Last year, "Wolf Warriors 2" swept the summer vacation, madly sweeping more than 5 billion.
But as long as you dare to say that it is not good at all, you will be besieged by fans, greeted by your family, and even rise to the unpatriotic level.
I'm afraid of contrast in everything. The advent of "Operation Red Sea" makes "Wolf Warriors 2" seem quite ridiculous in comparison, just like kindergarten children playing at home.
We would like to thank Director Lin Chaoxian. It is he who proved how high a Chinese-language military film can reach, he has improved our aesthetics, and he has made us understand that "Wolf Warrior 2" is indeed not good enough.
Without "Operation Red Sea", many people would still believe that "Wolf Warrior 2" is the best military film in the world.
At the same time, it also shows that we don't have to black Chinese movies. After all, in the face of "Operation Red Sea", most of the bean friends gave unanimous praise, with a rating of 8.5, which is better than 97% of the action movies.
This score, "Operation Red Sea" deserves its name.
This is a movie worthy of 5 billion at the box office!
I remember when Yemen evacuated overseas Chinese in 2015, two pictures of little girls spread across the Internet.
One is in a refugee camp on the Syrian border. When the photographer's camera was aimed at a little girl, the girl thought the camera was a gun and raised her hands to express surrender. The country is ruined and no one can protect her, which is sad.
In the other one, the Chinese navy sister took her little sister to board the returning warship. The little girl has a happy face, without a trace of fear, and full of security.
The two photos are in sharp contrast. At the same time, the country's dominance and power have made countless Chinese netizens feel very warm.
"Operation Red Sea" is adapted from the real events of the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Yemen.
The most intuitive feeling of the movie is that blood is boiling, and the heart is surging. One word to describe it is: burning!
This kind of burning is no less than "Mission Impossible 4", "Fast and Furious 5" and "007" Hollywood blockbusters. Compared with "Wolf Warriors 2", it is 10,000 times more burning.
A film with a normal rhythm makes people feel boring; a film with a good rhythm makes people engrossed; "Operation Red Sea" is a film with an explosive rhythm. Pause, rest for a while and look again, otherwise the little heart can't stand it. Of course, it’s better to be bored than to want to play with a mobile phone.
If a movie has one or two wonderful shots, and other places perform normally, it can be called a masterpiece; then "Operation Red Sea", which is full of wonderful shots from beginning to end, is a masterpiece of the best.
For example, scenes such as mortar bombing, warship interception weapons, and tank battles in sandstorms are not common not only in China, but even in the history of world cinema.
Winged flight, long guns and short cannons, and rope airborne are everything.
In addition to hand-to-hand combat and gun battles, tanks, airplanes, and warships are all available, covering military elements quite comprehensively.
What's more, the director can shoot what others can shoot, and the director can shoot what others can't.
For example, after the car exploded, the protagonist dragged his comrades out of the sand, which was extremely shocked;
For example, the slow motion of sniper rifle firing bullets and tank firing artillery shells perfectly interprets the aesthetics of violence;
The enemy forces the people to act as human bombs and cut their throats live, and fear sweeps through their bodies;
The plot of the soldier taking the broken finger wearing the ring back to the corpse and burying the corpse on the spot directly hits the soul and shakes the soul.
Maybe, Ta's lover and children are still at home waiting for Ta to come home, but they will never wait...
In particular, the performance of the snipers on both sides of the enemy is very wonderful, which is enough to show that the director did not weaken the enemy, did not set off our excellence by belittling the enemy, but instead created a respectable opponent as much as possible, so that our snipers are the same. outstanding.
The enemy is fierce, savage, cold-blooded, and violent, and all of them are desperate, which highlights the fearlessness and courage of our soldiers!
More and more people like to watch joy-oriented movies, but do not like serious-oriented movies, so the other five movies in the Spring Festival file are "Journey to the West", "Monster Hunter 2", "Chinatown Detective 2", and "The Nineteenth Generation of Ancestor". "Bears: The Metamorphosis" has comedy elements.
Including "Wolf Warrior 2" also has a lot of laughs, and most of them are deliberately created laughs, which are funny for the sake of being funny. It gives people the feeling that fights and bubble girls have saved the world. Isn't this obscene?
But now looking back and thinking about it, is it too inappropriate to forcibly make a laugh in a military film? You are a military movie, not a comedy movie. Why do you want to laugh so much?
On the other hand, "Operation Red Sea" is not only serious and unsmiling, but also large in scale. The scenes of flying flesh and limbs and broken arms are commonplace. Compared with "Blood Battle on Hacksaw Ridge" and the like, it is nothing less than that.
For example, a soldier caught a grenade thrown by the enemy and threw it out. Unfortunately, his arm was blown off. It seemed very real, indicating that the practice of "catching the grenade and throwing it out" in previous film and television works was unrealistic. At least it is risky, and the price is an arm. In the past, movies only told you that soldiers can throw their grenade back, but they didn't tell you what the cost of doing so in reality was.
For example, "Stone" was completely bruised and completely unrecognizable, and the director gave a clear close-up.
The purpose of this is to highlight the truth and cruelty of war on the one hand, and on the other hand to show that war is terrifying and kill people, and to further convey the concept of "anti-war".
