In China's modern war movies, there are two movies that can't be circumvented.
One is the "Red Sea Action" that "stood out" with hard power in the Spring Festival file in 2018, and the other is the "Wolf Warrior" series that created a box office miracle in Chinese film history.
As modern war rescue films, both films take the explosive iron-blooded style to the extreme.
Operation Red Sea uses more than 40 real guns, more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition, helicopters, tanks, Hummer wheels, and even destroyers within the North Sea Fleet.
It is precisely because of this that "Operation Red Sea" can be said to be a carnival for military fans, and it has also become a new milestone in Chinese gunfight movies.
Just this year, South Korea also produced a blockbuster movie.
From a genre point of view, it is taking the path of "Red Sea Action", but from the box office trend, it is completely the Korean version of "Wolf Warrior 2".
The film is Mogadishu.
The film was released at the end of July, and more than 120,000 people watched the film on its first day of release, making it the highest opening record among Korean films released this year.
It exceeded 540,000 people in 4 days of release, becoming the fastest Korean film to exceed 500,000 this year, and the cumulative number of moviegoers exceeded 1 million in 7 days of release, becoming the first Korean film to exceed 1 million this year.
To date, Mogadishu has seen more than 3.53 million viewers, surpassing Black Widow's 2.95 million to become the new annual box office champion (only for new films released in 2021).
To celebrate this, including the film's leading actors, they all sent pictures to thank everyone for their support of the film.
Not only that, the film is also sold to 75 countries and regions around the world, such as North America, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Morocco, Japan and other countries and regions.
When it was released in North America, it received high praise, and the well-known American magazine "Variety" commented:
Just looking at this momentum, it is not only the desire to do the Korean version of "Red Sea Action", it also has the ambition of the Korean version of "Wolf Warrior 2".
In fact, in terms of configuration alone, "Mogadishu" does have such a confidence.
First of all, the main creative lineup is super luxurious, and the director of "Old Hand" +0 bad reviews starring male gods.
Compared with the "accident" of "Operation Red Sea" and "Wolf Warrior", "Mogadishu" was built for the blockbuster from the beginning.
This can be seen from the ultra-luxurious main creative lineup.
The director of "Mogadishu" is Liu Shengquan, who is known as the "10 million film veteran", although he is a young director born in 1973, Liu Sheng's works are very high in both box office and quality.
He has made works such as "Berlin", "Improper Deal", "Crying Fist", "Veteran Hand", "Gunkanjima" and other works, and his films have mobilized more than 13.4 million viewers, ranking 5th in the box office rankings of Korean films in the past.
It is worth mentioning that most of Liu Sheng's films are cooperated with film emperor-level characters, such as Huang Zhengmin, Liu Yaren, Choi Min-sik, Ha Zhengyu, etc., and Huang Zhengmin has cooperated 4 times ("Veteran 2" has been determined).
This time in "Mogadishu", he found The South Korean 0 bad evaluation male god Zhao Yincheng.
Zhao Yincheng's charm is the kind of handsomeness that both men and women will be fascinated by.
In July 2009, Cho Won-sung won the title of "Korea's Most Beautiful Face" sponsored by the movie magazine Movie Week.
He is not only outstanding in appearance, but also very talented in acting, and he is also very good at picking books, and the works starring in him have a high reputation.
There are also "My Dear Friends" (9.5 points) and "It's Okay, It's Love" (8.7 points) on the TV series.
In terms of films, there are "If Love Has Providence" (8.4 points) and "The King" (7.8 points).
Another star in the film is the Blue Dragon Award film emperor Kim Yoon-seok, saying that the name may not be familiar to some people, but his work should not be too familiar.
He and Ha Zhengyu starred in "The Chaser", "Yellow Sea", and the frightening villain in "Lao Qian".
Even The youngest of the starring team, Gu Jiaohuan, recently presented the best Korean drama "D.P: Desertion Order" (Douban 9.2) for the best Korean drama in August this year.
Such a fantastic lineup, the acting skills of "Mogadishu" are guaranteed.
Secondly, it cost more than 20 billion won (about 110 million yuan), even as fine as the sound configuration of the racing scene.
It costs money to make war movies, especially modern war movies.
This time, "Mogadishu" can really make a bloody money, find the team of "Extreme Escape" and "Walking with God", spend more than 20 billion won, just in order to be able to create a modern war masterpiece!
Mogadishu is a seaport city on the Indian Ocean coast located in the north of East Africa and the largest city and capital of the East African country of Somalia.
Since 1969, Mogadishu has been rife with civil war, and British director Reilly Scott made a documentary film, Black Hawk Down, which is also about the Battle of Mogadishu.
To this day, Somalia is still rife with civil unrest, rebellion, war and guns on the streets, so Mogadishu is a country that is forbidden to travel, let alone filmed.
In order to make the film more realistic, the crew spent four months across Africa looking for ideal locations to capture the Mogadishu landscape, and finally set to shoot in Essola, Morocco.
And in order to make the whole atmosphere more age-old, many of the buildings that appear in the movie are made of CG, but from the scene of the trailer, this special effect is really good, and there is no trace of the special effects.
At the same time, judging from the trailer, the drag racing scene is definitely an extremely important and wonderful part of the movie.
It is said that the director put a lot of effort into the acoustics in order to make the racing scenes in the movie feel that the audience was "immersed".
In just a few seconds of footage, people can feel a sense of urgency. It turns out that this money is worth it, otherwise how can it win the Good Result of Douban 8.5, South Korea's annual box office champion.
Finally, the adaptation of real events, there is a deeper level of thinking in addition to cool.
While the trailer feels a lot like our Operation Red Sea, there are two key differences between Mogadishu and Operation Red Sea.
Finally, let's talk about the plot of this drama, the reason why it will be called the Korean version of "Red Sea Action" by many viewers, the most important point is that it is based on real events.
As we all know, Operation Red Sea is based on the 2015 Yemeni evacuation, but Mogadishu is still a little different.
Because of the special situation in South Korea in the 1990s, the film is based on a true story that has never appeared in the history of South Korean diplomacy.
The film Mogadishu is set in Mogadishu in 1991.
At this time, in South Korea to join the United Nations in Africa, the gifts ready to give to the president were robbed by north Koreans in the middle of the road, not only the gifts were robbed, but also missed the time to meet with the president.
Just as the two Koreas were still fighting over this, they encountered a hair-trigger civil war in Mogadishu.
As the fighting intensified, the Somali government, which had promised to protect embassies, was completely out of control because of the expected insurrection, and everyone had to save themselves.
In places where even communications were completely cut off, isolated South Korean embassy staff and their families were struggling to survive every day amid bullets and shells.
One night, a group of people from the devastated North Korean embassy asked for help from the Attack, and the two sides began to go down in history.
Judging from the trailer, the highlight of the film is the process of the two Koreas fleeing from Mogadishu after the outbreak of the civil war.
They walk through a war-torn city;
Their drag racing scene with the rebels;
Front-to-face gunfight scenes;
There is also the warmth of helping each other.
However, this is certainly not just an adrenaline-pumping gunfight cool film, Liu Sheng is very good at integrating thinking into the cool film, so the film will definitely spend a lot of ink to describe the process of the two embassies from the original confrontation, each pregnant with a ghost to the final decision to cooperate.
In the face of life, the former hatred of the state and the family, how to maintain a balance between national sovereignty and personal interests, is also the theme and significance of the film.
Anyway, the South Korean box office winner of the year is undoubtedly the most worth watching Korean blockbuster of the year.
The movie will land on South Korean streaming media in September, and this cool and in-depth rescue blockbuster, we don't have to wait too long.
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