2 days after the official release, "Revolutionary" Douban opened a score, with a score of 7.5 temporarily ranked as the best summer file.
In addition to the gratifying Douban score, the reputation of "Revolutionary" is also continuing to ferment, and the current score of 9.5 ranks first in the list of popular word-of-mouth. Maoyan scored 9.4 points, and the Weibo big V recommendation was as high as 91%, which can be said that the whole network is praising.
There are two main types of comments from netizens: one is shock, and the other is regret.
First, let's take a look at what netizens are saying.
Shock is easy to resonate, so why do you feel "sorry"?
In fact, it is not difficult to understand, the reason why I feel "regret" is that there are too many details in the movie, and a brush is really not enough to see.
It is not easy for a main theme movie to get praise, and what is even more rare is that "Revolutionary" not only gains recognition in quality, but also makes the audience want to take the initiative to brush two and three brushes.
Because it has both wind bones and truth.
How should the main theme movie be made?
Many directors in China have given the answer to this question, but no matter which kind of shooting method, they have grasped a key point and tried to be as close as possible to the real history.
Because history itself is touching, as long as it can be restored as much as possible, even if it is only eleven, it is enough to make people cry.
The Revolutionary did just that.
When the film was officially released, Chinese film reports made a recommendation for it, and in the official recommendation, the first one introduced was the truth of the film - "multi-perspective restoration of the historical revolution picture".
Specifically how to restore, we continue to look down.
"The Revolutionary" is a biographical film, with Li Dazhao as the clue character, using a series of historical events to piece together a flesh-and-blood Li Dazhao, but also outlines the revolutionary era that is 100 years away from us.
Needless to say, there are several major events in the film, and it is worth talking about the real details in the film.
For example, just after the movie opened, everyone came to the Wan'an Cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing and dug up a tombstone buried in the ground for many years.
The tombstone that appears in the movie is reproduced according to the original tombstone material, and even The tombstone of Mrs. Li Dazhao is reproduced as "Mrs. Li's Tomb" as it is.
There is also Li Dazhao's speech at the Kailuan Coal Mine site, which is impassioned, involving the workers, mule and horse expenses, the source is an article he published in the Weekly Review on March 9, 1919, "The Life of Workers in tangshan Coal Plant - Workers are not as good as mules and horses".
In the article, he said that workers work eight hours a day, ICBC has two corners, drinking and eating must be brought by themselves, and Tangshan's mule and horse living expenses cost five corners a day.
These are the same as what Li Dazhao said in the movie.
There is also the "Beijing Citizens' Declaration", which is of great significance in the movie.
It is true that Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao discussed together, that Chen Duxiu distributed a declaration on the second floor, that even Chen Duxiu's appearance when the two of them ate together, and the outfit of the white suit and white hat were also derived from real history.
In terms of scene setting, after research, Beijing New Century does have a special open-air cinema with silent films.
When an event, from the event itself, to the scene props and details can find the corresponding history, the more real the event.
And the more real the picture is presented, the more our feelings are invested.
Another typical example is that Li Dazhao took off his glasses before he was righteous, and according to the last photograph of Li Dazhao in his lifetime, Li Dazhao shaved his hair before he was tortured and did not wear glasses.
In the film, Li Dazhao was also specially arranged to take off his glasses before the execution, because there is history as a reference, we can't make up random fiction.
The oath of membership in the end of the film was written by Mao Zedong himself in October 1927, and it is also the earliest oath of membership in the Communist Party of China.
But the most important "sense of history" of the film is the gallows called "Cultural Relics No. 001".
The film spends a lot of ink on the process of Li Dazhao's departure to the execution site and the execution of hanging, from the prison director reading the verdict, to Li Dazhao and other comrades who were righteous together to get a haircut, to taking pictures and drinking before the execution, and finally walking on the gallows.
Because this is the highlight of the play, and it is also the part that needs to be restored the most.
When "The Revolutionary" was screened at Peking University, the director of "The Age of Awakening" also attended the screening, and after watching the film, he gave this "Biographical Film of Li Dazhao" a high praise.
