War and Peace

Evans 2022-04-19 09:02:44

If I ask you which is the most expensive movie in movie history? Most people probably think of "The Avengers" first. But in fact, the most expensive film in film history was the blockbuster "War and Peace" filmed in the former Soviet Union in 1965. The whole film cost more than 560 million US dollars. Imagine what was the concept of $560 million in 1965? ! You must know that our country's annual GDP was 200 billion yuan. As Tolstoy's most famous literary masterpiece, "War and Peace" was first put on the big screen by Hollywood director Kim Victor in 1956, but this version of "War and Peace" he shot always made People feel that something is missing, just like you let Japanese and Koreans film "Journey to the West", and most Chinese people don't buy it. The essence of domestic literature is still to be photographed by one's own people, in order to capture the taste. As a result, the former Soviet Union mobilized hundreds of thousands of extras in five years by Bondarchuk, known as the "tsar of the film industry", to perfectly reproduce this masterpiece of Toon. Thinking about it, in the last century, only the former Soviet Union could do this kind of thing. This 6-and-a-half-hour masterpiece can really be regarded as a must-see film in this lifetime. "To live, to love others". Life is inherently bright and joyful, in the film we see Tolstoy's reflection on the deepest spiritual essence, his unwavering belief firmly guides people towards happiness and harmony, if one does not heed the call of life , then he himself is guilty. Happiness really needs human beings to seek it together. And the foundation of all this is peace!

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  • Michael 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    (9.0/10) 1966 Bondarchuk version, 423 minutes CC version. This may be a model for small-scale film and television adaptations of literary masterpieces, especially works on the scale of war and peace. On the basis of retaining the main body of the original book and even a large number of details, it uses the unique form of expression of the film, so that it can still be independent. Existing in another art form, there is neither standing still nor overwhelming. It's just that the system of the original book is too huge. If it were adapted as a series with three main characters and four parts of a war, it would be unrealistic to compress it into an integrated movie. The two battles of Austerlitz and Borodino are the pinnacles of the reappearance of the battlefield before the era of digital special effects. In the post-war context, the expression of the Russian national complex that was too simple was somewhat lower than the original grand pattern of Toon. Top 100 candidates for personal film history.

  • Velda 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    Bibrezhnev's resources (costing hundreds of millions of dollars and participating in more than 500,000) to make these four-part films are really "unborn" works that were only available during the most intense cold war. More valuable is the high artistic pursuit (especially groundbreaking dance party photography and battlefield scheduling) and low ideological interference of this film. It can be regarded as a model of masterpiece adaptation and blockbuster masterpiece.

War and Peace quotes

  • Field Marshal Kutuzov: Advisers, advisers. There are always plenty of advisors. But not enough real men.

  • Field Marshal Kutuzov: Everything moves too fast. Nothing is accomplished in haste. It's easy to take a fortress, but hard to win a campaign. That requires patience and time.