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Is it going to work wonders again?
In just 3 days, "Chosin Lake's Water Gate Bridge" broke 40 records in a row, and the box office soared to 1.58 billion.
A movie, successfully let 5 male actors, 3 broke the "10 billion"; Wu Jingxi mentioned 25 billion box office, defeated Shen Teng of 21.5 billion yuan, becoming the first person in Chinese cinema.
As one of the 1.5 billion contributors, Brother Dao can responsibly say:
"Watergate Bridge" is hard and burning.
How hard is it?
It's almost a film that relies entirely on war scenes, without any superfluous nonsense, and combat is the only purpose.
Some viewers said, "Just walked out of the movie theater, and my heart felt like it had been blown up." ”
"Just bomb the word tragic on your heart."
"Chosin Lake" is filmed with great momentum, there have been two super large war scenes, how can "Watergate Bridge" be filmed?
Is the two-and-a-half-hour sequel real or a cool film with patriotic feelings?
"Watergate Bridge", can it really support the king of the box office of this year's Spring Festival?
The pit that "Chosin Lake" stepped on,
"Watergate Bridge" is filled in this time
The intensity of this year's Spring Festival stalls is no less than that of the Six Gate Sect besieging Guangming Peak.
On the surface, it looks calm and calm, but as long as you make a move, you will use your own sect to learn.
"Miracle Stupid Child" first hit three wang explosions: director Wen Muye, producer Ning Hao, and starring Yi Qianxi. A Virgo made "I Am Not a Medicine God" on the explosion of word of mouth director, a ghost producer, a top actor.
Han Hanmen's "Four Seas", in addition to shen teng, the emperor of the ten billion film, also took out the "Two Great Korean-style Magic Treasures":
Highway + Wenqing.
The happy twist movie is less Shen Teng, but it has the most evil trick: boldly enabled Wei Xiang, who has run the dragon set for 24 years, who can think of this?
The bigger advantage is that it is a comedy, and it is the only comedy in the Spring Festival slot.
Lao Mozi's "Sniper" and "Watergate Bridge" are both war films, and both are Korean Wars, and it is the first time that Zhang Yimou has fought in the Spring Festival file in 38 years since the film.
From the beginning of the propaganda, there was already a smell of gunpowder.
However, the biggest opponent of "Watergate Bridge" is still his former self.
On November 24 last year, "Changjin Lake" officially topped the top of the box office in The History of Chinese Cinema with a box office of 5.694 billion.
Generally speaking, many sequels will be questioned as "dog tail sequels", with more than enough feelings and insufficient plots, which makes people aesthetically tired.
In other words, how high the box office of "Chosin Lake" is, how badly "Watergate Bridge" is likely to fall.
The sense of proportion is the most difficult part of this film.
To grasp the right balance, you must first put down the aura of box office champions and listen carefully to the feedback of the audience. After the release of "Chosin Lake", the whole team decided to conduct two months of supplementary shooting through review summary and combined with the opinions of the audience.
In the first "Chosin Lake", the division of labor between the three directors was relatively average, resulting in too much dispersion.
In the second part, I changed the way of playing.
More than 90% of the content of "Watergate Bridge" is filmed by Xu Ke, if you pay close attention, you will find that Chen Kaige and Lin Chaoxian in the opening subtitles only hang the name of "producer", and the director only writes Xu Ke.
If you say in the first part, you can also clearly see that the styles of the three directors are different.
"Pratunam Bridge", more unified: blowing up Pratunam Bridge is the only task.
Brother Dao found Xu Ke's past film storyboard manuscripts for everyone, which is simply the level of a professional cartoonist.
Therefore, in "Watergate Bridge", there are fewer sensational bridges, and there are fewer defiant monologues of determination that have been criticized in domestic war-themed film and television works.
Instead, a lot of freeze-frame details are added, and close-ups of extreme battle scenes are added.
Whether there are tear points varies from person to person, but Xu Ke absolutely did it, and there were no urine points throughout the whole process.
The second regret left by "Chosin Lake" is heroism.
In the criticism of Chosin Lake, there is a more common voice that highlights individuals, or a very small number of people, and personifies the war with a complete personal story.
