The second brush of "King of the Long Sky" saw some different places.
In addition to the audiovisual enjoyment and text design of the film itself, "King of the Long Sky" also has three major points, ignition, tears, and laughter.
These characteristics allow "King of the Long Sky" to not only mobilize the audience's emotions when watching the movie, but also convey and sublimate the theme of the film in the midst of tragedy and joy.
The first is ignition.
In a way, "King of the Long Sky" is a bit like a blood fan.
Among them is the growth of individuals and countries, from the beginning of being despised to the end of raising eyebrows, the prominence is a "burning" word.
As at the beginning of the movie, although it is a third-generation aircraft playing a fourth-generation aircraft, there are gaps in all aspects.
But the pilots were fearless, making people the main factor, daring to take risks and crash their fighters directly into the enemy's two fourth-generation aircraft, which made them fearful.
This dedication makes up for the generation gap to a certain extent, just like in the end, Lei Yu has actually locked the enemy aircraft, just because the performance of the third-generation aircraft is indeed inferior to the fourth-generation aircraft, resulting in some regrets left by the driving mission.
Such regret is not only Lei Yu's personal helplessness, but also the gap between the national aviation industry lagging behind others.
But thankfully, we have many excellent talents and heroes, and in the opening film, we have difficulty destroying the prestige of the enemy due to generational differences.
At the end of the film, enemy planes come to invade again, but we already have the best stealth fighters, and the air battle of about ten minutes shows the style and tolerance of a big country, "If anyone does not offend me, I do not offend, if anyone offends me, I will offend."
And the picture of the final appearance of the aviation group together is our confidence and counterattack, "fight with one punch, lest a hundred punches come", let this sentence become a fact, more than any blood.
In addition, there is another place that is also passionate, that is, Lei Yu and Deng Fang reported when they officially became fighter test pilots.
Reporting is a very common move, why did the director spend so much ink to emphasize the number? Because the count is to remember every test flight hero.
Maybe you don't know their names, but they all have a common name - the king of the long sky, "The motherland will eventually remember those who gave to the motherland, and the motherland will remember those who chose the motherland." ”
This burning with tears is the opposite of dogmatic things.
There is no deliberate sensationalism, some are natural to the depths; There are no brainless slogans, some are just right to the point; There was no excessive sacrifice, some became wingmen and moved on.
The first two burns are at the national and individual level, and the next ones are because of inheritance.
Zhang Ting's test flight failure to test the Taishan engine cast a shadow on the next test flight, and a slight mistake may lose an excellent test pilot, so Lao Han has not dared to make a decision easily.
At this time, Lei Yu walked straight over and said in unison: "I will come", the short two words contain the nostalgia of Zhang Ting, the inheritance of the mission, and the call of courage, a "burning" word is no longer describable.
Then Lei Yu and Deng Fang flew together, encountered bird strikes, and their lives were in danger, this process of nine deaths, emotions first suppressed and then raised, from hope to complete despair, and finally flew out of the snowy mountains, at that moment, the excitement was beyond words.
Zhang Ting passed on the spirit of test flight to Lei Yu, who in turn passed it on to the next generation.
During the Spring Festival, all the test pilots made dumplings at Zhang Ting's house, and Lei Yu met Zhang Ting's son Feng Long for the first time.
Lei Yu asked him why he blindly operated the ball, he said that it was for 073 to fly a lap in their school, and finally 073 died, in Easter Egg Two, Lei Yu replaced Zhang Ting as the wingman of the dragon, escorted him and protected him to move forward safely.
At first glance, you will feel moved, but if you think about it, it is full of ignition, because the aviation dream of generations has been inherited, from Zhang Ting to Lei Yu, and then to Thunder Long, Top Gun is no longer an empty phrase, and the king of the long sky has become a reality.
The second is tears.
The bridge between the film and the audience is the director, and how the audience understands the film lies in how the director builds.
In "The King of the Long Sky", the director chose to focus on "love", so that the true feelings in the film moved the audience, so as to achieve the effect of empathy with the audience, that is, tears.
Not long after the opening of the film, the director buried a big tear.
After Chief Engineer Wei finished class, Zhang Ting gave two boxes of good cigarettes to Chief Engineer Wei, and Chief Engineer Wei said that we would work together for another ten years.
Looking at this scene alone, I don't feel anything, just the concern between comrades-in-arms, but combined with Zhang Ting's sacrifice later, this dialogue is actually foreshadowing, and it has also become the first tear point of "King of the Long Sky".
From the beginning, Zhang Ting became the uneasy mood in the hearts of all audiences.
