Chapter 35: The Courage of a Film Critic
At 10 o'clock in the evening, the second episode of "Movie Guide" started on time.
There's really no way to know how many viewers are waiting to watch, but most of the country's film critics should have turned on their televisions, after all, this is the largest film review program that suddenly appeared in China, and there is no one.
As soon as the opening of the film aired, Li's mother smiled and said, "Come, let's seal the card first and see what my son looks like on TV." ”
Li Li silently ate the grapes and turned up the volume.
On TV, just after the beginning of the film, Li Li, dressed in a suit, appeared in the picture.
"Hello everyone, welcome to this issue of "Movie Guide", I am your good friend Li Li, and the theme of this issue is called "A Date with a Good Film".
The reason why we change the style and recommend good films is not because we are forced to restrain ourselves by some pressure, but because we want to reclaim a pure land in the withered wasteland!
Because we believe that an important means of cracking down on 'ugliness' is to establish 'beauty'! When excellent works get more and more attention, shameful bad movies may gradually become lonely.
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Seeing this, Li's mother suddenly glanced back at her son, "Why do I think this taste is wrong?"
Li Li hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I said that it was a good movie recommendation, you can continue to watch it!"
Mama Li's gaze returned to the screen.
"First of all, the film we want to introduce is the one that hit the screen this summer, which is this reality-themed masterpiece "I Am Not the God of Medicine".
As soon as it was officially released, it won a lot of praise from all sides while winning a lot of tears from the audience, and became the Chinese film with the highest reputation this year, and was even crowned as a masterpiece with a realistic theme!
But this 'masterpiece of the crown' is not flawless, just like the Venus with a broken arm, it also has congenital deficiencies and shortcomings.
is different from other film review programs that blindly praise and praise "I Am Not the God of Medicine", let's start with this "broken arm".
This film is adapted from the real incident Lu Yong's counterfeit drug purchasing case, the film focuses on patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia, and discusses the sky-high price of drugs and human nature......
We appreciate the film's courage in confronting real problems, but it is not correct to put the pressure of moral public opinion entirely on drug developers.
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Next, the picture in the program shifted from the content of the movie to the drug production process, and Li Li roughly told the audience about the relationship between pharmaceutical manufacturers and sky-high drug prices.
In fact, the R&D cost and time cost of a specific drug are far beyond what people think. The R&D cycle of a drug is more than 10 years, and it is very likely to fail and be stillborn, which is also a very high risk for pharmaceutical companies.
Pharmaceutical companies not only need to make profits from them, but also store funds for the research and development of the next drug, and even make up for the capital hole of the previous drug research and development failure, which is one of the reasons for the birth of sky-high drugs.
Statistics, between 1997 and 2011:
Pfizer: 14 new drugs approved, with a total R&D cost of $108.2 billion;
Johnson & Johnson: 15 new drugs approved, with a total R&D cost of $88.3 billion;
AstraZeneca: 5 new drug approvals, with a total R&D cost of $59 billion;
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And Ukraine's GDP in 2017 was only 104.3 billion US dollars!
Drug R&D itself is a field that ordinary capital does not dare to touch, and once the project fails, billions or even tens of billions of dollars will be wasted in an instant. There are basically no innovative drugs in China, and the vast majority of them are generic drugs.
However, the cost of piracy is too low, and there is no responsibility for the safety of patients.
Analyzing sky-high drugs from the perspective of pharmaceutical companies is the most straightforward. But the reason why the sky-high price of drugs is so ridiculously high is that the problem behind it is far more than that.
The high price of sky-high drugs is the result of games in all aspects. We have the utmost sympathy and empathy for patients, but it is unfair to point all the blame on the pharmaceutical companies and make them the sole scapegoats.
As for the higher prices of sky-high drugs, the deeper aspects involved, Li Li also said a word, and did not dare to talk about it deeply.
The moral sword of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" only pierces the Chinese medicine company, without doing any in-depth excavation and analysis, for no other reason, it only can! shoot like this! This also greatly limits the depth of the film.
TV: "This film has a certain excavation of human nature, but it is extremely biased in the source of the cause of the sky-high price of medicine! It is destined to be a work that earns enough tears but has limited depth."
However, we must also be clear that in the constrained Chinese-language film market, this bias is undoubtedly a compromise that has to be made. We need to understand that this kind of 'bias' is not an active fault, but just a passive pretense.
In the domestic film environment, the film can achieve the excellence, it has achieved it, but it could have been better, but this era does not allow it to be more excellent. ”
Swish!
In the living room, come and play mahjong...... The mother's friends who came to see the show all looked back at Li Li in surprise.
"Xiaoli, you dare to say it, right?"
"It's not an active fault, it's a passive stupidity? God, you're pointing directly at the movie review!"
"You kid is too bold, although it's true, but don't really say it on TV!"
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Li Li smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm a 'metaphor', everyone understands it." ”
Drip.
In the group, Zhang Xiaodong sent a message: ([Like] symbol) You are awesome! Dare to say this? The film critics of the national TV platform have directly skipped this aspect, and they are all pretending to be confused, you dare to say it!
Ouyang Mad: What a fearless film critic, amazing! Let's move on!
On the TV:
"In addition to the narrow understanding of the causes of sky-high drug prices, the film is decent in terms of film aesthetics...... The character transformation is slightly abrupt......
As for the criticism of some critics that the film is too flattering to a commercial film, we disagree that as a realistic film involving medical treatment, it should not maintain the coldness of a niche literary film, but should try to embrace the public. After all, it's all about us, and no one can guarantee that they won't get sick for the rest of their lives!
From the perspective of the scope of world films, "I Am Not the God of Medicine" is far from perfect, but for the domestic film market, it is obviously perfect!
Its success undoubtedly has the advantage of the subject matter, and it also comes from the hard work of all the main creators. Next, we will devote a lot of space to this film!
Almost all of the actors in this film are extremely outstanding, and the group portrait performance is the best of the year.
Xu Zheng's performance is as outstanding as ever, if Xu Zheng is still ingenious in the films he starred in before, then Xu Zheng's acting skills in "The God of Medicine" have improved again and are approaching the peak.
Xu Zheng's performance has received enough praise that we will not add to the icing on the cake, and we will focus on Wang Zhuanjun below.
Wang Zhuanjun, who plays the role of Lu Yingfu in the film, when he appeared in the picture for the first time with a height of 1.8 meters, all his persistence and efforts that were not understood by outsiders were completely bloomed at this moment. All the rough accusations that were once made vanished in an instant, and turned into endless praise.
At this moment, he is not Guan Gu magic, he is Wang Zhuanjun!
We don't know how far Wang Zhuanjun bent his spine to make Lu Fuli stiffen like that, but the moment he bent down, he stood up the backbone of a young actor!
Skipping rope 8,000 times a day, losing 20 pounds, and not sleeping for two days and two nights, in order to achieve a perfect morbid display. All of Wang Zhuanjun's efforts have been translated into solid and wonderful acting skills in the film.
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The road of growth inevitably stumbles and stumbles, or goes into a misunderstanding, when Wang Zhuanjun stepped out of the quagmire and walked towards the light, the light was also embracing him. ”
Mother Li turned back suddenly: "Don't you say that you can't offend people?"
Xiaohuahua: "Who is the quagmire? Brother, you don't forget to complain about others at this time!"
Aunt Zhang glared at him: "You kid, can you change the problem of always telling the truth?"
Li Li was silent, there was no way, he really didn't mean it, and he commented that Wang Zhuanjun really couldn't avoid the past!