Tips: Lots of spoilers included.
On September 30, the annual National Day file was officially opened.
On the evening of September 29, before that, "The Return of a Thousand Miles" opened the advance screening, and fortunately, I grabbed the most ideal position, one step ahead of everyone, and watched this movie.
When the Easter egg was released, after the nervous mood relaxed with the plot, I had a very definite idea: I want two brushes, and I want IMAX.
Because there are too many wonderful moments to savor,
I believe that friends who have seen the movie must have this feeling.
The box office of "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming" seems to also indicate this, when the National Day box office exceeded 100 million, the box office of "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming" has reached 54.36 million, accounting for half of the total box office.
What's so good about "The Way Back"?
Why does it suppress the other 6 movies in the National Day file, and is predicted by many media to exceed 2 billion at the box office.
Why did I have the urge to brush twice?
Today, Asiba will talk about this "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming" as a "person who has come over".
01 Really made with heart
As a film based on the real evacuation of overseas Chinese, director Rao Xiaozhi and his team have suffered hardships.
Before this, Rao Xiaozhi's impression of diplomats only stayed at the stage of being a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his spirit was upright.
After contacting the security personnel, they suddenly realized that they are also ordinary people with flesh and blood, and they also have their own helplessness, because of their different duties, they must abandon their families and go to the battlefield.
Moreover, there are many foreign ministry consular security staff who will leave a suicide note before carrying out their tasks.
After the director team studied a lot of reportage on the evacuation, Rao Xiaozhi led the team to make many revisions in many details.
Solved the problem of the script, the most let director Rao Xiaozhi scratch his head the problem comes,
How to shoot at home so that the audience can believe that this is a story that happened abroad?
In this way, the scenery is particularly important.
After careful selection, the director team decided to set up the location on the border of Inner Mongolia, where there are deserts, mines, and red lakes, which can be done in a fake way.
In order to ensure the shooting cycle, the location must be completed by the end of 2021.
The local winter is particularly cold, and the construction of a border checkpoint alone has encountered many problems.
The environment is too cold and the soil is frozen to death, and the foundation cannot be beaten; And cement does not take long to freeze, only with hot water and cement...
The interior scene was selected in Qingdao Oriental Film Capital, and the art setting group mobilized more than 1,000 people to build an African town 1 to 1.
More than seventy African houses, a thousand people spent four months,
When coconut and palm trees were brought in from abroad, the local African performers were stupid, thinking that they had returned home when they woke up.
Because the setting of this African town in "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming" is too good, Guo Fan, the director of "The Wandering Earth 2" who was also shooting in Qingdao Oriental Film Capital, has repeatedly wanted to come here to shoot.
At the same time, as the supervising producer of "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming", he can still be the master of this matter.
Script, production intentions,
Director Rao Xiaozhi has directed "The Unknown Generation", "Assassination of a Novelist", "Crowds",
Guo Fan, the director of "The Wandering Earth", is a supervising producer.
Add Zhang Yi, Wang Junkai, Yin Tao and other casts,
In fact, "The Return of the Miles" has been on the four-fold insurance.
02 The plot is tense, no nonsense
In "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming", the three main actors essentially determine the direction of the plot.
Zong Dawei:
As the first secretary of the consular protection center, his feelings were particularly complicated when he came to Numia to evacuate the overseas Chinese, because at this time his wife Chen Yue was pregnant and about to give birth in October.
The couple had conceived a child before, but unfortunately miscarried Zong Dawei while performing other evacuation tasks, so the arrival of the second baby, the two were very concerned.
But there is no way, the country and the people need, Zong Dawei must be able to get it, and he is willing to go up.
Before going abroad, Zong Dawei had promised Chen Yue to return to China before she gave birth, but he did not expect that this time his work in Numia was not easier than before.
He was supposed to take the last flight back to China, but he gave up his last seat to his compatriots in Taiwan, stayed in Numia himself, and returned to the embassy with his old friend Zhang Ning (Zhang Zixian) and Cheng Lang (Wang Junkai), a newcomer to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Zhang Ning was very reliable in his work, and soon contacted Zong Dawei to ensure that he returned to China on time to take care of his daughter-in-law.
