The box office of "Chosin Lake" has rushed to 3.6 billion.
This film that carries the entire National Day file and reactivates the entire film market, giving the audience an impression that can be summarized into two: One is addiction.
176 minutes, not a single minute is wasted.
The second is not addictive.
It's not that the movie is bad, but 176 minutes, or too short, especially for the audience who wants to listen to the story of Steel Seven, the addiction has just been hooked, and the movie is over.
What about blending the two together?
The answer, a drama.
No more, no less, 24 episodes, which hide the pride of "killing to scare the enemy's guts", but also the magnificence of "iron blood defending the country and defending the homeland".
Also, a ten-year contract for drama fans.
When "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" was first broadcast, Kang Honglei said that he and Lan Xiaolong would grow up separately, and they might cooperate again every five years and ten years, and then they would do something different.
11 years, or Kang Honglei + Lan Xiaolong, owe the "Corps powder", after all, to pay back - "Winter and lions".
Or it can be said that the drama version of "Chosin Lake".
Movies and TV series, the connection between the two - screenwriter: Lan Xiaolong. The protagonist of the two in common: the Seven Company of Steel.
Originally, the drama was in front of the film, and last winter, it was already rumored that "Winter and the Lion" was to be filmed. Various factors, pushed to this year. It became a shadow before the play.
Fortunately, good food is not afraid of late, now that the movie is a big hit, it is also time to hit the iron while it is hot, it is said that now the script has been completed, everything is ready, only the winter wind is owed.
However, there are three problems that the Conran combination must face:
First: two shots in one book, the film version comes out first, how does the TV series version make a difference?
Second: It is also the issue that the public is most concerned about: in addition to Duan Yihong, Zhang Yili Chen, these "veterans" of the Seventh Steel Company, can all return to the team?
Third: Can this highly anticipated series sustain its ambitions?
Movies and television are different tracks, and the target or reference of "Winter and the Lion" is, of course, not "Chosin Lake", but the other two works of the same steel seven-company universe - "Soldier Assault" and "My Regiment Leader My Regiment".
The peak of domestic war dramas is created by themselves. Can you surpass yourself? This is the most critical issue that Winter and the Lion must face.
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In the movie "Chosin Lake", there is such a passage, "On the train to North Korea, Mei Sheng, the instructor of the Seventh Company, said to Wu Wanli, who had just joined the army, "From today on, you have officially become the sixth and seventy-seventh soldier of the Seventh Interspersed Company." Wu Wanli was still unconvinced, "There are more than a hundred people here at most!" ”
The next sentence, shocking, "This is the total number of people in the seven companies since the establishment of the trumpet!" Including more than 500 people who sacrificed! ”
Counting the number of soldiers who died in the number of steel seven companies, this was Lan Xiaolong's unique steel seven company code for many years.
And when the warrior grows up, when tanziwei, played by Duan Yihong, asks what is his name, the teenager stands upright, salutes, and has a firm look in his eyes: "The sixth hundred and seventy-seventh Wu Wanli." ”
At this moment, Wu Wanli, the 677th soldier of the Seventh Steel Company, truly integrated into the collective of the Seventh Steel Company.
If you still can't see Lan Xiaolong's password clearly, there is another clip of "Soldier Assault" - Wu Liuyi asked Xu Sanduo, who had just joined the army, "There are many soldiers, how many people are in the Seventh Steel Company?" ”。
Like Wanli on the train that year, Xu Sanduo's answer was: "More than a hundred."
"Wrong! It's four thousand nine hundred and fifty-six! One thousand 104 of them died for the country! Since then, the Seventh Company of Steel has lived with their martyrs forever! ”
At this point, you should be able to understand where the epicness of "Chosin Lake" comes from.
Behind it is precisely the classic six words that Lan Xiaolong has refined and condensed from the exuberant spirit of the people's army over the past century.
"Don't abandon!" Don't give up!"
