The Spring Festival stall has entered the countdown.
The national film expectation is TOP1, and it is time to debut: "Chosin Lake No. Pratunam Bridge".
No suspense.
The National Day pre-sale box office is the first, the total pre-sale has exceeded 200 million, and the pre-sale on the first day of the painting is more than twice as high as the second place, and even the sum of the second three or four places. The total number of people who want to see across multiple platforms has exceeded two million.
Why would you most like to see it? The top configuration is still the same: director Xu Ke, Chen Kaige, Lin Chaoxian supervised, lan Xiaolong continued to write the screenplay.
Wu Jing, Yi Qianxi, Duan Yihong, Zhang Hanyu, Zhu Yawen, Li Chen, Han Dongjun, Geng Le continued to star, and Du Chun and other new actors joined.
The most touching thing is not the lineup itself.
Wu Jing has a saying: "Chosin Lake" is the longest trailer ever made.
After watching the domestic film history box office champion "Chosin Lake" with a box office of 5.775 billion yuan, how can you not want to see the end of the story?
Or rather, why wouldn't you want to see the ending of the Seventh Company of Steel in the movie on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea?
Although, this ending may be destined to make countless people cry.
In the narration of the commander of the seventh company in "Soldier Assault", the fate of the seventh company of steel on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea has long been "spoiled."
However, "the Seventh Company of Steel and three other soldiers who survived nine deaths, they brought back the last wishes of one hundred and seven martyrs, so they rebuilt the Seventh Company of Steel." ”
In a sense, if "Chosin Lake" is a prequel and trailer for "Watergate Bridge", then "Soldier Assault" is a "sequel" in the spiritual sense of "Watergate Bridge".
Even if the ending is tragic, I still want to know how this group of tough guys with iron bones fought the last battle of their lives on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
If it is said that sacrifice is the doomed destination of the Seventh Company of Steel on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, then I not only want to know how the hero died, but also want to know how the hero lived colorfully and brilliantly at the last moment of his life.
First, three bombs of the Watergate Bridge, how to blow up?
The most difficult hard battle in the history of the Seventh Steel Company, three explosions of the Watergate Bridge.
Producer Yu Dong said that if the two plays are connected for more than 5 hours, the three explosions of the Watergate Bridge are the climactic scenes.
In history, after the "Polar Bear Regiment" was completely annihilated by our army, the US First Marine Division fled south in a panic, and there was a bridge on the escape route, that is, the Watergate Bridge.
The Pratunam Bridge is a suspended single-lane bridge, 8.8 meters long, the bridge is flanked by cliffs and cliffs, and the abyss under the bridge is extremely deep, once the bridge is blown up, the US 1st Marine Division can not escape.
In short, crossing the bridge, the First Marine Division had the opportunity to escape; if it did not pass, the First Marine Division was 90% beaten by the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army, which was coming.
And the goal of the volunteer army that took advantage of the victory to pursue had only one goal: to blow up the bridge and annihilate the enemy!
How hard can it be to blow up a bridge?
Director Xu Ke said that this battle is not easy to fight, because the US military has accumulated a wealth of military experience in World War I and World War II, and the weapons and equipment are also very advanced, the volunteer army wants to break through the heavy encirclement of the US army to blow up the Watergate Bridge, and the US military quickly repairs the bridge, and the battle is very hard.
It is foreseeable that the story will unfold in the repetition of "difficult blowing up the bridge - repairing - blowing up again - repairing again - three explosions".
The difficulty is not in military capabilities, but in the all-round gap in equipment and so on.
It was an extremely perverse battle, with the poorly armed and thinly clothed volunteers attacking the bridge from the bottom up, guarding the bridge, waiting for work, cars, tanks, cannons, and thick cotton uniforms. It also has absolute air supremacy.
In the film, the seven companies have to face the favorable terrain and modern sea, land and air defenses possessed by the US military.
