How to evaluate the movie The Battle at Lake Changjin starring Jason Wu and Jackson Yee?

Snow and ice bury loyal bones, while cold light makes iron clothes

Changjin Lake and Changjin Lake are two different things.

one is the battle between ice and fire that really happened in the mountains of the Korean peninsula more than 7 years ago;

One is the most anticipated domestic war movie in 221, which happened on the big screen;

without this desperate fight, which both sides of the war have been haunted by memories until more than half a century later, there would naturally be no real historical basis for making movies later. So what kind of bloody battle is it that people are so obsessed with?

The story happened from November to December in 195, belonging to the Eastern Front in the second campaign. Against the two sides is the ninth corps of Chinese people's Volunteer Army and the tenth army of the United States. Volunteers have the 2th army, 26th army and 27th army, with 15, people, and the American army has about 1, people, mainly the 1st Marine Division, the 3rd Army Division and the 7th Army Division. These two troops were the elite divisions of the main forces of both sides at that time, so this war was like Mars hitting the earth, ace to ace.

The Ninth Corps, led by Song Shilun, the founding general, was originally the main force of crossing the sea to liberate Taiwan Province, and has been preparing for war in the southeast front. Unexpectedly, when the Korean War broke out, they were ordered to move northward rapidly and rushed to the front line of the second battle day and night, which was very expensive. However, at the same time, there was a hidden danger of a serious shortage of logistics supplies, especially the cold clothes necessary for operations in alpine regions. More unfortunately, they later encountered the coldest winter in northern Korea. Therefore, the Ninth Corps of Volunteers had two enemies at that time, Americans and the weather. If the former one could be fought by fearless morale, the latter one would undoubtedly be much more cruel.

On the other hand, the first Marine Division, the main force of the U.S. army, also made great achievements in World War II, especially in the battle of GUADALCANAL, which won the victory by resisting the Japanese army's southward corps and fighting back, so that it was possible to embroider Guadalcanal on its armband, and it was a success. The American drama "The Pacific" produced by HBO in 21 is based on their war history. At that time, American troops were well-equipped and had high morale. If there was any fly in the ointment, it was the infighting between douglas macarthur, commander of the United Nations Army, almond, commander of the 1th Army, and Smith, commander of the 1st Marine Division, which also became one of the winners in the second battle.

since it's a war, it's always a matter of winning or losing. Who wins or loses?

Strategically speaking, the victory of the Volunteers not only smashed MacArthur's boasted Christmas offensive, but also launched a counterattack, pushing the whole front southward, approaching the 38th parallel, and recovering Pyongyang. However, the more artistic saying of the US military is, "Let's move on in another direction. But no matter for the winner or the loser, this is a war soaked with blood and harvested countless lives.

tactically, it can be said that there are many things worth pondering, which are worth pondering by later generations.

The Battle of Changjin Lake set a record for the volunteers to wipe out a whole regiment of the US Army in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The flag of the Polar Bear Regiment, the 31st Regiment of the 7th Division of the US Army, which was wiped out, is still preserved in the military museum in Beijing, forcing the first division of the US Army's ace army to experience the longest retreat in history. It can be said that the volunteers in this war played a military power, played a national power, and played the prestigious name of "the strongest light infantry of mankind".

At the same time, the harsh weather brought unexpected great harm to the unprepared volunteers. In this campaign, the Ninth Corps suffered 19,22 combat casualties, while 32,954 people were frozen to death and frostbite, with a ratio of 1:1.6. Together, they lost more than one-third of the whole army's strength, which was called bone-breaking. In fact, after this battle, the Ninth Corps was forced to quit the battle sequence, returned to China to rest and recover, and did not re-enter the DPRK to participate in the battle until the fifth battle. The cruelty of this battle can be seen.

it was a truly tragic victory.

Besides the objective factors such as the fierce US military and the cold weather, subjective underestimation of the enemy also caused a profound review after the war.