In reality, after 15 years, the story is separated by 50 years, from the 677th recruit Wu Wanli of the Seventh Interspersed Company to the 4,596th recruit of the Seventh Steel Company, as if completing a report across time and space.
The audience who understood the number of reports sighed and saw the familiar Lan Xiaolong, "Once the number of reports is broken."
Because in a sense, today's "Chosin Lake" is a prequel to "Soldier Assault".
However, the "Chosin Lake" that the audience sees now is not Lan Xiaolong's complete "Winter and the Lion" script.
Back to the beginning of the story.
In 2020, Lan Xiaolong spent 5 years and wrote a 130,000-word script "Winter and the Lion", which was set against the backdrop of the arduous "Battle of Chosin Lake" in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and wrote the story of the growth of a pair of brothers in the war. In other words, Lan Xiaolong's original script of course presented the magnificent battle of founding the country, but the core is still people.
In 2018, there were media reports that the work would be made into a movie by director Zhang Li.
In 2019, the Film Bureau came forward to win the script of "Winter and the Lion" and handed it over to Bayi Film Studio and Bona Pictures for joint production.
At that time, Yu Dong praised the script in the live broadcast, "Many actors and creators burst into tears after getting the script and reading the script. ”
However, due to the difference in film and television genres and other reasons, Lan Xiaolong's 187-page, 130,000-word script underwent 37 adjustments, and was finally refined into 60,000 words, divided into two stories for release, "Chosin Lake" is only the first story experienced by Gang Qilian.
Although there are adjustments and with Lan Xiaolong's escort, "Chosin Lake" still presents a very textured story.
The whole movie is tightly paced, does not drag mud and water, and the excellent lines and dialogue are endless, creating a group portrait of the flesh and blood heroes of the Steel Seven Company.
And: there aren't any weird love lines or grossly illogical plots.
Finally, with the efforts of many parties, the result was to promote the overall brilliance of the film.
However, only from the presentation of Lan Xiaolong's original script "Winter and the Lion", "Corps Fans" have higher expectations, which is normal.
At this time, the filming plan of the TV drama version of "Chosin Lake" was settled.
Those stories of the Steel Seven Company that have not been watched in the movie, such as Wu Qianli blowing up the Watergate Bridge, and Wanli spending the rest of his life to fulfill his promise to his brother and rebuild the "Steel Seven Company", will be filmed clearly in the 24 episodes.
The most reassuring thing for drama fans is that it is still Kang Honglei and Lan Xiaolong who are the best partners of domestic military dramas in the eyes of drama fans.
Kang Honglei, who has filmed works such as "The Years of Burning Passion", "Soldier Assault", "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", and "My French Years", originally planned not to shoot war scenes for ten years.
But after reading Lan Xiaolong's script, he immediately changed his mind, not only changed his mind, but also volunteered to win the opportunity to direct.
Why? Because "this is really the best of the countless scripts I have seen in the past ten years, the storyline is compact, the characters are vivid, the intention is high, especially the interpretation of the Chinese army, it is really unique and unique." ”
In my opinion, there is the phrase Kang Honglei, and movies and TV series have been distinguished.
The movie "Chosin Lake" will inevitably focus on the action shots of the grand historical war scenes, especially the first encounter, the skillful scene scheduling of the war scene, full of combat immersion. This is determined by the characteristics of film art.
The TV drama version, one is to present Lan Xiaolong's complete script more completely, and the other is to have more space to complete the digging of the depth of the characters, whether it is the Wu Qianli Wu Wanli brothers, or the other soldiers of the Seventh Steel Company.
Don't forget, Lan Xiaolong's screenwriting style is bloody and rigid, especially good at depicting the love of life and death, and his characters are not only dragon articles, Meng annoyed, Xu Sanduo? He has always been a person with a clear image, a full personality, and a vivid life.
Lan Xiaolong's script + Kang Honglei's skill, just one word: stable, but a new question comes again -- who will play, the heroic steel seventh company on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea?
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Judging from the project announcement table, the story told by "Winter and the Lion" still revolves around the Wu Qianli Wu Wanli brothers.
