Tears boiled hot.
What broke my defense was that in the latest trailer of "Chosin Lake", the shocking seventh interspersed number of consecutive reports, soldiers, one by one, reported their names and numbers, how can they not shed tears? Listen to it for yourself —
Zhu Yawen: "The 135th warrior of the Seventh Interspersed Company, Mei Sheng." ”
The next shot, single-handedly, driving a military vehicle, biting a grenade and hitting the enemy line.
Li Chen: "The 221st warrior, Yu Congrong." ”
In the next shot, in a rain of bullets, carrying a heavy machine gun, a man, knocked over a combat squad of the US army.
Han Dongjun: "280th, Pinghe." ”
The next shot, long-range sniper, one hit, one hit.
Hu Jun: "Seventeenth soldier, Lei Suisheng.".
In the next shot, a U.S. military plane hovers overhead, driving a car.
Wu Jing: "One hundred and twenty-sixth, Wu Qianli." Then shout in the direction of Wu Wanli, played by Yi Qianxi: What about you? Yi Qianxi opened his mouth and did not spit out a word.
Then the camera shifts, the once immature raw melon egg, has been through the battle of life and death, the night of artillery fire, he climbed into the enemy tank, seized the opportunity to throw a grenade into it, exploded into the flower.
Facing the battalion commander played by Duan Yihong, Yi Qianxi finally said: "677th, Wu Wanli."
Is the counting over?
Let's go back to fifteen years ago, back to the scene in "Soldier Assault" where so many people took the oath of enlistment, and listen to that sentence again—
"I am the 4,956th soldier of the Seventh Company of Steel."
There are also these words -- "There were many three private soldiers, and almost all the companies of the Seventh Steel Company were killed during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but the three privates who were covered by all the companies returned with nine deaths." They brought back the will of one hundred and seven martyrs to rebuild the Seven Companies of Steel on these three young men with an average age of seventeen! Since then, the Seventh Company of Steel has lived with their martyrs forever! ”
I know that after watching the latest trailer of the movie "Chosin Lake", some people must be wondering, is the "seventh interspersed company" in "Chosin Lake" the predecessor of the "steel seven company"?
I'll just say three words: Lan Xiaolong.
Fourteen years ago, he was the screenwriter of "Soldier Assault" and created the unique way of reporting in Seven Companies, and fourteen years later, his "Chosin Lake" will be released on September 30, the eighth martyrs' day in China.
In his pen, the Seventh Company is no longer the seventh interspersed company that unveiled the flag of the US Polar Bear Regiment, but the Seventh Steel Company is still the Steel Seventh Company of that year.
It has been 71 years since the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and we have not, nor can we forget, the epic battle in which heroes "hunted bears" in the flesh.
And from "Chosin Lake" to "Soldier Assault", Wu Wanli, the 677th soldier of the Seventh Steel Company, seemed to have completed a report across time and space with 4,956 soldiers.
Yes, you can always trust Lan Xiaolong.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > the bones of "seven steel companies"</h1>
Speaking of "Soldier Assault", many people still remember the scene when the oath was taken at the company entrance ceremony, under the company flag, and the remaining soldiers of the company roared out the steel seven company songs together.
The song goes like this: "A thunderbolt and a sword, a group of fierce tigers and seven companies of steel; the will of steel is iron, and the iron blood defends the country and defends the homeland; the sound of killing frightens the enemy's guts, and the victory of hundreds of battles is passed; attacking Bike, defending Bijian, stepping on the bones of the enemy and singing triumph!" ”
Even the song is not long, and no one knows how it is sung, because there are only lyrics, no songs, but the moment it roars out of the throats of the warriors, all the audience can feel what the real Steel Seven Company is.
But the regret of the TV series is, what is "a thunderbolt and a sword", and how do the soldiers of the Seventh Company "kill to scare the enemy's guts"? Didn't shoot.
This time in "Chosin Lake", the audience can watch a happy time!
The Battle of Chosin Lake was the most tragic battle in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
It is said that MacArthur, a five-star American general, after experiencing this battle, left a piece of advice for his american juniors: "Whoever wants to fight the Chinese Army must be sick." ”
"Chosin Lake" is set in the Battle of Chosin Lake in the Second Campaign of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and takes the actions of the Seventh Interspersed Company of a Heroic Company and fraternal units as the main line to tell the story of ordinary volunteer soldiers in the entire campaign.
If many war films are based on heroism and victory.
Then "Chosin Lake" let the audience see the tragedy, tragedy and greatness behind the victory.
In the face of such a grand subject, how to start, and how to tell a story that can convince the audience in three hours?
