Box office breaks 200 million! Zhang Zifeng a tearful eye, I can't help breaking the defense

How many minutes did you break the defense in doctor China?

I'm the seventh minute.

Before the opening, I heard the girls in the front row say that they brought more paper towels today. You used mine. But just after the opening of the movie, there was a choking cry in the crowd in the screening hall.

See the second half, the girl said, their own also cry.

At the end of the movie, someone listened to the song sung by Zhang Xueyou all the time. When they saw that the light of the cinema was on, they left slowly.

Before watching "doctor of China", most people think of this film and can recall the grand national anti epidemic war. There was no gunfire, but it was more grand than gunfire.

After watching the movie, the most common emotion is "want to cry".

The film won the box office champion on the first day. By the time of publication, the box office had exceeded 170 million. Maotao had a high score of 9.5. The two most words in online reviews were also broken defense. Even President Zhang Dingyu, one of the archetypes in the film, secretly wiped his tears while watching the film.

But what really matters is, why do we cry?

The production team began to work on April 8, 2020 when Wuhan was unsealed. In early April, the production team entered Wuhan for face-to-face interview and research. It has a set of super luxury lineup of the main theme blockbuster, with 80% of the actors covering their faces with masks.

Just ask you, Zhang Hanyu, Yuan Quan, Zhu Yawen, Li Chen, Yi Guan Qianxi, Ou Hao, Zhou ye, Feng Wenjuan, Mei Ting, Li Qin, Zhang Tianai, Song Jia, Yu Feihong, Ni Hongjie, Zhou Bichang, Zhang Zifeng, Tong Liya, Liu Lin... How many do you recognize after watching the movie?

How to restore the anti epidemic war that everyone felt the same way, and how to make the audience sigh when they ride their bicycles home after watching the movie, how beautiful the night is, thank you.

Maybe even though they can't see their faces clearly, they still shape the most remarkable contemporary heroes on the big screen this year.

help

Listening to the name of the movie, I thought it was the main theme of Wei Guangzheng, but I didn't expect it to be a type of film with no urine spots in the whole process.

Director Liu Weiqiang once again showed his ability to balance the theme and narrative of genre films. From the first shot of the positive film, he brought the audience into the play, making the audience realize how cruel the "battlefield" is.

When the hospital opened its door to meet the first batch of large-scale patients, panic and desire for survival brought anxiety, panic and even chaos.

In the face of unfamiliar virus, young doctors have no way to deal with patients.

The medical burden is too heavy, the medical resources are insufficient, and even the ICU power is cut off.

The director is not stingy to show the soul stirring treatment scene in front of the camera. Those hands-on needles and extubations undoubtedly have a strong visual impact, and naturally bring the audience into the strong emotional tension.

These scenes depict the emergency situation when the epidemic broke out, which is undoubtedly to bring the audience back to the scene of the epidemic. The camera let us see the panic and race against the clock when the epidemic broke out. We also saw the real fear and compassion. The resonance came from this. In the cinema, the audience will deeply feel the heat and anxiety of being surrounded by the epidemic.

Shortly after the opening, the audience will see Tao Jun, a doctor played by Zhu Yawen, throwing the roast goose he brought from Guangzhou to Yang Xiaoyang, a new doctor who was in a hurry before, warning him not to enter ICU in the future.

Obviously, the sense of tension belongs not only to patients, ordinary people, but also to doctors.

The story of Chinese doctor is about how these ordinary people became heroes.

The tone of the film is always restrained and plain, it does not avoid the chaos and panic at the beginning of the epidemic, but also faces life and human nature.

However, after watching the film, we will still call them heroes.

Because truth is the best respect for those people in those years, and it is also the soul of the film. Truth has its own power.

try my best

It is of course crucial to make "Chinese doctors" and tell the story of those doctors well.

The focus of the film is Zhang Jingyu, the president of the hospital played by Zhang Hanyu, whose prototype is Zhang Dingyu, the former president of Wuhan Jinyintan hospital.

Looking back at Zhang Hanyu's previous works, the characters he played can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the more tough and outsider image, such as Yang Zirong in outwit tiger mountain. This kind of characters are very close to his own temperament. When you look at them, you can't help overlapping them with Zhang Hanyu.

On the other hand, they are different from Zhang Hanyu in character and appearance, but they have some similarities in character《 Zhang Jingyu in Chinese doctor belongs to this category.

