, the box office of the popular National Day movie "Me and My Motherland" officially exceeded 2 billion yuan, becoming the 18th film in my country to exceed 2 billion. The total box office of the National Day box exceeded 4 billion yuan yesterday.
7 directors, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yibai, Guan Hu, Xue Xiaolu, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, Wen Muye, each with their own style, brought to the audience exciting historical moments since the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China. On the big screen, in the wave of history, ordinary people and the motherland breathe and share the same fate. All audiences outside the screen are awakened to common memories, and they are as emotional as the protagonist in the film. The seven stories in the film, the one closest to us in time, is "Convoy" directed by Wen Muye, the director of "I'm Not the God of Medicine".
It takes the unique perspective of the "prepared for flight" female pilots, with the historical events of the military parade in Tiananmen Square on September 3, 2015 and Zhu Rihe on July 30, 2017 as the background, to show the Chinese Air Force female pilots' sassy and heroic attitude and them in detail. Behind the heavy responsibility is silently persevering and paying without regrets.
■Unique perspective
"Fly the best but it is a backup, which is very contradictory."
In this story, we see the growth experience and life of the female pilot Lu Xiaoran (played by Song Jia) of the Air Force F-10 echelon "preparation". It is a true portrayal of Chinese female pilots.
They regard the national gift as their responsibility, shoulder the mission of "Blue Sky Guard of Honor", practice hard to fly to the world to show China's power, and create a shining "national image card" in the blue sky. What impressed the audience the most, and also the most curious, was undoubtedly why the director chose to tell the story from the perspective of a "preparatory" pilot that most audiences don't actually understand.
It turned out that the director Wen Muye was the same as many people at first, and he did not know the specific configuration of the pilots during the military parade. While preparing for the movie and investigating and collecting military parade information, he discovered that there was a "preparatory pilot" position. After learning about it, he learned that the one who flew the best had to become the "backup" because there was a team during the flight. The shape, the person who flies the best has to fly well in every position and can fly, so he will become a pilot.
"This is very contradictory. I am the best, but I can't fly over Tiananmen Square. It just so happens that the Air Force F-10 echelon preparation pilot is a girl, so we were born from this perspective."
In the 2015 Tiananmen Square parade, flying a J-10 fighter plane. The two female pilots above Tiananmen are He Xiaoli and Sheng Yifei. The other two female pilots Yu Xu and Tao Jiali act as "backups". This is the prototype of Song Jia's role in "Convoy".
What is saddening is that on November 12, 2016, one of the protagonists of the film, the first female J-10 pilot Yu Xu, suffered an accident during flight training and died heroically.
■ Field investigation
"Behind handsome is sweat, tears, and even blood"
Wen Muye visited the air force base during the preparation of the script, and many real-life facts learned on the ground were also integrated into the story.
For example, the director had always thought that all air force movements in the sky must be given instructions by the tower, and then the formation should follow the instructions. Later, when he arrived at the base, he learned that if there were problems in the air, the flying formation could solve the problems on its own. They would only ask about the tower. In
"Convoy", Tong Liya had a problem with her plane. After inquiring about the tower, Song Jia reported that she decided to resolve the plot by herself, which was based on Wen Muye's picking at the time. When
went to the air force base, Wen Muye’s first impression was the same as our audience’s experience when watching a movie. It was the handsome and heroic air force pilots. Later, as his understanding became deeper and deeper, Wen Muye deeply felt that such handsomeness and heroism were all exchanged for the sweat, tears, and even blood of these pilots. Because the success rate of pilots is extremely low, almost only one hundred thousand or even one in a million. Director
used an analogy to tell us the daily status of pilots and how difficult it is to become a talent. "Our students take exams every semester, and they can make up for failing subjects. But they don't have this opportunity. If they fail one subject, they will be grounded for life. So it is equivalent to saying that when they start to practice aircraft, they will continue to fly the J-10 super Sonic airplanes, you can’t make any mistakes in this process."
■ Secret training
"The greater the load, the faster and higher the flight"
"Convoy" slightly unveiled the mystery of the air force pilots' daily training for ordinary audiences. Among them, there is a section of Lv Xiaoran, played by Song Jia, training in a manned centrifuge, leaving the machine, insisting on walking to the lounge, and finally vomiting on the side of the pool. The plot is impressive. When the
supersonic aircraft suddenly raises its head when flying, the blood will drop from the head to the legs. The pilot will have black vision, that is, nothing can be seen; if the aircraft sinks suddenly, the blood will go from the legs to the head. Will blindly. The training of
pilots, including centrifuge training, is to maintain normal driving during this rapid descent and ascent. "Only by withstanding the greater load can you fly faster and higher." The 6G, 8G and other digital standards mentioned in this paragraph of the
film mean that the pilot has to bear the pressure of the same number multiple of his own weight. In our own body, "For example, how much our own weight is, eight is basically multiplied by eight, you put this number on him, this is G."
According to Wen Muye, Chinese female pilots can reach 8G during training. , The highest value of male pilots can reach 9G.
is dressed in military uniform and drives a fighter jet straight into the sky. Behind such a handsome and beautiful figure is the one in a million, "cruel" extremely low success rate and the endless sweat and tears of pilots' daily training. "I think what can support them to this step is their yearning for blue sky and freedom and their patriotic spirit." Wen Muye said.
