!
As expected, there were many voices on the Internet questioning the plagiarism of "Tang Detective 2"...
Now that the screenwriter of "Double Eyes" has been brought out, how can you still question it?
However, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the box office of "Tang Detective 2" still lost to "Monster Hunt 2", the latter won 540 million in a single day, and the former 'only' 490 million...
Both broke the single-day box office record of 446 million Chinese films held by "Wolf Warrior 2", and the single-day box office record of 487 million in Chinese film history and the first-day box office record of "Fast and Furious 8".
It is understandable that "Tang Detective 2" lost to "Monster Hunt 2" on the first day, and the pre-sales of "Monster Hunt 2" were as high as 330 million......
The pre-sale of "Tang Detective 2" is only 240 million...
This year, ticket compensation is restricted, and many movies have put their efforts into publicity, marketing, and control reviews...
There is nothing to do, it can be seen from the attendance rate that the attendance rate of "Tang Detective 2" is close to 80%, and the attendance rate of "Monster Hunt 2" is 70%...
- "Tang Detective 2" is 120 minutes long, so it gave 110,000 first-day films, and "Monster Hunt 2" is 110 minutes long, giving 130,000 films...
As for "Daughter Country", the box office on the first day was 130 million...
"Bear Infested" is 77 million, the remaining "Ancestors of the Nineteenth Generation" has a box office of 17 million on the first day, and Feng Gong's "Happiness is Coming Soon" is 23 million on the first day...
The total box office on the first day was 1.2 billion yuan, converted to US dollars: 169 million US dollars, setting a new record for the world film and television market...
Douban score ranking: "Tang Detective 2", "Bear Infested", "Happiness is Coming Soon", "Ancestors of the Nineteenth Generation", "Monster Hunt 2", "Journey to the West"...
That's right, the bottom player is "Journey to the West: Daughter Country"!
The publisher of "Monster Hunt 2" must have also hired a water army to control the commentary, of course, it is also possible that Brother Chun's fans spontaneously maintained it, otherwise, it would be impossible to have remarks like 'Chunchun is so cute' and 'Chunchun is the biggest surprise'...
It's more of 'Huba is too cute'...
Where is Huba?
"Monster Hunt 2" treats itself as a super young family carnival, and the story is too simple and too bland...
is even directly defined as: "The Ferryman 2"...
"The Ferryman 2" is a bit too much...
Of course, these are not as good as "Daughter Country" next door, Zhao Liying was directly ridiculed by the group...
In itself, the competition of traffic Xiaohua is particularly fierce, and when it was publicized before, all kinds of things were blown about "The Most Beautiful King" and "Gonghou Yinghuang", but now the quality of the movie is not good, and the main one who carries the propaganda will of course be ridiculed by the group...
Wearing a crown will bear its weight!
This year's Spring Festival file, judging from word of mouth, I am afraid that "Tang Detective 2" will dominate again!
The theater chain reacted very quickly and immediately adjusted the film schedule, and the filming of "Detective Chinatown 2" on the second day of the Lunar New Year immediately rose to 38%, and the film schedule of "Monster Hunt 2" dropped to 31%...