However, that night, Zhang Ning was mistakenly returned to the west by the rebels' random guns.
Zhang Ning left behind a arranged evacuation mission, as well as a plan to wait for his wife and daughter at the Numiya border.
As a brother, Zong Dawei had to take on the task of evacuating overseas Chinese and escorting his brother's wife and daughter back to China safely, and there was no time to consider his wife and children in his belly who were far away in Beijing.
This evacuation mission is to take the waterway, the destination is the Numia border, where Zhang Ning's wife and daughter are also waiting.
But this abacus was played by Zhang Ning, and the approval officer at the border was his college friend, arranging for dozens of Chinese to leave the country, that is a matter of one sentence.
But Zong Dawei was embarrassed, first of all, most of the passports of these Chinese people were stolen, and they could not go through the normal exit procedures; Second, he did not know the senior border officials in charge of approvals.
In order to make the senior officials nod, Zong Dawei did everything in his power to make all kinds of offerings to please him, taking the university anecdotes he heard from Zhang Ning and sharing them with the senior officials, pretending that the two were alumni.
He even pretended to be Xuan Xuan and said that the local officials had staged a coup d'état to protect the approval officer from jumping out of the window to escape.
It's just that these tricks have been recognized one by one,
In desperation, Zong Dawei roared and said the sentence in the trailer: You have your bottom line, but my bottom line is to send our people out, is there anything wrong with this?
Zong Dawei's heart-wrenching words directly hit the depths of the approval officer's soul, which allowed hundreds of Chinese who did not have visas and could not prove that they were Chinese to leave the country.
The task of evacuating overseas Chinese was successfully completed, but the wife and children of the good brother Zhang Ning were not at the border, and everyone advised Zong Dawei that no one could do anything about this situation.
At this time, returning to the main city to find them is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, and the shells in the main city are flying randomly, and it is no different from sending them to death.
Under consideration, reason triumphed over sensibility, and Zong Dawei chose to go abroad and take a bus, ready to return to China to take care of his wife and have children.
When he learned that the rebels in the main city began to kill people when they saw people, Zong Dawei entered the territory of Numia again.
This time it was still reason that triumphed over sensibility, because if he did not go back, the mother and daughter would have a great chance of not surviving.
In the absence of communication facilities, it is particularly difficult to find two people from a city,
Moreover, there are many checkpoints and rebels in the main city, and sometimes when you get out of the car and say a word, the two sides will fight.
During this period, Zong Dawei and his party almost died in the gunfire of bullets, fortunately, after they woke up from a coma, they found an abandoned factory building from the mahjong necklaces on several children.
Here, Zhang Ning's daughter-in-law Bai Zhen (Yin Tao) and daughter are found.
In addition, there were more than a hundred Chinese people, who were workers under Zhang Ning's hands, who were managed by Bai Zhen in an orderly manner and waiting for rescue.
Withdrawing from the main war-torn city to a safe area is too difficult without transportation.
More than a hundred people had to lean on, planning food and water, and avoiding the rebels who would clash at any time.
Over time, there are always people who come out with moths, such as Liu Minghui, played by Wang Xun, which also lays the groundwork for Zong Dawei and Bai Zhen to be captured by the rebels.
One of the most reflective of Zhang Yi's acting skills in the whole film is the few minutes of confrontation with the commander of the rebel railway brigade.
Personally, I think the most classic line is: If you kill us, my country will make you pay for your blood debt!
The most test of Zhang Yi's acting skills is the part where he is forced to gamble on guns by rebel investment.
Although Zong Dawei has experienced the evacuation of earthquakes, coups, and plagues, he faces the threat of death, and as a flesh and blood person, he will also be timid and afraid of death.
But if you don't gamble, a friend will die, and as soon as the gun is fired, whether he is dead or alive, the friend will live.
Even with only one bullet in the revolver, his survival rate is 80%.
I want to save my friend, but I am very hesitant, my daughter-in-law is still unborn at home, such a complicated mood, it needs to be interpreted in a few seconds, Zhang Yi did it.
