The total box office exceeded 13.47 million yuan and broke the historical record of "Li Sanniang"
. How "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" became the box office champion of opera movies
On June 9, according to the latest data from the professional version of Maoyan, the total box office of "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" exceeded 13.476 million yuan, breaking the historical record of the opera movie "Li Sanniang" and becoming the box office champion of Chinese film history and opera movies.
"The Legend of the White Snake: Love" is directed by Zhang Xianfeng, the national first-level director may be the screenwriter, the national first-level actor, the Chinese drama plum blossom award, the Chinese cultural performance award winner Zeng Xiaomin and the national first-class actor Wen Ruqing lead the starring, Wang Yanfei , Zhu Hongxing co-starred.
"The Legend of the White Snake: Love" has a smart ink-and-wash picture of a fairy and a man. Each frame is an exquisite wallpaper, which maximizes the innovative display of the quintessence of the country.
Director Zhang Xianfeng introduced that "The Legend of the White Snake: Affection" incorporates the simplicity, white space, and charm pursued in Song Dynasty aesthetics on the screen, retaining the essence of traditional operas, and injecting oriental aesthetics into it.
Every minute and every second of the film presentation, there are considerations about the separation between the art of opera and the art of film. For example, on the opera stage, the performance of the huge waves is that many actors wave their sleeves and express it in a freehand way. Presentation cannot be done. It needs to use movie special effects to reproduce the shocking scene of the huge waves, which is in line with the audience's expectations.
Unlike most traditional opera movies that were shot in real scenes in the past, "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" has innovated the expression of opera movies and made a major breakthrough in typology. Through cutting-edge 4K technology and a large number of visual effects, many of them cannot be presented on the stage. The magnificent scenes of Xiqu are presented on the big screen one by one, adding more charm to Xiqu movies, which is a bold innovation of Xiqu movies.
In pursuit of the ultimate oriental beauty presentation and shocking visual effects, the special effects of the film were jointly completed by the top special effects teams in Australia, New Zealand, and Shenzhen, China, presenting the abstract "pirate fairy grass" and "water" on the theater stage with a fantasy effect. In classic bridge sections such as "Manjinshan", the special effects shots of "Water Manjinshan" show the magnificent picture of huge waves, which can be presented for up to 6 minutes at all costs.
It is worth mentioning that "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" scored 8.2 on Douban and successfully "out of the circle", allowing many young audiences to see a Cantonese opera movie on the screen for the first time, marveling at the "renewal" brought about by this opera movie. "Sense: I never expected that an opera movie would be shot like this, the effect is so amazing, even if you don't understand Cantonese, you can appreciate the beauty, exquisiteness, and grandeur of this Cantonese opera movie.
Text/Reporter Xiao Yang
Cultural narration
Chinese films should not lack the stringed songs of opera
Although Xiqu movies have been trying to break through themselves, it has always been difficult to change their "niche addiction," and they are also in a "weak" state that few people care about in the film market.
However, the success of the Cantonese opera film "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" has "broken the circle", allowing people to see that opera and film can also be successfully integrated, opening a door to a new world of cinema for the audience.
From "Dingjun Mountain" in 1905, the origin of Chinese movies has been closely related to opera.
Opera movies can be described as a unique phenomenon of Chinese movies, and they are natural representatives of Chinese style and oriental aesthetics. However, the combination of opera and movies has always lacked effective methods.
Because there is a huge gap between the two that needs to be bridged-opera is dominated by ideology, actors can show the momentum of swinging thousands of miles without moving, while movies are about documentary, and they are all swinging thousands of miles, and the actors are still in the original. Land, that is "bug", so opera and film are basically art forms with different aesthetic systems. How can they be successfully integrated?
This problem has plagued the creation of opera films for many years.
Previously, Chinese opera films were relatively conservative in terms of filming, and creators had a lot of concerns about "breaking tradition". Although some excellent opera repertoires were put on the big screen and presented through multi-angle filming methods, , Its core is to satisfy the traditional opera appreciation habits and needs of opera fans.
In this way, the original flavor of Xiqu is preserved, but it is more like watching a stage performance on a movie screen. It does not achieve the superimposed effect of "Xiqu + movie". It is obviously impossible to "break the circle" to attract more audiences. .
The biggest success of "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" was to find a way to present the "virtual" part of the opera, and to reach a consensus with the audience's understanding and imagination.
In "The Legend of the White Snake", a tacit understanding is formed between the visual charm of the ink and wash of the Song Dynasty and the art of opera, which injects the aesthetic conception of oriental aesthetics into the film, and gives full play to the advantages of the film language, whether it is a lotus leaf skirt or a small bridge. The graceful details of Baixuefeihua, or the majestic action scenes of cassock enchantment, water flooding with golden mountains, and majestic staff, are all performed to the extreme, allowing the audience to see the unique charm of the classical rhyme and fully immerse them in it.
In "The Legend of the White Snake: Love", the "true" side is also magnified.
Xiqu is a true art, and it is extremely difficult for an actor to sing, play, and play. It belongs to the state of art that an actor can achieve through his life's hard work.
And "The Legend of the White Snake: Love" is precisely through the film method, so that the vocal rhyme and gestures of the opera actors are displayed in a realistic way.
In the movie, the heroine Zeng Xiaomin is capable of literary and military skills, spanning the three trades of Hua Dan, Wu Dan and Tsing Yi. The sleeves are windy, showing the real kung fu accumulated by opera actors for decades. The "soul experience" that commercial action blockbusters can't bring.
In the direction of Chinese film development, there should be no shortage of string songs in opera films. Xie Bailiang, an expert on the history of Chinese and foreign opera, once mentioned a piece of data that proves that opera films do not lack audiences-the Yue opera film "Dream of Red Mansions" was initially estimated in 1978. It has an audience of 1.2 billion people.
The audiences of other Yue opera films "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and Huangmei Opera film "The Match of Heaven" are also based on 500 million and 1 billion audiences.
Today, "The Legend of the White Snake" has become the box office champion of Chinese film history and opera movies with a box office of 13.476 million. Compared with this title, it is more important to help opera movies find a way to the audience and find a way to reach the audience. The way the audience talks and communicates.
Chinese opera can be regarded as an oriental treasure. However, for many young people today, there are thresholds for the appreciation of opera art, and there is a generation gap in understanding. The "White Snake: Love" retains the essence of opera and presents a beautiful singing voice. At the same time, it glowed with a new vitality that runs through the past and the present.
There are so many classic Chinese operas in China. If they can find a suitable way to recreate them through film media, and let the ancient humanistic spirit and precious culture reappear on the big screen, it will be a great happiness for Chinese people.
Text/Reporter Xiao Yang