The difficulty of Vietnamese children’s movies
It’s been over a week since the official premiere, the children’s movie Maika – The Girl From The Future only achieved a revenue of more than 4.7 billion VND (from May 27 to June 6). This figure is only 15.6% compared to the production cost of about 30 billion VND and is not an impressive figure worthy of what is expected. Meanwhile Doraemon: Nobita and the Mini Universe War issued at the same time has earned more than 32 billion dong – 6.8 times higher than Maika.
Are from Status Ti arrive Maika – The Girl From The Futurewe can see that the children’s film “made in Vietnam” is completely “disgraceful” from heated controversy to indifference. And the most regrettable thing is that when it comes to Vietnamese children’s movies, there are only times when they are dumbfounded and dumbfounded because they can’t remember a single Vietnamese name. Instead, Doraemon or Tom & Jerry reigns in the minds of children.
Even Maika – The Girl From The Future Recently released is also not an “original” Vietnamese work, but inspired by the legendary Maika character in the past. There is no denying the advantages and efforts of the producer with the children’s film series, but in fact, this genre is still very “hard to live” when facing many challenges.
Irrational, revealing cosplay and lack of “original”
In the past 10 years, children’s movies have only been counted on fingers with some works like Super-Strange Babysitter, Status Ti and Maika – The Girl From The Future,… Talking about the most successful film and exploiting Vietnamese character is I See Yellow Flowers On Green Grass. I See Yellow Flowers On Green Grass get beautiful and poetic footage like rewinding the audience’s childhood memories, creating sympathy with well-arranged Vietnamese folk games. Director Victor Vu showed his ability to concretize works and have a soul in tune with writer Nguyen Nhat Anh.
However, the pure Vietnamese character shown in the film is also what was previously depicted from the book, to be more precise I See Yellow Flowers On Green Grass still not a “original movie script”. In addition, the character’s character is a bit weak compared to the book.
From the above facts, Vietnamese cinema must admit that children’s films are a big gap and difficult to fill. First of all, it must be mentioned that the script – the foundation to create a good and tight film is what Vietnamese cinema is lacking a lot, especially children’s films, which is an even more difficult problem.
Maika – The Girl From The Future is a fairly well-rounded work about humorous pieces, beautiful and very realistic effects, but the script is fragmented and messy. Besides that, Maika still standing next to Doraemon: Nobita and the Mini Universe War revenue is close to 20 billion, even more inferior. No one would be foolish enough to not choose a work that is both familiar and guaranteed of quality like Doraemonwhich makes Maika faded and even weaker.
In addition, when making films about children, controversy is inevitable. An adult’s head to understand the rich brains of children is not an easy thing, typical of the movie scandals led by Ngo Thanh Van – Status Ti: Adventure Record. Copyright stories aside, Status Ti: Adventure Record which is a good work in terms of technical effects, thorough in content, but what causes controversy is that the creative element that the film brings is not true to what the audience “defaults” about. Status Ti from drama “grapefruit” to cosplay Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
Category “narrow”, hundreds of thousands of difficulties
People often say: “Children don’t know anything”, a joke that seems to have no meaning but is ingrained in everyone’s subconscious. Children’s films focus on child audiences. That’s why filmmakers who want to reach them must go through the “middle audience” that is their parents.It is undeniable that children’s movies can still be watched by adults, but they need to be strong enough to convince a dreamer’s soul. Children and pragmatic thoughts of adults. Illustrated by the movie Status Timost of the controversy revolves around the thinking of adults instead of values for children.
The next limitation of this genre in Vietnam is the script stage. Not one but all children’s films are tinged with dreams about intimacy, friendship and “theoretical” philosophies. This genre lacks a description of current elements and social issues in a more subtle way. Maika – The Girl From The Future only revolves around the simple theories of friendship and humanity without a convincing solution. Typically, the details of the confusing conflict between Cu Beo and his brother and the absurd reconciliation.
The difficulty of making children’s films is to make both small and large audiences convinced by the plot in the film. Moreover, after watching the movie, parents will be able to draw valuable lessons for their children and the process of raising them. Producer Ngo Thanh Van once shared about the film Status Ti After many ups and downs when making movies: “When I was making the movie Trang Ti, I also had the idea of making a decent movie for children, but adults can also watch it. Actually, that idea came from being a big fan of movies. of Walt Disney because they make movies for the family, rather, for all three generations to see, grandparents, parents and children.”
“But after two epidemic seasons, the movie Trang Ti did not have the luck to come to all of you near and far”, Ngo Thanh Van regrets his Trang Ti project.
In the end, it is those “difficult” things that make few people interested in entering a “narrow alley” of Vietnamese cinema. Not only in the educational story, once you decide to invest and produce a children’s film, you must understand that the “economic problem” will be more difficult when revenue is difficult to explode.
Opportunities for children’s films to “hit”
Facing many difficulties “enemies inside and outside”, but that does not mean that Vietnamese children’s films do not have the opportunity to be popular. It will be a long time for Vietnamese films to achieve the same achievements as Disney or Ghibli, but if they can make good use of that strength, it is an opportunity.
From movies with children’s elements like Sunny, Flip V, Hai Phuong nice Incubus being able to derive a formula could be an opportunity for children’s films to flourish. Not only exploiting simple and theoretical stories, children’s films need to be delicately sketched by exploiting very real, gentle, simple but profound stories. LIVE SunnyChildren will see the spirit of overcoming difficulties and positivity even though life is difficult. Hay Incubus is a journey of powerful thinking development of two girls played by Lam Thanh My and Mai Cat Vi to help their father overcome the haunting of ghosts.
In addition, when making children’s films, adults have to learn how to be children again. A typical example is the movie DoraemonObviously, everyone knows that this character is fictional, but children who watch the movie believe and dream of having a friend like a cute robotic cat. Through each movie, it teaches children useful and practical lessons that can be applied to life. Especially, taking advantage of the resources of pure Vietnamese comics is a great material for children’s films.
Not to mention, Vietnamese cinema also has no shortage of child actors capable of expressing great emotions such as Lam Thanh My, Chu Diep Anh, Mai Cat Vi, Tuan Phong,…
Creating works for children has never been easy and that is the challenge for filmmakers now and in the future. Vietnamese cinema needs to have pure Vietnamese melodies and characters developed to contribute to raising the level of movies with characteristic colors, making good use of traditional artistic values.
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