Chapter 401: Xu Ji Gou Thief, how can you do emotional scenes like this?
August 1st is a special holiday. Although there is no holiday on this day, many websites on the Internet still celebrate it in various ways.
For example, Weibo has given an extra page to open the screen, and at the same time given the number one hot search position to Army Day.
And video websites such as G Station have shot corresponding promotional videos.
The playback volume is also very high.
The most important thing is that compared with last year, this time is the centenary of the founding of the army.
Therefore, whether it is official or various platforms, they still attach great importance to this.
But the one that has attracted the most attention is Xu Ji’s gift film this time.
"Operation Red Sea" was launched on time on August 1st.
Many viewers actually don't have much interest in military-themed and tribute films, but because Xu Ji is the director, mainly Ji Yiyang and Chen Kang, they chose to watch this movie.
Sang Shaolong is different. Strictly speaking, watching movies should be considered one of his current jobs.
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After walking into the theater and finding his seat and sitting down, Sang Shaolong subconsciously began to look at the attendance rate of the theater at this time.
More than 70% of the seats are occupied.
Although the attendance rate of the premiere is indeed relatively high, such an attendance rate is still beyond the imagination of many ordinary first- and second-tier directors.
The most important thing is that this time is not as popular as the National Day and Spring Festival.
It can be said that such an attendance rate is due to Xu Ji’s charisma.
As the lights in the theater went out, it was still the familiar beginning of Tongji Entertainment.
The difference is that this time, in addition to Tongji Entertainment, there is also a logo from the military.
At the same time, it clearly says: "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Army".
It can be said that the audience is told from the beginning that this is an official tribute film.
Although it is an official tribute film, the inclusion of the Tongji Entertainment title still proves that the entire film, from shooting to post-production, was completed by Xu Ji's Tongji Entertainment.
The official authority given to Xu Ji is still very large.
This is the biggest feeling in Sang Shaolong's heart at this time.
When Xu Ji first filmed "Mountains and Seas", he was actually just a director, and even the characters in it were mostly official actors.
Although it is still given a high level of authority, it is far from complete trust and assurance.
But by the time of the subsequent "Soldier Assault", Xu Ji's dominance had been fully revealed.
For example, the protagonist in it turned out to be a completely new actor, and he even went to Hengcheng for auditions.
If we change the director, the official will definitely not agree.
Until this time, even the title of the film can be added with Tongji Entertainment’s logo animation.
Obviously, Xu Ji was completely allowed to express himself freely.
There are not too many restrictions.
Of course Sang Shaolong thinks this is a good thing.
After all, if the official intervention is too great, it will definitely affect Xu Ji's performance.
As a director, the freedom of filming is still very important.
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At the same time, except for Sang Shaolong, the audience at the scene was already familiar with Tongji Entertainment’s title sequence.
There are even many people on the Internet saying that even if they just started watching it, as soon as they saw the opening animation of Tongji Entertainment, they subconsciously felt that this movie would be very exciting.
It is not just a casual statement that the products produced by Tongji must be of high quality.
So far, Tongji Entertainment has produced film and television works with Xu Ji as the screenwriter, whether they are TV series or movies.
The average rating on Huaban.com is above 8 points.
Other companies have a 9-point masterpiece that can be a facade for a long time.
Only Tongji Entertainment, if you look around, there are basically no works with poor reputation.
After the opening credits ended at this time, there was not much narration at the beginning, and the scene that came up was a scene at sea.
It can be seen from the subtitles displayed on the big screen that this should be a mission carried out by the Jiaolong Special Forces to fight against pirates and rescue hostages.
The music and the various shots and images make it easy for people to get involved in the plot.
At this time, because the pirate ship was about to enter the territorial waters of other countries, the captain ordered that the battle must be resolved before that.
It is equivalent to setting up a countdown. This kind of plot is also one of the means to highlight the tension of the plot.
Immediately after the plot, Chen Kang, who played Yang Rui, the captain of the Dragon Team, quickly started taking action.
What follows is a slow-motion bullet time of more than one minute, which directly breaks down the original few seconds into one minute.
Coupled with the background sound of the clock turning, the eyes of the theater audience widened.
At this time, Sang Shaolong also felt very excited.
