Chapter 59: The Roman version of Private Ryan
The story of Saving Private Ryan is that four brothers from the Ryan family joined the army and had the privilege of participating in the Allied landings in Normandy. But the tragedy is that in addition to the whereabouts of James Ryan, the youngest of the four brothers belonging to the 101st Airborne Division, the three sons of the Ryan family died in battle all over France in a short period of time. When General Marshall, chief of staff of the US Army, learned of the incident, he specially ordered a team of eight people to be organized at the front line to find Private James Ryan, whose fate was uncertain, and to send him back to the rear safely.
In addition to showing the spectacular and grand war scenes, the bloody Battle of Normandy, this story also allows people to witness the fierceness and cruelty of the war, and discusses the humanitarian spirit, whether it is worth exchanging eight people for one.
It is a very highly-rated film, provided that people deliberately ignore the cruelty and coarseness of Mi-imperialism. If they really have the humanitarianism they claim to be, where did their humanity go when they were conscripted? Why did they take four and leave one old lady at home?
The fact is that the extremely cruel and evil Mi imperialism actually carried out a nationwide conscription without relying on objective facts and against the scientific point of view, and very cruelly requisitioned all four brothers of the Ryan family at once, until three of the four brothers were killed and one was missing, and then they pretended to want to find the missing soldiers. The consequence of this was a waste of the precious eight men on the front, the loss of Captain Miller, a malleable general, and the sacrifice of a genius marksman like the Christian Sniper.
However, the theme of humanitarianism can be transformed into a battle to the death for soldiers with a little reinvention. Letting the Theofano family negotiate will not reduce Alexander's prestige.
Thirty years before the fierce war with the Muslim Mahdi, the eastern battlefield of the empire was raging. Succeeded by the grandfather of the current Emperor Alexander I, the Empire's army was gradually reversing its decline in the eastern theaters and launching a reconquest campaign in Anatolia. Although the progress was in line with the Empire's expectations, these achievements were all bought by the flesh and blood of the Empire's soldiers.
After a battle, when the post office of the United Front Work Department of the Reich was handing out death letterheads to the families of soldiers who had died in battle, an employee working at the post office was surprised to find that six soldiers in a row had the same surname. The postman who discovered the anomaly hesitated for a long time before making up his mind to report the news.
The official who received the news was an official of the old royal family, and he immediately reprimanded the postal man who reported such a thing. And call this kind of thing a boring little thing. Seeing that this is it, things are being suppressed, fortunately. At that time, there was a member of our Theofano family who was next to that official. When he heard this, he was furious and slapped the official away. Then I sent the information that the six soldiers had the same surname to me and Alexander's grandfather.
After investigation, these six people were father and son, brother and uncle and nephew. That is to say, all the males of an ordinary family in a village died in battle for the Empire. A dignitary of the Theofano family, who was deeply sorry for this, appeared in front of the families of the six fallen soldiers.
However, the whole thing doesn't end there.
During the visit, the dignitary discovered that there was a man in the family who had also joined the army, namely Leo.
The Seofano members who had learned of this news immediately confronted me and Alexander's grandfather and begged them to give orders to find such a soldier from the vast sea of people!
Things never went so smoothly, and at this moment another great nobleman came out to laugh at the stupidity of our Theofano, and to use it to imply that if I and Alexander's grandfather agreed to such a plea, it would be a problem in my head.
It's just that. Unlike the great nobleman who didn't take the soldier's life seriously, the grandfather learned the news. In order to prevent the unfortunate mother from suffering the loss of her son again, the grandfather decided to send a special team to safely rescue the last remaining male of the family from the war zone.
The task of saving Leo fell on a junior officer who had just finished fighting from the front and had a little fame, and at the same time, in order to attach importance to this task of the Theofano family, the Theofano family also sent an officer to be a member of the Theofano family.
The two of them hurriedly selected ten of the better soldiers around them, and then based on the information at hand, they set out on a journey to find a soldier named Leo in the vast unknown territory.
At that time, the empire was engaged in guerrilla warfare, positional warfare, and defensive warfare with the Muslims to counteract the advantage of the excessive infidels cavalry, but the strength of the Muslims was still in existence at that time, so as soon as the soldiers of the small detachment left the enemy area of the large army, all kinds of difficulties and dangers came one after another. However, thanks to their familiarity with the terrain and their well-prepared equipment, they were able to survive a lot of difficulties, but as time passed, casualties began to appear.
Faced with the comrades around them falling one after another, these unfortunate soldiers gradually began to doubt the rationality of this task: why should a dozen soldiers, a promising officer and a lieutenant risk their lives to save a small soldier?
However, despite their doubts, they deserve to be the most loyal soldiers of the Empire, and they resolutely carry out the orders of their superiors. Then, the path of salvation is like a path of contradiction and self-redemption. After a long journey, they found Leo in a stronghold somewhere a fierce battle was blowing. As in the original book, Leo, with a strong will and a sense of responsibility, is reluctant to leave the battlefield with the rescue team that came to deal with him. Then there was a battle of life and death, and everyone except Leo was basically killed.
But here it is different from the original movie plot in my memory, I changed the camaraderie emphasized in the original movie into a script that sacrifices the small self to complete the big self, and praises our Seofano family and arouses the fighting spirit of the soldiers.
Of course, those words that inspired the soldiers naturally couldn't come out of my mouth, and it was only through Leo, a small person, that I sublimated the whole script into a tool to hypnotize the soldiers and stimulate their fighting spirit in the last part of the story.
"I didn't expect the dead fat man's post office to have such a origin! Really, in your grandfather's time, such a righteous and great department actually degenerated into such a lifeless department, where everyone just wants to eat in it! The dead fat man is really a failure!" After reading the script, even if there is an artistic sublimation in Zhilu Dao, Penevis is still indignant that the post office is becoming more and more erosive under the fat Marcus.
"Do you know how the idea came from for the Post Office to send death letters to civilians?"
"I don't know what to do. But do I know that the origin of the post office is extraordinary?"
"That's nature. Looking at Pennivis' excitement, I added, "This is a weapon for our Theofano family to destroy the reputation of the old royal family." ”
"Huh?"
"Think about it, in the early and middle stages of the war with the infidels, we died three or four hundred thousand people, and if these letters of death were distributed to their families at once, would they have a grudge against the old royal family?"
"You guys are despicable!" said Pennivis, stunned, "don't tell me your current script is fake!"
"Of course it's true! Based on a true story!" I was confident, "except that I made up the story of what happened to me to my grandfather's time." ”
"You guys are so bad! Your Theofano family is really all bad people!" Penivis was so angry that she didn't fight, she went around in circles, and finally grabbed a pillow on the bed and threw it at me, as if a pillow was not enough to vent her anger, and she shouted, "I wouldn't have helped you write a book if I knew that Lu Dao wouldn't have helped you write a book! I was so moved that I cried a few times! I ignored you today! Today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, you are not allowed to touch me!"
Penevis was angry, but it was nothing, as long as I finished saving the book.
However, after a few days, just when I thought I could calm down, I had a new assignment.
Because of a piece of news, I decided to write a piece for Feletria, and that piece was called "The Gallop of the Valkyries". (To be continued......)