Mozart in Outer Space: A real-life fantasy film that is most suitable for parent-child viewing this summer.
Today, Chen Sicheng is the screenwriter and director, starring Bo Huang and Rong Zishan, and the film Mozart in Outer Space starring many stars and newcomers such as Yao Chen, Fan Wei, Jia Bing, Xu Juncong, Mei Ting, Yu Yang and Lang Lang is officially released nationwide.
The story line full of childlike interest and imagination, the ugly alien Mozart and excellent special effects production level are all very suitable for young children to watch, which can be said to fill the gap of this kind of domestic films for more than ten years.
The film’s reflection on Chinese family education and intergenerational communication can make parents and children in Qian Qian and China see their own shadows, which is of great practical significance and is really suitable for the whole family to watch in summer.
For a long time, besides animated films, most of the young children in China have grown up with Hollywood magic, fantasy and monster blockbusters such as Harry Potter, Where are the magical animals going, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World and Disney fairy tales.
Many domestic children’s sci-fi (fantasy) movies that China audiences can remember, the classic with a long history is "Babe from the Thunderbolt" released in 1988, and the latest one seems to be "Changjiang No.7" released in 2008, which has passed 14 years.
This type of domestic film is hard to find in the China film market, on the one hand, because of the high level of special effects production and large capital investment; On the other hand, there are also various factors such as the difficulty in writing stories and finding suitable actors.
Mozart in Outer Space is another excellent domestic fantasy comedy children’s film in recent ten years. It tells that Ren Dawang (played by Bo Huang) is eager to make his son become a dragon, and he is bent on forcing his son Ren Xiaotian (played by Rong Zishan) to learn piano, but Ren Xiaotian likes astronomy since he was a child, so the father and son quarreled constantly until the mysterious alien Mozart appeared …
The story of this film is full of childlike interest and rich imagination. It is full of fantasy and comedy, which is not only ornamental and entertaining, but also full of romance and aestheticism..
There are three main bridges that left a deep impression on the author:
First, Mozart, an alien, used his energy to move a lot of stones to build a ladder around, helping Ren Xiaotian and his classmates climb the towering chimney and overlook the whole city of Beijing. Second, three children flew from Beijing to the Great Wall in a beautiful spaceship at night, and the bustling and beautiful night scene of Beijing was unforgettable; Third, three children walk between high-rise buildings with books on their feet.
In the film, the ugly and ugly alien Mozart is very cute, which is one of the main jokes of the whole film. It not only helps Ren Xiaotian to fight with his father Ren Dawei, but also helps him and his good friends to show their great power in front of their classmates. Moreover, coming to earth shoulders an important mission, and the mystery is not revealed until the second half of the film.
The above-mentioned fantastic scenes and scenes with wide brain holes, as well as the rich expressions and actions of Mozart, an alien, fully reflect the excellent level of special effects production in the film, which makes the audience pleasing to the eye.
Chen Sicheng has always been good at using classic songs to set off emotions and atmosphere in movies. For example, in the series of detective chinatown directed by him, The Past can only be recalled in the first part and The Pink Memories in the second part are all old songs by Han Baoyi, a female singer in Taiwan Province, China, but they make people feel very compatible with the film atmosphere.
In Detective Chinatown 3, when Masami Nagasawa appeared for the first time, Teresa Teng’s old song "Don’t pick wild flowers on the roadside" suddenly made the audience smile; During the trial, the episode "Straw Hat Song" of the Japanese classic film "Witness" sounded, which suddenly evoked memories of countless middle-aged audiences and could not help but wet their eyes.
At the end of the film, the use of Michael Jackson’s classic song "Heal the world" is very appropriate, which expresses the theme core of "world peace". Chen Sicheng revealed in an interview with the media at that time that the crew spent $1 million to buy the copyright of Michael Jackson’s song.
This time, in Mozart in Outer Space, Chen Sicheng also attached importance to the use of classic songs, and the most impressive thing was the repeated use of the classic English song Moon River.
In the film, this song first appeared in the bridge where three children boarded the big chimney, which gave people a romantic and aesthetic atmosphere at once, and the lyrics and melody artistic conception fit the fantasy color of the film very well.
Mozart in Outer Space is not only a fantasy comedy suitable for young children, but also a film reflecting on Chinese family education and intergenerational communication, which has strong practical significance.
In the film, Bo Huang’s father Ren Dawang liked rock music when he was young, and Fan Wei’s grandfather liked singer Hu Songhua. They are eager to succeed in their children, and they all educate and train their children according to their own interests and wishes. The mantra is "I am your father, and I am doing it for your own good".
Ren Dawang was bent on training his son Ren Xiaotian as a piano player like Lang Lang, regardless of his son’s real interest in astronomy, which led to the tension between father and son, so that Ren Xiaotian could not help but say angrily to his father, "My future has been arranged by you, so what’s the point of my living?"
In fact, this kind of family education and father-son relationship is common in China families, and it has a strong sense of substitution, which can arouse the emotional resonance of thousands of audiences in Qian Qian.
Bo Huang’s performance in this film is very wonderful, and it is a good interpretation of the image of strict father with a sense of joy. Rong Zishan’s temperament and image are very suitable for the role of Ren Xiaotian, and her performance is vivid and natural.
Several young actors who play Ren Xiaotian are also very suitable for the role. Yao Chen, Fan Wei, Jia Bing and other stars performed well in the film.
Mozart in Outer Space is not only suitable for teenagers to watch movies together, but also suitable for parents to take their children to watch movies with their families, and each can find his own shadow in the film.It can also make children and parents understand each other better and feel the answer to repairing parent-child relationship.
Since directing "Beijing Love Story" in 2014 and transforming into a film director, although there are not many films directed and supervised by Chen Sicheng, each one has been a great success at the box office, which shows his skillful control over commercial films.
The detective chinatown series directed by him and the Sheep Without A Shepherd series supervised by him have made successful or beneficial explorations in the sequel development, genre development and innovation of domestic commercial genre films and even the creation of the movie universe of domestic commercial genre films, which can be regarded as contributions to the industrialization process of China films.
Mozart in Outer Space is another exploration of domestic commercial films by Chen Sicheng. He doesn’t continue to shoot suspense detective comedies or romantic films that he is familiar with, but deliberately walks out of the comfort zone of creation and challenges the real-life fantasy comedies from the perspective of teenagers. This spirit of innovation is commendable.
Judging from the standard and effect of the film, Mozart in Outer Space is not only a successful attempt, but also the most suitable film for summer release, which is expected to ignite the summer movie market this year.