In recent years, the entire film industry has been sluggish, and the box office of this year's National Day file is even worse than in 2015.
Data show that after the National Day holiday in 2022, the national film box office revenue was 1.496 billion yuan, a year-on-year drop of 65.84%, only 30% of the box office of the National Day in 2019. This year's entire National Day file is relatively good at the box office of "Ten Thousand Miles Home", but compared with previous years, the results are still not ideal.
The results of theater movies are not good, but a low-cost online movie has killed a number of blockbusters in seconds, becoming a dark horse in the National Day file and winning unanimous praise inside and outside the industry. It is "Special Hero Huang Jiguang"!
A few days ago was the 70th anniversary of Huang Jiguang's heroic sacrifice, and we rely on the film to commemorate and pay tribute together.
Why does such a "small movie" where the actor is not famous, the director is not famous, and even the theater line does not make the audience burst into tears?
Be faithful to the facts, restore the details
"Superhero Huang Jiguang" reflects the history of revolutionary hero Huang Jiguang blocking a machine gun with his chest to open up a road for the troops during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
As a war history drama during the National Day period, the most important point is "truth", which is based on facts, does not exaggerate or whitewash, and transports this history to the screen as realistically as possible.
The very restored obedience in the film is praised even by professional researchers.
The control of details in the film is also extreme. Whether it was picking up a gun and checking the bullets first, or the dust falling from the shells, they all portrayed the war scene at that time as much as possible.
The narrative is dominant, and the characters are full
Although this is a war film, its portrayal of war scenes is far less shocking than a big-budget movie like "Changjin Lake", there is no shocking explosion scene, and there is no blood-boiling huge battle scene, it focuses on narrative.
Starting from Huang Jiguang when he was young, to the opportunity for him to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, to the real life scenes since he joined the army, and finally to the magnificent deeds of blocking machine guns with his body, the short and great life of the hero Huang Jiguang was completely recounted.
In the end, the magnificent scene of blocking the gun with his body is not even too rendered, there is no repeated blessing in slow motion, there is no continuous advancement of the picture freeze, but the picture turns, so that Huang Jiguang's mother finally "sees" her child.
The moment the rough hand touched the cheek, "Son, does it hurt...", directly improves the depth of this film, not the tough touch of the rotten street, from the "mother-son love" flows out of the grandeur of the war, naturally touching people's hearts.
The acting is superb and the lines are solid
This film does not use famous traffic stars, and there are not even a few old drama bones, but each of these actors has a solid foundation.
This is a limitation of small costs, and it is also an opportunity for small movies.
It is precisely these unknown actors who contributed such a real film, which will not have an impact on the inherent impression of the actor himself, so that the audience can naturally enter the film and naturally believe that actor Liu Jiayi is Huang Jiguang himself at this moment.
It just so happens that Liu Jiayi is also 21 years old this year, and the overall image is also in line with the image of young revolutionary comrades in the 70s, as if he has crossed the limitation of time and space, and is really experiencing this story.
Not only Liu Jiayi, but also the acting skills of other actors are also very online, and the line skills are also very good, and there will be no feeling of separation.
The success of this film is not accidental, and all of the above seriousness is an inevitable condition for the success of this film.
Hats off again to all the grand heroes.