"Falcon" was different from "Hoe Rape" when it was released, when "Hoe Rape" was released, there was a strong opponent of "Mom Loves Me Again", and when "Falcon" was released, there was no decent opponent at all. When many movies are in the show, they are not lined up by other movies, and all of them are "Falcon". Even so, "Falcon" is still full and hard to get.

When countless audiences walked into the cinema with the movie tickets they had bought with great difficulty, they were not disappointed and enjoyed an unprecedented audio-visual feast. "Falcon" is a popular movie they have never seen before, and it can be said that it burns from the beginning to the end, which is simply refreshing. After watching the movie, they couldn't suppress their excitement and warmly recommended "Falcon" to their relatives and friends. And these recommended viewers watched the movie, and after coming out of the cinema, they recommended the movie to their relatives and friends with excitement.

"Falcon" has already attracted much attention, and the audience who watched the movie frantically recommended the movie to the people around them. In a very short period of time, the reputation of "Falcon" exploded. Like a gust of wind rolling up on the flat ground, "Falcon" quickly swept through major cities across the country and became a topic that everyone was talking about.

In Beihai Park, several young people sat on the chairs and discussed "Falcon" enthusiastically. Sitting in the middle, the young man danced and said, "The Falcon Squad is really awesome, do you really have such an awesome force?"

The young man next to him sneered: "Of course there is, scouts like Falcon are not ordinary scouts, they are composed of top people selected from various units, they are scouts among scouts, and they are the kings of scouts." I have a cousin in a unit that is not exactly the same as the Falcon, and the soldiers in their unit are all first-class masters. An ordinary scout, he can fight five by himself. ”

Someone questioned, "Isn't your cousin in the cooking class?"

The young man's old face turned red: "My other cousin, their team is very mysterious, and they are not allowed to talk to the public." ”

In the workshop of a factory in the magic capital, two young workers who watched "Falcon" last night were full of excitement and recommended the movie to other workers.

"You have to see this film. At the beginning and end of the movie, our army fired 10,000 artillery shots, beating the Vietnamese to the point of crying wolves, as well as tank charges, and Tang Guoqiang also shot down a helicopter of the Vietnamese. You can see the helicopter being hit, then falling to the ground, rolling towards the screen, I don't know how they filmed it. The whole movie is played from the beginning to the end, which makes people dare not blink a little, and it is definitely the best movie I have ever seen. ”

"This film was filmed by the director of "Hoe Rape", and the style is also the style of "Hoe Rape", which is particularly real and bloody, but the scene of "Falcon" is much bigger than "Hoe Rape", and it is much better. It's really beautiful, and if you don't watch it, you'll definitely regret it. ”

In a high school in Rongcheng, several boys surrounded Xu Wangbei in the middle, hoping that she could help get a few tickets for "Falcon". They are sophomores in high school, and they are about to take the pre-exam, and if they fail to pass the pre-exam, then they are not eligible to take the college entrance examination. They can't skip class to watch movies like students in other grades, and they can only find time to watch them at night, but "Falcon" is too popular, and it is crowded at night, and they can't buy tickets at all. They knew that Xu Wangbei's eldest brother was the manager of the show studio, so they asked her to take them to the show studio to watch free movies.

A chubby boy begged, "Squad leader, you can take us to the show studio to watch!"

The other boys also said: "Class leader, we all know that you are the best, you can take us to the show studio to watch!"

Xu Wangbei was a little moved, she also wanted to watch the movie made by her second brother, but considering that she was about to take the pre-exam, she still said: "Not today, wait for Sunday, I'll take you there on Sunday." ”

Due to the popularity of "Falcon", in order to meet the audience's viewing needs, many theater staff began to schedule films at half past five in the morning. Under normal circumstances, cinemas show five shows a day, but with the popularity of "Falcon", many theaters have increased their schedules to eight shows a day. Even so, "Falcon" is still full and hard to find.

Because "Falcon" is so popular, the ticket seller in the cinema starts selling tickets from early in the morning and sells them until night, and there is no time to even drink saliva, which is very hard. However, the conductor is not the hardest, but the staff in charge of running the film is the hardest. They start their work at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and when they get the copies, they put them in the hanging pockets on the back of their bicycles and rush to the cinema where they work, running from morning to the end of the evening movie screenings.

Liao Hailin is a film runner at the Dahua Cinema in Beiping, and he has been running from early morning to evening for the past two days, and he is tired enough. Although he was a little tired, he still felt a great sense of accomplishment when he heard the applause and cheers of the audience outside the screening hall.

It is very common for any runner to encounter problems, and it is something that any runner will encounter. When he went to the Guohua Cinema next door to pick up the copy, he failed to get the film on time due to a machine failure, which meant that the audience waiting at the Dahua Cinema could not watch the movie on time.

After getting the film, Liao Hailin rode his bicycle and rushed back desperately. Normally a 25-minute ride, this time he only took 10 minutes. When he arrived at the cinema, he was so exhausted that he collapsed directly to the ground. When the theater staff saw him coming back, they ran quickly, took out the copy from the hanging pocket of the back seat of the bicycle, and quickly ran upstairs.

Liao Hailin sat on the ground and gasped for two minutes, and after panting evenly, he got up from the ground and prepared to go to the Guohua Cinema to get a copy. At this moment, he heard the conductor shouting: "All the tickets for "Falcon" are sold out today, and the audience who wants to see it will come back tomorrow!"