So the U.S. military commander would say, "Wait until the enemy falls into a trap himself." ”
Wu Qianli, played by Wu Jing, said: "After that, it will become more and more difficult to fight. ”
This bridge has become a hub between life and death, and a narrow door to test faith. The task of the Seventh Company is, "The more difficult it is to fight, the more it will be fought."
How exactly is this battle fought?
Xu Ke has a saying, "Because 'Three Explosions of The Watergate Bridge' is a real story, with real people and historical backgrounds, 'the sense of reality is very important'. ”
From this, we can combine the trailer and the epic to make a rough guess about the plot of "Watergate Bridge".
First of all, it was a coordinated operation between the Seven Companies and the brother troops.
"The Seventh Company and the Ninth Company cooperated, acted in four ways, and blew up the bridge."
The "Zhang Battalion Commander" played by Du Chun and the commander of the artillery battalion Yang Played by Geng Le are from the brotherly troops.
Second, the key to blowing up the bridge lies in time.
Director Huang Jianxin revealed: "The entire company paid a huge sacrifice, just to win a few seconds of time to blow up the bridge, this is the truth of the war, the story of the film is very touching!" ”
Third, in this battle, one explosion is more difficult than one explosion.
Historically, on December 1, 1950, the Volunteer Army sent a reconnaissance detachment to blow up the deck of the Pratunam Bridge with explosives it was carrying.
Unexpectedly, the US military only took 40 hours to repair the bridge deck. The volunteer army is estimated to be more than ten days.
On the night of 4 December, the reconnaissance team brought more explosives, the second blowing up the Watergate Bridge, and this time blowing up the materials that could be used to build the bridge.
But this time, the US sappers brought their own batch of steel. Overnight, the Pratunam Bridge was repaired for the second time. The newly built Pratunam Bridge is a steel and wood structure that can pass tanks and is more difficult to blow up.
Because of the first two bombs, this time the US military sent an entire tank battalion, more than 40 tanks and a large number of soldiers to guard the Watergate Bridge.
In the trailer for "Watergate Bridge", 40 US tanks are lined up to form a semi-permanent position.
Coupled with 105 mm howitzers, 60 mm mortars, and countless tanks, as well as searchlights that illuminate the night into day, the intensity of firepower is terrifying.
On the night of December 6, hundreds of volunteer soldiers wore cotton jackets and carried explosives, and after paying a heavy casualty price, they relied on the will to fight with gas to defeat steel to blow up the Watergate Bridge again.
It is foreseeable that the story line of the film will generally follow the history, and Wu Qianli's sentence also foreshadows this:
No matter how they build the bridge, as long as they repair it once, we blow it up!
In history, in the battle of three explosions of the Watergate Bridge, Jiang Qingyun, the commander of the Seventh Company, personally led the death squad to break through, so the death squad in the film is undoubtedly the seventh interspersed company.
In this battle, the entire seven companies, no one has a "protagonist aura".
As Yu Dong said, the seventh interspersed connection will usher in a tragic ending in "Watergate Bridge".
The best war films always land in a human synaesthesia and emotional tension that transcends the battlefield itself.
I am reminded of another classic theme song of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, which is called "Hero's Hymn", with four lyrics, enough to describe the magnificent war scene -
"The wind and smoke billow and sing the hero on all sides of the green mountains and listen to the golden drum on the sunny day, the thunder rings the golden drum, the sea makes harmony."
The greatest battle that will determine the fate of the Seventh Steel Company is coming.
Second, the fate of the Seventh Company of Steel, how?
This battle, touching, shocking, bloody... I thought about it earlier.
But the hardest thing is behind the explosion. Those around the "people" of the stripping cocoon.
The writer Wei Wei wrote that our warriors are the most lovely people.
This battle is to be filmed, not only a "hero" who sacrificed his life to die.
