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Russia-Ukraine War, Palestinian-Israeli Conflict...... Today, in the 21st century, the flames of war are still burning on the earth. People in war-torn areas are suffering untold and their lives are at stake.
But when the refugees see the troops wearing blue helmets, they see hope, because they are UN-sent peacekeepers/peacekeepers.
The high-profile new film on May 1st is the military action film "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" produced by Liu Weiqiang and directed by Li Dachao.
"Peacekeeping Riot Brigade"
This film is the first film to focus on the overseas missions of Chinese peacekeepers, telling the story of peacekeepers shouldering a sacred mission to carry out peacekeeping missions in foreign countries.
They will face the dangers of terrorist attacks and armed insurrections.
How are peacekeeping police officers different from peacekeeping forces, and what are the dangers they encounter when they maintain peace in Africa?
What are the unique features of the filming of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team"? Time Jun is approaching this movie with you today.
The peacekeepers are under siege
"Formed Police Units" focuses on the "Peacekeeping Police", a team of member states of the United Nations.
Both the police and the peacekeeping force wear blue helmets, but the work of the two teams is very different.
Peacekeeping forces are responsible for preventing the escalation of local conflicts and creating conditions for a political settlement of conflicts between the parties.
The peacekeeping police are responsible for the safety of life and property in the mission area, the suppression of crime, and the training of local police.
In the film, a local conflict breaks out somewhere in Africa, and the Chinese peacekeepers stationed there are ordered to enter the mission area to maintain law and order.
The FPU team went deep into the danger, and they came prepared.
The members of the riot squad are all elite SWAT officers selected from China, and although the number of the squad is small, each of them can be one of ten. They are riot squads and elite units.
The team leader Yu Weidong (played by Huang Jingyu) is experienced and calm, even if he is in danger, he still remains calm.
Sniper Yang Zhen (played by Wang Yibo) pierces Yang in 100 steps, brave and strategic, and in the face of the provocation of the thugs, he dares to attack decisively.
Liaison officer Ding Hui (played by Zhong Chuxi) works as a translator and has a kind heart, and she has become an emotional link between the riot squad and the local people.
The members of the riot squad are each equipped with unique skills and have the willpower of an iron fight.
In this way, they can ensure that they protect the safety of civilians in a chaotic situation and maintain their hard-won peace.
Soon after the movie opened, the peacekeeping police team led by Yu Weidong was stationed in the mission area.
It was as if they had driven into a powder keg, and everywhere they went were broken walls, corpses, and the smell of gunpowder smoke filled the air.
All it takes here is a little flame of conflict that will immediately spark a fight.
The film highlights the special position of the peacekeeping police, who are seen as saviors by civilians and thorns in the eyes of rioters. In the film, a boy runs over and grabs the hand of the peacekeeper and screams for help.
However, the boy was shot and fell to the ground in an instant, and a hidden sniper not far away hit the boy, and someone next to him immediately shouted that the peacekeepers had shot the boy.
This sudden framing led to the peacekeeping police being in danger of being besieged.
This scene in "Formed Police Units" is a dramatic conflict that puts the police on a life-and-death test every second of their mission.
The film is based on the real overseas peacekeeping mission of the Chinese peacekeeping police, and the crew invited the former peacekeeping police to serve as consultants.
The experience of the peacekeeping police in the film, as well as the process of dealing with emergencies, are artistically presented according to real events.
Movies are often perceived as exaggerated representations of real-life environments. However, the characters and conflicts in "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Squad" are all created based on real events.
The work experience of peacekeeping police in reality is in no way inferior to the description of fire and danger in the movie.
Officer Han, a former Chinese peacekeeper, recalled in an interview that he had been on a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where there was a huge refugee camp for 40,000 people, and he was involved in maintaining law and order.
Outside the camp, there was still an exchange of fire, shells and gunfire. The camp is like an island, precarious in the rough sea.
In addition to equipping Officer Han with a bulletproof helmet and body armor, the higher authorities also issued him an escape kit.
This escape kit contains a walkie-talkie, an Inmarsat phone, and food rations for 3 days. When South Korean police officers go out on patrol, they must not leave their escape kits for a moment, which shows the dangerous working environment of peacekeeping police.
How to recreate the war-torn environment in Africa?
"Realism" is the first element of the filming of "Peacekeeping Riot Squad".
The film creates an immersive sense of crisis. When the audience walks into the theater, they will be transported by the film into the atmosphere of war in Africa.
