This year's May 1st is almost the only one of "The King of the Long Sky".
Pre-sales exceeded 100 million, breaking the record of "Your Wedding", becoming the pre-sale box office champion of May 1st in the past five years, and the box office on the first day of release was also the leader, so what is the quality of "King of the Long Sky"?
"King of the Long Sky" opens with setting the tone for the film, "What was lost before, our generation will take it back." ”
The ending part, echoing the beginning, the enemy plane came to invade again, shouting that they could come whenever they wanted, and finally we beat them to ashes and rushed with their heads in their hands.
And this last part also feasted our eyes, bringing us a variety of air combat feasts, flight performances of various fighters, all kinds of fighters appeared, and various flying skills were frequently staged.
In fact, aviation-themed movies like "King of the Long Sky" are audio-visual at first glance, and as long as the audio-visual is shocking enough, the movie is half the success.
Audio-visual is mainly the three aspects of picture, sound and color, the picture makes people immersed in it, sound can mobilize emotions, and color can increase the viewing and aesthetics of the film.
On the screen, "King of the Long Sky" highlights the grandeur and protection.
In the movie, there are not only shots flying over the vast land, but also beautiful rivers, majestic snowy mountains, and vast oceans, and the king of the long sky above the clouds is to make these great mountains and rivers peaceful and peaceful.
This is a large composition, far-reaching, on the small picture, the close-up of the aircraft pushing and pulling when it encounters danger, the close-up of the nine dead lives of the test pilot, highlighting the fearless spirit of the unsung hero who sacrifices his life and forgets death in detail.
Matching the picture is the scene scheduling, and although there are some flaws in the technique of several test flight scenes and the scene scheduling of the air battle at the end, the flaws are not hidden.
Like the air battle at the end of the film, at the beginning of the camera moving left and right, the situation in the sky is unobstructed, and then a close-up, the tension is imminent, and the battle is about to break out.
Then with the help of different changes in the scene, first the close-up and then the panorama, and then pull a long-range view, how the effect of combining special effects and real machines is a cool word, and also makes the composition of the last shot full of beauty.
There are also silky and smooth fast editing, several short shots spliced into one picture, so that the audience is overwhelmed, adrenaline has been in a state of soaring, can not stop at all.
In addition, there are many domestic films that do not pay much attention to another performance dimension of the film, sound, which can make qualitative changes in film aesthetics and play a icing on the cake.
Different from the traditional film narrative method, sound also has the function of narrative, through the gradual progress of the soundtrack, promote the development of the plot, express the arc of the characters, and help the audience understand the film.
For example, the roar of tearing the long sky, the explosion that crashed to the ground, the sonic boom across the sea, and the soundtrack at different stages in "King of the Long Sky" enhance the excitement and tension of the movie.
This kind of picture and sound complement each other, allowing "King of the Long Sky" to go one step further in the exploration of domestic film genres.
After all, no matter what time the film is, it must pay attention to technique and art, if it is blindly aesthetic, it will become empty and tasteless, and if it has been entertaining, it will inevitably be eliminated.
Once the audiovisual is done, the next step is the text design.
It is more difficult to shoot aviation themes in peacetime, but "King of the Long Sky" is smarter.
The theme of test pilots was chosen, so that there is both a real story to rely on, and impactful audio-visual enjoyment, killing two birds with one stone.
But how to design the script structure is a science, and the narrative method of "King of the Long Sky" does not deliberately pursue the bells and whistles of multi-linear narrative.
Strive to make it interesting and easy for the audience to watch, so that the audience can experience the hearty pleasure and undistracted relaxation of the theater.
Therefore, the traditional method of classicism is adopted, flexibly using the structure of the beginning, development, climax, ending and epilogue of the five-act play, and then using the cumulative narrative to let the audience's emotions always be mobilized by the rhythm of the film.
Lei Yu and Deng Fang, the changes in the two of them promote the development of the story, both of them are the proud sons of heaven, full of competition and disbelief between each other, which is accompanied by the small and the large, Lei Yu personal and aviation career growth.
But the realistic environment is not all smooth sailing, contradictions and dilemmas are linked together.
Just when the audience thinks the problem is about to be solved, another bigger problem ensues, until finally the emotions explode completely.
Just like peeling an onion, tears are shed every time you peel a layer, so that the audience's mood is the same as the test flight in the movie, ups and downs, hearts surging, and clapping.
In the last half hour, compared with the previous narrative, the pace of the film has accelerated significantly.
Zhang Ting completed the task of passing on the gang, Lei Yu and Deng Fang's thoughts and behaviors completed the transformation, and with the air battle at the end of the film and the final Easter egg, empathy followed.
The audience will be moved by the raised eyebrows, cry for the sky, and then be emotional at the moment of watching the movie, cheer for the film, even if they come back to their senses later, there will be a refreshing emotion.
This is because the three full characters of Zhang Ting, Lei Yu and Deng Fang make the script structure of "King of the Long Sky" extremely exciting, and every turn hits the audience's heart, successfully retaining the audience and achieving the cumulative narrative of the film.
At the same time, in terms of character setting and emotional rendering, "King of the Long Sky" pays attention to two words, the real "truth" and the true "love".
Lei Yu and Shen Tian's emotional scene, Lei Yu's dialogue with his parents, filmed very restrained, without noisy, but also played a role in drawing the finishing touch.
The feelings on the main line, Zhang Ting's well-intentioned "deception", when encountering special circumstances, said that he was parachuting at the same time, in fact, it was to let Lei Yu skydive without psychological burden to ensure his safety.
Test pilots "compete" with each other, in order to test the most dangerous environment, someone must dare to be the first, Lei Yu, Deng Fang, Gao Yingjun and others each compete for the lead.
A simple sentence and an action, the audience's tears will naturally come down, this is the artistic setting, this design is very natural, the audience is easy to accept.
In order to make this setting more tense, Fubixing is used in the method of expression.
Based on the flat and straightforward story, the sonic boom provocation of the enemy's fourth-generation aircraft is used as an analogy, and the inheritance of Zhang Ting's captain, Zhang Ting, Lei Yu, and Zhang Ting's son is used to cause the content of the singing.
In this way, the story is vivid, the characters are distinct, which increases the charm of the plot and the appeal of the image, which makes "King of the Long Sky" can afford a "good" word.
This "good" is also reflected in the memorable two and a half sentences in "King of the Long Sky".
The first is "I have seen the king of Yan, we all have three lives", the second is "the motherland will eventually remember those who have dedicated to the motherland, and the motherland will eventually remember those who choose the motherland", and the third is "I can no longer return, please tell my parents, wife, son, right..."
These lines are not made up out of thin air, but from real events and real heroes, as well as the test flight heroes memorial cemetery, their non-abandonment, do not give up to create the most beautiful painting in the world, not famous masterpieces, are the loveliest people like them.
On October 1, 1949, our plane had to fly twice, and on April 1, 2001, we lost the hero Wang Wei, 81192.
On April 28, 2023, we have the king of the long sky, and the past has finally seen the light, and the hopes of generations have soared to 90,000 li, and they have listened to the dragon chanting and fearing the nine skies.
What was lost before, this generation has taken it back, we don't do anyone's Top Gun, only be our own king of the long sky, perhaps, the next "King of the Long Sky" story protagonist is a certain audience now.