The original book is called.

Yan Geling, who had worked on committees honoring Agnes Smedley, Anna Louise Strong, and Edgar Snow in her early years, noticed that Edgar Snow mentioned it in his book while researching the materials of three American journalists who helped the Red Army in Yan'an during the war years in China.

After going to the United States, she participated in the Nanjing Massacre commemoration every year.

In San Francisco, Chicago, a lot of people are donating money to print, and she began to read in detail...

There is a passage in the book about a prostitute who stands up to replace a schoolgirl and is taken away by the Japanese army...

This prompted her to hope that she could recreate history and recreate the scene of that time.

Mr. Jiang Gongyu left a deep impression on Yan Geling, and later, with the help of Zhang Chunru and the rich life experience in Chinese mainland, Yan Geling finally made up her mind to write!

She herself said, "Zhang Chunru's documentary book inspired my work by saying that I have a deep and macroscopic understanding of the evolution of the Japanese from the samurai spirit of the Japanese to the Nanjing Massacre in that catastrophe, which has been of great help to my writing." ”

Lao Mouzi likes it very much, and many men may be particularly interested in the heroic righteousness of the wind and dust woman!

There is 'Lu Dongbin skillfully crosses the wind and dust woman Zhang Zhennu';

There are also many biographies about women in the dust, such as 'The oil seller monopolizes the Oiran', 'Du Shi Niang sinks a hundred treasure chests angrily', 'The golden jade slave beats the thin lover'...

In the era of the Republic of China, there were still little phoenixes...

In short, Lao Mouzi likes it very much, and bluntly said that this is the best book he has encountered in the past 20 years!

'Every time the righteous slaughter dogs, there are also strange women in the party;

The merchant girl also knew that the country hated it, and the church sang Qin Huaijing. ’

That's right, it's a legend!

……

With an investment of more than 300 million, the war scene consumes a lot of money!

The set and special effects cost a lot of money, plus half a year of pre-training...

Lao Mouzi took a lot of pains, he considered every detail very accurately and in place, the selection of actors, the design of window flowers, Shujuan's monologue, the change of contradictions in the hearts of actors, the cruelty of the Japanese army in Nanjing City and the fearless spirit of prostitutes, etc., etc., the performance is incisive...

Especially the close-up shot of Yumo with a blurred mirror image through the window grille, which can be called a stroke of genius!

This is the first time in film history!

The sunlight shines through the glass glass of the church, like a rainbow, but the world outside the window is the opposite of this beautiful color. A group of schoolgirls with their heads bowed, silently praying and crying. Some peep, some look at each other and smile.

The war-ridden city of Nanjing, it seems that there is still a touch of humanity in this small church.

Two completely different lives, probably look down on each other.

The students felt that the prostitutes were vulgar and debauched, and the prostitutes felt that the students were old-fashioned and dull.

However, they all envy each other, the prostitute envies the carefree and innocent of the students, and the students envy the prostitutes' amorous and versatile...

When the Japs stormed the church and frantically chased the schoolgirls, that innermost goodness was awakened, and John Miller plucked up the courage to raise the flag of the Red Cross and roared loudly. Life has become fragile and unbearable, life and death are just a thought, and no one can save anyone. Under the sun, the fragments of the broken glass window became extremely dazzling, and this shot shocked everyone...

Yes, there are a lot of hard injuries, John was drunk and molested Yumo the night before, and when he woke up the next day, he became a hero who protected the schoolgirls; The face changed too quickly, and I couldn't accept it;

Hasegawa's character positioning is both good and evil...

However, it is definitely Lao Mouzi's best work in the past ten years!

As long as you have watched the movie, you can probably know this.

Therefore, many people criticize it from the perspective of publicity and marketing, and rarely from the movie itself, saying a word or two about 'virgin defense', and few people say anything 'the movie is really bad' and 'insincere'...

……

Zhang Weipin is indeed a fool, and the background is the fall of Nanjing!

What is the concept?

From December 13, 1937 to January 23, 1938, the Japanese burned, killed and looted in Nanjing for forty days!

The ancient capital of the Six Dynasties met the Japanese Kou, and the nine-fold city was full of smoke and dust. There are 300,000 souls on the riverside, and the prosperity of gold powder is no longer there.

Of course, the Japanese side has a delicate account of the massacre, what do they say?

In Chinese history, there were many massacres in Nanjing.

For example, the Wangdun Rebellion in 322-324; Hou Jing's Rebellion in 549; the Taiping Rebellion; Tianjing offensive and defensive battles; The Nanjing Massacre of the Second Revolution.

It also brought up to the 10th day of Yangzhou in 1645, claiming that more than 800,000 people were killed in the Yangzhou Massacre.

- This logic is subtle and sinister.

What about the Holocaust in Nanjing's history?

"People in your family often die", can it prove that "so it's normal to kill people in your family now"?

The existence of these historical massacres will not clear the sin of the Japanese invasion of China in the winter of 1937!

This is the basic perception of the people!

The background is brutal!

What about Zhang Weipin?

But the bed scene is the focus of publicity...

Isn't this pure intention!

Yuehua's propaganda is just one sentence: 'Zhang Yimou's best work!'

The way adopted is to screen and promote by film critics, try not to use offensive remarks, and there is no boasting of investment, let alone box office expectations...

Something that would have been about a national catastrophe!

……

On October 15th, it was released, and Zhang Junsheng, Lao Mouzi and the main creative team came to the premiere site.

Zhang Junsheng has a beard and scum, and his image is completely gone...

"Oh, I was editing a new movie, and I was pulled over..."

", of course I have seen it, in fact, I am quite worried, the subject of the Nanjing Massacre is heavy and difficult, to shoot it, the ambition should not be too big, too big to control, and you have to face overwhelming scolding!"

"Yes, it's scolding, not simply shooting bricks, because this theme is not just a movie problem, but a national emotional problem, and they have all encountered such a dilemma!"

"Fortunately, Lao Mouzi didn't make any epic films, but only chose one perspective in this big history, that is, redemption. The plot can be summed up in one sentence: a foreign mortuary, a petty military officer and a group of prostitutes complete their self-redemption in the redemption of a group of schoolgirls. ”

"I, I don't have the ambition to make a war movie for the time being, and if I want to make it, I may go to the extreme and make a short part of the Korean War..."

“… Watch the movie first, and then let's talk about it after watching it!"