The in-depth analysis of the first unit of "Meritorious Service" has been written: "< Meritorious >, High!" Li Yannian, hard! I originally wanted to save a big one and talk about the next few units in one breath, but I'm sorry that I was stuck in Huang Xiaoming's unit. In the first few units of "Meritorious Service", I watched six episodes a day, and when I waited for Huang Xiaoming to play this, I watched one episode in six days... Can't all blame Huang Xiaoming, in addition to his performance, the screenwriter and director are also pulled down... As a result, I haven't seen Shen Jilan's unit yet, and I feel really sorry for Mr. Huang Xuhua.
Therefore, let's not talk about "Meritorious Service" today, but talk about another classic work with two bombs and one star theme, "Born in the Sky". Compared with this work, it can be seen that there are some deficiencies in the Yu Min unit of "Meritorious Service".
The historical context is laid out at the beginning of "Born Out of the Blues"—which is where I insist that all the main theme works should be learned, and why we fought and why we sacrificed. The background is that the United States and Taiwan signed a defense agreement, and after our army liberated Yijiangshan Island, the White House clamored for targeted nuclear strikes against important Chinese cities. It is worth mentioning that fifty years later, the document was declassified, and it was found on the Internet: 870 nuclear bombs covered 117 Chinese cities.
Chairman Mao's famous quote is quoted at the beginning of the film: "The atomic bomb in the United States cannot be destroyed Chinese." Even if the atomic bomb of the United States is more powerful, thrown into China, pierced the earth, and destroyed the earth, it is still a big thing for the solar system, but it is nothing for the entire universe. ”
This is the realm and boldness of a great man. Of course, the above passage is to despise the enemy strategically, and what is done later is to pay attention to the enemy tactically. General Feng Shi, who returned from the Korean battlefield, and Lu Guangda, a high-ranking student who stayed in the United States, were respectively assigned to carry out the work related to the atomic bomb. Feng Shi's prototype was General Zhang Yunyu, and Lu Guangda's prototype was Deng Jiaxian. These are the two story lines in the film: researchers and soldiers.
The film is quite romantic, General Feng first followed the advice of Soviet experts, inspected Dunhuang, and saw the murals of the Mogao Caves here:
In the face of the brilliant cultural heritage of his ancestors, General Feng left a poem with profound meaning-
Dancing, year after year.
Ancient flying dreams, when is the day nine days?
When is the day nine days? It's now – ten thousand years is too long, only for the day!
But Dunhuang is not OK, Dunhuang is too small, and there are so many cultural relics, a little carelessness will become a sinner of the nation. So General Feng Shi set his sights on the sea of death, Lop Nur . The Shangganling Hero Company, which came down from the Korean battlefield, embarked on a journey to find a shooting range in Lop Nur again.
This "cutest man" ceramic cup, also found in "Meritorious Service", can be seen as a tribute.
To set up an experimental camp in Lop Nur, the most important thing is to find a water source. In the vast desert, the hardships of this can be imagined. Some warriors sleep in the yellow sand forever.
In the end, General Feng Shi led the team to find the water source, and the "atomic bomb base" was officially launched. General Feng gave a classic speech that will go down in the annals of Chinese cinema.
Comrades: The domestic war is over! The battle abroad is also over! I didn't let the red color hang up, and the celebration party was held! The second did not let go home to see Daddy! At the sound of an order, you followed the party to this big Gobi Desert, and your relatives at home still don't know where we are! I don't know if we are dead or alive! Some warriors' fiancées can't wait at home, so they run away with others! Some of the warriors were only fifteen or sixteen years old when they went, and they were still children, and now that they have returned home safely, should they go home and say a word to the old woman? Say it! But can't say! This is a state secret issue! There are also warriors, at this age, who should go home and be grandpa and hold his grandson, but I left him behind! Join us on this big beach, fighting the wind and sand, fighting the cold, nibbling on pickles, drinking salt water.
Why? Why? Just because, in North Korea, the Americans used a gadget to hang on our heads for several years, hanging! Shouting to give us surgery! The Soviet experts also withdrew, looking down on us! Without this thing, our Chinese waist pole would not be straight! Without status and peace, we can't live our lives in a down-to-earth manner! So, now, the Central Military Commission instructs you to tell everyone this secret! We, on this Great Gobi Desert, use our own hands to build our own China--the atomic bomb!