The answer is: make an epic blockbuster that breaks the "ceiling" of domestic war films.
This film has set a record in the history of Chinese cinema in terms of production scale, investment scale, shooting time span, and the number of cast members, in addition to large shots, there are a large number of special effects, as small as (character) ha qi, the shaking of snowflakes on the body, etc., all of which strive to restore history.
The three directors Chen Kaige, Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian overcame many difficulties to complete the shooting like a war, and once again showed the ability to perfectly balance the main theme and the narrative of the genre film.
In the trailer, the director does not hesitate to show thrilling action scenes in front of the camera, every machine gun battle, close combat, has a strong visual impact, the audience can also clearly feel every gunfire on the battlefield.
This also makes people wonder, which battle in the Battle of Chosin Lake is this?
Until the end of the trailer, the moment when the "Polar Bear Regiment" flag hanging on the wall was torn off, my blood suddenly burned.
Yes, it was this battle, the volunteer army team of the Seventh Company of Steel took the Polar Bear Regiment in one fell swoop, and it was this battle, a group of fierce tigers and seven companies of Steel, and the sound of killing scared the enemy's guts.
Remember the conversation between Old Seven and Xu Sanduo in "Soldier Assault"?
Old Seven: Do you understand the Seven Lians?
Sanduo: I don't understand.
Old Seven: Do you know how many times the Seventh Company has climbed up from the corpse mountain and the sea of blood, holding the mutilated body of his comrade-in-arms, and looking at the broken company flag. Those thousands of troops and horses are shouting victory and shouting long live. What about the Seven Company? The Seventh Company didn't make a sound, they just buried their comrades and wrapped their wounds, and then told themselves that I had survived again and had to fight again.
"Chosin Lake" is of course a thrilling and magnificent battle.
but.
It is even more so that the audience can see how the soldiers of our seventh company grow steel in their bones.
Even if the mobile phone has a small screen, the trailer can also let you feel at close range what is called death battle, battle.
Cannon fire, illuminating the night; blood, sprinkled all over the sky.
From guns and cannons to bayonets and short blades, the soldiers of the Seventh Company of Steel fought like fierce tigers on the following mountains.
Just when the DPRK encountered a severe cold once in 50 years, the average daily temperature in the Chosin Lake area dropped to minus 27 degrees Celsius, and even to the extreme cold below minus 40 degrees Celsius, our volunteer army wrapped the elite of the elite of the US army and the ace of the ace in the case of a huge gap in weapons, equipment, logistics, and so on.
How would ordinary people react if they were in such a battlefield?
Don't ask, it shoots you out.
A new recruit in the first line, slowly asking under artillery fire: Has the enemy found us?
The veteran calmly replied to him: No, we are going to charge!
Fear is human instinct.
But in this purgatory-like battlefield, the soldiers of the Seventh Company only had the pride of victory in their hearts, because only when they "trampled on the bones of the enemy and sang triumph", the land behind them could be safe.
This earth-shaking battle, even if it is only a limited shot in the trailer, still shows excellent rhythm and atmosphere control. It has the compactness and good-looking style of genre films, and allows the audience to always immerse themselves in an emotional tension, touching and shocking.
In addition to the genred narrative, let the audience seem to be immersed in the scene, watching the volunteer soldiers resolutely rush to the position and fight the enemy to the death in an extremely harsh environment, until the moment when the polar bear regiment flag is torn off, the atmosphere is burning to the extreme!
See, this is the bone of the steel seven-in-one.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="125" > Lan Xiaolong's "soldier"</h1>
After watching the latest trailer, many viewers said that the most moving thing was the number of soldiers: the 17th soldier Lei Suisheng, the 135th soldier Meisheng, the 162nd soldier Wu Qianli, the 221st soldier Yu Congrong, the 280th soldier Pinghe, and the last soldier Wu Wanli was the 677th soldier.
But a company is reorganized with about a hundred people, what does the number 677 mean?
Netizens who understand the establishment of our army's troops explained a sentence: It means that hundreds of people in the Seventh Company have died or retired since its inception.
But sacrifice will not let the identity of the "Seven Company Soldiers" die, when Wu Qianli and others reported their numbers and names one by one, it was precisely the battle spirit of the Seventh Company that "could not be defeated and could not be killed"!
Speaking of the Seven Gangs, it seems that there is always a person's name: Lan Xiaolong.
Speaking of Lan Xiaolong, of course, there is no way around "Soldier Assault". Since the broadcast of the episode, the three words of steel seven have been burned into the hearts of many viewers.
