After watching "0,000 miles home ", let me first talk about my overall feeling: it should be the best movie in China this year, no one.
Why is it the best?
Because in the past two years, everyone has been bombarded with aesthetic fatigue by one main theme movie after another, and their creations have routines.
, and "The Way to Return" is different. Although it belongs to the main theme of evacuation of overseas Chinese , film production is entirely done based on commercial films.
big moves, big scenes, and burst performances.
01: Stimulating and igniting
This time, "The Road to Return" actually inherits some of the styles of " Red Sea Action ", such as the special effects scenes are not vague at all, and the broken limbs and arms can be seen everywhere, and the costumes and Taoist dramas are not as simple as touching the face darkness. The costume props in the movie are used to make the wounds and the scars of the injured scenes.
is the top production in the industry. It can be said that even if you look at this wound with a magnifying glass, you can't find any fault.
I didn’t find out what the specific investment budget for “Going Back” is . I asked my friends in the industry and said that it was at least 400 million yuan. I asked him why this time it was so cheap.
Friends said that because of the shooting of this time, was not filmed abroad. When he said this, I immediately checked the information. Where did you guess the "African Scene" of "The Road to Return" be filmed?
The answer is: Ningxia .
This time, the desert characteristics of the "African Outside" of "A Mile Return" were all shot in Ningxia, our Greater China, and the interior of the African town landscape was shot in Qingdao .
The crew built a 1:1 African town in Qingdao’s Oriental Film Park. The details of this town, from the material structure of the house to the shooting inside the house, can be said to have truly restored the urban architecture and cultural customs of the African town.
is not easy to do this. On the one hand, we need money, and on the other hand, we need industrial capabilities. Don’t underestimate it. This is very simple to create an outdoor scene. Creating an outdoor scene requires a combination of real landscape and CG special effects.
Each process needs to be of extremely high level.
Let creation be implemented, this is the power of industrialization.
So, after watching "The Road to Return", I sighed that in the past, this special effects of the production of outdoor scenes and film industry could only be seen in Hollywood , but now we can do it in China.
Moreover, this time, the action and special effects of "Red Sea" and "Wolf Warrior 2" have been upgraded.
But the movie did not abuse the special effects to bombard the audience.
and most importantly, has a rare restraint .
By the way, I think this time, "The Road to Return" has achieved something that many domestic films have not achieved: the quality of the actors of foreign actors has been significantly improved by a higher level.
is different from the foreign supporting roles who acted as passerby in the past domestic films. Now it has made too much progress. And it is much better than the Hollywood black, Asian, Mexican and Indian characters who are forcibly politically correct.
To this day, you can say that Chinese movies are not as good as Hollywood in any aspect, but at least in history, in shaping foreigners, Chinese movies are realistic in shaping foreigners, without any prejudice and stereotypes .
You see even " Nanjing ! Films like Nanjing also make Japanese people look more diverse and their culture, but what about Hollywood? It is the classic septum and on-board charge, or the photo with the family held by the dead.
is taken back.
02: The rare "restraint"
In terms of topics, "The Way to Return" is a film of evacuating overseas Chinese, but in fact, the film of evacuating overseas Chinese has been filmed long ago.
You can see "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea" are both films about evacuation of overseas Chinese. These two films are also hits with billions of box offices. It can be said that these two films affected the filming of later movies.
Many small-cost online military movies,
are still taking photos according to "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea". The routines are also special forces elite rescue, using 1 to fight a hundred, and starting a killing. The national flag is high, and the passport is picked up, unobstructed, or military force escort.
Putting aside ideology ,
To a certain extent, "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea" are exciting action movies, and are the same as "The Expendables".
However, this time, "The Return of a Thousand Miles" maintained restraint on the idea of evacuating overseas Chinese with "personal heroic special forces rescue".
In the story of "The Road Back to Home", there is no special elite troops rescue, and no huge military force to support them.
This film mainly talks about a group of unarmed diplomats who have not been disappointed all the way. The national flag, passport, and those "face" are not easy to use.
Even at the end of the film, Wu Jing came out to make a guest appearance, teasing the tough guy-style evacuation of overseas Chinese in the past.
has changed now, and audiences have higher requirements for movies. The reality is not to make movies. Judging from the world situation in recent years, the future evacuation of overseas Chinese will not be smooth every time.
After all, the evacuation of overseas Chinese in "The Return of the World" is not a specific case, but an integrated and adapted creation in the 10 stories of evacuation of overseas Chinese.
The story of evacuation of overseas Chinese alluded to Libya evacuation . The image of the overthrown leader's poster resembles Gaddafi . There are several shots in the villain's rebels who obviously give a black flag, suggesting the relationship between the rebels and ISIS. As you can imagine, ISIS and Gaddafi. Have these two given the five constants on earth face? These terrorists were eager to tie up the hostages of Wuchang to make big news.
