Chapter 648: Seeking the Glory of Death for the Greatness of Life
Zhang Hanyu really doesn't understand, if it is just to give an explanation to the above, Song Zheng can make a story that can better reflect the glorious image of our party and our army, but "Assembly Number" seems to have a bit of irony to some extent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
To this, Song Zheng's answer is, there is no reason!
Song Zheng wants to shoot "Assembly Number", to make a real war blockbuster, in his opinion, many war films with the main theme are about to catch up with fantasy, because war is originally very terrible, but in many domestic war films, it makes this originally terrible thing very interesting.
When we hit the enemy, we were shot and killed, and the enemy hit us, and our soldiers were shot several times, but they still stood tall, and even if they fell, they still had to give an account of what happened after their deaths until the day when communism and socialism were realized.
The movie was made like this, if it was made from an artistic point of view alone, it would be ridiculous, but Song Zheng could also understand it, because war is a political need, and the war films in the past are also a political need, at that time, the country was founded not long ago, and almost all enemies were defeated, and the whole country was full of confidence in the future, and the vast majority of people believed that under the leadership of our party, China would be invincible and invincible.
At that time, the spirit of "man will win the day" directly acted on the movie, and the result was a camp confrontation with clear and unified standards, in terms of character image, the square characters all have thick eyebrows and big eyes, great figures, approachable in peacetime, and invincible heroes in wartime, even if they accidentally want to hang up, they have to shout a slogan and then die, and those who don't have the strength to shout slogans have to pay a party fee to close their eyes.
Of course, this is not true, it violates the laws of nature, does not conform to the characteristics of human nature, and this tall and complete character image is far from reality.
However, it is also unfair to evaluate the war films of that time without the historical background, perhaps, the people at that time were really stupid and naïve, but to a certain extent, people were very pure and serious.
When this kind of realization is in the movie, it shows that the enemy is always ugly and incompetent and vulnerable, while his own people are always so wise and powerful.
"Southern Expedition and Northern War", "Heroic Children", "The Story of Liubao", "Railway Guerrillas", "Lin Hai Snow Plain", "Tunnel Warfare" and a large number of classic red movies cannot escape this mode.
In terms of shooting techniques, the frontal characters are all shown to be tall and righteous with an upward shot, and the villains are basically shown with an overhead lens to show their evil and obscenity, and even use light to create shadows on their faces, and the characters will know his fate as soon as they appear.
Although this is permissible from the perspective of pure film technique, it is obviously a backward concept of film expression, and it is even less realistic.
Among the domestic war films, Song Zheng's favorite is Feng Xiaoning's war trilogy "Red River Valley", "Yellow River Love", "Purple Sun", he uses the perspective of Westerners to examine the Chinese nation in the war of aggression, creating a new creative angle, and dares to break the barriers and taboos between China and foreign countries in the past, does not deliberately depict war scenes, but can consider the impact of war on people from the perspective of human nature.
What's more worth mentioning is that Feng Xiaoning's film borrows a lot of techniques from Western films, such as the poetic portrayal of the story background and the magnificent and beautiful soundtrack, which enhance the aesthetic value and artistic appeal of the film.
Entering the new century, Jiang Wen's banned "The Devil is Coming" brought shock to all Chinese who understood it, this strange film with the background of the Anti-Japanese War as the background, but beyond the Anti-Japanese War, completely exposed Jiang Wen's outstanding talent and extraordinary courage, which is a complete subversion of the so-called "main theme".
At the same time, this is also a terrible, heart-wrenching movie, the terrible thing is that it mercilessly presents the true side of human nature that people don't want to see, and the sad thing is that it further brutally excavates some of the bad roots of the Chinese nation.
It can be said that Jiang Wen's "The Devil is Coming" marks the beginning of China's war films to try to depict war from a deeper level, and Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" is obviously a follow-up in this regard.
As a war film, "Assembly" is first and foremost a man's movie, which embodies the bloody nature that a "combat film" should have, and is a reproduction of classical heroic feelings.
In the war scenes of the original "Assembly", the shadow of Hollywood war blockbusters can be seen, which is also a direct manifestation of Chinese films learning from the advanced shooting methods of the West.
From the perspective of entertainment, such war films are more visually appealing than the previous main theme films, and from the perspective of film content, "The Assembly" reflects on the attitude of a regime towards the people who died for this regime, and the value of people-oriented has been highlighted.
The main story line of "Assembly Number" is not complicated, mainly tells the story of the ninth company Chang Gu Zidi led the whole nine company soldiers to block the enemy in the Wenhe position, can not hear the assembly number can not retreat, in the final battle, his 47 comrades all died heroically, but afterwards his comrades were determined to be "missing", in order to seek justice for the 47 brothers, he kept writing letters and petitions, and has always insisted on recovering the remains of his comrades, and finally, he finally found the troops, and returned the story of his 47 brothers "martyr" glorious title.
The film itself has moved from simple eulogy and mythology to solemnity and realism, not only gaining greater visual impact in terms of character modeling and visual effects such as explosions and shootings, but also more objectively reproducing the cruelty and tragedy of war scenes.
Shocking, this is Song Zheng's most real feeling when he watched "Assembly Number" in his last life, although after the release of this movie, there was also controversy, but in Song Zheng's opinion, Feng Xiaogang has done a good enough, especially, the blockbusters that emerged at that time, not to mention wanting to move people, no laughter is excellent, many films are not even able to tell the story and show it, and they can't find the north when they are scolded by the audience, so they can only leave a shameless image every year.
"Assembly" can make ordinary people walk out of the cinema one by one with red eyes and silence, and it is accompanied by applause, which is a very gratifying thing in itself.
As for the doubts of those so-called professionals and mouth cannons, who cares about them!
