After the poster storm, how many hole cards does Chen Kaige's new film have?

Recently, the attention of the whole network was "attracted" by a poster.

This poster image exudes an indescribable sense of weirdness.

In the poster, I saw a little girl dressed as a clown standing in the middle, and the strange red and white color scheme made people faintly have bad associations.

Some of the poster style of "Wafeng", combined with the three words "Volunteer" in the upper left gladiator, make people look very uncomfortable.

The poster is from the new National Day film "The Hero of the Volunteer Army Attack", which caused great controversy when the actor stills were officially announced.

Not only did many netizens raise doubts, but even the official media observer network also expressed "incomprehension".

In the face of huge controversy, the film side finally gave an explanation and apologized.

"Volunteers" official Weiwei said that the plot of the little girl in the poster is set up as an orphan, who was adopted by Americans since she was a child and suffered discrimination from foreigners.

The shape of this still is that she was deliberately ugly by her American adoptive father in the plot.

The starting point of the film side is to use the "weird" painting style of a little girl to evoke the memories of the humiliation suffered by the great powers in the old society.

Whether the outside world can accept this explanation of the film side is a matter of opinion.

In the eyes of many people, releasing weird posters without explanation will indeed affect the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies.

But from an overall point of view, this war blockbuster directed by Chen Kaige actually has a lot of hole cards.

01. The lineup is very strong

Chen Kaige's "Volunteers", the most intuitive highlight is in the lineup.

The current cast list of the trilogy is full of all kinds of old drama bones and acting schools in the circle.

Whether it is the content of acting skills or the popularity of actors, this lineup is all barbaric.

After the film party officially announced the stills of 59 actors in one breath, the "thickness" of the film team was even more impressive.

There are so many actors, let's simply count them by character type.

The actors of the great figures of history are crowded with a large group of old drama bones.

Among them, there are not only veteran acting schools such as Tang Guoqiang and Wang Yanhui, but also well-known special actors such as Liu Jin.

Among the diplomatic officials, popular actors such as Zhang Songwen and Wang Chuanjun are included.

Beside them, there is also the figure of international actress Zhang Ziyi.

Then turn your attention to the "battlefield", and there will be more familiar faces in the film and television industry.

There are both middle-generation actors such as Huang Xiaoming and Guo Xiaodong, and they are all actor contestants alone.

There are also low-key powerhouses such as Wang Xiao, Li Naiwen, Wang Yang, and Jia Bing, and the help of these golden supporting roles also makes the film "more dramatic".

Last year's theatrical hit "Changjin Lake" crew also had many people support.

Including Wu Jing, Zhu Yawen, Han Dongjun and other "members of the Seventh Company of Steel", they all got new roles in this "Volunteers".

The team was too luxurious, and even "caused" Bluestone to explain the starring role.

In fact, it is not these actors who lead the starring.

The first three positions of this film are three other actors and queens.

Xin Baiqing plays Li Moyin, a senior staff officer of the Military Commission, the Temple of Heaven Award actor is expected to be the male protagonist with the heaviest role in the first film.

Xinke Golden Rooster actor Zhu Yilong plays Li Xiang, the son of Li Moyin, whose character is an instructor on the front line.

Huabiao Award actress Zhang Zifeng plays Li Xiao, the adopted daughter of the Li family and the first generation of foreign language talents in New China.

Although the seniority of the three is not the highest in the actor list, their acting skills have long been recognized by the industry.

The father and son of the Li family/father and daughter, who play them as the father and daughter who drive the plot, also seem to be not bad.

From the perspective of the lineup, it is faintly close to the top-level configuration of "The Great Cause of Founding the People's Republic".

Such an "all-star" blockbuster, as long as there are characters with lines, we can basically call the actor's name.

02. Campaign, more comprehensive

Another highlight of the "Volunteers" trilogy is the panoramic perspective of the work.

Compared with previous works to resist US aggression and aid Korea, this trilogy is shot more widely and has a longer timeline.

It will focus on the entire picture of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea between 1950 and 1953, presenting a panoramic view of the war.

