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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: ifinnegan
There’s no reason to believe it actually did make as much money in China as they say.

That's true too, but since this was a vanity project for God-King Xi, I also wonder how much attendance has been driven by a sense of prudence or duty. In every office and shop, there is someone keeping track. If I had done something rash -- maybe jaywalked and belatedly realized that there was a surveillance camera, or imprudently smiled at a joke at the party's expense -- I might go see the movie three times, making sure to pay with a credit card rather than cash so that the purchase would be tracked and then posting the outing on my social media. Anything to pad my social credit score.

And when the audience rises for the standing ovation at the end, I would be enthusiastic, and I would certainly be among the last to sit down.

41 posted on 11/11/2021 2:15:32 PM PST by sphinx
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To: MplsSteve

‘Gallipoli’ was a good Australian film also, set in WW1.

‘Anzac Girls’ is based on the true story of a group of Australian nurses in WW1, and it is good.

‘Dark Blue Sky’ is a good Czech film. Two Czech pilots escape to Britain at the start of WWII and take part in the Battle of Britain.


42 posted on 11/11/2021 2:21:10 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: sphinx

The Marines retreated in good order and absolutely pulverized the Chinese in the process. It’ll take a lot of weaseling to depict this as a great victory.


43 posted on 11/11/2021 2:21:20 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

True. But the Chinese held the ground and achieved their immediate territorial objectives. Pyrrhic victories are an old story. So are both sides claiming victory afterwards.


44 posted on 11/11/2021 2:24:11 PM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx; All

Is this about the defeat/destruction of much of the US 7th Division in November 1950 in Korea?


45 posted on 11/11/2021 2:25:27 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox )
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Thanks for the “Come and See” recommendation. Our local library has it and I just put it on hold.


46 posted on 11/11/2021 2:26:27 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: BenLurkin
"Didn’t the ChiComs outnumber the Americans four to one at the Chosin Reservoir?"

There were so many dead chinese the Americans were stacking the frozen bodies as barricades.

47 posted on 11/11/2021 2:29:07 PM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: sphinx

Oh, they won alright. And cemented their reputation in the process. As we’ve recently seen on the China/India border little has really changed.


48 posted on 11/11/2021 2:29:24 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: dfwgator

All 800 million of them screaming chinese


49 posted on 11/11/2021 2:30:10 PM PST by QualityMan ( I got nuthin...)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks for the suggestions. As always, I add them to my watchlist.

For those who aren’t familiar with it, Letterboxd has an excellent app for this. It’s free.


50 posted on 11/11/2021 2:31:29 PM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx
I liked these scene:


51 posted on 11/11/2021 2:32:44 PM PST by x
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To: Roadrunner383
‘Anzac Girls’ is based on the true story of a group of Australian nurses in WW1, and it is good.

I liked it too.

52 posted on 11/11/2021 2:34:00 PM PST by x
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To: sphinx

It will be on Super Nova under the referenced title within a few days of being released in the US. It may be on there now under the Chinese title.


53 posted on 11/11/2021 2:37:11 PM PST by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: Gay State Conservative; MplsSteve; naturalman1975; Roadrunner383

A few months back, I re-watched both “Gallipoli” and “Breaker Morant.” Both are excellent films with excellent and compelling anti-war themes.


54 posted on 11/11/2021 2:38:34 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: x; Roadrunner383

Thanks for the “Anzac Girls” recommendation. I just found it is included in my Amazon Prime subscription! Added to my watch list.


55 posted on 11/11/2021 2:39:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: dfwgator

That’s not the point; last time I watched it all those Hitler parodies were foremost in my mind when Hitler spoke.


56 posted on 11/11/2021 2:43:14 PM PST by SkyDancer (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: sphinx

I’ve been watching the “Babylon Berlin” German series this past week.

It isn’t explicitly a war film, but a most interesting examination of Berlin and Soviet geopolitics in Weimar Republic 1929 with lots of Soviet gangland activity and flashbacks to WW I twelve years earlier. I’ve read that the 1920s Berlin was a wild abandon place and this movie shows that side of the city in addition to the brutal poverty and high unemployment. It shows a lot of the Soviet-managed communist agitation going on in the city.

As is typical of such modern series, there are lots of concurrent plots and subplots.


57 posted on 11/11/2021 2:43:38 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: dfwgator

Re: Stalingrad.

I highly recommend the 12 part TV series from 2012, “Life and Fate”. It alternates between Stalingrad and civilian life. Good battle scenes and how far must you go to please stalin.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2460432/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


58 posted on 11/11/2021 2:45:51 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: SkyDancer

In a way, it’s a shame it’s best known for the parodies, because it’s a fantastic movie, would have been worth of a Best Picture win, IMHO.


59 posted on 11/11/2021 2:55:32 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Thanks for the “Come and See” recommendation. Our local library has it and I just put it on hold.

Brace yourself. It's not an easy watch. Amazing filmmaking, though.

60 posted on 11/11/2021 2:56:47 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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