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Chapter 243: "The Eight Hundred" grossed 14.2 billion yuan in preview screenings! phenomenal word-of-mouth!! (Please subscribe)

The movie's plot is full of twists and turns.

In the movie, the enemy was initially unaware of the interior of the Sihang Warehouse, so they sent a small squad of soldiers to launch a daytime assault.

However, the soldiers inside the warehouse lured the enemy in and easily caught them like turtles in a jar, using bombs to wipe out the enemy squad one by one.

This scene also drew cheers from the audience.

"Alright, kill these enemies!"

"That's exactly what we should do, beat him to a pulp."

"These sons of bitches."

"Very good!!"

Enraged, the enemy disregarded the diplomatic risks of the concession and launched a poison gas attack, which was banned internationally, in an attempt to poison the soldiers inside the warehouse.

But the soldiers responded quickly, some relying on gas masks, while others used makeshift methods, such as covering their mouths and noses with urine-soaked cotton cloths, to resist the poison gas.

The soldiers suffered few casualties and successfully halted the enemy's offensive.

Nevertheless, the enemy did not give up.

At night, they sent out a suicide squad, which split into two groups to launch a surprise attack.

They sneaked into the warehouse through a drainage channel connected to an underground river.

The other group crossed the boundary of the concession and launched an attack from the opposite direction of the warehouse high-rise building, using ladders.

The people on the south bank discovered the enemy's movements and began to beat drums and gongs to warn their compatriots on the opposite bank.

The soldiers inside the warehouse also discovered the enemy's sneak attack and immediately went on alert.

They pointed their guns at the waterways and ladders, preparing to fight the enemy.

The enemy commandos who had already infiltrated the waterways, upon discovering that their presence had been detected, immediately rushed out from their hiding places to launch an attack.

In an instant, war broke out in full force.

The audience members held their breath, their eyes glued to the scene.

They were all praying that the soldiers in the movie would escape danger and continue to hold their ground.

However, the enemy commando squads lurking in the underground river caused the soldiers considerable trouble.

Many of their compatriots were killed by them.

Chen Haiwang's biggest impression of the movie was that the villains depicted in it were not as stupid as those in traditional anti-Japanese war dramas.

It's quite authentic, accurately reflecting the situation at the time.

This made Chen Haiwang and his wife very nervous.

I'm afraid of missing a single minute or second.

Everyone present wanted the warriors to defeat the enemy.

The enemy's aggression and brutality were perfectly demonstrated at this moment.

However, our soldiers displayed tenacious fighting spirit. When those daredevils, shirtless and with sun symbols tied to their heads, charged fearlessly, our soldiers immediately engaged them in close combat.

Some even jumped from high-rise buildings, seeking to die together with their victims.

Fortunately, thanks to the timely warning from the people on the south bank and the swift response of the soldiers, the enemy's night attack plan was successfully thwarted.

Sihang Warehouse held out once again.

The enemy could not accept this outcome.

They had easily occupied most of Shanghai, but they ran into a wall in front of this small Sihang Warehouse.

Due to the special location of Sihang Warehouse, it was separated from the British and French concessions on the opposite bank by only a river.

This battle was not only a final stand, but also a show put on by the Nationalist army for the Western media.

He sought to win sympathy from various Western communities, which garnered widespread attention.

Despite being outnumbered by the enemy, Xie Jinyuan's troops' steadfast defense became legendary, even earning them the nickname "Oriental Demon Tower" from Western media.

This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the enemy.

Therefore, they decided to launch a frontal assault, deploying a large number of troops, and even using tanks, fighter jets, and excavators.

They vowed to take down this "Oriental Demon Tower" within three hours.

Soon, the movie's plot moved to the content previously shown in the trailer.

The enemy mobilized almost all of its forces.

Infantry, tanks, and excavators were deployed together in an attempt to break through the defenses of the Sihang Warehouse.

They used excavators to directly ram the building, while simultaneously sending out a demolition team, under the cover of steel plates, to try to infiltrate the building's base and destroy the foundation wall in one fell swoop.

"Company commander, grenades aren't working! We need explosives!"

While observing the enemy's situation, Chen Shusheng shouted loudly.

With a loud bang, the enemy's shell struck the weakest point in the wall, creating a huge breach and causing heavy casualties among the nearby soldiers.

"Company commander, the enemy has opened fire!"

"Medic, come quick!"

"Charge! The enemy is charging!"

Amid the sounds of gunfire, the soldiers called out to each other.

Some commanders ordered their subordinates to plug the gaps.

Some urged the demolition team to disable the enemy's tanks and excavators as soon as possible.

