my time as a director

"The rescue of the earth that burned to tears, the road to redemption of despair and hope, and more importantly, this is China! Country! Science! Fantasy! Movie! Movie!"

"Most of the first half of the article is full of a feeling that human beings are hopeless, and even doubts whether it will end in tragedy, but the last part instantly brings the courage and wisdom of human beings to the extreme. This kind of igniting hope from complete despair , It’s simply too powerful!”

"The most exciting thing this year is watching "The Wandering Earth" in the iax theater, some of the dazzling Jupiter, and the elegant earth with a long tail, and even a feeling of watching "Interstellar"!"

"It turned out to be a really hard sci-fi movie. It completely exceeded my imagination of domestic movies. Although the plot is a bit clichéd and sensational, it's not like that in Hollywood blockbusters. The special effects are definitely the best among domestic movies. It's real.

The only fly in the ointment is that at the beginning when my sister was in school, my mother suddenly said, "Look at people who have to study at the end of the world." She also said that if I studied so hard when I was a child, I wouldn't be in such a miserable situation now. "

"Strong Amway's "The Wandering Earth", it's so shocking and beautiful, it's no exaggeration to say that the whole process, the audience didn't pee, I didn't even bother to drink!!!"

At the beginning of the entire summer, only one movie "The Wandering Earth" was released. The crew's one-month road show and small-scale screenings had already spread word of mouth.

It was officially released today, and the evaluations of countless viewers were the same as when it was screened before, and the public no longer had any worries.

With the numerous praises on the Internet, the box office has also started to rise crazily since the evening.

After nine o'clock in the evening, the box office was basically stable, and the first-day box office of "The Wandering Earth" also reached an astonishing 37 billion!

The next day, Friday, broke 4 million in a single day without a doubt, and got 43 billion.

On the third day, Saturday, the first working day, the single-day box office also set a new record outside the Spring Festival stalls.

Breaking [-] million in a single day!

Prior to this, only "Monster Hunt 2" had a higher box office than this on the first day of the Spring Festival.

On Sunday, the box office itself has reached its limit. Before the first day, "Avengers 4" also had [-] million viewers. That is a series of accumulated viewers. In addition to the last one, there are hundreds or even thousands of sky-high tickets.

The box office dropped slightly by 2000 million, and it got 48 billion on the fourth day.

In the four days of the first weekend, the total box office is a scary enough figure, even if the production cost of "The Wandering Earth" is a full [-] million.

The box office exploded, word-of-mouth also exploded, and it was a domestic sci-fi. In a sense, it was definitely not comparable to "Wolf Warrior 2", which set off a patriotic boom in the film and television industry, and "Nezha", which revitalized Guoman.

The major party media and official media also frantically reported on "The Wandering Earth".

It's not online news, but the incomparably precious paper news pages also leave enough space for "The Wandering Earth".

"The concept of Chinese family affection, heroism, dedication, homeland complex and international cooperation embodied in "The Wandering Earth", the movie is no longer about superheroes saving the world, but about human beings changing their own destiny together.

Such a concept is a breakthrough in the narrative routines of Hollywood science fiction movies. It integrates Huaguo's unique ideas and values ​​into the imagination and discussion of the future of mankind, and expands the vision of mankind's vision for a better future.

— "People's Daily"

This familiar official media, which is no longer familiar, analyzes the film itself from the breakthrough of domestic films to the sci-fi genre films that are almost represented by Hollywood.

Indeed, Guo Fan has planned to make a science fiction film full of Huaguo characteristics since the beginning of preparation.This is true from the core and the plot, and even the superficial special effects are in the style of Soviet industrial aesthetics, not Hollywood aesthetics.

"The various anti-routine settings in the plot of "The Wandering Earth" are a more scientific and reasonable idea of ​​​​a community of shared future for mankind in the face of the crisis of the end times, and have made the characteristics of the Chinese country. The mountains block the road and are removed, and the sea is filled with disasters. The broken sky was mended, Yu Gong moved the mountains, Jing Wei filled the sea, and Nv Wa mended the sky.

These heroic feelings of fighting against the heavens and the earth, which are integrated in the blood of the Chinese people, are very compatible with the theme of the movie of fighting for survival and looking for hope in the face of the end times. The film highlights the saturated rescue of the spirit of collectivism without fear of sacrifice.