Of course, the theme of "The Road to Return" has not only been filmed in China, but also in the United States and Koreans have also filmed . " Escape from Tehran " and " Mogadishu " have similar backgrounds.
is just the difference, "Escape from Tehran" tells the story of Americans and Canadians, long live the friendship between the United States and Canada; "Mogadishu" tells the story of Koreans and North Koreans, and the story of South Korea and North Korea putting aside prejudices and thinking about the unification of the peninsula.
Only "Going Back" tells the story of Chinese and locals, So, "Going Back" really doesn't have much blood, and no one wins or loses. It's very real. People think that diplomats are all wearing suits and ties to attend various meetings, but once they are in the war, many things are unreasonable.
03: Theme core
A sentence that Zong Dawei said repeatedly.
They have no idea about war.
A simple sentence outlines the whole story.
I believe that to this day, there are still many people who have no idea about war, and some people are asking, why can soldiers be given priority?
I use history to tell you why soldiers can be given priority. If a country does not have an army, it can perish within 24 hours. People can be slaughtered by the invaders. Babies’ intestines will be picked out, and women will become comfort women in prison.
This is the consequence of Japan's war of aggression against China telling us.
Let's talk about it further.
That year, the Ming Dynasty was full of dangers, and Li Zicheng raised an army to destroy the Ming Dynasty. However, Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the pass, and Li Zicheng was defeated, leaving only the incompetent armed forces and scattered militias.
Manchu people drove straight into
June 15, Shunzhi 2nd year, Dorgon dictated the Ministry of Rites:
"The capital is limited to ten days, and the localities in all provinces and regions will be sentenced to ten days from the date of the Ministry's text to the day, and all the hairs are required. Those who follow the support will be the people of our country. Those who hesitate will be punished with serious crimes....If there is any re-issue of this matter, the sacrificial rule of the people who want to make me a decision and the local people still have a clear system and do not follow the system of this dynasty, there will be no mercy."
Ministry of Rites urges all places to follow the same principle. This barbaric policy that extreme harms the feelings of the Han people has aroused anger and resistance. What is the result?
1644, Dorgon slaughtered 5,000 people in the south of the capital.
slaughtered 7,000 people. —— "Records of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty"
slaughtered nearly 40,000 people. — ——"Guizhuang Biography", "Gu Yanwu Biography" and "Miscellaneous Notes on Yantang Experiences and Miscellaneous Notes", etc.
Yangzhou slaughtered 800,000 people on ten days of Yangzhou. The monk collected more than 800,000 corpses - " Yangzhou Diary " "Yangzhou City Observation Guide"
Because there was no resistance army, except for a large number of young women who were looted as military prostitutes and monks by the Qing army, all residents were massacred.
Interested friends can read " Nanming History ". I felt extremely suffocated several times while reading "Nanming History" and stopped to close the book, which was shocking.
Because there is no army, butcher knife is sharper than a hoe. Many descendants of the Ming Dynasty were bloodyly suppressed by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty.
What about the Qing Dynasty? Being poor in dealing with the struggle against shaving and oppression of the hair, the time for the Qing emperor to unify the whole country by 15 years.
This is history and the past.
Many times, people read more history books, can remove many illusions, and can understand the real world and the real human nature.
The history I added above is very important for understanding "The Road to Return", because "The Road to Return" wants to express not only diplomats must take back their compatriots responsibly, but also the representative of the diplomats. Image of a great power that is unyielding.
When Zong Dawei was forced to admit the legitimacy of the rebels, he said that as long as you kill me, my country will make you pay a heavy price. This kind of integrity of "a soldier can be killed but not humiliated" is by no means to show some tough and dramatic integrity.
This is the attitude that a nation and a great country must have:
If you are weak, you will inevitably be bullied.
Many people will tell you that this world is beautiful, and the world operates with many laws and laws, but the fact is that the underlying logic is violence without logic, order succumbs to violence, and violence succumbs to higher violence, which is the fact.
You can imagine that if we don’t have nuclear bombs, the People’s Liberation Army, and the Beidou , any powerful country would disappear.
So don’t think that diplomats would rather die than surrender than surrender. What I want to say is that this is the dramatic logic of the creation of the movie, but it is also the jungle logic of real life.
There is no sword or no sword to be used, are different things.
I believe that most people’s first impression after reading it is: the war-torn country is really miserable, and fortunately we were born in China.
But where is China's strength reflected? The answers given by "Operation Red Sea" and "Wolf Warrior 2" are fists and strength, while the answers given by "The Road to Return" are: Qi and spirit.
Zong Dawei's strength that would rather die than surrender is the answer. That indomitable spirit of rather than surrender is the great answer.