The most intuitive advantage of panoramic shooting is that more battles are presented.

With the broadening of the perspective of the work, many well-known battles of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea will also be included.

And from the remarks information of the character stills, we can also understand which battles will be filmed from the side.

It included the Battle of Liangsudong, which annihilated the Korean army for a short time in the early days of the Korean Dynasty, including the Cheolwon Blockade Battle against the enemy for 12 days in a depth of 40 kilometers, and the Battle of Shangganling, known as the "Battle of the National Soul".

Due to the different chronological order in which these battles take place, they will also be grouped into separate trilogy chapters.

So, what battles are worth looking forward to in the upcoming first work?

In Qingshi's opinion, there should definitely be the name of "Blood Battle Pine Bone Peak".

This battle, which took place in the early days of the Korean War, was a war miracle created by our army.

In November 1950, in order to pursue the US troops fleeing south, the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 335th Regiment of the 112th Division of the 38th Army of the Chinese Volunteers was ordered to seize the unnamed heights on the north side of Songku Peak.

With no danger to defend, the third company blocked several enemy divisions for more than ten hours with the strength of 100 men.

With the heroic feat of blocking a division in a company, it won valuable fighters for our army, but the third company also paid a heroic price of almost total annihilation and only 6 people survived.

The writer Wei Wei's "The Cutest People" praises this heroic company on Pine Bone Peak.

And the trailer for the first work of "Volunteers", the film side also gave a large number of scenes of the battle of Songgu Peak.

The portrayal of this group of "loveliest people" is expected to be the highlight of the first work.

Judging from the behind-the-scenes footage, the actors are also quite hard at presenting this battle, and it is not a problem to break and roll.

And actor Yin Fang, who played Yang Shaocheng, the instructor of the third company, even once photographed his eyelashes burned without paying attention.

This panoramic shooting also looks forward to more "textbook battles" being wonderfully restored.

03, Lan Xiaolong shot again, this time he wants to make up for the regret of "Changjin Lake"

There is another person who has to mention about the "Volunteers" trilogy.

That is the screenwriter of this play, Lan Xiaolong.

Those who are familiar with domestic military film and television dramas know that Lan Xiaolong's three words can basically be equated with "military king fried".

Almost every time Lan Xiaolong writes a military work, it is full of praise.

In his early years, "Soldier Assault" and "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", adapted from his novels, are still the ceiling in domestic military dramas.

In the past few years, the two parts of the theatrical movie "Changjin Lake" have brought Lan Xiaolong's novel "Winter and Lion" to the screen.

The two works have accumulated nearly 10 billion box office data, which once again proves Lan Xiaolong's screenwriting strength.

And this time, Lan Xiaolong made another move.

This "Volunteer Army" trilogy is adapted from Lan Xiaolong's new work "War and Worship".

Slightly different from Lan Xiaolong's work, the protagonist of "War and Worship" this time has no connection with other works, and "Steel Seven Company Universe" is no longer a continuation of this work.

This time, the story will take the veteran soldier Li Moyin's family as the starting point to embark on the Korean War, and present the entire war from the perspective of the three Li families.

According to Lan Xiaolong, the script of "Volunteers" this time is his most satisfactory in recent years.

And the existence of the script is actually a way for Lan Xiaolong to make up for the shortcomings of the plot of "Changjin Lake".

First of all, in terms of length and other issues, many of the materials collected by Lan Xiaolong to write the original work of "Changjin Lake" were not used, and some plots were not filmed in the film version.

When the original novel of "Volunteer Army" was set in the same era, he put a lot of the plot design that was not used in "Changjin Lake" into this novel.

Since "War and Sacrifice" is currently only open for trial reading (that is, only some plot fragments), the outside world has no way of knowing the complete plot of the "Volunteers" trilogy based on this script.

But with Lan Xiaolong as the endorsement, the quality of the play of this work is very reassuring.

04, the east wind of war films is blowing, and the "Volunteers" trilogy is just in time?

The last bit of confidence in the "Volunteers" trilogy lies in the trend of theaters.

It is an indisputable fact that the domestic theater war blockbusters in recent years are very strong.

