Yi Sun-sin's name is a household name in the Korean Peninsula. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, he led 12 warships to defeat 133 Japanese ships in the Mingliang Strait. On July 30, 2014, "Mingliang: Sea of Cyclone" filmed based on this historical event was released in South Korea. It only took 18 days to break the box office record of "Avatar" in South Korea and rose to the top box office in the history of Korean movies. The first one. In December 2014, the film was introduced to domestic theaters and was renamed "Mingliang Sea Battle".
There are many standards for a good movie, and "Avatar" once was breathtaking with the exquisite imax picture, even though its plot is weak. But what can be memorable is endless, there must be a stunning plot design, or a touching image of the character. In recent years, Korean movies have repeatedly appeared in boutiques, such as "The Defender" and "Memories of Murder", which all win with plots, which are different from the familiar Hollywood blockbuster heroism, American dream and other themes. Korean movies have even more emotional pavement. For the sake of solidity, the plot turns unexpectedly and it seems reasonable.
The protagonist of "Mingliang Sea Battle" is a heroic figure in North Korean history, Yi Sun-sin, and the storyline is basically loyal to historical facts, and the amount of artistic processing is not too much. Although the box office record set has a national complex bonus, the naval battle scene is vast. , The characters were meticulously portrayed, and the plot was ups and downs. Anyway, in the second half of the naval battle, I almost couldn't breathe.
Mingliang, the narrow strait between Jindo, South Korea and Hainam, Jeollanam-do. The strait is about 294 meters wide, which is similar to the width of the Han River. The sea water in the strait is turbulent, and the direction of the sea water will be reversed every few hours. The sea water rises and falls very loudly, hence the name "Mingliang". In 1592, after the unification of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi proposed to North Korea "a false way to enter the Ming Dynasty". After being rejected, he sent 200,000 troops to North Korea. In the beginning, the Japanese army was like a broken bamboo. In just one month, North Korea was "the three capitals were lost and the eight roads collapsed." King Li Yun fled to Yiju on the border between China and North Korea and sent envoys to the suzerain Ming Dynasty for help. It was not until the Ming Dynasty sent troops that the Japanese army was driven back to the southern part of the peninsula. Different from the performance of the Army’s "War Five Residents", the performance of the Korean Navy led by Yi Sun-sin and the Army is not like that of the same country’s army. The famous three naval battles. The Mingliang Sea Battle that occurred in 1957 was a well-known battle in the history of naval warfare in the world that defeated more with less. At that time, Yi Sun-sin was falsely accused and imprisoned, and was later demoted as a soldier to join the army in white clothes on the southern coast. When Ding You was in chaos again, the entire North Korean nation strongly demanded that Yi Sun-sin be reactivated. The Joseon King was forced by the situation and had to comply with the people's sentiments and reappointed Yi Sun-sin as the commander of the Three Water Forces. At this time, there were only 12 poor boats left by the mighty navy who had been on the sea.
What is the level of the 12 panoks? Let’s take a look at the results. Japanese commander Fujidō Takaho led more than 330 warships and 20,000 armies to participate in the battle. 12 warships led by Yi Sun-sin sank 31 Japanese warships, and about 92 Japanese warships were damaged. Loss of combat effectiveness. This is already close to the ratio of 1:30, and I can add a picture of the next ship being besieged by nearly 30 ships. Instantly there are three layers inside and three layers outside, and the surrounding ships can only be reduced to soy sauce and booing feelings. . But the fact is so willful. In those days when the Japanese army used melee combat and boarded ships for hand-to-hand combat, there were several scenes of the Korean navy's Panokou boat breaking through a hard impact in the film.
Why has it been emphasized that North Korea’s warships are called Panokura? Anyone who has played Age of Empires 2 knows that the best ship of the North Korean navy is called the turtle ship, and it is also included in the movie, but unfortunately, this kind of artifact improved and innovated by Yi Sun-sin will be fine with just a handful of soy sauce. . The remaining 12 boats are all panya boats one level behind. The Japanese Army’s Anzhai Ships and Shutdown Ships are one level worse. Attentive audiences will find that even if Yi Sun-sin’s artillery bombards thousands of times, the One Piece of Little Japan still insists on using bird blows to fight back. That’s because there are no cannons installed on the Anzhai Ship and Guan Ship...
Heavy Artillery Vs Bird Blow, Win It's normal. But the reality is that cannons are only suitable for long-range attacks. The cannons of the year were not so powerful that they had no bullets. It was a realm that did not leak. Once the fish slipped through the net and swarmed into hand-to-hand combat, the significance of the cannon would not be great. In fact, under the situation of 12Vs330, the possibility of using shelling to directly solve the war half is close to zero. Therefore, at the beginning of the film, there are two completely different atmospheres of confidence and fear on both sides of Japan and North Korea. The Japanese army swept away, the adjutant of the general ship was suspended from the masthead, the One Piece joined, deserters appeared in the DPRK, the turtle ship was burned... The war-fighting psychology of the North Korean navy has reached its limit. In addition to the tight naval battle, the whole drama also runs through the transmission of a belief, that is, how Yi Sun-sin was ordered to face danger and transform "fear into courage" when the strength of the enemy is great. The battle process in the play is also a manifestation of the gradual transformation of the Korean army’s fearful psychology. Whether this is consistent with historical facts is difficult to determine, but after the general ship led by Yi Sun-sin survived two rounds of hand-to-hand battles with the Japanese army, the sailors of the Korean army in the distance shouted. "The general ship is still alive!" The cheers and excitement of the people on the shore undoubtedly raised the excitement of the whole show to the extreme. Before his final victory, Yi Sun-sin seems to be heading towards a tragic ending. Fortunately, "You can still eat something, it's great!" The
domestic version cuts about 20 minutes of literary drama compared with the original Korean version. The deleted part does not have much impact on the spread of the plot, but it is for why the Korean army is so afraid of war, why the One Piece King Raijima Tong always gritted his teeth when he mentioned Yi Sun-sin, and why he watched Raijima Tong’s ship being abused and threatened. Saka Yasuji just didn't come to help, these plots did make a better foreshadowing in the abridged content. And the scene that was deleted was Yi Sun-sin's double swords, which were engraved with "Three feet swears to heaven, mountains and rivers move color" and "One wave sweeps away, blood stains mountains and rivers". As a digression, those two swords are really beautiful!
The naval battles and action elements of the film are very heavy, most of the funds are used for CG computer effects, and even the funds are tight and not used for 3D shooting. 61 minutes of fierce naval battle without any urine, some close-up shots are also very detailed. Needless to say, how handsome the bow and archery scene is. Compared with Yi Sun-sin's heroic posture of standing on the sword and bravely killing the enemy, the Japanese pirates in bright and exotic clothes want to say that they are not like clowns. The crew is really quite in this respect. After a bit of thought, Lai Dao Tong spent 28 million won (approximately 150,000 yuan) in armor and weighed more than 30 kilograms.
It is worth mentioning that there are always touching love stories in grand historical events. When the mute woman Zheng saw her husband Ren Junyong being stabbed and unable to rescue her, she resolutely waved her red dress on the shore to attract the attention of the Korean army and hit the cannonball at the straw boat filled with gunpowder where her husband was. His reluctance and the most touching love corresponded to what Yi Sun-sin said at the end: "What should I do with such a deep hatred!"
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