Chapter 182: The Lord of War

With Lin Han's character, he himself was very dissatisfied with the bombing of Japan with pieces of paper. Although the HE111 needs to free up a lot of weight to install gasoline due to the limitations of aircraft performance in this era, and there is not much spare weight for two planes loaded with hundreds of kilograms of leaflets, but even a real fire bomb is better than this kind of only throwing leaflets without throwing lethal weapons. -- I really can't do it, it's okay to symbolically throw a dozen kilograms of fire bombs and then scatter leaflets.

But the upper echelons of the Red Army vetoed his construction, and it seemed to them that the sprinkling of leaflets had already served the purpose. The Red Army was not aware of the situation in Nagasaki and was reluctant to do anything about blind bombing that would injure civilians.

However, in private, Lin Han also made it clear that if the Japanese dared to use weapons such as poison gas bombs or bacteriological warfare in the war, he would definitely unceremoniously compare tooth for tooth and blood for blood with Japan to brush up on the "lower limit of character."

"VX nerve gas, claimed to kill a street of people with one spoonful! If the Japanese dare to use this against the army in war, I will definitely demand retaliation by the same means. ”

"Botulinum toxin, this thing is a hundred times more poisonous than cyanide. If the Japanese dare to use bacteriological warfare in war, I will certainly use this in their own country by the same means. I come from the future, and there are a hundred times more ways to play this method of mass destruction than the people of this era. ”

Lin Han, who was very dissatisfied with the "soft-hearted" approach of the upper echelons of the Red Army, put out the weapons of mass destruction that he had brought with him hidden in the belly of the Sephiroth ship, so that the leaders of the Red Army who dealt with him were stunned.

Lin Han's complaints. It's just a small episode after this paper bombing of Japan. In July 1935, the event that had the greatest impact on Japan was neither the air battle off the coast of Fujian nor the leaflets flying over Nagasaki, but a movie that was being shown in Europe and the United States.

From 1934 to 1935, Lin Han and Hannah, in addition to spending a lot of money on filming the "King Arthur" trilogy to make money and as a source of long-term faith meal tickets, Hannah listened to Lin Han's construction, took the script that Lin Han prepared for her, and also made another movie.

A movie about arms.

After September 1934. As the arms trade between the German National Socialist Party and the CCP was gradually exposed. Hannah and her daughter, Adolf, were surprised to discover something she had overlooked: the image of "Hitler", Germany's most anti-communist character, and she was about to fail.

In the Western world, rumors have begun to circulate that Hitler was actually a Bolshevik in deep hiding. And this rumor. It's gradually stopped being seen as a joke.

For Hannah, who is bent on starting a world war. That's not a good thing!

Historically, Britain and France have been able to tolerate Hitler's Germany repeatedly violating their bottom line because before 1939. He has always been an extremely anti-Soviet "fanatical anti-communist". This image gave Britain and France the illusion of a delusional attempt to lead the country to the east. That is why in the later Sudetenland crisis, the appeasement policy of the famous "Munich Conspiracy" occurred.

Historically, there were many reasons for the appeasement policy of Britain and France towards Germany, but the root cause was the decline in the national strength of Britain and France after World War I. Hitler's extreme anti-communist and anti-Soviet illusions that led to misfortune were nothing more than appendages created by them. But for Hannah, the change in her "international image" made her panic about the "uncertainty" of history.

And this qiē, as early as Lin Han expected, he deceived Hannah into not understanding people's hearts and created this situation. However, Lin Han has already thought of a remedy.

While "The Legend of Arthur" was being filmed in Germany, DreamWorks also prepared another film, a film that "washed the floor" for Hitler. This movie was launched almost simultaneously with "The Legend of Arthur", and before the shooting, the famous American director Chaplin was invited.

Chaplin didn't like Hitler, nor did he like the "dream factory" with its strong German background, but after reading the script that Hannah provided him, Chaplin changed his mind.

Soon, the movie, called "Lord of War", was launched in Germany almost at the same time as "The Legend of Arthur".