In the past, as long as the ticket seller announced that the movie tickets were sold out, even if the audience waiting to buy tickets was unhappy, there was nothing they could do but consider themselves unlucky, shake their heads and leave, and wait for tomorrow to come back.

But today there were a few young lads lined up outside the ticket window, and this was their third time, and they ran out of tickets when it was about to be their turn. They became angry all of a sudden: "What are you doing, why are there no tickets every time we are lined up, do you think we are easy to bully?"

"Wait for tomorrow? I'm the third time for the! You can't have two more shows!"

"Yes, you can't arrange two more shows? Some movie theaters will show all night, why don't you leave it until 11 o'clock in the evening? Is this how you serve the people?"

Other spectators who didn't buy tickets at the scene also lined up for a long time, but they couldn't buy tickets, and they were very unhappy. Now when I heard a few young men stirring up a scene, they were all excited and started to make a fuss.

"Yes, other movie theaters can stay all night. Why can't you put it?"

"Hurry up and increase the number of games! You will die if you play two more games!"

"Where's your manager, let your manager come out!"

Liao Hailin heard the audience shouting loudly, asking for more performances, and even asking for all-night screenings, he only felt that his legs were weak. I almost sat on the ground, my mother, all night screening, so I don't have to run at night?

In contrast to the enthusiastic reception of "Falcon" by the audience, the entire critical community has taken a completely dismissive attitude towards "Falcon", and there is no review of "Falcon" at all, as if "Falcon" is not worth mentioning, as if "Falcon" does not exist.

Now that learning from the New Wave and Europe has become the mainstream of the literary and artistic circles, commercial films are regarded as a flood of beasts, regarded as artistic degeneration, and as long as commercial films are released, they will either be ignored by critics or besieged. Last year, Beijing Film Studio's "Mysterious Buddha" was tragically besieged, and China Film Company almost dared not screen it.

Xu Wangqiu has always advocated learning from Hollywood and developing Chinese genre films, which is naturally a thorn in the side of these people. They can't wait to tear "Falcon" to shreds and step on 10,000 feet. But "Falcon" is not an ordinary film, it is about self-defense and counterattack, and it has been highly recognized by the central leadership. They didn't dare to criticize "Falcon", so they chose to ignore it.

However, this silence was quickly broken, and a lengthy review of "Falcon" was published in the latest issue of "Film Art". Zhong Xinfei watched "Falcon" in March, and his evaluation of the movie was very high, and he felt that Xu Wangqiu had made a breakthrough on the basis of "Hoe Rape". After watching the movie, he wrote an article specifically. It's just that "The Art of Cinema" was published in mid-May, and it wasn't until a few days after the film's release that his article was released to the public.

Zhong Xianfei wrote in the article: "The plot of "Falcon" is somewhat similar to "Crossing the River Reconnaissance", mainly about our army's reconnaissance team to the Vietnamese army's position to reconnoiter the position of mobile heavy artillery. The abundant revolutionary passion, major theme ideas, and excellent audio-visual language make "Falcon" a rare masterpiece in war movies. To paraphrase Shao Mujun's words, "Falcon" is a milestone work, and the history of world war films should be written in two paragraphs.

In the last two years, there has been a lot of discussion about whether movies should be more artistic or more entertaining. The entire literary and artistic circles generally believe that film is art, and the pursuit of entertainment effects is artistic degeneration. "Falcon" has a lot of innovations and breakthroughs, and the artistic level is undoubtedly very high, but at the same time, the film has been warmly welcomed by the audience, and it is difficult to find tickets in many places.

Really good literary and artistic works and really good movies can not only give people ideological lessons, but also inevitably give people artistic aesthetic enjoyment, so that people can be happy and rest. Ignoring the aesthetic function of literature and art and rejecting the entertainment role of literature and art will cause literature and art to be separated from the masses and lead to a dead end. In the same way, depending on the educational and cognitive role of literature and art, and emphasizing the entertainment of literature and art to the supreme or even unique position, will also lead literary and artistic creation to go in the wrong direction. It is very dangerous to put the educational and cognitive role of literature and art in absolute opposition to the aesthetic and entertainment role, as if the role of education should not be entertained.

Films with entertainment effects are not necessarily artistic, and films that pursue artistry cannot absolutely avoid commerce, and commerce and art should not be absolutely opposed. "The Rape" and "The Falcon" are both films that have made artistic breakthroughs and have a high artistic standard, but these two films have been warmly welcomed by the people, achieving a double harvest of art and commerce. I think "The Rape" and "The Falcon" are the benchmarks of Chinese films, and the appreciation of elegance and vulgarity should become the common pursuit of Chinese filmmakers.

Avoiding the commerciality of films, advocating that the farther away the film business is, the better, and getting into the horns of "pure art" aestheticism will inevitably weaken the foundation of the survival of Chinese films, detach themselves from the love of the broad masses of the people, and make the road of Chinese films not wider and wider, but narrower and narrower. This is what The Falcon tells us, and we must be wary of. ”

Zhong Xinfei has a deep influence in the film criticism world and is the founder of Chinese film aesthetics. After the publication of his review of "The Falcon", the entire literary and artistic world could no longer ignore "Falcon", and various reviews came out one after another.