The strength of the western front is 1: 1.5, which is only the number of personnel. If we count the huge differences between the two sides in weapons, equipment and logistics support, there is no air force, no hot meals, almost no heavy firepower, and basically no mechanization, the volunteers are actually at an absolute disadvantage. Under such a fundamental premise, it is undoubtedly unrealistic to set the campaign goal as the total annihilation of the US military.

it was not until the fighting started that the volunteers discovered that even if one division surrounded a regiment of the US military, the other side could still rely on fierce firepower reserves to shrink the defense line and wait for backup. No matter how the volunteers infiltrated, they took turns to attack in melee and night battles, and even launched a sea attack, there was nothing they could do to get the hedgehog into a ball and watch the enemy stumble through and withdraw.

The most obvious battle is the Watergate Bridge. This bridge, which was stuck on the only way for American troops to break through and retreat, was bombed three times by volunteers one after another, but each time the American troops were able to repair it in the shortest time with strong logistics. In the last time, they simply airlifted steel beams and iron cables from the US military base in Japan to the Korean battlefield, and built a brand-new bridge with a load of more than 5 tons, and the passing capacity even exceeded the original bridge. At this moment, however, the volunteer soldiers who are interspersed in place and ambushed on both sides of the US retreat road have never fired a bullet. The cold of MINUS 4 degrees has taken their lives, and the unyielding ice sculptures still maintain the formation of latent impact. How unwilling is this?

The troops who just won the war of liberation entered the DPRK. At the beginning of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, there was no doubt that the genuine U.S. troops and the Kuomintang troops with American ordnance were put together as reference objects. This misjudgment actually existed in the whole army and became a deadly blind optimism. When the battle started and the real knife and gun collided, it was discovered that it was not the same thing at all. For example, during the whole period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, four commanders were removed from their posts, including two in the battle of Changjin Lake. Wu Dalin, the commander of the 88th Division, and Gong Jie, the political commissar, were punished by military law because they delayed the fighter plane and failed to fight effectively. The 88th Division was withdrawn and downsized into a regiment, which was extremely severe and rare in the history of the China People's Liberation Army.

So Changjin Lake, a place name hidden in the mountains of northern Korea, became world-famous because of this great war, which impressed both China and the United States. Frankly speaking, the battle of Changjin Lake was not the most brilliant pride of the volunteers during the whole Korean War. For a long time, it was not the focus of domestic propaganda. It was not even as good as the Americans who lost Xingnan Port, and they even crowned themselves as the Dunkirk retreat. The whole second battle was divided into two war situations, East and West. The battle of Songgufeng, which happened in the war situation in the west corresponding to Changjin Lake on the eastern line, was written into the famous "Who is the cutest person" by Wei Wei, a war correspondent at that time, and was included in the Chinese textbook, while the main force of the eastern line, the 38th Army, even played the name of "Long live the army".

so why do we put such a battle on the big screen today? This is a good question. If you really want to answer it, I'm afraid you have to think about it from 7 years ago to today's Sino-US relations. After all, war, as the most complicated top-level mode of all human social activities, has always served politics.

Having talked so much about Changjin Lake, let's talk about today's Changjin Lake.

As a typical high investment, high risk and high return, war movies generally have two directions.

One way is to make a big shot, showing the grand scene of the war and reflecting the classic moments of great historical changes, such as The Longest Day, The Distant Bridge, Armageddon, etc. But without Jin Gangzuan, don't engage in porcelain work. A big movie is risky, so you need to be cautious in investment.

One is to take a small shot, focusing on the individual's joys and sorrows under the background of war, birth, illness and death, which undoubtedly reduces the controllable risk and is more likely to arouse the audience's * * * songs, such as Saving Private Ryan, platoon, assembly and so on.

The Battle at Lake Changjin's ambition is undoubtedly much bigger. He wants both the big and the small.

it's easier said than done.

A three-hour movie costs as much as 1.3 billion yuan, and it takes more than 18 days to shoot. The main creative team polished the script for five years. The shooting team has more than 7, people, used 7, people's extras, and participated in more than 4 special effects companies, with a total staff of over 12,. No matter from which angle, it is a rare masterpiece of China movies in recent years.

