Six tips here to give you a good old age - I wish you a good luck in the Year of the Tiger, the Tiger tiger is mighty!
According to the data of the lighthouse platform, the Spring Festival file of the Year of the Tiger ended with a box office of 6.035 billion, catching up with the epidemic and setting a second highest in film history.
Among them, "Chosin Lake - Watergate Bridge", "Miracle: Stupid Child" and "Sniper" can be said to be both acclaimed and popular, becoming the big winners of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger.
In particular, director Zhang Yimou brought this "Sniper" in addition to directing the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, and its reputation led the Spring Festival file, which made the six tips the most moving.
"Sniper" is not only the first Chinese New Year movie brought to the audience by "Guoshi",
It is also the first film co-led by Director Zhang and his daughter Zhang Mo,
With a small perspective, the realism of the Korean War, and the highly generalized film language, "Sniper" achieves an otherworldly artistic effect.
While paying tribute to the most beloved people, it has brought more enlightenment beyond the war to those of us who are in the lights of thousands of homes and happy lives.
A sense of realism rooted in history
The coldest gun The hottest blood
In the "Sniper" film, the volunteer army's "cold gun and cold gun movement" and sniper team tactics have real historical prototypes, which really avoid their sharp edges and make the most of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
It is said that the protagonist of the movie, Dae Yong (played by Chen Yongsheng), is based on the famous Zhang Taofang on the Korean battlefield, who killed 214 enemies with 436 bullets in 32 days, creating the highest record of the Chinese Volunteer Army killing the enemy coldly on the Korean battlefield, and is known as the "King of Chinese Snipers", "The Sniper God of Shangganling" and the title of "Cold Gun Hero".
Zou Xixiang, another volunteer platoon commander from Wuchuan, Guizhou at that time, once set a terrible record of killing 203 people with 206 bullets in the Battle of Shangganling. It seems that the prototype of the squad leader Liu Wenwu, played by Zhang Yu, whose ancestral home is Guizhou, may be Zou Xixiang.
Under the joint rendering of director Zhang Yimou's adherence to realistic visual style, pragmatic militarized experience, and real snow environment shooting, it finally presents a highly credible viewing experience for the audience. Hats off to the old artists!
Above the artistry of history
A small battlefield in the tube to spy on the leopard
The film talks about time, place, and characters for a highly summarized artistic treatment, the beginning only briefly explains the time and space background and character personality, basically starting from 10 minutes, straight to the topic, into the sniper battlefield, and continues until the end.
This narrative technique of small view and big picture makes the whole battle into a microcosm of the entire Korean War, and the characteristics of both sides are revealed.
The rhythm of the six tips is too tight, and I feel a little uncomfortable, but in general, I still like this cold film style that does not say much, with a distinct personality and clean and neat.
Battlefield does not believe in tears
There is no extra space, and even in the war film, there is no emotional rendering, whenever the protagonist Dayong is as tragic as the ordinary audience and the huge power gap between China and the United States or sad or fearful and desperate to tears, it is the same as hearing the squad leader's words "Hold up lao tzu!" "Enemy bullets never sympathize with the weak.
North Korean children
The North Korean boy in the film is a very interesting metaphor, symbolizing the good and helpless Korean nation sandwiched between two great powers. On the one hand, "I am accustomed to the sound of artillery fire and do not know how to be afraid"; on the other hand, I have a good relationship with the volunteer army, and I can't bear to watch the volunteer army cross the battlefield. In the end, the volunteers, through the Korean boys, accomplished their purpose of passing on information, and finally forced the enemy to sit at the negotiating table, bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula.
Same battlefield, two perspectives
The filming of the film was co-directed by Director Zhang Yimou and daughter Zhang Mo, who graduated from the New York University Film School, majoring in screenwriting and directing, and the father was responsible for the shooting of the volunteer side and the daughter was responsible for the shooting of the US military side.