However, the Seventh Company of Steel will be more fully presented in the play, and according to the style of Kang Hongleilan Xiaolong's past works, there should be a large number of pages to show the growth process of this group of warriors, which is a great test of how the creator can grasp the "small and big" between characters and history.
For fans of the show, the most direct expectation is -
"Seven Company of Steel Collection!" It is difficult to end without the original team" "Zhang Yihong Xing Jiadong Zhang Guoqiang! Arrange it for me! ”
Indeed, the "Seven Steel Company" characters are like a password, still hitting the hearts of many viewers.
In 2006, Kang Honglei and Lan Xiaolong collaborated on "Soldier Assault", which told the story of the Seventh Steel Company for the first time.
At that time, this drama gathered Wang Baoqiang, Chen Sicheng, Duan Yihong, Zhang Yi, Xing Jiadong, Zhang Guoqiang, Li Chen and other actors, the series became a dark horse in ratings, "do not abandon, do not give up" became a popular phrase, Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong, Zhang Guoqiang, Xing Jiadong and other actors also came to the public.
In 2009, the original team of "Soldier Assault" gathered again, and Kang Honglei and Lan Xiao presented everyone with a "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", which is still called a classic by the audience.
For many iron fans, if the highest requirement is for all members to return to the team, then the minimum requirement is also "Corps F4" Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong, Xing Jiadong, Zhang Guoqiang can complete the integration.
At present, the first to look at the relatively large grasp is Duan Yihong.
In the list of starring actors that came out earlier, Duan Yihong was on the list.
If Duan Yihong returns, Yuan Lang, who played "Soldier Assault", and Duan Yihong, who played the dragon article of "Regiment Leader", will also become an actor who plays a role in both the drama version and the film version.
However, he will most likely no longer play the tanzi in the film version, but will play wu Qianli, who has the heaviest role in the scene.
As for Wu Wanli, he originally meant Liu Haoran, but recently it was reported that Liu Haoran withdrew because of the schedule conflict, and who took over this pie is still a huge suspense.
So the next question is: Who plays the most brilliant character in the movie, Ray Daddy?
From the perspective of role age, this is also the most suitable role for Zhang Guoqiang and Xing Jiadong, any of the two are very suitable to play, and they will definitely be competent, but even if the two return, Lei Dad has only one.
If Zhang Yi can return, in addition to Wu Qianli, the most suitable role for him should be the instructor Mei Sheng, followed by Tan Ziwei.
The problem is that even if Zhang Yi doesn't care about the coffee position himself, the more realistic question is whether as the star candidate for almost all the main theme blockbusters, he has enough slots to shoot in the closed crew for a whole winter.
Other major roles, Li Chen can continue to play the same role in the movie version.
But sharpshooter Pinghe is clearly beyond the age range of the role that "Corps F4" can interpret.
There is no need to doubt that "Winter and the Lion" will once again create a most wonderful group portrait of the national drama, and there is no need to doubt the enthusiasm of the main actors of "The Leader" for the return.
Zhang Yi, who plays "Meng is bored", still writes "Zen Da" in the place of residence of a certain forum.
Years later, Duan Yihong also brought flowers and old wine to pay homage on one knee in front of the monument of the expeditionary expedition against Burma.
Zhang Guoqiang, who plays the "lost dragon", has been funding hope primary school and veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea for many years.
Duan Yihong's own supervision of "Double Detective" did not forget to find Zhang Guoqiang, Xing Jiadong, Gao Feng and other "soldier brothers".
However, TV dramas are the art of dreaming, and the filming process of TV dramas is still the art of reality coordination.
100% winter, 85% exterior, and 90% war are the three characteristics that Kang Honglei summarized for "Winter and the Lion". It is precisely because of the seasons, locations and many factors such as war scenes that there are undoubtedly higher requirements for the production of the play. In Kang Honglei's own view, the test of the play for the creators is also unprecedented.
The main actors of that year are no longer what they used to be, and it is difficult to complete a dream reorganization.
