"囧" was attacked by Hollywood blockbusters and European films, but still grabbed more than 30% of the box office.
On December 24, before Christmas, another movie from Tianwang Film Company was officially released.
"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", a war film costing 80 million yuan...
War movies are rarely made by film companies, they are relatively unpopular genres, and their box office performance is usually mediocre.
However, this was labeled as "Wang Shang Attention" when it was promoted, and it was the first war film produced by Tianwang Film and Television, so on the day of its release, many professional film critics and media writers bought tickets and went to the cinema.
Look at it.
Although it is relatively unpopular, because it is during the Christmas holiday, the cinema is full of movie fans who want to buy tickets for the movie "The Thirteen Hairpins". It is very lively, and many people go there for the promotion.
At the beginning of the movie, there was a misty fog, and a group of female students were running on a bad road full of fog, gun smoke, corpses, and fireworks.
A voice with a Nanjing accent came: "After more than twenty days of bombing, Nanjing was completely captured by the Japanese army. It was December 13, 1937. I remember that everyone was running that day, and it seemed that they would never be able to escape.
Out of that heavy fog..."
"At this time, Nanjing no longer has any ability to resist, and all that is left is to escape..."
At the beginning, the entire audience in the theater felt the cruelty and heaviness of war. The dim colors and fog were like a big stone weighing on the hearts of all the audience.
Then an American, two female students, and a Japanese soldier met.
Then a group of Kuomintang soldiers encountered a Japanese army squad with armored vehicles, and a fierce scramble began.
The bullets flew by, and the concussive sound was like a bullet grazing their ears. The occasional explosions also made the audience feel the horror of war.
After a fierce battle, everyone except instructor Li and a young soldier died.
I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve watched a war movie, costume, urban, science fiction… I watch less than twenty movies in each genre every year, but I haven’t watched a war movie in I don’t know how long.
As soon as the movie opens, the audience is attracted and feels like they are in a place of purgatory from which they cannot escape.
That kind of hesitation...
That panic...
That fear...
That kind of pain...
The money-oriented Americans came to a church. The female students escaped and entered the church to hide from the Japanese soldiers. Instructor Li, who survived the battle, dragged a seriously injured soldier into the church. Soon after, a group of "jinv"
Came to the church.
An American who pretended to be a priest to save people, a group of female students hiding in a church, 14 "jinv" who escaped from the war, and soldiers and wounded soldiers who fought desperately, four people with different destinies, at this moment.
Came to the same place.
Outside, the city was full of Japanese soldiers massacring them.
Soon, the female students quarreled with the "jinv" because of the conflict of ideas. The female students despised the "jinv" career, and the "jinv" did not like the female students.
While they were making a noise, Japanese soldiers rushed into the church.
The "jinv" hid in the secret room. Just when they were about to take the female students into the secret room, the Japanese soldiers saw it. In order not to implicate these "jinv", the female students had to find another way.
The Americans experienced human struggles, and finally gritted their teeth and pretended to be priests, shouting at the Japanese soldiers.
In order to distract the Japanese, Instructor Li finally died heroically.
The priest used the excuse of singing hymns to God to hold back the Japanese.
In the end, the Japanese army forced female students to perform for the Japanese army at the celebration party. Everyone knew that this would be a dangerous road of no return. The female students did not want to be humiliated by the Japanese army and prepared to commit mass suicide, but in the end they were beaten with jade and ink.
The leader "jinv" rescued him.
"I just don't think it's worth it. They don't let us enter the toilet. They think we are dirty, and now we want to die for them."
"Don't talk about whether it's worth it. If the little girl hadn't lured the little devil away that day, all of us would have been dead."
"Do you know what everyone has been saying about us since ancient times?"
"Business girls don't know how to hate the country's subjugation, but they still sing songs in the backyard across the river."
"We might as well do something upright and change this long-standing reputation."
When the "jinv" took off their "jinv" clothes and exposed their delicate skin, the audience did not feel any lust, but felt a kind of sadness and anger.
They changed into student clothes and danced. The singing voice was low. Although they were "jinv", they were like lotus flowers emerging from the mud, white and flawless. Just like a new life.
These 13 "jinv", dressed in student uniforms and carrying homemade glass knives, went to a tragic death appointment on behalf of the female students in the church.
The whole movie is full of depression, without any jokes to lighten the atmosphere, and the hearts of all the viewers seem to be blocked.
Until the end of the movie, there was no noise or applause from the audience.
There was no sound, there was a faint sound of sobbing, and all the audience left quietly...
Reviews for the movie are slower to come in than any other movie...
"This is a movie that troubles me and makes me lose all my good mood for the whole day..."
"I went to bed very late last night. The reason was that I couldn't sleep. There were all kinds of complicated emotions in my heart, mainly heavy. Suddenly there were many questions. About human nature, about the Japanese, about the war. I asked someone to give me
Talk about history, why Nanjing was the worst, and how China won later. It seems like I have learned history in vain. The concept of the Anti-Japanese War has been so diluted that I have forgotten that this war lasted for 8 years."
"This is the only movie in the cinema that I cried from beginning to end in many years. When I saw that little George was willing to replace the female students and ask for an invitation to dress up as a girl to go to Japan, I even went from crying silently to
Sobbing."
"This is just 20/300,000 in the painful history of Nanjing..."
"This film is like "Hotel Rwanda" to the Tutsi and "Katyn Massacre" to the history of Poland. It is no longer just a movie, it is related to the history of Nanjing and the history of China..."
"There is hatred in the tears, sometimes heavy, sometimes depressed, sometimes touching. This is the best war movie in many years."
"She is so beautiful. From the first moment I saw her, she was stunning, calm, and charming. I felt pity for her. Her red lips and printed brocade cheongsam make her graceful and pretty, without losing any of the charm of a Qinhuai River woman.
graceful."
During the Christmas period, most of the entire movie market is showing films that are funny, lighthearted or gorgeous and exciting, and "The Thirteen Hairpins" is like a white swan that doesn't fit in with the ducks, heavy and sharp, piercing the joy.
festival.
It is like a dark horse, disrupting the joy of Christmas and making strange peaks.
The box office is rising steadily, the spread is getting wider and wider, and it is becoming more and more popular.
On the third day, its box office began to buck the trend, and step by step it defeated many domestic and foreign high-quality blockbusters.
On December 28, it directly reached the top of the box office with a box office of 47 million, winning the title of daily box office champion.
On December 29th, December 30th, and December 31st, we won the championship for four consecutive days!!!
If it weren't for the release of several other new movies on January 1st, which reduced its film schedule, it is estimated that the high box office would have continued.
And "China Film Weekly" used the entire first page of the weekend newspaper to comment on the movie - "A dark horse at the box office. It is a successful movie that makes people heavy and sad, but also makes people want to stop."
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The success of the movie has undoubtedly brought war movies into the spotlight again.
Tianwang Film and Television Company has many successful movies, so Wang Shang didn't pay too much attention to this movie. After hearing that it won the daily box office champion for the second time, he made a phone call to commend the production team of "The Thirteen Beauties".
The box office competition for movies during the Lunar New Year period is undoubtedly very fierce. Especially after the implementation of EU film access, the Lunar New Year period has become a place where high-quality movies gather. If they are not high-quality movies, they would not dare to choose this time to release them.
Therefore, after "The Thirteen Hairpins" became popular for a week, the attendance rate began to decline rapidly, and the film scheduling rate also began to decline, and part of the screen was allocated to new movies. However, after all, it has won the championship again, so the film scheduling rate still takes priority.