2016 Taiwan Film: the drama golden horse and box office were both disappointed, and the northbound filmmaker performed brilliantly

Taiwan films, which seem to have passed the stable period of the "seven-year itch", have suffered another year of "setbacks" Original title 2016 Taiwan Film: a disappointing year

miserable! Taiwan films, which seem to have passed the stable period of the "seven-year itch", have suffered another year of "setbacks"

if we say that 2015's "my girlhood" and "Assassin Nie yinniang" represent the "harvest" of Taiwan's film business and art, while 2016's corresponding youth film "Liunong cafe" and art film "goodbye wacheng" represent the "disappointment" of Taiwan's film box office and awards

there are both internal and external reasons for the "disappointment" of Taiwan's film box office. Coincidentally, the "disappointment" of the local box office is in sharp contrast to the brilliant performance of Beishang filmmakers. The brain drain is on the one hand, on the other hand, the fluctuation of the entire financial market, and the growth of the mainland film market slows down. It seems that the economic downturn has a great impact on the film industry. The collective "coldness" of traditional comedy films proves that Taiwan's films have reached a certain stage of "transition", and the next step can only be "improvement" and "progress". The box office breakthrough of the thriller genre "tenants downstairs" also shows the importance of making "high-quality" genre films

in the bleak 2016, the creators of documentaries still made outstanding achievements compared with feature films. The special documentaries on Kinmen and Matsu and folk songs continued to write epic images. The best documentary won the Kinmen and Matsu award, "riyao Japanese Walker", became a unique Chinese film with its very different style and form

strong > first, Taiwan Drama golden horse and box office are both "frustrated" / strong >

strong > 1. Golden Horse Award: Mainland films win over Taiwan films / strong >

the eight Nominated Golden Horse" Bon Voyage "only won the best art design award

the 53rd Taiwan Golden Horse Award Ceremony was considered a big surprise by Taiwan audiences. Because of the 22 Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan films won only 5 Awards (best supporting actor, best new director, best art design, best original film music, best documentary). Previously, it was shortlisted in 8 hot films "Bon Voyage" (directed by Zhong Menghong), only won the best art design award; Another film, goodbye to wacheng (directed by Zhao Deyin), which was highly expected by Taiwanese audiences, was completely defeated. As the four awards for best film, best director, best actor and best actress were all taken away by mainland films and filmmakers, some Taiwanese media and audiences were dissatisfied, and some even commented on Facebook: This is not a Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award at all, but a mainland Film Golden Rooster Award

Lin Bohong is the only Taiwanese filmmaker who won the performance award at the Golden Horse Awards

since 1997, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards have positioned and expanded the award as a Chinese film competition. Since 2003, it is no longer limited that Chinese must be the main pronunciation. Only if the main languages and dialects used in Chinese areas can sign up, Taiwan's local films no longer have an advantage in the performance of golden horse. 2008 Cape No. 7 has brought Taiwanese films into the "post Cape era", which has been greatly improved in both quantity and quality compared with that before and after the new century. Taiwanese films have begun to show their style at the Golden Horse Awards again. In particular, at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards in 2015, Taiwanese films such as assassin Nie yinniang and drunkenness, life, dream, death and other works made a splash, which made Taiwanese audiences more look forward to the performance of local films at the Golden Horse Awards, It is this high expectation that leads to the fact that some audiences cannot accept the award

it is undeniable that the number of films with more than 6 or 700 films on the mainland each year will inevitably produce some high-quality works, such as the 53rd Golden Horse award-winning "August", "I am not Pan Jinlian", "no problem", "July and an Sheng", etc. The fact that the Golden Horse Awards can abandon regional prejudice reflects the breadth of mind and authority of the Golden Horse Awards. It does not deliberately reduce the scale to ensure the number of awards for Taiwanese people. Because of this, it has become the highest Laureate in the global Chinese film and television industry

2. The box office of Taiwan films was poor throughout the year, and thriller films made a breakthrough

looking at the box office of Taiwan films in 2016 (according to the Taipei area with box office data), only three films passed the "ten million line" (NT $10 million), one film passed the "five million line" (NT $5 million), and other films "struggled" around the "million line" (NT $1), which was really tragic

at the beginning of the new year, big tail eel 2 failed to continue the box office myth of "big tail eel" of 430million, and more than 30 million box offices in Taipei were not satisfactory. While the other two local comedies on the same period, "a compliment to life" and "Chef" only made 7 million and 3 million box office respectively

the "cold wave" of the New Year holiday affected the whole first half of the year, whether it was the Golden Horse Documentary "we are now", which spent a lot of "publicity" capital to build momentum, or the commercial work "fool rushes to money", directed by Huang Mingzheng, the director of last year's "hot" documentary "Wan Sheng goes home", and the new film "fantasy homecoming", directed by Lin Qingjie, the "ancestor" of Taiwan's campus youth film None of the "black and white" directed by comedy director Wang Xiaodi's disciple you Jianyu was spared the "miserable city"

the summer movie "Liunong cafe" is considered to be another masterpiece of Taiwan's youth genre. The film is adapted from Fujii Shu (Wu Ziyun)'s best-selling novel of the same name, but in terms of its box office, Taiwan audiences do not seem to buy it, and there is a big gap between its public praise and box office and "my girlhood" and "the girl we chased together in those years"