On May 1, 1935, the first part of "The Legend of Arthur" was simultaneously released in Europe and the United States, and it caused a sensation as soon as it was broadcast. Cinemas from all over the world are hard to find – even China's big Shanghai is very popular.

And at the beginning of July, as the popularity of "The Legend of Arthur" began to fade, DreamWorks, which became popular because of this movie, launched its second work "Lord of War" with the majesty of a movie.

When "The Legend of King Arthur" was temporarily unable to land in England due to the boyopy of the British Church and government figures, "Lord of War" was successfully released in the United Kingdom.

At this time, Britain was stirring up the sudden changes that were taking place in China, but once the film was broadcast, almost everyone in the British who watched it couldn't help but want to say: "FUCKYOU" or "I cāo" or something like that.

Anyone who has seen this movie knows that it tells the story of Francis, the "merchant of death" who is currently notorious in Europe.

The film was also released simultaneously in Japan, and once it was released, it caused a shock in the Japanese political arena, and its consequences were no less than the "Siemens Incident" of the Navy corruption case in the past. (I don't know what the Siemens incident is, everyone is interested in going to Baidu by themselves, there is an explanation in Baidu Encyclopedia, so I won't cheat the number of words)

The opening scene of the beginning of the plot of the movie is the manufacturing and transportation process of a Mauser rifle, from the initial metal blank raw material, after entering the factory, after a series of processing, into various gun parts, and then assembled into a Mauser rifle, and then packed, transported, boarded, experienced across the ocean, came to a country with a golden dragon flag in the East, and then disembarked, changed hands, and finally fell into the hands of a certain "suspected Chinese" wearing an octagonal hat on his head and a five-pointed star on the hat, loading, shooting, and participating in the battle.

The whole beginning is completely Lin Han's plagiarism of the plot of the famous later movie, "Lord of War" directed by Nicolas Cage - even the opening song is plagiarized. Lin Han made slight modifications according to the different times. made a perfect script and handed it to Chaplin, who was still prejudiced and unwilling to cooperate with the Nazis, after reading the script, he immediately became keenly aware of the great value behind it, and agreed to direct and participate in the filming on the spot.

The main character of the plot is a German born in Alsace, and at the beginning of the story, he is a young man about eighteen years old.

The story begins with a short shot of less than a minute of Germany's war on the Western Front during World War I. The main character is drafted into the army later in the war. Joined the German army. At the beginning of the plot, a few words of narration are given, and the background and the identity of the protagonist are briefly explained: the protagonist's name is Franz, and his father is German. Mother is French. The blood is Jewish. Joined the German army later in the battlefield because of hunger.

He was on the battlefield in the latter part of World War I. did not become a Rambo-style hero, but was so frightened that he peed his pants during the shelling of Britain, the United States and France, and finally pretended to be dead and escaped.

And then the war ended. Germany was defeated and Alsace returned to France. Because he had joined the German army, he was "liquidated" after the war and was not allowed to leave his hometown to live on the streets of Germany.

Then in the movie, Franz stumbles upon a way to make money: selling arms.

So he found his uncle, and because Chaplin played a German officer with a Rendanhu and a strange appearance of Hitler's arsenal, he colluded with him and decided to steal the arms in the warehouse.

The plot of the whole movie is nothing more than the plot of the post-world famous movie "Lord of War", combined with the historical background of this era, revised and replaced with a German background, and then the lines were changed accordingly. It tells the story of Francis, a Jewish arms broker, who hooked up with German, French, British, and American arms dealers, and resold arms all over the world.

Out of political needs, the countries mentioned in the movie all use animal metaphors instead of real names. For example, Germany uses the tiger country as a metaphor, Britain is a cow, France is a rooster, the United States is a bald eagle, Russia is a bear, and the Chinese dragon is a country, as for the country of Japanese samurai.

In the plot, the details of Franz reselling 58mm mortars to the Red Army from French arms dealers are revealed, and the British here describe in detail the black history of buying 100,000 bullets from British arms dealers, and even the famous line "I prefer to shoot guns" is used. As for the plot of reselling American fighters to the Red Army, it became that the machine guns of the fighters were separated from the planes, and then exported to China in the name of racing planes.