First of all, it hits the pain points of the audience and becomes an important symbol of domestic sci-fi films climbing to the world's advanced level. It meets the domestic audience's expectations for domestic sci-fi blockbusters for many years. More importantly, the film has Chinese characteristics and is full of Chinese temperament. Unique and innovative. "

— "Guangming Daily"

Allusions such as Jingwei reclamation and Yugong Yishan are brought out, which is also a very distinctive and official article.

Anyway, the official media basically evaluates movies from these aspects.

For example, the movie website under the movie channel, this kind of targeted movie website starts from the development history of domestic science fiction.

"There was a saying in "The Three-Body Problem": In Huaguo, any thought that transcends flying will fall to the ground with a bang. The imagination of the outer universe is always lacking.

In 1963, the 31-minute short film "Little Sun" filmed by the Shanghai Science and Education Film Studio came out. The film is based on the theory of atomic nuclear explosions, creating an artificial sun to change the global climate of cold winter and warm summer.

"Little Sun" shows the rich and rigorous imagination of Chinese filmmakers. In particular, the construction of outer space scenes has never been seen before in domestic films. And the scientific and rigorous attitude redefines Chinese science fiction.

Reluctantly, due to political incidents, the combination of science fiction and movies died down in the 70s and [-]s and stagnated.”

Seventy, eighty, ninety, one by one, repeat the past ten years.

"Since the 21st century, especially since the era of "domestic commercial blockbusters", "sci-fi films" seem to be a forbidden area that film creators keep secret. Occasionally, someone who enters will only end up with a violent death.

All of this will be rewritten after "The Wandering Earth". It is not a milestone of success and fame, but a charge of rapid progress. This is the true meaning of the so-called "first year of domestic science fiction movies" in my eyes.

Perhaps in the face of many flaws, "Smooth Earth" cannot be called a top masterpiece, but "The Wandering Earth" has set a benchmark for the history of domestic films that is more significant than the film itself. Half a month later, another sci-fi masterpiece " Magic City Fortress will also be officially released, and we have more reasons to believe that the spring of domestic science fiction films is just around the corner! "

A landmark work is not just a movie.

The attention that "The Wandering Earth" has received is not limited to the film industry. The only commercial blockbusters that have received the same treatment before are "Wolf Warrior 2", "I'm Not the God of Medicine", and "Rejuvenation" which reviewed the past few decades. ".

However, for the film industry, the biggest impact is the box office and word of mouth.

It seems that it is another movie that is going to hit the 50 billion level. This time it is different from "Nezha". This time I can only envy and hate it.

After "Nezha", the entire industry took action, wanting to follow suit and make a fortune. In the past six months, the animation films approved by Optoelectronics have been one after another, no matter what kind of cat or dog, they have all come out.

But "The Wandering Earth" is difficult for most film and television companies to replicate.

After watching the movie, the executives of major, medium and small film and television companies, as well as the capitalists waving checks, just came up with the idea of ​​following him, and then they were all stunned.

Can't shoot, hard science fiction, can't shoot.

Moreover, it takes four or five years to shoot, and the cycle is too long.

Many people gave up the years of following the trend. They couldn't do it. They really had no choice but to watch "The Wandering Earth" continue to explode.

However, there are still some who are unwilling to give up and do not give up the idea of ​​​​following the trend.

And for another upcoming sci-fi film "Magic City Fortress", I don't know if I should be happy or not.

In the conference room of Penguin Films, Chen Wu, who was sitting in the main seat, was caught in a tangle.

Since yesterday, Chen Wu has been in meetings, and there has been no result.

There was only one topic of the meeting, which was how to deal with the phenomenal performance of "The Wandering Earth".

Some people think it's a good thing. At present, the audience's enthusiasm and confidence in domestic science fiction is unprecedentedly high. Riding on this shareholder wind, "Magic City Fortress" will definitely take off.

Some people think that something should be done. "The Wandering Earth" is too popular. If the word-of-mouth of "Magic City Fortress" is not so good, even if it is not so good, then there will be a comparison in the hearts of the audience. Under this comparison, maybe Not good.

Moreover, the success of movies like "The Wandering Earth" does not meet Penguin's strategic needs.

Chen Wu, who weighed and weighed countless times, finally made up his mind.

"It's really too much, it should be curbed, take action, and contact Ari and Baidu."