There are even a large number of black fans, believing that "the tough guy Wu Jing, the protagonist's aura is too strong" and "only Wu Jing can defeat Wu Jing".
"Watergate Bridge", but completely broke Wu Jing's "hard rules".
After one charge after another, it is one sacrifice after another, and no one is spared.
Every character in "Watergate Bridge" has a strong sense of flesh and blood from the beginning.
Mei Sheng, who drove a car and bit his daughter's photo and rushed to the sea of fire alone, was obviously a sniper, but he wanted to carry the explosive package to death in Pinghe, in order to divert the enemy plane, Yu Congrong, who ran alone to the sea of fire.
Lead actor Wu Jing directly admitted, "'Chosin Lake' is actually a super long trailer for "Water gate bridge". ”
Lethality, as can be seen.
Xu Laowei's killer skills finally came out in full
There is nothing wrong with stability.
Judging from the box office performance of 5.6 billion, "Chosin Lake" is definitely a success.
But if you blindly seek stability, you will also push yourself to a conservative, or even a "hopeless situation" without a sense of surprise. A good movie sequel should have a new audience applauding it, rather than blindly consuming the popularity of the old work.
The appearance of "Watergate Bridge" is very interesting.
It also shows a completely different temperament from previous war films.
One word: brutal truth.
1, enough strong contrast of strength disparity
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the US military had the most powerful military force in the world, and it also had a strong industrial production capacity to crush any other country.
At that time, our country was poor and white, and the industrial production capacity was extremely low, and the production capacity of the military industry was even lower.
Chinese the huge gap between the Volunteer Army and the U.S. Army, "Watergate Bridge" does not avoid it, but reflects it very realistically in the countless details of the movie.
This real gap is often suffocating for a short time.
We have no air superiority, no advanced weapons, and even artillery must be captured from the American army.
But one second the fighters fought hard to capture the weapons, and the next second, the other side dropped a few shells and was easily destroyed.
The volunteer soldiers were beaten like live targets, and all we could do was "disperse, find cover" or "take cover on the spot."
When it came to blowing up the bridge, it was even more desperate.
The gap, which had been blown up at great cost the night before, was easily repaired by the enemy the next day. The volunteers bombed once, and the American army built once.
After a battle, under the camera, the volunteers counted the bullets they could use with trembling hands.
Even if the base of the bridge is completely destroyed, the U.S. military can repair it in one day.
The first time with wood, the second with steel plates, and the third time directly airdropping the components of a bridge.
Why shoot this sense of disparity?
Because we are not facing a group of bears who only rely on tanks and heavy guns, but a group of ace armies with strong guns, fierce, intelligent, and full of combat effectiveness.
And being able to fight a draw with such an opponent or even force it to retreat can show the bravery of the volunteer army and the spirit of not being afraid of death.
Behind this is a contest between the will of steel and the steel industry.
2. Real battles with enough restricted levels
In the battle scenes, compared with "Chosin Lake", "Water Gate Bridge" is colder and more cruel.
Since 90% of them were given to the battle scene, Xu Laowei's killer skills finally came out. Xu Ke took the flesh-and-blood battlefield and photographed a feeling of adrenaline rushing.
A soldier, a volunteer army holding a package of explosives ready to "attack with human flesh" tanks.
When you think he's going to die with the enemy, the next shot, he's blown up in front of the tank.
When Pinghe picked up the explosive package and ran to the tank, did Xu Ke give him the aura of the protagonist?
Not really.
In a pinch, Pinghe was hooked at the cuff. A wheel came up, the whole arm was directly crushed, and Pinghe was crushed by the tank to a blur of blood and flesh.
Even because it was too real, the first reaction of countless viewers to see Pinghe's sacrifice was "It hurts too much!" ”。
Such images are somewhat violent and bloody, and cruel enough, everywhere.
When the commander of the artillery battalion, Yang Battalion, was directing the battle, a missile flew towards the battery, and he dragged it past the soldier who was loading the ammunition, and his fingers were immediately blown up into a blur of blood and flesh.
