Whether it’s an agent story that evokes the audience’s curiosity to the maximum, or adrenaline-fueled shootouts, car chases, and bomb The airplane bridge section is nothing more than the cherry on the top of the cake of “Creed”.
And under the cover of a thin layer of cream, it is clearly a piece of Russian Leba that is hard to chew, chew, and even harder to swallow.
This article is from WeChat official account:New Weekly (ID: new-weekly), author: Lu Yiming, from the head of FIG: “dogma” stills
In the past two days, you may have experienced such an adventure–
While browsing Moments, someone posted upside-down and messy text;
Walking on the road, someone is walking backwards suddenly;
Passengers in the back seat of the car always want to stretch their legs to reach the steering wheel;
Even men and women who only care about food and vegetables in their diets have begun to frequently mention unpopular words such as “entropy”, “grandfather paradox”, “time clamp exercise”…
In the final battle, the building exploded-recovered-exploded again.
When you look at the back, you will find that hidden under a thin layer of butter, it is clearly a piece of Russian big leba that is hard to chew, chew, and even harder to swallow.
Compared to a movie, “Creed” is more like the film and television of a physics paper. The Paper even commented on its difficulty in a film review-“In the future, it is selected for high IQ brain-burning movies. If “Creed” ranks second, few movies dare to claim to be the first.”
Why is this happening?
This difficulty in viewing movies is largely due to the unique “reverse time and space” setting in the film.
To put it simply, it is through a special device invented by the future man to achieve a rewind-like effect: the car is driven backwards, and the person walks backwards, everything will repeat itself in reverse, and time will flow backward.
Through the revolving door, you can enter the reverse space, realizing partial time reverse.
When I saw the movie here, I remembered the beginning of a poem that was all the rage a few years ago, and there was a picture at once–
The water of the waterfall flows upstream, and dandelion seeds float back from a distance, turning into umbrellas.
The sun rises from the west and sets to the east.
The bullet returned to the barrel, and the athlete returned to the starting line
With such a unique setting, “Creed” has successfully caused audiences to suffer from various degrees of “sequelae”——
Someone made a comment on watching the movie, which was full of feelings about “I understand and read the letter, and I can see it”; some people learned from the heroine Elizabeth Debicci, who is about 1.9 meters in length, and tried to sit in the back seat Enough for the steering wheel; some people accidentally got the appearance and acting skills of the male second Robert Pattinson, and began to review his famous work “Twilight”……
In a word, the “post-sequence letter” has begun to spread from person to person.
2. Is the “Creed” that everyone can’t understand, is the emperor’s new outfit?
On September 4, the movie “Creed” was released in China. After two days, he quickly contracted hot search and became a new Internet stalk. On the evening of September 6, the box office of “Creed” in the Mainland exceeded 200 million yuan.
But at the beginning of the show, in stark contrast to the enthusiasm for playing tricks, few people dared to admit that they understood “Creed”. Moreover, those who claim to understand the “Creed” once, most likely understand only the outline of its story.
It’s a bit like you are taking a protractor to take an exam and you encounter a geometry problem to find an angle. You look at it a bit like 60°, and it is indeed 60° when measured, so you wrote this answer, but there is a fact that you know well–
You don’t actually know why it is 60°.
It’s no wonder that within a few days of “Creed”, Nolan gained the title of “Director’s Ge Jun”.
Ge Jun: I dare not be it. /Weibo@语文Command Center
Although Nolan has never made such a promise, the label “Nolan produces must be a boutique” has long been deeply imprinted in the minds of domestic audiences.
So, when people walked into the cinema with the expectation of the “Spiritual Sequel to Inception”, but found that they could not understand at all, everyone agreed “This is not Nolan’s The problem is my problem”.
A piece with more than 100,000 likes, or a lot of it reflects the audience’s “double standard” mentality–
“I didn’t understand the other movies: What kind of rubbish movie, logical shit doesn’t make sense; Nolan’s movie didn’t understand: I really need a second brush”
The audience who has been abused by Nolan thousands of times, but still treats him like first love, can only weakly say “Maybe, this is Nolan”.
3. Nolan, a spiritual mentor for fans in first- and second-tier cities
Anyway, from “Inception” to “Interstellar” to “Creed”, the popularity of these movies more or less reflects the appeal of director Christopher Nolan in the Chinese market.
Compared with the younger brother Jonathan Nolan, who was loved and hated by the audience after hurriedly finishing “Suspect Tracking” in preparation for the American drama “Western World”, Christopher Nolan is lucky. At least in the Chinese market, he almost Never encountered bad reviews.
After the final season aired, there were many more viewers who claimed to “send the blade to Joe (Jonathan Nolan)”. /”Suspect Tracking”
There is even a joking saying “If Nolan can live to be 300 years old, he will be able to shoot Douban top250” to describe the Chinese audience’s love of Nolan.
The meticulous mind and personal style embodied in Nolan’s films are worthy of this honey worship to a certain extent.
The narrative structure of “Memories” and the spinning top in “Inception” are all “Nolan Terriers” talked about by fans. In “Creed”, there are also careful fans who discovered Nolan’s ingenuity under the grand setting of “Save the World”——
The main elements of this movie come from a stone stele on the ruins of Pompeii.
From top to bottom, they are SATOR (the last name of the villain), AREPO (fake painter’s name), TENET (title of the film), OPERA (the opening location) , ROTAS (Airport Security Company)/Wikipedia
However, the so-called “Nolan phenomenon” is probably just a carnival of a small number of movie fans in first- and second-tier cities.
According to data, from the box office of three days of release, first- and second-tier cities contributed 73.1% of the box office. In contrast, the third, fourth, and fifth-tier cities accounted for only 26.9% of the box office.
For third- and fourth-tier cities and even the broader sinking market, the “brain burn” on the poster is not a selling point, but a threshold. This may explain the lack of success of “Creed” at the box office.
What’s more, the plot of “the tool man of all staff” still makes this film lack of temperature compared to the rigorous physical deduction. Don’t forget, even though Nolan’s films have always been known as “brain-burning”, what really captures the sincerity of Chinese audiences is the emotion hidden in the suspenseful story.
This is true whether it is the guilt of Xiao Li for his dead wife in “Inception” or the love between father and daughter that spans time and space in “Interstellar”.
The box office of “Interstellar Crossing” is over 100 million in the re-screening, which is the white moonlight in the minds of many domestic movie fans. /”Interstellar”
Just like the little poem mentioned earlier, “You are still by my side”, the most touching part is actually hidden in the second half——
I handed in the admission letter, forgetting the ten-year cold window.
The smell of food wafts from the kitchen. You sign my papers, turn off the TV, and help me put my schoolbag on my back.
You are still by my side.
Four. “He is so ordinary, but he understands Nolan so much”
“Creed” has been in theaters for nearly a week. You may not have watched this movie yet, but you have already seen a hundred people say “incomprehensible” in your circle of friends.
Even the protagonists.
This confidence also spread from online to offline. Thanks to the brutal growth of various film reviews, the number of brothers in the theater has increased. They seemed to be able to share brainwaves with Nolan suddenly, and then spared no effort to explain to their girlfriends next to them in the theater.
Compared to those “understanding brothers” who will pull you to analyze a wave of in-depth analysis when they disagree, they are more cute than those who frankly admit that they fell asleep halfway through.
After all, it is not ashamed to not understand “Creed”, but it is really annoying to “show IQ” and “show superiority” regardless of occasion.
This article is from WeChat official account:New Weekly (ID: new-weekly), author: Lu Yiming, from the head of FIG: “dogma” stills