In fact, he has always been very clear that what Xu Ji is best at filming are many scenes with relatively delicate emotions.
For example, the original "Soldier Assault" also had a military theme, but in fact there were not many related action scenes.
Instead, it focuses more on the psychological portrayal of the characters in the play.
And this time in "Operation Red Sea", although it is only a small plot at the beginning.
But it gave Sang Shaolong a big surprise.
There is almost no dramatic part, it just starts with the plot of executing the mission.
However, all the action scenes in the entire plot were shot very decisively without any sloppiness.
Especially that minute of bullet time is a great test of the director's skills.
From the current point of view, Xu Ji has indeed not shot many action scenes before, but the other party is still experienced and his performance is no worse than some directors who are good at shooting action scenes.
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The plot of the movie continues next, although the mission is completed and the hostages are successfully rescued.
But as a sniper, Luo Xing was injured. A bullet hit his spine. Although he survived, he was paralyzed.
Of course, as the captain, Yang Rui did not tell Jiaolong's team members such news.
Just because of Luo Xing's injury, there will be another sniper in the team this time.
The plot that follows is very fast-paced. It first introduces the situation of a small and chaotic country abroad, and a war is about to break out.
The next task the Jiaolong Commando will receive is to provide cover for China’s subsequent evacuation of overseas Chinese.
Evacuate more than a hundred overseas Chinese from the small country where China is developing war, as well as some foreign employees employed.
The pace is indeed fast, but not chaotic.
Sang Shaolong watched it very carefully. In fact, among the main characters in the movie, except for Chen Kang who played the role of the dragon captain Yang Rui, and Ji Yiyang who played the newly joined sniper Gu Shun, the others were relatively unfamiliar young people.
Face.
I don’t even know Sang Shaolong, the up owner of the film and television area, and the other viewers probably don’t know it either.
The most important thing is that before, Sang Shaolong actually guessed that the main roles in this movie were still Ji Yiyang and Chen Kang.
After all, both of them are well-known and their acting skills are not bad either.
But looking at it now, several members of the Jiaolong Commando have actually been portrayed, and there are also many shots.
It is obviously not the way to highlight the protagonist as I thought before, but the so-called group portrait.
If other directors shoot group portraits, Sang Shaolong would actually be a little worried.
After all, group portrait dramas are difficult to shoot, and the shorter the movie, the harder it will be to shoot.
But if it’s a trace, then it should be fine.
Xu Ji is really good at filming group portrait scenes.
It can be seen from the previous "Soldier Assault" and "My Commander, My Regiment".
This guy is very good at shaping characters, so he hardly has to worry about big problems.
At the same time, Sang Shaolong also noticed some small details.
When Zhang Tiande, a machine gunner of the Jiaolong Commando, was packing his luggage, he tore off a heart-shaped photo from the group photo on his pillow and pasted it on his equipment.
While going out, he bumped into Jiaolong's only female teammate Tong Li, and the atmosphere between the two was obviously awkward.
If your guess is correct, the photo should be of Tong Li, and it is very likely that the two of them will have emotional scenes later on.
Gu Shun, the new sniper who also serves as substitute for Luo Xing, has a rather crazy personality.
The first meeting with my partner, the observer Li Jieyi, was obviously not pleasant.
This is also very likely to be a foreshadowing, and problems may arise when we perform tasks together later.
Sang Shaolong continued to watch the movie while writing down the details he noticed.
At the same time, there is another plot. Machine gunner Zhang Tiande, nicknamed Shitou, will carry a handful of candies with him when he is in action. He is said to love eating candies.
Of course, such small details should actually be regarded as characterization of the character.
At this time, Sang Shaolong did not realize that this was also a foreshadowing.
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Of course, there are eight members of the Jiaolong Commando Team this time.
It is too difficult to remember in a short time.
Even if Sang Shaolong deliberately memorized it, he just simply wrote down the name, but he wanted to clearly identify who is who.
It’s still not that easy.
This also makes Sang Shaolong very curious about how Xu Ji plans to portray this group portrait next.
What surprised Sang Shaolong was that there was still no drama part as imagined.
On the contrary, it is a very exciting gunfight scene.
During the battle with the rebels, we can see the professionalism of the Jiaolong Commandos.
