There is nowhere to spend money, it is a waste. Only because thirty years ago, the film version of the blockbuster film "Armageddon" shot by the Bayi Film Studio was in front of zhu yu, since he learned the news that he was going to shoot the TV drama version of "Armageddon", this was his most real first reaction. Although there are still various problems or defects revealed, it is still no exaggeration to say that the film version of the blockbuster "Armageddon", which has been invested in and produced in a large scale, is a Pearl Everest that is difficult to surpass and copy in the history of new Chinese cinema, whether it is a war scene without special effects but super shocking, or those who no longer have those leading figures who are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, there is no such indispensable prerequisite, and remake is tantamount to an egg touching a stone, there will certainly be no good results, so the drama version of "Armageddon" is not optimistic.
However, with the broadcast of the revolutionary historical drama "Armageddon" dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, coupled with the participation of many friends in the filming of the filming, I inadvertently watched it and did not think that I was attracted, this drama is not simply repeating the magnificent historical picture, but in the well-known history to find and show the little-known, or rarely reflected in the past historical strange points, to present objectively from today's perspective. One of the most remarkable and valuable points is that the choreographer dares to face history, respect history, and restore history, which is a huge change compared with the film version of "Armageddon".
The drama has made great breakthroughs in character portrayal and shaping, from the supreme commanders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to the senior generals, they have completely distanced themselves from the stereotypical concept of facialization, making the characters more vivid and realistic, with distinct personalities, ready to come out, and accepted by the current audience. The question of who the specific planner and commander of the Huaihai Campaign, which has been hotly discussed on the Internet for a long time, gives a convincing and accurate answer in the drama version of "The Great Armageddon", that is, the founding father Su Yu gave due embodiment to the indelible and famous great deeds of the Huaihai Campaign, returned the original face of history, has not been tampered with, will not be misled, and has a good explanation for future generations, and will not appear again, such as the veteran general who participated in that battle. After watching the movie, the veteran soldier roared angrily on crutches and couldn't understand the embarrassing scene. This is a very gratifying and gratifying place. Similarly, for the enemy, the Kuomintang side did not make a face, or even more did not simply vilify it, and the choreographer was able to stand on the height of history and make an objective and fair portrait of them, after all, that period of history was jointly created by the enemy and us, and they were an extremely important part of the book.
Imagine if Du Yuming, Fan Hanjie, Fu Zuoyi, Huang Wei, Huang Baitao, Hu Lian, Qiu Qingquan, and other kuomintang generals in the play were all staged into a bunch of sacks of wine and rice and were vulnerable to a single blow, these three major battles would have no value to speak of; if the complexity and difficulty of the campaign itself were lost, the founding leaders and founding fathers of our party would have no outstanding wisdom and far-sightedness, and the heroic spirit of the commanders and fighters who were firm in their faith, heroic and fearless, and daring to sacrifice would be impossible to talk about. In fact, the actual historical situation is also the same, for example, in the northeast battlefield before the battle, Chen Mingren and Sun Liren, who were once famous anti-Japanese generals, fought fiercely in siping, which made the northeast field army headed by Lin Biao suffer a lot. Only with the strength of the enemy's objective existence in history can we display the revolutionary and fearless spirit of our People's Liberation Army in bravely advancing without fear of danger. Only when the enemy and ourselves are hard and the bayonets are red will they really make the drama look good and let the drama catch people.
If you compare the two "Armageddon" together, it will not be difficult to find that the drama version is slightly better in character shaping and portrayal, especially in the national army. Due to the different creative focus and angle of the film version, under the limitation of time and length, more pen and ink are put into the macro and huge historical narrative, and not too much effort is made in the performance of the characters, and it is only Lin Biao and Fu Zuoyi of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party who are deeply impressed by the audience, and the other characters are almost drowned by the magnificent historical events. This TIME THE TV SERIES "Armageddon" has plenty of time to show off while telling historical stories, and can devote itself to creating a series of character images, which is particularly eye-catching in the display of the generals of the national army. Fan Hanjie in the Liaoshen Campaign in the front of the play, Du Yuming, Huang Baitao and other people in the Huaihai Campaign have a very vivid portrayal. In particular, in the three major battles and even in the war before the liberation of the entire mainland, there was a very special and influential figure who was a very special existence in the eyes of the supreme commanders of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the evaluation was very high, and he was Hu Lian, a general at the kuomintang level.
