"Chosin Lake" is online on the Migu video app!
This film is jointly directed by three major directors, Chen Kaige, Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian.
Since its release, the box office has exceeded 5.7 billion, breaking 11 records in the history of Chinese films in one fell swoop, and becoming the top box office of Chinese films...
For the filming of this epic blockbuster, a total of 1.3 billion yuan was invested. The film lasts nearly 3 hours, which can be said to be the biggest action of mainland movies this year.
The cast is even more luxurious: Wu Jing, Yi Qianxi, Duan Yihong, Zhu Yawen, Li Chen, Hu Jun, Han Dongjun, Zhang Hanyu, Huang Xuan, Ou Hao, Tang Guoqiang...
Domestic top directors + luxurious cast, plus screenwriters Lan Xiaolong and Huang Xin, "Chosin Lake" exudes a strong attraction.
[Tips: There will be spoilers below.] 】
Why did this movie top the box office
The story begins in 1950, when the founding of New China was only one year old.
Wu Qianli (Wu Jing), who has fought all the wars large and small, takes his brother's ashes and returns to his hometown in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, to visit his relatives...
He gave his elderly parents three kowtows, found a green mountain to bury his brother, and disciplined his stubborn brother...
With the allowance he had saved for many years, he planned in his heart that in the spring of next year, he would build a new house for his parents, say a family affair for his brother, open up the land and cultivate the land, and live a peaceful life in a down-to-earth manner.
But at the same time, U.S. troops landed at Inchon, North Korea, and defeated the Korean People's Army, crossing the 38th Parallel and pointing straight at the Yalu River.
That night, the troops issued an order to Wu Qianli to stop visiting his relatives and return to the team at dawn.
Landing in Korea this time was the US 1st Marine Division, an amphibious force that participated in World War II, claiming to have never lost a battle in 160 years, and is the trump card of the US military's trump card.
Five-star General MacArthur was even more vocal, declaring that soldiers would be able to return home before Thanksgiving.
So, where are our trump cards?
In the end, the Central Military Commission selected the 9th Corps.
Commander of the Ninth Corps Song Shilun (played by Zhang Hanyu)
Wu Qianli was subordinate to the Ninth Corps, which was mainly composed of southern soldiers and had been stationed and trained along the southeast coast, and its main task was to liberate Taiwan and complete reunification.
Because the United Nations Army, which was the main body of the United States, landed in Korea, the 9th Corps was urgently ordered to enter the DPRK, and the troops at that time were in a hurry, and many officers and men were still wearing single clothes, and they did not know that they would encounter the cold that had not been seen for 50 years, and the minimum temperature at night could reach minus 40 degrees Celsius.
Wu Wanli (Yi Qianxi), the eldest brother Wu Baili, died on the battlefield of Huaihai.
When he learned that the second brother Wu Qianli was going to return to the army, he was out of admiration and respect for the soldiers, and his curiosity about the outside world.
He secretly followed his second brother to join the Chinese Volunteer Army, and was incorporated into the Seventh Company and placed under the control of his second brother.
Due to the urgency of the war, Wu Wanli, who had no military training, went directly to Korea with his troops.
As a recruit egg who has never experienced war, he will be frightened by the signal flares at first.
As an interspersed company among the elite troops, the first task of the seven connections was to escort the radio and translation personnel to the general headquarters of the Big Yudong to ensure that the troops could achieve communication and communication.
At that time, as the best equipped army in the world, the US military had air supremacy, and as long as the aircraft found the army or military facilities, they would destroy it.
When the Seventh Company passed by a rocky beach, it happened that the US military plane flew by, and it was also at this time that Wu Wanli realized the cruelty of war and saw his comrades die beside him.
In order to avoid the American aircraft, the troops could only rest in hiding during the day and endure the cold and rush to march at night.
On the way to the radio station, the Seventh Company was attacked by friendly troops, and the enemy reinforcements were doubled.
After the decision was made, some of the troops stayed behind to help the friendly forces, and some of them continued to advance to escort the radio.
The next encounter is also the most exciting action scene in the movie.
As veterans of countless wars, the soldiers of the Seventh Company are brave, and the sniper Pinghe (Han Dongjun) quickly occupies the highlands.
The commando Yu Congrong (Li Chen) suppressed the fire and continued to advance.
Because he had captured American tanks when he fought with the Nationalist Army before, he had experience in driving tanks, and when he surrendered enemy tanks, he was even more directly hard-hitting.
Mei Sheng (Zhu Yawen), the instructor of the Seventh Company.
High level of education and english knowledge. Taking advantage of his ability to speak foreign languages to launch an attack on the enemy, as he had already gone through the discharge procedures, he took the initiative to ask for war in order not to let his daughter experience war in the future.
In order to show the cruelty of war, this scene also has a hand-to-hand combat in the room.
Wu Qianli and other fighters encounter several enemies in the process of advancing, and this scene can be seen from the action, which is completely using the routine of modern action movies to shoot close combat in the war, fist to flesh, knife to blood.
It is also in this scene that Wu Wanli transforms from a recruit egg who does not dare to kill people, and after constantly seeing his comrades fall by his side, he undergoes a transformation into a soldier.
In addition to this encounter, there is also a major battle in the final part
- Annihilation of the Polar Bear Regiment.
This part of the war scene is grand, but also the most tragic, extremely touching, XiaoGu will not spoil one by one, you can go to the cinema to watch slowly.
