Today’s Film Review | "China Ping Pong": A Ping Pong Journey from Low Valley to Nirvana

Today’s Film Review | "China Ping Pong": A Ping Pong Journey from Low Valley to Nirvana


1905 movie network news The film, directed by and starring Deng Chao, recently released a preview, focusing on the Guoping Men’s Team in "Extraordinary Years"."China table tennis can beat Europe? Can China players still beat Waldner? Can China still reach the top of the world? Do you believe it? "


"China table tennis can beat Europe? Can China players still beat Waldner? Can China still reach the top of the world? Do you believe it? "


This sports movie, with four characters of "China Ping-Pong" that the audience are very familiar with, attracted many audiences’ expectations after the announcement. Hong Fan, an associate professor in the Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy, said: "Sports genre films are all about a champion in the final analysis, while" China Table Tennis "is a story about how the China men’s team once reached the peak, and how to get back to the peak when it fell into a desperate trough, which is more attractive than the conventional story of becoming a champion. The overall tone of the trailer is rather depressing. The head coach’s training methods, the arrangement of troops and even some of his personnel arrangements and management have also been questioned. The leaders are dissatisfied with him, and the media has put forward all kinds of particularly harsh opinions. The people are also very dissatisfied, and all kinds of heavy burdens have come to their faces. In this case, how to counterattack the Jedi constitutes a powerful and realistic drama conflict in the film. "


"Let me spell it again anyway."


This kind of story has really broken many people’s previous established impression of the king’s table tennis as "invincible" and made the audience more curious about the film. The compilation of "China Table Tennis" is based on real history. During that unforgettable period, the China table tennis team was in an absolute dominant position in the World Table Tennis Championships from 1981 to 1987, winning all the important awards and gold medals. However, in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games and the 1989 World Table Tennis Championships, China lost to Sweden in five games. In the Chiba World Table Tennis Championships in 1991, the China Men’s Team had fallen to the seventh place, which was a very bad result. After the 42nd World Table Tennis Championships, China still failed to achieve good results as expected. It was at this time, under the leadership of Waldner, that the Swedish team won the World Table Tennis Championships for three consecutive years. It was not until 1995, as described in the film, that the China table tennis men’s team returned to its peak in the 43rd Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships, ending a depressed period of six years.



It can be seen that the development of table tennis in China is not smooth sailing. This history itself has the potential to become a good movie, and it is easy to hit the audience’s flash point. Sports-themed movies are special action movies, and China Ping Pong will show some very interesting action wonders, showing the beautiful movements of athletes and the state of the ball flying back and forth through different photography angles. Because of the particularity of table tennis, it not only pays attention to antagonism, but also includes some tactical arrangements. It is very likely that the film will focus on the China table tennis men’s team competition. This team competition will naturally have strategies similar to Tian Ji horse racing, so some people say that sports genre films are special war films in peacetime.



Hong Fan mentioned: "Movies are also very similar to kung fu movies. Each different athlete has different stunts, some are horizontal shots, some are vertical shots, some are near-table fast breaks, and some are far-table pulls. The men’s team was able to win an important victory in this World Table Tennis Championships because there was a secret weapon, a player named Ding Song, who played a special game of chopping, which made foreign athletes uncomfortable. Therefore, we see that the special skills of each athlete provided by the film are just like the Kunlun School and the Shaolin School in the martial arts film. In terms of audio and video, there are still many expectations. "


When it comes to China Ping-Pong, many people will bid for the first time the film that reflected the China women’s volleyball team, and the latter finally gained 836 million box office. In order to impress the audience in the end, sports films not only provide authenticity, mass base and drama, but also have emotional problems at the core. There is a very important reason for Leap’s success, which shaped the character Lang Ping. She finally succeeded under pressure and defeated foreign teams. This role can arouse the audience’s personal feelings, let them bring in coaches and athletes, and overcome all kinds of difficulties to make a comeback. Later, it also created a positive image of different industries and jobs under the background of China, and this spirit of struggle can infect everyone.



Leap, when the national flag of China was raised and the national anthem sounded, the sense of honor of the whole people made the film no longer a story of a sports team, and this spirit of women’s volleyball has become a major theme in sports. I hope "China Ping Pong" can continue to inherit and carry forward the success of the film Leap, from shaping the personal feelings of the characters so that the audience can resonate, to effectively build a sense of national honor, and even go further than Leap to create a different glory.


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