Chapter 427: Confrontation

The movie has ended, but the area of media reporters and film critics in the middle of the screening hall is a little distracted to reminisce about the movie just now.

Is this movie good, of course it's good.

It can be said that it has been a long time since I have seen such a pure youth movie, and for a while people forget that this is the movie made by the director who made "The Hangover".

From the beginning of the scene, seeing the text and pictures processed by the cartoon, many people feel that it is very right. Clear and clean music, warm and bright sunshine, rendering cool youth.

In fact, before the movie was released, many people didn't know how Hu Yifei's movie would state such a heavy topic, such a thing that was actually very heavy or could be described as terrible, and told it in such a relaxed tone.

Especially if the actor is Asian, this will first make the biased person go to the movie with a colored eye. But after actually watching the movie, you will quickly ignore this problem. A 16-year-old child walked all the way to drink a large vat of orange juice in order to make the raw materials for three pregnancy tests. Use a cute hamburger-type phone to call a good girlfriend, and the phone contact is bad halfway, and you have to dangle for a while.

Say to the boy, "I think I should nip it in the bud because, as the physiology class says, once you get pregnant, you're likely to have a baby." "Generally, that's it, like moms and teachers." ”

The boy's classmates said, "Did you know that Juno is pregnant?" …… Just like our moms and teachers? …… Do you know it's yours? …… You're amazing! …… I think you should have grown a beard. ……”

"Why is everyone looking at me? Because your belly is spherical. "Wow, you're starting to learn geometry."

One time at a time, the audience couldn't help but laugh. It turns out that things can also be described as less scary.

Catherine, the entertainment editor of the Los Angeles Times, is now a media reporter leaning towards Hu Yifei's camp, and she has repeatedly praised Hu Yifei's films on her own pages. This time, she was also glad that she was in the right position, because Hu Yifei did not disappoint.

"A girl's version of The Hangover? Who said that, it's not like that at all! ”

There was also a heated discussion on the Internet, and on the official website of "Juno", on the IMDB forum, and on the Rotten Tomatoes website, there were comments about the movie everywhere: "Some details are actually very touching. The stepmother said that no matter what, she was grateful to God for this gift. The stepmother argues with the nurse in the ultrasound room to defend her 'cheating and wrong' daughter. ”

Perhaps in the eyes of the Chinese, a mother, at such a time, should be ashamed of her daughter and should blame her daughter together with others, but this is not the case for parents.

She said, "How do you know my daughter won't be a good mother." She said to the nurse, "Just do your own thing." Don't judge people casually, you don't know what other people are like. ”

and the classic lines that my father once said, all of which made many viewers feel warm in their hearts. It is precisely the setting of the role of this pair of parents that has fundamentally changed the whole serious and terrifying story.

"It's a great movie, Juno played it so well. I never thought that a 16-year-old girl could look like this after she was pregnant, it's amazing......", "It's crazy, I thought there would be preaching, I didn't expect it to be so interesting, it is worthy of Galen who filmed "The Hangover"! "The music in it is very good, especially the harmonica music, out of the original soundtrack, I must buy one. "Did anyone hear that the two original songs in this movie are Hu Yifei's songs, the baby and 'just-the-way-you-are', I have already purchased and downloaded. ”

A famous film critic in the Chicago Tribune commented: "Is Hu Yifei disappointing? No. That smart, cunning fellow who didn't shy away from talking about abortion, but also didn't offend the values of either side; Juno's parents are so open-minded, and Juno is so funny and unique, that she can solve all kinds of problems caused by teenage pregnancy...... Hu Yifei depicts a wonderful world, but is that all? A teenage girl's pregnancy and growth? ”

"It seems like that, but it doesn't seem to be. The vivid characters, simple plots, and wonderful lines in the movie are constantly churning in their minds, how should film reviews be written? One thing is for sure, we can't use "Hu Yifei is disappointing!" ", "He's only 20 years old after all" and other titles, this is not a bad movie, nor is it an ordinary campus comedy, this is a rare masterpiece; If you look at it in its genre, it can be said that this is an unprecedented masterpiece. ”

A rare A+ rating is given here, which is already the highest score.

On the IMDB website, the voting score of "Juno" was as high as 8.6 points, and then slipped to 8.4, but the rapid surge in the number of votes also shows the popularity of this movie, especially on the Internet.

With this growth rate and score, it will soon be able to enter the TOP250 in film history again.

