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By the time of press release, the box office of the popular "Magic Animal: Glindwal's Crime" had exceeded 190 million yuan in two days, and the online word of mouth score was 7.5 points. Against the high reputation pressure of the previous series, "Where are the Magic Animals?", this sequel is still cracked in terms of vision and performance, but it is controversial in the story. Many viewers believe that the presentation of this episode is too complicated and there are too many characters, which unintentionally raises the threshold of watching movies, leaving ordinary audiences confused.

Although sequels are common, they carry the aura of previous films. The higher the audience's expectations of sequels, the more stringent the requirements will be. Therefore, it is an indisputable fact that many sequels have lower reputation and box office than the former.

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Written by: Huang An, a full media reporter of Guangzhou Daily

Miraculous Animals: Glindwal's Sin

Two years later, the Magic Animal: Glindwal's Crime, which was expected by fans of the "Magic World", was finally released. After the film was released, it has both praise and criticism, but it is still an excellent sequel film as a whole.

Like: "Magic animal" attracts the eyes

As one of the highlights of the "Fantastic Animals" series, what the audience expected most was the appearance of some eye opening animals in this episode. From the perspective of the film, the smell of the "Lock Opener" Luoguo Pike, the tree protector, and the "Lottery Pet" in the previous film has once again attracted the attention of the public, and the new animal characters are also particularly eye-catching: the Divine Bird, who is good at "face changing", the loyal guard of the French Ministry of Magic, Madagore Cat, and the horse shaped water monster, which combines the elements of dragons, horses, and water plants, and other new animals appear one by one, making people dizzy. To the attention of the Chinese audience, Zou Wu, an animal from the Book of Mountains and Rivers, made an aggressive appearance. Zouwu is as big as an elephant, with a tiger's body, sharp claws, four curved and exposed tusks, a shiny mane when stretched out, and a shape like a lotus leaf. However, when Nate shook the magic bell, Zouwu was scared silly and suddenly stopped showing his tusks, which made the audience laugh.

Two great parties

In addition to the "magical animals" appearing in turn, various elements related to the "Harry Potter" series also successfully aroused the strong feelings of fans. Voldemort, Eris Mirror, Deathly Hallows and many other characters and magic objects appeared one after another, and a wave of "memory killing" came.

In the "Harry Potter" series, we learned that Dumbledore, who is old and plays an important role in the British magic world, one of his important achievements is that he defeated the original Dark Lord Greenward when he was young. In the "Magic Animal" series, the dispute between the two people has just begun to be told. Dumbledore and Greenward, who span the two series of Harry Potter and the Magic Animal, with the help of the acting skills of two male gods, Jude Law and Johnny Depp, have added a lot of charm to the characters, especially Depp's attractive appearance, distinctive hair style and eyes, and are very stylish every time they appear, and have been praised by netizens: "Depp has created a perfect role again."

Play: Is the threshold for viewing too high? Can't you understand it without being a fan?

Although the picture is praiseworthy, there is some controversy in the story of this episode. In 2016, where are the magical animals written by Rowling became the ninth film in the Harry Potter series. The film turns its attention to the magical world before Harry's birth, opening the prelude to the witches' resistance against the first generation of the Dark Lord, Greenward, in the 1920s. This episode focuses on the rise of Greenward.

Greenward first appeared as a real person in the seventh episode of the Harry Potter series. However, the audience is not familiar with this humble character.

Fantastic Animals: Glindwal's Sin is inextricably linked to the previous film and the Harry Potter series. There are too many characters and extremely complicated story lines, which makes many audiences confused: "JK has too much ambition, keeps digging holes, and has many tasks. Many characters have only a few words, but they haven't dug deeply. There are many story lines, but they are not well laid out, leading to the overall chaos." "I am not a Harry Potter fan, and I said I was confused." Many audiences questioned, The threshold for ordinary audience to watch the film is too high, and it is precisely this that impairs the visibility of the film.

In this regard, some netizens suggested that the audience should review the first "Where are the Magic Animals" and the last two episodes of the "Harry Potter" series before watching the film, and straighten out the relationship between the previous roles and characters: "Because this film is really informative."

Agent Bean 3: "Mr. Bean" is still young

The third film series of Agent Bean, which has accompanied the audience for more than ten years, will also welcome. In this episode, agent Johnny, played by Rowan Atkinson, "Mr. Bean", will face the challenge of high-tech, and will comprehensively show the contradiction between the development of the Internet and the contemporary society in a funny way.

The story of the film tells that Rowan Atkinson returns again and continues to play the popular secret agent Johnny. This new adventure was kicked off by a hacker attack. All the active agents were exposed, making Johnny the last straw for the intelligence service. Therefore, the first duty of Johnny, who was re employed, was to find out the super hacker. How will Johnny, who is dull and has worrying skills, cope with the challenges of modern science and technology and successfully complete the task?

The performance of comedian Rowan Atkinson is the biggest attraction of the film. His textbook acting skills once again give full play to physical comedy and facial humor.

"The Invincible Destroyer 2: Making a scene on the Internet":

Another Disney blockbuster?

It's not easy for sequels to get good reviews. However, this trend is still strong. Among the new films to be released next weekend, there are two sequels: "The Invincible Destroyer 2" and "Bean Agent 3".

