It's also too suspenseful.
Sure enough, it is the first choice of the most people in the Spring Festival file, with 600 million on the first day, accounting for half of the box office of the first year.
Now there is only one suspense left:
On November 25, 2021, "Chosin Lake" officially ascended to the top spot at the Chinese box office.
Two months later, will the record be broken by it again?
"Chosin Lake No. Shuimun Bridge"
When it comes to "Chosin Lake", we have to mention the three great directors behind it.
Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Lin Chaoxian.
In the first part, the division of labor of the three directors is relatively average.
In the second part, I changed the way of playing.
At the press conference of "Chosin Lake's Water Gate Bridge", the chief producer revealed that 90% of the scenes in the film were directed by Xu Ke. (Hereinafter referred to as "Watergate Bridge")
If you say in the first part, you can also clearly see that the styles of the three directors are different.
"Watergate Bridge", more unified.
The story connects to the upper part.
On the Korean battlefield in 1950, after annihilating the Polar Bear Regiment, the soldiers of the Seventh Company were on another mission, blowing up the Watergate Bridge.
After the Battle of Chosin Lake, the United States decided to retreat to the east coast of Korea.
The Pratunam Bridge is their only access.
The bridge is 8.8 meters long and was built on a dam over a cliff face.
Relying on rudimentary equipment and determination not to be afraid of death, the volunteer detachment blew up the Watergate Bridge three times, known in history as the "Three Bombs of the Watergate Bridge".
But how to expect.
The volunteers paid a huge price, but the US army relied on advanced industrial equipment to blow up three times and repair it three times.
Just by looking at the historical description, you can feel the fierceness and despair.
62 years later, "Watergate Bridge" uses shocking images to restart the magnificence that has been frozen in history.
01
From the production of the previous one, it has been shown:
This is a new benchmark for domestic war films.
First of all, the realism of the scene.
A less heavy-hearted play, a snow march.
This is a common occurrence of volunteers in the Korean battlefield at minus forty degrees.
The blizzard is so big that it can almost blow people up, scraping the face like a sharp blade, and it is difficult to open your eyes.
How was it filmed?
Not special effects, not fake snow.
Xu Ke asked to come really.
Actors can only present the most realistic reactions under real conditions.
Compared with the first part, the plot of "Watergate Bridge" is more concentrated, focusing on the remaining half of the soldiers of the Seventh Company, and the three raids and bombings of the Watergate Bridge together with the Ninth Company.
The equipment of the two sides is really disparity, and the US military uses the most advanced guns, holding flamethrowers, and fighters patrolling and strafing in the air.
The volunteers also used "made in all nations" guns, and communications below the battalion mainly relied on military trumpets, whistles, flags, and other liaisons.
"Watergate Bridge" realistically shows us how small people can be in the face of a powerful modern war machine.
A shell came down from a high altitude, and before it was too late to react, the living comrades around him instantly turned into a pool of flesh and blood, a cloud of ashes.
Hard to hit hard, doomed to hit the stone with a pebble.
So the only opportunity left for the volunteers was a night raid.
Here, the arrogant American army with advanced equipment in hand guarded the Watergate Bridge with heavy troops, laid traps, and waited for the volunteer army to "throw themselves into the net."
On the other side, the volunteer army adopted interspersed tactics, divided into four small groups, inside and outside, intending to break the enemy's strict defense from each weak point.
It was destined to be a scorching bloody battle.
Compared with the previous game, the war scenes in "Watergate Bridge" are dense and more coherent.
It was submerged in the Battle of Watergate Bridge.
As early as "Wise Tiger Mountain", Xu Ke showed the ability to combine commercial film ornamentation and main theme.
"Watergate Bridge" is another beautiful battle.
The grand army engagement, divided into small points of scattered precision operations, tested the director's control.
Two and a half hours long, the rhythm is intense.
Some melee scenes, fist to flesh, the degree of cruelty is no less than the gun explosion, from a smaller perspective, to show the war of your life and death.
But these are still only at the first level of a good war movie.
02
After the realism of the scene.
Further, it is to dig out an inhuman tragedy, belonging to human flesh and blood.