Let's argue directly with box office data.

From 2020 to 2022, the domestic theater box office champions in these three years are all war blockbusters.

In 2020, the Anti-Japanese War film "Eight Hundred", with the theme of 800 strong men sticking to the Sihang warehouse, won a box office of more than 3.1 billion yuan, and strongly topped the annual box office list.

In 2021 and 2022, the "Changjin Lake Two Parts" with the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea have landed in theaters.

The two works were crowned the annual box office champions with 5.7 billion and 4 billion box office respectively.

The data has proven that domestic audiences favor the main theme war blockbuster.

From the current point of view, this shareholder wind has a tendency to blow more and more fiercely.

Recently, there have been many blockbuster wars ready to go.

In the past, "Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow", which portrayed the "defense of Changsha", was completed, and later this "Volunteers" was scheduled for National Day.

A series of data shows that the war blockbuster has ushered in its own theatrical blowout period.

Under the "love" of the genre by domestic theaters, "Volunteers", which has a strong lineup and excellent scripts, is still very confident.

05. The defect is visible to the naked eye, and a person and a play become a hidden danger?

Although Bluestone is looking forward to such a war blockbuster, it has to be said that the "Volunteers" trilogy has hidden dangers that are visible to the naked eye.

The most intuitive hidden danger appears in the young actor.

There are old drama bones in the lineup to increase the acting content, and the script has Lan Xiaolong to control the quality of the play, but whether some young people can carry the big scene can't help but make people doubt.

The name that the outside world is most worried about is undoubtedly Chen Feiyu, the son of Chen Kaige.

In the film, he plays Sun Xing, a soldier of the Pine Bone Peak Hero Company.

Judging from the cast list, Chen Feiyu is suspected of being ranked fourth, and the large number of shots in the trailer faintly supports this speculation from the outside world.

Considering that Chen Feiyu's past film and television works have few representative works, this time in "Volunteers" to carry so many scenes, the outside world's concerns are very intuitive.

As for whether Chen Feiyu can be qualified for the role of Sun Xing, before the main film is released, Qingshi has no intention of making premature judgments.

But in my opinion, Chen Feiyu's participation is an opportunity and a crisis for him.

Once he holds up the scene in such a masterpiece of war, he is expected to greatly improve the impression of the outside world.

But once the performance is smashed, there will be more public criticism left for him than in the past, and it will be more difficult to take off the hat of "relationship household".

Whether this road is left or right depends on what Chen Feiyu did.

In addition to Chen Feiyu, among the young actors who caused concern among netizens by the "Volunteers" crew, there is also a rather unexpected name - the female advocate Zifeng.

As the first post-00 Huabiao Award actress, Zhang Zifeng's performance spirituality is seen by the outside world.

But unfortunately, after the first wave of trailers of "Volunteers" came out, Zhang Zifeng's performance clips were questioned by some netizens.

In the scene where the character eats potatoes, Zhang Zifeng's calm eating method made some netizens call it "unreal".

Compared with the picture in "Changjin Lake", the soldiers of the Seventh Company of Steel eat potatoes in the ice and snow, but their faces are distorted by potatoes that are hard to the teeth, Zhang Zifeng's performance this time is relatively less dramatic tension,

Many netizens also expressed disappointment with his performance.

Although Zhang Zifeng's previous acting performance was outstanding, as far as this scene is concerned, her performance this time does have certain hidden dangers.

Counting the controversy caused by the poster at the beginning of the article, one person (Chen Feiyu) one picture (clown poster) and one play (Zhang Zifeng potato play) will also become the three major intuitive controversies of this work.

The above is a list of the advantages and disadvantages of the "Volunteers" trilogy.

With less than a month and a half to go before the National Day file, the day when this war blockbuster landed in theaters is getting closer and closer.

Whether it is dragged down by one person, one play and one picture, or whether it is "taken flying" by more than fifty acting schools, it will be known by then.

And we, who have been deeply touched by the main theme war film in recent years, obviously want to see positive results.

So the question is, after the film is released, will you go to see it?

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