Never take Chinese's determination to win lightly
This is a war of great disparity in strength, and the equipment of our army is two generations behind that of the US army.
Witnesses tell the story of the real Battle of Chosin Lake
In addition to the lack of equipment, what is more cruel is the extremely cold weather and logistics support, minus 40 degrees, how perverted is the cold?
The grenade caps could not be unscrewed, and the feet and rubber shoes were glued together, pulling a layer of skin. Fingers were frozen stiff enough to pull the trigger.
In the movie, there is a section of volunteers eating potatoes...
The dry food for the march is cooked potatoes. It was soft when it first came out of the pot, but when it came to the battlefield, it had already frozen into a pebble, and the hardness of a tooth was gnawed.
Volunteer soldiers sandwiched ice potatoes under their armpits to warm up, and when they were softer, they could eat them slowly.
As soon as the camera pans, the U.S. military is eating a Thanksgiving dinner...
According to real history, the dinner menu of the US First Marine Division on that day was: roast turkey, french fries, beef pie, vegetable salad, fruit cake, each soldier and a special cocktail...
In addition to good food, ordinary soldiers of the US army are all given wool underwear, sweaters, sweaters, cold suits (with hats), hiking suits, duck down sleeping bags, reconnaissance companies are also equipped with bulletproof vests, nylon padding on the shoulders and upper chest, and fiberglass nail pieces are glued to the abdomen and back...
And my volunteer army is a thin cotton coat...
In the cold winter of minus 40 degrees, the Ninth Corps, which was dominated by southern soldiers, was extremely painful and tragic, the Ninth Corps was seriously reduced, and most of them (about 30,000 people) were frostbitten.
More real history of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
It was under these circumstances that the Volunteers pinned down the U.S.-led "United Nations Army" in the area around the north and south of the "38th Parallel."
The volunteers launched a charge at Chosin Lake
In the Battle of Chosin Lake, the most moving thing is the little-known ice sculpture company, because it is too tragic, and there have not been many reports before.
Veterans of the Volunteer Army who are nearly 90 years old recall the Battle of Chosin Lake
In order to cut off the way for the American army to flee south, a certain unit of the volunteer army was ordered to ambush and block the attack, and buy time for the pursuing troops. This company lay in ambush in the snow all night, all frozen to death on the position, and they maintained a charging posture at any time until they died.
And there are 3 ice sculpture companies like this! (The story of "Ice Sculpture Lian" is also presented in the movie)...
We know that the screenwriter of the movie "Chosin Lake" is Lan Xiaolong, who has created classic military film and television works such as "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" and "Soldier Assault", and has been praised by many audiences as "the screenwriter who can write the most war dramas".
For "Chosin Lake", Lan Xiaolong prepared for five years, wrote the first draft of the script of 130,000 words, and finally after the reduction, the script used for real shooting eventually had more than 60,000 words.
But what everyone doesn't know is that the company that Wu Qianli is in in "Chosin Lake" is the predecessor of the "Soldier Assault" Steel Seventh Company:
And this company has maintained the tradition of remembering its own serial number.
Let's go back to fifteen years ago, back to the scene in "Soldier Assault" where so many people took the oath of enlistment, and listen to that sentence again-
"I am the 4,956th soldier of the Seventh Company of Steel."
In "Soldier Assault", it is even more explained that the past and present lives of the Seventh Company of Steel have been explained.
"During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost all the seventh company of steel was killed and cancelled..."
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost all of the Seventh Company of Steel were killed and cancelled, but the three soldiers who were covered by all the companies returned with nine deaths.
They brought back the will of one hundred and seven martyrs to rebuild the Seven Companies of Steel on these three young men with an average age of seventeen!
Since then, the Seventh Company of Steel has lived with their martyrs forever!
In the history of the real Seventh Company of Steel, from the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to later. He has participated in more than 3,600 battles and battles, and 3,000 soldiers have died heroically.
Some of them are carved on monuments, "Soldier Assault" makes their names come alive, and "Chosin Lake" makes the names on the monument flesh and blood.
Today, salute this "founding war"!
They, in a hurry, generous and tragic, never returned to their homeland.
But the motherland has not forgotten them.
From 2014 to 2020, the remains of 716 volunteer martyrs in 7 batches have returned to China.
On March 28, 2018, the remains of a group of volunteer martyrs returned home. Cao Xiuhu, an 85-year-old volunteer veteran, once stood in the cold wind and waited for 5 hours, just to look at his comrades again.
That year, over Shenyang Taoxian International Airport, there was a dialogue of time and space separated by a period of time:
"We are China Eastern Airlines Flight 056, transporting the remains of volunteer martyrs to Shenyang."
"Welcome the volunteers back to China, our two planes, ordered to escort you throughout the whole process!"
The state specially dispatched the Y-20 domestic large aircraft numbered "01" and 2 J-11B fighters to escort the whole process to show supreme respect!
When these loveliest people landed in Shenyang, Taoxian Airport held the highest level of etiquette in the civil aviation industry - "Crossing the Water Gate", which means to wash the dust for the hero, wash away the smoke of cannonballs and flames!
Loyal bones have been buried in foreign countries for 71 years, and the heroic soul has finally returned today!
When recommending this film, Wu Qianli's actor Wu Jing said: "I hope that the audience will come out of the cinema and cherish today's beautiful life even more." ”
"I hope that everyone can remember this history and better understand how hard-won peace and happiness are today."
Let us remember history together and pay tribute to the great Chinese Volunteer Army!
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