The smoky box office battle in mid-May has come to an end. "Painted Skin" leads the rankings with 30.22 million in North America. It received 75 ratings from popular film critics on Rotten Tomatoes, 63 of which were passing, with a freshness rating of 84%, while well-known film critics rated it
Of the thirty articles, twenty-three passed, and the freshness reached 77%.
Among the top film critics, like Roger Ebert, they all gave "Painted Skin" satisfactory scores. Unfortunately, Roger has been suffering from illness in recent years and is no longer interested in giving him a thumbs up. This makes Shao Shuaijun a little regretful.
If Roger gives a thumbs up, the movie box office will be increased by at least half.
On imdb, the score of "Painted Skin" is 7.7, which is what a qualified commercial film should have. The overall score on yahoo is b+, which is a very good score. The scores of film critics and audiences are very consistent, and they all think it is
A good movie.
After eight days of release in Asia and North America, Painted Skin was a hit at the box office in all regions, including a total of US$41.05 million in North America. In the Mainland, it successfully exceeded the 200 million yuan mark, setting a new record for the fastest box office of "33 Days Later" to exceed 200 million yuan, dominating the mainland.
Box office. In Southeast Asia, it took in about 40 million yuan. "Painted Skin" was very popular in Japan and took in nearly 700 million yen, which is more than 50 million yuan.
In the first round of release, "Painted Skin" has a global box office of nearly 630 million, which is equivalent to more than 76 million US dollars, and is about to break 100 million US dollars.
Achieving such an achievement really brings joy to the whole country, and six investors have already started preparing for the celebration banquet in advance. CCTV reported the news immediately, although "Hero" is the first mainland Chinese film to win the North American box office weekly championship.
Movie. But "Painted Skin" is obviously more valuable than "Hero" and is more worthy of bragging.
There is also a lot of applause on the domestic Internet. It can defeat Hollywood blockbusters such as "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Poseidon", which makes all Chinese netizens feel proud. Looking back at other American films, it is finally no longer
With the mentality of feeling ashamed, but feeling proud.
What's wrong with Hollywood? Domestic films are still killing you instantly, and they're still in your territory!
Some good people began to summarize the factors that led to the success of "Painted Skin". Among them, Tesla Eyes, a netizen from Time.com, posted a technical post on his blog.
"Looking at the three blockbusters, we can make a clear comparison on the factors that determine their box office success or failure."
The first one is cost. The total cost of "Poseidon" is US$160 million. The cost of "Mission: Impossible 3" is US$150 million. The cost of "Painted Skin" is US$60 million.
Article 2. Special effects. The same applies to burning special effects. "Poseidon" has the most special effects shots, followed by "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Painted Skin" has the least.
The third item is publicity. "Mission: Impossible 3" has the reputation of high box office of the first two films and has the box office appeal of Tom Cruise. "Poseidon" is a shipwreck movie that is said to be bigger than Titanic.
Both films have strong publicity and are well-known around the world. According to incomplete estimates, "Painted Skin" was only well-known in China and a few regions in Asia before it was released.
Article 4, lineup. "Mission: Impossible 3" has Tom Cruise, "Poseidon" has Wolfgang Peterson, "Painted Skin" has nothing. You want to ask Shao Shuaijun? Sorry, even Chinese Americans
They don't necessarily know him. As for Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun? They are no different from Chinese tourists on the street.
Article 5: Story. "Mission: Impossible 3" tells the theme of agents. The first two films have already proved that this theme is very attractive. "Poseidon" tells the theme of disaster. Disaster movies have always been attractive themes, and "Titan"
Nick" demonstrates the possibility of success. "Painted Skin" tells a love story between humans and monsters. Well, if it is classified as a love theme, it does have a head start. The key is that it focuses on monsters. Americans know Spider-Man
, I know vampires, but as for vixens, can they be eaten?
Based on the above five points, we can draw a conclusion that whether it is cost, special effects, publicity, creative lineup or story theme, "Painted Skin" has no advantage. But in the end, "Painted Skin" won the box office championship. If you don't look at the content of the movie, this
It's hard to believe, but you'll understand after watching the movie.
No matter how beautiful the packaging is, if there are no real materials, it is just a packaging.
The story of "Painted Skin" is compact and has various commercial selling points, but it does not pursue selling points one-sidedly, but focuses on storytelling. The special effects at the end are only embellishments, rather than distracting from the main focus. From beginning to end, the story is complete and readable
, successfully shaped the personalities of each character.
There are gang scenes everywhere in "Mission: Impossible 3", but "Poseidon" has no idea what to tell. It has a story but does not tell it carefully. It thinks that a few hot scenes with strong selling points can make money. While fooling the audience, the audience
It will also abandon you. It's like a primary school student who took a month's vacation and found out that he didn't write any homework when school was about to start. He immediately took out his homework book and picked out a few key points and scribbled them, thinking that he could get by.
In the end, it’s your own foot that hurts you. Therefore, I think the success of "Painted Skin" is the success of the director.
A director who tells a story carefully is the key to the success of a movie.
"Lee Eucalyptus, a storyteller, had the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Brokeback Mountain", but on the contrary, it was the failure of "The Incredible Hulk". This truth deserves the attention of all directors."
Tesla Eyes is the earliest registered user of Time.com and one of the first batch of star users. Their film review analysis is recognized by the majority of users. Even newspapers publish their opinions from time to time. As soon as this post came out
, immediately attracted widespread attention, and more than tens of thousands of people voted "useful".
"Beijing Entertainment News" simply requested the article from Tesla Eye and published it immediately.
"The director who tells stories—Shao Shuaijun!"
This is the new title given to Shao Shuaijun by the domestic media. It seems plain and not domineering at all, but it is a very high praise. A director can take a commercial route or a literary route, but in the final analysis, a movie is a story. No director can
To boast that you can tell stories, you need to perform well both in terms of box office and humanistic care.
Shao Shuaijun has always regarded himself as a commercial director, and others also view him from a commercial perspective. Even though the box office is getting crazier every time, those who are deeply affected by the so-called humanistic care are still full of contempt for him, thinking that he is full of copper odor.
Taste. The movies produced are all bullshit kitsch.
Nowadays, "Painted Skin" has brought glory to the Chinese people and defeated the blockbusters of Hollywood, the Kingdom of Movies. No matter how harsh a person is, they would not dare to say that what Shao Shuaijun makes is shit, otherwise he will be despised by thousands of people.
Shao Shuaijun's momentum has been established. He has jumped out of the domestic director's frame and stood on the world stage.
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After learning that he had been named a "Storytelling Director", Shao Shuaijun immediately posted a letter of thanks on his blog: "Thank you everyone for your support. I can't say that I can tell stories. I can only say that I can tell stories with my heart. Once upon a time Yes, I will now, and I will in the future!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!
ps: Thanks to Yindingshanren for the tip.
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By the way, I'm very depressed today. I don't know what's going on with the network here. It suddenly became stuck today and I've been disconnected more than a dozen times. I can't survive!