1905 Movie Network Feature, IIIA few days ago, Deng Chao and Yu Baimei jointly directed the release.
In the "film director" school, the two spent five years and finally enrolled in three classes in three years.
On the first day of the release, Deng Chao said to himself on Weibo,He and Yu Baimei were never good students in the traditional sense.
This sentence is equally appropriate to describe the directing path of the two.
One in 2014 and one in 2015, teamed up to cut 1.30 billion box office for "Ultra White".
But along with the banknotes, there was also a lot of scolding.
With a score of 5.0 and 4.1, Deng Chao + Yu Baimei have almost become synonymous with "bad movies" on Douban.
However, just like the cry between father and son in "Galaxy Tutorial School": "Never admit defeat!"Similarly, Deng Chao, who refused to admit defeat, returned with" Galaxy Tutoring School "after four years of hibernation, once again challenging the taste buds of audiences and film critics with the typical" ultra-white style ".
Up to now, the film has won more than 400 million box office, no accident will greatly refresh the box office record of Deng Chao’s works.
However, word-of-mouth shows a polarized trend, with both Maoyan and Taopiao’s audience ratings exceeding 9 points.
Users on the Douban platform have been consistently harsh, with their ratings dropping from 6.5 at the start to 6.2 at the edge of the passing line.
Even so, compared with Deng Chao’s previous director’s score, this score is still a modest breakthrough.
What is the quality of "Galaxy Tutoring School", and whether it can become a turning point for Deng Chao as a director? We interviewed a number of ordinary viewers for the first time to hear what they had to say.
Style breakthrough,Is Director Deng worthy of recognition?
Looking at the comment area of Deng Chao’s first two directorial works "The Breakup Master" and "The Villain Angel", it is not difficult to find that the focus of the film’s criticism isThe plot is dry, the jokes are vulgar, and the whole process relies on stage-style sketches and jokes to "hard creak the audience".
These adjectives have almost become the audience’s consistent impression of "super comedy".
In the face of overwhelming bad reviews, Deng Chao was once dissatisfied, and compared the early experience of "Xingye", bluntly saying "When Xing Ye first came out, many people criticized him, but his greatness was that he had been doing this all his life."
Although that was the case, it was not difficult to see Deng Chao’s subtle change in the choice of theme and style of "Galaxy Tutorial School". From the announcement of the project information, "Galaxy" showed a completely different style of painting from the previous two works.
Deng Chao once admitted in an interview that the film had been constructed in his mind for seven or eight years or more, incorporating many insights from his dual identity as a "father" and a "son". Reflections on education issues are also directly based on his own upbringing.
From this perspective, Deng Chao was "distracted".
This "heart-to-heart" was also recognized by many audiences. For Deng Chao’s directorial performance, the audience interviewed generally gave a high score of more than 8 points.
Many viewers bluntly said that "Galaxy Tutoring School" had changed their view of Deng Chao’s directorial strength, "I didn’t expect him to choose this theme. Compared with the previous two films, he made a great breakthrough. This transformation was very successful."
"I have seen the previous two works, and the reputation may not be very good, but this time I can see his sincerity… Originally, the entertainment industry is very harsh, I think we should be more tolerant.As long as he is sincere and produces better works, the audience will accept it."
Some viewers also said that although the style of "Galaxy Tutoring School" is very different from Deng Chao’s previous works, the super-comedy style can still be seen in the design of lines and some bridges. "He can intersperse a comedy point in the sadness and make the audience laugh, so it is not too heavy. I like this style."
Another girl mentioned that the film’s back and forth echoes reflect the director’s ingenuity. "There are many places in the screenwriting, such as one is magic, the other is a father who is also a first-time father, and the son is also a first-time son. Although the film is only two and a half hours long, it doesn’t seem to make people feel very redundant."
When we asked whether "Deng Chao is more suitable to be an actor than a director", an audience member laughed: "I think actors are more successful.There is a saying that it is not that he first acted in a movie to earn enough reputation, and then "tricked" everyone to watch the movie he directed.I watched the first two, but I actually don’t really want to watch the third one. I came here because I watched his one again, which was okay, but this one has a breakthrough. "
Some viewers also said tolerantly: "Deng Chao has been an actor for a long time, but I still feel that there is still room for improvement as a director."
Tear gas or too much force?
In our interview, many viewers confessed that they were moved to tears by the scenes in the film, especially the clips such as "98 Flood", "Father and Son Conversation in Prison", "Elderly Father and Son’Turn Against Each Other ‘", which were quite tearful, and they could also empathize with the father and son emotions in the film.
A father who came to watch the movie with his two sons told us that he had seen the movie in Shanghai before, and this time he recommended it to his children and wife. "My two sons are over 6 years old and the other is over 4 years old. They can understand it. They have been cheering for little brother Ma Fei. During the flood in 1998, they were worried about where little brother Ma Fei was, and even cried."
Another father said: "There is a very classic sentence in the film, that is, every child has a receptor in his heart, he can feel whether you love him or not, how you love him, I think this can bring some inspiration to all parents."
One girl said that her father’s constant "sense of faith" in his son reminded her of her own father: "My life path is a bit opposite to Ma Fei’s. I have a good academic performance since childhood. In junior high school, I even took the 13th place in our city, but in high school, my grades dropped a little. My father has always been very encouraging to me, telling me’I believe you can do it. ‘
Now I happen to be at a watershed in my life. After watching the movie, I am even more determined that I am not in a hurry to go out and find my first job, and I want to continue my studies. This movie has given me a lot of inspiration. "
Some viewers objectively pointed out that many lines in the movie, "Chicken soup," were too heavy.The lines chicken soup is a bit too much. Because the film is relatively long, there are two and a half hours, and the chicken soup is always listed, which makes people a little tired."
On rating platforms such as Douban, "too much chicken soup" and "character Facebook" have also become the main reasons for netizens to give bad reviews. Some netizens even used a line from Ren Suxi’s play to think that the film was renamed "Brainwash dad"More appropriate.
Other viewers questioned the rationality of part of the film’s plot, "It’s a bit fake to not do a problem set, only read a 0.5 cm book, and go out to play in the mountains and water to be able to take the top ten grades." "The director is against exam-oriented education, but he didn’t propose a better solution."
"Is it really necessary for a father to sell his blood to buy a computer for his son? The dean’s personality is too extreme, and it’s a little out of touch with reality."
In this regard, director Yu Baimei responded positively in an exclusive interview with Xiao Dianjun: "In my opinion and Deng Chao’s opinion, a lot of the content in this movie is some common sense. Many people may not think so, and will think it is a fake philosophy and chicken soup.I think they all misunderstood. These are the things that Deng Chao and I, as fathers, want to say to our children the most."
No matter from the word-of-mouth feedback on major platforms or the results of Xiao Dianjun’s street collection, although the third director’s work of "Ultra White Combination" is not perfect, progress and breakthroughs are still visible to the naked eye.
The film’s word-of-mouth has also appeared similar to that of "Former 3", which has received rave reviews on ticket-buying platforms and polarized on fan platforms, reflecting the differences in tastes and preferences of different movie audiences.
As early as when "Villain Angel" suffered a one-sided negative review, and the audience persuaded Deng Chao to give up his directing career and act with peace of mind, he replied: "I will definitely let everyone’s wishes come to nothing. I am still in the second grade when it comes to directing. Let’s take a look when I have done ten or twenty."
Nowadays, third-year director Deng Chao has made us see progress, but he may still have a long way to go in his journey to become a straight-A student.
