(英语泛读) “长津湖”引爆国庆票房！

电影“长津湖”无疑是今年的现象级电影，值得关注：

Battle at Lake Changjin pushes Chinese patriotism to peak

The Battle at Lake Changjin, whose box office is expected to be the largest in Chinese film history, has pushed the patriotic sentiment of people across the country to a peak amid the tense China-US competition and China's effective control of the epidemic, Chinese film observers said.

As of Thursday afternoon, the film had grossed 3.36 billion yuan ($521 million), according to Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan, far more than the hit Hollywood films Venom: Let There Be Carnage and No Time to Die, in the market overseas.

The film tells the story of how Chinese People's Volunteers (CPVs) soldiers held their ground amid fierce cold and the enemy's more advanced weapons during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53). 
"Based on current box office trends and data, the box office of The Battle at Lake Changjin could eventually exceed 5 billion yuan, and it's expected to topple the 5.69 billion yuan earned by Wolf Warriors 2," Shi Wenxue, a film critic based in Beijing, told the Global Times on Thursday, calling it "a war epic that represents the highest level of Chinese film industrialization."

Eight days after its premiere on Thursday, the war epic has smashed 14 box office records, including the single-day box office record and the cumulative box office record in the National Day holidays as a historical film.

Most moviegoers who watched the film told the Global Times that they were touched by the scenes where Chinese solider Yang Gensi picked up an explosive bag and died with the US enemies, and a total of 125 CPVs were frozen to death on the battlefield. 

Some cinemas offered cooked potatoes and water for commemoration. A video about a young woman in Southwest's China's Yunnan Province experiencing how Chinese soldiers ate frozen potatoes on the battlefield has gone viral on social media. In the video, she makes a lot of effort to bite off just a small piece, she then bursts into tears.

The success of The Battle at Lake Changjin proved that patriotism is the simplest emotion rooted in the heart of every Chinese.

重点词汇：

patriotic sentiment gross（动词）

fierce topple epic smash cumulative 

frozen commemoration  patriotism  

bursts into tears 

阅读背景：

2021年10月10日15时23分，据猫眼专业版数据，2021中国电影年度票房（含预售）破400亿，总观影人次9.88亿，总放映场次9852.4万，持续保持全球单一市场票房冠军头衔。在此23分钟之前，正在热映的《长津湖》票房突破40亿，对于大盘的拉动作用不容小觑。

监制黄建新导演表示：“《长津湖》这么大规模的制作规模是好莱坞也从未挑战过的，影片中传达的中国人独有的情感，也是好莱坞大片拍不出来的。”陈凯歌导演也为大家解读了影片中的家国情：“为什么电影开场不是战场而是家乡，因为家乡温柔的水会变成异国的苦寒和坚冰，这也是对保家卫国的诠释，今天的我们承平日久，更应明白和平的代价非常昂贵。”

参考资料：

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1235751.shtml

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1713220155741108014&wfr=spider&for=pc