1905 movie network news On March 26th, the fantasy love movie, which is being shown all over the country, has exceeded 100 million at the box office in China cinema. Since its release, the film has broken the box office records of many Oscar-winning films, among which the first-day box office was ranked second in the box office list of China District with 21.74 million yuan, and the first-weekend box office of Oscar-winning films in recent years was the highest with 67.5 million yuan. Since its release in North America, the film has been a hit at the box office. At present, the box office in North America has exceeded $62 million, which is the highest-grossing Oscar-winning film in North America in the past five years. At present, the global box office of the film has exceeded $170 million. In March, when many adventure action elements are killing each other, Water Story, as the only movie with the theme of love, is like a clean stream of warmth in the hearts of the audience, and it has also become the best choice for lovers to date.
As the winner of four awards, such as best film and best director, "Tale of Water Shapes" has not only enjoyed a strong box office since its release in China, but its word-of-mouth has also continued to ferment, which has been highly praised by many authoritative media, well-known directors and senior film critics in China. In addition, David and his wife, Zhou Dongyu, Jiang Shuying, Jolin Tsai, Ariel Lin, Emily, Charlie, YIN FANG and many other artists CALL for the film one after another, and the love wave formed by Water Story quickly spread in the circle of friends, Weibo and other social software.
"Tale of Water" can get a bumper harvest in three aspects: word of mouth, box office and Oscar. The most important reason is the romantic story created by director guillermo del toro in a fairy-tale way. The love between Sargam’s Eliza and the mermaid broke the audience’s inertia thinking, but across races, it restored love to its purest taste. Beautiful pictures, beautiful music and superb performances of actors are the elements that sublimate the beauty of love again. On the screen, Eliza and the mermaid embraced and guarded each other from the first contact to the last, and the experience left a deep impression on the audience. For example, Eliza and the mermaid are clasped with their fingers across the container, and there is a picture of Eliza depicting raindrops on the window. The yearning for lovers and longing for love instantly aroused many audiences’ emotional resonance. When the picture of two people communicating with picture books and making love with eggs appeared, many viewers also expressed their envy of this simple but sweeter love routine. When the mermaid finally jumped into the water with Eliza in her arms, many viewers, especially female viewers, were moved to tears at this moment.
Eliza on the screen has no lines, but she accurately presents a girl’s process from first love to passionate love with body language and micro-expression, which is inseparable from sally hawkins’s profound understanding and vivid interpretation of the role. For Eliza’s performance, director Toro once said that this is a film and role specially made for her (sally hawkins), and her temperament is unique. In addition to Eliza, Mermaid has also captivated many audiences. doug jones, his actor, paid more hardships and sacrifices for this. He spent three hours in makeup every time, staring blankly at the fish in his spare time, and finally he was "ashamed" to meet the audience. The whole set of equipment on the mermaid consumed the director Toro’s huge time and effort, and finally showed the audience this wild and elegant mermaid image on the screen.
Full of care and support is also a warm heart of Water Story. In the film, the story of Eliza, Zeldia, a black colleague, and Charles, a gay painter, holding a group to keep warm reflects Toro’s concern for marginalized people. Richard jenkins, the actor of the painter Charles, once summed up his role struggle with Zeldia with such a sentence: "In the United States in the 1960s, if you were an upright white man, it would be a great era". Three characters who were discriminated against by the secular world, Sargam Eliza, black Zeldia and gay Charles, supported their friendship with a rescue activity, and the thrills brought the audience a journey of spiritual transformation. In the film, although Charles did a lot of preparation and psychological construction to cover up his anxiety, the images exposed by nervousness when he drove past the checkpoint also made the audience worry about Eliza. When Eliza and Mermaid flooded the cinema because of playing with water, when Charles stopped the cinema manager to apologize, many viewers also praised him for his kindness. In the whole rescue process, it was Zeldia who gave the greatest support to Eliza, including her behavior of "punching in a seat" for Eliza every day at the beginning of the film, which reflected this powerful girlfriend power. Zeldia’s calmness in her actions has become Eliza’s strongest psychological backing. When the villain Richard bullied Zeldia into telling the whereabouts of the mermaid, her firm attitude and loud reprimand to her husband made the audience feel better.
As a fantasy romantic film, Water Story enhances the charm of love through poetic scenes and beautiful music. The scenes and props in the film are extremely exquisite and retro, ranging from streets and alleys, government agencies, Alisa’s rooms and cinemas to scientific research equipment, household items and clothing and shoes, which deeply restore the characteristics of the 1960s. At the same time, the film music composer Alexander Dupla adopted a lot of music from the 1930s and 1940s. With the change of the lens, the music also flowed, like a clear stream to take the audience in and out of the film. This retro picture is in line with aesthetic music, which also makes the film win the best artistic direction and the best original score in the 90th Oscar, and the audience is like being in a dreamlike journey through.