The members of the team each performed their duties and seemed to cooperate very well.
But at the same time, the biggest feeling that gave Sang Shaolong was that it was true.
It's as if you have really entered the scene of a war.
Especially the ruins of the buildings that were bombed into ruins, as well as the various corpses with blood and flesh everywhere.
It is really shocking to see such a scene.
And lament the cruelty of war.
Obviously, Xu Ji did not intend to make a commercially exciting movie this time in which the protagonist becomes the savior and then kills everyone.
Instead, I wanted to directly capture the cruelty and coldness of war.
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This short rescue mission is over. The mission went smoothly, and there were no casualties among the Jiaolong Commandos.
And Machine Gunner Shitou also said why he carries candy with him.
Because his mother’s education philosophy since childhood was to give him a candy every time, so every time he eats candy, he feels that no matter how serious the injury is, it doesn’t hurt.
The Jiaolong team then received a second mission, to rescue Deng Mei, a Chinese citizen.
Yang Rui, the captain of Jiaolong, also learned the location of the rebel base camp from reporter Xia Nan.
The rebels also sent a warning to the Chinese Navy. They killed Xia Nan's assistant Abu. If Xia Nan was not handed over, they would kill Deng Mei next.
But it was obvious that the mission would not go so smoothly, and soon they were attacked.
Although Jiaolong responded quickly, the bus the refugees were traveling on was blown over.
Signal soldier Zhuang Yu originally wanted to rescue the refugees, but when he entered the bus, he saw a tragic scene.
There were almost no intact people left in the bus. They were all broken limbs and arms that had been blown to pieces. Blood and flesh were flying everywhere, and there were wailing sounds everywhere.
"Fuck!"
Sang Shaolong was stunned when he saw such a scene.
Is this passable?!
At the same time, a sickening sound of retching suddenly came from the theater.
Then a girl in her twenties got up and ran towards the restroom at the entrance of the theater.
In fact, Sang Shaolong had seen relevant reminders before the movie was released.
It was said that there would be bloody scenes, but I never expected that it would be such a straightforward scene.
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The next rescue mission begins, barely giving the audience a chance to breathe.
The rhythm is too tight and hardly gives the Jiaolong team any chance to breathe.
And there are almost all kinds of very real gun battles and action scenes.
It’s truly an adrenaline rush.
In particular, the showdown between the sniper Gu Shun played by Ji Yiyang and a foreign sniper kid, and the psychological game between the two sides, made Sang Shaolong, a person who didn't really like this kind of action movies, very happy to watch it.
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But it all happened until Jiaolong's first teammate died, and the atmosphere suddenly became solemn.
Communications Corpsman Zhuang Yu was discovered by the enemy and eventually died together with the enemy.
Even in the end, before dying, he still helped the team restore communications.
When Lu Chen threw the grenade back, one of his arms was blown to pieces.
It hurts just to look at it.
The worst thing was machine gunner Shi Shi, whose left cheek was left bloody and bloody.
In the end, he died in the arms of his teammate Tong Li.
It wasn't until the last moment of his life that Shitou's heart-shaped photo of Tong Li that he had posted on his body armor was seen by the other party.
Tong Li tried hard to cover Shitou's bleeding wound, but Shitou weakly said: "It hurts..."
At this time, Tong Li seemed to have remembered something, and hurriedly took out the candy Shi Shi had given her before from her pocket.
He said with a trembling voice: "Eat sweets. It doesn't hurt to eat sweets."
"Didn't you say that eating sweets doesn't hurt? You said that eating sweets doesn't hurt..."
In her anxiety, Tong Li couldn't peel off the sugar coating, and from time to time she could hear the sound of bullets flying by.
Finally, she put the candy into the other person's mouth and said:
"It doesn't hurt to eat sweets. We are going home, going home..."
In the end, the stone made no sound and was completely dead.
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At this time, it was heard in the theater that many people's eyes were red.
Sang Shaolong had been trying his best to restrain himself, but finally tears suddenly flowed down.
He discovered the foreshadowing about the two characters earlier than other viewers.
More importantly, he originally thought that the two of them would have a romantic drama or something.
The result...
Sang Shaolong couldn't help but cursed in a low voice:
"Xu Ji Gouzi, how can you do emotional scenes like this?"