When it comes to actor Sun Feihu, many people's first impression is that he plays Chiang Kai-shek.
Since the "Xi'an Incident" in 1981, Sun Feihu has played Chiang Kai-shek in more than 30 film and television works, and it is considered that he has reached a high degree of conformity with Chiang Kai-shek himself, whether in appearance or words and deeds.
With the portrayal of Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Feihu has won the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actor four times, and even Chiang Kai-shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo "stamped and recognized" Sun Feihu's performance after watching Sun Feihu's performance.
In Pigo's view, in Sun Feihu's more than 20 years of special actor performance career, two films starring him are the most representative.
The first is the "Founding Ceremony" that made Sun Feihu win the best supporting actor of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers "Double Material", and the other is the "Chongqing Negotiation" recommended by Pi Ge today.
In 1992, Sun Feihu won the Best Supporting Actor award of the Hundred Flowers Award for the second time with his vivid interpretation of Chiang Kai-shek in the film, and "Chongqing Negotiation" has also become the "treasure of the town factory" that the producer Changchun Film Studio has not moved in the 75 years of change.
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1945 was a year that made all Chinese people unforgettable.
This year, Japan surrendered, and the Chinese nation, which had been oppressed by foreign enemies for more than 100 years, could finally straighten its waist and boil over the whole country.
Everyone was cheering and rushing into the streets to celebrate the victory, celebrate the hard-won victory, and look forward to the arrival of a peaceful era without war.
Now we look at it again, history in 1945, indeed gave people an opportunity to push open the door of peace.
However, although external troubles are still in addition to internal worries, the disputes between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are the biggest obstacle to turning the word "peace" into reality.
Especially for Chiang Kai-shek, he was more concerned about whether his position was stable than peace, and whether he could eliminate the major troubles in his heart...
It is in this historical background that the movie "Chongqing Negotiations" tells the story of the "Chongqing Negotiations" that pried open the door to peace.
At the beginning of "Chongqing Negotiations", the director intersperses the film with real documentary images, accompanied by eloquent narration, creating a sense of authenticity of oral history.
In addition, the director deliberately makes the film picture old, under the yellowing and fading image effect, the historical texture of the film is stronger, and it is easier to guide the audience into this history.
In addition, "Chongqing Negotiations" does not only look at this negotiation from our perspective, but tries to fully present the original appearance of this historical event in the cross-narrative of the two camps of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
On the one hand, the Kuomintang is eyeing the growing strength of the Communist Party, ostensibly issuing invitations to peace talks again and again, but secretly expanding its weapons and equipment;
On the other hand, the Communists, with the desire for peace, did their best to avoid civil war, but they did not let down their vigilance and always guarded against a surprise attack by the Kuomintang.
Under the strong appeal of people from all walks of life at home and abroad for "peace," Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to hastily launch a civil war, so he invited Mao Zedong to Chongqing for negotiations on the grounds of peace talks.
In just a few days, Chiang Kai-shek sent three telegrams to Mao Zedong in a row, and he seemed to be very eager for peace talks, but in fact he had already made a small calculation.
If Mao Zedong did not dare to come, he used public opinion to stir up trouble, inform the people of the world that the Communist Party was not sincere about peace, and took the opportunity to launch a civil war;
If Mao Zedong came, he would find a way to get him to hand over the barrel of his gun and use an invisible soft knife to force the Communists to compromise.
From the very beginning, this negotiation was destined not to be as simple as peace talks, but a political and military contest between light and dark.
In order to break all kinds of gossip and strive for the early realization of domestic peace, Mao Zedong resolutely rushed south to Chongqing, and the curtain of the Chongqing negotiations was officially opened.
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When Mao Zedong set foot in Chongqing and shook hands with Chiang Kai-shek in the forest garden, the dove of peace spread its wings and flew in the air, and seemed to rejoice in this hard-won meeting.
