"Climber" shows the true events of the Chinese mountaineering team climbing Mount Everest twice in 1960 and 1975. This movie is also known by some media as the first mountaineering movie in China.
In fact, as early as 1982, a film "The Third Goddess" shot by Changchun Film Studio was released. This film also showed the feat of the Chinese mountaineering team ascending Mount Everest in 1975.
Strictly speaking, "The Third Goddess" is China's first mountaineering movie.
And if we compare them carefully, "The Climber" and "The Third Goddess" have a vague correspondence in plot and character structure.
The screenwriter of "The Third Goddess" is Lu Guang. The reportage "Chinese Girl" he wrote about the Chinese women's volleyball team once caused Luoyang's paper money to become popular. At that time, the Japanese TV series "Women Volleyball" was also popular all over the country, and there was an urgent need for a TV series reflecting the Chinese women's volleyball team to come out. Based on his familiarity with the inside story of the women’s volleyball team, Lu Guang collaborated with Sha Yexin to write a TV drama script "Chinese Girl", which was made into a TV series in 1985. Ni Ping participated in the lead role, but to the audience’s disappointment, the TV series was too hard on facts. The legendary taste of the Japanese TV series "Volleyball Girls".
The script creation of "The Third Goddess" dates back to the Cultural Revolution.
After the Chinese mountaineering team reached the highest peak in the world in 1975, People's Literature Publishing House went to the National Sports Commission to organize a manuscript to write a reportage to reflect this exciting feat.
Lu Guang was working in the propaganda department of the State Sports Commission and was drawn into the writing team.
The "three-in-one" writing model was popular at the time. Later, the reportage "On the Top of the Earth" was written by People's Literature Publishing House in 1978. The author once bought this book in a second-hand bookstore, but has been shelving it in the stack of books without taking a closer look. I always feel that this kind of mountaineering story is not new when the difficulty of climbing Everest has been greatly reduced today. Up. In fact, climbing Everest can only give people a shocking power if it is connected with national honor.
At that time, the writing team consisted of six people. In addition to Lu Guang, there were Tu Guangqun from the "Sports News" supplement group, Zeng Shusheng and Zhu Shuqi from the Chinese Mountaineering Team, and Zhou Ming and Yang Kuangman from the People's Literature Publishing House.
At that time, they ate and lived with mountaineers who were recuperating on a peninsula of the Huairou Reservoir. For nearly a year, they learned all the details of mountaineering in detail. While
assigned the task to Lu Guang, he also undertook the task of writing a movie script.
Therefore, the earliest time of the script's inception should be before 1976, during the Cultural Revolution, so the movie still has a specific way of thinking and breath of that era.
For example, the protagonist in "The Third Goddess" is a white-haired female character. She was forced to flee into the forest because of the persecution of the local lord. The climbing team mistakenly regarded her as a snowman. After a conflict, she understood The truth brought her back to a normal life. Since she was a child, she has the talent to live with the harshest environment of the snowy plateau, so she has become the main force of the mountaineering team. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the theme of
has been difficult to adapt to the theme of the times. Therefore, Lu Guang added love clues to the script according to the editor's request. This kind of love line was impossible in the original script determined during the Cultural Revolution. existing. For this reason, Lu Guang racked his brains for this, and it is considered that the movie has inserted a very unnatural description of love.
In this way, the script was finally finalized at the end of 1979, then it was shot in 1981 and released in 1982. As China’s first mountaineering movie,
did not produce much response when it was released. In addition to the outdated content of the script, there is another reason that the director’s skill is also very problematic, and the whole movie lacks a breath of life. The character creation is very rigid and single, but the wild eyes and strong youthful breath of the starring Zhang Xiaomin in the film leave a deep impression on people.
The heroine Zhuoma of "The Third Goddess" is based on Pando, the only female who climbed Mount Everest in 1975. However, the climbing process shown in the whole movie is a mixture of the two climbs in 1960 and 1975. The true event of Mount Everest, so the process of ascending Mount Everest in 1975 described in the movie is specious, Is not a complete historical reality, which is the same as the conception of The Climber.
However, "The Climber" also shows the fact that at least nine people have reached the summit in the movie. In "The Third Goddess", only three people have reached the summit. This is the number of people who climbed Mount Everest in 1960. In "The Third Goddess", among the three people who climbed Mount Everest, one was Zhuoma and the other was Zhuoma's boyfriend.
