After 3 months, the sequel of "Chosin Lake", "The Water Gate Bridge of Chosin Lake", was released in the Spring Festival file, and last year the whole society set off a long-term and sustained "Chosin Lake Effect", stirring up the simple and deep home and country conditions of the Chinese children. In the sequel "Watergate Bridge", the Seven Companies ushered in a new mission, the war was fully escalated, and the sacrifices were more brutal. At the end of the film, the line "seven consecutive should be 157 people, really to 1 person" hit all the audiences, and the hot search continued after the release. "Watergate Bridge" is 149 minutes long, which is shorter than the 176 minutes of "Chosin Lake", but the perception of "burning and exploding" is also more sentimental and reflective.
(Pictured is the Pratunam Bridge)
Bombing of the Watergate Bridge ushered in a difficult "offensive battle"
The reporter saw that in the past two days, many military bloggers have popularized the Battle of Watergate Bridge. In fact, the Watergate Bridge is not a bridge, it is a power station dam, and it is a passage for the US mechanized troops to retreat to Xingnan Port. That is to say, if the U.S. army can be prevented from retreating from the Watergate Bridge, the U.S. Army First Division will be completely annihilated here.
The story of "Watergate Bridge" continues "Chosin Lake", and the two films show the experience of the Seven Companies in the entire Chosin Lake Campaign: after the Seventh Company entered Korea, the first round was first "air raided" on the Yalu River, and then it was "abused" by the US army at the Rocky Beach, and then it was a "encounter" in the Mid-Levels House, and then to Xinxingli was to "annihilate" the polar bear regiment, and finally received a more important task - reinforcing the Pratunam Bridge, that is, the story of "Watergate Bridge".
For the Seventh Company, from the "encounter" to the "ambush battle" in the previous game, to the "offensive battle" in the sequel, the film focuses on the soldiers of the Seventh Company who began to participate in the new task of bombing the Watergate Bridge after ending the battles in Xinxingli and Shimogaru-ri.
Because the Watergate Bridge is the throat fortress of the US army, the scene focused on by the "Watergate Bridge" lens is smaller than the previous work "Chosin Lake", the combat space is small, but the strategic significance is greater, so the battle scene is more intense, and the huge sacrifice paid to win the victory is more tragic, especially in the end, when the Seventh Company is only Wu Wanli alone, the cinema hall is basically crying.
The war scenes are more intense and densely paced
It can be said that "Watergate Bridge" is an escalation of war in a cruel environment, so its war scenes are more burning, denser, and more compact.
"Watergate Bridge" as a sequel, focusing on the cruelty of the disparity between the enemy and our military strength. Some military bloggers said that the Battle of Pratunam Bridge was a battle that most intuitively reflected the gap between the world's strongest industrial country and the backward agricultural country at that time.
The U.S. military is still well equipped, with heavy machine guns, howitzers, mortars, incendiary bombs, etc., and there are heavy armored tanks on the ground, fighters and bombers in the sky, and they also occupy favorable terrain. The volunteer soldiers still only have millet plus rifles.
The main scene of the sequel is in the Watergate Bridge, so the scene scheduling and picture production of the film are more perfect than the previous work, and it is a more comprehensive upgrade. The tactical arrangement and scheduling are clearer and more organized, and with the battle scenes that are created into wonders, the "sense of substitution" of all the big scenes is clear to the naked eye.
The battle of life and death of the Seventh Company has touched the audience who have long been empathetic
Although "Watergate Bridge" is more fierce, it is by no means a cool film with patriotic feelings. Earlier, Wu Jing said in an interview that "Chosin Lake" only opened a prelude to this battle, and "Watergate Bridge" is a battle of life and death, "If Lei Gong's sacrifice infected us and made us feel very sad, then when fighting the Battle of Shuimen Bridge, you will see more volunteer soldiers paying the price for victory, even at the expense of their own lives, which may be more painful." ”
In "Watergate Bridge", the task of the Seventh Company is to blow up the bridge, and if the bridge is not blown up, the task is not completed. Ammunition is getting smaller and fewer. The Battle of Watergate Bridge was an endgame battle belonging to the Seven Companies.
