How to evaluate the movie The Battle of Changjin Lake starring Jason Wu and Yi?

Snow and ice bury loyal bones, and cold light shines 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 70 years ago;

One is the most anticipated domestic war movie in 20021year, which happened on the big screen.

If there is no such desperate struggle that still lingers in the memory of both sides of the war until more than half a century later, there will naturally be no real historical basis for making movies later. So what kind of bloody battle is this that makes people so obsessed?

The story took place in 165438+ 10 to 1950 in February, belonging to the East Line of the Second Campaign. Against both sides is the ninth corps of Chinese people's Volunteer Army and the tenth army of the United States. There are 20 armies, 26 armies, 27 armies, 1 50,000 volunteers, and about 0/00,000 American soldiers, mainly marines1divisions, 3 army divisions and 7 army divisions. These two forces 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 the founding general Song, was the main force crossing the sea to liberate Taiwan Province Province and has been preparing for the war in the southeast front. Unexpectedly, when the Korean War broke out, they were ordered to move northward quickly and rushed to the front line of the second battle day and night, which was very expensive. At the same time, however, there are also hidden dangers of serious shortage of logistics materials, especially the cold clothes necessary for operations in alpine regions. More unfortunately, they later encountered the coldest winter in northern Korea. So the Ninth Corps of Volunteers had two enemies at that time, Americans and the weather. If the former can be confronted with fearless fighting spirit, the latter is undoubtedly much more cruel.

On the other hand, the 1 Division, the main force of the US Marine Corps, also made great contributions in the Second World War, especially in the battle of Guadalcanal Island, when it stood up to the Japanese army's southward corps and fought back to win, it was able to embroider "Guadalcanal" on its armband. The American drama Pacific produced by HBO 2065 438+00 is based on their war history. At that time, the US military was well equipped and had high morale. If there is any fly in the ointment, it is the infighting between douglas macarthur, commander of the United Nations Army, almond, commander of the No.1 10 Army, and Smith, commander of the No.1 1 Division of the Marine Corps, which has also become one of the winners of the second battle.

Since it is a war, there must always be winners and losers. Who wins and who loses?

Strategically speaking, the victory of the volunteers not only shattered MacArthur's boasted Christmas offensive, but also launched a counterattack, pushing the whole front southward, approaching the 38th parallel and recovering Pyongyang. The artistic expression of the US military is "Let's move in another direction. But for both winners and losers, this is a war soaked with blood and harvested countless lives.

Tactically, it can be said that there are many places worth pondering, which are worth pondering by future generations.

The battle of Changjin Lake set a record for volunteers to annihilate a US regiment in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The flag of the wiped out polar bear regiment of the 3rd 1 Regiment of the 7th Division of the US Army is still preserved in the military museum in Beijing, forcing the 1st1Division, the ace of the US 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 reputation of "the strongest infantry in mankind".

At the same time, the bad weather brought unexpected great harm to the unprepared volunteers. In this campaign, the ninth corps suffered casualties 19202, and 32954 people were frozen to death and frostbite, with a ratio of 1: 1.6. Together, they lost more than one-third of the army's troops, which is a bone injury. In fact, after this campaign, the Ninth Corps was forced to withdraw from the battle sequence and return to China to rest. It was not until the fifth campaign that it re-entered the DPRK to participate in the war. The cruelty of this battle can be seen.

This is a tragic victory worthy of the name.

In addition to the objective factors such as the fierceness of the US military and the cold weather, the subjective underestimation of the enemy also caused a profound review after the war.

Enemy and enemy forces on the western front 1: 1.5, this is only the number of personnel. If we count the huge differences between the two sides in weapons and equipment and logistics support, there is no air force, no hot meals, almost zero 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 complete annihilation of the US military.

It was not until the fighting started that the volunteers discovered that even if a 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, the melee and night battles took turns to attack, or even the sea of people attacked, they could do nothing, making the hedgehog into a ball and watching the enemy stumble and retreat.

The most obvious battle was the Watergate Bridge, which was blocked on the only way for the American troops to break through and retreat. It was bombed three times by volunteers, but each time the US military was able to repair it in the shortest time with strong logistics. At the last time, the steel beams and iron cables were simply airlifted from the US military base in Japan to the Korean battlefield, and a brand-new bridge with a load of more than 50 tons was built, and the passing capacity even exceeded the original bridge. However, at this moment, the volunteer soldiers who are interspersed in the same place and ambushed on both sides of the US retreat road have never fired a shot. The cold of MINUS 40 degrees claimed their lives, and the unyielding ice sculptures remained in the formation of latent impact. How unwilling is this?

The troops that just won the liberation war entered Korea. At the beginning of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, there was no doubt that the real American army and the Kuomintang army with American ordnance were put together as a reference. This misjudgment actually exists in the whole army and becomes a fatal blind optimism. The battle started, and the real knife collided with the real gun, only to find 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, commander of the 88th Division, and Gong Jie, political commissar, were punished by military law for delaying the fighter plane and failing to fight effectively. The 88th Division was disbanded into a regiment, which is extremely severe and rare in the history of China People's Liberation Army.

