Millennium director

After meeting up with friends, playing mahjong for most of the day, and learning about the current situation of the domestic entertainment actor circle, Wu Yuan soon returned to work again.

It is now April 2015, and there are less than 6 months left before the release date of "Riding the Wind". Although it is not urgent, Wu Yuan cannot be carefree.

In this way, under his relatively urgent command, on June 3, 2015, the post-production of "Riding the Wind" was successfully completed and sent for review.

To be honest, Wu Yuan thinks this movie is quite good. Although it is a movie expanded from a unit story in "My Fathers and Me" and is not as "popular" as the tribute films in the series, it is indeed a main theme movie that is more in line with the commercial film market.

In the movie, he did not exaggerate any ideological things too much, nor did he tell any great righteousness or truths. In fact, it tells a story about the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment shedding tears and blood during the Anti-Japanese War.

In order to rescue and transfer the cadres, the masses, the elderly, the weak, women and children trapped in the encirclement of the devils, the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment, which had successfully jumped out of the enemy's encirclement, took a short breath to contain the enemy, and was ordered to return to the hinterland of the base to persist in the struggle.

For more than 60 days, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment fought desperately in the "iron wall encirclement" of tens of thousands of enemies, and used traditional cavalry shock tactics to tear a bloody gap in the Japanese blockade line, and bravely completed the task.

But the price was that the team suffered heavy casualties. The cavalry regiment of 1,200 people was left with less than 400 people. From Ma Chengfeng, the son of the regiment commander Ma Renxing, to Zhengwei and the deputy regiment commander, all died heroically and died bravely.

There are many sensational exaggerations in the movie. For example, Ma Renxing was usually very strict with his son, but when the Japanese army attacked, he saw that countless villagers were about to suffer misfortune. He tearfully released a signal flare and led the Japanese soldiers to the hill where his son was.

The villagers were saved, but his son died under the guns of the Japanese.

Wang Nairong, the cavalry regiment's political leader, was surrounded by the enemy while seriously wounded. In order to avoid being captured, he decisively shot himself.

At the end of the film, Wu Yuan edited Chengfeng's sacrifice in parallel with the scene of Dachunzi giving birth on the boat.

Through the contrasting montage method, the metaphorical meaning of "death-rebirth" was highlighted to confirm the significance of Chengfeng's sacrifice.

At the end of the film, three years later, the Anti-Japanese War was victorious. Ma Renxing met the orphan of the martyr and asked what the child's name was. Dachunzi said it was "Chengfeng".

At that moment, Ma Renxing was overwhelmed with emotions and felt relieved.

The endless inheritance and promotion of the Chinese national spirit and family and country feelings were sublimated at the end of the film.

Although the life of the young Chengfeng came to an abrupt end, another Chengfeng was born at the same time, and the torch of revolution was passed on.

There is no doubt that such an ending is enough of the main theme, and it is enough for the audience to feel the greatness of the revolutionary martyrs and the difficulty of building the country.

Wu Yuan believes that such a movie is definitely qualified as a tribute film, and it may achieve good box office.

After all, the word-of-mouth reviews of the original "My Fathers and Me" are actually mixed, because there are four unit stories in one movie, and the quality of the four unit stories is uneven, which lowers the overall evaluation of the movie.

Wu Yuan only selected the unit with the best evaluation to remake the complete version, which will make this movie get better word-of-mouth and evaluation than "My Fathers and Me", and the box office performance will naturally be good.

It is definitely impossible to break the domestic box office record, but there is hope to break the box office record of domestic main theme movies.

After all, the enthusiasm of domestic movie fans for watching movies this year is really crazy, and the box office record of more than one billion yuan was broken as if it were a game.

The current box office record of main theme movies is still maintained by the Jian character, and "Riding the Wind" is very likely to create a new record.

With this idea in mind, Wu Yuan waited for a few days.

Soon!

Just after he submitted it for review, it took only one week for the General Administration to quickly review it and issue the Dragon Mark to "Riding the Wind", without any guidance requirements, and without any cuts!

Even the leaders of the General Administration took the initiative to pass on the message, saying that Wu Yuan shot it very well, and this is the main theme movie of the new era, a good movie that is both commercial and main theme!

In this era of explosive growth in the domestic film industry, new main theme movies like "Riding the Wind" can be used as a benchmark and model for the future new main theme movies of China Film!

This praise caught Wu Yuan off guard.

After hanging up the phone, he thought about it carefully, it was true!

At present, the main theme movies in China have indeed fallen into a dead end.

Early main theme movies like "Railway Guerrilla Warfare" are outdated, and the main theme movies of the Jian series made by Han Sanping only have three tricks, one or two but not three.

While watching the domestic film industry getting better and better, the General Administration is indeed worried about where the main theme movies in the new era will go.

Don’t think that only China has mainstream movies.

In fact, the “main theme” was first born in Hollywood. Movies like “Top Gun” and later popular movies that promote the “American Dream” are all mainstream American blockbusters!

Hollywood uses these movies to spread its ideology and political ideas to the world, and to promote the greatness, truth, goodness and beauty of the United States.

Regardless of whether the "America" ​​in the movie is the same as the real America, most ordinary people in the world rely on movies to understand America. The America in Hollywood movies is the America in their hearts.

This is the main theme of Hollywood.

The General Administration does not expect to be able to produce Chinese-language movies that promote and popularize its ideology to the world, but the domestic base must still be protected.

It's just that after the commercialization of mainland movies in recent years, there are indeed few directors who can shoot "main theme" movies. The last movie that was regarded as a Chinese business card and increased the confidence and pride of the Chinese people was "Gravity".

Hey, what a coincidence, it was shot by Wu Yuan!

Now Wu Yuan has brought out "Riding the Wind", a new type of "main theme blockbuster" that took ten years to develop after "The Founding of a Republic". This undoubtedly points out a broad road for the General Administration and China Film Group, which are currently confused and don't know what to do!

"By the way, if the main theme movie is well made, it can also get box office." Wu Yuan stroked his chin and pondered.

Should we bring out movies like "Operation Red Sea" and "Operation Mekong"? (End of this chapter)