And Zhang Guoqiang is 52 years old, Xing Jiadong is 49 years old, the only most suitable role is Lei Dad, even if the "veterans" are found back, let them play what still tests Kang Honglei's wisdom.
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But none of the above is actually the biggest problem, the biggest problem is: how to surpass the peak of their own creation?
There is no shortage of war-themed film and television dramas in China, but there are only a handful of works involved in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The first film to depict the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was "Shangganling" in 1956, and the subsequent "Heroes and Children" also became a classic, but before "Chosin Lake", there had been no widely influential films with wide influence on the theme of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea for many years.
In terms of TV dramas, the most influential in recent years is the "Crossing the Yalu River" broadcast on CCTV eight sets, which has caused a wave of ratings boom as soon as the series was broadcast, and the peak of ratings has set a good score of up to 4.
But the audience is still looking forward to the emergence of a new classic that can be as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as "Shangganling".
In this sense, Kang Honglei and Lan Xiaolong's opponents this time are themselves.
The first time the two cooperated in "Soldier Assault", they both swept the three major domestic TV series authoritative awards such as Feitian, Golden Eagle and Magnolia, and won a number of "Best Director" and "Best Screenwriter" awards respectively.
"Soldier Assault" on Douban is as high as 9.4 points, and the subsequent "My Regiment Leader My Regiment" is as high as 9.5 points, which can be called the work of the gods of military dramas, and has not been surpassed so far.
In the play, the dragon article played by Duan Yihong said, "I want things to be the way it should be." "It still reverberates in the hearts of the audience.
But it is precisely because the previous game is too classic and too moving. The audience is more looking forward to seeing a perfect Lan Xiaolong and his steel seven company in "Winter and the Lion".
Almost now, it is certain that the level of "Winter and the Lion" must be in the first row of domestic war dramas, but the key to whether it can surpass itself is still in the: to what extent can the series present the soul of Lan Xiaolong's entire work-
"Lions do not belong to winter, but lions in winter are still lions."
In Kang Honglei's words, it is hoped that through this drama, everyone, especially young people, will be told what this people's volunteer army of New China under the leadership of the Communist Party has won in the face of the industrialized Western army armed to the teeth.
Lan Xiaolong's story is full of emotions: shocking, romantic, humorous, burning... All are sincere and sincere, and can evoke the resonance of every "me".
The lion in winter is not afraid of the cold, but knows that the cold is still majestic, which is the true color of the lion.
"Winter and the Lion" should be a wonderful opportunity to take young people to see the era they have not experienced, more than "Chosin Lake" is more young people to feel the ice and snow battlefield, the TV series should take young people more into the military camp of the group of warriors, and their hearts.
And those heroic sacrifices, even if they hurt, must be remembered.
Don't forget Lan Xiaolong's account in "Soldier Assault" that the Seventh Steel Company finally survived only three people on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
But presenting the death of the martyrs is precisely to portray the lives of the soldiers, and only to let young audiences see the living life in this battle.
They will truly understand what the names on the monuments really mean.
I can't judge whether Kang Hongleilan Xiaolong's cooperation this time will definitely be able to leave a classic like "Soldier Assault" and "Regiment Leader", god can not be sought, and classics are difficult to copy.
But what I can be sure of is that Lan Xiaolong's expectations can become a reality: I hope that Kang Honglei will shoot very well and the audience will also watch it very well. What's after the hi, it's the story on the screen that finally moved us.
The spirit of the Seventh Company of Steel, "Killing The Sound Of Killing Scares the Enemy's Courage Hundred Battles and Victories, Victories, And Victories, and Victory, The Spirit of the Seventh Company of Steel, Which Is Truly Understood by the New Generation, Draws Strength from the Struggle of the Ancestors and Continues to Move Forward.
Applause and tears were blood for the volunteer soldiers.
Let their blood be undeserved.
I know it's hard to climb over the peak of their own creation, but if they become, then the domestic war drama will also create a new mountain.