Hearing that Spielberg already had a rough topic, Li Mu suddenly became interested, and blurted out: "Steven, I don't know which part of the history of the Chinese War of Resistance you selected?"

Spielberg said: "I think that the deeds of General Chennault leading American pilots to form the Flying Tigers in China are very touching, and not only the deeds of the American Flying Tigers in China to fight against the Japanese fascists are touching, but also the heroic deeds of the Chinese Flying Tigers to resist the Japanese army are also very touching, so my initial idea is that the film will focus on General Chennault, and the real historical events of the Flying Tigers of China and the United States to fight against the Japanese fascists, as well as the film and television art treatment of part of the romance, to create a film of about 140 minutes." ”

The deeds of the Flying Tigers Li Mu, as a son and daughter of China, is naturally very clear, and he knows very well the history of the Flying Tigers, not only the deeds of General Chennault of the United States who led American pilots to volunteer to support the Chinese War of Resistance, but also many touching deeds about the local Flying Tigers in China, which also includes many unknown national heroes, but he didn't expect that Spielberg, an American, actually learned about the deeds of the local Flying Tigers in China, which really surprised him。

Li Mu said in amazement: "Steven, I personally like this selection of materials and the main story setting of yours, I don't know if you can introduce it in more detail?"

Spielberg nodded and said, "First of all, the story should start with Chennault as the starting point, in order to facilitate your substitution, you can imagine Tom Hanks as Chennault, if this movie is confirmed, we will not have the opportunity to let Tom Hanks play." ”

Li Mu smiled slightly: "Tom Hanks's image is indeed very suitable for hard-core soldiers, especially soldiers during World War II. ”

Spielberg said with a smile: "The story first tells how Chennault came to China, according to his personal experience, he first came to China after retiring from the army, and was hired as an instructor in an aviation school in Hangzhou, during which he trained many ace pilots who would later become famous among the local pilots in China, according to my understanding, there is a very famous ace pilot named Liu Zhesheng." ”

Li Mu nodded: "There is indeed such a heroic martyr, he should have been trained by Chennault in 36 years. ”

Spielberg smiled: "Then the information I checked should be correct." ”

Speaking, he continued: "The story starts from Chennault's arrival in China to his becoming an instructor at the Huaxia Aviation Academy and cultivating a group of local talents in China. And the male number two appeared in this history, the male number two is a member of the local Chinese Flying Tigers, he is Chennault's proud protégé, and he is also the strongest one in the Chinese Flying Tigers;

Immediately after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Huaxia began the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, at this time Chennault witnessed the crimes committed by the Japanese invaders against the Chinese people, and also witnessed the process of the students, including the male No. 2, fighting with the Japanese army again and again in the long air, as well as their huge disadvantages in scale and aircraft performance against the Japanese Air Force, which strengthened his determination to help the extremely weak air force of Huaxia to resist the Japanese invaders. ”

Li Mu listened to it, and couldn't help but ask: "What about the second big paragraph?"

Spielberg smiled: "There needs to be a transition between the first big paragraph and the second big paragraph, connecting the previous and the next, starting and ending, this part of the transition plot is the process of Chennault's return to the United States in 1940 to recruit pilots for the Flying Tigers. ”

Li Mu asked tentatively: "The male number one is Chennault, and the male number two is a member of the local Chinese Flying Tigers, so the male number three should be a member of the American Flying Tigers, right?"

Spielberg smiled: "That's right! The character of the male No. 2 is extremely decent and patriotic, and the hatred of the country and family makes him put all his thoughts on resisting the Japanese invaders, in this case, the male No. 3 needs to have an opposite to him, so the male No. 3 I envisioned should be a young, uninhibited, every day only thinking about flying planes, hunting, and pursuing beautiful girls. ”

Speaking of which, Spielberg added: "You can use the image of Leonardo in "Titanic" to substitute this pilot. ”

Li Mu laughed and nodded again and again, Spielberg deserves to be a great director, and one sentence made the picture in his mind much more concrete.

Spielberg continued: "The male number one took a fancy to the strength of the male number three, and hoped to invite him to join his Flying Tigers and go to China to fight the Japanese invaders, but the male number three was not interested at all, and he said that the war had nothing to do with him, and there were only three things in his life: airplanes, cigarettes and women, so he would not accept the invitation of the male number one." ”

In order to achieve this goal, the male number one asked for a flight contest with the male number three, and if the male number one lost, he was willing to give the male number three a thousand dollars, and if the male number one lost, he would come to China with the male number one to participate in the Flying Tigers until the end of World War II. ”

"The male No. 3 was extremely conceited, and competed with the male No. 1 for money and face, but he failed to win him, and in the end he could only be willing to gamble and lose, and together with nearly 100 other pilots, followed the male No. 1 to China. ”

After saying this, Spielberg looked at Li Mu and said, "This is the transition part I said. ”

Li Mu nodded: "Very good, the American Flying Tigers went to the battlefield, I heard that I was a little enthusiastic, after talking about the first major paragraph and the transition paragraph, it's time to talk about the second major paragraph, right?"