Mao Zedong's evaluation was: "Hu Lian of the Eighteenth Army is as cunning as a fox and as brave as a tiger. Chiang Kai-shek said of him: "There is Zhang Lingfu's "toughness," but no Zhang Lingfu's "pride"; his "loyalty" is no less than Huang Baitao's, and his "conspiracy" is definitely more than Huang Baitao's. Friends who are familiar with and understand history may find that in the course of the Battle of Huaihai, Hu Lian was the most cunning Kuomintang general in the TV series "Armageddon". Whether before the start of the campaign or after the start of the campaign, Hu Lian took him Hu Lian, who had a very strong fighting force, and it was the few ace troops in Chiang Kai-shek's hands who repeatedly evaded and escaped the encirclement circle of annihilation by our army, and the large-scale production TV series "The Great Armageddon", which has been at the top of the ratings since its broadcast, has become more and more exciting as the plot continues to deepen, and the famous actor Li Mengnan played by a generation of famous generals of the Nationalist Army, Hu Lian, which is a general who made Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong appreciate it, that is, he created the tragic case of the later Kinmen Landing Battle. As a result, more than 9,000 soldiers of Sanye were completely annihilated on Kinmen Island. Even on December 12, 1948, when the two major field armies of the People's Liberation Army Huaye and Nakano joined forces to launch a general offensive, Huang Wei's 12th Corps was annihilated except for a few who had slipped through the net in the double pile. Among them, there is Hu Lian. On December 15, he and Huang Wei and other officers broke through in tanks and fled, but Huang Wei's tanks fell into the river and were captured in the rebellion. Hu Lian's tank, on the other hand, sped south to escape, was shot in the back on the way to escape, and finally fled back to Nanjing. On October 25, 1949, Hu Lian commanded the 12th Corps and Li Liangrong's 22nd Corps to defeat more than 10,000 People's Liberation Army troops landing in Kinmen at Guningtou Village in the northwest corner of Kinmen, capturing about 5,000 people and winning the Battle of Kinmen.
This battle made the Sanye troops, who lacked experience in island landing warfare and won the battle invincible all the way, psychologically blindly confident and some light enemy thinking, resulting in the tragic consequences of the total annihilation of more than 9,000 troops. Many elderly people in Sanye believe that from the fact that Hu Lian's entire Eleventh Division (Eighteenth Army) was the last ace unit to be annihilated in the "five main forces" of the Kuomintang, it is not an exaggeration to say that Hu Lian "can fight." This is where the character of Hu Lian is special, and there are almost no shots and pictures of him in the film version of "Armageddon". In this drama version of "Armageddon", the general director Gao Xixi invited the acting star Li Mengnan to play the role of the Kuomintang general Hu Lian, who should value the strong aura possessed by the first-class actor of the National Theatre of China, and it seems appropriate to use it in the creation of Hu Lian's role in the play. Although this character is not very long in the play, but the content is very rich, and it is obviously different from other national army figures, he appeared next to Chiang Kai-shek twice, twice flew to the front line of Xuzhou, his mentality and situation were extremely different, the first time was full of vigor and was put by Chiang Kai-shek to save the dangerous situation, and he fought side by side with Huang Wei and others, and the second time was after witnessing the tragic situation on the battlefield and the floating of people's hearts, he returned to Nanjing with a heavy heart with a heavy heart that Huang Wei wanted military supplies and arranged for the soldiers to be entrusted with aftermath. What he witnessed was a beautiful dance party of songs and wine, and he also accompanied Chiang Kai-shek and others to watch the movie "The Soul of the Nation" that told the story of Wen Tianxiang, and finally he flew back to the battlefield again under the inspiration of Chiang Kai-shek and braved the artillery fire of our army, until the Twelfth Corps escaped when it was surrounded and annihilated by our army.
Li Mengnan grasped the characteristics of Hu Lian's courage and strategy, rigidity and softness, and when facing high-level figures such as Chiang Kai-shek and Gu Zhutong, as well as in the face of colleagues and subordinates such as Huang Wei and Yang Botao, he had different attitudes; witnessing the huge contrast between the cruel and hopeless battlefield and the luxury of the Nanjing high-level, all of this Li Mengnan used delicate and accurate eyes and the body language of a strong and powerful soldier to make in-depth interpretation and interpretation. This enabled the figure of Hu Lian to stand up, not only this figure, but also the inevitable fate of the inevitable collapse of the Chiang family dynasty through such a figure, revealing the simple truth that only the Communist Party can save China! This should also be an important reason why the revolutionary historical drama "Armageddon" has been able to top the ratings since its broadcast!
(About the author Zhu Zhiheng, a member of the China Qu Artists Association, the China Electric Power Writers Association, and the Anhui Photographers Association.) For more than 30 years, his literary and artistic works have been published in a large number of outstanding literary, literary and artistic newspapers and magazines, and have also been adopted by radio and television stations at the central and provincial and municipal levels, and now he works for the State Grid Hefei Power Supply Company. ）