When the epidemic situation was at its most turbulent, he tried his best to get rid of public opinions, "how many (how many) TMD must treat patients, how many (how many)".

When the foreign doctors were a little dejected in the face of the epidemic, he rose up with high morale: "I don't like the appearance of losing fighting spirit and disheartening when encountering some setbacks."

Under the enormous pressure of the epidemic, with his cracked tongue, the morale of the army was stabilized.

But he also has a fragile side, because he is suffering from frostbite, and his body is failing day by day. In one scene, he fell down the stairs because of accumulated labor and pain, and the audience's heart was stabbed by a needle.

Not to mention novel coronavirus pneumonia, his wife had once had severe intubation, but he could not even get a sick bed.

In addition, Dr. Wenting, played by Yuan Quan, is the director of the Department of critical care medicine. One of the archetypes of the role is Zhang Jixian, director of the Department of respiratory and critical care medicine and Secretary of the Party branch of Hubei integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital. At the same time, this role is also the concentrated representative of many female medical staff who fought in the front line when the epidemic occurred.

Her performance is still so real and powerful. In the huge confusion at the beginning of the film, she stood up and said calmly and firmly, "I know all of you want to live..." to stabilize the situation.

But in Yuan Quan's interpretation, we can clearly see the performance on these two levels.

We can see her calm and gentle side when she runs around the ICU, carries the pressure, focuses on treatment and leads the whole team forward; But we can also see her vulnerability and helplessness in the deep psychological level, which is the mortal side of a female soldier in an epidemic situation. This vulnerability is even more tearful than her heroic side.

One scene is that she came back to the hotel late at night, powerlessly opened the takeout box, swiped her mobile phone to read the message while swallowing.

As a result, she saw that the owner of the canteen who often helped her get express delivery beside the hospital died of virus infection. The boss sent her several messages for help in the past few days, but she missed them because she was too busy. The last message from the boss was not to blame, but to remind her to pick up the express.

At that moment, the lens gives a close-up of Yuan Quan, who is extremely tired and full of mask indentation. The face is full of pain, guilt, remorse and helplessness.

Born to be human, emotion is our weakness.

But it's also emotion that gives us the most powerful power to overcome the epidemic.

Thus, the character has two key words: "Redemption" and "home". Wenting is also very close to the hearts of ordinary people because of these two key words.

If you understand this, you will understand Yuan Quan's firmness. As a mother, she is protecting her children and family in the distance.

On a larger level, she is still protecting the city as a doctor.

However, even if there is such a great struggle, desire and concern in the character's heart, and such a turbulent mood, Yuan Quan has always used a way of "closing" to perform, but "closing" has performed more powerful.

Also impressive is Zhu Yawen's role as Tao Jun. The first group of young experts who came to help Hubei Province, guangdongzi, said something about Yuepu.

When he really entered the ICU and confronted with the virus, when he watched a critically ill patient declare invalid treatment, his persistence and weakness when the psychological pressure broke through the limit of his body showed us a real doctor.

At these moments, we only see the characters, not the actors, and the transformation between heroes and mortals is also the most valuable part of the film. It shows people the pain, fragility, persistence and optimism of an ordinary doctor.

The most relaxing moments in the film come from doctor lamb, who is performed by Yi Guan Qian Xi.

The first feature is skin. Zhang Hanyu plays the president who walks with a limp. The lamb stealthily learns to walk behind the president, and is slapped on the back of his head by Director Wen Ting.

The second feature is that at the beginning, it is weak.

The nurse asked him to come to the rescue, but he was stunned and didn't dare to intubate the patient, which almost delayed the progress.

But there is a third characteristic, stubbornness. After that, he kept practicing with the model, and finally grew up step by step. Later, he was able to be independent.

Do heroes never fear? No, the hero's determination is just bursting from the counterattack of fear.

In the real world, there are many doctors like Dr. lamb, who don't bring their own leading role aura as soon as they appear. They can skin, make trouble, counselle, laugh, and hold back tears when they encounter setbacks. But as a doctor, he will do his best when the patients need him most. If he can't, he should let himself do it.

There are many stars in the whole movie, but the audience often can't recognize their faces. They just present the mixed state of bitterness and happiness in extremely difficult times, and the characters themselves are more real and moving because of this real and complex emotion.

live on

But it's not just the doctor who moves the audience. Many people say that the most moving scene in the movie comes from a look in Zhang Zifeng's eyes.

