Home Alone is a family comedy directed by Chris Columbus and starring child star Macaulay Culkin, which was released in five parts from 1990 to 2012.

The annual Christmas is here again. The whole family was busy going out to celebrate the Christmas holiday, but they made a mistake in the busyness, leaving the youngest member of the family, 8-year-old Kevin, at home, and his parents were in a hurry, but at this time they were already in the field, and there was nothing to be done for a while, but Kevin was happy, and it was rare to be alone at home, Kevin arranged the house as a "playground".

Two thieves who have just been released from prison set their sights on Kevin's house, and when they sneakily stepped into Kevin's house, Kevin played a "game" with two stupid thieves with his eye-catching and the "playground mechanism" at home, full of jokes, can Kevin win this "game" in the end?

Many friends born in the 80s and 90s must be no stranger to this movie, I remember that when I was a child, every time around Christmas, this warm and funny movie would always be broadcast on CCTV6 and various local TV stations, which became the childhood memory of many people.

This movie was released on November 10, 1990, but until decades later, this movie still brings us laughter, watching this movie when I was a child, I will always be amused, and now I am watching this movie again, but I feel that this movie is not a simple children's comedy, but through the comedy effect, to convey to us the importance of love and family.

Xu Qian still remembers this movie, which is also one of his childhoods, his childhood has "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of the Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit", "The Legend of Nezha", "Happy Planet", and naturally "Home Alone".

By the way, there are actually only five "Home Alone", and only ten of them are rumored on the Internet, which is just a fish and a pearl.

The other six films circulating on the Internet are not from the same series, some are just the original team of Home Alone, some are just comedies with similar themes, and some are just other works by Macaulay Culkin.

As long as you pay attention to their outfits and scenes when watching the movie, you will find that the order of the original 5 films is completely out of order.

The movie "Home Alone" is excellent, and "Home Alone" has a relaxed control of emotional elements and a very imaginative fun, which makes the movie excellent comedy rendering from beginning to end. Culkin's wit and cleverness in the movie makes people sigh at themselves, and the exaggerated performance of the stupid thieves is also wonderful, which has been maintained until the second part of this series of films, the ridiculous fight against stupid thieves with tricks, and the warm and warm touching of family on Christmas night, undoubtedly make the movie a classic of the era of Hollywood comedy, and the proposition of children and family is so beautiful.

Xu Qian thinks the selling points of the movie are as follows, one is funny, the second is the performance of the actors, and the third is the warm tone, about the family, about the children, such a movie will never be outdated at any time.

Funny that's for sure, such a movie can make people laugh out loud and make people's stomachs hurt when they laugh.

The second is Macaulay Carr's wonderful performance, this guy is simply a natural child star, very suitable for playing this kind of eccentric child, there are similar characters in our country, that is Hao Shaowen.

However, Macaulay Carr, like Hao Shaowen, was eccentric and very likable when he was young, and he was disabled when he grew up.

Family factors are also very important, the background of the film is that it takes place at Christmas, although now the Chinese people's awareness of these "foreign festivals" is gradually improving, but most people do in these festivals is still to buy and buy and pop, in fact, Christmas and our Spring Festival are somewhat similar, its meaning is to emphasize the importance of family, just as the Chinese people in the Chinese New Year's Eve have to go home after thousands of hardships, Europeans and Americans will also rush home on Christmas Eve to spend a good time with their families.

It is precisely because of this film that this film can resonate with people in my country and even around the world, because people all over the world have something in common about family, children, and love.

Oh, by the way, in another world, Home Alone is still the highest-grossing comedy movie in the Guinness Book of Records, which is why Xu Qian chose it.

Xu Qian began to write the script, he planned to let Chinese children participate in the film, then he had to change the background, the family background was set to a Sino-American marriage, and the protagonist was a "Chinese-American mixed-race", which would explain why the protagonist was yellow-skinned and black-haired.

Xu Qian also marked some other changes one by one, this task was not easy for him, but he was already familiar with it.

Although he himself is a hanger, but after this period of study and experience, he has also gained a lot of growth, and it is not difficult for him to revise the script, he is no longer the original him.