In order to divert the enemy plane, Yu Congrong was burned by fire and still ran in the opposite direction.
Some viewers said, "These undisguised tough guys and gore have only been seen in the past on Hacksaw Ridge. ”
But it is precisely because of the bloodshed that we can see the cruelty and ruthlessness of war.
The crushing of the industry is really too humiliating, and the countless times there is no return that makes people repeatedly feel painful and uncomfortable, which is the empathy that Xu Ke has done.
Before killing your opponent, become a blockbuster that turns over yourself
In the face of such a large gap, why can such a war be won?
"Watergate Bridge" also gives great respect in addition to the movie.
That is: real action.
Xu Ke said, "My first requirement for an actor is to be real. ”
Due to the special terrain of the historical prototype Watergate Bridge, it is really impossible to find a suitable site. In order to restore the real Watergate Bridge, "Watergate Bridge" built a bridge in proportion to 100%, and it took 6 months to dig the mountain and landscaping, spend 1 billion yuan, and dig a mountain out.
Watching "Watergate Bridge", you will definitely experience a kind of bone-chilling cold. How does this coldness work?
When filming the plot of "Blowing Up the Watergate Bridge", Xu Ke deliberately arranged the set until the early morning, the open-air scene of minus 30 degrees, and also arranged 4 blowers to take turns blowing at the actors.
Wu Jing, who has filmed countless war scenes, complained that he had never frozen like this.
Xu Ke not only asked the actors to come to the truth, but also himself.
The 71-year-old refuses to stay in the warm shed to direct the play, instead demonstrating snow crawling in minus 30 degrees.
The frostbite makeup painted for Zhu Yawen was so real that he did not dare to show it to his family.
In addition to the biting cold, there is also a boiling fire.
In "Watergate Bridge", there are many magnificent pictures of warriors being burned by flames, in fact, according to the current special effects technology, it can be completely realized.
But in fact, these scenes are the way real people wear special protective clothing to present the "burning real people" scene, in pursuit of authenticity, it burned for 7 seconds.
In order to pursue the real effect, the crew used real tanks for live shooting.
Han Dongjun, the actor of Pinghe, told a story that he now thinks about that makes him afraid:
"During the shooting, I was hung on the chassis of the tank, and when the tank started, I had to shoot the footage pressing my arm, although it was a prosthetic prop, but after the track was pressed on the sleeve, it was rolled in with the coat I was wearing, and the force immediately brought me in."
The portrayal of this detail is realistic, and it can be said that fist to flesh is generally real.
This makes "Watergate Bridge" almost no sensationalism, but there is still something moving.
Even if burned by a spitfire, it will overcome the fear of pain and death and continue to shoot at the enemy;
Even if the body is crushed into a meat paste by the tank tracks, the task must be completed;
Even in the face of a hail of bullets, you must pull your wounded comrades back.
The script has been polished for five years, the preparation time is more than two years, and the staff in front of and behind the stage is a total of 12,000 people, and the film is a process of constantly breaking the record in Chinese film history from production to release.
If it is really a cool film with patriotic feelings, it can save a little more effort and be lazy.
Conclusion:
Although "Watergate Bridge" is not perfect, many of its denigrations are still untenable.
Some people say that its success is nothing more than hugging the thigh of the "main theme" and consuming patriotism.
Some parents even reported the "Water gate bridge of Chosin Lake", complaining that the picture was too bloody, afraid that the child would have nightmares.
After all, during the New Year, who wants to watch a war movie that they know will be very tragic?
But the evaluation of "too bloody" will never come out of the mouths of veterans who have experienced the battlefield.
Because the real war is far more cruel than the movie.
Only this time, we don't have super soldiers, and we don't have the "protagonist aura" wolf warrior.
One by one, comrades-in-arms died one after another until the last sentence: "It should be 157 people, but it should be 1 person." ”
Our flesh and blood are against the hot weapons of great disparity in strength and the cold korean battlefield.
It's a battle to the death, and everyone knows they can lose their lives at any moment, but no one backs down.
Sincere, authentic, genuine.
How many domestic movies can do these three things at the same time?
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The author of this article | Zhang Yichi