One of the reasons why the previous work "Chosin Lake" can cause widespread discussion and gain super high box office is that the soldiers of the Seventh Company have distinct personalities, flesh and blood, Sunshine is optimistic, Yu Congrong, who is sunny and optimistic, who often laughs, Mei Sheng, a city man who has strategy, understands English, and lives a fine life, Pinghe, a sharpshooter who is silent but cold outside and hot inside, Wu Qianli, who exists like a big parent, and He Changgui... All of them resonated and empathized with the audience.
When watching the movie, the audience and the seven companies of warriors live and die together, share hardships, follow them through one battle after another, and are touched by their fate. In "Watergate Bridge", they sacrificed one after another, and the audience's suppressed emotions continued to rise, until the sentence "Seven consecutive should be 157 people, really to 1 person", the audience's emotional accumulation reached its peak, the heart hurt for them, and the tears flowed for them unconsciously.
Wu Wanli's growth arc is complete and clear
Wu Wanli, played by Yi Qianxi, is undoubtedly the soul of "Chosin Lake" and "Water gate bridge", in the two films, he completed his own growth and inherited the glory of the soldiers.
In "Chosin Lake", at first he was just a wild child by the river, and he joined the army only to make his brother Wu Qianli look up to him. As a recruit egg, he disobeys and is teased by the veteran, he instinctively wants to fight for a breath, but will only grab the other party and beat him. Witnessing the sacrifice of his comrades-in-arms, he felt powerless for the first time, and then he only wanted revenge, thinking that he had killed enough enemies and was a hero.
Tan Zi, played by Duan Yihong, is one of the guides on Wu Wanli's growth path. Regarding "what is a hero", Tanzi redefined for Wu Wanli: a hero does not have to kill how many people, but how far you can persevere for the sake of faith.
In the "Watergate Bridge" drama, there are many details described, for example, Wu Wanli covered the American prisoners of war with quilts. In connection with the previous work "Chosin Lake" attacking the "Polar Bear Regiment" camp, his brother Wu Wanli prevented Wu Wanli from shooting at the enemy general and warned him that "some guns can not be fired"; for example, when Yu Congrong asked Wu Wanli how many enemy troops he had killed, he said, "This is not important, the important thing is that he wants to take everyone back alive", and so on, these are all nodes in Wu Wanli's growth arc. In the end, he realized that "there is no hero who cannot freeze to death, and there is no hero who cannot die, only the glory of soldiers."
【Say more】 How can the continuation of the first in film history still be "fried"
In the past two years, the film and television dramas on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea have been relatively hot, a number of excellent works have been in front, plus the previous work "Changjin Lake" has reached the top of the box office in the history of Chinese films, in this context, the sequel "Watergate Bridge" is undoubtedly under pressure, but whether it is pre-sale or post-screening word of mouth and box office are strongly leading, it can be seen that it still impresses the audience, and it can be seen that the feelings of home and country are still the deepest love that reverberates in the hearts of countless Chinese sons and daughters.
In the previous work "Chosin Lake", there is a "frozen potato" that is hotly discussed on the Internet, although "Watergate Bridge" does not continue to portray such hardships, but there are still many details that make people break the defense - after Lei Gong's sacrifice, his goggles were handed over to Wu Wanli's hands, and Wanli in "Watergate Bridge" wore it from beginning to end, and this detail was also on the hot search today; Wu Qianli, whether it was rubbing Wu Wanli's face in the air or rubbing his face personally, brotherhood was extremely moving; the soldiers of the Seventh Company faced the sun in the direction of the motherland and saluted the motherland. Sonorously and forcefully said: Long live new China... "The stamina and power of these details are too great", and even some netizens emotionally said that this is by no means a simple slogan, but a "code" that connects the most lovely people and the greatest motherland.
Today, Guo Rongxi, a 98-year-old volunteer veteran who witnessed the Battle of Shuimen Bridge, is also on the hot search. Guo Lao recalled the icy battlefield, the temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius below zero, frozen straight, hands frozen black, not enough to eat and wear warm, "At that time, the Americans were mechanized troops, we were earth gun troops", it was under such harsh conditions, 8 days 3 bombing of the Watergate Bridge, let people see the volunteer army's steely will! "Fried three times, the first time I blew it up. The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is necessary and is a great honor to defend the homeland and defend the country. We all stand up and are not afraid of all sacrifices! ”
Many netizens said emotionally that now our country and army are getting stronger and stronger, and these are all the ancestors who fought in blood for us, and the more we remember their efforts in the Spring Festival of thousands of families reunion and family joy.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Source: Purple Cow News