A young soldier weeps in a corner, holding a photo of his family.

But the next second he was hit in the head by a stray bullet and died.

The western wall was finally breached, creating a huge gap in the defenses.

The enemy demolition team quickly approached, intending to blow up the supporting wall.

However, the soldiers were unable to break through the steel plate cover and could only watch helplessly as the demolition team approached.

Then, the tragic scene described in the trailer unfolded.

After a brief moment of thought, Chen Shusheng wrote his will, handed it to the company commander, and jumped off the cliff with the explosives in his arms.

After a deafening roar, the hero perished alongside the enemy, their remains scattered along the riverbank, their blood staining the water crimson.

The people on the south bank fell silent upon witnessing this scene.

But this was not the end; the enemy's demolition team continued its advance.

Chen Shusheng was not the only hero; many more soldiers did not hesitate to grab explosives and grenades, ready to perish together with the enemy.

A company commander ordered the machine gun company to line up, ready to blow up the enemy.

Following his command, one soldier after another jumped down, clutching explosive packs and grenades.

The camera pans across their faces, revealing a variety of expressions: young faces, bloodied and mangled faces, burly men, and thin people.

They shouted slogans and jumped without hesitation.

As explosions rang out, the names of heroes were called out: Wang Jindou, Zhao Mengliang, Liu Beiwu, Sun Shoucai, and so on.

They defended the Sihang Warehouse with their lives.

"Jump!"

"Your son is unfilial, Mother!"

"Boom!" "Next!"

"Wang Jindou from Liuyang, Hunan!"

"boom!"

"My name is Zhao Mengliang!"

"boom!"

"My name is Liu Beiwu!"

"boom!"

"Tongzhou, Hubei! Sun Shoucai!"

"boom!"

Three hours have passed, and the enemy has failed to capture Sihang Warehouse!

The people on the south bank watched the battle on the north bank silently, without uttering a word.

Only the newspaper boy on his bicycle loudly announced the news.

These faint and scattered emotions now seem to have coalesced into a powerful force.

Inside the cinema, low sobs could be heard intermittently.

If all Chinese people are like this, how dare the Japanese invaders!
This sentence was spoken by Shu Qi.

After she finished speaking, the audience members present were all moved to tears.

Yes, our predecessors sacrificed their lives heroically back then.

This preview screening generated an overwhelmingly positive response from the audience.

"When the movie ended, the entire theater was silent, as if all the audience members were still immersed in that tragic atmosphere and had not yet come back to their senses."

"Support domestic war films! I was deeply moved after watching it. Look at this peaceful society, it was all protected by blood and tears! China is rising! People are united! Cherish life! Face challenges bravely! I admire every grain of sand that rushed forward and was crushed when this country was in disarray. I cried."

"It's so moving, it brings tears to my eyes. They're doing everything they can to protect our country."

"On the north and south banks of the river, one side is a hail of bullets and a life-or-death struggle, while the other side is a scene of revelry and peace; on the ground, war rages, and in the sky, onlookers watch the spectacle."

The long-lost slogan "Brothers, see you in the next life" and the simple phrase "Let me see you off" are both deeply moving, capturing the spirit of chivalry in this war film. The white horse galloping through the chaos, leaving everyone else in its dust, represents hope for survival. The imagined military uniform and warhorse, on the verge of collapse, represent a final yearning for tomorrow. "To live is to win"—the film's final shot, a zoom-out from the Sihang Warehouse to the modern metropolis of Shanghai, is the best ending both on and off screen.

"Heaven and hell are separated by only one river, the battlefield and the grave are on the same bridge, the brave man and the actor are only a skin apart, and the coward and the hero carry the same flag."

"On the south bank there are courtesans who do not resent the fall of their country, on the north bank there are brave men who pledge their lives to their country. There is Guan Yu, who makes his grand entrance, and here is Zhao Yun, who charged in and out seven times."

"Four hundred brave men used their blood and flesh to awaken four hundred million people, and a fifty-three-meter riverbank served as a backdrop for a performance by the international community in the concessions. After the smoke of war, the white horse still stands, the flag still flies, and the heroes never grow old."

With extensive preview screenings, the box office on the first day had already exceeded 4.3 million yuan.

This surprised many viewers.

Keep in mind that this was just a preview screening, and it wasn't even during the Lunar New Year holiday season, yet the box office on the first day had already reached 4.3 million yuan.

If it is officially released, the number of screenings and the occupancy rate will increase to another level. They dare not imagine how much the box office of "The Eight Hundred" will be.

In the time to come.

The word-of-mouth and publicity for "The Eight Hundred" have officially begun.