It is even more necessary to shoot those "people" who have flesh and blood in the gunfire. It is necessary to shoot what Zhu Yawen said, "All the members of the Seventh Company of Steel go to the brilliant side of their respective endings."
In the moment of life and death, we can see the true colors of heroes. Here are the key details of the trailer about the main characters, the fate of the Seven Company, and it's in those details —
Detail 1: Lei Gong's goggles.
At the beginning of "Watergate Bridge", the commander of the artillery battalion played by Geng Le saw Wu Jing and other soldiers of the Seventh Company, and the first sentence asked: "What about Old Lei?" ”
The warriors were silent.
Yu Dong said that in fact, Lei Gong had been with the soldiers of the Seventh Company, including the goggles he gave wanli. Although he had sacrificed, his appeal to every soldier in the Seventh Company was still there. "The movie will use flashbacks to make Lei Gong appear again, not that this one does not have Lei Gong."
But it is certain that this battle will never sacrifice only one Lei Gong in exchange for victory, read this passage from the original book, "The enemy struck with a shuttle of machine guns, and seven people fell, four of whom were sacrificed and three were wounded..."
Resisting artillery fire with flesh and blood, fighting with blood, here is not an adjective, but a real description.
Detail 2, Mei Sheng's photo
The most tragic shape of "Watergate Bridge" is Mei Sheng, the instructor of the Seventh Company.
The eye was injured in the last battle, and in the trailer, even the head was bandaged up, and the back of the face was pale, obviously bleeding too much.
But the most worrying thing is to look at the scene in the photo.
In the first part, he took a picture of his daughter and took it out to see as soon as he was free. Originally, he had already gone through the discharge procedures, and he took the initiative to ask for war, also for his daughter. "If we don't fight this battle, we will fight it in the next generation."
In this battle, in the cold wind of Chosin Lake, he took out his daughter's photo again, but the expression on his face seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
In the stills, there is also a shot of Mei Sheng's head wrapped in bandages and running wildly in a captured US military vehicle, which is too reminiscent of the previous Lei Gong who sacrificed for the Seventh Company.
Lei Gong is gone, will it be Mei Sheng, the instructor who sacrificed for the Seventh Company this time?
Detail 3: Yu Congrong's salute
Yu Congrong was a platoon leader of the seventh company of firepower, and it was not difficult to speculate who would be the target who would attract the U.S. troops who took Wanli as the target if they wanted to cover wanli to drop bombs.
There is a scene in the trailer where he stands at the top of the hill, salutes the bottom of the hill, and then raises his submachine gun and yells at the gun.
At that moment, it was not the "fearlessness" shouted out of the slogan.
Rather, it is a living person, experiencing death and farewell, and a moment of fearlessness born of fear.
Detail 3, talk about the bazooka with the Pinghe River
In the previous part, Duan Yihong played the third battalion commander Tan Ziwei, who walked out of the Seventh Company, and once used his bazooka rocket launcher to shoot down an enemy plane.
This time it was he who uttered the words: "Which battle is not difficult to fight?" The harder it is to fight, the more it will be. ”
But in the trailer, Tanzi's Bazooka bazooka was carried on Pinghe's shoulder.
In the trailer, the camera gives the eyes of Pinghe, who carries the bazooka, holding his breath, concentrating, and time freezes.
Next, launch, hit.
Handsome fried!
However, why did such an important weapon fall into the hands of Pinghe?
There are two possibilities: First, Pinghe is the most accurate sharpshooter of the Seventh Company, and in battle, he undertakes the task of clearing obstacles for the Seventh Company, and Bazooka entrusts him with a greater role.
But there is another possibility: the owner of this big guy has been sacrificed.
The battle scene in Winter and the Lion is described as follows: the high-explosive bomb is instantaneously brilliant, the incendiary bomb burns for a long time, and the grenade explodes into an upside-down bouquet of flowers that spread death.
The mystery of the characters' life and death is about to be revealed.
