The 2005 TV series "Bright Sword" is the pinnacle of anti-Japanese drama in the minds of many people, although this drama has technical defects due to its age, as well as some problems with the face of the characters, but it is still flawed. Now more than 10 years later, many famous scenes in "Bright Sword" are still talked about.
However, it is precisely because of the famous scenes in "Bright Sword" that some people questioned that this drama deliberately exaggerated the results of the anti-Japanese war, which is considered to be the beginning of the later "anti-Japanese divine drama", and they believe that it is precisely because of the combat effect performance in "Bright Sword" that the later anti-Japanese drama is more and more outrageous and gradually embarks on the road of divine drama.
So, is "Bright Sword" really the beginning of the "anti-Japanese drama"? Is "Bright Sword" an "anti-Japanese drama"?
1. What is an "anti-Japanese drama"
To discuss whether "Bright Sword" belongs to the "anti-Japanese drama", we must first "translate" what is an "anti-Japanese drama". Friends may say that this also uses "translation", tv every day, "hand tearing devils", "grenades hit the plane", "bullet bending"... and so on, after so many years of baptism of "divine drama", the audience has long practiced a pair of fire eyes golden eyes, a glance to know whether it is "anti-Japanese drama".
Several of the famous scenes mentioned above belong to the classic scenes of the "anti-Japanese drama", but the so-called "anti-Japanese drama" is not unique to these scenes. Looking at the "divine dramas", we can draw the typical characteristics of these "divine dramas", and we can also know what kind of "anti-Japanese dramas" belong to the "anti-Japanese divine dramas".
Positive character "idolization"
In the "divine drama", the positive character is always the image of Wei Guangzheng, bright and beautiful, no matter what kind of battle, "the head can be broken, the blood can flow, but the hairspray cannot be lost", such as the thunder warrior in the name of "Bright Sword 3", Wu Qilong in "Towards the Artillery", combing the head of the plane, riding a Harley motorcycle, using a vehicle-mounted Gatling machine gun.
The plot aside, the protagonist's costumes and dresses are simply through the past, especially the hairstyle, and the lines are not messy. The general "anti-Japanese drama" has such problems in makeup and costume props. Filming film and television dramas with anti-Japanese themes as "idol dramas" is a major feature of "anti-Japanese dramas".
War scene "gamification"
The war scenes in the "Anti-Japanese God Drama" are similar to the game scenes, not only do not show the cruelty of war, but move in the direction of entertainment. A variety of strange scenes emerge in an endless stream, such as the hand-torn devils in "Anti-Japanese Strange Man"; the anger value of the heroine after being raped in "Arrow on the String", automatically wears pants, instantly blackens, becomes a sharp archer, one arrow at a time, killing dozens of Japanese puppet troops; and the bullets fired in "Sharpshooter" can turn around on their own, and so on.
Here I have to admire the imagination of the screenwriter teacher, the original intention may be for the effect of watching the movie, but the artistic creation must always have a bottom line, the War of Resistance Against Japan has a factual basis, if it is too far away from the basic facts, will it not become a castle in the air? Anti-Japanese drama is not a fantasy drama, and writing an anti-Japanese drama in the form of a fantasy drama is to treat the audience as a fool?
The Japanese army is "low-minded"
Almost all of the "anti-Japanese dramas" have such a characteristic, the Japanese army is portrayed as extremely incompetent, low IQ, low combat effectiveness, turn on the TV, as long as it is playing anti-Japanese dramas, most of the Japanese troops in it are this kind of virtue, Chinese Mandarin speaks thief slippery, one is more stupid than the other, people can't help but wonder how we fought with these fools for 14 years before making these people return to their hometown.
When Japan surrendered in 1945, I think the most important thing to breathe is that the Japanese army in China finally does not have to suffer anymore, for 14 years, I don't know how to get over. Is this infinite dwarfing of the opponent's "divine drama" a high-level black?