For an ordinary audience, walking into the cinema hoping to see a moving story, or a visual and auditory enjoyment, this is enough, ordinary people are not professional, so they will not care about what kind of shot this is, what kind of technique this is, where there are loopholes, where there are goofs, where there are problems with the scenery, and there are not so many pustules disguised as art.
Song Zheng was an ordinary audience in his last life, he only remembered that he was moved, and besides, the entire movie theater was moved, and that was enough.
People feel the cruelty of war, the fragility of life, worry about the fate of Guzidi, and cry for the soldiers of the 9th Company.
But there are a lot of professionals who have jumped out and made a large number of special approvals, especially when it comes to the civil war, which is also the most incomprehensible.
5,000 years of division and integration on the land of China, which war is not your own people and your own people, does it have to be against Japan and the United States to shoot, according to this logic, is it the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Spring and Autumn Period, and Warring States to ban filming.
This is history, living history, why cover up, no one is the winner of the war, what we want to promote is not the soldiers who fought against Japan are the soldiers, but every sacrificed life, innocent people and traumatized souls.
But it is really sad that there is such a group of ignorant, uninteresting, irresponsible, and unpositional people, dressed in professional and artistic emperor's new clothes.
In Song Zheng's opinion, there is no need to have so much controversy about the movie "Assembly", what do you see and feel, isn't this enough!?
From this movie, Song Zheng saw humanity, perseverance, understood the inner world of a veteran, and felt the reflection on the war, aren't these worth moving?
There is a scene in the movie that impressed Song Zheng very deeply, the cemetery of the unknown soldier, the tombstones made of wooden boards with the word "nameless" written one by one, all over the mountains, how many fighting sounds were left on the battlefield back then, and how much flesh and blood were flying, you can imagine it later.
The camera is opened, the endless cemetery, the neatly arranged wooden tombstones, which makes people uncomfortable, in fact, such shots often appear in movies, the camera is opened, and the neat tombstones are endless, such as "Saving Private Ryan", but compared with the scene in "Saving Private Ryan", this scene in "The Assembly" has such a strong sense of absurdity.
Looking at the tombs of the unknown martyrs one after another in the sunset, Gu Zidi was stunned, and muttered: "Mom and Dad have named them, why are they nameless?"
Think about these nameless soldiers, at the cost of their lives but not in exchange for the title of a martyr with a name and surname, the family members get only a "missing", the subsidy is much less than others, how unclear the disappearance is, how glorious the martyrs are, they are all the same sacrifice, but they do not get the same treatment.
When he saw this, great compassion surged in Song Zheng's heart, just like the promotional slogan of the original movie said, one by one, every sacrifice is immortal.
Although Song Zheng didn't cry bitterly when he watched "Assembly" in the cinema at that time, at least tears were rolling in his eyes, this is indeed a very sincere movie, the first half bombards people's visual senses, and the second half is like a trickle, scratching the heart one by one.
After watching this movie, I believe many viewers will have the same question.
Is it worth it?
The 47 soldiers who died heroically and were buried in the kiln were treated as missing, which means that their deaths were so unworthy.
"The families of the martyrs gave 700 catties of millet, and only 200 catties were missing!"
The family members of the missing soldiers complained to the surviving company commander Gu Zi from the perspective of the common people.
And from the perspective of Lian Chang Guzidi, those 47 brothers, all of them are good, none of them are afraid of death, but they don't even have the name of martyrs, watching them sacrifice themselves on the battlefield like martyrs, but there is no evidence, and for things without evidence, except for personal struggle, no one will solve it for him, is it worth it for the soldiers to die in vain?
The tenacious torture of this question may still be at a loss.
And Gu Zidi's efforts for this, begging people to find superiors, and digging on the battlefield by themselves, in the process, the death of 47 people has a worthwhile.
He survived and was committed to getting justice for them, his conscience, his stubbornness, being treated as insane, and still unrepentant.
There will never be less ridiculous things, who wants to be absurd and tricked, but when the ruthless fate comes like this, some people choose to meet it and fight against fate, Gu Zidi is such a person.
Although the ending of the story is too satisfying, because of the construction of water conservancy, the remains of the martyrs were found, and the superiors also awarded medals and paid tribute to the martyrs, but more people will not be so lucky, and more people, after being tricked by the absurdity of fate, left without a name, and they and their families could not get the compensation they deserved.
Life should be respected, what Gu Zidi did is such a thing, out of brotherhood, out of human conscience, even if the loss of life is irretrievable, the value of life can not be easily erased, every tiny life is worthy of respect, he strives to get back the "glory of life" for every "great death" life.
Those sacrificed warriors should not be "nameless", and in the memory of those warriors in the valley, each one is alive.
I believe that Gu Zidi will often recall his brothers and recall everything that happened, such as the letter written by platoon commander Jiao Dapeng to his family, reminding him to take care of the elderly, and not letting his son go to the edge of the well in winter so as not to fall, such as Lu Kuangou, who was hit by the enemy in order to find him a watch, such as Jiang Maocai, who was broken in one hand and still rushed to the enemy tank without hesitation, such as Luo Guangtian, who was stunned, such as the veteran Youzi Meng Shilin, such a group of living people, rough and true, they are all real men, they speak straightforwardly, play with their lives in battle, and behave rudely, they are not tall and complete, but they are real, such a group of men are all human.
Song Zheng wants to shoot the story of such a group of people, in his movie, he doesn't need the kind of bullet charge against the enemy, his body is broken, and he has a resolute face, looking at the enemy's tall and big people, what he wants is a group of living people.
What is presented in "Assembly" is the most realistic image of Chinese soldiers.
There are no rock-bombed planes, no meat bun grenades, no hand-torn devils, no messes that make a Chinese blush when they look at them.