The victory of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor made the whole world look at Japan, a small place, and also made Yamamoto 56, a small man of 1.59 meters, stand on the top of the altar of the Japanese army. At that time, the gap between the national strength of Japan and the United States was obvious, and to use our Chinese idiom to describe it was to hit a stone with an egg. At that time, the whole world believed that Japan would not attack the United States, and the Japanese ambassador did a good job of fulfilling his mission - after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the letter of war was sent to the then US President Roosevelt. The Japanese ambassador, who not long ago vowed that Japan and the United States would maintain a permanent friendship, dressed the statue of Isoroku Yamamoto in a golden cloak.

War is a continuation of politics, and armed conflict is inevitable when the contradictions between the interests of countries cannot be resolved by peaceful means. In fact, Yamamoto Isoroku opposed Japan's war against the United States, not because Yamamoto Isoroku loved peace, but because he had an in-depth understanding of the national conditions of the United States when he was ambassador to the United States in his early years. On the question of whether Japan should go to war with the United States, he once said: "Just looking at Detroit, the motor city of the United States, with its well-developed automobile industry and the endless Texas oil fields, it is not difficult to come to the conclusion that with Japan's national strength, it is absolutely impossible to make an enemy of the United States and contend with it." ”

From this passage, it is not difficult to see that Yamamoto Isoroku is sober, and his judgment of war is very accurate. But slowly, Yamamoto 56 gradually realized that the contradictions between Japan and the United States were actually unavoidable. Japan is a country that is extremely short of resources, and this is a fatal bottleneck for Japan's development, and the rapid defeat of the war of aggression against China and the longer and longer Asian theater of war have forced Japan to get rid of the United States' war constraints on it as soon as possible, so the United States has become Japan's biggest stumbling block.

How can we expand Japan's dominance in the eastern Pacific? It took a long and deliberate decision on the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a crazy idea. Because of the long-distance attack of the huge fleet and the large-scale bombing of the military port by aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, no one dared to try it at that time, but as a result, Yamamoto 56 won the bet to everyone's surprise, but after a big win, it was a big loss. So at the Battle of Midway, he lost completely!

Although Downing is praising the film, Jimmy obviously has a different opinion: "Tony, I think this kind of historical event related to us Americans can't just be described by the Japanese, but we have to have the voice of our Americans, so I think we should also invest in making a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor." ”

Tang Ning smiled disapprerovingly: "What? Do you think this movie scandalizes our U.S. military? Are you going to make a movie that scandalizes the Japanese army as revenge? ”

Jimmy said a little strangely, "Tony, how can you have such an idea?" What the truth of history looks like. If we scandalize the Japanese and make them all clowns, then what should be the American army that lost to these clowns? Isn't it even worse than a clown? ”

Jimmy's answer shocked Tang Ning very much, facing history and facing the opponent is a correct attitude, on the other hand, many anti-Japanese dramas in later generations in China, in fact, are not also scandalizing our anti-Japanese soldiers while scandalizing the Japanese army invading China, if the anti-Japanese heroes are really so magical, and the Japanese army is really so stupid as pigs. Then how could the War of Resistance Against Japan last for eight years?!

So Tang Ning pondered for a while, and then said: "If you want to make a documentary that restores the truth, you can do it, but there is definitely no guarantee at the box office." ”

Jimmy said very rarely: "Let's pay if we lose, we can't always make commercial films, we have to have something that is reasonable and can be handled, not to mention that your big boss Tangning is not short of money now." ”

"Okay, since we're going to shoot bigger, you can help me contact William Wheeler and Akira Kurosawa. I'm going to find the two of them to co-direct the play. At this time, what came to Tang Ning's mind was the most classic war film "Tiger and Tiger" in his mind.

There are too many films that use Pearl Harbor as the backdrop for later generations, and "Tiger Tiger Tiger" (actually "TORA! TORA! TORA!) is undoubtedly one of the founding sects. Later films such as "Pearl Harbor" depicted air battles and the whole event. It's basically not beyond the level of "Tora". The progress of technology and the film industry is still as low as the actual planes and ships that burn, catch fire and explode in front of the audience. The use of the invisible object of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor as the protagonist of the movie annihilates the actors' performances, but objectively and truly restores a historical truth. From the movie, the audience can find the real history they want.

"Tora," which is not a documentary, presents in detail the small links of the continental United States and the Pearl Harbor garrison before the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing the eventual attack on Pearl Harbor as a series of negligence on the part of a large and small person, such as General Short's carelessness. Marshall's excessively regular habits of going to bed early and relaxing, an urgent military telegram delivered by a Japanese-American postman in the civilian postal service, and the first radar that detected a Japanese aircraft fleet but was mistaken by its superiors, etc., the Pacific Fleet seemed to be crushed by straws one by one. "Tora", which has no clear protagonist, shows the minute details that may affect the direction of the Pearl Harbor incident on the screen, and the initiative to judge right and wrong is in the hearts of the audience. Who was responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor? Who is the biggest beneficiary of Pearl Harbor?

From beginning to end, this film always reflects the "casualness", "pleasure", "exaggeration" and "bureaucracy" of most US troops from top to bottom, and only a few people really do something; The other side of the film is the opposite: the Japanese Navy is a fierce, strict, and super cohesive from top to bottom, and a meticulous style that has created a group of modern bushido heroes! This is an American movie! Many Chinese viewers were puzzled by what they were saying: How do Americans keep exposing their shortcomings? Why is the United States not afraid of being ashamed? And also do their best to grow the ambition of others and destroy their own prestige!

At that time, the comprehensive strength of the United States was already the first in the world, but the US naval base in the film was killed by the Japanese army, which was unbearable. However, Americans are good at summing up experiences and lessons, revealing historical things without concealment, and deliberately exaggerating their own faults to present them to the world. On the one hand, it has won the sympathy of the whole world, and on the other hand, it is its real purpose: self-deprecation and admitting mistakes to warn future generations! A country that has the courage to admit mistakes and laugh at itself requires open-mindedness and bearing. President Roosevelt called the day of the attack (December 7) a day of national shame for the United States.

Have you ever seen a high-level character in my country's film who is paralyzed by a mistake in judgment? They are all clever in the world! Typical face first culture!

It doesn't matter if you make a fool of yourself, as long as you have the last laugh, this is the true creed of the Americans! (To be continued.) )