Previously, I really didn’t expect high values for the main melody movies, especially the movies with a strong color of completion of the task, because "The Founding of the Country" and "The Founding of the Party" as representative of the general shooting methods of the main theme movies : The recurrence of some important historical processes, incidentally, the celebrities’ faces and the traffic flow, in fact, the story and the characters are very dry, people can't help but produce "boring" and "fake empty" expectations.
However, this situation is different from 2016's "Operation Mekong". In 2017, "Wolf Warriors 2" swept away the audience's old view of not buying the main theme and reached the highest box office in my country's film history. The 2018 "Operation Red Sea" continued this good state.
And 2019 has ushered in a big explosion. On the 70th anniversary of the National Day, the three main themes of this National Day film have good box office, which means that they have won the recognition of the audience. The film studio asked seven directors to select a major historical event to shoot seven short films. Although the quality of the seven short films is uneven, the overall quality is not bad, and it can be regarded as a successful completion of the gift to the motherland. The film has a unique disassembly of the seven “core scenes” in the 70-year history of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Each story did not choose to "hard output" from a grand perspective, but took a civilian perspective, focusing on the unknown and ordinary people behind each incident. I was more impressed by
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Objectively speaking, "The Eve" is the best work among the seven stories in terms of filming difficulty, director skills and actor performance. If you want to select the "Best Director" and "Best Actor" among them, it is up to Hu and Huang Bo. But in terms of personal interest, it is slightly conservative in its core creativity, which is a pity. The title of the story of
is a crucial blocker in the film. Although it is just a small metal ball, it is inconspicuous on the entire founding ceremony of unprecedented scale; but if something goes wrong with it, the five-star red flag will not be able to stop firmly, and there is a risk of being topped. This little ball actually refers to everyone behind the founding ceremony and working hard in all links.
director Guan Hu has always been good at depicting characters who are forced to desperate situations in extreme situations, and how they can burst out of their potential and perseverance. "Eve before" is a subject he is good at, coupled with Huang Bo's seemingly exposed but actually full and steady performance. The whole story is an unexpectedly high score in terms of completion and emotional expression.
2, "Encounter"
Unexpectedly, the most moving of the seven stories is "Encounter" directed by Zhang Yibai. The background of the
"Encounter" was the successful explosion of China's first atomic bomb on October 16, 1964. However, Zhang Yibai chose to focus on a pair of lovers teased by fate, which can be described as a very microscopic perspective. We have been reciting the historical significance of this incident in textbooks since we were young, but we never thought about the individual marks behind this incident.
’s participation in the atomic bomb research is kept secret from everyone, “You will not tell your parents or your wives and children. You must always rot in your stomach everything you see at the base.” Gao Yuan gave up his work in anonymity to study the atomic bomb. His family and the girl he loved, Fang Min, his girlfriend, struggled for three years. Later, he fell ill from radiation at work, which is why he wore a mask. When he was irradiated, he rushed to report to work first. At that moment, a lot of blood flowed out through the white mask, and the chief looked at his back and said: "What is his name, I don't know."
later returned to Beijing to recover from the illness, and the two met on the bus. This car was used by Gao Yuan to go home after the two had an appointment. It was also the car that his girlfriend Fang Min hoped to meet Gao Yuan and often ride in the past three years. Fang Min recognized Gao Yuan at a glance, but Gao Yuan did not dare to recognize his girlfriend. Gao Yuan, wearing a mask, said to his girlfriend with dazzling eyes: "I don't know you, you have admitted the wrong person." But Fang Min was still quite sure that the person in front of her was the one she had been waiting for for three years.
Ren Suxi and Zhang Yi performed really well. From just getting in the car, Ren Suxi struggled to recognize each other (there was a longing in his heart, but also resentment for her boyfriend and a little arrogant woman), to memories of the two getting along. You can see how sweet they once were from the gentle transformation of Zhang Yi's eyes. At the end, Ren Suxi pointed his finger at the newspaper to indicate that Zhang Yi's interpretation was absolutely perfect. There was nothing superfluous, only the seemingly gentle eyes and slight jaws, everything was silent.
