Since the Internet has greatly increased the speed of word-of-mouth fermentation, the box office rankings of movies in various important periods have begun to change rapidly. Viewers who have not seen the main film often guess the beginning but not the end when predicting the box office. For example, no one in the Spring Festival file guessed at the beginning that "Hello, Li Huanying" could counterattack "Detective Chinatown 3" and win the championship with more than 5 billion box office results.
In the lively and crowded May Day show, the counterattack drama continues to be staged. Following the single-day box office victory of "On the Cliff" on May 3, "On the Cliff" surpassed "Your Wedding" in the single-day box office, and on May 4, "Sweeping Black • Decisive Battle" successively surpassed the two movies of "Secret Visitor" and "Chasing the Tiger and The Dragon", directly entering the top three of the single-day box office, while on May 1, "Sweeping Black • Decisive Battle" only ranked sixth. From the 6th to the 5th, "Sweeping Black Showdown" took 1 day, and after 2 days, it directly completed the counterattack from the 5th to the 3rd, and the attendance rate of the day ranked first in the new May 1st film.
Just as the fire of "The Name of the People" before 2017 was partly due to the fact that there was no TV series with similar themes in the market for a long time, in 2021, "Sweeping Black · Decisive Battle" can counterattack in the case of relatively hasty scheduling and the main creative lineup is not as bright as that of the opponents in the same period, on the one hand, it is filmed more solidly, on the other hand, it is also a film that is rare in the subject matter, which can be regarded as a very dare to make. Although the story of the anti-gang crime eradication after artistic processing is only the tip of the iceberg compared to the more complex real world, this story is based on a real case and touches many points that other films have not been able to touch in recent years, which is really rare.
After watching "Sweeping Black And Decisive Battle", many audiences were deeply impressed by the performance of the actors - Jiang Wu, Zhang Songwen, Jin Shijia, Li Qian, Zhao Yi and other actors' performances are indeed wonderful enough, but many viewers may not notice the director of this film, Lü Yulai, after all, in the profession of directing, Lü Yulai is still a novice, in addition to the graduation short film, Lü Yulai has only had one directorial work "Taoyuan" (but failed to be released in theaters), "Sweeping Black Decisive Battle" is the second feature film he directed.
Lu Yulai is actually an actor, but being a director is not a crossover for him, because he is a screenwriter (screenwriter) in his own science, and he is a director with a master's degree. In 2003, as a junior in the Department of Drama and Literature of the Central Academy of Drama, he was selected by director Gu Changwei to play the role of his younger brother in his directorial debut "Peacock". Although he studied screenwriting, but there are also acting classes, Lu Yulai's performance class has always been good, and the appearance is relatively thin, the sense of age is small, and the brother who is silent like a shadow in "Peacock" coincides, Lü Yulai's performance is just right, and the unique temperament also makes many audiences unforgettable.
In 2005, "Peacock" was officially released, won the Grand Jury Prize Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and Lu Yulai, who walked the red carpet with director Gu Changwei (wife is Jiang Wenli) and Zhang Jingchu, who played his sister, did not seem to have so good luck in his later career development. Debut film is a literary film, coupled with the appearance and personal preferences and other factors affected, Lu Yulai for a long time to shoot literary and artistic films, although there is no lack of praise for the works, but the audience is always limited. Later, he even took on a lot of small-budget thrillers of very average quality, and the inspiration for these thrillers seems to be evident in the individual details of "Showdown".
After graduating from undergraduate, Lu Yulai filmed a few more dramas, and then he chose to go to graduate school and was successfully admitted to the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy, under the tutelage of Tian Zhuangzhuang. When he was a bully in high school, he went to film school out of love, and he continued to study directing out of love, and his continued study of directing was also derived from his love and pursuit of this industry. Although he has been in the industry for many years, it is not easy to really want to be a director to make movies, and many years after graduating from graduate school, Lu Yulai still appears more as an actor, and after shooting some thrillers, he also began to try to star in TV series and online dramas, such as "Forty-Nine Days Festival", "Missing Persons", "Skyscraper" and other dramas, which also narrowed the distance between him and the public to a certain extent.
In the 2021 May Day show, some people only know that Lü Yulai's directorial work "Sweeping Black And Decisive Battle" was released, but they did not notice that Lu Yulai appeared in the film as an actor in another movie released at the same time, "Secret Visitor". In "The Secret Visitor", Lu Yulai starred in a third party, but due to the complexity of the identity of the main characters in this movie, his role is not a "male junior" in the general sense. Although Lu Yulai ranked sixth in the cast list, there were only two scenes, which could only be regarded as cameos, not starring, and the promotional materials basically did not mention him, so the audience who did not watch the movie basically did not know that he had starred.
The director of "Secret Visitor" is Chen Zhengdao, this film was filmed in 2018, in fact, it is not difficult to see from the finished film that this film contains many elements, but many of them are shallow, and it is likely that it is difficult to be released after three years. And Chen Zhengdao also filmed a web drama "Skyscraper" during this period, In which Lu Yulai also starred, the first chapter of the series is based on the security guard Xie Paul as the main line, the film director plus film actors, so that the play has a very cinematic texture at the beginning.
As an actor, Lu Yulai is likely not to be popular and purple to take the traffic route, and because of the problem of chance, he has indeed participated in many works of less than ideal quality, but fortunately, he has left a lot of wonderful works that are worth savoring, such as "Peacock", "Summer Without Cicadas", "Cowherd Weaver Girl" and "Silent Wind Chimes", his play path is wider than his appearance, and he has also cooperated with many high-quality actors such as Huang Lu, Yan Bingyan, Zhang Jingchu and Gu Changwei, Lu Chuan, Chen Zhengdao, Directors with weight such as Cai Shangjun can be regarded as regretless. As a director, Lu Yulai's career has just begun, and "Sweeping Black And Decisive Battle" is his first shot and a good start. Whether as an actor or a director, I look forward to more and richer works by Lu Yulai.