This time "The Climber" was released, and some viewers said that it could be called "The Everest Love". If the title of this joke is more suitable, it should be given to "The Third Goddess". In "The Third Goddess",
also described that the captain of the mountaineering team was on the second step, willing to be a ladder, and put his teammates on the cliff, but because of lack of physical strength, he would sleep a step away from the top of the world. The place. This plot directly uses Liu Lianman’s deeds when he climbed Mount Everest in 1960, but Liu Lianman did not sacrifice, so "The Third Goddess" does not faithfully reflect the fact that the Chinese mountaineering team climbed Mount Everest in 1975. Make the whole movie nondescript.
Despite this, we can still find that "The Climber" uses the character structure from "The Third Goddess".
"The Third Goddess" has a historical depth. This is when Zhuoma in the film first appeared. According to the explanation in the film, it was the end of the fifties, when she was about 8 or 9 years old. At this time, she was a serf. Later, she was forced to flee into the snowy field. Encountering a mountaineering team, he probably lived in the wild for 14,5 years, and his age was about 24 or 5 years old.
A young girl, according to the movie, can survive by beating birds in the wild for 14 or 5 years, which is simply unimaginable. Therefore, after the movie was released, it was questioned by the audience. In the sixth issue of 1982, "New Movies" published a review article ""The Third Goddess" is really "God", thinking that the first "God" of the movie lies in the "mountain and snowy mountains". , Zhuoma survived."
However, the difficulty of film screenwriters is that they must take into account the two historical periods, that is, the end of serfdom to the climber’s climb to the top of the world in 1975. Only by crossing the length of this rigid history can the characters Reflecting the depth of history the Chinese mountaineering team set in the movie to climb Mount Everest. Pando, the prototype in the
movie, was 36 years old in 1975. She was already the mother of two children. Her husband was a leader of the mountaineering team and did not reach the top. But at this age, she obviously does not have screenwriters. The love and romance needed, so Zhuoma’s age in the movie was changed to a younger age, and her boyfriend also witnessed their love romance, the highest mountain in the world. The depth of history of
also exists in "The Climber". It has the same length as "The Third Goddess" and must be 15 years old. This 15-year time will inevitably make "The Climber" meet The same dilemma as in "The Third Goddess" is how to maintain the integrity and rationality of the main line of the characters in the past 15 years. Now it seems that "The Climber" is precisely at this point, and it has not made a difference. "Goddess" is a better solution. The line of love between Fang Wuzhou and Xu Ying started in 1960, and in 1975, if this line still had to be continued, how would their marriage life be resolved?
Of course, in Alai’s original script, Fang Wuzhou and Xu Ying are married and have a son, but such a setting seems plain and unremarkable and cannot achieve the desired sensational effect in the movie. The contradiction of
this age is obviously felt by everyone involved in the film crew.
Therefore, Wu Jing hoped to propose changing Xu Ying to Fang Wuzhou’s ex-wife from a reasonable point of view. This could effectively avoid the embarrassment of having no marriage at all ages. However, the film director apparently did not want to be extravagant and still adopted a kind of age. Without going into the setting method that no one cares about, the whole thing passed.
The past tricks of concealing the sky and crossing the sea are also present in "The Third Goddess". "The Third Goddess" directly obscures the concept of time, making people unaware that Zhuoma has only been wandering in the mountains for more than ten years, and there is no movie. The direct point of meaning indicates the time when the story happened. Although
"The Climber" pointed out the background of the era in 1975, it did not mention the political atmosphere at that time.
It can be seen that the love clues in "The Climber" are similar to the hard insertions in "The Third Goddess". It is hard to say that "The Climber" was not inspired by the "Third Goddess".
In addition, we have also noticed that in "The Third Goddess", it is described that the girl at a weather station and the mountaineer also had a little love relationship during the contact, and in "The Climber", we can also watch The relationship between Fang Wuzhou and Xu Ying is exactly the relationship between a mountaineer and a weatherman. It just takes the secondary line relationship in "The Third Goddess" as the main clue in the movie.
and "The Third Goddess" also wrote about the existence of a female doctor. The existence of this character has been continued in "The Climber" and developed into another branch of love by "The Climber" clue.
In this sense, the character relationships set in "The Third Goddess" are all rendered and used in "The Climber". Of course, some people will say that the two movies are based on real events, and there will naturally be similarities and similarities in the character settings. However, in "The Third Goddess", the weatherman is set as a female, and it creates a history of love. , But it can’t help but feel that it paved the way for the love setting of The Climber.
We know that climbing is only on the shoulders of others to be able to surpass the past. We don’t need to confirm whether "The Climber" has inherited and inherited anything from "The Third Goddess", but at least we can see that, and The unsuccessful "Third Goddess" has the experience and lessons that allow latecomers to achieve more transcendence and leaps. In this sense, "The Third Goddess" should not be hidden. As the first Chinese mountaineering film, it has It is the value we remember and miss.
