Patriotic movies turn out big hits
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Patriotic films dominated Chinese theaters during the National Day holiday and generated a record 5 billion yuan (US$708 million) of box office revenue.
China saw a total of 135 million moviegoers from September 30 to Monday, with three key movies 鈥 鈥淢y People, My Country,鈥 鈥淭he Captain鈥 and 鈥淭he Climbers鈥 鈥 raking in 2.22 billion yuan, 1.98 billion yuan and 823 million yuan, respectively, figures from the China Movie Data Information Network showed yesterday.
The patriotic films鈥 box office success indicates audiences鈥 recognition of the filmmakers鈥 innovative and enterprising spirit in artistic creation. Also, the national feeling displayed in the movies echoes the rising patriotic passion among the Chinese people, said Sun Xianghui, director of the China Film Art Research Center.
The seven-part epic anthology by seven directors led by Chen Kaige, 鈥淢y People, My Country,鈥 has become the top-grossing film in terms of audience satisfaction among all the domestic films ever surveyed, according to the China Film Archive.
The film recalls seven important historical moments in China over the past seven decades, ranging from the founding of the People鈥檚 Republic of China in 1949, China鈥檚 successful test of its first atomic bomb, the return of Hong Kong to the motherland in 1997 and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to the Shenzhou 11 manned mission crew members鈥 safe return to Earth in 2016.
The film earned a record 91 points out of a total of 100 in the latest China film audience satisfaction survey covering the three Chinese films that premiered around October 1, the National Day.
It ranked the first in terms of audience satisfaction among all the 267 domestic films covered since the survey was launched in early 2015, the archive showed.
Co-conducted by the China Film Art Research Center, the China film audience satisfaction survey is a film evaluation system independent of the China film box office.
The survey adopts methods of on-site sampling surveys at theaters, online surveys of film industry workers and experts and big data analysis to comprehensively evaluate domestic films from the perspectives of screen depiction, ideological content and film popularity.
鈥淭he Captain,鈥 a portrayal of the miraculous emergency landing of Sichuan Airlines flight 3U8633 in May 2018, took sixth place on the audience satisfaction chart covering all the domestic films ever surveyed.
鈥淭he Climbers,鈥 which dramatizes Chinese mountaineers summiting Mount Qomolangma 鈥 Mount Everest 鈥攊n 1960 and 1975, came 12th.
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