The tone of "Chosin Lake" is the "burning" of seven consecutive families to defend the country.
The footage of "Watergate Bridge" goes straight through, and finally reverses the "sadness" of the soldiers behind this battle.
First of all, sadness about "wolf".
This was due to the weather, armaments, etc., and the war conditions were hellish for the volunteers.
The opening scene of the movie is the cold, snowy march visible to the naked eye.
The soldiers were strapped with ropes.
Fear of falling behind.
Once left behind, I may never be able to find it again.
Afraid of freezing.
Support each other, bracing, bracing, and standing up again.
This kind of picture abounds in the movie.
Frozen compass;
Gauze is removed from the bodies of newly dead comrades and left for those who can still live;
And after a battle, hands trembling and counting the bullets that could be used...
In the snow, outside of war, hardship, desperation and suffocation.
In addition to the praises, the heavier weight is the mercy of war.
Forms the tone of the story of the Battle of Pratunam Bridge:
A battle that is not destined to be "completely successful".
On December 1, 4, and 5, 1950, the volunteers of the 20th Army bombed the bridge three times, but they could not compete with the modern industrial level of the US army.
The volunteers bombed once, and the American army built once.
Even in the case of the complete destruction of the bridge foundation, it can be repaired from the Japanese airlift bridge components.
In just one day, a steel bridge was rebuilt.
Sadness, more in the "tragic".
In reality, there is no miracle of one enemy and a hundred.
Teams of volunteers are really fighting with their lives.
In "Lake Chosin", Ray opened a car to divert a U.S. aircraft and died of shell bombardment.
A man with an iron backbone, the last words he said were:
It hurts
It hurt me to death
Don't leave me here alone
At that time, how many people wept for this scene.
But cruelly, this is just a bloody opening to tear open "Watergate Bridge".
A good war film must go against the "myth" and shoot the real destructive power of war;
It is necessary to go against the "deification" and shoot the surprise and uncertainty of death.
Simply put, it's about giving people a sense of "how did he die" or "how did he die like this?"
"Watergate Bridge" may not be able to achieve full marks, but there is no lack of this psychological shock.
For example, the first volunteer army to take explosives packages and prepare to "attack" tanks with human flesh.
When you think he's going to die with the enemy, the next shot, he's blown to pieces in front of the tank.
The battalion commander played by Duan Yihong is Tanziwei.
During the battle, he was shot through the abdomen by a flying meteorite and lost blood and died.
Down the hill, just as the Chinese volunteers were about to throw grenades, they were killed by a single shot by the US army and detonated on the spot;
Deputy Company Commander He Changgui even just waved his hand, and his hand was pierced by bullets;
......
One.
Two.
Three.
Both.
And the most impressive.
No.
It should be said that it was a scene that scared Sir or the sacrifice of Pinghe.
He dodged the bullets and managed to run to the bottom of the tank to detonate the tank and the Watergate Bridge.
Unexpectedly, the clothes were hooked and could not move.
Obviously, it is only a few centimeters away from touching the lead.
But a wheel came up, and the whole arm was directly crushed, like an ant, tormented by the enemy's fiddling.
Be a hero.
But on the battlefield, heroes are "as fateful as grass".
No one has an aura.
The triumph of war is easy to remember.
But how heavy the cornerstone of victory is, we may not have real feelings.
"Watergate Bridge" is singing in praise, and it is a reminder:
The hero has been gilded with light.
But in the end, he is no distance from every ordinary person.
At this time, the audience is no longer a bystander who is watching the flowers, but truly sees the living individual and the real fate of the revolution from the depths of their hearts.
Thus perceiving the first essence of war: sacrifice and death.
At this moment, losing and winning may have become blurred.
We no longer have to just cheer.
I also mourn the loss of life.
The blurred boundaries are filled with reflections on war.
03
After the destruction of the flesh.
The contemplation of war, digging deeper, and the beautiful shredding.
Specifically, it is to use the time of a movie to let you know what is called things and people.
As with many war themes.
The emotional landing point at the beginning of "Watergate Bridge" is very "big".
Focus on the righteousness of the homeland.
Take this scene, for example.
