How long has it been since there have been no sports movies?
These two days, the surprise appeared -
《Chinese Table Tennis》
Looking at the poster, there is a dark energy in it.
Above the poster, there is the Swedish team, an old friend of the Chinese team, who can beat 24-year-old Marlene's "old tile" Waldner at the end of his career.
The head coach played by Deng Chao has his arms around him, his expression is serious, and the national table tennis players behind him all look up, with their backs to the Swedish team members with unlimited scenery, and their hearts are more energetic.
"Based on a true story", for the movie, these eight words are always full of charm, and about table tennis, about the national team, can always evoke the most fiery feelings of the Chinese.
The movie "Chinese Table Tennis" selects a period of national table tennis history that is not well known.
In today's eyes, the national table tennis in the world is a "big devil"-like existence, almost no opponents, proud of the crowd. But once, they also hovered in the trough. As national table tennis fans, we rejoiced at its peak and should also know what it experienced at its trough.
The four words of "disbanded on the spot" in the trailer make people feel shocked, and instantly return to the early 90s when the national table tennis struggled upwards and fell and climbed up.
Usually "adapting" real events, we will discuss the degree of reduction and authenticity of the film. "Chinese Table Tennis" in the project when the project, there are many doubts, today after watching the trailer, Tomato Jun's hanging heart is basically put down.
The three reasons are the foreshadowing of the possibility of "Chinese Table Tennis" exploding.
The first is restoration.
The so-called restoration is not a 1:1 reproduction, but a firm grasp of the spirit of the times, allowing you to travel through time and space in front of the screen, breathe with people of another era, and share a common destiny.
In this regard, "China Table Tennis" has done a very good job in terms of serving the road.
The dress and release of the team members are almost the same as the national table tennis team at that time, and what is more noticeable is the role of Deng Chao, from the perspective of the story direction of the trailer, he must play Cai Zhenhua, and his dress almost restores the Cai Zhenhua of that era.
Similarly, dim and old details like training venues:
As well as the restoration of the old opponent of national table tennis, the old friend of the Chinese, and the Waldner nicknamed "Old Tile" by every table tennis fan, it will make people have a strong sense of the times.
This strong restoration proves the sincerity of the film, and from this point of view, "Chinese Ping Pong" has become half.
The second is the rhythm.
The clip of the trailer basically presents a relatively complete story.
The fiasco in Gothenburg, the dissolution of the national team, was the reason for everything.d'.
In the eyes of most people, "competitive sports, cooking is the original sin", the results are not good, someone must be responsible, someone to replace.
Taking office, commitment, facing high-level pressure, facing the press of the media, facing the team members with insufficient confidence, and facing the doubts of the entire international community, this battle must not only be fought by Cai Zhenhua alone, but also by the entire national table tennis.
In the trailer, there was an outbreak of team clashes, and the glass of the home was smashed.
There is also the helplessness of throwing the racket on the table.
How decadent the front is, how hot the back is, watching the final Jedi counterattack, the previous suppression also has an emotional outlet.
Enjoyable!
Third, it is acting.
Deng Chao's acting skills needless to say, he has a very good set of roles, once lost weight and gained weight for "Shadow", and a death penalty play of "Burning Heart in the Sun" can be written into the Textbook of North Film.
A back shadow before the game, the action of helping the waist, is the embodiment of Cai Zhenhua's own waist injury, and it is also the embodiment of his difficult situation.
A look in the game is attractive enough, I believe that super brother will definitely have a good performance in the film.
In addition to Deng Chao, the other actors are quite good at acting, especially a tearful scene in the film, which makes people move and bitter.
At present, in terms of authenticity, story rhythm and acting skills, "Chinese Table Tennis" is completely excellent, and the explosion of this movie seems to be a matter of time.
Of course, these three explosive points also naturally triggered Tomato Jun's two expectations for the movie.
First of all, it is expected that the film's bottoming out from the late 80s to the early 90s of the national table tennis rebound, until the return of the king of the Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships in 1995, this history has a delicate and real and wonderful presentation.
History is often more exciting than movies, and audiences familiar with table tennis should know that after table tennis joined the Olympic program in 1988, national table tennis began to decline - to be precise, it was not the national table tennis that was going downhill, but the gods of all walks of life poured into the track.
At that time, the ambitious national table tennis wanted to win four gold medals in the Olympic Games, but in the end, the three seeded players of the men's singles, Jiang Jialiang, Chen Longcan and Xu Zengcai, broke down successively, and after losing to Sweden and Hungary, they missed the gold medal.
At the 1989 World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, sweden ushered in an outbreak, the low national table tennis was swept out 5:0, and the Swassling Cup that had been holding in his hand was also taken away.
This trophy is also mentioned in the interview of the trailer.
At the 1991 Chiba World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team set the worst record at that time, and the men's table tennis only ranked seventh in the world, which had never been done before.
Subsequently, coach Xu Shaofa left his post, Xi Ending left class, the team members alternated between new and old, and the Chinese table tennis completely fell into a trough.
In the face of loud doubts, Cai Zhenhua, who was paid a high salary in Italy, resolutely returned to China and was ordered to be in danger. Cai Zhenhua not only brought advanced technical and tactical concepts, but also European training methods, and selected a group of new talents with great potential.
Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui are his proud protégés, and the subsequent events should be known to everyone, in the 1995 Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships, at the doorstep, the national table tennis snow shame, against the wind, won the championship.