And this is just an appetizer, more god's acting skills are still to come, I think it can be completely comparable to Deng Chao's acting skills of being euthanized in "The Burning Heart of the Sun".
At the end of the film, more than a hundred people were safely escorted back to the motherland, but halfway out of the border, the commander of the rebel railway brigade came with his younger brother.
Here, Zong Dawei was once again threatened with his life in order to save Zhang Ning and Bai Ting's daughter.
This must be seen in the theater, and the plot of continuous reversal, coupled with Zhang Yi's film emperor-level acting skills, is the most gripping scene in the whole film.
Cheng Lang:
In order to set the plot more reasonably, many movies will have a decent role to make trouble, and Cheng Lang, played by Wang Junkai, has played a role in changing the direction of the plot.
As a newcomer to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cheng Lang was sent to Numia to assist Zong Dawei in evacuating the overseas Chinese.
This man has a characteristic that is not a shortcoming, his work style is upright, he is a tendon, and he has not been spurred by society at a young age, so he scoffs at some of the practices of Zong Dawei when he carries out his tasks.
When the embassy issued a temporary evacuation mission, Cheng Lang took the initiative to sign up, and it can also be seen from here that he has a strong sense of responsibility.
Originally, he and Zhang Ning were on a mission to evacuate overseas Chinese, and after Zhang Ning's unfortunate death, he became Zong Dawei's assistant.
As an assistant, Cheng Lang is almost the presence of soy sauce in the first half of the movie, although there are many shots, but there are no lines.
His highlight moments focus mainly on finding Bai Zhen.
After finding Bai Zhen and hundreds of workers, Zong Dawei's first thought was how to take his compatriots out of the main battlefield, and where to withdraw was also a problem.
After considering the situation, Zong Dawei plans to take his compatriots to the Dilat oil refinery dozens of kilometers away, because this is a treasure in the eyes of the rebels and government forces, and there will be no war.
In order to unify the action and not discourage everyone's enthusiasm, Zong Dawei did not tell everyone that "the embassy cannot be contacted, and the refinery does not necessarily have rescue".
Instead, he hid it from everyone and said that there would be an embassy there.
He stubbornly believes that he must tell everyone the real situation, otherwise he is deceiving people.
Therefore, from the time of evacuation, Cheng Lang stood against Zong Dawei, and the two often argued about this matter.
Finally, a few days later, Cheng Lang could not hold back, and the two men's negotiations happened to be overheard by Liu Minghui (Wang Xun).
Liu Minghui is a person who has a heart to return to China, he has always believed that the embassy will pick them up at the refinery to take them to the border to return to China.
And this news was a thunderbolt for Liu Minghui, so he silently escaped with a few "like-minded" workers.
As a diplomat, Zong Dawei had the responsibility and obligation to chase Liu Minghui back, so he and Cheng Langbing split up and agreed to meet at the refinery.
This also led to an accident on the way to find Liu Minghui by Zong Dawei, and staged a film emperor-level acting skill.
In the final border scene, Cheng Lang also relied on his own wit to save Zong Dawei's life.
Bai Zhen:
In contrast, the role of Bai Zhen played by Yin Tao is not too important, and the existence of Bai Zhen is more to connect several key nodes.
When Bai Ting heard that her husband Zhang Ning had died, her performance was not as broken as she thought, but after a short period of sadness, she strongly joined the evacuation work.
03 The film is realistic, admire the dare to shoot
Dead bodies hanged, civilians whose legs had been blown apart and their flesh and blood blurred, babies whose parents had just died crying on the road,
Like similar films, "A Thousand Miles Back" shows us the cruelty of war, which brings more intense sensory stimulation to the audience on the big screen.
At the beginning of the movie, Zong Dawei and his party drove into the city, and as soon as the Chinese passport was lit, the government army opened the floodgates to let go, which also reflected the importance of the diplomacy and strength of major powers.
The lens is elongated, and several corpses that are hung not far away make this red passport particularly precious.
After Zong Dawei and the others were captured by the rebel brigade commander, Zong Dawei said: "If you kill us, my country will make you pay your blood debts!" "Shocked the rebel brigade commander,
This shows the strength of the motherland.
