I am a film practitioner. In the past few years, I have studied hard and benefited a lot in the process of cooperating with many excellent filmmakers. I have been paying close attention to the whole process of many films from preparation to release, including "Captain of China" which was released on National Day this year.
As early as last year when the Sichuan Airlines 3U8633 incident occurred, I was full of respect for Captain Liu Chuanjian and the miracle he created. When I learned that this event was about to be made into a movie, I was very excited and curious, what kind of movie it will be? I often inquire about the production progress of this movie with my friends in the industry. I always want to know the current situation of it for the first time, and I want to see this movie as soon as possible.
But just before the "Captain of China" was released, I received an application approval letter-I was approved to represent the "Crawlers Public Welfare Group" to serve as a teacher in Dashan, Guangxi. In the state of hiding from my colleagues and partners, I received nearly two months of online and offline training, and was finally selected as the [long-term art support] for one year. So I had to temporarily put down my work and went to Guangxi. I taught at Kaqiao Primary School in Dongshan Township, Bama County, Guangxi Province. I was responsible for teaching music and film appreciation for grades 1-6, as well as music, English, and movies for grades 3-6. .
My working place in the next year will be in this mountain. There are more than 450 students in this school. Among them, there are about 300 students in grades 3-6 that I am responsible for. During this year's teaching period, I will teach them English, music and movies. My students are very smart and learn very well, but they lack opportunities and resources, companionship and care. I often say to my good friends: "If you want to travel or retreat to write a script, it is better to come to my mountain and feel the simplicity and innocence of the children in the mountain. You will definitely gain a lot. "
play basketball with the children in the school
. Because of the limited equipment in the mountainous area, the audio equipment for the music class was donated by my friends and me, and the homework is a consumable, all donated by my friends.
Sometimes, I also want to introduce the movie to the children. Use movies to tell children that there is such an art in this world that uses images to create a dream. Speaking of a movie in language is too rigid, and sometimes I think that it might be more effective to take them to a movie.
But we only have one movie theater under the mountain. The transportation is very inconvenient. The next trip to the mountain will take more than two hours. If you want to take the children down the mountain together, the round-trip charter fee will cost 400 yuan, plus the charter I can hardly afford the expenses alone. So I thought: How can I let children watch movies?
My idea has been supported by friends. In order to allow more than 400 children in the school to watch movies, my good friends donated a set of projection equipment and screens. I became a little projectionist for the children.
used the projection equipment donated by friends to show the movie
to the children in the mountains, so on days without rain. The children in the mountains have another way of life: sitting together and watching a movie. When the children sit in front of the curtain, the happy and happy expressions at the moment they watch the movie for the first time. I don't think any writer in the world can describe it.
Then I assigned them homework and watched the children's impressions. Although the writing was immature, the true feeling between the lines made me shed tears.
Looking at the children’s film reviews, I have been asking myself: Isn’t this the best meaning of the power of the movie to pass on to the children in the mountains outside the world?
In the National Day file just past, I also used this method to explain to the children the three blockbuster films of the National Day file: "Me and My Motherland", "Chinese Captain" and "The Climber". Among them, I focused on telling you the "Chinese Captain" I have been looking forward to very much. I also used the computer to play the trailer of "Chinese Captain" to dozens of children in the class.
The children watch the trailer of "Captain China" through the computer
. In the process, I discovered that the children are strange to the aircraft that I did not expect: some children said that they had only seen a rooster hen tractor before, I don’t know. What can airplanes do? I told the children that airplanes can take you out of the mountains to meet your parents, their eyes lit up all at once.
yes, my studentMost of them are left-behind children. Their parents leave them early to work outside. They rarely come back during the New Year holidays, leaving them to live with their grandparents in this mountain day after day. At the age when they should have been carefree, they matured and sensible early because of family reasons, and they took on the important responsibilities of the family at a young age, taking care of their elderly grandparents, taking care of their younger siblings, feeding and sleeping is commonplace. At the same time, they have to share some housework and heavy farm work: feeding chickens, herding cows, making a fire in the morning and evening to cook, and going out when they are resting... They rarely go to counties and towns two hours away from the mountain. The outside world is even more ignorant. They only walk on their feet every day, not even riding a bicycle, let alone cars, trains and airplanes.
So, when I told them that Captain Liu Chuanjian flew a plane without a windshield back to the ground from an altitude of 10,000 meters and saved the lives of more than 100 passengers on the plane, the children were so excited that they raised their hands. Ask me:
"Teacher, why is the captain so great?"
"Teacher, how can I become a captain?"
"Teacher, what happened to the people rescued by the captain?"
"Teacher, I've grown up. If I want to visit you in Beijing, do I have to take the plane driven by the Chinese captain to reach the city you are in?"
whispered among the children's babbling questions He asked me, "Teacher, if we can't get out of the mountains forever, can we still fly into the sky to save people like the Chinese captain?" I asked him why he thought so, and he said, "Teacher, I might leave. I won’t go out of the mountains anymore, because I don’t want to read a lot of books. It’s useless to read them. My father is gone. I have to take care of my mother. I have to stay at home and work..." At that moment, I suddenly felt that the responsibility on my shoulders became heavy Many, as a film worker and as a teacher who teaches and educates people, I have the responsibility to teach these simple and smart children to learn more knowledge, broaden their horizons, and strive to get out of the mountains as soon as possible to see bigger things outside. The world, create a better future.
In English class, the group members completed dictation training on the blackboard
. As a filmmaker, I always believe that good films can have a positive impact on people, so I am more obliged to promote and promote excellent film works. More people know and see. The youth is strong, the country is strong.
We all grew up watching movies. Movies used to be our dream and gave us strength. Therefore, I hope that movies can also help these children see the best in the world and look forward to the future.
From this point of view, Chinese filmmakers have a long way to go.
climbed to the top of the mountain with the children for the first time. We heard the roar of the plane on the mountain that day, but did not see the plane. On the day of
, I asked the children to fold paper into airplanes, and then watched them write every small wish on the fuselage-
and they said: I want to do (take) an airplane to see the outside world.
They said, I want to fly with the captain.
He hopes that his parents who work outside are healthy, and he wants to be a great scientist.
She wants to be admitted to Bama No. 1 High School, and she will become the pride of her motherland in the future.
and them, every child, they have never been on a plane, but they have seen a bigger world through the story of "Captain China", and they have also begun to yearn for a bigger world. Looking at their shining eyes and the dreams written stroke by stroke, we can only work harder to live up to their expectations.
In the end, I folded a plane and wrote my wish on it-
may Chinese teenagers be brave and fearless.
hope that Chinese movies will fly higher and higher.
The sky is big, let us not be afraid.
