{"id":1129793,"date":"2021-12-17T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129793"},"modified":"2021-12-17T22:58:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T03:58:57","slug":"china-follows-up-2021-box-office-king-with-another-anti-american-war-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-follows-up-2021-box-office-king-with-another-anti-american-war-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"China Follows Up 2021 Box Office King with Another Anti-American War Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-follows-up-2021-box-office-king-with-another-anti-american-war-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1129793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Chinese filmmakers are preparing to follow up <\/span><i><span>The Battle at Lake Changjin, <\/span><\/i><span>which became this year\u2019s top box-office attraction in China with a good deal of help from the communist government, with another anti-American propaganda film about the Korean War called <\/span><i><span>Crossing the Yalu River.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Battle at Lake Changjin <\/span><\/i><span>was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/10\/19\/chinese-film-about-defeating-america-korean-war-tops-global-box-office\/\"><span>touted<\/span><\/a><span> by the Chinese communist government as the top movie worldwide in October, and the most successful movie ever produced by a Chinese studio. Some of its massive ticket sales were due to the government strongly suggesting that every patriotic Chinese citizen was obliged to see it, and making sure no other movies were playing in many theaters.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1241571.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Wednesday trumpeted the debut on Friday of another big-budget film that will teach citizens more about \u201cthe real heroes of the war, also known as the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and see the actual conditions on the battlefield themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Global Times<\/em> continued:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><span>The story is narrated from an international perspective and the perspective of Peng Dehuai, commander of the Chinese People\u2019s Volunteer Army (CPV), showing the strategic thinking of the Chinese central leadership and five bloody battles fought by frontline soldiers to fully restore the history 71 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The war broke out in June 1950, and when forces led by the US crossed the 38th Parallel and brought an imminent threat to China, the CPV joined the war in October of1950, allying with the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea to defend their homeland and thus secure the safety of the newly founded People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Besides heroes such as Qiu Shaoyun, who got trapped in a fire and was burned to death to protect others, the movie also mentions Mao Anying, Chairman Mao Zedong\u2019s son, who sacrificed his life on the battlefield.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><i><span>Global Times, <\/span><\/i><span>the trailer for <\/span><i><span>Crossing the Yalu River <\/span><\/i><span>left Chinese \u201cnetizens\u201d quivering in anticipation for \u201canother high-quality war blockbuster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300a\u8de8\u8fc7\u9e2d\u7eff\u6c5f\u300b\/  Crossing the Yalu River \u5b9a\u6863\u9884\u544a\uff08\u4e01\u52c7\u5cb1 \/ \u5510\u56fd\u5f3a \/ \u5b59\u7ef4\u6c11 \/ \u738b\u5fd7\u98de \/ \u5218\u4e4b\u51b0 \uff09\u3010\u9884\u544a\u7247\u5148\u77e5 | Official Movie Trailer\u3011\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXdMEHe0wEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The considerably less excited entertainment desk at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/entertainment\/entertainment-others\/battle-at-lake-changjin-chinese-war-film-world-biggest-earner-propaganda-7646901\/#:~:text=The%20Battle%20at%20Lake%20Changjin%20is%20a%20Chinese%20epic%20war,(Rs%206682%20crores%20approximately)\"><i><span>Indian Express<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>noted the civilized world has little reason to celebrate historically inaccurate nationalist propaganda films that celebrate the brutal Chinese Communist Party midwifing the birth of the downright psychotic North Korean regime, unleashing decades of untold human suffering upon the Korean peninsula.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Western critics have been much harder on <\/span><i><span>The Battle at Lake Changjin <\/span><\/i><span>than state-controlled Chinese \u201cmovie reviewers\u201d and \u201cnetizens,\u201d as the <\/span><i><span>Indian Express <\/span><\/i><span>demonstrated:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><span>The <em>Guardian\u2019s<\/em> Phil Hoad in his review of the film said that \u201cthis government-ordained project wastes no opportunity \u2013 current geopolitical tensions notwithstanding \u2013 to assert the moral superiority of the Chinese soldier. Not only is he unfazed by superior opposition numbers and equipment or impossibly harsh climate conditions, even the enemy catering doesn\u2019t get him down. We see Uncle Sam chowing down on a bounty of turkey legs and bacon while the People\u2019s Volunteer Army break their teeth on stony potatoes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <em>Hollywood Reporter\u2019s<\/em> Elizabeth Kerr pointed out that war dramas in general are prone to propagandist messaging and dubious historical authenticity, but <em>The Battle at Lake Changjin<\/em> overdoes it. \u201cThe dearth of Korean characters, a distant flag or even a name in passing signals the film\u2019s utter lack of interest in anyone other than the clutch of characters at the center of the story, who support the narrative being created (for those who missed it: China good, U.S. bad),\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2021-12-16\/CMG-s-war-epic-Crossing-the-Yalu-River-premieres-in-Beijing-1621xIls2Gs\/index.html\"><span>CGTN<\/span><\/a><span> news reported <\/span><i><span>Crossing the Yalu River <\/span><\/i><span>debuted in Beijing on Wednesday to commemorate the 71st anniversary of China\u2019s entry into the Korean War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s the first full-scale epic film to show the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea,\u201d burbled Xue Jijun, a member of the \u201ceditorial committee\u201d of producer China Media Group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese filmmakers are preparing to follow up The Battle at Lake Changjin, which became this year\u2019s top box-office attraction in China with a good deal of help from the communist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}