Since then, Chinese table tennis has completely stood up for supremacy, and although there have been small mistakes in the future, its status has never been shaken.
As a film about the history of Chinese table tennis, it is expected that "Chinese Table Tennis" can present such ups and downs in a variety of ways.
Secondly, it is expected that the film will show more details on the field.
Unlike watching real table tennis matches, movies have artistic treatment methods that can make the game more exciting, more dramatic, and more beautiful.
Audiences who like or dislike table tennis should enjoy the charm of table tennis in the theater, and this burden, of course, falls on the shoulders of "Chinese Table Tennis".
Competitive sports have a bloody charm. In the trailer, there are several shots on the field, watching the athletes sweat like rain, looking at the invincible Swedish table tennis players, and the atmosphere of the game will not come out.
Especially in the Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese team flipped against the wind, which made the audience across the country excited, and the process of the game was also full of ups and downs and drama, and the technical and tactical level reached the top of the international at that time.
In particular, Ma Wenge, a veteran of the World Table Tennis Championships at that time, Ding Song and Wang Tao, a chipper.
In the game, China vs. Sweden, in the case of the first two cities, was pulled by the old Wattle for two points and came to the fifth set of the decider.
In the final set, by the veteran Wang Tao against Person, the world war was on the verge of breaking out, Wang Tao ushered in a long-awaited outbreak, swept the opponent 2:0, and won back the men's team championship for the Chinese team after a 6-year absence.
After the game, Wang Tao threw away his racket and lay heavily on the floor, and the long-suppressed players roared and celebrated the long-lost victory.
I look forward to "China Table Tennis" to shoot these details, such passion, and the joy and achievement of rushing from the trough to the top again.
These are what the fans and the audience are really looking forward to.
However, movies that are generally adapted from real events will usher in a variety of "interpretations" from the audience before they are released. What Tomato Jun can predict is that some "interpretations" must be beyond the scope of the film and rise to a height that a movie should not bear.
Cinema is not a documentary, and there is no obligation or responsibility for a completely true event.
But some viewers, after just watching the materials and trailers, smeared and brushed bad reviews of "China Ping Pong", which is unfair to the movie and I can't stand it.
For example, some viewers, just by virtue of a look in the trailer, concluded that the portrayal of Lao Wa was "arrogant", and launched the movie as "good and evil are not separated".
The shaping of the characters in the film is essentially for the characters to be more vivid and more vivid, and it is meaningless to completely benchmark the athletes in reality.
Moreover, the eye is a thing, a lot of things are mental evidence, you say that this is "arrogance", then why not the competitive state? Think about Liu Guoliang's words to Xu Xin, "Don't let them live", on the field, if you don't have a little killing, what athlete?
Moreover, in the case of not seeing the finished film, it is not objective to infer that the film is "good and evil are not opposed" by relying on one or two eyes.
For another example, some viewers said that the movie schedule will overlap with the World Table Tennis Championships at the end of the month, and there are competitions who still watch movies.
This logic is also completely inconsistent, why can't sports and movies exist at the same time? Watching movies at night and watching games during the day doesn't conflict.
In addition, when will "China Table Tennis" be released, I don't know, even the filmmakers and theaters don't know, netizens know?
Others say it's a parody of "Win the Championship."
There are too many films on the theme of sports competition, in addition to the domestic "Win the Championship", there is also "Wrestling Daddy" about wrestling, "Weakness" about rugby, "Rocky" about boxing, "Coach Carter" about basketball, "One Ball Fame" about football, "Breaking Bad Munich" about competition...
With so many movies, who imitates whom?
What's even more bizarre is that some people say that the slogan of the movie is "weird".
As long as there is a little sports knowledge, you know that the table tennis game is mainly on the table, and it will land in the case of catching it. "The ball does not land, never give up" does not mean that as long as you have not lost, you will not be discouraged?
This is not only in line with the story of the film, but also with the spirit of sportsmanship, I don't know what the slogan itself has to spray.
Of course, there are also those who say "embarrassing" after watching the trailer, there are also those who say that they don't look bad, and there is also a great malice towards the actor, because Deng Chao refused...
For all reasons, they are not objective.
It's too early to review a film and discuss it when the first trailer is released. When not seeing the finished film, Tomato Jun naturally hopes that everyone will remain rational and careful to punch the face.
For example, before the release of "The Wandering Earth", there were countless viewers who complained that it was a "bad film with money", brushing a star, and after the release, it not only opened the door of Chinese science fiction, but also set a benchmark for domestic science fiction.
Another example is "Hello, Li Huanying", before the release of the film, many viewers were not optimistic about Jia Ling's directing of the film, and some people said that she "adapted the sketch, sensational circle money", but after the release, the national audience was moved by the sincere mother-daughter emotions of the film, and also received 5.4 billion box office, which can be described as a counterattack to hit the face.
Don't talk too much, until the movie is released, we should be cautious and expectant.
Although "China Table Tennis" has released a trailer and materials, it is not yet known about the schedule. For this new film, Tomato Jun is very optimistic.
As the audience member said, there is no general who always wins, there is only the spirit of continuous struggle and the perseverance of never giving up.
While playing a role in popular science, "Chinese Table Tennis" may also create a record that belongs only to it!
Therefore, out of the water to see two legs of mud, better, we wait to see it!
(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Board: Ichiichi)