Last year, the animated film "Journey to the Dream Ring" was a great success with 1.212 billion yuan at the box office after its release in China, which also made the industry full of expectations for Disney's latest "The Invincible Destroyer 2". At the recent premiere ceremony in China, the Internet adventure of "The Invincible Destroyer 2" was created with unrestrained imagination and super high production standards. It was very popular, and is expected to become a hit again.

Since the first movie "The Invincible Destroyer" came out, Ralph and Winnie Lop have been loved by the audience. Although their personalities are not perfect, they are flesh and blood. The warm friendship makes the audience laugh and cry.

When it comes to the sequel, the film has been upgraded in all aspects. Following the original cast of "Crazy Animal City", the film has continued its rich visual atmosphere and created a world full of imagination in details. After Ralph and Winnie Lop played in the video game world in the previous work, this episode has also entered a broader Internet to start a new adventure.

By virtue of the Internet theme, the film gathers a large number of Disney's IPs: The Big White in Super Marine, Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story, Marvel superhero Iron Man, popular Fox Nick in Crazy Animal City, Star Wars, Marvel series For other elements such as Pixar series films, the late cartoonist Stan Lee also guest starred in the film with an animated image, which surprised netizens: Disney finally showed its copyright.

The most surprising thing was the first gathering of Disney Princess. Snow White, Queen Aisha in Snow and Ice, Princess Anna, and even Chinese Princess Hua Mulan, Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, all together 14 princesses are in the same frame as never before. As they keep pace with the times, they not only take off their princess skirts and put on casual clothes, but also lie on the sofa to open the "self darkness" mode. They laugh at themselves as "children without mothers", and "dislike" Princess Melida in "Brave Legend" "came from Pixar". The "poisonous tongue" and "self darkness" of the princesses not only make the princesses more in line with modern trends, but also add a lot of points to the comedy effect of the film.

In addition to the feeling of crazy show, the film uses a very vivid way of expression to show the Ukiyoyo of network culture. The imagination of the presentation of search engine, likes, pop-up ads, short videos and other functions and products is really impressive. At the same time, negative phenomena such as cyber language violence and computer viruses have also been mentioned to varying degrees, which makes the audience think while laughing. This is also the reason why the film is more like an animated film than the previous film.

If you are not familiar with Disney and the Internet, this part of the audience need not worry. The sincere feelings shown in the film itself are actually enough to "heal" your feelings. In the face of the rapidly changing Internet, Ralph was at a loss, while Winilop fell in love at first sight. The contradiction between the two people's vision of the future made the story ups and downs. In the face of the test of friendship, Ralph still played a warm man's role and attracted numerous fans among female audiences. It is worth mentioning that the two "eggs" of the film are quite hilarious this time. Don't leave in a hurry when the film is subtitled.

Journalist observation

If you want to score high in the sequel,

Comprehensive upgrade is the guarantee

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On the surface, the sequel film has the support of the previous film and is more easily accepted by the audience. In fact, the success of the previous film is a commercial advantage, but it also puts forward more stringent requirements for the creators. A good sequel film should be upgraded in an all-round way, especially in terms of story.

The sequel film has the most difficult requirements for the story. It should not only maintain the essence of the original, but also be innovative; It should not only have a connection with the previous work, but also provide new information; We should not only please old fans but also take care of new audiences; We should not only solve the puzzles left by the previous episode, but also lay a new foreshadowing for the next episode; Therefore, the creation of a series of films should not wait until the first film is successful to "assemble" a sequel mechanically, but should deliberately make the idea and specific planning of IP at the script stage, one by one, tell the story to the audience step by step, and slowly cultivate the brand.

Take "Chinatown Detective 2" for example, which was released during the Spring Festival this year. As early as the first film, Chen Sicheng revealed his idea of creating a trilogy. In the first film, it was also obvious that the author had the idea of continuing the story. In the second film, he further expanded the film's broader world view, improved the relationship between the characters, and made the whole film more complete, Naturally, the box office increased from 800 million yuan in the first film to 3.3 billion yuan in the second film. "The Invincible Destroyer 2" also has a broader perspective and pattern in the story, which not only maintains entertainment, but also makes education fun, and really covers all ages. Although in terms of recognition, it may not have the wide coverage of "Journey to Dream Ring", and the theme may not be more likely to resonate, but that joy and healing are enough to give this film high marks.

The reason why the first wave of audience's public praise of "Miraculous Animals: Glindwal's Crime" failed to meet the expectations was not that the film quality was poor, but that the author's rhythm was a bit too hasty, which led to the difficulty of understanding among the public in the absence of novel foundation, grand chapters and complex character relationships, thus improving the threshold of watching movies. In fact, the visual effect of the film is good, with full marks for fantasy elements and comedy effects in stories. However, these advantages are not enough to make the film famous, because the audience did not fully understand the most basic stories and characters, and the entertainment effect and viewability are bound to be discounted. It is the happiness of film fans for JK Rowling to create a richer and larger magic world, but it must be taken into account that most of the audience of the film are not fans, and this design is to some extent a subjective barrier to most ordinary audiences.

Is the sequel the first movie to satisfy fans, movie fans or ordinary audiences who may not have seen the previous movie? In my opinion, the majority of ordinary audience should be put in the first place, and the mind should be calm when creating, and more people should think about problems from the perspective of ordinary audience. This is also a reference for domestic films. Once upon a time, the reason why the domestic sequels were generally not well received was that most of them did not put the audience first, but simply repeated and stacked the so-called selling points, eventually becoming "four different".

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