‘Wolf Warrior 2’ is Best Film at festival
ACTOR- director Wu Jing’s Wolf Warrior 2 was named the Best Film at the fi rst China-Asean Film Festival in Putrajaya.
In his acceptance speech, Wu Jin noted that fi lmmakers around the world are propagating their own culture to the world in their own way.
Added Wu Jing: “I hope more Chinese-language fi lms can be created through joint ventures with fi lmmakers in the Asean region.”
Singaporean Jack Neo was named Best Director for Our Story, with Chen Zeyao named Best Actor.
Wolf Warrior 2 tells the story of a former Chinese special forces agent who battles against militants and mercenaries in Africa.
The fi lm earned a record 5.68 billion yuan ( RM3.6 billion) in China, and has been chosen for the Best Foreign Language Film
I hope more Chinese-language films can be created through joint ventures with filmmakers in the Asean region.
category at next year’s Oscars.
Its surprising success in China has sparked rethinking in both China and Hollywood over how best to approach and exploit the Chinese movie market, which is on track to become the world’s largest in the next few years. Wolf Warrior 2 has demonstrated just what a well- crafted Chinese fi lm — made with some foreign help — can do.
The movie features a muscular, adrenaline-fuelled story whose unstoppable hero is a former member of a fictitious Chinese special ops unit called the Wolf Warriors. The action takes place in an unnamed African country where China has built hospitals and provided factory jobs for the locals; the bad guys are revolutionaries and Western mercenaries.
Chinese audiences responded strongly to the fi lm’s patriotism and to the relentless action provided by former martial arts star Wu Jing as both director and protagonist.
During the fi lm festival in Putrajaya, a total of 29 fi lms from China and the 10 Asean countries were represented.
Next year, the festival shall be hosted in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen.
Wu Jing, actor-director