Chapter 340: The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling

ps:

There's another chapter to come.

"Thai Embarrassment" still grabbed more than 30% of the box office under the attack of Hollywood blockbusters and European films.

On December 24th, before Christmas, another film from Tianwang Film and Television Company was officially released.

"The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", a war film costing 80 million......

War films are rarely made by film companies, they belong to a more out-of-the-box genre, and they usually perform mediocre at the box office.

However, this was labeled as 'Wang Shang's concern' when it was promoted, and it was the first war film made by Tianwang Film and Television, so on the day of its release, many professional film critics and media writers bought tickets to watch it in the cinema.

Although it is relatively out of the way, because of the Christmas holiday, the movie theater is full of fans who want to buy tickets for "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", which is very lively, and many people are going to promote it.

At the beginning of the movie, it is a misty fog, and a group of female students are constantly running on a rotten road full of fog, gunsmoke, corpses, and fireworks.

Wheezing, panicked footsteps, gunshots, artillery fire......

A voice with a Nanjing accent came: "After more than 20 days of bombing, Nanjing was completely broken by the Japanese army, and that was December 13, 1937. I remember that all the people were running that day, as if they would never be able to escape the fog......"

"At this time, Nanjing no longer has any ability to resist, and all that is left is to flee for your life......

As soon as the scene opened, the audience in the entire theater felt the cruelty and heaviness of war, and the dim colors and fog pressed on the hearts of all the audience like a big stone.

Then an American, two schoolgirls, and a Japanese soldier met.

Then a detachment of Kuomintang* soldiers encountered a squad of Japanese troops with armored vehicles, and a fierce grab began.

Bullets flew by. The sound of the concussion was like a bullet grazing the ears, and the occasional explosion also made the audience feel the tragedy of the war.

After a fierce battle, except for Instructor Li and a young man soldier, everyone died.

I don't know how long it's been since I've seen a war movie. Costume, Urban, Sci-Fi...... I watch no less than 20 films every year in each genre, but I don't know how many years I haven't watched war movies.

As soon as the movie opens, the audience is captivated and feels like they are in a place of purgatory from which there is no escape.

That kind of hesitation......

That panic......

That fear......

That kind of pain......

The money-oriented American came to a church. The schoolgirls escaped and entered the church to hide from the Japanese soldiers. Instructor Li, who survived the battle, dragged a seriously wounded soldier into the church. Soon after. A group of prostitutes came to the church.

An American pretending to be a priest to save people, a group of schoolgirls hiding in a church, 14 prostitutes fleeing the fighting, and soldiers and wounded soldiers who resist to the death, four people with different destinies came to the same place at this moment.

And outside, all the Japanese soldiers slaughtered all over the city.

Soon, the schoolgirls quarreled with the prostitutes because of a conflict of ideas, the schoolgirls despised the prostitutes' profession, and the prostitutes did not like the schoolgirls.

While they were arguing, the Japanese soldiers stormed the church.

The prostitutes hid in the secret room, just as they wanted to take the schoolgirls into the secret room. The Japanese soldiers saw it. In order not to bother these prostitutes, the schoolgirls had to go the other way.

The Americans went through a human struggle, and finally gritted their teeth and pretended to be a priest, and roared at the Japanese soldiers.

And in order to lure away the Japanese, Instructor Li finally died heroically.

The priest used the excuse of singing an ode to the gods and dragged the Japanese.

In the end, the Japanese army forcibly recruited female students to perform for the Japanese army at the celebration party. Everyone knows that this will be a road of no return. The female students did not want to be humiliated by the Japanese army and prepared to commit suicide en masse*, but in the end they were saved by the prostitutes led by Yumo.

"I just don't think it's worth it, people won't let us in, they think we're dirty, and now they're going to die for them."

"Don't talk about whether it's worth it or not, if it wasn't for the little girl who lured the little devil away that day, we would all have died."

"Do you know what we've been saying since ancient times?"

"The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flowers in the backyard across the river."

"We're just going to do something that stands up to the sky. Change this ancient infamy. ”

When the prostitutes took off their prostitute costumes and revealed their delicate skin, the audience did not feel any lust, but felt a kind of sadness and anger.

Changed into a school uniform and danced. The singing is low, as prostitutes, but they are like lotus flowers emerging from the mud, white and flawless, like new life.

The 13 prostitutes, dressed in school uniforms and carrying homemade glass knives, went to a tragic death covenant in place of the schoolgirls in the church.

The whole movie is full of depression, without any jokes to spice up the atmosphere, and all the audience's hearts seem to be blocked.

Until the end of the movie, there was no noise or applause from all the audience.

There was no sound, there was a faint sobbing, and all the audience left quietly......

The reviews of the movie are slower than any other movie......

"This is a movie that has blocked me, and it has made my good mood for a day go away......"

"I slept very late last night. The reason is that I can't sleep. There have always been all kinds of complicated feelings in my heart, mainly heaviness. Suddenly there were a lot of questions. It's about humanity, it's about the Japanese, it's about war. I pulled someone to tell me the history, why Nanjing was the worst, and how China won later. As if he had studied history in vain, he diluted the concept of the War of Resistance against Japan to the point of forgetting that the war had been fought for 8 years. ”

"It's the only film I've cried from beginning to end in the cinema in many years, and when I saw little George asking to dress up as a girl on behalf of a schoolgirl to go to the Japanese invitation, I even went from silent tears to sobbing."

"This is only about 20 ...... of 300,000 in Nanjing's painful history"

"This film is like "Hotel Rwanda" is to the Tutsi and "Katyn Massacre" is to the history of Poland, it is no longer just a movie, it is about the history of Nanjing, the history of China, ......"

"There is hatred in tears, sometimes heavy, sometimes depressed, sometimes moving, I don't know how many years this is the best war movie."

"How beautiful she is, from the first sight, she is stunning, calm, charming, and I have seen pity. The red lips and the cheongsam with printed brocade are graceful and pretty, without losing the grace of a Qinhuai River woman. ”

During the Christmas season, most of the entire film market is showing this funny, light-hearted or gorgeous and exciting movie, and "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is like a white swan that does not fit with the ducks, heavy and sharp, piercing this joyful festival.

It is like a dark horse, disturbing the joyful Christmas day, and the strange peaks are prominent.

The box office is rising, spreading more and more, and it is getting hotter and hotter.

On the third day, its box office began to buck the trend, cutting down many domestic and foreign blockbusters step by step.

On December 28, it directly topped the box office with 47 million and won the daily box office champion.

On December 29th, December 30th, and December 31st, he won the championship for four consecutive days!!

If it weren't for the release of several other new movies on January 1, which cut its scheduling rate, it is estimated that the high box office will continue.

And "Huaxia Film Weekly" used the entire first page of the newspaper page of the weekend to comment on this movie - "The box office dark horse is a successful movie, which makes people heavy, sad, but also makes people want to stop." ”

The success of the movie has undoubtedly brought the war genre to the spotlight again.

Tianwang Film and Television Company has many successful movies, so Wang Shang didn't pay too much attention to this movie, and when he heard that he had won the Japanese box office championship, he made a phone call to reward the production team of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins".

The box office competition of the Chinese New Year schedule is undoubtedly very fierce, especially after the implementation of EU film access, the Chinese New Year file has become a place where high-quality movies are gathered, not high-quality movies, and they dare not choose this schedule to be released at all.

Therefore, after "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" became popular for a week, the attendance rate began to decline rapidly, and the film scheduling rate also began to decline, allocating part of the screen to new movies. But after all, it is the champion for a second time, so the film scheduling rate is still preferred.