Director’s Legend

The smoky mid-May box office battle has come to an end. "Painted Skin" leads the rankings in North America with 30.22 million. On Rotten Tomatoes, there are 75 popular film critics' ratings, 63 of which are passing, and the freshness is 84%. It also reached 77%.

Among the top film critics, like Roger Ebert, all gave "Painted Skin" a satisfactory score. Unfortunately, Roger has been plagued by illness in recent years, and he has no interest in giving him a thumbs up. This makes Shao Shuaijun a little regretful. Roger gave a thumbs up, at least half of the movie box office.

On imdb, the score of "Painted Skin" is 7.7 points, which is the score that a qualified commercial film should have. And Yahoo's comprehensive score is B+, which is a very good score. Critics and audiences alike rated it as a good movie.

It was released in Asia and North America for eight days, and the box office of Huapi was all over the place. North America had a total of 41.05 million US dollars, and the mainland even successfully broke through the 200 million yuan mark. box office. In Southeast Asia, about 40 million yuan was obtained. "Painted Skin" was very popular in Japan and won nearly 700 million yen, which is more than 50 million yuan.

In the first round of release, the global box office of "Painted Skin" is nearly 630 million, which is equivalent to more than 76 million US dollars, and it will soon break through 100 million US dollars.

To achieve such an achievement, it can be said that the whole country is jubilant, and the six investors have already started preparing for the celebration banquet in advance. CCTV reported the news for the first time, although "Hero" was the first mainland film to win the weekly box office championship in North America. But the gold content of "Painted Skin" is obviously greater than that of "Heroes", and it is even more worthy of bragging.

The domestic Internet is also full of applause. It can kill Hollywood blockbusters such as "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Poseidon", which makes all Chinese netizens feel proud. Looking back at other American films, it is no longer the Holding the mentality of being ashamed, but elated.

What's wrong with Hollywood, domestic films still kill you in seconds, and they are still in your territory!

Those who have good things are beginning to summarize the factors for the success of "Painted Skin". Among them is the Tesla Eye netizen of Mtime.com. Posted a technical post on the blog.

"Looking at the three blockbuster films, we can make a clear comparison of the factors that make or break the box office."

Number one, cost. The total cost of "Poseidon" was 160 million US dollars. "Mission: Impossible 3" cost $150 million. "Painted Skin" cost 60 million US dollars.

Article II. special effects. Also burning special effects, "Poseidon" has the most special effects shots, followed by "Mission: Impossible 3". "Painted Skin" is the least.

Article 3, Propaganda. "Mission: Impossible 3" has the word-of-mouth reputation of the first two high-grossing films, and Tom Cruise's box-office appeal. "Poseidon" is a shipwreck film that claims to be bigger than the Titanic. Both of these two films have strong publicity and are well known all over 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 Petersen, "Painted Skin" has nothing. You want to ask Shao Shuaijun? Sorry, even Chinese Americans don't necessarily know him. As for Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun? They are no different from Chinese tourists on the street.

Article 5, the story. "Mission: Impossible 3" tells the theme of secret agents, the first two have already demonstrated, this theme is very attractive. "Poseidon" tells the theme of disasters, and disaster movies have always been attractive themes, and "Titanic" demonstrated the possibility of success. "Painted Skin" tells a love story between a human and a monster. Well, if it is classified as a love theme, it is indeed a joke. The key is that it focuses on the theme of monsters. Americans know Spiderman and vampires, but as for vixens, can they be eaten?

Combining the above five items, we can draw a conclusion that "Painted Skin" does not have an advantage in terms of cost, special effects, publicity, main creative lineup or story theme. But in the end, "Painted Skin" won the box office championship. This is hard to believe if you don't watch the content of the movie, but you will understand after watching the movie.

No matter how beautiful the packaging is, if there is no real material, 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 just embellishments, not distracting. From the beginning to the end, the story is complete and readable, successfully shaping the characters of each character.

"Mission: Impossible 3" can be seen everywhere, and "Poseidon" has no idea what to talk about. There are stories but they are not told with heart, thinking that a few hot scenes that are full of selling points can make money, and while fooling the audience, the audience will also abandon you. It's like a primary school student who had a month's vacation, only to realize that he didn't write any homework when the school started. He immediately took out his homework book and picked out a few key points to scribble, thinking that he could get away with it.

In the end, it was his own foot that hit him. Therefore, the success of "Painted Skin" is, in my opinion, the director's success.

A director who tells stories with heart is the key to the success of a movie.

"Li Eucalyptus, who told the story, had the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Brokeback Mountain", and vice versa, "Hulk" failed. This truth deserves the attention of all directors."

Tesla Eyes is the earliest registered user of Mtime.com, and also the first batch of star users. Their film review analysis has been recognized by the majority of users. Even newspapers published their opinions from time to time. As soon as this post was published, it immediately attracted widespread attention, and more than tens of thousands of people liked it as "useful".

"Jingcheng Entertainment Letter" simply asked Tesla Eyes for a draft and published it immediately.

"The director who tells the story - 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 extremely 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 boast that he can tell a story. This requires outstanding performance in terms of box office and humanistic care.

Shao Shuaijun has always regarded himself as a commercial director, and others see him from a commercial perspective. Although the box office is getting more and more crazy every time, those who are deeply influenced by the so-called humanistic care still look down on him, thinking that he is full of copper stink. The movies that come out are shit kitsch.

Now, as soon as "Painted Skin" comes out, it wins glory for the people of the country and defeats the blockbusters of Hollywood, the movie kingdom. No matter how harsh a person is, they dare not say that Shao Shuaijun's filming is shit, otherwise he will be cast aside by thousands of people.

Shao Shuaijun's general trend has been achieved, he has jumped out of the framework of domestic directors and stood on the world stage.

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Knowing that he was awarded the title of "Story Telling Director", Shao Shuaijun immediately posted a thank you letter on his blog: "Thank you for your love, I can't say that I can tell stories, I can only say that I can tell stories with my heart. Yes, now, and in the future!" (To be continued...)

ps:  Thanks to Yindingshan people for their reward.

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By the way, I am very depressed today. I don’t know what’s going on with the network here. It suddenly became stuck today, which caused me to lose the connection more than a dozen times, and I couldn’t live anymore!