Sure enough, 25 hours after the official release of "Love Saint" on December 29, the box office successfully exceeded 100 million.

It is worth mentioning that the national roadshow that began in early December, when it came to screenings and premieres, the reputation of the film with zero negative reviews also began to continue to ferment.

The flow of moviegoers brought by super word-of-mouth began to increase gradually, and then ushered in the New Year's Day holiday, which won 300 million box office in 3 days, and the limelight was unparalleled for a while.

On Weibo, Douban, and platforms, you can see the surprise feelings brought by "Love Saint" everywhere.

And "Villain Angel" is a big bad movie that is embarrassing to death, coupled with the strong crushing of the word-of-mouth of "Love Saint", and the double blow of being jointly attacked by the audience and the water army on the whole network, the box office and reputation of the movie "Villain Angel" have dropped again and again, and it has been directly squeezed out of the competition on New Year's Day.

January 5th, 8:15 a.m.

Starring Lin Xiaoguang and directed by Song Xiaofei and Dong Xu, the box office of the movie "Love Saint" successfully exceeded the 500 million mark, although it is still 100 million short of the box office of "Villain Angel", but everyone knows that with the current trend, it is only a matter of time before "Love Saint" surpasses "Angel".

Because they are all small and broad comedy movies, "Love Saint" has been well received since its release, and many viewers have compared it with "Hong Kong Embarrassment" and "Charlotte's Troubles".

But Lin Xiaoguang always believes that "Love Saint" is different from "Charlotte's Troubles", "Charlotte's Troubles" has a stronger sense of fairy tales, and "Love Saint" has a stronger sense of movie reality.

On the other hand, the gathering of comedy stars does not necessarily make a high-quality comedy, and many times the audience will feel that these comedy stars often make plays.

It's no wonder that the story is boring, and even they can't impress themselves, so how can they perform well?

And the performances of Lin Xiaoguang, Yan Ni, Xiao Shenyang, Ma Yili, Li Chengmin, Qiao Shan, Allen, Chang Yuan, etc. in "Love Saint" in the film have also been recognized by the audience.

January 8th, 9pm.

The total box office of "Love Saint" successfully exceeded 640 million, surpassing Deng Chao's "Villain Angel" by a small margin.

In order to continue to make Deng Chao regret his mistakes, and to disgust Deng Chao, Lin Xiaoguang took the main creators of the "Love Saint" crew to hold a grand and extravagant celebration banquet in Shaojing.

Such a high-profile battle is extremely different from Lin Xiaoguang's previous low-key and introverted style, and it is even happier than when his own "Detective Chinatown" broke the record.

At the celebration banquet, Yan Ni, who often performs comedy, admitted that the performance of comedy is very difficult, and she is not familiar with it every time.

"Comedy requires constant search and creation, and it also requires a lot of things from rival actors. Every actor has a different feeling. How to harmoniously put different feelings in a play requires us to constantly explore and study. ”

Lin Xiaoguang himself also likes this movie, he gave the film a score of more than 8, "I am very moved, one is the part of friendship, which is very real, and the other is care, which makes the audience feel warmer." This movie not only makes people laugh, but also touches and comforts people. ”

In addition, in the midst of the applause, some viewers criticized the film for "three wrong views" to make excuses for derailment.

Regarding these evaluations and influences, screenwriter Yu Miao admitted that "Love Saint" is indeed a comedy from a male perspective, "This film is a bit of a pit for male compatriots, exposing the weaknesses and small shortcomings in men's hearts to female friends." But we don't want to preach through a movie, we just bring up the question. ”

However, while the box office of the movie is rising, the voice of criticism is also rising, and the most criticized by the audience is that the whole movie is about the extramarital affair of Xiao Han, a middle-aged man played by Lin Xiaoguang, which has a sense of "three wrong views".

This also led to the slower and slower box office growth of the movie "Love Saint", and it did not break through 1 billion, or even 2 billion, like "Detective Chinatown" and "Thai Embarrassment", becoming a phenomenal comedy movie.