On the same day, news of the successful explosion of my country's first atomic bomb was overwhelming. The two were scattered by the cheering crowd until then, Gao YuanThen he took off the mask he had been wearing and looked at Fang Min with tears in his eyes across the crowd.
More than ten years later, the woman Gao Yuan loved saw Gao Yuan's name and his photo on the TV screen. She finally knew why Gao Yuan left him for so many years, and also understood what he had done for so many years.
5, "Hello Beijing"
is the background time of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but the "Wenchuan Earthquake" occurred that year. The film combines these two things as a key point, and tells a heart-warming story through a taxi driver named "Zhang Beijing".
Ge You's "Zhang Beijing" can be regarded as a failed man, because his unreliable wife divorced him, and he wants to care about his son but he can't even figure out how big shoes he wears. Love to show off.
Ge You, who was born in Beijing and has played many more "Beijing-style" film and television works, is an old opera and a powerful group. As the director Ning Hao of this chapter said, he is the best candidate to star in "Zhang Beijing".
Ning Hao's works have always been able to tell simple stories ups and downs and full of wit. The characters in his story feel "very distinctive" because he is good at using distinctive language and actions to complement the characters and set off the atmosphere, and often a sentence and action can create a classic scene.
For example, the "big thief" in "Crazy Stone" who was pitted by profiteers and hung in the air; the "stupid thief" trapped in the sewer because the car slipped a slope and blocked the manhole cover, which is still the laughing point of many people. .
this time in "Hello Beijing", he also set many language and action details for "Zhang Beijing".
Ge You and "Uncle Ge", who Ning Hao called "National Treasure Class" actor, used his natural and skilled "Ge-style" performances with comedic effects to make these language and action designs show "1+1 is greater than 2." "Effect.
became the company's only lucky one. After getting the tickets for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Ge Youhua showed the excitement and pride of "Zhang Beijing". First, I called my friends one by one, showing off my "Crooky Hipi" in Beijing dialect English.
This is not enough. He has also brought into full play the "poorness" of "Beijing Men"-while driving, he sang "My Motherland and Me", and said "How big a bird is this to raise" after passing through the bird's nest. When you go to the supermarket to shop, you have to show off "Where do you think I put the tickets for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games"... He can't hide his happiness, and he doesn't want to hide it.
had enough to show off with passers-by, so he went to find his ex-wife and showed his concern for his son in front of him. Obviously it is a show, but also the most restrained "I prepared a birthday present for my son."
was stunned by his ex-wife and didn’t reflect on it. He couldn’t help but was full of excitement. He couldn’t help showing it to a kid in the car; when he went to his son’s birthday party, he had to boast about it before taking out the ticket. Fan, the appetite of everyone was stunned, and only after successfully turning themselves into the focus of the audience, did they reveal the mystery like a sense of ritual...
In this process, it can be said that every scene has a smile, every detail It's all skill-Ning Hao's control + Ge You's performance. In the subsequent chasing in the streets, the tired and hoarse phrase "comrades, follow me" reminds me of his accidental funeral and confession in the chapel in "Do Not Disturb". It really makes people laugh. And Ning Hao's "racing sound effects" and hospital wheelchair terriers have improved the smile a lot.
But Ge You's "Zhang Beijing" is not only unreliable and funny. As the story progresses, his kindness begins to manifest. In order that the child from Wenchuan could touch the railing repaired by his deceased father, he gave the ticket that was used to put gold on his face and show his father’s love to the other party for free, and said bluntly, "I have Samaram. It's strange". He wanted to show a ticket to everyone in the world, but he really did a good job, but "Zhang Beijing" was low-key again. Had it not been for the film "coincidentally" that the child appeared on the scene and told him that the "bald taxi driver in red shoes" gave him a ticket, he might not have mentioned it to anyone.
These seven stories with different styles are connected by handwriting at the beginning of each chapter. These stories are different, with different styles, but like pearls scattered in the long river of history, they are once again presented to our motherland and people by these excellent filmmakers. I hope that in the future, our main theme movies will become more and more popular among the people.