Then the sound of the mountain roaring tsunami: make an atomic bomb, straighten the waist pole!
Make an atomic bomb and straighten your waist!
Win glory for Chairman Mao and make meritorious contributions to the people!
Immediately after that, there is another classic plot, General Feng Shi led everyone to shout the trumpet (which is derived from the trumpet of "Military and Civilian Mass Production" during the construction of Nanniwan, the lyrics have been changed to a new one) to build the base. I have to say that Teacher Li Xuejian's voice is really amazing, and every time I hear this speech and these trumpets, I can't help but boil with blood and tears:
Military and Civilian Mass Production Music: Chinese Stars - Song Compilation
Comrades so ho cough
Pick up the ramming so cough
Rammed and rammed densely, hey
For the country so ho cough
Gobi Desert so ho cough
Innovation industry so ho cough
Make an atomic bomb as soon as possible
Don't go home so ho cough
Battle Wind Sand so ho cough
Drink salty water so cough
Two rammed and one rammed flat so wordy loro hey
Stiffen up so cough
Wear a jacket early so cough
Wear yarn at noon so cough
Mosquitoes bite ass and slap face so wordy loro hey
For the revolution so ho cough
Yankees so ho cough
Bully so ho cough
In order to straighten the waist pole so wordy Lo lo hey
Don't be fooled so ho cough
You can also feel the excellence of the picture from the screenshot, the large production and the aesthetic standard is super high, which is like this. Looking at this kind of labor in the wind and sand, a few shots can make people feel the hardships of their predecessors. Therefore, the artistic expression of "Chosin Lake" that is full of wind and snow and freezes through people's bones should be carefully studied in "Born in the Sky".
After talking about the line of soldiers, let's talk about the line of scientists.
The following shot is equally classic. The Soviet Union was preparing to withdraw the experts, and on the night of the farewell party, the Soviet experts said to Lu Guangda: "The umbrella is always in the hands of a tall man." This line uses a pun, and "umbrella" also means "protective umbrella". Lu Guangda's response was to stand directly in the pouring rain – we don't need the umbrella of the Soviet Union.
From here to here, it took the Americans six years, the Soviets eight years, and the French four years. We don't have four years, we don't have two years. --Lu Guangda
With the theoretical breakthrough of the atomic bomb, Lu Guang reached the heavy task of going to the atomic bomb base on the Gobi Desert, so the two story lines were closed. At the base, the scientists were warmly welcomed by the mountain roaring tsunami:
That's the only flaw in what I'm talking about in Merit. The base that Yu Min arrived at was Lop Nur this, and deputy commander Ma also held a "most adorable person" ceramic cup, but he showed disrespect for the scientists, and even deliberately did not shake hands with them, giving them a dismount.
It is also necessary to deliberately arrange a bridge section to find tires, showing Min's scientific skills, and then slowly "breaking the ice", and Deputy Commander Ma gradually respects Min. This is actually for the sake of dramatic conflict forced drama, what kind of treasure scientists were at that time, where will there be a commander and fighter who is disrespectful? "Born in the Sky" shows the history of the time: the warriors fetched water for the scientists, and saved the cans for the scientists to eat. What's more, Deputy Regiment Commander Ma is still a veteran who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, so don't they have the deepest understanding of the gap in weapons and equipment? These scientists do not respect when the baby love is too late, let alone the need to "prove" it.
Compared with "Born in the Sky", as soon as the scientists came to the base, the warriors rushed up to shake hands, which was glorious.
General Feng Shi had this attitude:
Look at our old Li Le, when he married his daughter-in-law, he was probably not so happy.
95% of Yu Min's units in "Meritorious Service" are very good, only 5% of the flaws are just a little too distracting, not spitting unpleasant. Scientists are great, warriors are equally great, and this "one step on one" approach to highlight the image of the protagonist is not what a good screenwriter and director should do. In the section of "Born in the Sky", the scientists were planning the disk, and the soldiers responsible for defending were a little puzzled, and the following dialogue occurred with the company commander -
"Company commander, what are they doing?"
"What? Dry Revolution! ”
This is the consciousness that a revolutionary fighter should have.
