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The domestic war movie "Eight Hundred" will finally be released on August 21. This "finally" is really not an exaggeration at all. From last year to this year, the fate of this movie vividly interprets what it means to be "untimely": in order to make this movie, the main producer Fang Huayi Brothers Film Company can say Huge costs and resources have been invested, and the production cost of the film is as high as 550 million yuan. As the opening film of the Shanghai Film Festival last year, it should have appeared on the gorgeous red carpet, crackling flashing lights, and cheers of literary and artistic youths. At that time, the box office forecasts given by the major media were also at least 3 billion. However, the night before the opening of the Shanghai Film Festival, the film crew suddenly said "technical reasons" that made the film instantly cool.
"Withdrawing files" has frequently appeared in the movie market in recent years. It is often due to the "technical reasons" of the film party, and then tell fans "we are working hard to re-launch as soon as possible so that everyone can see", and the review department has never Without a word, it often turns into conspiracy theories flying all over the sky, and then when it is re-released, fans tearfully "It is not easy to see Amway, everyone cherish the opportunity to buy tickets for support" and then talk by the way, "Is the release version deleted than the original version? What content has been subtracted?" Let’s talk about "How does the abridged content destroy the integrity of the film"
The reason why "Yaibai" was withdrawn by FireWire is still unknown, and I don’t want to speculate on that link without the source. Something went wrong. After that, although news of rescheduling was heard from time to time, but after March and March, it dragged on until 2020 under the epidemic situation. The theater closed down, it was difficult to resume work, and the attendance rate was strictly restricted. Next, "Yai Hundred", which was once highly expected by the industry, once again hit the battlefield in the eyes of the industry's eager anticipation. However, this time "Yai Hundred" is actually more like a landmine launched: brother, you are already In this way, it is better to go up and explore the news for us. If you sell at the box office and help us warm up the market, we will keep up one by one; if unfortunately, it means that the current market capacity is not suitable for blockbuster releases, so we will wait and see. Alas, I am so ambitious that I was born out of time. In a trance, I felt that the filming of "Eight Hundred" and the fate of the historical " Eight Hundred Heroes " had some wonderful interweaving.
is like the national army on the battlefield of Songhu. Regardless of victory or defeat, resistance is better than surrender; the release of "Yu Hundred", regardless of the box office, is a good sign for the film's resumption of production. I also rushed to buy a ticket to watch the screening of the movie at the first time. I personally feel that "Yai Bai" is indeed as expected by the industry. As a war movie with a very high degree of industrialization, it has reached the technical level. The new peak of domestic commercial films of the same type. Starting from the first set of shots of the movie, the film team restored countless details of the entire battlefield, portrayed high-intensity war scenes, and expressed the theme of the movie through the contrast of light and shadow of photography. The exquisite art design and atmosphere set off, especially in the movie. The large-scale scenes of the movie show the extremely high level of industrialization of the film. In order to support the high standards in Guanhu’s ideals, Huayi Company created the full-real scene of Suzhou River and that appeared in the movie. The scenes on both sides of the include 1:1 restoration of the four lines. warehouse. The various departments involved in the film also support the final effect of the film with their very sophisticated output. This is an important attempt on the road to the industrialization of Chinese films, whether it is for senior director Guan Hu and senior photographer Cao Yu, And the person in charge of each department of the film is an unprecedented experience, these experiences will also become the experience of the latecomers. With the support of high-quality film technology, the story of the five days from October 26 to November 1, 1937 was slowly unfolded in front of the audience: the Lugou Bridge Incident, after Japan's full-scale invasion, tried to destroy China quickly, and Chiang Kai-shek The leading National Government hopes to eliminate the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai at that time with absolute superiority. Why did you ask me why there were Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai at that time? That’s because five years ago, after the Battle of Songhu in 1932, Shanghai was declared a “demilitarized zone” under the so-called “just” mediation of the international community. China was not allowed to station troops in Shanghai and its surrounding areas, while Japan But it is possible to station troops in the Japanese Concession or even outside the Japanese Concession. And this time, Chiang Kai-shek still hopes that he can use his Central Army equipped with German goods bought from Hitler to create a partial victory, thereby gaining the attention of the international community, deterring Japan and allowing the "League of Nations" to mediate, and Japan will withdraw its troops honorably. , And then change his peace for a few years.