Friendly "cowardice"
The War of Resistance Against Japan was a cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, but as long as the national army contingent appeared, it was cowardly and incompetent. It is true that the Nationalist army did not fight well in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but in the 8 years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many battles fought by the Nationalist army on the frontal battlefield were also very heroic, and the "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang", "Battle of Songhu" and "Battle of Changsha" were fought extremely fiercely, and the Japanese army also paid a heavy price, so that it did not dare to underestimate my Chinese boy.
But in the "Anti-Japanese Drama", the friendly army is almost the same soft bones, and it is not known whether this is for political correctness or whether the audience is willing to see such a friendly image.
2. "Bright Sword" is not an anti-Japanese drama
Let's go back and look at "Bright Sword" to see if it meets the characteristics of "anti-Japanese drama".
First, whether the protagonist in "Bright Sword" is "idolized". Everyone can see this at a glance, the Eighth Route Army in the play, from soldiers to commanders and fighters, is all uniformly torn, and the collar cuffs are black, revealing a full "rustic atmosphere", only the brigade commander Chen Geng is wearing a leather coat, even Mr. Peng is also an old military uniform, which certainly does not conform to "idolization".
Second, the war scene. The war scenes and plots in "Bright Sword" are actually historical facts, the original work is also written on the basis of a large number of war histories, the battles in the play are not all victorious battles, and there are several places where the Japanese army was defeated and even the whole team was inked, so the war scenes and plots of "Bright Sword" are not gamified.
The third point is the portrayal of the Japanese army. The combat literacy of the Japanese army in "Bright Sword" is not weak at all, although some scenes in the play somewhat weaken the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, but in general, the Japanese army is not "low-intelligence", and it is filmed like a fool. On the contrary, the special forces of the Japanese army in the play are very strong, and the cavalry company pulled up by Li Yunlong was also completely destroyed in the sweep.
Fourth, friendly troops. The friendly troops in "Bright Sword" are mainly Chu Yunfei's troops, and the national army troops are not weakened in the play, on the contrary, Chu Yunfei is also a heroic and good man, and like Li Yunlong, he is also a very strong soldier, and the two eventually fight, fight into a draw, and each is injured. It can be seen that the friendly forces are not "cowardly" in the play.
Through the comparison of the above four points, it can be said that "Bright Sword" does not belong to the "anti-Japanese drama" at all, let alone the beginning of the "anti-Japanese drama".
3. Several wonderful battles in Bright Sword
The reason why some people say that "Bright Sword" is an anti-Japanese drama is because of the several classic battles in the play, and the results achieved are huge, and we do not see such a battle prototype in our propaganda. For example, the frontal breakthrough in the first episode killed Sakata, and the Li Jiapo grenade completely annihilated the Japanese army, ambushed the Japanese observation group and so on.
In fact, these scenes all have historical prototypes, the prototype of the killing of Bantian is the Battle of Loess Ridge, commanded by Nie Rongzhen, and the one who was killed was the Japanese army's "flower of famous generals" Abe Norihide; the prototype of the Battle of Lijiapo was the Battle of Guanjia'an at the end of the Hundred Regiments War, commanded by Peng Dehuai; the prototype of the ambush Japanese observation group was the ambush battle of Han Luo village, commanding Wang Jinshan.
Except for the guanjia'an battle, which artistically processed the annihilation of more than 200 enemy soldiers into total annihilation, the rest were basically created according to historical prototypes, but some people did not believe that the Eighth Route Army could achieve such results in that difficult era.
But believe it or not, after 14 years of hard work, backward Chinese drove the Japanese out of China. A few years later, the 16-nation coalition led by the first swordsman in Korea and the world fought hard, and in the first battle, it played a Chinese prestige and swept away the haze brought about by a century of humiliation, which is our "bright sword" spirit.
Only from the perspective of the spirit of "bright sword", this TV series is a real "divine drama" that is different from the "anti-Japanese divine drama", and I really hope to be able to make more "divine dramas" that inspire the national spirit and show our true national integrity.