Because the US imperialists clamored for "targeted clearance" of China's nuclear test sites and factories, anti-aircraft artillery divisions were added to each site, and the number of people in the entire test site reached tens of thousands, and the supply on the barren Gobi Desert became a big problem. The following scene is that the railway was washed off by the flood, the supplies could not be transported, nearly a thousand intellectuals and commanders and fighters in the base suffered from night blindness, more than 3,000 people had diarrhea, and more than 200 sick people were bedridden...
So the general announced the decision of the party committee of the base: to make every effort to ensure the lives of intellectuals, if there is a grain, let go of one grain; no grain, let the vegetables; no vegetables, let the bark, let the leaves... As long as there is a bite to eat, they must be guaranteed!
But scientists also understand the hardships of the soldiers, they say that the soldiers are manual labor in construction, more hard, and demand the same treatment as the officers and soldiers. Here's the "meal" they eat: leaves mixed with batter.
The difficulties they encounter are far more than that, but each time it is scientists and warriors who fight and overcome them together. These passages of "Born in the Sky" can make people gain profound strength and touch:
Of course, Chairman Mao said that contradictions are universal, and the run-in between soldiers and scientists is not smooth. For example, Lu Guangda firmly believed that the concrete of the base could not be mixed with saline water, and General Feng Shi said that people could not supply fresh water, let alone concrete. Finally, the two sides argued, Feng Shi expressed respect for science, dispatched all the trucks in the base, and the soldiers ate and slept on the trucks, and the two shifts did not rest, bringing fresh water from hundreds of miles away. The expression of "Out of the Sky" is much more comfortable than not shaking hands with you and throwing a wheel to show it.
The two story lines of soldiers and scientists have been tightened, and the story is about to climax. Li Xuejian and Li Youbin have a rival scene, and the passage of the two major film emperors is a classic in the history of film. The most classic is this monologue by teacher Li Xuejian:
On the Korean battlefield, we took a Us prisoner, a small corporal, who dared to shout in front of me and throw an atomic bomb for us to taste! Give us a surgery! Angry with me, I forced him to sing "Defeat the ambitious wolf of beauty" in our Chinese language! ...... Backward weapons, bullied, I can't forget... Our soldiers, napalm ... Exploded into a burning man! They struggled, shouted, shouted Daddy, shouted Mother...
The wounded are even more pitiful! There is nowhere to hide, just by my side, I... Can't save... save...... Can't save them... Despite this, did we give in? No. We Chinese, the Chinese Communists, have never been afraid of him in the United States. It should be said that the United States is a beautiful country, but he should not bully you like he is now, so that you want to shout at him: "No, fuck you!" "I just can't swallow this breath!"
Let's talk about one of the highlights of the movie: industrial beauty. The thickness, grandeur and brilliance of the two bombs and one star project are displayed with pictures, which is also very rare:
There are also some romantic and long compositions, not lost to the movie version of "Armageddon":
In the end, our atomic bomb successfully exploded!
Filmed in 1999, "Born in the Sky" is a special year when the United States committed a series of hooligan acts in the field of international diplomacy that seriously violated China's sovereignty. However, the strength of our country at that time and the United States is still very large, especially the military industry, after twenty years of "patience", many large-scale research and development projects were forced to be discontinued, and the situation of scientific researchers was summarized as "those who build atomic bombs are not as good as those who sell tea eggs." In 1999, this "Born in the Sky" is more like a manifesto, re-reviewing the deeds of the great two bombs and one star heroes, and also opening a new historical journey.
There is such a small detail in the movie, Lu Guangda handed Feng Shi a copy of "Mao Zedong Poems", and the two of them recited the poem "Nian Nu Jiao Kunlun" together.
The first sentence of this poem is the source of the film's name:
Born out of nowhere, Mang Kunlun, reading the spring colors of the world.
Three million jade dragons flew up, stirring up the cold of Zhou Tian.
In summer, the rivers are overflowing, and people may be fish turtles.
Who has ever commented on the sin of a thousand autumns?
And now I call Kunlun: don't be this high, don't be so snowy.
Andre leaned on the heavens to draw his sword and cut Ru into three sections?
One section of Europe, one cut of the United States, one cut of return to the East.
Taiping world, the world with this cool and hot.