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China's 'Battle at Lake Changjin' Marching to North American, Australian Release [November 19]
Variety ^ | Nov. 10, 2011 | Rebecca Davis

Posted on 11/11/2021 1:33:00 PM PST by sphinx

Chinese distributor CMC Pictures said Wednesday that it will release jingoistic Chinese war film “The Battle at Lake Changjin” in North America next week.

The film is currently the highest grossing title in the world and in China so far in 2021, having already earned RMB5.60 billion ($877 million) in its home market alone. It is currently the second-highest grossing film in China of all time, trailing only slightly behind “Wolf Warrior 2,” which earned RMB5.69 billion ($891 million at today’s exchange rate).

The film will arrive on screens in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 19, and then Australia on Dec. 2.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: chosin; koreanwar; lakechangjin; movies
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To: Seruzawa

Victory is who holds the field after the fight in some views.

But it was a Phyric one at best.


81 posted on 11/12/2021 6:54:52 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Red Badger

Little Big Man was so unhistorical it was hysterical.

A good movie on how to show Hollywood movies can give the audience a fabricated view of history, and make you believe it.


82 posted on 11/12/2021 7:13:37 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (ONE MORE DAY in FB jail! Then I will be out and on the prod again!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It was a comedy......................


83 posted on 11/12/2021 7:14:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My favorite part is when Dustin Hoffman and his Lakota FRiend whom they hadn’t seen each other in several years, meet and the Lakota says “I have a wife and FOUR HORSES!”

Then Hoffman’s character says, “I have a horse,” The Lakota smirks, then Hoffman continues, “.. and FOUR WIVES!” .......................


84 posted on 11/12/2021 7:17:54 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Yes it was comedy, but I’ve met lots of people who actually believe it to be true.


85 posted on 11/12/2021 7:23:01 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (ONE MORE DAY in FB jail! Then I will be out and on the prod again!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

There actually was a Lakota named “Little Big Man” who was Crazy Horse’s lieutenant and held his arm as he died...............


86 posted on 11/12/2021 7:23:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

And they all vote straight ticket Democrat, I bet.................


87 posted on 11/12/2021 7:24:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

They were of definite democrat quality.


88 posted on 11/12/2021 7:28:11 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (ONE MORE DAY in FB jail! Then I will be out and on the prod again!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

And I bet the believe the Russian Hoax, Global Warming and are all vaccinated.............................


89 posted on 11/12/2021 7:29:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Who do you believe? In the movie with Victor Mature, has Little Big Man, in an army uniform, stabbing CH with a bayonet.

Other histories say a soldier stabbing CH.

In the book, ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK, Bourke says Crazy Horse pulled out two daggers, one made from a bayonet. Little Big man then jumped on CH’s back and grabbed his wrists to keep him from hurting anyone.
The soldier poked with his bayoneted rifle, and hit the door frame.

In the struggle Crazy Horse then stabbed himself with his own bayonet dagger.

Again, which story does one believe.


90 posted on 11/12/2021 7:34:26 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (ONE MORE DAY in FB jail! Then I will be out and on the prod again!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

We will never know for certain until Jesus comes, and all things are known.

Some historians think it was a set-up by Little Big Man to eliminate Crazy Horse, so he could become the leader of the Lakota nation. Maybe. Maybe not.................


91 posted on 11/12/2021 7:43:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: redgolum

As has been said, a few more victories like that and we will be defeated. Or something like that.


92 posted on 11/12/2021 7:56:04 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: sphinx

Check out “Come and See”.


93 posted on 11/12/2021 8:06:12 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: sphinx; All
There are a lot of great suggestions in this thread. I'll add one more: Conspiracy (2001), a made-for-tv movie about the Wannsee Conference. It's not a battle movie; it's 90 minutes of men, mostly in uniform but a few civilians, sitting around a table, talking. It is riveting. The entire cast is excellent. Kenneth Branagh (Reinhard Heydrich), Stanley Tucci (Adolf Eichman) and Colin Firth (Wilhelm Stuckart, the author of the Nuremberg race laws) give career performances.
94 posted on 11/12/2021 3:05:49 PM PST by sphinx
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To: Jamestown1630
I’ve never been interested in the ‘Hunger Games’ (but mincemeat pie is very good and underappreciated.)

Point taken, just had to say when I'm really sick, there are times I have wacky dreams but that dream was pretty cool. B-)
95 posted on 11/13/2021 7:16:03 PM PST by MrLucky1966 (GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y) GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y))
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To: MrLucky1966

I remember having a rare and severe Summer ‘flu one year as a kid. From my bed, I could hear my Dad listening to a baseball game on the radio, and I’ve always loved the sound of a broadcast baseball game.

I hallucinated that day that Jesus was beside my bed, comforting me.

Go figure :-)


96 posted on 11/13/2021 7:46:44 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: sphinx
Omar Bradley carries the narrative through the film. It's the tension between the Patton and the Bradley point of view that gives the film its power. me

I once met a guy who said he was drafted into the Army in 1969, but for whatever reason was sent to Washington D.C., not Vietnam. While there he was assigned to appear outside the theater where Patton made it's D.C. premiere in 1970. Omar Bradley was among those who saw the movie that night, and the press asked him what he though of George C. Scott's portrayal of Patton. Bradley was not impressed. He said Scott was far too understated.

97 posted on 11/13/2021 8:33:20 PM PST by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner

That’s interesting. The only thing I’ve ever read that touches on that subject had to do with “The Speech.” The speech that George C. Scott delivers at the beginning of the film is much shorter — and much, much “tamer” — than the version(s) that Patton delivered to the troops. The real life versions are all a bit different because Patton gave The Speech numerous times to different units and spoke extemporaneously, but the gist was far more vulgar than what the filmmakers were willing to risk in 1970. Hollywood deliberately cleaned it up for the sake of ratings and so as not to offend audiences. How much of this may be been done consciously on other aspects of Patton’s behavior, I don’t know.


98 posted on 11/14/2021 4:26:29 AM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx

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I hope Michael Caine is interviewed about this film. Caine is an interesting guy and, while I gather his politics are largely MovieWorld liberal, he is capable of being quite heterodox from time to time. As a young man, he was a working class yute with vaguely pro-communist views. Then he got called up for military service (1952-54), which is how he found himself sitting in a foxhole in Korea, behind a machine gun, watching Chinese human wave attacks roll up the hill towards him. Apparently he was in a couple of situations in which he gave himself up for dead. He altered his views somewhat, as he realized that there was something wrong with a system that had such complete contempt for human life.<<

I wonder if Caine’s experiences helped shape the final battle scene in Zulu:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI


99 posted on 11/14/2021 4:38:36 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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