Last year's "Wolf Warrior 2" took up the banner of action films with the main theme. In its first week of release, the box office was close to 900 million. There is no doubt that it will become the box office champion of domestic movies this year; it is even expected to hit the box office. "Fast and Furious 8" has a box office of 2.4 billion.

From "Operation Mekong" to "Wolf Warrior 2", domestic action movies are becoming more and more genre-based, more Hollywood-like, and more "watchable".

While it was a hit at the box office, it also attracted a lot of quarrels.

Most of these quarrels revolve around the patriotism in the movie.

Indeed, ideological criticism is a major school in modern film theory. This does not mean that ideological criticism is not good, but the so-called short comments on these homepages are all meaningless war of words.

Foucault has a famous saying: "What is important is the age in which the myth is told, not the age in which the myth is told."

The emergence and popularity of "Wolf Warrior 2" have its own reasons. For social, political, and historical reasons, there is much to interpret in depth surrounding the text of Wolf Warrior 2 and its production process.

For example, neocolonialism in Africa, the situation in Africa from a Chinese perspective, the resurgence of nationalism...

But no one discusses these things that really involve ideology. , everyone is simply throwing hats at each other.

To completely reject this movie just because of different political stances shows that they do not regard movies as an art, but only regard them as a tool to express their own positions.

Many people think that the reason why "Wolf Warrior 2" became so popular is nothing more than playing the patriotic and sentimental card.

Is this really the case?

Over the years, there have been so many theme-themed movies, but why have most of them failed at the box office? Why are there so few that are as popular and successful as "Operation Mekong" and "Wolf Warrior 2"?

Because the key to attracting audiences to go to the cinema to enjoy a movie is not the main theme, but the genre.

What is typing?

There are many definitions of academicism. I will try to summarize it in one sentence:

As clear as possible the audience’s viewing needs; as far as possible to meet the audience’s viewing expectations.

Why do many theme movies fail?

Because it is full of rigid preaching and propaganda, and the audience (or the vast majority of the audience) does not want to be indoctrinated with these ideas over and over again.

What they hope to see is to reproduce the historical process through ups and downs of plot design, and to experience historical events through hot and shocking scenes.

Rather than telling the story through subtitles and PPT like many main theme movies.

"Wolf Warrior 2" is based on the real incident of the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Yemen, and is adapted with typographical elements. "Burning", "refreshing" and "explosive"...these are elements that the audience loves to see. Everything is available.

Looking back at the reasons for criticizing "Wolf Warrior 2", it seems very inexplicable.

First of all, it is the difference in political stance that leads to the disparagement of "Wolf Warrior 2".

Whether "The Birth of a Nation" is a movie that promotes racism, it can still leave its name in film history.