Detail 4: Thousands of miles to wanli's instructions
The trailer has two scenes of thousands of miles that shocked me, one is that he raises his pistol and shoots with tears.
Why tears? If the detonation was fired with a pistol, were there still seven companies of soldiers who died before and after this shooting?
Another scene is his emotional drama with the Wanli brothers.
Although it is only a trailer, I feel that the film has made an extremely deep and complex emotion, for Wanli: a person who is usually in awe, at this moment, his various deep feelings for you, all kinds of love, are integrated into the rare smile of relief, and there is a piece of advice: "Before, I didn't let you run around, I was afraid that you would cause trouble, how you want to run today, you decide."
The emotions of Chinese pure masters are not exposed, and there should be only one possibility to speak the words hidden in the deepest hearts and race against the clock to speak out.
In the next sentence, Qianli shook his brother's hand and said, "The hands and feet are sharp, and the farther the grenade is thrown, the better." ”
This line undoubtedly hints at Wanli's pivotal role in this battle.
The wild children who played by the river at that time, the "air explosion" of throwing grenades in one move became the key winners. His accurate projection of bombs will deal a critical blow to crossfire on the enemy's defensive lines.
But what was Wanli's mood at this moment? Probably at this moment, he suddenly realized that there was a person who scolded himself every day for being so happy, and there was a person who urged himself to grow every day is a kind of happiness, and now this person is leaving, and he can run at will, which means growth and also means separation.
No one can take you to fight for a lifetime.
Undoubtedly, compared with the lines of "Soldier Assault", Wu Qianli is likely to be killed in battle, so how to sacrifice?
Here's my personal speculation —
Detail 5: Burning Volunteer Soldiers
There is a scene in the trailer, in the wild storm and snow, the fierce flames instantly burned all over the body of a warrior, and the thousands of miles behind him were in pain.
The warrior on fire resembled a trapped beast in fire.
However, when he ran forward desperately, he seemed to dance in the sun. Like a burning lion.
All emotions, completely released in that instant, are tearful.
The camera scheduling, action design, perspective switching, and light and shadow changes of this clip are likely to make this clip a famous scene of the gods in contemporary domestic war films.
A warrior, go to the soup to fight the fire.
This shot, and the scene of a soldier blocking the cannon in the flesh, is also likely to become the two most cruel and tragic classic scenes in the film.
Will this warrior be a thousand miles?
These fighters, who died at the last moment of the Battle of Chosin Lake, together with the more than 100 people who wrapped their ears around their ears with towels, lay on the ground in a combat formation, maintaining a shooting posture, and pointing their guns in the direction of the enemy, constituted the Song of Ice and Fire of the Chinese Volunteer Army.
That group of steely warriors stayed forever in that Chosin Lake winter.
With his life, he fulfilled the oath of the volunteer army -
So, there's --
Detail 6, the urn of a thousand miles and a picture
Director Chen Kaige said that his filming for a few minutes echoed the scene at the beginning of "Chosin Lake" where Wu Qianli returned home with the ashes of his eldest brother Wu Baili.
The first part of Qianli said that he would return to his hometown to build a house for Wanli to marry his daughter-in-law, and the drawings were all drawn.
The trailer saw here, and I suddenly shed tears.
The so-called hero is just an ordinary person, if there is no such life and death war, Qianli will return to his hometown, build a house, teach his brother a lesson, filial piety to his mother, and watch his brother marry and have children.
If Lei Gong had not sacrificed, he might have been forced to live in his hometown, or perhaps just near the Spring Festival, he called the comrades of the Seventh Company to eat the New Year dinner together in advance.
Hometown Haohao River, under the reflection of the oblique sun, the river water is as red as fire. Just let the thousand miles, hit a few big fish for the warriors to drink at night.
That night, the river wind blew and snow fell in the sky. The Wu family was full of people, all talking and laughing.