So you can feel a kind of fusion between the sincere and deep perspective of the father and the confident and sensitive perspective of the daughter, which is very interesting.
Five types of sniping
Sniper in the usual sense
The origin of sniper is obviously derived from the hunting civilization,
One theory, the predecessor of the word Sniper, snipe, first appeared in 1832 as a bird-hunting activity by the British army in the Indian border region.
During World War I, due to over-the-horizon shooting and hidden unfolding, snipers began to appear as separate units from the general "sharpshooters".
From ancient rock-throwing and stinger blowing, to shooting cold arrows and outstretched crossbows, all the way to gunpowder guns, rifles, and advanced high-power sniper rifles.
In essence, it is a struggle strategy that uses the asymmetry of information, surprises, and maximizes benefits at the smallest cost.
In the process of sniper warfare with the enemy, because both sides are hunters and prey of each other, they often follow the law similar to the "dark forest" - hitting others also means exposing themselves.
Sniper warfare is a comprehensive contest of eyes, hands, brains, and hearts:
Eyes – keen observation
Hands - Precise marksmanship
Brain – decisive judgment, flexible tactics
Heart – a strong will
Sniper of the US army
For the snipers of the US military in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea,
The original sniper battle was broken by the relatively balanced situation caused by the "Dark Forest" by the powerful fire support and defense supplement
But when the volunteer soldiers used the strength of one shot and one bullet and the wisdom of one move and one style to prove that "it is still unknown whose hand the deer died", and the hunter may eventually become the prey, the calm and confident US army also gradually disappeared with a smile and fell into the brink of collapse.
Sniper of the Volunteer Army
Weapons are for the weak
The huge disadvantage in terms of armament and logistical supplies made the heroic volunteer soldiers pay a terrible price.
Another blockbuster about the Korean War in the Spring Festival file, "Chosin Lake: Watergate Bridge", clearly expresses this point.
However, on the sniper battlefield, the Chinese soldiers who originally took "agricultural civilization" as the main body "turned" into "hunters", gave full play to the wisdom of various "peasants" on the battlefield, and made their own unique contributions to the history of world war.
Zhang Yimou's sniping
With the same period and the same theme of "Chosin Lake", the uniqueness of the "Guoshi" movie,
One is "small" and the other is "new".
We should see the big from the small and strive to show the small scenes and small scenes in the Korean battlefield.
Because it is small, it can be enough to explain a small battlefield in 96 minutes.
From the co-led female director Zhang Mo, to the old "rookie" Zhang Yu, who has just emerged in recent years, to a group of "newcomers" represented by Chen Yongsheng.
Liu Wenwu, the leader of the sniper fifth squad, and the soldiers of the fifth squad,
"Old Strategists" and "Old Translators",
Completed the inheritance from inside the play to outside the play.
The "spirit of the volunteer army" and the "spirit of the filmmakers" can be "passed on" through "Sniper".
The crazy maniac "Zhang Yu" finally caught fire this time, and I was very happy
Sniper of life
The strategies and tactics embodied in "Sniper" are thought-provoking
The tiger walks like a disease, and the eagle stands like a sleep- "Cai Gen Tan"
Slow Kung Fu - Thick accumulation, steady and steady
If there is no hard practice on weekdays, how can there be a gunnery on the battlefield like a god?
Quick Kung Fu - see a few and do, not all day
Keenly aware and proactive in creating opportunities, when it is time to strike.
In this marathon of life, both protracted regular warfare and quick-fix sniper warfare are needed.
If you can use your limited strategic resources at the most appropriate time, make full use of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, "your eyes should be fast, and your hands can keep up", you will be "overbearing".
In history and in the story, the figures of the volunteer soldiers and snipers gradually faded away,
But their voices, smiles, and their heroic stories not only teach you and me that we should always cherish and be grateful in the face of today's happy life.
It also teaches us how to use wisdom, optimism and perseverance to create extraordinary life legends in the face of difficult difficulties.