But this does not mean that everything is moving in a good direction, and as the negotiations begin, the contradictions between the two sides are becoming more and more intense.
At the negotiating table, the representatives of the Kuomintang and the Communists were deadlocked, and the Kuomintang made very harsh demands on the ownership of the Liberated Areas and the Communist Army, which led to the fact that more than ten days after the negotiations began, no practical progress had been made.
This was exactly what Chiang Kai-shek wanted: he tried to give more time to prepare for the civil war by delaying the progress of negotiations.
Many people do not understand why Chiang Kai-shek still insists on waging a civil war since everyone is calling for peace.
Chiang Kai-shek was not a belligerent, and as an "old fritter" who had been immersed in politics for many years, how could he not see the current situation clearly?
He understood that everyone was war-weary today, and how important it was for him to make peace and to this country.
But for this powerful dictator, the premise of peace is first and foremost the elimination of dissidents, and he cannot tolerate "two suns in the sky."
After several meetings with Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek felt more and more that this figure would ruin his years of painstaking management and make him lose everything.
His bold and blunt words, his humor, and even his ideal ambitions are all "demonstrations" against himself and a threat to his own position in Chiang Kai-shek's view.
In particular, Mao Zedong's poem "Qinyuan Chun Xue", even his son Chiang Ching-kuo called it a "domineering spirit", and the sentence "Count the popular characters, but also look at the present dynasty" made Chiang Kai-shek very concerned.
Isn't the popular figure of this dynasty talking about Mao Zedong himself?
This thought made Chiang Kai-shek even more panicked and irritated, and prompted him to finally personally destroy the precious "opportunity" for peace that he had created.
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The central role of the Chongqing Negotiations is naturally the two top decision-makers in the negotiations: Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek.
Sun Feihu's Chiang Kai-shek is realistic, and Chairman Mao Zedong of Gu Yue is also very vivid.
One of the scenes that Pi Ge was most impressed by was Mao Zedong's "dialogue in the forest" with Chiang Kai-shek at the beginning of his arrival in Chongqing.
For example, Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to satirize Mao Zedong with the story of "Qingmei Boiling Wine on Heroes", but Mao Zedong asked him back, "Who is Liu Bei and who is Cao Cao among the two of us", which made Chiang Kai-shek not know how to answer for a while.
During the dialogue, Mao Zedong repeatedly expressed the sincerity of our negotiations and hoped to jointly usher in peace in China, but Chiang Kai-shek did not seem to have much interest in this, and either perfunctorily or changed the topic.
After parting, Chiang Kai-shek looked at Mao Zedong who had left, and the expression on his face gradually became serious and gloomy, which was enough to make people feel his dissatisfaction with Mao Zedong and a high degree of vigilance.
Sun Feihu conveyed Chiang Kai-shek's psychological changes through subtle expressions and movements, and his restrained but extremely infectious performance was vividly displayed.
Compared with the rulers, Chiang Kai-shek was more like a cunning and old politician, who methodically arranged the affairs of the Kuomintang, large and small, and held the Kuomintang tightly in the palm of his hand with the strategy of enwei and force, and sat firmly in a high position for decades.
But he also has a fatal flaw, that is, excessive lust for power, although he once told Mao Zedong that he had thought about the leisurely life of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence", but the more he said so, the deeper his obsession with power became, and it was difficult to make objective and rational judgments.
At the end of the film, under the situation of the Communist Party making huge concessions, the two sides finally signed the "Double Tenth Agreement", and the Chongqing negotiations that lasted for more than 40 days ended in a happy ending.
But reality could not give people a "Happy Ending", the door to peace was finally closed by gunfire, and the peace that people were waiting for was postponed to 1949.
As the film says at the end, "Time is the best author, it can write the end of history, so that history will always leave glory and regret." ”
After 70 years, in the era of peace, how will you feel when you look back at this history that is getting farther and farther away from us?
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Ah Zhi
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