Li Mu has always believed that images are the best carrier to convey concepts and thoughts, which is why he pays so much attention to the shooting and editing of this documentary, he knows that he can't bring every Chinese person to Spring City, to the mountain village where Sun Xiaozhong lived for most of his life, to see and listen to it with his own eyes, what he can do is to record everything with images, and then pass it on to the whole society.

The video played by Li Mu at the press conference is already the third version of the promotional video for the project to find the surviving Flying Tigers.

The earliest version was just a rough cut of the shooting material, which was played to hundreds of rich second-generation people who only knew how to spend money and pick up girls every day, and these people were moved to tears, and then donated more than 80 million yuan;

The second version, adding the relevant materials of the old Flying Tigers of the United States, as well as the shocking clips of the Boeing 747 when Air China's shark mouth painting took off and landed, what touched people the most was the moment when the old Flying Tigers of China and the United States met at the airport after 60 years.

The third version is the ultimate version of the second version with more careful editing and arrangement, and some new materials, from 1937 to 2003, the Flying Tigers and the National Air Force more than 60 years of experience are condensed in this version.

It has cherished aerial battle pictures of the past, fragments of searching for the old man Sun Xiaozhong in the mountains, oral histories of the American Flying Tigers facing the camera before setting off, and close-ups of the Shark Mouth fighter of the Flying Tigers and the current Air China Shark Mouth 747, a group photo of the Chinese and American Flying Tigers in high spirits, and the images of the old Flying Tigers of the two countries hugging and crying today, aerial shots of the Hump route and air battles over Chuncheng, and the prosperity and peace of the Spring City Airport today.

At the beginning of the picture, the video shows the video of the daily training of the Jianqiao Central Aviation School, and because this is a precious historical record, the attraction of all reporters is attracted to the past;

Subsequently, the Battle of Songhu began, and the entire aviation school began to move westward;

Then, the Nationalist Air Force began to engage the Japanese Air Force in various places, and the real images of the air battles were all black and white pictures, although there was no color, but they were more magnificent than the color pictures;

When they saw the old man Sun Xiaozhong in the extremely dilapidated thatched house, saying the famous sentence "Donating your life to go to the country, seeing death as if you were going home", almost everyone burst into tears.

Sacrificing his life to go to the country, seeing death as if he were returning home, a veteran, all his feelings for this nation are vividly highlighted in these ten words.

In the video, when the old man finished saying this, the picture gradually darkened, and then the picture showed the picture of the martyr Chen Huaimin dying with the enemy in the air battle of Jiangcheng, and at the same time as the picture, it was Li Mu's carefully selected background music - "1492 Conquest of Heaven".

After 19 seconds of prelude, this extremely majestic and tragic music suddenly appeared in a collective humming, which instantly bombarded everyone's hearts like tear-jerking cannonballs.

The reason why I chose this music is because Li Mu was completely tear-jerking by this music back then.

In a TV series called "Soldier Assault" that year, when Shi Jin, the squad leader played by Zhang Yi, cried bitterly in front of Tiananmen Square in a car after retiring from the army, this music made Li Mu cry in front of the TV like a fool.

Since then, whenever he hears this pure music, Li Mu can't help but recall that scene in the TV series.

Today, the same music, in the real images of the year, showing the blood and sacrifice of veterans during the war years to the country and the nation, has become the best foil for these video images, the combination of notes and pictures, produces a wonderful chemical effect, so that every note, every picture, can go straight to the heart, people feel the tremor of the heart.

When the music sounded, there was no other sound on the scene, everyone stared intently at the big screen, in front of this kind of shocking video materials, everyone could not hold back their tear ducts, at this moment, everyone realized that what they saw today was the most shocking, the most heart-wrenching, and the most shameful and guilty of all the charity projects they know so far.

People will sympathize with children who are not in school, will sympathize with the disabled who have lost their healthy bodies, and will sympathize with infants and young children with congenital diseases, but they will not have any shame and guilt for these groups, because although they feel that these groups are pitiful, they do not owe them anything in essence.

But veterans are different.

