A few days later, "Flying Tigers" received the Dragon Label.
The film itself received unanimous praise from the superior authorities, so it was very smooth to win the Dragon Award.
With the Dragon Label in hand, global release is on the agenda.
Li Mu hopes to release it on July 7, because this day is the anniversary of the July 7th Incident, the beginning of Japan's all-out war of aggression against China, and the national disaster day for the Chinese nation.
Released on this day, it has extraordinary historical significance.
The sporadic release of various information has aroused a large number of users' eager attention to "Flying Tigers" in the Internet world.
Not only the Chinese world is looking forward to the release of the movie, but public opinion in European and American countries, as well as South Korea, is also full of expectations and curiosity about the movie.
European and American countries lack sufficient understanding of Asian history. Even in the minds of many European and American ordinary people, the main battlefield of World War II was actually the European battlefield. The Asian battlefield seems irrelevant to them. They remember every crime of conquering Germany, but Little is known about the crimes of Japanese imperialism.
They know about the Auschwitz concentration camp, the surrender of France, the air raid on London, Dunkirk, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Normandy landings, but they may not know about the September 18th Incident, the July 7th Incident, or the Jinling Massacre.
However, when they saw the promotion of the film, they gradually became interested in the film.
This is mainly due to four powerful tags.
First, Hollywood;
Second, Spielberg;
third, Hollywood’s star cast;
The fourth one is Li Mu.
The first three are closely linked to Hollywood. The box office market in European and American countries is almost the back garden of Hollywood. Everyone is used to watching Hollywood movies, just like mainland China was used to watching Hong Kong movies in the 1990s.
These three labels are the key reasons that attract them to go to the cinema to watch this movie.
This is not because they have any objection to movies with Chinese elements. The main reason is that the influence of Chinese movies has not reached them.
This is also the key to why Li Mu must rope in Hollywood to make movies together.
They will just buy tickets and go to the theater because of Spielberg's name, no matter what the movie is.
They will also buy tickets to see Leonardo, Tom Hanks and Anne Hathaway because of their fame.
Of course, among young people and Internet users, there are still some fans of Li Mu, and they will buy tickets to support Li Mu, but Li Mu’s appeal at the box office is obviously worse than that of people like Spielberg. Far.
Promotions in Japan and South Korea are also advancing simultaneously, but the attitudes of these two countries towards the film are very different.
It is rare for Korean people to go all out to support a movie made with Chinese money, while Japanese people have a certain resistance to the content of the movie.
In fact, the triangular relationship between the nationals of China, South Korea and Japan is very complicated, and they all have some prejudices against each other.
If you take a closer look, you will find that the general public in these three countries, regardless of who they are from the other two countries, will have certain prejudices against the third country.
For example, when Koreans and Japanese talk about China, they will say that China has too many people, too much development, and too much invisible pressure on neighboring countries;
When Chinese and Koreans talk about Japan, they will talk about the common experiences of the two nations during World War II. Everyone has the same extreme indignation at the Japanese attempt to deny the history of World War II;
And when Chinese and Japanese talk about Korea, they can often reach a consensus like close friends: This world is ours and yours, but it ultimately belongs to Korea.
Generally speaking, these are three peoples whose love and hate have been intertwined for thousands of years.
Now that China and Hollywood have co-produced "Flying Tigers", the Korean people immediately feel that they are on the same front as the Chinese people and this movie.
Although "Flying Tigers" does not have any content about the Korean nation's resistance to Japanese aggression, after all, it is all about resisting Japanese invaders. So if you make a film like this and invest such a large amount of money and cast, I, as a person of that year, People who have gone through the same thing as you also feel relieved and proud.
There is some resistance among the Japanese people, and it is not a large-scale protest, but most people have a vague premonition of being unfriendly in their hearts. After all, this movie is about resisting the Japanese invaders, which will make them feel a little guilty.
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After the film launched its global promotion, the official Weibo of "Flying Tigers" released the first trailer.
The one-minute trailer uses quick cutting to cut out some of the most explosive clips and scenes in the film, paired with an exciting soundtrack. As soon as it was released, it aroused the admiration of netizens around the world.
Whether it's Tom Hanks wearing a general's military uniform, or Leon Ando and Liu Ye wearing air force jackets, everyone has a standard tough guy look, and their acting skills are also very superb. Several explosive shots are put together. , coupled with the heroic air combat scenes, made people’s hair stand on end after watching it.
Just a one-minute trailer has completely raised people's expectations for this movie to a new level.
At this time, there is still one and a half months until the movie is released.
Three days later, the second trailer was released.
The trailer is one and a half minutes long, and for the first time the nurse played by Anne Hathaway and the peasant girl played by Du Wei are cut into the film.
Both of them are in line with the aesthetics of Eastern and Western people, and their appearance has continued to increase the popularity of the movie.
