Cheng Xiaoyu's "War Epic" consists of four bars, the first bar "The Beginning" ("Love&Loss-Original"), the second bar "Expedition" ("Pacific Rim"), and the third bar "Landing" ("the.mass"Era) This song was composed by a French modern orchestra called "Era". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info It and the acclaimed work "Carminaburana" (Bran poems) by the famous German musician Karl Orff are based on medieval French religious music found in Germany. Some misrepresent it as Na. The Song of the Army, a piece from Handel's Messiah. In the fourth stanza, "The End" (""Pacific Rim"), please create a playlist and play it continuously. ）

Cheng Xiaoyu slightly adapted the four newage music, connected them together, and used editing and partial shooting to make a documentary film to present the World War II history of the 52nd Army of the Chinese Joint Expeditionary Force, the history of the 52nd Army in Cheng Xiaoyu's memory was regarded as a rumor, but it was true in this time and space.

The first section begins in the "love(and)loss-original" in a gentle beginning, telling the story of the Chinese soldiers who were on the front line of resistance against Japan from 1939 to 1943 after a series of major battles nailed the RB people to the Korean battlefield, but for political reasons did not describe too much, several clips of the war scene flashed by, with the end of the passionate music, and the final picture shows that the leaders of the two parties in China at that time decided to form an expeditionary force to fight in Europe,

The second subsection, "The Expedition", begins.

In May 1943, World War II had been going on for four years. In Eastern Europe, after the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet Union had turned to a strategic counteroffensive, and Nazi Germany was losing ground one after another. In Western Europe, the Luftwaffe, having lost the British air war, was no longer able to control air supremacy over the English Strait. Against this favorable circumstances, Churchill and Roosevelt met at the HSD to discuss the opening of a second theater of war in Western Europe.

Faced with the dawn of victory, Roosevelt initially put forward the concept of the United Nations, proposing that Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and China should serve as permanent members with veto power, and all countries that want to enter the permanent membership must send troops to the second battlefield.

Huaxia sent the Second Fleet and the 52nd Army, the most elite of the Huaxia Combined Expeditionary Force, to Europe to participate in the Normandy landings.

Most of the footage in the second subsection "Expedition" is given to several warships that are still preserved in military museums, most of which are the best cruisers in China, "ZQ", "Yongsui", "Chutong", "Taiyuan", "Andong", "Jiangxi", "Lianguang", "Ji'an", and "Meisheng".

In the second subsection of "Expedition", Cheng Xiaoyu had no way to complete the filming in a short time, so he could only edit most of the shots from the Chinese historical war film "The Fifty-second Army" after obtaining the copyright. With the sound of electric bass and electric guitar, the first is the huge departure ceremony, the violin follows, the picture is a grand military parade, the neat line of soldiers walking towards the troop carrier, and raising their guns and shouting "to be ready for sacrifice", and finally nine huge ships and several troop transports leave the port, the steel hull hits the waves, making people's blood boil, and with the high-spirited horn blowing, the whistle resounded throughout Shanghai across time and space.

The whole picture is edited quite sharply, especially the scene of the soldiers marching past the side of the huge fleet with their guns raised, and the footage of more than a dozen ships leaving the port with the determination to die under the onlookers of the people, which is very burning.

The third section of "Landing" is a Normandy landing scene that is more than ten minutes long shot by Cheng Xiaoyu himself, but because of the limited time, it was finally edited into seven minutes, Cheng Xiaoyu completely imitated "Saving Private Ryan" to shoot, using a portable camera to bring the first perspective of the landing soldier Xiao Boping into the war, better let people see the cruelty and authenticity of the war. Because of Zhang Luyang's strong support and help, the Huaxia Army was invited to cooperate in the shooting, and the seven-minute footage was quite shocking, which made Zhang Luyang sigh at Cheng Xiaoyu's talent. (If you are interested, you can take a look at the beginning of "Saving Private Ryan", but it is more than a minute, classic)

When the solemn "zhe.mass" sounded, the gloomy canopy without the sun, the turbid and icy water, and the sandy beach with iron fences to prevent the landing of tanks, made people immediately enter the day of the "Normandy landing".

In the landing plot of Cheng Xiaoyu, the camera is hand-held, not fixed, and is in motion all the time, but because of manual operation, the lens is generally aimed at the object in parallel or at a 45-degree angle of upward and downward shooting, and the picture setting is to frame from the perspective of a soldier to create an immersive effect, plus tracking shooting, or simply put the camera on the ground to observe the entire battlefield with a human visual experience, the audience will follow the camera as if they are on the Omaha beachhead, feeling the deterrence of bullets and bullets.

