Unlike the original version at the beginning, because Wu Mingxuan, the world's top commercial director, this movie was highly valued at the beginning of the project. Others may not have such exaggerated credibility, but for Wu Mingxuan, who has almost never failed to make a mistake in Oscars, it is directly full of halo before filming.
Now that the production is about to be completed, it has begun to pass reviews in major markets around the world, which has naturally attracted high attention from the world. In terms of positioning, many people position such a movie as a drama film. Perhaps there will be no exaggerated box office, but it is destined to be famous in film history and enter major film and television academies around the world to become a high-scoring classic film in textbooks.
When I heard that the General Administration suddenly let go, "Parasite" will be reviewed soon and will be released simultaneously with other major markets on December 5. The heads of major theaters naturally want to introduce this Korean movie, and even compared with the previous Korean movies, they gave a very good theater share, which is extremely sincere.
There is this reason why Wu Mingxuan brought Zhuge Dasheng here today. He mainly wanted to see the box office of such a movie after it was released in the mainland market. If it was really impressive, many movie fans already knew how to appreciate such a movie. Then he would gradually focus his work from superhero movie special effects blockbusters to drama films.
You can't become a real movie master when making superhero movies. With the continuous progress of special effects and the film industry, no matter how powerful popcorn movies are, they can only dominate the era when they were born. They will be nothing after a long time. For example, Avatar, in a few years, this is a popcorn movie that can still be watched, and it will definitely not reach the height of a big ship.
Only realistic drama films that reflect social reality, have a huge impact on the entire society, and can transcend the times and resonate with everyone is an eternal classic.
From this perspective, those award ceremony are actually very reliable. The difference between masters and great directors is in these places, so the time is really ripe. Wu Mingxuan will start to undergo such a change. Who can still not pursue a career, so he is no exception.
The director of "Parasite" Bong Joon-ho is well-known in South Korea. He was born on September 14, 1969 in Daegu Gwangju City, South Korea. He graduated from the Department of Society (88) of Yonsei University. He is a well-known mesozoic director and screenwriter in South Korea.
In 2000, he debuted with his long-form debut "Kidnap Dog at the Door". In 2003, he won the 2nd Korean Film Awards Best Director Award, the 51st San Sebastian Film Festival Best Director Award and the New Director Award for his thriller and suspense film "Murder Memories".
In 2006, he won the Best Director Award at the 44th Korean Movie Big Bell Award for the science fiction film "Hanjiang Monster"; in 2009, he filmed the thriller and suspense film "Mother", which won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award.
In 2013, he directed the action science fiction film "Snow Country Train". The film was nominated for 7 at the 56th Asia Pacific Film Festival and finally won the Best Art Award. Bong Joon-ho won the Best Director Award at the 34th Korean Qinglong Film Awards and the Best Director Award at the 50th Korean Baeksang Art Awards for the film.
In fact, as early as 2013, Bong Joon-ho began to conceive an important script, which initially described the lives of two different families in a symmetrical way.
In 2014, he met with drama director Park Geun Hyung to negotiate cooperation. The film was called "Decalcmanie". Both parties originally planned to develop dramas and movies at the same time using the story outline written by Bong Joon-ho. Park Geun Hyung wrote it into a comedy, but the progress was not very smooth. The plan was stranded.
If Wu Mingxuan had not been involved in the random situation, after nearly three years of stranding, Bong Junhao, who found inspiration again in September 2017, would continue to write and improve the script of the film, and this script was officially famous for winning numerous awards.
"Parasite" fully demonstrates director Bong Joon-ho's unique skills, simple settings, popular stories, incomprehensible reversals, exquisite rhythms, satirical character opposition, and profound social care.
Under his superb dispatch, the camera perspective, character interpretation, and proper soundtrack joined forces to achieve 100% control over the audience's emotions and reactions. To a certain extent, he is the most suitable director of "Parasite". Even Wu Mingxuan's personal actions may not be better than Bong Joon-ho, because this cannot be done by spending money.
But now it is a movie written by Wu Mingxuan. He has watched the time travel many times, and even studied and discussed it with Guan Hu, the top directors in the industry, so the changes in Wu Mingxuan's version are also very big.
The dramatic conflicts in this version of his film are stronger, the audio-visual language is more efficient, and the cameras are full of aesthetic qualities. In addition to the dramatic plot, various comedy plots make people laugh on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also mocks and criticizes the social system and the current situation.
The purpose is to express ridicule through the strong drama of the plot design. At the same time, some novel thrillers and suspense plots attract the audience closely to the story, increasing the appeal of the movie itself to the audience, rather than the preaching movie that many viewers dislike the most.
Guan Hu has not been very busy recently. After filming "Old Cannon", he went to Korea with Wu Mingxuan to participate in the final editing work. Although Wu Mingxuan also asked Bong Joon-ho to edit his own version, he will also take charge of it himself to see which side is better.
Because Bong Joon-ho himself studied in the social department and likes to study these things, the movies he directed have a strong personal style. Bong Joon-ho, who is a major in sociology, is very inclined to choose story themes that are close to life, and explore the drama of real life itself to reflect social reality.
Most of the protagonists are people at the bottom of society, with a sense of vulgarity like a small person and an anti-traditional character setting; they do not separate the responsibilities of the characters and society, and do not push all responsibilities alone to the system and the outside world.
It will conduct a double irony of the system and the character itself, emphasizing the joint role of the character and the environment, and not favoring a certain party in the process of comprehensive criticism; it does not divide good people and bad people with absolute meaning, and creates a three-dimensional personality. The characters rarely possess the protagonist's halo, do not cheat, and do not give the character the divinity, and completely return to human nature.
