2021 has passed most of the half, looking back at this year's domestic films, there is no shortage of "Hello, Li Huanying", "My Sister", "Chinese Doctor" and other sincere works of word-of-mouth and box office double harvest, and in the remaining four months of this year, what other domestic films are worth looking forward to?
Stills from "The Chinese Doctor"
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Director: Li Jun
Starring: Zhu Yilong, Huang Zhizhong, Chen Shu
Type: Disaster
Screening: September 17, 2021
Among domestic movies, disaster movies can be described as a rare genre.
The last domestic disaster film that everyone remembers should be the "Tangshan Earthquake" directed by Feng Xiaogang in 2010, however, because there are fewer disaster shots, "Tangshan Earthquake" is actually more inclined to family dramas.
Judging from the trailer, this time "Peak Explosion" is a real disaster movie, and in the 83-second trailer, the disaster scene is dense, which can be called dangerous.
The film tells that when a ten-year-old tunnel is about to be completed, due to global geological changes, sudden dangers, subsidence, earthquakes, landslides, landslides, landslides and a series of disasters such as frequent occurrences, the tunnel and the entire county are in danger.
The point is, how can the county's 160,000 people be transferred in time?
Although Li Jun, the director of "Peak Explosion", makes the audience feel strange, he has long been a mature veteran of the domestic film and television circle, he has not only directed high-quality dramas such as "Love on the Beach" and "Peace Hotel", but also cooperated with Zhong Hanliang and South Korean actor Lee Jeong-jae in 2016 with a good reputation suspense crime film "Amazing Reversal".
The cast of "Peak Explosion" is more reassuring.
Led by Zhu Yilong, a young actor who only became popular after the age of 30, "screen tough guys" Huang Zhizhong and Cheng Taishen, middle-aged acting school Zhang Yi, old drama bone Zhang Guoguo, in addition, Chen Shu, Bai Ke, Qiao Xin, Qiao Zhenyu, etc., all starred in this film, it can be seen that when the crew selects actors, it is not based on traffic, but on the level of performance.
Looking closely at the trailer, the moments of danger and the desperate efforts of rescuers are intertwined, and the actors once again show the Chinese spirit of not fearing hardships and protecting the safety of people's lives and property on the screen.
From the film tidbits, it can be seen that many scenes of "Peak Explosion" are real shots, which is a great test for the actors and on-site scheduling, and Zhu Yilong is tortured to the face after filming a rain scene between the cliffs.
But it is precisely such a pragmatic shooting method that makes the film's disaster scenes have enough credibility.
"Peak Explosion" is also known as "Infinite Rescue" and "Infinite Depth", from these two aliases can also be glimpsed, this time, domestic disaster films are really playing!
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Directors: Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian
Starring: Wu Jing, Yi Qianxi, Duan Yihong, Zhu Yawen
Genre: History, War
Screening: September 30, 2021
The 185-minute (more than three-hour) anti-weather film is no small test for the audience, so is your bladder ready?
Although this hurdle is sometimes long, it can still be concluded that "Chosin Lake" will become the most powerful domestic blockbuster at the box office in the National Day file and even the second half of the year in 2021!
An important reason is that the film has the most luxurious and high-quality creative team in China.
In terms of directors, Chen Kaige, who has directed "Farewell to the Overlord" and "The Legend of the Demon Cat", one of the leaders of the Golden Age of Hong Kong Cinema in China, Xu Ke, director of the "Di Renjie" series and "Wise Tiger Mountain", and Lin Chaoxian, who has been firmly in the top position of China's visual effects action genre with "Mekong Action" and "Red Sea Action" in recent years, all three of them working together, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the top configuration of Chinese films.
In terms of actors, "Chosin Lake" also gathers the most powerful and masculine actors of the old, middle and young generations in China.
Duan Yihong, the best actor at the Shanghai Film Festival, Zhu Yawen, the popular tough guy, Hu Jun, the best actor at the Chinese Film and Media Awards, Zhang Hanyu, the best actor at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Awards, as well as Tang Guoqiang, Han Dongjun, Lin Yongjian, Huang Xuan, Zhang Jiayi, etc., will all embark on the journey of the Battle of Changjin Lake in the film.
What is particularly eye-catching is the first "joint effort" of Wu Jing and Yi Yanqianxi, the two most popular male actors in China.
Wu Jing plays Wu Qianli in the film, and Yi Qianxi plays Wu Wanli, and the names of these two roles have a good connection and meaning in themselves.
"Chosin Lake", as the name suggests, the film shows the Battle of Chosin Lake in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the Chinese Volunteer Army pursued the enemy all the way with its iron will in an extremely cold and harsh environment, and carried forward the heroic and fearless fighting spirit.
2020's "King Kong Chuan" is also based on the theme of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, although the same three directors co-directed, the cast is also quite luxurious, but in contrast, "Chosin Lake" will inevitably beat "King Kong River" in quality.
It is conceivable that whether it is visual effects, character emotions, or historical thickness, "Chosin Lake" will hand over a perfect answer sheet to the audience.
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Director: Wei Jiahui
Starring: Liu Qingyun, Cai Zhuoyan, Lin Feng, Li Ruotong
Genre: Suspense
Screening: November 2021
To explore the "truth" of this "Detective Wars", we have to go back to the classic Hong Kong film "Detective" 14 years ago, 2007.
