Subtitle of this chapter: Sima Qian in the film industry, a sound version of Taishi Gong.

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"Mr. Yuen's film scripts are often based on real history, and reproduce real historical events as much as possible. No wonder he is known as 'Sima Qian in the age of film'.

However, he himself doesn't like this title very much, and often modestly says that he can never be compared with 'Taishi Gong', at most it is 'Yishi Shi (Pu Songling's self-title)'......

"War Junkie" is indeed based on a true story. It's hard to believe, but it is true that a South American mercenary named Rafael de Nogales joined the forces of the Ottoman Empire.

And just like the plot in the film, he really 'participated' in the massacre of Armenians.

Because of this film, he himself became famous, and was invited by DreamWorks to New York to attend the premiere of "War Junkie". He later wrote a memoir entitled "I, a War Addict."

The book was published by the magazine "Women of the World" Group, and it was the No. 1 non-bestseller in the United States that year.

In this memoir, he wrote a great deal of detail about the Armenian Holocaust, which aroused widespread attention from people all over the world about this great tragedy in human history......

The plot of "War Addict" in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide does not quite match the experience of Nogales himself.

In fact, after arriving in Erzurum, Nogales finally got rid of this nightmare and was lucky enough to be transferred to Palestine and became a security force stationed there.

In 1917, under the command of Admiral Erich von Falkingham of the German Empire (the one nicknamed the 'Butcher of Verdun'), he took part in the Ottoman Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, and after the failure of the attack, he was ordered to stop the British in Gaza.

He was then transferred back to the capital, where he remained until defeat, and when the Allied warships sailed into Istanbul, he sent another report to the War Ministry asking for discharge, which the Ottomans approved.

Rafael de Nogales, the 'war addict' of the First World War ended like this.

But in this film, the hero goes to participate in the Battle of Dardanelles in 1915.

The Battle of Dardanelles is also known as the Battle of Gallipoli, and in Turkey it is known as the Battle of Canakkale. It was a battle on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey in World War I.

It began as a naval operation of an Anglo-French alliance with the aim of forcibly breaking into the Dardanelles, opening the Bosphorus, and then capturing the Ottoman capital, Istanbul.

During the landing, 500,000 Allied soldiers crossed the ocean to the Gallipoli Peninsula. After nearly eleven months of fighting, about 53,000 dead and 96,937 wounded were left behind.

The Dardanelles was the first landing operation in the modern sense. However, this risky military operation was the result of sloppy planning and misjudgment. So in military history, a tragic stroke was written.

As we all know, the initiator or the first person responsible for this tragic sum was Winston Churchill, then the Secretary of the Navy of the British Empire.

Then Mr. Yuan Yanqi, the screenwriter of "War Addict", was in British imprisonment when he wrote this script, and it was Churchill who issued the arrest warrant.

So his intention to adapt it like this is not to be asked. And it is said that Churchill himself was furious when he saw the script......"

——Excerpt from "Writing History with Movies - Yuan Yanqian and His Historical Films"

Tuesday, August 2, 1927.

MI5...... You, you, special, what, the, military, intelligence, five, ......"

"Two days...... Flowers, flowers, special, what, of, whole, whole, two, day......"

"It's the script...... This, is, special, what, one, one, drama, this ......"

Churchill's temper was not very good, but he was a gentleman of the British Empire after all, so he usually did not speak rudely.

But he couldn't help it this time, and after reading the thick pile of "confessions", he still specially hacked his script, and a series of "F+D+S ords" popped out of the mouth of this senior cabinet official.

He also knows now how popular "Famine Orphan Girl" is in Ireland, and how popular the Irish people are after watching this movie.

And he even predicted that this movie would definitely become popular all over the world, and then his beloved British Empire would definitely be criticized.

In short, it is already a fact that "Famine Orphans" will cause serious harm to the British Empire.

So to what extent "War Addict" will do to the former Secretary of the Navy and the current Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs of the British Empire, Churchill and his old man dare not think about it.

In short, if this Chinese really shoots "War Addict" and then releases it globally, his old man will properly become a world-renowned waste snack.

If he didn't use foul language, Churchill would have been a saint.

"K" and SA are also a little weak-hearted, they tossed for two days, and finally tossed a script. This really hurts the reputation and face of MI5 seriously.

Sir Kyle, who was in charge, had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Your Excellency Churchill, you have instructed us not to leave a handle, so we have to use some 'indirect' means. ”

The torture expert SA also gave a "professional" explanation: "Your Excellency Churchill, these 'indirect' methods vary from person to person, and the object we met this time is more strange......

"Don't tell me this!"

Winston-Churchill squinted at them and shouted, "I just want the result, the result of the Chinese's kidnapping of the two crown princes......"

"Understand?"

At this time, he didn't care whether he left a handle or not, whether MI5 would use direct or indirect means.

"Smack!"

The two members of MI5 put their heels together and made a crisp sound, and at the same time bowed their heads and said: "Understood, Your Excellency Churchill!" ”

"Do you understand, in fact, the spy will definitely be very popular as the protagonist."

At this time, the interrogators of Yuan Yanqian had already changed shifts twice.

After all, these British agents don't have the physique of 17 o'clock, unlike him, who can go days and nights without sleep and still be in good spirits. So they had to take turns to interrogate.

Master Yuan, who was very energetic, met the recorder brother again.

The two don't know each other, and they are more familiar with each other. Coincidentally, this little brother is also a lover of literature.

In fact, this is not surprising, even if the vast majority of agents in a hundred years are small intellectuals with diplomas, it is not unusual for a literature lover to appear.

So Yuan Yanqian, who loves to be a teacher, began to be a literary tutor for others:

"For example, you can write a book based on your own experience with a British agent as the main character, and you can also write a series......"

"Dr. Yuan, can I do it?"

"How could it not be?"

Our Master Yuan said in his heart, won't there be a spy writer among you British agents in the future?