After 14 years, the "Seven Steel Company" still hits the hearts of many viewers.
But the Seven Steel Company was not made up by Lan Xiaolong.
There is really a heroic "Steel Seventh Company" in history, its history can be traced back to 1933, because in the Liaoshen Campaign to hold the Wu family small temple position and was awarded the title of "Steel Company", since then, this heroic company, through the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, has emerged many combat heroes, leaving countless stories to sing and cry, they are a group of real hard-blooded tough men.
For drama fans, the "Seven Steel Company" characters are like a password, which is the key to unlocking Lan Xiaolong's classic creation of domestic war dramas.
This screenwriter, who has created classic military film and television works such as "My Regiment Commander My Regiment", "Soldier Assault", and "Life and Death Line", has been preparing for five years, writing the first draft of the script of 130,000 words, and presenting the story of "Seven Companies of Steel" to the world again.
Audiences who know Lan Xiaolong's screenwriting style know that his style, as hard as steel, permeates a man's blood, and is especially good at depicting the love of life and death.
For him to sweep the three major domestic TV series authoritative awards such as Feitian, Golden Eagle, and Magnolia, "Soldier Assault" awarded the honor of "Best Screenwriter", leaving behind company commander Gao Cheng (Zhang Guoqiang), squadron leader Yuan Lang (Duan Yihong), squad leader Shi Jin (Zhang Yi), veteran Wu Liuyi (Xing Jiadong) and private Xu Sanduo (Wang Baoqiang) and other tough men with iron bones.
This time, when it came to "Changjin Lake", Lan Xiaolong finally had to write the story of the play in which "almost all the companies of the Seventh Steel Company were killed and cancelled, and the three soldiers who were covered by the whole company returned with nine deaths."
Yes, most of these characters will most likely die in this story.
It is very likely that they will not come back alive in the battlefield, but they can live in the hearts of the audience: Wu Qianli, the commander of the Seventh Company, played by Wu Jing, Tan Ziwei, the commander of the Ninth Company and Three Battalions played by Duan Yihong, Mei Sheng, the instructor of the Seventh Company, played by Zhu Yawen, Yu Congrong, the platoon leader of the Firepower Platoon played by Li Chen, Ping he, the sharpshooter of the Seventh Company, played by Han Dongjun, and Lei Gong, the platoon leader of the Seventh Company Of Artillery, played by Hu Jun.
The audience should be able to guess that among the three living soldiers, there should be Wu Wanli, played by Yi Qianxi, the new recruit who raised his gun and aimed at it, and there was no shortage of nervous and determined recruits of Chinese soldiers on his slightly immature face.
Yes, when you see these lovely warriors, you will definitely think of that famous sentence - ice blood Chosin Lake, buried in a foreign country.
Behind them, 71 years ago, so many warriors fell in the ice and snow, not even leaving their names.
But, is it just the numbers that fall? Absolutely not.
There is a scene in the movie where Mei Sheng, the instructor played by Zhu Yawen, holds a photo in his hand, which is full of his companions lost in this war.
He took the photo and muttered to himself, "It's good to be alive," and the company commander Who was leaning to the side did not even dare to turn his head sadly.
Lan Xiaolong wrote about death? What I saw was a tough guy screenwriter with tears in his heart and hot blood in his pen, using the death of the soldiers to write a big life.
Every character in the Steel Seven Company is made of weeping blood.
Every character has lived desperately.
This is the meaning of the shooting of "Chosin Lake", it is not just a simple film to shoot battles, wars, tactics, but more importantly, to shoot people.
Let those soldiers who fall in the snow and can no longer get up, nameless and surnameless, live again on the screen, and also tell the audience that they have lived in this world with iron bones and tenderness.
At the same time, the shaping of the characters is not just "presented for the sake of presentation", but always in a clever form, organically combined with the main line of the story.
Such a grand theme, the creator is easily scattered by a large number of materials, into a general talk that only seeks to cover all aspects. But Lan Xiaolong's work is beautiful in that it is always very "concrete". It is both focused and comprehensive.
He writes stories that are always refined and orderly, emanating from a trunk and then spreading out branches and leaves.
The audience remembers every face, every person's story, and can feel the grandeur, epic and swing of the narrative from the wonderful and compact group portraits and the earth-shaking war perspective.
Just like the motto of "Seven Companies of Steel" in the drama "Soldier Assault" that has impressed countless people, "Don't abandon, don't give up", do you really understand? What is not to give up, not to give up? What not to abandon, what not to give up?