Before going to the battlefield, the Seventh Company stood at the top of the hill, looking at the border not far away.
That is the direction of the motherland.
Instantly, a sense of responsibility and mission to guard the homeland was born from the heart.
They saluted the borders of their homeland.
One after the other:
Long live New China
But after that, "Watergate Bridge" reversed its direction, gathered step by step, and turned to "small".
The scope of "affection" has narrowed again and again.
The direction of the motherland.
It is also the direction of home.
It is also the direction of people.
But what about people?
There are two scenes.
At the beginning, the seven companies converged with the artillery battalion, and Wu Qianli and Yang Battalion Commander could not stop a burst of ridicule and greeting.
But the harmonious picture was immediately interrupted by an inquiry from Yang Yingchang, "What about Old Lei?" ”
The problem was no ordinary, but no one could say anything, and even Wu Qianli bowed his head and smoked silently.
Commander Yang immediately knew the meaning.
This is a kind of "tacit understanding" of death between comrades who are unique to the battlefield and between comrades-in-arms.
One more time.
Yu rushed from Rong rong and Wu Wanli to rescue Wu Qianli.
Yu Congrong asked, "What about Pinghe?" ”
Wu Qianli only said one sentence, "He has completed the task."
The two are stacked together like a picture frame:
The photo was originally full of people.
But one, two battles, even a day, two days... The comrades in arms in the photo decreased one by one, and the people who had just chatted about the sky could not come back the next second.
Here's another essence of war:
Broken and lost.
I think of a scene in "1917".
Schofield was chased and jumped into the river.
In the drift of the river, the white petals of the trees on the shore fell, and the sight was quiet and beautiful, and Schofield could not help but touch it with his hand.
But in the next shot, he immediately sees a swollen and pale corpse soaked by the river.
He rolled over the corpses and vomited on the shore.
What is war?
It is to push the ordinary far away, tear the beautiful apart, put people into extreme situations to force them to get used to it, and squeeze out an almost anti-human "numbness".
Back to Watergate Bridge.
One detail, Sir must mention.
Wu Wanli saw the captured young wounded Soldiers of the American Army in the barracks, lying in bed and suffering from their wounds before dying.
He looked at him silently, as if to find an unspeakable commonality.
Slowly move forward, take off the quilt and cover him, and leave quietly.
At the end, before the U.S. troops withdrew from Xingnan Port, they prepared to burn all the supplies.
An American soldier, writing a line on a bottle of wine.
"A bottle of wine that can end the war" is placed next to the corpse of a dead comrade.
It is war that puts souls who yearn for home in such a situation.
In both films, Sir remembers a change in Wanli.
"Chosin Lake", the seventh company encountered the Strafing of US aircraft.
Wu Wanli dragged the bodies of his comrades from the pile of corpses, picked up the relics of the other party, and asked about the hometown of the comrades.
Suddenly I understood the weight of those names in the small book of a thousand miles.
The teenager's eyes were filled with hatred.
He had only one goal in mind: revenge.
At that time, his definition of war was to kill the enemy.
To "Watergate Bridge".
Yu Congrong asked Wu Wanli again, "How many enemies have you killed?" ”
Wu Wanli no longer had an obsession, but said lightly:
"It doesn't matter, I'm going to make you all go home safely."
If "Chosin Lake" is to understand the war and reproduce the spirit of that period of history to the present people.
Then what "Watergate Bridge" wants to say is to "end" the war, go home, and return to peace.
Echoing the first part, Wu Qianli's homecoming.
However, at that time, it was a curious boy who broke into the war.
Now, he has understood the cost and significance of the war and returned to where he really belonged.
In fact, our direction has never been a distant battlefield.
It is always the home under our feet, waiting for us to build and protect.
Just like every Spring Festival, we always see the New Year's greetings of border guards on TV. Returning home for reunion is almost a luxury for them.
But in their hearts, they have another, more determined hope, a kind of attachment to our home as much as we do.
That is the four words that everyone cannot forget -- to defend the family and defend the country.
There was and is such a group of people, then and now.
They converged their way home into a wider avenue.
Let the people behind them who they want to protect can lead to peace, to the beauty that will not be crushed by war.
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