the thriller suspense "tenants downstairs" released in September of the off-season has become the annual champion at the box office because of its gimmicky publicity - the "basic love drama" of Golden Horse movie Emperor Li Kangsheng and Malaysian little fresh meat mori, as well as the qualified commercial production level. After the over expected horror film "little girl in red" last year, it has set a new box office record for this type of film. At the end of the year, two popular Taiwan films, "goodbye to wa city" and "Bon Voyage", which rushed to the Golden Horse Awards, were released one after another. However, the two films not only lost the favor of the judges, but also seemed to have lost the favor of Taiwan audiences. The box office of the two films was lower than that of the Taiwan films, "Assassin Nie yinniang", "farewell to 100 days" and "drunken dream death", which were "blessed" by the Golden Horse Awards last year

3, "crush" three local films in the Spring Festival episode of "death waiting" / strong >

dead company crushed the Taiwanese film

during the 2016 Spring Festival, Taiwanese filmmakers seemed to be riveted and wanted to fight a new year film turnaround.

therefore, three spring festival films, which were very similar in style, theme and content," rushed to the market "on February 5 (three days before the Spring Festival) 。

among the three films, there is the second film of "big tailed bass eel" directed by Qiu likuan, who once created amazing box office results, the new film "Chef" directed by Feng Kai, who once grossed more than 100 million with the film "battle head", and a slightly weak positive energy comedy "praise life" which teaches people to be good. The three films are all star studded new year comedies. They are all "Taiwan style" films that focus on dialogue in Minnan and target more audiences in central and southern Taiwan. All aspects show the trend of "car crash" with the same theme - although before the film is released, Bai Bingbing, the star of "a love for life", also hopes that the three films will work together, Hello, Hello, Hello, everyone, and stir up the local film market together

on February 9 (the second day of the Lunar New Year), Marvel's restricted hero film "villain Hero: waiting for death" was released on the whole Taiwan. The box office was surprisingly good. On the first day, it broke the box office record of Taiwan's Spring Festival films with an amazing box office of NT $58 million. On the second day, the box office of the film exceeded 100 million, forming a "crushing" trend for three local Taiwan films. For this reason, director Ye Tianlun, who once set the first local box office record of breaking 100 million yuan in Taiwan's Spring Festival with "chicken chop hero", said on social media that "the sum of the three local films is not more than one-third of that of" dead boy ", and said a few good words for the three films. Unexpectedly, netizens attacked, and some netizens said," Taiwan films are patchwork, shouldn't you review yourself? "It also points out the key issues.

in 2016, only" tenants downstairs "and" big tail bass eel 2 "grossed more than 100 million in Taiwan (Taiwan Statistics), and the rest can be called" miserable ". However, overseas films continue to "travel unimpeded" in Taiwan, and the Korean film "a trip to Busan" ranks third in the whole year, setting a new record for Korean films in Taiwan. The gradual "fall out of favor" of "Taiwan flavor" films is indeed worth pondering

4. Traditional comedy "cold", youth film and healing film "weak" / strong >

since the box office myth created by "chicken chop hero", local comedy has always been the mainstream of Taiwan's film market. In 2016, "big tail eel 2", starring "gold lettered" pig Geliang, was less than expected, suggesting that Taiwan audiences are tired of this type of film

in addition to the local" Taiwan style "comedies, other comedies have also made type breakthroughs, including the magical love comedy" the treasure map of his mother 2 ", and the new work" our family is not too familiar "by Wang chuanzong, director of" Baomi Cha ", which is considered to be the Taiwan version of" falling from the sky ". Although the reputation is not as good as the previous work, but the" candidate "of the film queen Zhang Rongrong and Zhang Shuhao's performance and "appearance" can be added points. After all, comedies are a major type of commercial films. Coincidentally, Zhang Rongrong's friend Ke Jiachen also starred in the comedy "five-star dried fish girl" in 2016. The concept of "dried fish girl" was borrowed from Japan, and Ayase Yao was the main actor of the Japanese drama "firefly". The Summer Edition of "blissful dormitory" is a useful attempt to be called Taiwan's "youth comedy"

the adaptation and innovation of drama types have also achieved a breakthrough in Taiwan TV series. The film version of "Meng Xueyuan: looking for Pangu", which costs hundreds of millions, is the first time that this popular TV series has jumped to the big screen

in terms of youth films, one of the key words of Taiwan films, Liunong cafe, which has been widely publicized since 2015, can be described as a strong IP. However, its mainland shows twists and turns, and the box office "rush to the street" situation can be expected. The box office of the film in Taiwan is not as good as expected. The brilliant performance of Lin Bohong, who won the Golden Horse best male match, may be the only highlight of the film. Healing films with a similar style to youth films are also the stable output type of Taiwanese films. The story of "as long as I grow up", the film sent to the "Oscar" in 2016, is inevitably "falling into the rut", or a "routine" that shows the kindness and simplicity of the Gaoshan people and is good at singing and dancing, as is the trivial and lengthy sensational film "heart clock"

II. The bright performance and local firmness of northbound filmmakers