However, the day failed. The final battle turned into 800,000 us against 200,000 enemy, 300,000 casualties on our side and 40,000 casualties on the enemy. Eventually, Shanghai fell and Nanjing opened its doors. The eight hundred warriors who stick to the four-line warehouse took place at the end of this battle. Chiang Kai-shek has decided to withdraw his troops after seeing the defeat, and save his remaining elite capital, leaving the 88th Division to sacrifice alone, which happens to be a signatory of the Nine Nations Convention. The meeting is about to come. I hope that the tragic killing of these Chinese soldiers by the Japanese army can win the sympathy of the great powers, commonly known as the "international community," and intervene to let Japan constrain. And the teacher of the Eighty-Eighth Division Sun Yuanliang thought, anyway, it’s sacrifice for others. If you die and don’t die, it’s better to leave a regiment to sacrifice. When I finally leave, I think about it, forget it. According to others, more deaths are more deaths than deaths, so let’s stay in a camp, so I ordered this camp to stick to the four-line warehouse: because this warehouse is easy to defend and difficult to attack and is close to the concession, it can persist for a while and is very convenient for foreigners to see. Sun Yuanliang left the deputy Xie Jinyuan of the 524th regiment as the supreme officer, escaped by himself, and continued his glorious career of "no one but death can run away from me". Above
is the story background of "Eight Hundred". The beginning of the film is briefly explained with subtitles, and the main content of the film is the next 5 days on both sides of the Suzhou River-the concession of singing and dancing and the broken walls. The battlefield, heaven and hell, the story of Chinese soldiers and Chinese people. Throughout the whole film, the plot of the movie is not about war or about the army, because even the defenders of the Four Lines Warehouse, except for a few professional soldiers of the Central Army below Xie Jinyuan, the film focuses on several people who have been misplaced. The so-called “deserters” and “unknown soldiers” speaking in various dialects rushed into the four-line warehouse. They were confused and fought for some reason. They were cowardly and weak. At first they only wanted to be deserters and go home and marry a wife. They didn’t even have the military skills. Professionalism, even killing an enemy army can only be done under the persecution of an officer. In fact, they are just a group of ordinary people who were sacrificed as soldiers. Through the transformation of such a group of people and those in a safe zone on the other side of the Suzhou River within 5 days, the film shows how the Chinese people at that time went from despair to awakening, defending China's dignity of "one inch of mountain and one inch of blood" with will and sacrifice.
Of course, this is only my personal interpretation. Next, I will discuss the second "untimely birth" in addition to the schedule of this movie. It is a strong interpretation of how this movie is produced in this era. Split. According to the director’s own statement, the originality of the movie "Eight Hundred" originated 13 years ago. Let us recall the first 10 years of the new century. The Internet is full of "tragic feelings of the national army", that is, everyone exaggerates " the Kuomintang is the main force in the anti-Japanese war", and calls on film and television works to praise the Kuomintang's anti-Japanese achievements. Even as long as the main theme of the anti-Japanese war film, some people will complain that "it is boring." The national army is the main force in the anti-Japanese propaganda, why no one shoots the national army".
follows this logic, and it is very likely that the appearance of "Eight Hundred" will arouse the cheers of the majority of netizens: "The conscience of the industry, without this movie, I am afraid that the anti-Japanese record and heroic stories of the soldiers and soldiers are due to political reasons It’s buried!” But in my memory, I knew that the 800 heroes were from the middle school history textbook. In order to prevent my memory from deviating, I deliberately found both the new and the old PEP high school history textbooks. It records the heroic deeds of four hundred warriors defending the Sixing Warehouse, and the former site of the Sixing Warehouse in Shanghai was the first batch of practical education bases for primary and secondary school students recognized by the Ministry of Education, and was included in the National Anti-Japanese War Memorial Facilities and Site Directory.