In order to wash Hitler's floor, in the movie Francis asks his uncle that Chaplin looks like Hitler's German officer.

"Aren't you against socialism? Why did you still agree to me selling arms to the Bolsheviks? ”

Chaplin replied: "I am resolutely against socialism, but I cannot oppose socialist money." ”

In the whole movie, the props used are all real guns and real bullets, and during the filming, they even received the support of the British Vickers company.

In the movie Vickers Company in Britain, when Francis came to resell the tank, he gave a close-up of six tons of Vickers in a row, and then the representative of the Vickers Company who sold the tank said to Francis very generously in front of the camera: "Buy six get one free!" ”

-- This line became the most popular line used by Vickers when selling tanks to the world, and they raised the price of tanks by one-sixth, and then shouted this advertising slogan.

In order to curry favor with the British, the film features a close-up of Francis testing the Lee Enfield rifle, with the protagonist praising it as the best bolt-action rifle in the world while firing the gun.

Under the construction of Lin Han, Hannah used this film to clear the ground of her past behavior of "aiding the Communist Party" in a self-defeating way, showing the world that he was just an unscrupulous politician who only recognized money and not a "pro-communist element".

Since the film was shot simultaneously with "The Legend of King Arthur", in order to make full use of the huge Oscar-winning resources in hand, during the filming of the movie, those actresses more or less made cameo appearances in "Lord of War" for a few minutes.

Chaplin based on the script provided by Lin Han, virtualized a scene of arms sales that had not yet appeared in this era, in a hall, a HE51 fighter and an FW90 fighter as the north scene, and then the surrounding space was a Vickers tank, and then a dozen or so current or future Oscar-winning actresses, wearing sexy three-point swimsuits, or standing on a tank plane and twisting a charming pose pose, or posing with a Lee Enfield or Mauser rifle, it was completely a scene of advertising and sales for arms. The scene is extremely eye-catching. - This scene was secretly filmed without Chaplin, Chaplin objected to the shooting of this scene at that time, and after the film was filmed, Lin Han himself found someone else to insert it, and he fell out with Chaplin for some reasons.

Then the main character, Francis, talks to the arms dealers of various countries in this hall full of weapons and beautiful women.

-- Just like the line "buy six get one free" was borrowed by Vickers, and later this kind of arms advertising scene was also unceremoniously used by unscrupulous arms dealers in various countries to sell their own arms.

After the movie was broadcast, except for a few people in Britain and the United States who scolded the Germans for being shameless, the biggest accusation was that the film was an arms sales advertisement in the name of "anti-war". However, because he curried favor with arms dealers from various countries during the filming process, with their covert support, it was not banned. However, due to the use of various novel and witty dark humor lines, the film received rave reviews, far overshadowing the accusations.

If it was just these, it would not have caused a shock in the Japanese people's political circles, and the Japanese would have added to the scene of Franz secretly trading with the Japanese Taiwan garrison, swallowing the arms originally aided Chen Jitang, and then reselling them to the Red Army. In order to pit the Japanese, even the names and official positions of the Japanese officers who traded with him were used in the movie, and the fact that the Japanese businessmen secretly sold Type 92 light infantry guns to Francis was also stabbed out in the movie.

As soon as the movie was broadcast, the whole of Japan was in an uproar.

The movie was released in Japan on July 6, when Japan had just been slapped in the face by leaflets flying over Nagasaki, and the Japanese Army was stabbed out about stealing arms and selling arms to the Red Army, and the whole of Japan was suddenly boiling.

On July 9, three days after the film's release in Japan, although it had been banned by the authorities, its impact had snowballed, and countless angry people were crowded outside the Diet Hall in Nagatacho, Tokyo.

The shadows laid by Lin Han a few years ago were finally frustrated in the first wave of Japanese intervention army's invasion of China, and the most sensitive moment of domestic sentiment boiling and contradictions and anger was detonated. (To be continued......)