Weak countries have no diplomacy!
My 1919
["My 1919": Chen Daoming's Golden Rooster Award for The Work of The Crowned King, the First Diplomat of the Republic of China Is None Other Than Him]
Some time ago, the high-level strategic dialogue between China and the United States attracted the attention of the whole people and allowed the country to see the style of Chinese diplomats. This is the embodiment of China's growing national strength and the confidence to speak in the Chinese the world.
In international relations, there is an iron law: weak countries have no diplomacy. China has never lacked excellent diplomats, but without the support of strong national strength, even the wisest and eloquent diplomats are in vain.
The movie "My 1919" is a drama film about Gu Weijun, a talented Chinese diplomat, who participated in the Paris Peace Conference as a member of the Chinese delegation.
"My 1919" was released on September 16, 1999, directed by Huang Jianzhong, starring Chen Daoming, He Zhengjun, Xu Qing, Li Jianyi and others. With "My 1919", Chen Daoming became a double film emperor of the Golden Rooster Award and the Huabiao Award for Chinese films, establishing his status in the Chinese film industry.
The story in the film takes place more than 100 years ago, when China was poor and weak, and although it participated in the Paris Peace Conference as a victorious country in World War I, and had excellent diplomats like Gu Weijun to argue on the basis of reason, it could not change the result of the great powers transferring the privileges of Shandong to Japan.
As history, this story of 1919 is humiliating; as a movie, "My 1919" is very wonderful and profound. In the movie, Chen Daoming interpreted The life of Gu Weijun, the first diplomat of the Republic of China, whose life was full of legends, in 1919, this experience was brilliantly performed.
Gu Weijun was born into a wealthy family, studied in the United States in his early years, has a wealth of knowledge and international vision, and is dignified, elegant and gentlemanly. In the movie, Chen Daoming wears a tall and luxurious tuxedo on all formal occasions, and the classic back is shiny and shiny, which is definitely an idol in the hearts of thousands of young girls.
During the Paris Peace Conference, the beautiful daughter of the landlord of the residence was deeply fascinated by him.
In the movie, the landlord daughter who resembles Sophie Marceau is definitely a goddess-level beauty, but in front of Gu Weijun, played by Chen Daoming, she looks up like a small fan seeing an idol.
However, Gu Weijun did not have the heart to wind and moon, he came to Paris with a difficult task, and when he did a good job, he only maintained the sovereign integrity that should belong to the motherland, and if he did not do well, he would have to bear the infamy of eternity.
In "My 1919", there are two highlight scenes showing the negotiation of representatives of various countries at the Paris Peace Conference, and these two scenes are also the biggest highlights of the whole film.
Gu Weijun was a minister in the United States at the time, and one of the five members of the team of Chinese representatives, not the head of the group, was the real protagonist of the two meetings. Because, this is Gu Weijun's 1919.
First at the first meeting of the peace conference.
At lunch, a notice came from the meeting of ten people in the morning that Japan wanted to inherit Germany's rights and interests in Shandong, but the Chinese side did not receive the news until two o'clock in the afternoon, asking us to expound our position at the meeting before three o'clock.
If you go, you don't have time to prepare; if you don't go, you are completely disqualified. In such a dilemma, the Chinese delegation had to send Gu Weijun and another representative to attend, because only 2 of the five seats originally agreed were left.
When entering the scene, a gold pocket watch of the Japanese representative fell on the steps, and Gu Weijun just picked it up and cleverly used this gold watch to make a fuss. In his speech, Gu Weijun deliberately described the gold watch he had found as a gift from the Japanese representative to please him, which aroused his anger: This is an open theft! shameless! Extreme shamelessness!
Then there is Gu Weijun's performance time:
If I stole his gold watch, then I would like to ask Baron Makino, in front of the whole world, that you Japanese have stolen the whole of Shandong Province, the thirty-six million people of Shandong Province, should you be angry?
Forty million Chinese should I be angry?! (The tone was raised to the peak and shook the audience.) ）
I would like to ask whether this act of Japan is theft?
Isn't it shameless? Is it extreme shamelessness? (Struggling to swing his right fist, the tone of his voice was raised to the peak again, shocking the audience, and the whole audience was in a state of discussion.) ）
Shandong is the cradle of Chinese culture, and the Chinese sages Confucius and Mencius were born in this land.
Confucius. Confucius is like the Jesus of the West. Shandong is Chinese, both economically and strategically, as well as religious and cultural.
China cannot lose Shandong, just as the West cannot lose Jerusalem. (Then the applause gradually broke out.) ）
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His delegation was therefore convinced that, when discussing the issue of China's Shandong Province, the conference would take into account China's fundamental legitimate rights and interests, namely sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Otherwise, there will be countless souls crying in Asia, and the world will not be at peace.
However, the Chinese delegation did not make any substantial progress in the peace talks, and finally at the signing ceremony, representatives of various countries signed one after another, and Gu Weijun once again appeared as a Chinese representative and refused to sign.
Me, me, I'm disappointed.
Ignoring the presence of Chinese people, the Supreme Council emerged as the victorious China.
I'm angry, I'm angry.
Why did you give China's Shandong Province to the Japanese?
Chinese has done his utmost in benevolence and righteousness.
I would like to ask, who can accept such a contract of loss of rights and humiliation of the country?
So, we refused to sign.
Remember, Chinese will never forget this painful day.
[Movie end credits: On June 28, 1919, Chinese finally said no to the great powers for the first time! 】
As a representative of the Chinese side, Gu Weijun's words and deeds represent the image of China, and although his performance did not win any practical rights and interests for the country, it let the great powers see the backbone and attitude of Chinese.
Gu Weijun has studied in the United States for many years and can speak fluent English and French, but these two times in the film, he insists on speaking in Chinese, and the scene is translated by an interpreter. In fact, in the movie, Chen Daoming said that the foreign language part is dubbed, and the important speeches at those several peace conferences can only be said with familiar Chinese to say such momentum and effect.
These two speeches were sonorous and exciting, and they were full of righteousness. Not to mention 20 years ago, even in another 20 years, it can still arouse the infinite patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese people.
Such stage expression, line skills and micro-expression management capabilities, coupled with the image of the tall Jade Standing, in addition to Chen Daoming who else?
Later, the recitation programs on various large-scale evening performances, such as the disaster relief party during the Wenchuan earthquake, can see Chen Daoming's figure.
In the 2011 tribute blockbuster "The Great Cause of Party Building", Chen Daoming played Gu Weijun again; at the send-off ceremony to France, the first line he said was: Weak countries have no diplomacy!
Then, the famous scene of Gu Weijun's two classic speeches at the Paris Peace Conference directly edited the original picture of "My 1919", but the order of speeches was slightly adjusted. [The directors of "The Great Cause of Building the Party" are Han Sanping and Huang Jianxin, of which Han Sanping, the boss of China Film, is also the producer of "My 1919", so there can be such an operation. 】