Chapter 285: Box Office Dark Horse
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The box office cycle of Korean films is too short, and even super blockbusters like "Spy 3" have not been able to maintain their first place.
In the third week of the release of "My Father", "Spy Shadow 3" was pressed to the second place by "Love", and "Happy Life" is still in the fifth place, with a total of 480,000 viewers!
And "My Father" once again made everyone smash their glasses, before that, many experts and commentators have sworn that this movie will definitely usher in a big drop in the box office in the third week of its release!
But the result?
This time it is still the third, but it trampled "The Kidnapping of Ms. Kwon Shunfen" under its feet, and once again collected 400,000 people to watch the box office, which is not much different from the 420,000 people of "Spy Shadow 3", with a total box office of 1.1 million people!
That's right, 400,000 people! It's much more than the box office of the first and second weeks!
More than 10% against the trend! How many times a year can such a situation occur for a Korean movie?
This rare situation has stunned countless experts, in their opinion, although the actor's acting skills are good and the filming is okay, but that's all! Except for Lin Youming's eye-catching acting skills, there is nothing particularly commendable, and looking at the major film reviews, it is basically half of the criticism and praise!
In this regard, on a certain entertainment website, there is such a comment: Although the story of "My Father" is very touching, it is too procrastinated in terms of rhythm series. This is an indisputable fact. But what I want to talk about is not the overall plot. Rather, it is reflected in all kinds of seemingly casual small details.
One of the montages that touched me the most was the fair. The voiceover is a continuation of his father's white lie in the previous scene, and in the picture, James revisits the old place according to his father's description, and finds that although decades have passed, nothing seems to have changed, if all this is true, he seems to feel the emotions of his parents at that time, and walked into that beautiful life that has not left an impression, so he feels a lot of emotion. The picture and lines in this scene are very tacitly coordinated. The alley is full of life, and the movement is extremely comfortable.
In this movie, Lin Youming, who is the clue of the whole movie, plays this role very well, and it can even be said that the super long play, a little inadvertent little plot, and a seemingly ordinary line can touch the faint feeling in the audience's heart, on the theme of father's love. Many people have fallen into the mistake of how to describe father's love as more grand and open, but they don't know. Like "My Father", it is the most worth remembering for us, and as for the protracted plot and the flat and straightforward narrative, it is insignificant!
Maybe such a review represents the point of view of a part of the audience, but there are still many people who are puzzled, and sometimes, it is so inexplicable, the less incomprehensible it is, because the more people who are curious and want to see it!
At the box office, many people originally thought that this was already a limit, but if it is exaggerated, it is "back to the light", and it is impossible to continue to improve!
But the reality is sometimes so cruel, when other movies released at the same time no longer know which corner they were thrown at, "My Father" is still holding on energetically, no, maybe it can't be said to be insisting, but it is very "strong".
is such a movie, 80% of the whole story is the shot of Lim You-myung alone, with a production cost of 3 billion won, he stubbornly wields a sickle in the fourth week and chops off a piece of meat from other movies!
Originally, "Spy Shadow 3" has picked up, and achieved 700,000 box office numbers in a week, and "Love" irrepressibly won 900,000 and won one, and the seemingly tepid "My Father" did not have such a terrifying ability to win the box office, and steadily continued to collect 400,000 people, with a total of 1.5 million people! -- At this rate, it seems that more than two million is not an impossible task!
Fortunately, "My Father" has been in theaters for a month, as a small production film that is not a commercial attribute in the first place, the potential has been almost tapped, after achieving a cumulative box office of 1.5 million people, in the latest week, it finally ushered in a large dive of nearly 50%, only increasing the number of box office viewers by 230,000!
A large number of experts and commentators finally breathed a sigh of relief, and there was no need to speculate in confusion about how much potential this movie still had! "My Father" is definitely one of the biggest dark horses of the year! With only 3 billion won of production, it was able to achieve nearly 2 million viewers, which is not outstanding!
Correspondingly, what ushered in was the lavish praise of Lin Youmeng, and the critics who really couldn't find the reason for the movie's popularity had to give credit to the most brilliant one in the film - of course, in a certain sense, Lin Youming deserved it!
From "The War of Money" in the middle of the year to "My Father" a few months later, in just a few months, Lin Youming once again completed a gorgeous turn, and the news about him occupied people's attention.
According to relevant sources, An Shengji once said in a private gathering of old friends, "Lin Youmeng is the next self", the truth of this sentence cannot be verified, but obviously for the media, there is no need to verify.
Representing the troika of the pinnacle of Korean acting, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik, and Xue Kyung-gu created the era of the "three carriages" of Korean actors with their excellent acting skills and extraordinary charm, and Cho Seung-woo, Ha Jung-woo, and Park Hae-il are known as the "troika" of the next generation of actors because of their outstanding personalities and solid acting skills.
But there has never been an actor who has been pinned on the high hopes of "the next An Shengji".
Yes, no, no one thinks that there can be another "Ahn Sung-ki", and he can take on a piece of the sky in the Korean entertainment industry with the power of one person!
Such news, whether true or not, is enough to become a topic of conversation for people at least until An Shengji remains silent and does not officially refute it!
There are doubts, criticisms, disdain, expectations, support, in short, at least such an impression is like a small seed, buried in the hearts of many people, if it really takes root in the future, maybe they will not be too surprised!
And what about Lin Youming at this moment? As always, in addition to owing a lot of CF and notices to make up one by one, he also has to be busy with the upcoming Seoul Fashion Week! (To be continued......)