However, it is precisely because of his characteristics that many of his works are very depressing. No one in his movies can live happily, and they all have their own helplessness and sorrow.
Now that the production is about to be completed, it has begun to pass reviews in major markets around the world, which has naturally attracted high attention from the world. In terms of positioning, many people position such a movie as a drama film. Perhaps there will be no exaggerated box office, but it is destined to be famous in film history and enter major film and television academies around the world to become a high-scoring classic film in textbooks.
When I heard that the General Administration suddenly let go, "Parasite" will be reviewed soon and will be released simultaneously with other major markets on December 5. The heads of major theaters naturally want to introduce this Korean movie, and even compared with the previous Korean movies, they gave a very good theater share, which is extremely sincere.
There is this reason why Wu Mingxuan brought Zhuge Dasheng here today. He mainly wanted to see the box office of such a movie after it was released in the mainland market. If it was really impressive, many movie fans already knew how to appreciate such a movie. Then he would gradually focus his work from superhero movie special effects blockbusters to drama films.
You can't become a real movie master when making superhero movies. With the continuous progress of special effects and the film industry, no matter how powerful popcorn movies are, they can only dominate the era when they were born. They will be nothing after a long time. For example, Avatar, in a few years, this is a popcorn movie that can still be watched, and it will definitely not reach the height of a big ship.
Only realistic drama films that reflect social reality, have a huge impact on the entire society, and can transcend the times and resonate with everyone is an eternal classic.
From this perspective, those award ceremony are actually very reliable. The difference between masters and great directors is in these places, so the time is really ripe. Wu Mingxuan will start to undergo such a change. Who can still not pursue a career, so he is no exception.
The director of "Parasite" Bong Joon-ho is well-known in South Korea. He was born on September 14, 1969 in Daegu Gwangju City, South Korea. He graduated from the Department of Society (88) of Yonsei University. He is a well-known mesozoic director and screenwriter in South Korea.
In 2000, he debuted with his long-form debut "Kidnap Dog at the Door". In 2003, he won the 2nd Korean Film Awards Best Director Award, the 51st San Sebastian Film Festival Best Director Award and the New Director Award for his thriller and suspense film "Murder Memories".
In 2006, he won the Best Director Award at the 44th Korean Movie Big Bell Award for the science fiction film "Hanjiang Monster"; in 2009, he filmed the thriller and suspense film "Mother", which won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award.
In 2013, he directed the action science fiction film "Snow Country Train". The film was nominated for 7 at the 56th Asia Pacific Film Festival and finally won the Best Art Award. Bong Joon-ho won the Best Director Award at the 34th Korean Qinglong Film Awards and the Best Director Award at the 50th Korean Baeksang Art Awards for the film.
In fact, as early as 2013, Bong Joon-ho began to conceive an important script, which initially described the lives of two different families in a symmetrical way.
In 2014, he met with drama director Park Geun Hyung to negotiate cooperation. The film was called "Decalcmanie". Both parties originally planned to develop dramas and movies at the same time using the story outline written by Bong Joon-ho. Park Geun Hyung wrote it into a comedy, but the progress was not very smooth. The plan was stranded.
If Wu Mingxuan had not been involved in the random situation, after nearly three years of stranding, Bong Junhao, who found inspiration again in September 2017, would continue to write and improve the script of the film, and this script was officially famous for winning numerous awards.
"Parasite" fully demonstrates director Bong Joon-ho's unique skills, simple settings, popular stories, incomprehensible reversals, exquisite rhythms, satirical character opposition, and profound social care.
Under his superb dispatch, the camera perspective, character interpretation, and proper soundtrack joined forces to achieve 100% control over the audience's emotions and reactions. To a certain extent, he is the most suitable director of "Parasite". Even Wu Mingxuan's personal actions may not be better than Bong Joon-ho, because this cannot be done by spending money.
But now it is a movie written by Wu Mingxuan. He has watched the time travel many times, and even studied and discussed it with Guan Hu, the top directors in the industry, so the changes in Wu Mingxuan's version are also very big.
The dramatic conflicts in this version of his film are stronger, the audio-visual language is more efficient, and the cameras are full of aesthetic qualities. In addition to the dramatic plot, various comedy plots make people laugh on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also mocks and criticizes the social system and the current situation.
The purpose is to express ridicule through the strong drama of the plot design. At the same time, some novel thrillers and suspense plots attract the audience closely to the story, increasing the appeal of the movie itself to the audience, rather than the preaching movie that many viewers dislike the most.
Guan Hu has not been very busy recently. After filming "Old Cannon", he went to Korea with Wu Mingxuan to participate in the final editing work. Although Wu Mingxuan also asked Bong Joon-ho to edit his own version, he will also take charge of it himself to see which side is better.
Because Bong Joon-ho himself studied in the social department and likes to study these things, the movies he directed have a strong personal style. Bong Joon-ho, who is a major in sociology, is very inclined to choose story themes that are close to life, and explore the drama of real life itself to reflect social reality.
Most of the protagonists are people at the bottom of society, with a sense of vulgarity like a small person and an anti-traditional character setting; they do not separate the responsibilities of the characters and society, and do not push all responsibilities alone to the system and the outside world.
It will conduct a double irony of the system and the character itself, emphasizing the joint role of the character and the environment, and not favoring a certain party in the process of comprehensive criticism; it does not divide good people and bad people with absolute meaning, and creates a three-dimensional personality. The characters rarely possess the protagonist's halo, do not cheat, and do not give the character the divinity, and completely return to human nature.
However, it is precisely because of his characteristics that many of his works are very depressing. No one in his movies can live happily, and they all have their own helplessness and sorrow.