Mei Sheng will take out the latest photo of his daughter for everyone to see, Yu Congrong and Lei Gong are telling jokes, and Pinghe does not speak, grinning. Wanli said that the commander of the tan battalion would not arrive until tomorrow morning, and Qianli said that it didn't matter, we left good wine for him.
Without this battle, could all this have happened? Of course, in the face of war, the warrior does not have the right to choose his own life and death.
The story of "Watergate Bridge" is the story of how these ordinary people became recorded heroes.
Will it break the record?
Compared with the previous game, "Watergate Bridge" has been fully upgraded.
It's colder and more brutal; the war scenes are bigger and the emotions are stronger.
During the filming of the film, there is a scene in which a snow march is filmed on the ground, and Xu Ke has been waiting for a snowstorm he wants.
In his words, it should be "big enough to blow people up almost."
In order to truly restore the environment, the film underwent four months of snow shooting. Wu Jing said: "In the weather of minus twenty degrees, you have to lie on the snow and blow it with a pressurized wind cannon. Li Chen said that he and Yi Qianxi were often cold enough to fall asleep.
Xu Ke, 71, personally demonstrated the footage of crawling and rolling on the snow.
Bitter? But this is what domestic war films should look like.
Will it set a new box office record? Anything is possible.
But the box office is not only the box office itself, but more importantly, the story of this group of heroes, how many people can see it.
Wu Qianli's roster contained the names of each soldier of the Seventh Company, the number of enlistments, and the place where they died.
In Soldier Assault, the many oaths of entry are extremely impressive:
"There are so many soldiers, you must remember that you are the soldier of the 4,956th Steel Seventh Company!"
There are many soldiers, some companies are proud of a certain combat hero, some companies are proud of being a general, and the pride of the Seventh Steel Company is the most sacred of the soldiers! The Seventh Company of Steel is proud of the heroes who have died on the battlefield in hundreds of battles! ”
Wu Qianli was the 162nd soldier of the Seventh Company, Wu Wanli was No. 677, and after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he entered the era of peace, and when Xu Sanduo, played by Wang Baoqiang, joined the army, he was the 4956th soldier.
To the last ma xiaoshuai who joined the army in "Soldier Assault", a total of 5,000 people, of which 1104 died for the country!
After the war, Smith, commander of the US First Marine Division, once lamented: "The Battle of Chosin Lake was fought by the Steel Force against the Iron Man. ”
The "not afraid of death" of Chinese soldiers was called the "Oriental Spirit" after the war.
This was regarded as a mysterious existence by the US military at that time.
They will never understand this kind of life-and-death style of play. I don't understand the spirit of the Steel Seven Company of "attacking Bike, defending Bijian, stepping on the bones and singing triumphs", and I do not understand this song of ice and fire.
But the reason for all this is actually in a shot of "Watergate Bridge", when the great war is imminent, the sun rises in the east, and all the soldiers of the seventh company salute in the direction of the motherland, each one regards death as a homecoming, the motherland needs to be guarded, and the soldiers must attack.
What makes warriors give up their lives and forget about death? The answer is in that "our borders, the direction of the motherland".
If it is said that the emotion of the Seven Companies looking at the Great Wall on the train in "Chosin Lake" is high, "but let the Dragon City fly in the future, do not teach Humadu Yin Mountain".
Then "Watergate Bridge" is a magnificent "only to solve the sand field for the death of the country, why should Ma Ge wrap the body back".
Two seemingly different emotions actually convey the same two words:
fatherland!
"Long live New China"!
Wu Jing said: "You will remember every soldier of the Seventh Company, they are the epitome of countless volunteer soldiers who defend their families and defend the country, they deserve to be remembered." ”
Spring Festival, it is really the best time to see this movie, when the New Year, you take a family to watch the movie, walk out of the theater, and see the lights of thousands of homes connected, as if responding to the soldiers who look at the motherland in the ice and snow:
The mountains and rivers are unharmed, and the heroes are immortal. We have never forgotten the cutest people.