However, ten years after the film’s real appearance, the situation is very different from the one-sided "Calling the National Army" ten years ago. On the one hand, there are still quite a few people who interpret the theme and meaning of the film as "reflecting the national army." Anti-Japanese achievements” or even “challenging traditional political discourse” and “tell you the truth of history”; and quite a few other people think that if the movie wants to talk about this, then I’m sorry, I don’t want to watch it, not only And very angry. In the eyes of this group of people, the “National Army’s Anti-Japanese War” from the perspective of our rulers is no different from Barcelona’s 2:8 loss to Bayern. You must emphasize that Barcelona is great and work hard to be a hero, and you force Barcelona fans to look back. A wonderful replay of those two goals.
Actually, as early as 1975, the Taiwan region under the rule of the Kuomintang once made an anti-Japanese movie of the same theme, called "Eight Hundred Heroes."At that time, Taiwan’s handsome men and beauties were gathered, including Xu Feng, who later became the producer of "Farewell My Concubine", the queen of Tomson Group’s female head, Lin Qingxia and Zhang Aijia, who were just young and young, and the son of Sun Yuanliang, Qin Han just mentioned. At that time, this movie was a huge production of the main theme created by the Kuomintang regime, and it had a great influence in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
's movie "Eight Hundred" this time reminds many people of this "previous work" during the Kuomintang era in Taiwan. Many plots seem to come from the same bridge. For example, residents on the south bank of the Suzhou River ran across the connection in a similar suicide relay charge. The bridges on both sides of the strait send things to the four-row warehouse. For example, the soldiers of the national army held a flag-raising ceremony on the roof under the bombing of Japanese aircraft, and protected the blue sky with their lives. Suzhou Creek finally came to Sixing Warehouse...
In fact, according to the memories of reporters and scholars’ research, the bridge connecting the concession has not been blocked. Girl Scout Yang Huimin was in a car at the request of the 88th Army, of course many In other plots, for example, the defender of the Four Lines Warehouse killed more than 200 people, wounded countless people, and blew up two tanks. For example, the defender on the roof hit a Japanese plane with a machine gun. For example, the disciples of the rivers and lakes died one by one. Most of the cases, such as those who risked their deaths and crossed the bridge to answer the phone lines for the defenders, came from artistic processing rather than real history. And this kind of non-historical artistic processing is mixed with the deductive plots added to the film and television works by the artists of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the early days of the War of Resistance against despair and resistance, as well as different parties in different environments and politics. Memories and statements made to different media in the context. Although
is a war movie, it is completely reasonable to perform artistic processing for the sake of dramatic tension, but if you start with "to discover the truth of history" as a selling point, then it is likely that "your story does not conform to the truth of history". "It was backlashed, and the resulting wars of words and the emotional expressions of netizens will inevitably make the announcement of the film lament that it is untimely and wrong, which is not easy for the audience this year.
The last thing I think the film’s untimely birth is that this is a film with too tragic plot. Although the shock of tragedy is the artist’s favorite, for most of the masses who spend money on tickets for commercial films, there is still a threshold for the tragedy they can accept. We see in "Yai Bai" It’s the flesh and blood Chinese youth who were abandoned by the incompetent rulers. When they realized that they wanted to use their blood to defend their dignity and use their lives to inspire their compatriots, they were asked by Shangfeng to retreat immediately, and they were almost met by the retreat. The slaughter of slaughter, and all of this is a "show" carefully designed by one's own superiors and enthusiastically watched by the imperialist powers. This despair is more than the horror of death.
At the end of the movie, after the surviving soldiers entered the concession, the story came to an abrupt end. The battle failed and the country fell, but China would not perish, but what happened later? The movie didn’t talk about it, but gave a four at the end. The old site of the warehouse and the current prosperous Pudong are in the same frame. In the special year of 2020, I am afraid that the audience's acceptance of such a tragic story from the beginning is even lower.
However, after talking about these three points, do you really think this movie is completely out of date? In fact, when I watched the new film, the biggest feeling I felt was not that it was not at the right time, but that it happened at the right time, especially in conjunction with the current situation in 2020. If the film was released one or two years ago, I am afraid it would not have such a strong resonance and feeling for me.
