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Recently, the most discussed in the film circle is undoubtedly "Eight Hundred", as a "rescue" work, the total pre-sale box office will break 200 million, which is eye-catching enough. #影视杂谈 #
The film portrays the group portrait very successfully, the small people in the war, the growth between fear of death and being a hero has traces to follow, and several other highlights are tearful.
But perhaps the front is too full of emotions, resulting in the end of the back did not set off a climax, a little regret, but this does not affect "Eight Hundred" is an excellent war film.
During the screening of the film, Feng Xiaogang once commented on "Eight Hundred": "Very touched, this is a very righteous movie." Hearing Feng Xiaogang's evaluation, it is inevitable to remind people of his 2007 "Gathering Number", which has a Douban score of 8.1, which is higher than the 7.9 points of "Eight Hundred".
2007's "The Gathering", which was known as China's first war blockbuster in the true sense of the word, broke through the traditional main theme model of the past, penetrated into the perspective of ordinary soldiers, and highlighted the dignity of human nature.
1. Shooting with twists and turns
"Eight Hundred" investment is large, shooting difficulties, but the "Gathering Number" of that year is also a twist and turn, first of all, the casting problem, at the beginning Zhang Hanyu Mao introduced himself, telling Director Xiaogang that he wanted to play Guzidi, and Director Xiaogang smiled and said that this was prepared for Ge You, and the role of Zhao Erdou was prepared for you.
Later, the crew auditioned a lot of people, but in the end could not find the right person, at this time Zhang Hanyu expressed his desire to play Guzidi's idea, and finally Wang Zhonglei let him play, and Zhang Hanyu also seized this hard-won opportunity to devote himself to the role creation, showing the perseverance and tenderness of Guzidi, which touched many people.
The heroine Sun Guiqin initially set Chen Shu, but because her temperament was too foreign and not suitable for playing women in the war years, Chen Shu eventually quit and replaced her with a newcomer Tang Hui, in such a "man play", Tang Hui is a little red in the ten thousand trees.
The total investment of the film is as high as 80 million, but the total salary of all the actors is only 1 million, and the rest is used in the film shooting, just to present realistic war scenes.
It is reported that the war scene of the film in the northeast is actually to borrow the snow scene in the northeast, the crew also built a street scene in Kuandian to shoot the scene of the war in the alley, but god and the crew against the scene, the shooting place is not snowing, although it also snowed later, but it is far from the expected torrential snow.
Therefore, the crew had no choice but to prepare four tons of fertilizer to make snow, yes, it was the "white snow" that the soldiers used to rub their faces and roll on the ground, all fertilizer, not to mention increasing the budget, to know that fertilizer is extremely harmful to the human body, the actors rolled on the ground while inhaling a lot of toxins, making the soldiers of the whole company diarrhea and vomiting.
But God seemed to have made a big joke to the crew, and when they turned to the suburbs of Benxi to shoot sniper battles and other major plays, they caught up with the biggest snowfall since the beginning of winter.
Feng Xiaogang quipped: "When I first chose to shoot in the northeast, it was that you looked at the snow scene here, and when you were in Kuandian, how to hope that it would not snow, at that time we all had the heart to go back to the suburbs of Beijing to shoot, and now the snow is falling, but we didn't let it fall so big." ”
2. Company commander who kills prisoners of war
At the beginning of the movie, the instructor of the Ninth Company (Ren Quan) is killed, the company Changguzidi (Zhang Hanyu) and the instructor are brothers and sisters, and a team without an instructor means losing the military division, so Guzidi ordered the soldiers to kill the prisoners of war when the enemy surrendered.
This subverted the image of preferential treatment of prisoners of war in the previous film and television works of the same type, but it made the image of Guzidi more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In a battle, the Ninth Company did not hear the sound of the rallying cry, so in order to get a timely retreat, it eventually led to the total annihilation of the army except for the valley land, and since then, he has embarked on the day of proving his identity for himself and his brothers.
Once, when he was confronted with the county leaders slandering their comrades-in-arms for defecting to the enemy army, he directly exploded and threw his chair at the leader, desperately defending the dignity of the dead brothers;
When he knew that the regimental commander did not let the commander blow the rallying number, he was so angry that he almost smashed the regimental commander's tombstone, and from the outsider's point of view, he complained that the regimental commander did not blow the rallying trumpet, indirectly killing his entire company's brothers, leaving him alone.
But in fact, he was wronged, and his forty-seven brothers who died were obviously martyrs, but now they are missing because no one has proved it.
In that era, the soldiers who were not sent back by the martyrs, in the eyes of the older generation, were shot and killed because they became deserters, and a soldier who died on the battlefield became a deserter.
Gu Zidi felt sad for the unknown martyrs in the tombstone garden, those children who obviously had their parents named but became nameless.
3. Instructor of peeing pants
The new instructor Wang Jincun (Yuan Wenkang) is different from the "hero" figures on the previous screen, when Guzidi was imprisoned for killing prisoners of war, he was also locked up, but he was locked up because he peed his pants when he went to the battlefield.
According to the image of a grumpy predatory soldier created earlier, I thought that Guzidi would laugh at him as a twin, because the whole regiment was laughing at him and treating him as a garbage, but Guzidi did not, he said:
Flying guns on the head, running grenades in the crotch of the pants, even the gods have to pee.
There is no expected sarcasm, but unexpected comfort.
This in turn added a bit of iron man's tender flavor to the image of Gu Zidi, and when Gu Zidi looked at the red scarf he was wearing around his neck, he knew that it was his daughter-in-law who knitted it for him.
In the past, war movies were full of people who were not afraid of death, but that was not really human nature, it was just a perfect heroism. In real reality, there are many characters like the old abacus in "Eight Hundred".
The role of Wang Jincun is also the most full character image in the movie, and he has grown all the way to become a soldier who really bravely kills the enemy under the influence of Guzidi.
Wang Jincun's hero is a man not a god, he is not as brave and fearless as ever, he only has a growing heart and courage.
4. Three versions of the ending
Feng Xiaogang still filmed three different endings for "The Gathering", the first ending, that is, the audience now sees that the remains of forty-seven martyrs have been found, and a group of soldiers led by Gu Zidi and Zhao Erdou (Deng Chao) salute them in front of the martyrs.
The second ending is open-ended, with Guzidi digging coal on a coal hill as the ending, and the camera slowly zooms in, and does not intend to explain whether Guzidi has completed his long-cherished wish to retrieve the remains of martyrs.
The third ending, on the other hand, is even more tragic and miserable, with nothing to dig in the grain field, being treated as a crazy old man by the locals, and finally freezing to death in a broken shed, and when he was dying, he still had half a dry bun in his hand.
Feng Xiaogang leaned toward the third ending, saying: "So many dead people buried in the ground, how can they be dug up?" ”
However, when he discussed with screenwriter Liu Heng, he got an absolute rejection from the other party. Liu Heng said, "This company is all dead, you must keep one." And Xiao Gang, you have to know that the audience believes in myths, what is the myth? It is that the hero will finally stand on the top of the mountain, and the valley cannot die! ”
Indeed, Gu Zidi cannot die, he dies, then those forty-seven martyrs will never get a proper name, but you must know that among the vast remains of the nameless clan, there are too many "missing" who are regarded as deserters, and the martyrs will always be wronged, and they will desperately defend the country, and even a name will be stingy to themselves, which is too unfair!
The tragic ending is profound and powerful, but I hope to dedicate a happy ending to somewhat "rotten" endings to forty-seven warriors who are buried under the mines. Let's say that your #favorite domestic war movie and TV drama #which one is it? (Author: Song Juhan)
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