Wu Jing has a lot of energy, and he will not give up until he reaches the goal, so he will not hesitate to sell his house to make a movie when he shoots "Wolf Warrior 2", just to realize the dream of a military movie in his heart.
At this point, Xia Boyu and Wu Jing are confidants, Wu Jing sells houses for movies, and Xia Boyu sells houses in 2008 when house prices in Beijing soared in order to realize his dream of climbing Mount Everest.
The two of them are some heroes who cherish heroes, so after filming "The Climber" met, the two met and hated each other.
In 1959 and 1975, China set up two mountaineering teams with only one purpose - to summit Mount Everest.
In 1960, after a year of training, the Chinese mountaineering team successfully reached the summit, but due to the lack of video material, it was not internationally recognized.
So, in 1975, a new group of climbers gathered again, this time they went through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, and finally succeeded in reaching the summit, but unfortunately, only 9 people finally reached the summit, and one of the climbers was frostbitten and amputated because he lent his sleeping bag to his teammates.
"The Climber" is based on a true story, each character has a character archetype, and the mountaineer whose legs were amputated by Hu Ge is based on Xia Boyu.
In 1975, football player Xia Boyu responded to the call to join the mountaineering team, but in the process of climbing, his teammates accidentally lost their sleeping bags, and there was no sleeping bag on the snowy mountain.
Xia Boyu's nickname was Vulcan, and his body temperature was higher than that of ordinary people, so he took the initiative to give his sleeping bag to his teammates and lay down on the snowy mountain for one night.
The next day, the legs lost consciousness, could not move, and finally watched the legs turn black, the doctor gave only one way - amputation.
In this way, the football player who once sweated on the court lost his legs.
But what is more deadly than the loss of legs is the loss of faith in life.
Until a doctor told him that with a prosthesis, he could walk and climb the mountain.
As a result, the dream in Xia Boyu's heart was reawakened, and he told himself that one day, he would definitely climb Mount Everest!
In order to realize his dream, Xia Boyu began decades of high-intensity training, push-ups, pull-ups, a lot of strength training... Every time you train, sweat wets your shirt.
The family was distressed and advised him to give up, but he still insisted, not afraid of suffering or tiredness, and regarded the summit of Mount Everest as his lifelong dream.
But Heaven always likes to joke with him.
Seeing that he can skillfully use prosthetic limbs, even ride a bicycle and climb the mountain, he is one step closer to realizing his dream.
The 44-year-old Xia Boyu was diagnosed with lymphoma, or in the middle and advanced stages.
Lymphoma is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world, with an average of one new patient every 2 minutes, and more than 200,000 people die every year.
If he changed to someone else, he was afraid that he would cry early and lament the unfairness of fate, and Xia Boyu would not have time to grieve, he would have to raise his spirits and fight against the disease.
Because of the fear of the negative emotions of the patients in the ward and the impact on their psychological state, Xia Boyu began to live a lifestyle of two o'clock and one line every day.
During the day, he rode his bicycle to the hospital for chemotherapy, and then rode home at night to rest.
It is worth mentioning that even at such a difficult time, the elderly Xia Boyu still did not give up the daily high-intensity physical training.
When you identify a goal, everything will make way for you.
After arduous treatment, Xia Boyu finally won the battle against lymphoma and successfully recovered.
In this way, he finally began another mountain trip of his own.
He was recruited into the mountaineering team in 1975, amputated in 1976, and launched a second charge on Mount Everest in 2014, 38 years after his last ascent of Mount Everest.
Unfortunately, 2014 saw an avalanche.
In 2015, there was a major earthquake in Nepal.
In 2016, there was a snowstorm.
Three times in a row, the old man Xia Boyu failed to climb the summit, and the closest one between him and the summit of Mount Everest was only 94 meters.
Seeing that Elder Xia was 66 years old, his family and friends around him were worried, and once again advised him, forget it.
Elder Xia was just silent and didn't speak.
He understood the concerns of his relatives and friends, but he just didn't want to, he worked hard for this day for 41 years, and in the end it was almost a little, really only a little bit.
Fortunately, Ke Qingfeng saw Elder Xia's persistence, he supported him, encouraged him, and helped him raise the cost of climbing the mountain.
Finally, on May 14, 2018, at 8:14 a.m., Xia Lao finally reached the peak of his dream mount Everest.
He was 69 years old.
Ke Qingfeng recorded the whole process of Xia Lao's mountain climbing in the form of a video, and the photographer of "Wandering Planet" spent a year and a half to cut the video into a 92-minute movie.
Guo Fan and Wu Jing were greatly shocked to see this documentary, and they had a common feeling, that is, they were moved, touched by The spirit of Xia Lao's face to face difficulties, and moved by his fighting spirit of not accepting defeat.
The two hit it off and took the initiative to pay for it as a producer.
Documentaries have always been not optimistic, and I was asked why I would invest in such a movie when I knew I would lose money.
Wu Jing's answer was "touched", he felt that the spiritual significance of this documentary was far greater than its monetary value, and hoped that Xia Lao's deeds could be seen by more people and inspire more people.
At the screening of the movie, the audience spans a wide range of ages, including children, young people, middle-aged people, and even white-haired elderly people.
There is a mother who skipped class with her child to watch a movie, and she felt that this movie would plant a seed in her child's heart and teach her to face difficulties bravely.
And an old man looked at Xia Lao, who was climbing Mount Everest, and his eyes were full of envy. Perhaps, he also had a Mount Everest in his heart that he wanted to climb.
Just like Wu Jing said, after watching "Endless Climbing" and reading teacher Xia's story, I feel that nothing is impossible.
There is no limit in life, you are far more powerful than you think.
Unfortunately, this documentary was released for 14 days, the box office was dismal, the premiere box office was only 320,000, the cumulative box office was only 2.31 million, and the schedule was even more pitiful.
In some cities, even if you want to see it, you can't see it, because the cinema feels that it is not profitable, and there is no scheduling at all.
This is a film that knows from the beginning of its release that it will lose money, does not please the market, pleases the audience, just brings good content to everyone.
In the days of the publicity roadshow, Xia Lao and the main creative team traveled through more than twenty cities, and at the end of each movie, the audience spontaneously applauded and the applause lasted for a long time.
The applause of the audience is to praise the story of Xia Lao, but also to cheer up all the cast behind the scenes, China needs such a movie, even if it can't make money now.