If the story of "Eight Hundreds" is condensed into one sentence, it is: Facing the arrogant, domineering, ignoring axioms, and trying to kill you, what should we do as Chinese? The most shocking scene at the beginning of the
movie is the sharp contrast between the cold and solemn Zhabei and the warm, modern, and flattering concession separated by a river. Here is a strong man who is determined to die, Xu Guo with his own body, and there is a backyard flower that is still singing across the river. The Chinese in the concession still have nothing to do with themselves, busy with the short days of their parents, satisfied with "this is a British and French territory, the Japanese will not come, we are safe", and even dislike the resisting soldiers, fearing that they will be angered by crossing the river. The Japanese made themselves tired. This reminds me two years ago, I saw a lot of posts on the Internet, and I enthusiastically said, "Trade war? What does it have to do with me? Will the US sanctions on China be able to lower housing prices? As long as housing prices can fall, I will support it.Trump! At the beginning of the
movie, the soldiers from all walks of life entering the warehouse are very confused. The opponent is a Japanese army armed with 200,000 to the teeth, and he has only 400 men. This is a battle that must be defeated. If you must lose, why do you want to fight? What else can we get if we lose our lives? Why not escape to the concession, at least one life, why not escape back to my hometown, where my daughter-in-law is still waiting for me. It's just like the Chinese companies and certain powerful companies that are happening around us In the asymmetric confrontation between countries, some people say, how can a company fight against a superpower? If there is no chance of winning, why not strive for the best result on the basis of obedience? In the movie
, the rulers of the national government pin their hopes for the future The benevolence of the great powers felt that as long as we fully demonstrate our innocence to them, as long as we have the utmost goodwill to abide by international rules and make concessions first, they will certainly uphold justice for us and restore everything to its original state. Compared to resisting alone, Being accepted by the international community is even more important. It’s like what’s happening around us recently. Is it true that we can get a fair and happy ending by integrating ourselves into international rules, opening our own things and gaining the understanding of the great powers in good faith?
History has given us the answer to all of the above: the residents of the concession who "watch the fire across the shore" soon discovered that there are eggs under the nest, and the fate of every Chinese is dependent on each other in the face of the oppression of the powers; the soldiers who stand by are very close to each other. Soon it was discovered that what their resistance won was the will to fight, and this will would like a single spark to inspire the compatriots on the other side to awaken, and the awakening of the compatriots would condense into the mighty power of final victory; what about the great powers? Those sitting The airships, Western journalists and observers who were observing the battle over coffee did not take justice to China. Instead, they chose to appease the aggressive Japan and squeeze and insult the weaker China. Japan, at the time, directly retreated from the group. It means that I beat me and don’t care about it. The content that was not made in the
movie was also what saddened me the most when I saw this history. It was when these warriors obeyed the order to retreat to the concession and met them. Hometown, freedom, and a new battlefield, but was immediately disarmed by the British army, and was confined in a "solitary barracks" surrounded by power grids and a harsh environment like a prisoner of war camp. It was guarded by foreign mercenaries and had no personal freedom. Chief Xie Jinyuan They were assassinated, and after the Japanese occupied the concession, these heroes were captured by the Japanese and sent to Southeast Asia and other places to do hard labor. Except for a small number of people who fled to join the New Fourth Army, most of them were tortured to death and did not see the victory of the War of Resistance.
八The vicissitudes of history in the past ten years, the world has changed a lot, but some things are as stubborn as the same. Only by knowing where you come from can you find the way forward. I think this is the biggest time for the movie "Yaobai", which is also me. I think you should go to the cinema to experience the content. The 400 warriors back then and the thousands of young people who gave their lives for national liberation, they knew that they could not see the realization of their dreams, but they still worked hard for the dream of tomorrow. Today In 2020, although we will experience hardships, we will occasionally be confused , Will be small but mournful, but compared with them, we are closer to their dreams than ever before. What reason is there not to be vigorous, learn the lessons of the predecessors, and make our own choices for our country and our own future?
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