Lei Yu and Zhang Tingfei test machine, due to the flight of large angle of attack and test tail rotation caused aircraft engine failure, after the restart failed, Lei Yu panicked for a while, lost judgment, and parachuted in advance.
However, in order to try his best to rescue the data, Zhang Ting still did not give up at the moment of the attack, and finally successfully landed safely, which was the first time Zhang Ting refused to skydive.
After debugging, the Taishan engine had the possibility of taking off.
So Zhang Ting took Lei Yufei to fly a new fighter equipped with Taishan engine, which was smooth at first, but the launch of the third missile failed, causing the plane to fail, and when encountering this special situation, he had to choose to parachute to save his life.
But the plane was carrying a missile, and there was a residential area underneath, Zhang Ting refused to parachute four times, "tricked" Lei Yu to jump together, and drove the plane to no man's land by himself, but missed the opportunity to escape due to the failure of the skydiving device.
At the last moment of his life, Zhang Ting left only two sentences.
"Tell my family and brothers, I love you, I can't go back, you keep up the good work", "Dad, mom, son, I..."
This sentence is related to Zhang Ting's daughter-in-law listening to Zhang Ting's voice, reading the letter left by Zhang Ting, and Zhang Ting's daughter-in-law finding Zhang Ting turned into wood at the funeral.
Add to this son's "father" and Zhang Ting's daughter-in-law's "What about our family's old Zhang?" "constitutes the biggest tear point in the whole film, a few words, several rejections, no need to render too much, tears are already hanging in the eyes.
At the same time, it also makes us understand why there are so many test pilots who go forward and move forward, because each of us is their hardcore wingman.
In contrast to Lei Yu's conversation with his parents, "The plane is in the sky, what should I do if it breaks?" "My son is not filial, I'm sorry, I can't not fly", "Fly if you want, pay attention to the weather." ”
Lei Yu is worthy of everyone, but they owe it to their families, but they never regret their choice, because every test pilot has a sense of belief that allows everyone to live and work in peace.
It is the power of this faith that allows them to cut through the sky and straighten the country, and every word they say is not a flowery rhetoric, but every word is sonorous.
The third is laughter.
Kurosawa once said that a really good movie is one that is both fun and easy to understand.
Easy to understand, "King of the Long Sky" has done it, and in terms of fun, it abandons routine gags and uses contrasting comedy and linguistic funny.
For example, the first meeting between Lei Yu and Gao Yingjun, Gao Yingjun introduced himself as "handsome", Lei Yu thought that he was praising himself, so he showed a smug smile, but after Gao Yingjun showed his identity, the contrast of "laughter" came out.
But this baggage is not a dragonfly point of water, but a series.
After that, Gao Yingjun explained to Lei Yu the situation of everyone in the dormitory, saying that this one had won the golden dart, and this had won the golden helmet, and then Lei Yu asked him, "What about you?" Gao Yingjun came directly, "I have had fasciitis."
As soon as this line came out, the previous aggressive atmosphere was instantly alleviated, and the more old-fashioned competition that the audience thought did not happen, which is the result of the rational use of comedy methods.
There is also a laughing point, also related to Gao Yingjun, who adjusts the tone of the entire movie with the role of a living treasure.
Gao Yingjun and Lei Yu chatted about the day's guts test before going to bed at night, Lei Yu said that he was afraid of dogs, Gao Yingjun also answered, he felt the same way.
Then Lei Yu asked him, "Are you also afraid of dogs?" He went off the beaten path, saying, "My girlfriend is a dog," a small talk that shows that as unsung hero test pilots, they also have the side of ordinary people talking and laughing.
When they are not in the sky, they are ordinary people like us, they are not so mysterious, they are not desperate and cold-blooded, they also have feelings and joke.
There are also Deng Fang flying stealth fighters, Lei Yufei's old antique testing machine, the comparison of tractors and Ferraris, and Lei Yu's parachuting into a sheepfold and taking a donkey cart back to base.
These jokes are not meaningless filling, adding points to the box office in a comedy way, but using it to dilute some pathos, make the feelings in the film become restrained, and let the audience's emotion step by step.
Test pilots have always been an unknown profession, and with King of the Long Sky, we can get a glimpse of it.
In order to make the film a carrier to more comprehensively show the heroes of the test flight in peacetime, the director has achieved a trinity, ignition, tears, laughter, and does not miss every detail.
"Success does not have to be in me, success must have me", "What was lost in the past, our generation must take it back", their pursuit and determination make "King of the Long Sky" wonderful and let the audience enjoy it.