More and more netizens are going to the cinema, intending to try it out.

After watching it, they all said that they hadn't seen such a wonderful war film in a long time.

The difference between "The Battle at Lake Changjin" and "The Eight Hundred" is that perhaps the enemy in "The Eight Hundred" is hated even more by the entire Chinese people.

After all, the things the enemy did during the War of Resistance Against Japan made countless people furious.

at the same time.

More and more filmmakers are giving this film high scores and providing analysis.

Among them, the blogger "Free Bird" continued to support Song Hao's film.

He posted a film review early on.

The film review is titled: "We will never know why the white horse ran."

In my opinion, as a domestic war film, *The Eight Hundred* is the kind of movie without any "buts." It's simply good, and only good.

The film is permeated with a tense, dilapidated, and tragic tone from beginning to end. From the opening scene where the security regiment encounters the enemy army on a narrow road to the ending scene where the soldiers march across the bridge in a desperate manner, the atmosphere of "colonial apocalypse" with foreign invasion and national peril never dissipates.

The screenwriter used a typical "beach landing" style dramatic structure, in which a lone army is stationed on the spot and fiercely resists the successive invasions by an enemy force whose combat power is far superior to their own.

The interweaving of stage-based war sequences and intermittent ensemble narratives gives "The Eight Hundred" a textual depth far exceeding that of similar domestic films—to some extent, it is also the fundamental manifestation of the film's high quality.

In the war scenes, the dense and well-organized handheld shots create a high-intensity sense of presence. The intense battle inside and outside the warehouse is accompanied by highly dramatic plot designs, such as: demolition experts lining up to fall from the building, acting as "human bombs" to risk their lives in the attack; the enemy and our side facing each other head-on in the brightly lit interior; bullets flying from nowhere flying over old windows, severing arteries and causing blood to flow; and human flag bearers who were rumored to have disappeared but were fortunately preserved.

The tear-jerking moments come one after another amidst the soldiers' shouts in their dialects and the chilling sounds of gunfire. However, they are not about being struck by tender, sentimental pain, but rather about the emotional shock of encountering beings who transcend the norms of life and death amidst the fierce bloodshed.

Death is omnipresent in the film; some have already died, some are dying, and some will die sooner or later.

The tragedy was already destined from the very first second of the story. The suffocating sense of confinement and anger lurking in the macro perspective constantly clings to the viewer's emotional channels, making them narrower and narrower.

The growth of Duanwu, the bravery of Xiao Hubei, the cowardice of Lao Suanpan, the awakening of Lao Tie, and the toughness of Yang Guai.

The bloody battle to defend the city washed away the humanity of the "remnants," allowing us to stand outside the rosy glow of the great spirit and witness the real and tangible inner choices and character development.

But the portrait is certainly not limited to these. Across the Suzhou Creek, in the British Concession, amidst the dazzling lights of Shanghai, actors and celebrities, and foreign tourists, each has their own face and posture. The battle unfolding on the other side of the river is like a mirror, reflecting the rights and wrongs of the masses. Heaven and hell are separated by a river, which, to some extent, creates a fable world of glimpses into the leopard through a tube.

The white horse that runs throughout the entire film is like every citizen of China—constantly changing, but one thing is certain: their heart for protecting their homeland never wavers!

This film review offers a very objective assessment of the entire movie.

This has garnered many likes and comments from netizens.

This has led to more and more viewers going to the cinema.

During the five days of preview screenings of "The Eight Hundred," it felt just like the film was officially released.

Box office figures are rising every day.

By the time it was officially released, the total box office from the preview screenings had already reached 14.1 billion yuan!
This has made people in the Chinese film industry extremely envious.

They were filled with envy and jealousy, secretly regretting why they hadn't thought of this film subject.
Of course, even if they thought of the Eight Hundred Warriors at Sihang Warehouse, the film might not have the same effect.

The audience may not necessarily buy it.

It is precisely because of Song Hao's years of experience and his popular patriotic style that audiences love him.

That's why the total box office from the preview screenings reached 14.1 billion yuan when the film was officially released.

On the very day that Song Hao and others were looking forward to the release of "The Eight Hundred," the Oscar committee was selecting nominees for various awards.

Among them, the movie "Titanic" sparked a lot of discussion among the organizing committee members.

It's worth noting that for many years prior, no Chinese film had been nominated for an Oscar.

Now, the phenomenal film "Titanic" is bound to be nominated for an Oscar.

However, deciding which award to nominate for proved to be a dilemma for many judges.

Because they also need to consider their own films in North America.

Therefore, it is especially important which list "Titanic" is shortlisted for!

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