Entering the wax moon, the weather in the Northeast is already very cold, and "Assembly" has no press conference at all, and there is no start-up ceremony, just in a suburban county in the northeast. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

For this movie, Song Zheng really worked hard, just the initial investment, it was enough to smash into more than 10 million, the siege and annihilation battle in the first act of the movie, the corner of the dilapidated city, was completely built by Zhang Xu and people in a few months.

Feng Xiaogang also arrived at the scene on the first day of start-up, and when he saw this set, he was also convinced.

"Zhengzi! You're really ~~~~~~~ a lot of money!"

Song Zheng listened to it and couldn't help but feel a little proud, the most attractive thing about this movie is a large number of war scenes, in this regard, Song Zheng has always spared no expense, just like the previous "Life and Death Line" and "My Regiment Leader, My Regiment", what is spelled is visual stimulation.

Of course, from the military technical level, in that era, whether the lethality of firearms on both sides was really as powerful as depicted in the film, and whether the bullet hit the human body would really cause bloody explosions and bloody visual effects, probably after the movie was released, it would definitely arouse the doubts of some military experts or medical trauma experts.

But this does not constitute damage to the overall visual effect of the film, the film is a movie after all, as long as it can be recognized by the majority of the audience, it can be regarded as a kind of reality that belongs to the film itself.

In order to show the cruelty of war and the exploration of human nature, Feng Xiaogang used a large number of shaking lenses at the beginning of the film, in order to maximize the rendering of the theme of the film.

This kind of visual performance, Feng Xiaogang found inspiration from the American movie "Saving Private Ryan", may seem to many people to be deliberately imitated and pretentious, but I have to say that a large number of shaking shots do create a tense and suffocating sense of depression.

For example, in the movie, in order to capture the territory of the Kuomintang, the soldiers of the Ninth Company walked through the flames of war, bullets in their heads, and passed by their bodies, the sound of gunfire that could be heard everywhere, the rubble and ruins that could be seen everywhere, the ruins that could be seen everywhere, the ruins of broken walls, the fireworks that seemed to be ready to form a prairie fire at any time, and the bones lying in the snow everywhere, the terrifying footsteps.

These shots are superimposed, giving the audience watching the movie a kind of anger that seems to be about to erupt, but it is helpless to feel sad.

The black and gray tones, the sound of fights, the sound of gunshots, and the unique music of the post-production sound engineer are mixed with all the sounds of the outside world.

The scene of the river of blood and the falling snow form a stark contrast, and Feng Xiaogang uses contrast montage to explore the characteristics of the times more boldly: "The human nature of a thought is different." ”

At the time of the death of the performance instructor, all the sounds of the outside world stopped abruptly, as if everything that had started was non-existent, "silence is better than sound at this time".

And the anger after silence is unimaginable, and it also lays the groundwork for the occurrence of events such as the massacre of the Kuomintang army and his punishment later in the film, which are interlocking and fascinating, Feng Xiaogang is well versed in this.

The war scene was successful, and the original movie really left too many regrets in the play.

The reason why Song Zheng was in his previous life, when "The Assembly" was released, many viewers reported that the structure of the second half of the film seemed to be relatively loose and loose, the narrative was not focused enough, and the impact on the audience's emotions and emotions was not strong enough.

The film has a large time span, and the time section that directly enters the story lasts for about 10 years, but as a grain of grain that runs through the characters, it lacks a clear development clue and different personality elevations in the character portrayal.

Specifically, the highest task that constitutes the development of Gu Zidi's character is to justify the name of his comrades-in-arms, but the establishment of motivation lacks sufficient conflict tension and sufficient emotional rendering.

First of all, the character of Gu Zidi does not form the necessary depth of character, and the film does not explain that he is an abandoned orphan until the end credits.

Although the audience sees only a short moment in the life course of the character on the screen, what is contained behind this moment is all the life process and life experience of a life individual, and when creating, this requires the screenwriter to form a more adequate "background story" for the characters.

For example, Captain Miller played by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan", from the dialogue of the characters, you can understand that he was originally a middle school teacher who was drafted into the army to participate in the European War.

This background provides the ultimate basis for the development of the character's character, for example, he is more rational than other soldiers, he can not only faithfully obey his superiors, but also have his own thoughts and judgments, he can not only strictly carry out tasks, but also adapt to local conditions, and play a role in tactical command with wit and decisiveness, he is a hero, but he also has the horror and nervousness of war.