Spielberg nodded and said, "The second big paragraph is that the male No. 3 followed the male No. 1 to Huaxia, officially participated in the Flying Tigers, and met the male No. 2, and the two became comrades-in-arms." In this way, the second male and the third male can present a very strong personality contrast, for example: a Chinese face, an American face, an extremely decent face, a bohemian and uninhibited, one has no time to take care of the love of children, and the other thinks about pursuing beautiful girls all day long, one flies a plane to protect the family and defend the country, and the other flies a plane to hunt for curiosity and make money, and the opposition of characters is almost everywhere. ”

"It is such two people who are completely different, under Chennault's command, become comrades who fight side by side, at the beginning the character conflict will be very strong, but with the baptism of war, in the end, the male No. 3 realized the crimes of the Japanese invaders in the war, realized that he was not fighting for curiosity and money, but for justice, during this period, the male No. 2, who has been despised by the male No. 3, saved the life of the male No. 3 in an air battle, and then these two completely different people, but they went to the same place, became the closest comrades-in-arms, fighting side by side. ”

Speaking of this, Spielberg said: "I am also going to add two relatively weakened female characters to this, an American female nurse in the Flying Tigers fell in love with the unsmiling male No. 2, and the male No. 3 fell in love with the Chinese peasant girl who hid him and helped him evade the Japanese army after a plane crash and parachute, and then, the male No. 3 began to pursue the peasant girl fiercely, and the American female nurse also began to show her admiration for the male No. 2." ”

"The shy Chinese girl, trying her best to avoid the enthusiastic male No. 3; the male No. 2, who takes the hatred of the country and the family as everything, knows the love of the American female nurse, and is obviously tempted by it, but takes the anti-Japanese as her own responsibility, and does not dare to give any positive response, until there is an air force that resists the Japanese invaders, the male No. 2 and the male No. 3 fight side by side, in the fierce battle, the male No. 2's plane was damaged by the Japanese army, and the male No. 3 desperately wanted to cover him to parachute, but the male No. 2 had been hit by the machine gun of the Japanese plane in the chest at this time. ”

On the verge of death, the second male gave up parachuting, said goodbye to the third male through the radio, and asked him to help tell the American female nurse, saying that he also liked her, but unfortunately the timing of the two acquaintances was too unfortunate, if in peacetime, he would definitely marry her, after saying this, the second male pulled up the injured plane, rushed to the formation of the Japanese plane, and finally shot down a Japanese fighter before being shot down by the Japanese army. ”

The grief-stricken male No. 3 and other comrades-in-arms repelled the Japanese army, but the male No. 2's plane had crashed, and he returned with tears, and the female nurse heard that the battle on the front line was fierce, and ran to the runway to see the male No. 2's plane land, but the last plane that landed was the male No. 3's plane, and he told the female nurse that the male No. 2 had died, and the female nurse wept silently. ”

"At the end of the story, Chennault's Flying Tigers were disbanded, and Male No. 3 was about to return to the United States, before leaving, he went to look for the peasant girl who had saved him but had been avoiding him, but found that the entire village where her home was located had been razed to ruins by the Japanese army, Male No. 3 thought she was dead, and cried sadly in the ruins of her home, but he didn't expect the girl to suddenly appear in front of him alone;"

The male No. 3 was excited, took the initiative to hug her tightly, and said I love you in English, the peasant girl didn't understand, but didn't push him away, but left tears in his arms, and said in Chinese that her parents were killed by the Japanese, and she was the only one left in the family, and the male No. 3 couldn't understand, he just repeatedly said in broken Chinese: Follow me, follow me, the peasant girl understood his words, hesitated slightly, or nodded. ”

Male No. 3 hugged her tightly, crying excitedly like a child, and then the second major paragraph of the plot ended. ”

Li Mu's eyes were already a little sour when he heard this, he didn't expect Spielberg to describe a fictional story based on real history so touching just in words, and what he didn't expect was that the eyes of young Anne Hathaway were red when she heard it, and tears could even be seen rolling in her eyes.

Everyone didn't speak, looking at Spielberg, he took a deep breath, adjusted his mood, and continued: "The end of the story is divided into two acts, the first act: on the side of the steamer returning to the United States, the camera sweeps over the faces of the male number one, and many American Flying Tigers, who lie on the side of the ship and look at the coast farther away, which is the Chinese land they once fought so hard to defend;"

Then, when the camera swept over the American female nurse, she stopped for a moment, and the female nurse burst into tears silently, and carefully took out a photo from her pocket, which was a photo of the male No. 2 on the honor roll of the aviation school, and the male No. 2 was taken by her side after he died;

Then, the camera swept over her, to the male No. 3, the male No. 3 had red eyes, looking at the land of China, as if he was remembering his comrades-in-arms who fought side by side, and then, the camera swept over him, beside him, it was the peasant girl who had lost her parents, the girl had red eyes, slowly snuggled on his shoulder, and then the camera rose, getting farther and farther away......"

"Act II: In the summer of 1999, an old American man and an old American lady, accompanied by an old Chinese lady and several mixed-race children, came to China, and they came to a martyr's cemetery on the outskirts of Spring City in the southwest;

"Standing in front of a tombstone, the old American man and the Chinese old lady interlocked their fingers, and looked at the photos on the tombstone seriously, and the photo on the tombstone was the second male of the year, and even the photo was exactly the same as the photo taken away by the American female nurse;"

At this time, the lonely old American lady beside the two of them trembled but carefully took out a yellowed black and white photo, which was the same as the photo on the tombstone, and then the old man's wrinkled eyes shed two lines of tears, and the tears slowly slipped down the old man's wrinkled face, and at the moment when they dripped in front of the tombstone, the whole play ended ......"