In the picture, those pilots who disregarded life and death, piloted planes in the long sky of the motherland and fought desperately against the invaders, they shed blood and sacrificed for the country and the nation, in order to protect the family and defend the country, for the sake of future generations, some of them have sacrificed, some have disappeared in the long years, most of these people who remain live so hard, but none of them have stretched out their hands to this society.

No veteran said that the country owed them, let alone that the nation owed them and the people owed them, they all regarded the sacrifice of the year as an unshirkable responsibility and obligation, threw their blood during the war years, and then spent their lives in the era of peace, even if they were hungry and poorly clothed, they never reached out to this society for a dime or a grain of rice. The sacrifices made by the nation, knowing that today's peace and development are entirely based on their bloody sacrifices in the past, and as a result, how can we not be ashamed and feel guilty about them when we see that these real old heroes are now living such a poor and destitute life?

It turns out that although society is indifferent, the blood of most people is still hot.

Every reporter at the scene was deeply touched by this video, they had red eyes and tears, but they couldn't take their eyes off it, they didn't even know that they were crying, they had forgotten that they were here to attend a press conference, they forgot the cast they had been eagerly looking forward to, they forgot the gossip related to Li Mu, and they also forgot the original intention of making things difficult for Li Mu at the press conference and squeezing Li Mu to get news topics.

In fact, the last two points that reporters were thinking about before have been answered vaguely but very clearly in the video.

In the video, Li Mu's picture flashed several times, he was on the deep mountain cliffs of Yunnan Province, on the steel cable crossing the river above the Nujiang River, in the dilapidated thatched hut of the old man Sun Xiaozhong, in the ward of the Yunnan Military Hospital, when he greeted Air China 747, and when the old people spent the Lantern Festival together in the hotel.

Now the reporters finally know what Li Mu has been doing in the past few days when he disappeared in front of the media, it turns out that he has set up such a significant charitable foundation, and personally initiated and participated in the first public welfare project of the charitable foundation, which is now what everyone sees, making everyone cry to find the surviving Flying Tiger members!

Through this video, Li Mu made the whole society aware of the importance and urgency of caring for veterans, and at the same time, he also used practical actions to tell the whole society that the Veterans Immortal Charity Foundation is not only the founder, initiator, and funder, but also a personal participant who is in it and does it himself, an Internet tycoon worth more than 10 billion US dollars, plunged headlong into the mountains of Yun Province.

While everyone's souls were being greatly shaken, the video was nearing its end.

The sound of background music gradually faded out of the picture, and only the old man Sun Xiaozhong was left in the picture, he was still sitting in his dilapidated thatched house, facing the camera, his old face with a smile, and said: " The society doesn't owe me anything, the brothers who fought side by side back then were all enthusiastic and wanted to resist and serve the country, serve the country, and serve the country, just like filial piety to their parents, it is our responsibility and obligation to be born, and it is because we have not fulfilled our responsibilities that we have allowed the Japanese to come in and run rampant for so many years......

After the old man said this, there were suddenly two more tear stains on his smiling face, and the picture of the old man wiping away his tears was slowed down to 0.2 times by the editor, and the slow motion made people see the sadness that flashed in the old man's expression when he wiped away his tears.

The picture fades to black, and then, a deep and solemn voice-over voice, with white subtitles, is presented in the center of the picture:

In the summer of 1937, the old man Sun Xiaozhong moved west to Chuncheng with the Jianqiao Central Aviation School as a whole, and in the autumn of the same year, Sun Xiaozhong's father moved from Hangzhou to Jinling with his family of seven to escape the war;

In December of the same year, Jinling fell, the whole family since then, for more than 60 years, there is no news, after the volunteers verified, in the list of victims of the Jinling Massacre, found the names of the old man's parents, brother and sister and eldest sister-in-law, the old man's nephew was three years old at the time, volunteers did not find his name in the list of victims, but it is believed that he had also died in the massacre;

In 1952, during the labor reform period of Sun Xiaozhong, his lover Chen Jinyu left his hometown with his only son Lianli because he could not make a living, and his whereabouts are still unknown. ”

At the end of the video, ten words appeared again on the big screen: "Veterans never die, they just fade away......"