The story structure of the film Xu Qian has not changed much, and it is still the same story: 8-year-old Kevin was left alone at home because of his family's negligence, and he thought it was his unintentional words that made his family disappear. Without the control of his family, Kevin excitedly played around at home, but soon, the loneliness of losing his family overcame the excitement, and what was even more terrifying was that Kevin inadvertently found that his home had become the target of two habitual thieves. In order to defend his home, 8-year-old Kevin and two thieves start a hilarious and thrilling "war" on Christmas Eve, and finally subdue the invading thieves with the help of the neighbor's grandfather, while Kevin's family also tries to rush home by all means, and finally, on Christmas morning, the family reunites for a wonderful Christmas.

That's right, this is still a story of reunion, Xu Qian also likes the story of reunion, he doesn't like the tragic ending, and he rarely watches tragic movies.

Of course, he has filmed a lot now, the first half of "Those Years" is a comedy, and the second half of the plot takes a sharp turn.

The plot of "My Girlhood" is also going around and around, and it is entangled.

"My Sassy Girlfriend" is even more sadistic, sadistic, abusive.

As for "Ip Man", the tone of the first half is very warm, but with the arrival of the island people, the tone of the whole film begins to dim.

As for "Infernal Affairs", not to mention, Huang Sir is dead, Chen Yongren is dead, and even the protagonist is dead, isn't this a tragedy?

"The Departed" is just the rice version of "Infernal Affairs", which is basically similar to "Infernal Affairs", and the tone of this film is not bright.

What about "The King of Comedy"? How much grievances Yin Tianqiu has suffered, "eating pulls you", "you don't deserve to be an actor", "do you have to find a professional one", Yin Tianqiu can be said to have been crushed all the way, and many people should still remember his sad face when he looked in the mirror, and this is not a cheerful movie.

Then "Home Alone" will become the first pure comedy film in Xu Qian's directorial career, the tone of this movie is happy, warm, touching, and sensational, and this film will open a new era in Xu Gan's directorial career.

Xu Qian quickly found Ma Long and told him that he wanted to shoot a new movie, Ma Long was very happy, because Xu Qian is now a golden signboard, "The Departed" has lost a lot of money to Warner, and Warner expects Xu Qian to create a new miracle again.

"No, this is the script. ”

Xu Qian handed the script of "Home Alone" to Ma Long.

Marlon was even more surprised: "So fast?"

He didn't think that Xu Qian had even written the script.

Xu Qian is not afraid of the script being plagiarized or something, because he has already registered the copyright.

The last time he sold the rights to "The Departed" to Warner, he only took the layers, that was because he didn't care about "The Departed", that was because he was not interested in "The Departed".

But this time it's different.

"Home Alone" is one of the best memories of his childhood, not to mention that it is also a comedy film that has won the Guinness Book of Records, Xu Qian naturally will not let go of this gold mine.

Ma Long didn't talk nonsense after getting the script, and left directly after thanking Xu Gan, Xu Qian admired his attitude, and he didn't get out of the water at all, and did what he wanted.

After Ma Long went back, he began to watch Xu Qian's script, the script of "Home Alone" is not complicated, it tells the story of a child and a few stupid thieves, and it tells the story of how this little clever ghost turned those stupid thieves around.

Ma Long was very surprised, the first thing he was surprised was Xu Qian's script, which was very detailed, and every shot was clearly marked, which would not make you have any doubts.

"What a genius. ”

Ma Long praised in his heart, he finally understood why Cameron praised Xu Qian as a business genius, this is not exactly a business blow, but also Xu Gan's ability has indeed been recognized by him.

Ma Long is a professional, and he can analyze the quality of this script at once, and this script definitely has the potential to be a big hit, because the values of this movie are really in line with the West, especially when "Christmas" and "family", "children", and family affection are linked, it will be invincible.

Ma Long is very aware of the value of "Home Alone", and he is really glad that he did not come to China in vain, how to say it in Chinese: "The three visits to the thatched house seem to be very sincere." ”

He felt that he was completely looking at the thatched house, so that Xu Qian was moved, and he gave himself a thumbs up first, which was really a very gratifying thing.

