When the summer season hit, movies such as "Chosin Lake" and "Sniper" and other high-profile movies have released discharge line patch advertisements.
The theatrical patch advertisement of "Chosin Lake" can be described in one word: atmosphere! The film released a number of sets of shots such as literary drama, martial arts drama, and war scenes, which seemed to have a sense of grandeur of "Moscow Defense War", so many viewers were full of expectations for "Chosin Lake" after watching the patch advertisement.
The "Sniper" theatrical patch advertisement that appeared with "Chosin Lake" is a different scene.
First, the scene is mainly condensed by newcomers
A total of only thirty seconds of cinema patch ads, the main content presented is three:
The opening credits highlight the words of Zhang Yimou and Zhang Mo' co-director, and originally this film had the taste of Zhang Yimou "helping his daughter to get on the horse and send a ride again", so it is understandable to emphasize it naturally.
Briefly highlighting the firepower superiority of U.S. tanks and heavy machine guns, however, if you just watch the trailer of "Chosin Lake" and then look at this, you will have a relatively large sense of gap, this war scene is relatively condensed enough.
The focus of the patch trailer is three actors: Zhang Yi, Zhang Yu, Chen Yongsheng, the entire patch trailer is almost all the shots of the three of them, according to the number of shots should be Zhang Yu, Chen Yongsheng, Zhang Yi.
Compared with "Chosin Lake", "Eight Hundred" and other war films, the patch trailer of "Sniper" is simply not like a war blockbuster, the picture is too "simple", and compared to the star of "Chosin Lake", "Sniper" only has a familiar face, Zhang Yu has a half-baked face, and the rest are all unfamiliar faces, and even Liu Haocun, a newly promoted girl who is very popular.
The point is that according to the information that has been disclosed, the stranger newcomer Chen Yongsheng will play the male number one, the actor is only 23 years old, is a student of the Beijing Film Academy in 2017, it seems that this summer is his graduation season.
Looking at the face of this male number one, the eyebrows are a bit like Dou Xiao, and the temperament is also a bit of Wang Baoqiang's taste, probably this temperament attracted Zhang Yimou.
Before Chen Yongsheng starred in film and television dramas, there was Wen Youdao of Zhang Yishan's version of "Deer Dingji", and he also partnered with Zhang Songwen in the movie "Old Zheng Flew to the Sky", which had no response, and could be called a new newcomer.
Interestingly, when we look at Chen Yongsheng's social platform, there are still less than 5,000 fans, which makes the author instantly have an inexplicable sense of superiority that "my number of fans can actually crush stars". Moreover, this guy seems to have emptied all the previous dynamics and posts, and currently only sends content about "Sniper", it seems that he is ready to use the east wind of "Sniper" like Liu Haocun to become a new star that has attracted much attention.
Second, the story is compact
"Sniper" with the patch advertising exposure also part of the film's cast list, from this cast list we can also see a few points of information:
Zhang Yi plays the company leader and Zhang Yu plays the squad leader, which is in line with their age and experience, and the acting is more convincing.
What is somewhat surprising is that in addition to a girl Lin Boyang playing a female reporter, other actors, including Chen Yongsheng, played roles as "snipers".
Of course, we still need to explain that in the era of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, our army did not have the term sniper, and at that time it was commonly called sharpshooter, and sniper was a title that appeared in our army sequence after the late 1970s.
Zhang Yimou let the name "sniper" appear on the Korean battlefield decades in advance, which is obviously a compromise to the market, after all, the sniper theme has always been relatively popular in the film market, and the audience is more recognized, and the sniper concept of "98K" and "sniper" is also more popular in online games, so art gives way to reality.
What's notable is that the cast also features the names of three foreign actors whose roles include an officer and two snipers.
In this way, we can easily guess the story line of "Sniper": In the "cold gun and cold gun" movement on the front line of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the small soldier played by Chen Yongsheng gradually grew from an ordinary soldier to a first-class sniper genius under the training and inspiration of the company commander and squad leader.
In order to defeat the sniper genius of our army, the US military specially sent two sniper masters, and in the fierce battle of wits and courage between the two sides, the small soldier "Dayong" defeated the strong enemy and won the final victory, and the squad leader unfortunately died in the battle.
Seeing this, I believe many people will feel familiar, is this story a bit like "Soldiers In the City"? There is no way, sniper-themed film and television dramas generally cannot escape the routine of "fighting monsters to upgrade" and then to "master duel".
It can also be seen from the exposed information that the story of "Sniper" will not be as wide open as "Chosin Lake", on the contrary, it is likely to be very compact.
Third, Zhang Yimou self-evaluation is excellent
Zhang Yimou has launched four films in a relatively short period of time, "One Second", "On the Cliff", "Rock Solid" and "Sniper", which is more prolific than Zhang Yimou himself, of which "On the Cliff" has achieved great success, breaking through the billion box office mark in one fell swoop to become Zhang Yimou's highest-grossing film.
A reporter interviewed Zhang Yimou and asked him to make an evaluation of his works.
Zhang Yimou seems to have said a point of view, no matter how good art is, it is only one-third wonderful, one-third is generally and one-third is not good. His overall evaluation of his films is similar.
In the face of reporters' questions, Zhang Yimou did not hesitate to classify the four films, including "Sniper", into a third of the wonderful category, all of which are relatively excellent films. It seems that the old strategist is still full of confidence in himself.
Fourth, differentiated competition
After watching the patch ads of "Chosin Lake" and "Sniper" respectively, the author always felt that Zhang Yimou seemed to have a "differentiated" idea of competition.
"Chosin Lake" shoots grand scenes, and "Sniper" chooses condensed scenes.
"Chosin Lake" uses an all-star cast, and "Sniper" uses a large number of newcomers.
The three directors of "Chosin Lake" are pressed, and the director lineup of "Sniper" is old and new.
"Chosin Lake" is epic, and "Sniper" focuses on individual warriors.
"Chosin Lake" has a huge investment, and "Sniper" has a relatively small investment (no stars and no big scenes)
Online rumors "Chosin Lake" may be divided into upper and lower parts of the release, of which the upper part will be directly face to face with the standard "Sniper", which once made "Sniper" decide to change the file from July 30.
However, the author believes that the probability of this kind of thing happening is not large, the reason is precisely because the production direction of the two sides is almost differentiated competition, playing an "asymmetric battle", crowding together seems to be not good for anyone, at best it is predicted that there may be a win-win situation, but it is not good to predict what if the double loses?
To sum up, looking forward to "Chosin Lake", but also looking forward to "Sniper".
I still believe in Zhang Yimou.