The movie "Crossing the Yalu River": With the history of letters, the style of history is reached

Author: Liu Jinxiang (Special Researcher, Beijing Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)

The large-scale feature film "Crossing the Yalu River," filmed and produced by the Central Radio and Television Corporation, depicts the image of a group of heroic characters who are in a vertical and horizontal position and dare to fight and win, lyrically writes a heroic epic that moves the heavens and the earth and shakes the intestines, paints a heroic picture of a magnificent and magnificent mountain and river, realizes a cross-time and space dialogue between history and reality, and makes revolutionary heroism that highlights lofty values once again become "the echo of the great soul."

As a huge production with "historical aesthetic character", the film's choreographers and directors adopt documentary brushwork and flashback methods, and present the tragic and tragic War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea on the big screen in a panoramic and three-dimensional manner with vivid characters and moving scenes. Through the multi-repetition technique of restoring the war panorama and sculpting tactical details, "Crossing the Yalu River" portrays and reproduces three groups of heroes with different styles, charm and temperament, with small size but deep meaning, simple brushstrokes but narrative week, leading the audience to approach the credible, amiable, cute and respectable hero camp.

The film "Crossing the Yalu River" traces the process of the decision-makers of the party and the army in making strategic decisions of "resisting THE United States and aiding Korea and defending the homeland" in a timely manner by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the war and gaining insight into the trend of the war. At the beginning of the film, it focuses on the ideological game between Mao Zedong and the soviet and American high-level figures, shows the military plans such as the selection of troops and the mobilization before the war, embodies the founding leaders' judgment of the hour and the situation and the far-sightedness, shows the courage and boldness of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, and confirms the wisdom and wisdom of their judgments on the current situation.

In addition, the film "Crossing the Yalu River" takes Peng Dehuai as the main perspective and narrative axis, and through focusing on Peng Dehuai, who is in danger and is ordered to resolutely and flexibly implement the central strategic intentions, arrange troops in an orderly manner, scientifically and rationally open up the battlefields on the east and west fronts, and lose no time in organizing five battles, which concentrates on showing his perseverance, tenacity, wisdom, determination, and calm general demeanor. In terms of role presentation, actor Ding Yongdai deeply and accurately grasped Peng Dehuai's mental appearance and personality temperament, changed the previous image of not smiling and solemn on the screen, and showed peng Dehuai's affinity and warmth and chivalrous tenderness more.

The film "Crossing the Yalu River" presents the front-line commanders and fighters of the volunteer army who are bold and loyal, fearless, dare to fight and fight, and generously go to the difficulties, and the narrative method of interweaving and superimposing with close-up shots and peaceful visual perspectives makes the audience relive and remember the war at the same time, narrows the psychological distance between the hero and the audience, and deepens the audience's admiration and admiration for the heroes of the volunteer army. The plot and details are the bones and flesh of the film, and they are also a concrete interpretation of the spirit of heroism. In the film, when Smith, commander of the U.S. First Marine Division, patrols the forward positions, he pulls the trigger on the empty and lonely snow, and then takes a helicopter away, and the snow quickly oozes bright red blood. It turned out that the volunteer soldiers were hiding in the cold snow, and even if they were hit by bullets, they did not make the slightest groan.

These real details, on the one hand, deeply touched and shocked the vast audience, on the other hand, they are also the condensation and sublimation of the spirit of revolutionary heroism, and it is the director's heartfelt praise and deep respect to those heroic officers and soldiers who bravely fought in the forefront. It is these volunteer soldiers who climb the ice and lie in the snow and sacrifice their lives to forget their deaths, these iron-boned battlefield heroes, who have built an unbreakable great wall of steel for the motherland and the people. The spirit of revolutionary heroism displayed by these heroes has tempered the soul and boldness of the Chinese nation and forged the firm confidence and strong will of the Chinese nation to realize its great rejuvenation. In the end, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was ultimately a contest between the will and quality of the enemy and us.

As a large-scale revolutionary historical theme work with bones, morality and temperature, the movie "Crossing the Yalu River" realistically reproduces more than 20 battles such as Yunshan, Tieyuan, Feihu Mountain, Chosin Lake, Songkufeng and Shangganling with magnificent war scenes and exquisite details, objectively retraces the entire process of the five battles, constructs a grand historical narrative and a magnificent heroic epic, and carries forward the revolutionary heroism that stirs up blood, which is the essential attribute and main feature of the spirit of struggle. It is also the fine tradition and precious spiritual wealth of the people's army. It was precisely under the inspiration, encouragement, and drive of revolutionary heroism that the officers and men of the Volunteer Army, in an extremely harsh war environment, fought against the enemy and used force to stop the war, ending the myth of the invincibility of US imperialism, not only rewriting world history, creating a miracle of war, but also winning the relative peace of the world and the admiration and respect of their opponents.

The successful performance of the movie "Crossing the Yalu River" once again shows that revolutionary heroism is never outdated in film and television creation, and once again confirms that revolutionary heroism has the eternal artistic charm of crossing time and space and constantly inspiring new.

Guangming Daily (2022-01-19 15 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily