Railroad Hero poster
The 1905 film network special article accompanied by the familiar melody of the theme song "Playing the Beloved Earth Pipa Again" sung by Andy Lau, the image of the hard guy on the screen that had made people tearful in the National Day file, returned again in "Railway Hero" on November 19.
"Railway Hero" is based on the real deeds of Hong Zhenhai, Wang Zhisheng, Du Jiwei, Liu Jinshan and other members of the "Railway Team" that occurred from 1935 to 1945, telling the story of the heroic "Railway Team" in Zaozhuang, Lincheng, who fought with the enemy and defended the homeland to the death during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
The snow is overwhelming, the fleece hats that resist the wind and cold, the tight and capable fur coats, the speeding trains, the deafening guns, the sharp blades that seal the throat with blood, the pipes that swallow the clouds and spit mist, the thrilling tracking step by step, the fist-to-flesh fights... Zhang Hanyu, Fan Wei, Wei Chen, and Yu Haoming joined forces to bring the audience a tough guy spy action movie exclusive to the war years with the action of hard bridge and hard horse, recreating the fierce struggle of the "railway heroes" in the anti-Japanese war era to the greatest extent, and restoring the image of the hot-blooded tough guy who dared to confront the Japanese devils.
Stills from "The Railroad Hero"
Tough Guy · Hard bridge hard horse
In the movie, Zhang Hanyu and Fan Wei, a person responsible for both tense and exciting action scenes, an emotional scene that pinches from laughter to tears, give full play to their respective strengths and fully shape two kinds of anti-Japanese heroes with diametrically opposed personalities - Lao Hong, who fought heroically and paid blood debts and blood, and Lao Wang, who went deep behind the enemy and was soft and rigid. In addition to playing a stable double male protagonist, the brave and impulsive Qi Lu played by Tan Kai, the Qi Shun who wears Yang in a hundred steps played by Wei Chen, the Lin Dong who sacrifices his life for righteousness played by Yu Haoming, the calm and experienced organization connector played by Yang Haoyu, the railway worker who rises up to resist played by Zhou Zhengjie, etc., shows the image of the anti-Japanese heroes who are no longer a single tough guy from all levels, and enriches the role charm of the hero group portrait.
In recent years, the rise of the tough guy image has become one of the most significant changes in the image of Chinese films, especially the image of the new main theme movie. From the Green Forest Bandit in "Let the Bullets Fly", Yang Zirong in "Wise Tiger Mountain" directed by Xu Ke, to Leng Feng in the "Wolf Warrior" series, Gao Gang and Fang Xinwu in "Mekong Action", to the hero group portrait in "The Great Undertaking of Building an Army", the Jiaolong Commando team in "Red Sea Action", as well as Liu Peiqiang in "The Wandering Earth", Liu Changjian in "Captain China", Fang Wuzhou in "The Climber", Jiang Liwei in "Heroes of Fire", gao artillery platoon in "King Kong Chuan", CCP agents in "On the Cliff", "On the Cliff", " The cavalry company in "Riding the Wind" in "My Father and Me", the "Seven Steel Companies" in "Chosin Lake", etc., are all tough guy images that are both applauded and applauded, and step by step have become the cultural symbols of Chinese films and occupy the mainstream market of Chinese films.
As early as 11 years ago, in "Let the Bullets Fly", the hormone-bursting tough guy group portrait has directly hit the audience's heart
At the same time, a number of big male dramas represented by "White Night Pursuit", "Undocumented Crimes", "Great Rivers and Rivers", "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", "Mountains and Seas", "The Age of Awakening", etc., have sprung up, giving powerful male actors, especially many tough guy images, more opportunities to show themselves. With the affirmation of these actors by media opinion, variety shows and other platforms, the audience's appreciation taste is also constantly improving, and the "fresh meat" aesthetic trend of "looking at the face" has begun to recede rapidly, and the "tough guy actors" represented by Wu Jing, Zhang Yi, Zhang Hanyu, Duan Yihong, etc. have entered their best era.
At this point, the tough guy returned.
Tough Guy · Tough talk
"I'll talk about your grandmother's legs."
This line from the tough guy Fan Wei to the Japanese devils in "Railway Hero" is very memorable from the trailer stage, and uses seemingly vulgar language to properly show the current emotions of the characters - the hatred of Japanese devils, becoming a "hard indicator" to improve the tough guy's personality and enrich the image of the tough guy.
In fact, in a number of works that show the image of tough guys, the "tough guy tough words" of tough guys are not uncommon. At present, the most "broken circle" is Li Yunlong's line in the TV series "Bright Sword", "Lao Tzu does not believe in this evil, they are all two shoulders against a head who is afraid of whom", "What Bushido, Lao Tzu fights bushido", "as long as I Li Yunlong is here, I will not leave a brother" and other vivid and witty "hard words" highlight the domineering spirit of Chinese soldiers and become explosive quotations on major network platforms.
In the landmark work of the new main theme movie "Wise Tiger Mountain", Yang Zirong, who broke into the bandit's nest, when he first entered the bandit nest on Weihu Mountain, the domineering spirit when talking about bandits was even more so that the real bandits were not allowed, and the untamed bandits and bloody and flamboyant personality made this role instantly full and vivid.
In the Chinese film history box office champion "Wolf Warrior 2", Leng Feng, the contemporary "tough guy image" of Chinese films, said "Women and children on the plane, men follow me" when faced with only one plane and for whom the crowd was going first!" And when he persuaded the non-doctors to abandon their illusions about the US Marines, he said, "The Marines are the best special forces in the world, why didn't they come to pick you up?", and the most bloody thing in the whole film is the sentence at the end of the film that makes all the Chinese blood boil, "Those who commit chinese crimes against me will be punished from afar"!
In addition, such as the sentence "Brothers, goodbye in the next life" in "Eight Hundred", and the "Beat him down for me" in "King Kong Chuan"! In "Changjin Lake", Mao Anying's sentence said, "The children of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people have gone to the battlefield with one order, what reason do I Have for Mao Anying not to go?" As well as Song Shilun's "The Americans want to burn the flames of war into our territory, and this will not be allowed!" Such lines are the most suitable for expressing passionate emotions in the movie, this sincere and fearless, fierce and refreshing language style will undoubtedly make the audience in the emotional explosion stage have a "grounded" sense of intimacy, so that the straightforward and frank image of the hot-blooded hero has jumped on the big screen.
From image to language, the image of the tough guy has become the aesthetic mainstream in contemporary film and television works, and while shaping various heroic images, it has formed charming tough guy symbols and labels in literary and artistic works, thus undertaking the encounter between national values and the public imagination, and emitting the light of the Chinese nation's passionate pride.