I have loved table tennis since I was a child, and "Chinese Ping Pong: The Jedi Strikes Back" was released, so of course I want to see it.
The movie starring Deng Chao, Sun Li, Xu Weizhou and other well-known actors, is a sports-themed inspirational film based on real events.
The film is based on the low period of the national table tennis men's team in the early nineties: in 1988, the Chinese men's table tennis team lost the Seoul Olympics;In 1991, the Chiba World Table Tennis Championships "created the lowest team performance in the history of the World Table Tennis Championships;The Chinese men's singles at the Barcelona Olympics missed the gold medal. At that time, the Swedish team sprung up and overtook China in terms of technical play. At this critical juncture, Dai Minjia (played by Deng Chao), as the head coach, boasted that he would regain the Swaythling Cup within two years!After countless hardships and failures, the "New Five Tigers of Men's Table Tennis" stood out, and finally fought back at the 1995 Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships, fought a turnaround battle, returned to the top of the world, won the championship with glory, recaptured the Swaythling Cup after a 6-year absence, and defended the honor of Chinese table tennis.
The prototype of Dai Minjia in the film is the veteran of national table tennis Cai Zhenhua, the prototype of the "Five Tigers of Men's Table Tennis", that is, we are familiar with Ma Wenge, Wang Tao, Ding Song, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui. The famous actor Deng Chao, as the actor of Dai Minjia, is not only similar to the prototype Cai Zhenhua, but also looks similar, and his scheduling of grand scenes and control of details and emotions are particularly excellent, which adds a lot to this film.
The plot of "Chinese Ping Pong: The Jedi Strikes Back" is compact and witty, with a lot of laughs. The whole film is inspirational, not deliberately sensational, touched, sad, and more fulfilling, it makes people's blood boil after watching it, and it is very worthwhile.