The different aspects of these characters' personalities are actually related to his past identity as a teacher, in other words, the depth of character is the starting point for the film's character.

In the original "Assembly", why would Gu Zidi be so desperate to pursue honor for his comrades?

One of the reasons is that he is an orphan, he regards the army as his home and his comrades-in-arms as his relatives, and he has formed a life-and-death friendship with them during his military career.

He does not have a family, a high hall, a land, and a concern like other comrades-in-arms, he is alone, except for the siblings in the company, he has no long things, so the loss of his comrades-in-arms made him suffer unprecedented pain and loss in his life, the value of his life began to tilt, his foundation began to collapse, and his spiritual world became empty.

Only by placing Gu Zidi in such an unprecedented predicament of life, can his motivation for pursuing and justifying his name show a kind of stubbornness and tenacity beyond ordinary people, and can he also express an emotional impact beyond ordinary people.

It's a pity that the screenwriter intentionally or unintentionally gave up such a character background that strengthens the character portrayal, which cannot but be regarded as a big mistake in the play.

Secondly, according to normal logic, Gu Zidi's justification of his comrades-in-arms stems from his lingering guilt and a strong sense of self-guilt.

Because his ears were deaf by the artillery fire, he could not hear the sound of the rallying horn, and he was unable to organize his subordinate company to effectively break through, resulting in a large number of his subordinates being killed.

If the story follows this premise, then the resulting psychological guilt and guilt can become an unsolvable knot in Gu Zidi's subconscious, thus forming a powerful psychological motivation for the characters.

However, later in the plot, Xiao Liangzi, the commander of the regimental headquarters, appeared again and revealed the truth, it turned out that the assembly call was not sounded at all, so that objectively speaking, the main reason for the sacrifice of his comrades-in-arms is no longer Gu Zidi's personal mistakes, but should be attributed to the improper command strategy of the war.

Naturally, regardless of whether the rallying cry is sounded or not, those sacrificed comrades-in-arms should become martyrs, but from the perspective of the play, the character of Gu Zidi has lost his reasonable psychological motivation because of this, and his inherent character charm has been greatly weakened.

Take 10,000 steps back, according to the current plot design, then in terms of narrative skills, at least whether the rallying call is sounded can be treated as a dramatic burden and suspense throughout the plot.

Since it is a burden, it must be shaken off when the tension of the conflict has accumulated to the fullest, and since it is suspense, it must be delayed until the audience's psychological tolerance reaches the limit before it can be resolved, which is one of the most basic film narrative techniques since Hitchcock.

It's a pity that the screenwriter of the original "Assembly" failed to follow this convention, but revealed the truth to the world in advance before the climax of the plot appeared.

To be more precise, Xiao Liangzi, a key character who shakes off his burden, appeared where he shouldn't have been, which can't help but greatly weaken the story interest and character charm in the second half of the film.

Third, Gu Zidi's stubborn pursuit also stems from the deliberate neglect or derogation of the deceased friend in reality, and the officer in the army told Gu Zidi what it means to be "missing", and missing means that it is possible to die, to defect, or to become a deserter, in short, in the revolutionary camp, "missing" is an unprecedentedly ambiguous and obviously derogatory word.

The villagers told Guzidi that the families of the martyrs could get 700 catties of grain, while the families of the missing could only get 200 catties of grain. This is the injustice in reality, and this injustice constitutes another important cause of Gu Zidi's lifelong pursuit.

In fact, the focus of the play should be on this kind of large-density paving that is unfair to reality, but unfortunately, the original version of "The Assembly" chose to avoid the important at this time, and did not dig deep into these problems.

In the second half of the film, Gu Zidi's character has still not been deeply explored, in other words, the audience only sees Gu Zidi's strong desire to justify his comrades, but fails to see the specific "process" of this "action".

The audience only learned from the conversation between Gu Zidi and Zhao Erdou that they submitted a report to their superiors to find the number of the original unit, and heard the news that the report was pressed in the military region and no one cared about it.

In this case, when the plot reached the moment when Guzidi climbed the forest lookout post, why did the news suddenly come that the number of the unit had been found?

What kind of "process" did this go through?

What role did the millet field play in this "process"?

What causes the "turnaround" to occur?

All of this, the audience does not know.

What role does Zhao Erdou play?

These are all things that Song Zheng needs to improve one by one in the rewriting of the script and the upcoming filming work.

What Song Zheng has to do now is to make up for these regrets and truly shape the movie "Assembly" into a classic.