Zhang Zifeng as the girl Zhang Xiaofeng, a total of more than 40 seconds, a play, a line.

That is, on a snowy day, she was downstairs in the community and took the death notice and relics of her parents from the doctor played by Li Chen.

When she received something, there was not much expression on her face, and her eyes were dull, helpless, even numb. But from the doctors in the film to the audience, she could feel the pain under the mask that ordinary people could not imagine.

But the girl didn't cry and make a lot of noise. She didn't forget to be polite and thank the doctor played by Li Chen. The doctor couldn't bear to stop her: if you have anything to say in the future, you can come to me.

At this time, the girl's mood can no longer hide, a look back, tears, eyes red asked: "uncle, a child without parents how to do?"

This is the only line of Zhang Zifeng's whole film, but let all the audience hear the choking despair.

Because Zhang Xiaofeng represents the ordinary people who unfortunately lost their families in the epidemic. These ordinary people, not far away from us in 2020, actually lived.

Although the national war of anti epidemic has won, for ordinary people, what they are facing is eternal "loss".

Zhang Zifeng's performance is very good. She didn't use a big performance. You can even feel her weakness. But the vulnerability and reluctance in her eyes, the kind of forbearance and outbreak, make the audience think of their relatives and the worry about their relatives in the epidemic. So at that moment, we will be punctured in tears.

The reason why these performances full of details and rich emotional logic move us is that they are actually part of our own experience. In the film, the audience just met a group of good people with flesh and blood, kindness and integrity, but they have to watch the disaster attack them, even the sudden end of their lives.

But it's also this kind of pain that tells us that we can overcome this epidemic, so that more small maple don't have to bear the pain of losing their loved ones. How great this battle is, how great that group of people are.

Chinese doctors

Since the screening, the praise of doctor of China has hardly stopped.

As an old friend of president Zhang Dingyu, Dr. Zhang Wenhong, who is familiar with everyone, specially affirmed Zhang Hanyu's performance and said that he "performed the spirit of president Zhang".

He joked that "I've been finding bugs in this movie, but I didn't find them for more than two hours."

Moving people's hearts is inseparable from the sincerity of the film from the actor to the backstage.

This truth comes from a kind of awe.

I'm in awe of what happened here, so I want to restore it.

How to take the audience back to Jinyintan hospital?

Then build a "Jinyintan hospital", the major departments, corridor scenes, shelter layout, almost 1:1 restoration.

How to make an actor really like a real doctor in a short time? Training, training, retraining.

From wearing masks, to wearing protective clothing, and then to how to intubate during the operation, all by the anti epidemic front-line medical staff personally guide.

You can see Yuan Quan's face, the real scar, the real look soaked in sweat.

But the real awe is that even if there are these, the actors still feel that they are not enough, far from enough.

As Yuan Quan said: only when they are tired, they feel a little close to them. But "restoration is impossible." We have to work hard to get close.

This is also the treasure of the film. No literary works can fully express what Wuhan experienced and what China experienced at that time.

But a good movie can be infinitely close.

From the beginning of the epidemic to now, we always know that the disaster will come to an end on a warm spring day.

The numbers, the horror and the tension will fade out of our lives. The medical staff who work in the front line will eventually hide in their daily life and continue their daily life of saving people.

But just because of this, we should listen to their greatness, the weakness behind their strength and the weakness behind their firmness.

And movies like "Chinese doctor" let us see that these ordinary people with fatigue and weakness are the real heroes. They bring me more shock and emotion than those superheroes.

Zhang Dingyu, former director of Jinyintan hospital, commented on the film: "it's like a tear gas" and "it's full of deep feeling, which brings us back to the years of fighting.".

And that battle was fought step by step by countless Chinese doctors in constant sweat, practice, self reflection and even sacrifice.

For ordinary audiences, it's too easy for us to empathize with each character, because in every picture, we see the past and ourselves.

In 2020, every ordinary person from all walks of life has witnessed the war. In a sense, we and Chinese doctors have won the battle together.

Academician Zhong Nanshan also praised after watching the film: "the strongest feeling is that it does not hide anything, it really restores the anti epidemic situation in Wuhan, presents the picture of the people of the whole country overcoming difficulties together, and the most important thing is that it truly shows the strength of China!"

So it's time to walk into the cinema and solemnly say to them: Thank you for fighting for us!

When we get out of the cinema and enter the post epidemic era, what we can do is to tell them with the happy life after the story: all the lives you have fought for us are worth it!