The answer lies in Wu Wanli, played by Yi Qianxi. A naughty boy in a fishing village, who became an ignorant recruit on the battlefield, finally had the courage to raise his right hand to salute the military and say that he was "677th, Wu Wanli", his eyes had lost the panic of the past, but was replaced by firmness and courage.
Teenagers grow into warriors.
Behind this, isn't it the Seven-In-a-Row that doesn't abandon and doesn't give up?
Do not abandon family, friendship, and the warmth they bring, and do not give up any soldier.
For the audience, the film may be like watching a brief history of the Seventh Company of Steel, not only knowing where this team came from, but also knowing the new recruits that the veterans desperately protected, and the Steel Seventh Company that was later rebuilt, decades later, what kind of a group of iron-boned recruits were born.
In this way, Lan Xiaolong made the story evolve into a rich group of small characters under an epic battle.
It's also such a movie that makes the fallen warrior, not a bunch of numbers.
It's a bunch of heroes who have lived and will be remembered.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="130" > who is the cutest person</h1>
The story of "Chosin Lake", in a sense, is like a prequel to "Soldier Assault", telling the story of the song of "a thunderbolt and a sword, a group of fierce tigers and steel seven companies".
When I first watched "Soldier Assault", some viewers wondered if Lan Xiaolong was too exaggerated, one company, can sacrifice so many soldiers?
Lan Xiaolong did make certain artistic changes to history, but instead of exaggerating the number of sacrificed warriors, he shrank them.
In the history of the real Seventh Company of Steel, it has participated in more than 3,600 battles and battles, and 3,000 soldiers have died heroically.
Therefore, the company has the title of "eighty forged steel of the soldiers, and three thousand heroic martyrs cast the soul of the company".
Some of them are carved on monuments, "Soldier Assault" makes their names come alive, and "Chosin Lake" makes the names on the monument flesh and blood.
Some people may ask, in peacetime, do we still need the "spirit of seven companies of steel"?
If you really read the story of Steel Seven, you will not have any doubts about this.
Screenwriter Lan Xiaolong's Steel Seventh Company, from the snow-capped Chosin Lake singing seven consecutive songs, behind which is the epitome of countless young volunteer soldiers.
71 years ago, countless teenagers like Wu Wanli chose to put on military uniforms and go to the Korean battlefield to resist the United States and aid Korea, defend their families and defend the country, and turn their youth, blood and life into an iron wall to protect the motherland.
Why make the Battle of Chosin Lake a movie? It is to remember those brave and fearless volunteer soldiers, to remember those "loveliest people"!
Wu Jing, who plays Wu Qianli, the commander of the Seventh Company, said: "When these magnificent figures are placed in front of you, you will have great awe for these sacrifices, so many soldiers have gone forward and followed, they think that we have survived this battle, and the descendants will not have to fight anymore." Sometimes they sigh how good it would be if they could see How good China is today! ”
The warriors couldn't see it, but every drop of blood they shed was worth it.
Just as Yu Dong said, it is the honor of this generation of filmmakers to be able to put the Battle of Chosin Lake on the screen: "The strategic significance of the Battle of Chosin Lake is enormous, it directly affected the final victory of the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and laid the foundation for victory." "Chosin Lake" shows the cruelty of war and the meaning behind this spirit of sacrifice, and young audiences will truly feel that today's peace and happiness are not easy to come by. ”
The meaning of war films has never been to celebrate war, but to let the audience in peacetime try to understand why the heroes of that year died.
It is also to let this young people understand that it is the struggle of countless martyrs that allows us to enjoy everything we have now.
At present, the total number of people who want to see "Chosin Lake" on the two major online ticketing platforms has exceeded one million, and after watching the movie, you can understand where the unique reporting method of gangqilian in "Soldier Assault" comes from.
Finally, let's revisit the oath of joining the Steel Seven Company again, and to this day, it still makes countless viewers burst into tears .
"There are many soldiers, and there are 4,956 men in the Seventh Company of Steel, of whom 1,104 have sacrificed their lives for the country!"
There are so many soldiers, you must remember that you are the soldier of the 4,956th Steel Seventh Company!
There are many soldiers, some companies are proud of a certain combat hero, some companies are proud of being a general, and the pride of the Seventh Steel Company is the most sacred of the soldiers! The Seventh Company of Steel is proud of the heroes who have died on the battlefield in hundreds of battles!
You should also use the most powerful way to ask any member of the Steel Seven Company to remember our ancestors! ”
On September 30, if you walk into the theater, you can see what kind of soldiers the screenwriter Lan Xiaolong's "Seven Companies of Steel" really are, and what kind of a vigorous battle they fought 71 years ago.