Du Wei's name also left China for the first time and entered the eyes of overseas people.
Li Mu paid attention to some comments from European and American netizens and found that everyone had a good first impression of the pure, beautiful and simple Du Wei in the film, which made him very happy.
A few days later, YYTunes, YY.com, YY Pop-up, and Weibo Twitter simultaneously released the theme song "21 Guns" of "Flying Tigers" to the world.
This all-English song has received a lot of praise in Europe and the United States since its release.
The song "21 Guns" was a very classic and highly praised single by Green Day in a previous life. The album on which this song is included won the famous Billboard No. 1 in 2009 and won the The song won the 52nd Grammy Award for Best Rock Album, and this song was also nominated for the Best Rock Song at that Grammy.
The song itself has such a good foundation, even if the lead singer is changed from a punk rock band to Du Wei, the charm of this song has not been reduced at all.
On the contrary, because the lyrics of this song were changed by Li Mu, they changed from an anti-war theme to praising the heroes who sacrificed for justice in World War II. There was a huge gap in the tone of the entire song.
The American people's attitudes toward war before World War II were completely different from those after World War II.
Before World War II, Americans advocated a just war, so they sent millions of young people far away from home to several continents to help victim countries resist terrorism. World War II also had a great impact on the United States itself in terms of wealth, status, spirituality, etc. Harvest.
When it comes to World War II, few Americans have "anti-war" sentiments. On the contrary, they regard the 400,000 U.S. military veterans who died in World War II as national glory.
After World War II, the status of American soldiers in the country was extremely high, and the people's admiration and support for soldiers was simply unprecedented.
However, after the Korean War began, the American people's attitude toward the war began to change.
Americans feel that World War II was fought for all mankind and world peace, and even if hundreds of thousands died, it was a well-deserved death.
However, the tens of thousands of casualties in the Korean War were difficult for Americans to accept, because they did not understand why their country would go so far away to interfere in a nation's own war.
Most ordinary people do not understand the so-called interests of the United States in Greater East Asia. They cannot understand or accept that the US government has lost the lives of tens of thousands of American soldiers in the mountains of the Korean Peninsula for unknown reasons;
When it came to the Vietnam War, Americans were even more incomprehensible.
The United States has been fighting in Vietnam for so long, with more than 60,000 people dead or missing, and more than 300,000 injured. Many Americans only know that their country’s soldiers are constantly dying, injured, and disabled in Vietnam, but they still cannot understand that war. What's the reason
It was also at that time that the American people's attitude towards war and soldiers changed drastically.
They no longer admire war or soldiers. They feel that the U.S. government directed U.S. troops to Vietnam, which consumed a large amount of taxpayers' money and sacrificed a large number of soldiers' lives. It was simply unforgivable.
So from that time on, anti-war sentiment in the United States began to heat up rapidly.
"Forrest Gump", also starring Tom Hanks, actually tells an American story based on the Vietnam War. In that war, the American soldiers who died did not receive sympathy from Americans, and the disabled American soldiers It was not recognized by the Americans, and even the American soldiers themselves did not recognize the war, so various anti-war demonstrations emerged in endlessly in the country.
Under this general tone, Americans who experienced the 1950s and 1960s were basically an "anti-war" generation.
If we judge by date of birth, those born in the 1940s in the United States are basically affected by anti-war sentiment.
The generation born in the 1940s is a very embarrassing era. Most of them were born in the birth wave after World War II, and a small number were born during World War II. But even if they were born in 1940, their memories of the war are actually very vague.
When these people were seventeen or eighteen years old and began to have a sense of independence and resistance, they were negatively affected by the Vietnam War and became the main anti-war force.
They believe that in the Vietnam War, no one was a hero, and no one was great or worthy of praise. Therefore, when reflected in their anti-war literary and artistic works, the core point of view is actually one sentence: A good life is just a matter of blinding him. Damn it.
Bob Dylan's classic "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" is a standard anti-war song, even the most famous one among anti-war songs.
Influenced by him, his younger singers also grew up in the era of anti-war waves. So if you look at the well-known rock bands in Europe and America, everyone will have one or two anti-war songs. It seems that they are embarrassed not to have an anti-war song. Joined the American music scene.
However, to put it bluntly, the fundamental reason for this anti-war sentiment is that they focused their attention on the wars that the United States participated in after the 1950s, while ignoring World War II.
Now, "Flying Tigers" uses a budget of 200 million US dollars, a strong lineup and overwhelming Internet publicity to bring the history of World War II back to everyone. At this time, the song "21 Guns" Songs praising the heroes who sacrificed their lives for human peace in World War II suddenly have a nobler core and soul.
Combined with this movie and this period of history, "21 Guns" immediately impressed countless people upon its release...
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