The 2007 version of "Detective" co-directed by Du Qifeng and Wei Jiahui, starring Liu Qingyun and Lin Jiadong, this film was not only nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 64th Venice Film Festival, but also won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2008 Hong Kong Film Awards, the Asian Film Awards and the Chinese Film Media Awards, which shows how fascinating the story of "Detective" written by Ou Jian'er and Wei Jiahui has a fascinating story.
The inspiration for the script of "Detective" was the 2006 Tsim Sha Tsui shooting in Hong Kong, China, when the truth of the shooting was confusing and full of unsolved mysteries, and the "Detective" movie ended with a wonderful and rather brain-burning "gun scene" that recreated the most confusing part of the real murder.
At that time, Liu Qingyun played a detective criminal policeman between genius and madman in the film, and it was expected that 14 years later, Liu Qingyun would once again play a detective whose identity was a mystery in a new film of the same type of director!
Therefore, it is difficult to say that these two films, which are separated by 14 years, do not have any plot and emotional connection, and it can even be guessed that "Detective Wars" will be a new "Detective" work that fits the style of today's mainland film market.
The storyline of this "Detective Wars" is also related to Liu Qingyun's previous "Detective":
In a serial murder case occurred in Hong Kong, the deceased was actually suspected of murder, and the real murderer named himself a "detective", at this time, Chen Jun, a former detective suffering from mental illness, volunteered to solve the case and assisted the "detective" of the serious crime team, and the three detectives thus broke out into a detective war!
I have to say that this plot is a bit winding, but domestic crime films do need this kind of IQ and design story to save the audience's confidence in domestic crime films.
Of course, the cast of this movie is completely reassuring, Liu Qingyun, Cai Zhuoyan, Lin Feng, Li Ruotong, Tan Kai, are all powerful actors in Hong Kong movies, and the detective story set off by them will have full genre film charm!
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Director: Zhang Ji
Starring: Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran
Genre: Suspense, Crime
Screening: December 24, 2021
To discuss the best domestic crime films in the past decade, Director Diao Yinan's 2014 "Daytime Fireworks" is certainly one of the most powerful candidates.
"Daytime Fireworks" not only won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film at the 64th Berlin Film Festival, but also starred Liao Fan at the Berlin Film Festival.
In 2019, Diao Yinan once again launched the extremely strong style of crime film masterpiece "The Party at South Station", and as a result, he also became one of the most influential crime film directors in China.
In 2021, although director Diao Yinan has no new works, he has an executive film, that is, Zhang Ji's "Moses on the Plain".
Moses on the Plains is one of the most talked about crime story IPs in the last two years.
Its original author Shuang Xuetao is a northeast novelist with good film and television resources at present, and Lu Yang's fantasy action blockbuster "Assassination of a Novelist" that won a box office of 1 billion yuan in the Spring Festival file in 2021 is based on the original book of the same name by Shuang Xuetao, and "Moses on the Plain" is the best novella of Shuang Xuetao, with its complex, mottled, cold and confusing narrative style, which is exactly the same as the story tone of "Daytime Fireworks".
Not only has Moses on the Plains been filmed, but its web series are also being developed.
The story of the film itself is more complicated:
Criminal police officer Zhuang Shu (Liu Haoran) is tracking down a taxi murder case when he accidentally discovers that Li Fei (Zhou Dongyu), a former friend of Qingmei Zhuma, is also involved, and he may be the one who witnessed the case.
Zhuang Shu's thoughts were like a tide, and he explored layer by layer, revealing a past event from 8 years ago——
A teenager with a stubborn nature and a disagreement with his family, a young girl who wants to run away, a stubborn policeman, in a small northeastern industrial town, a fireworks covenant makes their fate change completely on a snowy Christmas Eve...
"Moses" is a Hebrew word that has the meaning of "savior" in ancient Egyptian stories, meaning "pulled up from the water", which shows that the film may have its own unique pursuit in terms of depth of thought.
The starring combination of Zhou Dongyu and Liu Haoran is also very much expected, and it can even be said that this will be another masterpiece of Zhou Dongyu that has impacted major performance awards.
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Director: Xu Ang
Starring: Feng Xiaogang, Chen Chong
Genre: Drama
Screening: December 31, 2021
Live long to see, China is finally going to remake "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog"!
Hachiko the loyal dog is probably the most well-known pet dog in the world, although the most influential film version is the 2009 American version of "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog" directed by Rus Holstrom, but the prototype of this story takes place in Japan in 1925.
A Japanese university professor adopted an Akita dog and named it Hachiko, who sent the professor to the station every day, and when the professor died of illness, Hachiko continued to wait at the station every day until his death nine years later.
In 1987, The Japanese director put this story on the big screen, and the Japanese version of "The Tale of Hachiko in the Faithful Dog" also received a high score of 9.2 on Douban, not losing the most classic American version.
Therefore, this domestic remake actually has a lot of pressure, after all, about this story, the film version that has been launched has become a classic in film history.
From the director's point of view, the quality of the film will still be guaranteed, after all, director Xu Ang's last film was "Twelve Citizens", which scored a high score of 8.4 on Douban.
From the perspective of actors, the quality of the film is not to worry, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Chong such a starring lineup, can be called the most surprising and reassuring combination of domestic films at present!
Of course, in addition to these five films, the remaining domestic films in 2021 still have many works worth looking forward to, such as "My Father and Me", "Wind Forest Volcano", etc., here will no longer be inventory, just leave them to light up this year's big screen!
Author: Xian Hao
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