The most common mistake in war films is to make people feel that the director is preaching war.
"Operation Red Sea" circumvents this problem by portraying the war to be terrifying, cruel, violent, and bloody, and the protagonist is always resisting and rescuing, never provoking disputes, and the ending line "You are about to enter Chinese territorial waters, please "Leave immediately" also shows that their principle is "no one offends me, and I do not offend others." As long as you abide by the rules, I will keep peace. But if you want to go to war, then I will fight to the end!
It is also the main theme of the movie. "Wolf Warriors 2" promotes the spirit of individualism, which is called sexual obscenity; "Operation Red Sea" is a team battle. Everyone learns from each other's strengths, and the profit cuts money, and this teamwork spirit is also The most worthy of advocacy.
They are a collective, everyone can play their role, everyone has their own place, everyone can contribute.
They sacrificed the ego to achieve the greater ego, and their comrades-in-arms are also touching.
A soldier broke his finger. He was dying after experiencing hand-to-hand combat and being shot by a machine gun. However, he still used his last breath to express everyone's position and completed the final mission before he died calmly.
And the scene of Tong Ya feeding him candy in the face of the seriously injured "Stone" moved countless viewers.
At the beginning, the sniper Luo Xing was pierced through the spine, and Li Dong had always been concerned. He believed that because of his nervousness, he failed to clear the enemy and indirectly harmed his comrades. However, with Gu Shun's encouragement, he gradually became mature, stable, and superb, and finally he was able to stand on his own.
We can imagine that he will become the next Luo Xing, leading the next Li Tang to become sophisticated, and then the next Li Dong will become the next Luo Xing, leading the next Li Tang to become sophisticated...
The most commendable thing is that the director respects soldiers and wars, and at the same time respects the audience. He did not force a love scene or insult the audience's IQ.
As Nolan said, adding a love scene to a war movie can make people feel fake.
In addition, the film does not favor boys over girls, but gives female soldiers the opportunity to display their talents. Tong Ya, who was shaved to an inch, was brave and vigorous, especially the fragments of bombing enemy planes carrying anti-aircraft missiles. They were almost exploded. Who said that a daughter is inferior to a man?
Even Xia Nan, as a reporter, is a fierce tiger and sniffs the rose. She is not afraid of hardships and wants to fight the terrorists to the end. At the same time, she also has a feminine side. When she recalls the past of her family, the tenderness in her tears reveals. Let this image of rigidity and softness stand still.
I didn't understand at the beginning why they risked their lives to join the army, and why they should let their families risk losing themselves.
But at the end I realized that even if they were not soldiers, there would be others who would become soldiers. Even if they do not sacrifice, others will sacrifice, but they would rather sacrifice themselves. They are unwilling to conceal their lives, they just want to engage in such a high-risk profession, at the expense of themselves to save more lives. They sacrificed a family, but saved hundreds of families.
The moment they decided to become a soldier, they had already made a choice in their hearts: My life does not belong to me, does not belong to my family, but belongs to the country and the people!
They are strong, because they are strong; they are also very fragile, and they may lose their lives if they are not careful.
After all, they are mortals with the naked eye, and a small bullet can cause a devastating blow to them, but they have the perseverance, iron-blooded and resolute hearts and beliefs!
As their slogan: the brave are fearless, the strong are invincible!
However, because the film emphasizes team combat, and there are fewer dramas in the film, Zhang Yi's acting skills do not have much room for display, which is rather regrettable.
Before he starred in "Xiu Chun Dao 2" and "The Murder Chaser" was not popular, "The Old Man in Mountains and Rivers" (compared to commercial films), not many people even watched it. There are not many scenes, but if you have the strength, you can't get hot.
It is difficult to be famous for acting in feature films and literary and artistic films; it is really difficult to have the best of both worlds when you appear in commercial blockbusters without much opportunity to show off your acting skills.
However, after Zhang Yi appeared in "Operation Red Sea" this time, thanks to the film's reputation, he will surely sell well at the box office, and finally become popular. It can be said that it will be a matter of course, and I am also very pleased.
Generally speaking, "Operation Red Sea" has superb audio-visual effects, rich military elements, bold scales, and the photography, editing, rhythm, and soundtrack are just right. It discusses the themes of war, humanity, and hope, and is full of moving, directly hitting the soul. There is no patriarchal preference, no weakening of the enemy, no preaching of war, no forced sacrifice, no sensationalism, no embarrassing jokes, no pretentious love, no openness to one enemy and one hundred, and some are just "our mission is not to To solve the 150 people, it is to rescue the Chinese who must be rescued." Some of them are solemn, restrained, sincere, and realistic, which is enough to show that this is an excellent war film.
Once I was deeply shocked by action and military movies such as "Break into Death Island", "Elite Force 2" and "Black Hawk Down". I didn't expect that we have also made movies of this level now.
I am extremely proud of the remarkable progress of Chinese films! I also feel extremely honored for the strength of the country and the excellence of the soldiers!
If Liu Cixin single-handedly promoted Chinese science fiction to the world's height, then the director, screenwriter, actors and other crew members of the film have made concerted efforts to bring the Chinese-language military film to Hollywood level.
I look forward to the second, third, and Nth "Operation Red Sea" in the future!
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