In 2019, CCTV broadcast a TV series with a very special theme, "Amnesty 1959", which tells the story of Kuomintang war criminals and prisoners of war serving sentences in Gongdelin Prison.
This subject matter is a bit off-the-beaten-path, but it is also very attractive, so "Amnesty 1959" has a good reputation. However, for viewers who have watched Shen Drunk's memoirs and Huang Jiren's "The General's Decisive Battle Is Not Limited to the Battlefield", this TV series is still a bit shallow.
For the audience who has seen the movie "After the Decisive Battle", the first impression is that the actors and acting skills in the TV series version of "Amnesty 1959" are much worse than those in "After the Decisive Battle".
This is also no way to do things, in the early 1990s when filming "After the Decisive Battle", many of the parties were still alive, and the actors could even directly contact the roles they wanted to play, and actors like Liu Long and Ye Qinglin were themselves good at playing senior Kuomintang generals, so "After the Decisive Battle" was a relatively authoritative film and television work in the history of the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Institute.
This article reviews the film in some details.
First, the shooting background of "After the Decisive Battle"
In the movie, there was a character who was jokingly called "Chang Naichao" by netizens, this person who worked as an instructor at the Nanjing Military Academy was called Huang Jianfu, who graduated from the fifth term of Huangpu, refused to participate in the return to Nanjing during the peaceful liberation of Peiping, and later in the Sichuan Uprising, he was arranged to be an instructor at the Military Academy.
Huang Jianfu's wife is called Qiu Xingzhen, the younger sister of Qiu Xingxiang, a classmate of huangpu's contemporaries, so Huang Jianfu is Qiu Xingxiang's brother-in-law.
Huang Jianfu, who had a son named Huang Jiren, was admitted to the Chinese Department of Neijiang Normal College in Sichuan in 1977, and during his time at school, he had the idea of writing a book about the experiences of his father and uncle, who had been transformed by former Kuomintang generals after liberation, especially Qiu Xingxiang's affair in Gongdelin Prison, which was obviously a blank in historical literature.
Through the help of his uncle and the name of his father, Huang Jiren was given the opportunity to interview Du Yuming, Song Xilian, Huang Wei, Shen Drun and Wen Qiang, and finally wrote a documentary literature "The General's Decisive Battle Is Not Stopped on the Battlefield".
Li Qiankuan and Xiao Guiyun, who have just completed the filming of the movie "Founding Ceremony", took a fancy to the book and decided to make it into a movie, so that "After the Decisive Battle" is like the sequel to "The Founding Ceremony", which can be undertaken in time, and many actors can be universal, such as Gu Yue, Huang Kai, Sun Feihu, Liu Xitian and other special actors have appeared in the film.
2. The actors and characters of "After the Showdown"
Most of the characters in "After the Decisive Battle" are number one figures in Chinese history, and those who can enter the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Institute are not ordinary positions, and the party department must be above the provincial level, the provincial chairman or above, the army must be above the lieutenant general, and the secret agent must be above the major general station chief.
Therefore, although the film does not need to find a special actor to play a prisoner of war, the selection of actors is also considered first of all, and then it is god-like.
The author has selected a few important people to say:
Du Yuming played by Li Fazeng, originally the protagonist of "The General's Decisive Battle Is Not Limited to the Battlefield" is Qiu Xingxiang, but the movie was changed to Du Yuming, which is undoubtedly a wise move, after all, Du Yuming's position before he was captured and his post after the amnesty are quite high, and he is also famous in history, and his son-in-law is also very powerful, so the protagonist is none other than him.
According to Shen's memoirs, Du Yuming in the Gongdelin was frail and sick and made a lot of jokes, but in "After the Decisive Battle", the film focuses on creating a positive image of Du Yuming, especially his natural authority position in the management office.
When the generals of the Nationalist army fought, Du Yuming shocked everyone with a sentence of "ugly now".
When several generals and Japanese prisoners of war launched the Battle of Xiaomeishan, Du Yuming's sentence "Have the brothers suffered losses?" appeared to be full of grandeur and prestige.
Li Fazeng was popular at that time because of his performance of "Zhuge Liang", his acting skills can be described as a top level, and even Tang Guoqiang's version of Zhuge Liang borrowed his acting method, although he and Du Yuming had some deviations in appearance, but there was no problem in the divine appearance.
Huang Wei is played by Xu Shouqin, Huang Wei is arguably the most controversial war criminal in the Gongdelin Forest, first of all, he used poison gas when fighting. Secondly, he is stubborn and unrepentant, and it is a good face to be loyal to himself. Again, in the name of studying perpetual motion machines, he resisted the waste of state funds for transformation.
In the end, he was still a scumbag, originally with his seniority and connections, good transformation is expected to be the first batch of amnesty, but he stubbornly resisted, leaving his wife alone outside with three children and Huang Wei's mother for 27 years. A year after Huang Wei's pardon, his wife suffered from schizophrenia due to long-term pressure and Huang Wei's indifference and chose to jump into the river to commit suicide.
The film film some of Huang Wei's absurd behavior in the process of transformation, but also broke his motivation for studying the so-called perpetual motion machine.
Xu Shouqin, who plays Huang Wei, is very similar to the elderly Huang Wei in appearance, and it is interesting that Li Fazeng's wife Zhao Minfen (Empress Dowager Huan Zhugeg) is somewhat similar to Huang Wei's wife in appearance, so she starred as Huang Wei's wife Cai Ruoshu.
