Text | Ling Hu Boguang
Director Liu Xiaoshi, written by Gui Guan and Liu Xiaoshi, starring Wang Yibo, Hu Jun, Yu Shi, Zhou Dongyu, etc. "The King of the Long Sky", was released on April 28, as of the publication of this post has been released for 5 days, the box office has also exceeded 400 million, and the final prediction will exceed 700 million, not bad but still a pity.
The film is now somewhat controversial in word of mouth, but the quality of this movie is still quite good.
The movie is tense and stimulated from the first second, dare not breathe, very compact. Not preachy at all, not serious at all. Each character is flesh and blood, very life-like, the first half of the laugh is very natural, the second half of the cry well. Several aerial dangers make people really sweat.
Most importantly, after watching this movie, ordinary audiences learned about the profession of test pilots, it is said that there are only 100 test pilots on active duty in the mainland, and suddenly feel that their work is no matter how difficult and tired they are, compared with them. They are professions that are constantly fighting the Grim Reaper, which is too great.
At the same time, there is also a certain understanding of Chinese fighters, from J10 to 16.20, generations of our own fighters flutter their wings, roar in the sky, burst and explode, and the audience's adrenaline soars, so that the excellent work results can be better.
Mismatched battles and no love scenes? These points of "King of the Long Sky" have been misunderstood
Since the movie is still being released here, there are no spoilers, and now because of the relationship between the Internet and short videos, all kinds of information dissemination is becoming more and more convenient, word-of-mouth fermentation is easy to spread, but rumors generated for various reasons are also easy to spread. Many viewers will stereotype the work after watching short videos that are not facts.
But in fact, the situation is likely to not be like that, for example, there are now several false characterizations of "King of the Long Sky" on the Internet.
First, many people complain that they want to see the story of the water tester and do not want to see falling in love.
In fact, in this movie, the male protagonist Lei Yu (played by Wang Yibo) and the female protagonist Shen Natural (played by Zhou Dongyu), the two just have a good impression of each other, and the largest shot is that the two look at each other and laugh, where is there any love.
Many viewers think that they are really in love like Tom in "Top Gun", and finally hug the beauty back, in fact, there is no one in this movie, and even according to the current social scale, the two are not even in love.
The second is that the actor of this film, Wang Yibo, has his own traffic, and now he naturally brings his own complaints.
In fact, many viewers are too prejudiced against Wang Yibo. His performance in the film is certainly not extraordinary, but it is still very in place, and the film shows through him a spiritual outlook of a pre-modern soldier different from the current era, reminding me of the unsung heroes of the past era.
In addition, Wang Yibo also showed a unique temperament that is also ancient and modern, both the courage of test pilots and the professional skills of a new generation of test pilots, this role shaping is still very mature, and there is a rare temperament of test pilots in the new era, this image is still standing.
Finally, there is whether the test pilots, Chinese fighters and some of the storyline are professional.
It can be said that any film and television drama in the performance of an industry is to be artistic, it is impossible to be completely professional. I think it is quite difficult to better combine military content and artistic expression and present it to the audience.
This movie has changed a lot of shots according to the feedback of netizens, it can be seen that the film side also wants to improve, but it does not meet the expectations of many professional audiences. But it is only a professional audience, and for ordinary audiences, there is not much problem.
For example, the anti-tail spin part may be to highlight the importance of compound talents, because this meaning is also expressed in the film. There is no content of soldiers competing for fame and fortune in the film, some are competition and cooperation, and the military-themed dramas we usually watch have this kind of plot, competition, competition, and comrades who can deliver life.
Most of the audience watch the movie is cool, good-looking, at least I personally watch quite shocking, there are sacrifices and tears, there are successes and sweat, military knowledge is hard or not hard can not be seen, anyway, the motherland all kinds of planes are quite handsome, most of the people are estimated to be unable to see it.
The first time I learned about the group of test pilots, I really felt the greatness of test pilots, then the meaning of this film was achieved.
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The significance behind this movie being released is also extraordinary. Before looking, the impression of the military came from the grand military parades in previous years, the diplomatic rhetoric of constant friction, military exercises in recent years, and so on.
I know that the J-20 installation means that China's fighter technology has broken through the international technological blockade, and since then the Chinese Air Force has also had its own stealth aircraft.
Although I knew that there would be a test before any aircraft could be put into production, I didn't know that this test was a fight for human life, let alone that this group of fighters who dared to fly in the sky of the test plane was called test pilots.
I thought the movie would be one air battle after another with big planes firing in the air, with a heroic figure with a group of heroes defending China's airspace. Admittedly, the film begins with an eye-bombing air battle that feels exaggerated when the glass breaks in the cabin, but this is not a film of foreign battles, and China has never admired individual heroism.
This is a film with Chinese expression from beginning to end, whether it is emotions, behavior, character growth lines, or dense laughter in the early stage, Lei Yu's growth line is also very natural, and by the end he has completed his transformation, but I looked back at the plot and found that his growth was actually layered.
The first thing they were told when the new test pilots took the class was that the test pilots were taking their lives to protect the data. At the beginning, Lei Yu did not take this sentence to heart, so for the first time, he lost his data and became the only test pilot in the entire base who lost data.
But the second time he faced danger, there was a close-up, that is, he put the data into his pocket, and carefully zipped it, and was even sent to the operating room at the end, holding the blood-stained data in his hand, echoing before and after, which well reflects the growth of the character.
In the film, there are many more such foreshadowed details, the front and back echoes of the red head rope, the front and back of the pocket watch, the bones and wooden carved remains that cannot be dug up, and the face of Zhang Ting that Lei Yu saw when he first entered the test flight base and was gradually flooded by yellow sand... Zhang Yuzhen lifted the national flag and saw the carved body of the wood.
I think this is a point where emotions explode and then erupt again, who would have thought that most of the people buried under the tombstones of the martyrs' mausoleum were clothed tombs?
This movie also has a very important plot, that is, the importance of its own engine, that is, the problem of "heart disease" that has always been said in the movie.
It is the catch-up of China's aviation from faltering to Western science and technology, and the efforts of countless Chinese aviation scientific research workers. He is also an excellent hero of the Chinese sons and daughters who bravely test flights, and constantly challenges the limits with mortal flesh and blood.
It is not denied that the pure artistic expression angle, the rich means that can be extended and the detailed connotation, a certain country's filmmakers are still F14 playing Su 27, out of pure logic has a strong first enemy to find that four generations of fat electricity is impossible?
From the display of J-10, J-15, J-16 to J-20, there is also the display of the "heart".
Why are these not the heroic genealogy of the Chinese Air Force and aviation personnel silently dedicated? It is a generation of scientific and technological workers, just like Mr. Huang Lingyi, the mother of the mussel piece who went to the fairy a while ago, said: One day, I will crawl on the ground and wipe the shame on the motherland little by little!
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The contemporary sky is peaceful, and military fans discussed the J-8 and F22 over and over again in the forum, just like Liu Cixin's "Full Band Blocking Interference" and "Ball Lightning", which can only let the military sacrifice themselves and win space for our side.
The cultural front is like dust, you can't clean up the dust without occupying nature, when a group of performers of the new era harnesses the war eagle eagle of the new era of the motherland to hit the long sky, and always moves forward in the form of cultural film and television works, why is it judged as a bad film in two words?
If purely artistic, please point out where artistry rots?
The cultural position, carrying forward the past and the future, there are too many eight or nine o'clock in the morning sun to place high hopes on the land under the feet and this nation, just as self-respect and self-improvement, fighters, eagles, people's hero test pilots, and countless soldiers of the Republic jointly defend the land under this sky.