Ma Long sent the script of "Home Alone" to the United States in the form of an email.

Warner also paid great attention to the email from Malone.

Chinese always have a misunderstanding, that is, foreigners look down on Chinese, this is actually a great prejudice, after the Yanjing Olympics, China's comprehensive national strength and organizational ability shocked the whole world, no country dares to underestimate us.

Secondly, foreigners are also very capable people, it is obvious that Xu Qian is particularly capable, he is very powerful, even Cameron praises him, and others don't pay attention to him.

Of course, the most important thing is that Xu Qian has brought huge benefits to Warner, needless to say "The Departed", the "Departed" series has brought immeasurable benefits to Warner, and it also has a huge influence.

"The King of Comedy" was also handed over to Warner for distribution, Warner didn't value "The King of Comedy" very much, but he didn't think that Xu Qian brought them a big surprise, such a low-cost urban inspirational, love movie can get such a high box office.

The script for Home Alone was quickly sent to Warner's evaluation team, which was part of the production team, and the main role of the evaluation team was to assess whether a film had the potential to be a big hit.

They will divide the quality of a movie into four ABCD grades.

D is garbage, basically you can give up the operation, you can put it in the script library and never hire the type, there are many scripts in this total type, because every day many screenwriters vote their scripts to Warner, these scripts are basically D type.

The C level is no loss, that is, it shows that the film can be done without losing money, such a film may be filmed, or it may not be filmed, the key is to see whether the film is likely to sell in the "video" market, if it is possible to sell in the video market, then Warner will invest in shooting.

B-level movies are movies that can be hit, and if nothing else, B-grade movies will be successfully established and then made into movies.

As for the A-level one, it's very awesome, this is a movie that is sure to be a hit, usually A-level movies are big productions, big directors, big IP, such movies are born with a high degree of attention.

ABCD's four levels can well illustrate the potential of a movie, of course, these four levels are not necessarily all right, these reviewers are not gods, and there are times when they look away.

If a movie wants to succeed, the right time, place and people are indispensable.

Time is a good schedule, if a schedule is full of commercial blockbusters, then it is definitely difficult to stand out.

For example, if "Wolf Warrior 2" is placed in another schedule, it is very likely that the box office will not be so high.

Geographical advantage, the so-called geographical advantage is a very mysterious thing, for example, Xu Qian's movie fights in Asia, so there is no need to think about it at all, his movie must be a big hit.

If it is placed in North America or Europe, then his film may not be so bought, and the location is also very important.

As for the people, the people mainly rely on the quality and publicity of the film, some box office hits, and the following big movies are because of the fierce publicity behind them, and Warner has done a very, very good job in this regard, Warner's publicity ability is super powerful, it is among the best in Hollywood, and it is estimated that it is second only to the powerful Disney.

People also experience the appeal of a person, like Cameron's movies, the appeal is extremely strong, as long as his movies are filmed, then they will definitely attract the attention of the world, this is an undoubted thing.

Warner's evaluation team has more than a dozen people, but this time it was the most famous three of them who came to evaluate "Home Alone", which also shows the importance that Warner attaches to the script of "Home Alone".

These three editors, who were well-known in the industry and later became members of Warner's evaluation team, were Jordan, James and Irving.

Jordan is the oldest and used to be a famous editor, and his work is the world-famous movie "Basketball Fire".

James is also super awesome, he once wrote the work "Three Decisions", which even overwhelmed the popularity of the World Cup, which is really powerful and has super high commercial value.

As for Owen, he is also very powerful, and he wrote the famous work "Lore", which made him one step to the sky and become the pride of the sky in this era.

And now these three super masters will taste Xu Gan's work "Home Alone".

First of all, you have to let the Chinese translator translate the script into English, Warner has a special Chinese translator in-house, with strong business ability, and they are also particularly awesome editors, and the effect of their translation is almost not inferior to the original.

Moreover, the movie "Home Alone" is originally a Western movie, so the translation process is very fast.

After the translation was completed, the three Jordans began to taste.