What was our impression of Indian cinema before "Let's Wrestle, Daddy", or before "Three Fools in Bollywood"?

Dance and sing at every turn, action movies are all kinds of hanging!

"Lion", Newton watched it and wanted to hit someone, and the dynamic picture of the ten consecutive punches is from this film;

"God of War in the Super Century", nostrils catch bullets;

In "Bollywood Robot Love", the male protagonist has an arsenal armed by one person and is powerless to complain;

"The Legend of the Warrior Bowala", a car crashes into a helicopter;

"All are happy", deliberately flipped the car 360 degrees in the air to give a ring...

After watching this bunch of movies, I just want to say, are you guys making these for fun?

But in the past few years, after Bollywood has opened the natural shackles of censorship, countless works have poured out!

Before "Wrestle, Daddy", Aamir Khan starred in a "My God" and openly questioned religion.

There is a line in it: "I have read the Bhagavad Gita, the Qur'an, and I have read the Bible." ”

Then after the Chinese translation came, the Koran was replaced by an ellipsis, which is really, interestingly, this is a translation introduced by a domestic company, not a folk subtitle group.

Aamir Khan's "My God" directly mocks the three major religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and *** Christianity, and while he mocks these, his country is a country with a strong religious atmosphere.

If we can make a movie that mocks the ramen gang, we don't need to review it, and I guess the person who wrote the script will have to go to the Islamic Association for tea.

The big hat of destroying national unity is directly buckled on your head!

Of course, even if you really shoot it, few people will watch it, who has the leisure time to care about ethnic and religious contradictions?

Take a look at the Indian masterpieces of the past few years, "Wrestle, Dad", "Little Lori's Uncle Monkey God", "Starting Line", "My God", "Toilet Hero", "Indian English", "Indian Daughter", "Toilet Love", all of them are works that reflect reality!

The subject matter is very similar, the narrative technique is very similar...

"Wrestling, Dad", of course, is a very good sports inspirational film, in fact, a few years ago, there was a "One Man's Olympics" with a similar theme in China, which tells the story of Liu Changchun.

Who is Liu Changchun? The first Chinese Olympic athlete and the first Chinese athlete to officially participate in the Olympic Games.

The movie is not very good, but the story is still very complete, especially the inspirational aspect is well done!

The end came to an abrupt end at the 200-meter starting line, and the final shot was Liu Changchun's determined eyes and ready to go...

The reality is cold, no matter how passionate and determined we are, for China at that time, standing in front of that starting line, it has already experienced a victory of great hardships.

Based on the original appearance of the facts, it lives up to our touch.

In fact, Liu Changchun later gave up the 400-meter race...

Remembering the Iraqi athletes in the old clothes competition at the Beijing Olympics, such stories continue in modern times...

It stands to reason that such a story has a Douban score of 7.0 points, why should there be tens of millions of box office?

It's a pity that the final box office of this movie was 1.46 million...

Many people sigh, why are there so many good works in India?

There are a bunch of people on the Internet advocating 'Ten high-scoring Indian movies, the Bollywood charm that makes Chinese blockbusters ashamed', 'These nine high-scoring Indian movies can almost beat the whole of Asia'...

, you've watched a few movies, so dare you say that?

In fact, if you really want to talk about the film process, Indian films are still in the stage of "tearing their scars for foreigners to see", similar to my country's eighties and nineties, the subject matter seems to be large-scale, but in fact, it is only a large scale for foreigners!

Chinese films, apparently, have passed the stage of "tearing their own scars for foreigners to see", but they are still in the initial stage of the slow development of the film industry. Even if it is still very rudimentary, but this is very important, a really strong film culture is cultural self-confidence, rather than relying on the "ugly" and "evil" themes to win the world's attention, obviously domestic filmmakers have realized this, and many people have actively participated in it!

The simplest example, a singer with the same theme counterattacked, 2018's "Mystery Superstar" can be stronger than 2005's "If Love"?

It's a pity, in Douban's opinion, yes!

"Mysterious Superstar" has a Douban score of 7.7 points, and "If Love" has a score of 7.6 points...

Some people always like to sing the praises of foreign countries, and the overall perception of various movies that forcibly criticize society in India in recent years is that the homogenization is particularly serious, and then the Douban comments will basically have "India dares to shoot this kind of theme, my country will never dare to shoot it"!

This kind of judging criterion of the supremacy of the subject matter is really incomprehensible, it seems that if it is not literary and anti-social enough, it can't be a good movie!

After the release of "Wrestling, Dad", with its high reputation, the box office counterattacked all the way, but the hot spot of everyone's discussion is not in wrestling or the movie itself, on the contrary, the topic has been around "how backward India is" and "Indian women have no human rights", just like "Qiu Ju's lawsuit" back then, what we agree with in our bones is not the movie itself.

Although it is a good work, it is sad that the film system of a country is full of similar films.

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"On the thirteenth of next month, the Magnolia Awards, you have to attend, "Wulin Gaiden" was nominated for Best Screenplay, Best TV Series and Best Actress, by the way, there is also a special award from the organizing committee..."

At the end of the day's shooting, Ping Ping flew in from the capital and announced Xiaobai's next schedule.

"Except for Magnolia June, the opening of the Shanghai Film Festival, you are the guest..."

"Wait, how did I become a guest?"

"..."God of Medicine" does not need to be promoted? You haven't shown up for half a year! ”

“…”

The biggest role of the film festival is to promote the works!

The Shanghai Film Festival is already nominally the most bizarre film festival in the world, not so much an international film festival as a hypermarket for Chinese films.

The most important main competition unit is completely unpopular with the media and the audience, and even if there are classic screenings of the complete works of Hitchcock and many masters of the French New Wave, they will not be able to appear in the entertainment section of the host country.

But the media will still report it, after all, it is a mainstream event in the film industry!

It's always been like this, no one pays attention to the content of the competition films, the interviews with the creators are revealed, there are only a few film reviews, and there are no surprising points to be found.

By the way, last year, probably for the sake of the layout, three Best Actor awards were awarded at one time...

It can be seen that the Shanghai Film Festival is working hard to make itself a regional film festival!

In recent years, with the growth of the mainland market, the Shanghai Film Festival has indeed taken advantage of the dividends, and many international directors have indeed participated.

There are more big directors invited this year, Feng Xiaogang, Guan Yu, Chen Kexin, Woody Allen...

At that time, there will definitely be a bunch of media follow-up reports, which will definitely be beneficial to the promotion of the movie!

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

Judging from the current progress, there are still about fifteen days left, and the movie will be finished, so there is plenty of time!

"And..."

"And?"

“… You haven't been seen for half a year, and after this movie is filmed, you need to accept a few interviews! ”

"As soon as I'm a director, why do you show up? I'm not Feng Xiaogang, whoever I catch sprays, I'll be honest in filming this year, don't give me so many messy activities! ”

Xiaobai was very dissatisfied and refused directly!

"Chinese Film Media Festival, Asian Film Awards, College Student Film Festival, you are all invited guests!"

Pingping said a lot, Xiaobai waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with me, I just want to finish filming "The God of Medicine" quietly now, by the way, how is "Old Chinese Medicine" over there?" ”