As a film with the theme of evacuation action, "The Return of a Thousand Miles" has many different places and is more realistic than similar movies.
First, sometimes Chinese passports are not omnipotent:
After entering the Numia war zone, Cheng Lang has been holding a camera to record the suffering of people on the street, and his behavior has also angered the government army, so the whole car is asked to get off by the soldiers with guns.
When Zong Dawei and others got off the bus, they showed their Chinese passports for the first time, indicating that they were Chinese and hoped for accommodation.
However, Cheng Lang's camera was still confiscated by officials, and several people also had to face controlled investigations, and the officials who were in charge were corrupt, and Zong Dawei solved the matter with hundreds of pieces.
Second, sometimes you can't solve everything by saying that you are Chinese:
During the evacuation of Zong Dawei and Cheng Lang, they were attacked by rebels.
This scene reminds me of the picture in "Wolf Warrior", Wu Jing raised the national flag, which could cease the fire in the war zone and let Wu Jing pass by a car.
But the same problem, "The Return of a Thousand Miles" is not so idealized,
When Zong Dawei took the horn to show his identity at the first time: We are Chinese civilians! Time.
The picture is given to the rebel leader, who tells his men: Don't shoot, they are civilians.
Third, don't use the routine of bad sensationalism:
After Zong Dawei and his party escaped from the rebels' nest, they were finally reunited with the countrymen led by Cheng Lang.
Bai Ting's daughter finally looked forward to returning to her mother, and ran straight to her mother with a tired body.
The daughter who was thinking about the night ran towards herself, and Bai Zhen also walked quickly, at this time the camera pulled away.
Just as I was about to shed the tears that had been brewed, the director did not give the mother and daughter a close-up, saying tear-jerking words such as "Mommy I thought you would never come back."
04 Wang Junkai put down the burden of idols, and Zhang Yiyin Tao created the first time
Zhang Yi's acting skills have not unexpectedly supported the whole film, of course, the wonderful performances of Yin Tao, Li Xuejian, Cheng Taishen, Zhang Zixian, Wang Xun and others have also improved the quality of the entire film.
What surprised me the most was Wang Junkai's professionalism, as a graduate of the class of 2017 of Beiying, he did not shame his alma mater.
In April this year, Wang Junkai's web drama "The Gate of Rebirth" partnered with Zhang Yi was released, and not long ago, "Broken Bridge" starring Fan Wei and Ma Sichun made many people have a new understanding of this newcomer actor.
In "Ten Thousand Miles Homecoming", Wang Junkai directly unloaded the burden of idols, in a scene after being shot unconscious, you can clearly see his nose hairs, if the movie theater can press the pause button, I estimate that even a few can count.
This also shows that Wang Junkai has made up his mind to go PK with team member Yi Qianxi.
After all, from now on, the two will have the same play path, and there will definitely be some friction in resources in the future.
Zhang Yi and Yin Tao's acting skills believe that needless to say, everyone also recognizes,
Since the completion of the "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" cooperation in 2017, this is the first time that the two have collaborated on the big screen after 5 years.
Zhang Yi's god-level acting skills played a crucial role in the film criticism at the end, and Yin Tao's pale face and frightened expression also sublimated the whole scene.
And how did they meet the embassy at the refinery?
How did they take more than 100 Chinese people, such as the old, weak, sick and disabled, for 13 days?
Why did Zong Dawei, played by Zhang Yi, and Bai Ting, played by Yin Tao, be captured by the rebels, and how did they escape?
Is it really that easy for the last people to leave the country?
Did Zong Dawei's daughter-in-law give birth smoothly?
What really happened during this period?
This is a film worthy of two brushes, director Rao Xiaozhi dares to shoot the most realistic things, do not force tears, everything is realistic first, too long has not been released such a movie.
Combined with the heartfelt interpretation of Zhang Yi, Yin Tao, Wang Xun and others, the audience never jumped out of the plot and returned to the cinema hall in the whole scene.
In the past, this is a movie without urine points throughout the whole process.