Therefore, Changjin Lake, a place name hidden in the mountains of northern Korea, is world-famous because of this war, which makes both China and the United States unforgettable. Frankly speaking, the battle of Changjin Lake was not the most brilliant pride of the volunteers during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. It has not been the focus of domestic propaganda for a long time. It's even better to defeat the Americans in Nanxinggang, and they even call themselves Dunkirk retreat. The whole second battle was divided into two battle situations: East and West. The Battle of SongGu Feng, which happened in the war situation on the western front corresponding to Changjin Lake on the eastern front, 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 38th Army, the main force on the eastern front, even played the title of "Long live the army".

So why should we put such a battle on the big screen today? This is a good question. If you really want to answer, I'm afraid you have to think about Sino-US relations from 70 years ago to today. After all, war, as the most complicated top-level mode of all human social activities, has always served politics.

Having said that, 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 is to take a big shot to show the grand scene of the war and reflect the classic moments of historical changes, such as the longest day, the distant bridge, the Armageddon and so on. But without Jin Gangzuan, don't engage in porcelain making. Blockbusters are risky and need to be cautious in investment.

One is to take small pictures and make big ones, and put personal joys and sorrows in the background of war, birth, illness and death, which undoubtedly reduces the controllable risks and is more likely to cause the audience to sing bad songs, such as Saving Private Ryan, Pai, Assembly and so on.

The ambition of the battle of Changjin Lake is undoubtedly much greater. It is big, it is small, and it wants both.

It's easier said than done.

A three-hour movie costs as much as1300 million yuan and takes 180 days to shoot. The creative team spent five years polishing the script. There are more than 7,000 shooting teams, 70,000 extras, more than 40 special effects companies, and the total number of staff exceeds12,000. From any angle, it is a rare masterpiece of China movies in recent years.

There are three creators known as the debut directors of Tiantuan, namely Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian. With the professional ability and past achievements of the three of them, any single-handed work is with music. So one plus one plus one plus one must be equal to three? Well, I'm really not sure, maybe less than two, maybe 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 biggest problem of the battle of Changjin Lake is that he has lost the sense of balance necessary for an excellent work. The so-called opening and closing, nothing, ups and downs, are all flat. The opening is the climax, racing all the way, stepping on the accelerator to the end, whether you are dizzy or not. It's like three directors fighting for an audience. Come and see me! Come and see me! Come and see what I took! However, time is limited and space is limited, so it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Then try hard to plug in high-energy stimulating elements, what comes cool, what comes sensational, what comes short, and what comes fast. 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, accompanied by BGM being forcibly inserted from time to time, led to more scenes, until the brain left the cinema, it was still very painful. However, when the plot goes too fast, it is easy to go offline, and it is easy to roll over without a good turning point. What's more, sometimes the audience can't even see a face clearly, and the actors seem to have forgotten about it. Those tears that simply can't stand scrutiny are getting cheaper and more naive.

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

Oh, it should be the damage caused by 200 million special effects, which is much more powerful than 50 special effects.

It has been 202 1 year, and it is still popular to shoot under the gun with a flame effect of more than one meter long. Are you setting off fireworks?

Actually carrying rocket launchers to attack subsonic fixed-wing fighters, is this a new technology learned from Bollywood next door?

As soon as the train door in Mercedes-Benz opened, wow, thousands of miles of beautiful mountains and rivers came to my face, just like the New Year pictures sold in rural markets, full of plastic feeling, 50 cents a piece, no more;

It should have been an extremely tragic encounter on the river beach, but there was a scene of air dialogue and connection between American pilots, which felt like a visual sense of playing games online;

Driving a minivan, I rushed directly to the American motorcade and saw who was destroyed. I thought it was Transformers possession.

Not to mention the shells colliding in the air, endless bullets, crowded charge formations, not as good as the blasting scenes, and weapons and props for children to play house. If you look closely at the American tank, there is no observation window for the command, and you don't know how the tank is opened, or should I say that the crew looks down on the domestic prop factory? As a result, as soon as you turn your head, you will find that you can grab a tank casually and drive, 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 actors, the whole movie Hu Junjun is the best. Although the final sacrifice also lacked basic military knowledge, as an actor, he did his best. Followed by Duan Long, all performance, no credit, that is hard work. Jackson yee, still in a better day, only this time wearing a military uniform, no growth and breakthrough, no 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 are for movies, not putting the cart before the horse. Let the whole movie serve only you. No actor can put himself above the film. If you insist on turning a movie into a solo show, you might as well shoot MTV.

As for those almost comical and shocking lines, sudden preaching, righteously posing, the embarrassment of forcibly 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 heroes who died in Changjin Lake?

Finally, I ended by borrowing the famous words of Yang Gensi, a volunteer fighting hero.

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

I don't believe in insurmountable difficulties.

I don't believe in invincible enemies.