This shocking effect comes from the efforts of all members of the crew in two aspects.
First of all, the actor undergoes rigorous military training. The crew invited the former peacekeeping police to serve as the instructors of the actors, and conducted military training for the actors in advance.
In addition to receiving physical fitness and firearms training, actors also have to practice a series of professional actions such as moving forward with a gun and crawling forward.
As a result of the actors' hard training, the moment they appear on the big screen in military uniforms and armed with firearms, the audience will see a group of heroic Chinese peacekeepers.
In a scene where the anti-riot team retreats at a stilt house by the sea, the actors are in a real explosion scene, with steady steps and neat movements, which are all muscle memories formed by daily training.
Secondly, the African scene is reproduced in equal proportions, and the conflict scene is realistically reproduced. "Riot Squad Peacekeeping" builds an African scene in a coastal city in China, and the hot and humid climate environment by the sea is close to the regional background in the film.
The pre-set project of the film took 8 months, and the crew reproduced many scenes such as African town streets, seaside stilt houses, and central squares, and the size and style of the scenes were built according to the local style of Africa, as if the African towns were moved to the set.
After the actors entered the filming set for the first time, they felt that this was Africa, and there was a strong sense of substitution, which gave the actors an excellent performance experience.
The reproduction of the scene was only the first step in the shooting, and the next step was to wreak havoc.
As a military action movie, "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" has an endless stream of explosive gunfight action scenes, in which both good and evil use armored vehicles, rocket artillery and other heavy weapons in the firefight.
The scenes in the movie are constantly destroyed by blasting, and even the armored vehicles will stage a tumbling action. In this "battlefield", the actors have performed stunts to eliminate the mob.
Some of the blasting scenes in the film only had one chance to shoot.
If it fails, it will take too much material resources and time to build the scene again.
For each shooting of the blasting scene, the director team, actors, stunt team, blasting team and other departments are engrossed. They worked together to ensure that the shoot went smoothly the first time.
Anti-war with war films
"Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" is produced by Liu Weiqiang and directed by Li Dachao.
These two filmmakers from Hong Kong, China, have been working hard in the mainland for many years and have made remarkable achievements.
Liu Weiqiang's "Chinese Captain" and "Chinese Doctor" are all based on real events, and the thrilling events experienced by heroes are put on the big screen, and then receive enthusiastic feedback from the market.
At the premiere of the film, Liu Weiqiang bluntly said: "The peacekeeping police are one of the closest people to war and death, and we must shoot this story well."
Li Dachao is an action director and participated in the filming of the Hollywood movie "The Matrix".
After he entered the mainland film industry, he designed martial arts actions for films such as "October Siege", "Heroes of Fire" and "Chinese Captain", and he is an old partner with Liu Weiqiang.
The deeds of Chinese military and police overseas military operations have been a hot topic in the market in recent years, and "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea" have all set off box office waves in the mainland film market.
"Peacekeeping FALO" has a similar setting to them. However, the film is significantly different from "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea" in terms of character identity and story direction.
First, the identity of the protagonist is different. "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" focuses on the Chinese peacekeeping police, Leng Feng in "Wolf Warrior 2" is a veteran, and the Jiaolong commando in "Operation Red Sea" is an active soldier.
Peacekeeping police are a somewhat alien group to the general public.
Their way of acting and working environment are all in a state that is little known.
"Formed Police Squad" goes deep into the peacekeeping police community, vividly shows their difficult work experience, and makes the audience realize that such a group of police forces maintain peace overseas, filling the gap in the film works of peacekeeping police.
Second, the story goes in a different direction. "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea" tell the story of overseas evacuation, and "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Squad" focuses on the work of Chinese peacekeepers overseas.
In the film, the formed police team has to maintain law and order on the one hand, and fight the rioters on the other.
Formed police units are deeply involved in the lives of local people, not only to understand the complexities of war-torn places, but also to pay attention to the relationship between different ethnic groups.
More crucially, the peacekeeping police need to distinguish between thugs and civilians.
They work every day in an environment of turbulent darkness and strive to maintain a hard-won peace.
The conflict scenes in "Riot Squad" are constant, but the film is narrated from the perspective of critical violence. The best war films are often anti-war themes.
The same is true of "Riot Squad Peacekeeper", although there are earth-shattering gunfight and clash scenes in the film, the content of the film is to express the preciousness of peace and the infinite harm that war has on civilians.
Formed police units confront violence with force and maintain peace with actions, and they are true messengers of peace.
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