There are three directors alone, Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, and Lin Chaoxian, who are the founders of the Celestial Group. With the professional ability and past achievements of the three of them, any one who stands up alone and shoots works with music. So does one plus one add one again and again necessarily equal three? Hey, it's really not certain, maybe less than two, or less than one.

We don't know exactly how the three directors divide their work, whether they are assigned according to the work content or according to the main line of the movie plot. But for the audience in front of the screen, The Battle at Lake Changjin's biggest problem is that he has lost the sense of balance necessary for an excellent work. The so-called opening and closing, nothing, ups and downs, all flat. The opening is the climax, the whole process is racing, and the throttle is stepped on the end, regardless of whether you are dizzy or not. It's like three directors are desperately fighting for the audience. Come and see me! Come and see me! Come and see what I took! However, time is limited, space is limited, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Then try very hard to plug in high-energy stimulating elements, such as what comes cool, what comes sensational, what comes short and what comes quick. I don't know, I thought it was michael bay, the number one terrorist in Hollywood.

The whole process of bombing, beating, boom, boom, boom, boom, coupled with the BGM that was forcibly inserted from time to time, which led to more drama, was still painful until the brain was out of the cinema. However, when the plot goes too fast, it is easy to get off the line, and it is easy to overturn without a paved turning point, not to mention that sometimes the audience can't even see a face clearly, and the actors seem to have forgotten almost what they performed, and those tears that simply can't stand scrutiny are more and more cheap and naive.

However, the tearing feeling caused by the multi-head director is far less than the damage caused by the five-hair special effect.

oh, it should be the damage caused by two hundred million special effects, which is much more powerful than the five-hair special effects.

It's been 221 years, and it's still popular to shoot at the muzzle with a flame effect of more than one meter long. Are you setting off fireworks?

carrying bazooka rockets to attack a subsonic fixed-wing fighter, is this a new technology learned from Bollywood next door?

As soon as the door of the train in Mercedes-Benz opened, wow, thousands of miles of beautiful mountains and rivers came against my face, just like the New Year pictures sold at rural fairs, full of plastic feeling, 5 cents a piece, no more;

When the encounter on the river beach was supposed to be extremely tragic, there was a scene of air conversation and connection between American pilots, which felt like a sense of sight when playing games online.

driving a small truck, I rushed directly to the US military convoy, and I thought it was a Transformers possession.

Not to mention the shells colliding in the air, the bullets that can never be exhausted, the crowded charge formation, the blasting scenes that are not as good as those in bilibili, and the weapons and props that children play house by house. If you look carefully at the American tanks, there is no observation window for the conductor, and you don't know how the tanks are opened, or should we say that the crew is too contemptuous of the domestic props factory? As a result, when you turn your head, you will find that if you seize a tank casually, you will open, reverse, load and fire. Do you know how precious a tank soldier was to the volunteers at that time?

The film is full of roughness, amateurism and carelessness, all of which remind people that the inflation of China's film industry has reached such an outrageous level. It's terrible to think about it.

As for the actor, Hu Jun played the best role in the whole film. Although the final sacrifice also lacked basic military knowledge, he did his best as an actor. Followed by Duan Long, the performance of all, there is no credit, it is hard work. Jackson Yee, still in Better Days, just put on the military uniform this time, without growth and breakthrough, but also without decline.

As for Jason Wu, who is in the C position, when will he learn not to show off and be cool in movies, and when will he become a real actor? Actors serve the film, not putting the cart before the horse. Let the whole film serve you alone. No actor can put himself above the film works. If you insist on turning a movie into a solo show, you might as well shoot MTV.

As for those shocking lines that are almost funny, the sudden preaching, the righteous posing, the embarrassment of forced turning before turning, the stereotyped characters, and so on, all seriously hurt the quality of a movie, the audience who paid for tickets, and the already difficult China movies in the past two years.

I really want to ask, the film is made like this, so shoddy, are you worthy of the heroic sacrifice in Changjin Lake?

Finally, let's end with a quote from Yang Gensi, a fighting hero of the Volunteers.

I don't believe there are tasks that can't be completed.

I don't believe there are insurmountable difficulties.

I don't believe there are invincible enemies.