The audience couldn't help but be shocked, in this case, Hu Yifei has only made three movies in the United States, and they all entered the TOP250? Can it still be said that he is a young director?

The TOP250 on IMDB in the United States is not an ordinary top 250, the scoring formula here is more rigorous and strict, only the votes of "regular voters" will be calculated, as for what is a "regular voter", IMDB does not have a clear definition, probably a long registration time, have voted for at least 1,000 movies, and have a good voting record, serious attitude of senior fans, they determine the film's TOP250 score.

This is a good way to prevent the company and fans from swiping votes, and some random votes, which is also the reason why this list is authoritative.

Therefore, the score of the TOP250 is often lower than the score of the main page, just like the current score of the main page of "The Hangover" is 8.3, while the score of the TOP250 is 7.9, which can be ranked in the same score range of 150-200.

One is a drama film with a sensitive theme of "teenage pregnancy", involving abortion, and the score on the main page is stable at 8.4, which is definitely a surprising number, you must know that the score of the same type of movie "Sweetheart Yiren" is only 6.0, if there is a contest between these two movies, fans have already handed over their own answers first, "Juno" is completely better than "Sweetheart Yiren" in all aspects such as director, starring, story, soundtrack, etc., and it is an undisputed victory.

The comprehensive evaluation of the media is 86 points, and the sequel of this summer's compatriots has not been evaluated as good as the former sages since the release of the movie, how can there be an original movie that has come out of the crowd in this situation? "Variety", "USA Today", "The New York Times", "Entertainment Weekly", "Entertainment Online", "The Hollywood Reporter", "Los Angeles Times", "Empire", "Baltimore Sun", "Village Voice", "Boston Globe", "Chicago Sun", "Chicago Tribune", "New York Post" all have A-grade arguments, and what is even more "terrifying" is that nearly 3,000 fans have praised and evaluated on the IMDb website as high as 8.6 points.

This kind of rating and praise is an ironclad Oscar-level summer masterpiece.

For a while, Hu Yifei said on the Oscar stage at the beginning of the year that he would appear on that stage again, and the media turned it out again. Now it seems that Hu Yifei doesn't have to wait too long, and this "Juno" released this year is very likely to help Hu Yifei return to the Oscar stage again!

Even the Rotten Tomatoes website has a freshness rating of 95%, which has attracted countless viewers who are not ready to watch the movie. It seems to have returned to the excellent acclaim viewing craze of "Inception" released last year.

This kind of evaluation is even higher than the blockbuster "Spy 3" released at the same time, and the media discusses "Spy 3" more, but on some website forums, it seems that "Juno" is more eye-catching.

Over the weekend, all the entertainment newspapers and movie newspapers in North America gave the headlines to the two most talked-about movies, "Spy Shadow" or "Juno," and they also occupied half of the film review pages.

The "Spy Shadow" series is adapted from the secret agent novel of the same name, which is very different from the "smiling and proud Jianghu" face of "007" in the Brosnan era and the "chivalrous" posture of "Mission Impossible 2", adopting the realistic style of "one hit + multi-Chinese mixed use + human rather than god role positioning", paying tribute to the tough and cold tradition that fans miss incomparably, and going against the trend of "driving CG", so it is a blockbuster - it is no exaggeration to say that the latest works of the two major agent movie series, "Mission Impossible 3" and "Casino Royale" are indistinguishable from it" The influence of the concept of "realism".

The word-of-mouth is also very good, because it is a sequel, and the popularity is definitely stronger than "Juno". But this weekend, shouldn't it be the situation where "Spy Shadow" has a glimpse of all the mountains? A small-budget movie like "Juno" can actually kill a blue sky?

This made many people look straight, can "Juno" still counterattack the top champion of "Spy 3"?

In addition, there is also the media hype of the August showdown, sequel vs new work, "Juno" vs "Spy Shadow".

On the afternoon of the 4th, the box office data of the first weekend of the 1~3rd was newly released, and the top of the list was "Spy Shadow 3". As the pending finale of the "Jason Byrne Trilogy" (Universal's "does not promise to give up filming a sequel" ......), "Spy 3" opened in 3,660 theaters in the largest premiere range in Universal's history (the opening scale is tied with "Hulk"), with a surprising average of 19,000 $ per museum, and about 70.18 million $ in banknotes in three days, like a storm and clouds.

And "Juno", which has more than 2,600 theaters, followed closely with a box office of $48.6 million!

This achievement, compared to the production cost of "Juno" is only tens of millions of dollars, it is simply eye-popping! (To be continued.) )