Among them, he specifically mentioned the 001 cultural relic gallows, as we all know, although "The Age of Awakening" is now very out of the circle, but during the filming, the crew is also really "poor".
For various reasons, in the drama "The Age of Awakening", director Zhang Yongxin failed to restore this gallows, so when he saw the gallows appearing 1:1 in "Revolutionaries", he would be so excited.
The original of the 001 artifact gallows is now in the national museum, and the film's creative team had only one requirement when making props: it must be exactly the same as the original.
Steel is steel, rope is rope, not made of wood or plastic, and even the foreign language assembly instructions are finely reproduced.
Because everything is true, in the movie, when the gallows are removed from the car and built little by little until they are finally completed, the scene is extremely magnificent.
Before filming this part of the scene, the director also told Zhang Songwen, who plays Li Dazhao, that you must really act, and you can't use a stand-in or just make a show.
Before the actual shooting, the creator also did a lot of tests to study how to fall off the gallows without a sense of weight and without hurting the actors.
When filming, Zhang Songwen hung Weiya and filmed it five or six times, each time it was true.
Through fragmentary narratives, as well as a variety of real details, What Revolutionary wants to tell us is:
This is not only a main theme movie, but also an epic.
It has both the basis of "history" and the extension of "poetry".
In addition to these real details that can correspond to history one by one, the film combines the historical situation of the time in every place that needs to be extended, and achieves reasonable, perfect detail creation, with metaphor.
For example, the vase on Zhang Zuolin's desk, the exquisite ornaments at home, and the scale on the table that determines Li Dazhao's fate.
Vases, ornaments, and exquisite costumes all reflect the greed of the characters at once.
The three things that determine the balance of the scale also carry metaphors.
One was a petition from all walks of life demanding the release of Li Dazhao, the other was a reply letter of opinion from the north, and the last time the decision on life and death was the instructions from a certain dignitary in the south.
The short-lived West Lake lotus powder and Beijing eight pieces, one is a gift brought when visiting Sun Yat-sen, and the other is a gift when chen Duxiu is bid farewell.
One is an allusion that Li Dazhao has just attended the West Lake Conference, and the other is a hint that It is difficult for Li to meet again in the South Chen and the North.
Then there is the organ of Li Dazhao's family, which is praised by Zhang Yongxin, director of "The Age of Awakening".
This is the most common thing that appears in the memories of Li Dazhao's daughter, who always quietly teaches everyone to sing the "International Song" under the cover of Yusheng.
The organ is both Li Dazhao's bravery as a revolutionary and his romance as an ordinary father.
There is also the straw he holds whether in rural work or prison, and it also echoes The addiction that Li Dazhao himself cannot quit.
Even the picture of him talking and laughing with the righteous soldiers who died together before his execution was also deduced by the actor based on his last "Self-Description in Prison" in prison, and he was not afraid of life and death, and even a little teased, because he died for the revolution, although he died without regrets.
Also having a second life under the actor's hands is the details of "oil hands can't touch the book", as well as the movements that echo the real Li Dazhao's gestures many times.
We always say that whether a movie is good or not, the audience knows best.
On July 3, "The Revolutionary" was staged at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and many people silently shed tears during the movie, and after the film, the applause lasted for a long time, and even spontaneously sang the international song.
After nearly a hundred years, what can make the current students involuntarily break through the defense?
If it weren't for the revolutionaries represented by Li Dazhao in the movie who inspired us with their spirit, what explanation could there be?
They left because of the great event of "seeking happiness for the people of the world", and their blood was all to make the children have a better future.
And this future, this day of revolutionary victory, we saw it for them!
"Revolutionary" with the truth and sincerity in exchange for the praise, are what it deserves, but also verified the netizens' words:
"I'll be willing to watch it as many times as I want!"
For me, there is only one feeling: after brushing "Revolutionary" twice, I finally cried in the right place.
The movie Douban scored 7.5, temporarily listed as the best summer file, and less than 2% of people played 1 star.
But for this movie, this rating is far from enough, and the surprise it brings is really too big.
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