When China is rushing all the way on the road to prosperity, Chinese movies are also becoming stronger. The three films in the National Day archives this year, "My Motherland and Me", "The Climber" and "Captain of China" turned out to be good Word of mouth. A few years ago, people were still looking at Chinese movies from the perspective of Chinese football, but now, we have "I am not a medicine god", "The Wandering Earth", and "Nezha's Devil Child Comes into the World" completely supported by word of mouth. Box office movies, even gift movies like "My Motherland and Me", "The Climber" and "Captain of China", we can achieve a balance between business and the main theme.
More than 20 years ago, domestic main melody movies and domestic commercial movies were two distinct film types. There were not many major themes of movies such as "Welling Kunlun", "Founding Ceremony", and "The Great Battle". Commercial considerations. At that time, it was also the golden age of the main melody movie. The recommended "Born in the Sky" was the main melody movie produced in that era.
"Born in the sky" was produced in 1999 and is a tribute film for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. At this time, Feng Xiaogang had already shot "Party A and Party B", "Party A and B" and "Endless" in the "New Year Trilogy" ", Zhang Yimou's martial arts masterpiece "Hero" is about to come out three years later, and Chinese movies are on the eve of a commercial explosion. "Born in the sky" and "The Choice of Life and Death" in the following year can be regarded as the last two "pure" theme movies. After that, with the vigorous development of mainland commercial films, the theme movies have also begun to commercialize, not just The "Jianguo Trilogy", even traditional war films like "On the Taihang Mountain", began to use big-name commercial stars like Liang Jiahui.
"Birth from the Sky" tells the process of the successful development of the atomic bomb in New China under harsh conditions. The film highly condenses this process and conducts an artistic treatment, focusing on the performance of the Chinese in poverty and backwardness. His stubbornness, tenacity and patriotism. There are many moving scenes in "Birth from the Sky". For example, when a female physicist told a group of generals about the principles of the atomic bomb, the group of battle-tested generals stood up and shouted: Hello teacher! The urgency of an ancient country to seek progress is vividly expressed by this scene. For another example, the general in charge of the atomic bomb project addressed his subordinates: In June 59, the Soviets left, and we did it ourselves. The code name of our atomic bomb project was "596"-a kind of stubbornness engraved in the bones, which appeared on the screen.
"Born in the sky" successfully portrays two important figures, one is Feng Shi, the head of the atomic bomb base, a general who returned from the front line of the Korean War to Resist US Aid, and the other is Lu Guangda, a nuclear physics expert who returned from the United States. Feng Shi was bold and unrestrained, but Lu Guangda had fortitude hidden inwardly. Feng Shi is a soldier. He regards the atomic bomb base as a battlefield and moves forward; Lu Guangda is good at writing poetry, and he regards the atomic bomb project as his own "big poem". Two people with completely different personalities cherish each other in the Gobi desert in the northwest and silently contribute to China's atomic bomb cause. Of course, there is not only the friendship between the tough guys and the tough guys, but also the ordinary and fierce love in "Turn Out". The relationship between Lu Guangda and his wife is also the focus of the film. The "Me and My Motherland" is currently being screened. "Encounter" can be regarded as a condensed version of "Turn Out".
Feng Shi and Lu Guangda are played by Li Xuejian and Li Youbin, respectively. When they starred in "Birth", Li Xuejian just finished CCTV's "Water Margin" not long after, and Li Youbin had not yet entered the "Bright Sword" crew. Whether it is Song Jiang and Feng Shi, or Lu Guangda and Li Yunlong, they are all very contrasting roles, but Li Xuejian and Li Youbin both performed these roles extremely perfectly, and they proved to the audience what super-class actors are. The performance of the actors is one of the highlights of "Hengkong Born". In addition to "Double Li", Gao Ming, Chen Jin, Teng Rujun and others in the film are also artist-level actors. They and the director jointly created "Hengkong Born". "Perfect".
The director of "Hengkong Born" is called Chen Guoxing. He was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in the same year as Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, and Tian Zhuangzhuang. However, Chen Guoxing was in the acting department, but he mainly engaged in director work after graduation. Before that, he also directed "Kong Fansen". Chen Kaige once said publicly: I'm not as good as Chen Guoxing in filming the main theme.
"Born in the sky" has a Douban score of 9.2 points, which is lower than that of the epic movie "The Great Battle"To be a lot higher, it is a veritable "king of the main theme movie." This kind of high-quality, vigorous film that can resonate strongly, if it is released now, 5 billion box office should be no problem, what do you think? (Author: Mo Xiucai)
