With bona pictures, Chongqing Film Group and other joint production of "Changjin Lake" topped the box office of Chinese film history and the global box office champion this year, upstream journalists noted that in recent years, from "King Kong Chuan" and "Changjin Lake", as well as the recently released "Crossing the Yalu River", as well as the just-finalized "Sniper" and "The Watergate Bridge of Changjin Lake" to be released next year, the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea has ushered in a "blowout" development in recent years. Industry insiders also lamented that the great success of "Chosin Lake" has finally rewritten the history of Chinese war films.
Since the 1950s and 1960s, a large number of films on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea have emerged in China, such as "Shangganling", "Surprise Attack", "Heroic Children", and "Fighting The Invaders", and a large number of patriotic songs such as "My Motherland" and "Heroic Praise" have influenced generation after generation.
2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Volunteer Army's war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and a large number of film and television works reflecting the theme of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea have also come out. According to statistics, since 2020, the big screen includes the movies "Chosin Lake", "King Kong River", "Hero Company", the animated movie "The Cutest Man", the documentary "Defending the Country - Documentary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", "1950 They Are Young" and so on.
These films not only have a good reputation, but also achieved great success in business, "King Kong Chuan" achieved a total box office of 1.127 billion, "Chosin Lake" production scale, investment scale, shooting time span, the number of cast and crew used is the highest in the history of Chinese film, has achieved a box office of 5.69 billion. According to professional calculations, even after deducting the publicity fee, the film side can still make a profit of about 700 million yuan.
It is worth looking forward to the fact that the sequel to "Chosin Lake" "Chosin Lake's Water Gate Bridge" released a pilot poster on October 28, and it is reported that the film has been scheduled for next year.
It is understood that the film still maintains the original team of "Chosin Lake", most of the content has been filmed at the beginning of this year, due to the change of seasons, some scenes will continue to be filmed in winter. After the winter of this year, all the creators will gather again and continue to shoot the rest.
Relevant people of Chongqing Film Group, who participated in the production of "Watergate Bridge", also said that they look forward to the film to refresh the record of "Changjin Lake" again next year.
Recently, co-directed by Zhang Yimou and Zhang Mo, the first domestic movie focusing on the sniper theme of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, "Sniper", released a final poster and announced that it will be released on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2022.
"Sniper" is Zhang Yimou's first film to enter the Spring Festival file, telling the story of the Chinese Volunteer Army and the elite sniper squad of the US Military.
Recently, Fu Ruoqing, deputy secretary of the party committee and vice chairman of the board of directors of China Film Group, revealed that 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and will also launch the film "Great War" on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea.
It is understood that a film based on the real events of the Chinese Volunteer Army in the Bitong Prisoner of War Camp to hold the Olympic Games is also in preparation.
Recently, another film on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, "Crossing the Yalu River," also announced that it would meet with the audience, which was also the first film produced by the Central Radio and Television Corporation.
According to reports, unlike films that reflect parts of the war, such as "King Kong River" and "Chosin Lake", "Crossing the Yalu River" starts from the memories of Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai when he signed the armistice agreement at Panmunjom, telling the beginning and end of this war in a flashback way, showing the two fronts of the east and the west and the five battles in a panoramic manner.
Zhao Ningyu, a well-known screenwriter and professor at the Beijing Film Academy, said that he participated in the planning of "Crossing the Yalu River", "The film version condenses the essence, especially focusing on the various battles on the western front, and the "Changjin Lake" on the eastern front." Previously, Zhao Ningyu also participated in the screenwriting work of "King Kong Chuan".
"The theme of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has broken the ice since 2015, picked up in 2019, fought hard in 2020, and ushered in an outbreak in 2021," Zhao Ningyu lamented, "High budget, difficulty, long cycle, cold market ... In the past, war films were the 'oldest difficulty' in the film market, but now they have finally rewritten history."
Upstream journalist Tang Hao