The general large scenes do not convey the horror of war very well, so the scenes here do not use aerial photography, or even only use a panorama at the end of the battle, but more often use medium shots, most often close-up and close-ups.

The death scene in "Landing" is quite realistic, and the soldiers of the 52nd Chinese Army in the protagonist position died without struggle after being shot, in the heroic and solemn music. The bravery of all the soldiers is reflected in the never-ending death, continuous death, continuous advance to the beachhead, there are almost no scenes of heroic sacrifice, and there is no "full live broadcast" of the death process in slow motion in ordinary war films, and there is no unrealistic dying rebellion, death, it comes so fast, so fast that it is almost breathless.

In the chant of "the.mass" tends to be holy, death gradually increases, one, two, three...... Countless of them have resulted in a tragic scene on the screen, where people feel the fragility of life not only unconsciously, but even more so in war. Although the death in the film is short, it is particularly powerful under the foreshadowing of the music, and it strongly conveys the horror, tragedy and decline of human nature in this clip, human life is so fleeting.

When the seven-minute short film was played, most of the online forums, "whispers" and "station s" barrages in Huaxia went crazy.

Praise poured in,

"It's so real! The music makes the blood boil, and the video makes people chill all over! Director Niu B! ”

"Who said that Chinese people will only tear devils apart when they make war movies? Cheng Daoniu b! Looking forward to Director Cheng's ability to shoot war films. ”

"I look at the tears! Our happy life comes from the heroic sacrifice of the martyrs. ”

"There's no slogan, there's no dying struggle, there's no sensationalism, it's just real, it's just too real, so it's uncomfortable."

"In these few minutes, I felt the war, the passion in the smoke of gunpowder, and the tension and bloodshed in the flames of war. Director Cheng is too good, this battle is too heroic, with such music, invincible. ”

"But I really felt the ......... of the Normandy landings"

"Explosion, ignition, in "Expedition", my blood is boiling, and I see more blood here. I really want Director Cheng to make a war movie next. ”

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But this is not the end, the fourth subsection "The End" is Cheng Xiaoyu's editing of the war scenes of many films, mainly focusing on the battle on the Western Front in which the 52nd Army participated after the landing, and the German army launched a Jedi counterattack on the Western Front at the end of World War II - the Ardennes Counterattack, also known as the Battle of the Bulge, including the "Battle for the 112 Heights" that took place in Caen, France, and finally edited the "Battle of Berlin" filmed by the former Soviet Union.

In Cheng Xiaoyu's editing, the justice of the war is not highlighted, but the grandeur of the war and the cruelty of the bloody crime are emphasized.

Cheng Xiaoyu did not edit the scene of celebrating the victory, but used this picture to herald the end of the largest war in human history, but there was no winner.

But this alone cannot reach the height of reflecting on the war, Cheng Xiaoyu still has a trick, the big screen turns black, and then the fourth chapter "The World" appears.

At this moment, the famous bass-baritone Liu Guangyi will sing the German song "an." ("an.") unheilig".

The big screen was nothing but a tombstone erected like a forest, and Liu Guangyi stood in front of the tombstones written in various languages swept by the camera, as if reciting a requiem. Liu Guangyi's thick voice can give people a very strong feeling, it sounds magnetic but not pretentious at all, and it can easily capture people's hearts. What's even more brilliant is Cheng Xiaoyu's song, the prelude melody makes people sad and heavy, and the chorus makes people feel nostalgic.

In addition to the tombstone of Rulin, there are rows of subtitles slowly swiped upwards with bilingual subtitles in Chinese and English.

"From Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 61 countries and regions with more than 2 billion people have been involved in wars, covering an area of 22 million square kilometers. According to incomplete statistics, more than 90 million military and civilian casualties were lost in the war, and more than $4 trillion was wasted.........."

Seeing this mileage, Xiaoyu gathered his mind and said to Su Yuxi on the side: "Are you ready?" ”

Su Yuxi, who was dressed in a mercerized black dress with a red ribbon and a twisted braid, nodded calmly.

Cheng Xiaoyu sat behind Su Yuxi, behind the huge double-bottom drum kit tailored for him, the piano, guitar, and bass were all on the side stage, and only he and Su Yuxi would move to the middle of the screen on the main stage on this small lifting platform that could be moved.

Cheng Xiaoyu took a deep breath, and soon, the moment that belonged to Su Yuxi was coming...............

After Liu Guangyi finished singing, the last chapter appeared on the big screen, the fifth chapter - "We".

(Thank you to Shentu Mingliang's alliance leader, and thank you Lori Victoria for the reward.) (To be continued.) )