Qiu Xingxiang plays Zhao Xiaorui, Qiu Xingxiang is a major general, should not have entered the Gongdelin, and he was originally the protagonist in "The General Decisive Battle Is Not Limited to the Battlefield", but in the film he gave way to Chief Du.
According to Shen's drunken memoirs, Qiu Xingxiang was indeed very sincere when he was transformed, and because of his young physical strength and good physical strength, he still rushed to do heavy work, and the plot of Qiu Xingxiang going into the water to lift the car in the film came from the reality that he went down to the dung pit alone to shovel dung, so Qiu Xingxiang was the first to get pardon.
Zhao Xiaorui and Qiu Xingxiang have similarities in appearance, coupled with his strong Kong Wu, playing Qiu Xingxiang who can work is not a problem.
Wen Qiang plays Ge You, Wen Qiang's history is very complicated, his aunt is called Wen Qimei, this identity you total it, in the Whampoa Military Academy was Lin Shuai's squad leader, the two also fought, the introduction to the party is the director of the political department of their school, in the Red Army when he was the commander of the Red First Division, you said this resume, sigh.
Unfortunately, later he broke away from the organization and threw himself into the arms of the military command, and he was deeply respected by the boss, and he served as the governor of the northern district for many years and achieved remarkable results. After being captured in the Battle of Huaihai, he, like Huang Wei, disobeyed and reformed himself, and was also the last batch of amnesties.
The real old Wen Qiang does look strange, so the director of the film actually selected the young Ge You to play Wen Qiang, just to change the dubbing for him, if you don't change the dubbing, it will really become Li Dongbao.
At that time, Uncle Ge, who was still young, had good acting skills, and he interpreted Wen Qiang's yin and yang strange appearance very well, and Wen Qiang gave an evaluation after watching Ge You's performance: He is better looking than me.
In addition to these main actors, the other supporting roles are also quite good.
Wang Yaowu, the former chairman of Shandong Province, is known as one of the few people in the National Army who understands, he still lives very clearly in the Gongdelin, and he behaves very positively while not offending people, which is in line with his consistent personality.
In particular, Wang Yaowu's Shandong accent is simply a stroke of god, a mouth makes people want to laugh, is the funny responsibility of the film, especially when dividing dishes for everyone: "Next, good (hao, flat sound)"
In addition to Wang Yaowu's accent, the accent of Hainanese Zheng Tingdi is also a highlight, he served as a bath administrator in it, shaking the bell and shouting: "Take a bath, take a bath, a group of si first, two groups after si", people can't help but be funny.
In addition, the director found Yang Yong's son to play General Yang Yong, and the actor who played Luo Ruiqing was very tall, worthy of the nickname of "Luo Changzi".
Third, there are also three major battles in the Gongdelin
There are many interesting places in the plot of "After the Decisive Battle", the most interesting of which is undoubtedly the "three major battles".
In the film, the prisoners of war are not willing to be lonely, and spontaneously make sand tables to review the Battle of Huaihai, who knows that they themselves have experienced three major battles.
The first "battle" took place in the canteen, and Huang Wei was dissatisfied with the small report of Wang Shaoshan (the prototype Dong Yisan), a former military commander," so he and Wang Shaoshan went from scolding to hands, which led to a group fight among the Kuomintang prisoners of war.
Because most of the generals of the Kuomintang had always been very dissatisfied with the secret agents of the military command, the two sides had a deep grudge, and as a result, they fought in the Gongdelin Forest, drunk and more sensible, and held down Xu Yuanju, who wanted to come forward to help. (The film also has a deliberate dressing gang that advances Xu's funeral by more than a decade)
This "battle" takes place at the beginning of the film and reflects the impetuous emotions within the prisoners of war.
The second "battle" took place in Xiaomeishan, where Liu Zhenxiang, the former commander of the 64th Army, was dissatisfied with the Japanese prisoners of war and took the initiative to provoke a fight with the Japanese prisoners of war, which caused a group fight between the two sides, and other generals of the Nationalist army rushed to help, and finally won the "Battle of Xiaomeishan". Interestingly, Wen Qiang, played by Ge You, chose the famous scene of "friendly troops have difficulties and I stand still" in this group fight.
This "campaign" made the Nationalist prisoners of war more united and harmonious.
The third "battle" was the pig hunting incident, shen drunk, a famous killer of the military command, took a knife and killed the pig with a killing method, not only did not kill the pig but also let the pig run, which triggered a funny scene in which a group of senior generals above the lieutenant general of the whole hospital chased and intercepted and arrested a wounded pig.
Wen Qiang once again chose to be a wall watcher to say cool things, and it was normal for him to be pardoned in the last batch.
The film's famous scenes also include scenes where Fu Zuoyi's visit to Chen Changjie was rejected, Du Yuming and Yang Botao offered advice for the Volunteer Army to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and all prisoners of war were hotly frying noodles for the volunteer army.
Finally, what is the significance of the film?
There is a line in the film that says well, history, you have to look back to see clearly.
Finally, another comedy scene of the film, the first batch of amnesty personnel were invited by Zhou Gongzhi to the Summer Palace to gather, because the nature of the party is the Huangpu Alumni Association, so Qiu Xingxiang invited Puyi, who was also pardoned, to the side: Today is our Huangpu Military Academy students gathering in the Summer Palace, you are old...
This paragraph, the more summed up, the more interesting it is.