However, Lin Xiaoguang doesn't care anymore, he thinks that the box office and reputation of "Love Saint" are enough to crush Deng Chao's "Villain Angel" to death, and he is also very satisfied, he is not short of money, he is just unwilling to be wronged and misunderstood by his friends.

Under the continuous cycle of misunderstanding and injury, the relationship between Lin Xiaoguang and Deng Chao and his wife also dropped directly to the freezing point.

Although the two sides did not speak ill of each other and did not reach the point of going to court, Ji Yeben was also in a situation of severing diplomatic relations.

Of course, there are still bad things about "Love Saint" after all, and there are still many shortcomings, and the audience who gave bad reviews on "Maoyan" pointed out that the movie promotes extramarital affairs, and the screen is full of bad conjectures, funny for the sake of being funny, and genre comedies have reached a dead end.

However, due to the lack of comedies on New Year's Day this year, several high-anticipated big productions "Looking for the Dragon" and "Lao Paoer" are not comedies, and another comedy "Villain Angel" has been pasted again.

And at the end of the year, for the public who have worked hard for a year, there is nothing more comfortable than going to the cinema and smiling heartlessly.

"Love Saint" was launched in a timely manner, to a large extent, to meet the psychological thirst of the market.

Therefore, as soon as the movie played the slogan of "dark horse comedy", it attracted many audiences to watch the movie.

As for the "laughing fruit" of the movie, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people.

Of course, because of the setting of "middle-aged men's extramarital affair conjecture" at the core of the movie's story, some audiences, especially female audiences, feel "psychologically uncomfortable" as soon as they enter the theater.

Miss Zhang, an audience member, said: "I took my parents to see it, but I didn't expect it to be so yellow, it was very embarrassing, and the degree was too great. ”

And the three views of the film are very wrong, from beginning to end, the male protagonist is trying to cheat with the help of fox friends and dog friends, although he finally woke up from a dream and returned to his wife, but it was also a hasty ending. ”

Miss He's criticism from the audience was more direct: "Vulgar spoof, I didn't expect Lin Xiaoguang to take on such a scene, the whole whole process without laughter is all embarrassing." If your husband or wife is going to cheat, will you be able to laugh?"

Film critic Ai Jiang commented that there are many classifications of comedy, but in the current Chinese film and television drama market, comedy is often about equal to farce, and the road of comedy is getting narrower and narrower.

"If you look at the work of Chaplin, the master of comedy, we will know the difference. Mr. Huang, a comedy enthusiast, said, "Chaplin's works are not only funny, but also highly critical, and these works have profoundly influenced the social life of the time." ”

Compared with the high-grossing comedies in our Chinese film market in recent years, there are almost no works that have a profound impact on social culture.

"Everyone's evaluation of comedy is often, it's funny, it's good at the box office, it's amazing, it's really hello, I'm good, everyone's good. Mr. Huang continued, "The social function of comedy was completely ignored, and the box office became the only one. ”

Director Cheng Er also said in an interview with reporters that although the film has its side as a commodity, it also has a side as a work of art, and he believes that the film director is the first creator, not a "product manager".

In today's market, when it comes to comedy, it becomes a "farce", an unnamed "insider" commented that this is closely related to the "box office theory" of today's film market, everyone is willing to make quick money, do projects, and launch in a hurry, the script is not polished, the creator becomes a product manager, everything is oriented to please the market and the audience, and the comedy that comes out of this way is naturally getting narrower and narrower.

Lin Xiaoguang ignored the doubts of these passers-by and the so-called film critics at all, and almost ignored them directly, because in his eyes, these laymen are standing and talking without back pain, and he doesn't know how difficult comedy movies are.

In fact, the reason is very simple, comedy is almost the most difficult genre of all types of movies, everyone knows very well that it is easy to make people cry, but it is difficult to make people laugh, and it is even more difficult to make a funny comedy movie.

As for wanting to make a comedy movie that is not only funny, but also critical and affects society, let alone Deng Chao, even Lin Xiaoguang and Zou Xingchi are powerless.

There are really few people in the world other than Chaplin who can do it.