Movie official WeChat account: The background of the character's growth, Chen Kaige's movie "Volunteer Army" with a clown poster, Joker | Li Xiao | Movie
On August 15th, the National Day film trilogy "Volunteer Army: Heroes Attack" directed by Chen Kaige announced its completion, and released a special edition and poster for the completion.
However, what many netizens are discussing is a graphic and textual post posted on the official Weibo account of the movie on the 15th. This post was posted at 15:15 on the 15th, with the content "Mountain and water meet, mountains and rivers meet. @ Actor Zhang Xiran # Movie Volunteer Army's Heroic Attack # National Day 2023".
The controversial issue is that the accompanying image of the post is a clown image poster wearing a white dress and red flowers.
The clown poster for the official Weibo account of the movie "Volunteer Army: Heroes Attack" was released on August 15th.
At 15:26 on the 15th, @ Little Actor Zhang Xiran also shared the above poster on his Weibo account, as well as a smiling poster of himself after removing his clown costume.
Many netizens expressed confusion as to why a movie about the Volunteers chose a poster in the shape of a clown. A netizen left a message: I find it difficult to understand what the appearance of such a "ghost" in a movie promoting the heroic spirit of volunteer soldiers is trying to convey?
Some netizens cited the original content of the movie as saying that the character Li Xiao was abused by his American foster father when he was young and treated him as a means of making money, with the intention of portraying the discrimination and injustice that Westerners had towards yellow people at that time.
Regarding this explanation, some netizens still expressed that "the original character has such an experience, so having this appearance can be understood, but using this character promotional poster for promotion is really confusing.".
On the afternoon of the 17th, the official Weibo account of @ Movie Volunteers responded to the controversy by saying that many netizens did not understand the character design of young Li Xiao. Therefore, we would like to share with everyone the background of Li Xiao's growth. Before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, young Li Xiao was adopted by foreigners during the war, and she was asked by her "foster father" to dress up as a clown and dance, providing entertainment for others at the banquet. That is the shape that everyone sees. This is Li Xiao's humiliated childhood, as well as a microcosm of the war orphans who suffered from the humiliation and turmoil of foreign powers in the old society. Let the people no longer suffer humiliation, this is the significance of history that cannot be forgotten.
According to public information, on August 15th, the trilogy of the movie "Volunteer Army" directed by Chen Kaige announced its completion. The film started filming in the summer of 2022 and has gone through more than 300 days and nights. The actors who participated in the filming collectively "reported" and the whole group relay to send character photos to bid farewell to this filming process. With a star studded lineup, it can be considered the strongest force in Chinese cinema, and the film will be released on National Day in 2023.
The trilogy "Volunteer Army" focuses on the heroic images of the Korean War and tells the magnificent history of the three years from October 1950 to July 1953. This is also the first time in film history that this "War of Founding a Nation" is portrayed in such a panoramic and multi-threaded manner.
The first installment of the trilogy, "Volunteer Army: Heroes Attack," will be released on this year's National Day. In 1950, the Korean Civil War broke out, and the United States armed intervention in the Korean Civil War and aggression against Taiwan, China, China, the flames of war burned to the Yalu River. At the age of one in New China, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River and fought in North Korea to defend their country. Why are we fighting? How to fight against the powerful US military? The story revolves around the thrilling stage of deciding to send troops and entering North Korea. The film presents three important battles: the first battle in which the Chinese People's Volunteer Army annihilated the South Korean army in the Two Water Caves, the second battle in which the Chinese People's Volunteer Army launched a 14 hour attack on the 72.5 kilometer San Suo Li, and the second battle in which a hundred soldiers fought to block the enemy for more than ten hours in the Battle of Songgu Peak.
The second part tells the story of the third to fifth battles of the Korean War, with the Battle of Tieyuan being the highlight of the second part. The third part focuses on the second half of the Korean War, which resulted in a stalemate. The illusion that the US military wanted to easily strike the volunteer army was shattered, opening the prelude to both sides fighting and talking.
