In recent years, in some idol dramas, especially costume idol dramas, there are often scenes of women dressed as men, but for many celebrities' women's dresses, netizens generally do not buy it.
The reason is very simple, even if these female stars wear men's clothes, but they still look like women when they show their hands and feet and dress up, and the ghost believes that this kind of role of women dressed as men can deceive the male protagonist.
To say that the best female male role, the author believes that the most classic is Lin Qingxia in the Hong Kong movie "Dao Ma Dan" and Wang Suya in the old movie "Youth in the Fire".
This article reviews this classic film "Youth in the Fire of War" that was filmed in three months.
First, the discerning editor and the director who makes people uneasy
There is a battle in "Bright Sword" called the capture of Yijiangshan Island, and there is indeed this history in reality, which took place in 1955. After the battle, the writer Lu Zhuguo wrote a novel that reflected the battle, "Stepping on the Waves of the East China Sea".
The editor of the People's Literature Magazine saw the novel and was very interested in the story between Lei Zhenlin, the head of the reconnaissance section, and Gao Gao, a warrior dressed as a man, although these two characters are only branches in the novel, the editor still took out the story and published it separately, named "Youth in the Fire of War".
Wang Yan, the director of Changchun Film Studio, saw this story, and he visited Lu Zhuguo overnight to adapt it into a movie, and the two of them created a script and prepared to shoot it.
The story of "Youth in the Fire" is not complicated, the district squad leader Gao Gao resolutely concealed her female identity to join the army after the sacrifice of her father and comrades-in-arms, she was assigned to the hero platoon as a deputy platoon leader, and the platoon leader Lei Zhenlin got along with each other to inspire each other. In a battle, Takayama rescued the brutal Lei Zhenlin, but he was wounded.
In the hospital, the identity of Gao Shan's girl was exposed, Lei Zhenlin was very surprised and unbelievable, Gao Gao was transferred away from the front-line troops after being injured, and when the troops went south, she saw Lei Zhenlin again, lei Zhenlin and her knife were separated.
Because the protagonist of the script is a comrade of the opposite sex who gets along day and night, it is difficult to avoid some emotional scenes in the middle, which makes many colleagues in the long film studio worry about the director Wang Yan, because he has just been criticized for shooting kissing scenes in the movie, and the story of "Youth in the Fire of War" takes place in the army, and once it crosses the line, it is more dangerous.
In order to make this movie well, Wang Yan found an old director Lin Nong to help him, and the two also played a role in the film.
At the beginning of the film, the director Wang Yan plays Gao Gao's father, and the leader of the group in the film is another director Lin Nong.
Second, looming love
"Youth in the Fire" is a 1959 National Day tribute film, which must be filmed well, and how to deal with the emotional line between Lei Zhenlin and Gao Gao is the key to the success or failure of the film.
The plot setting is that Takayama will not reveal his identity until he is injured, which is relatively easy to shoot before, but after Takayama exposes his identity, how to deal with the relationship between the two is a trouble.
Wang Yan's final choice is not to shoot any emotional scenes, not even hints, he said that once the audience hints that the two have feelings, then the movie will be ruined.
However, Wang Yan still set a tone for "Youth in the Fire of War", that is, to have revolutionary romantic colors.
To this end, the first thing he has to do is to find two good-looking leading actors.
Three, two handsome starring actors
The famous director Jin Shan calculated the account for "Youth in the Fire", and there were a total of 550 shots in the whole film, of which 530 shots included Lei Zhenlin and Gao Gao, which is generally called CP drama now.
Wang Yan is looking for the male protagonist is the famous "little white face" Pang Xueqin, he played more intelligent roles before, to play a reckless and straightforward all day long murderous hero platoon leader let himself feel surprised, the director of the long film factory Yama is not optimistic about him, but Wang Yan insists that Pang Xueqin is the most suitable to play Lei Zhenlin.
In fact, there is a reason that Wang Yan did not say, he wanted Pang Xueqin's "little white face", and must shoot him very handsome, so that the audience can have a romantic feeling.
The heroine chose a new person, and it is right to choose a new person, if you choose an old actor, the audience will recognize her as a woman dressed as a man at the beginning, then the climactic passage of the movie will be meaningless.
This newcomer is Wang Suya, she joined the army since she was a child, she is very familiar with the life of the army, after graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, she was assigned to the Yunnan Repertory Theatre, and was favored by director Wang Jiayi in a performance, starring in the famous movie "Five Golden Flowers", in which she played the hot and fast-talking iron alchemy Jinhua.
Director Wang Yan also took a fancy to Wang Suya, she has been a soldier, can act, or a newcomer, the key is that her face is very good-looking, and there is a sense of heroism, which is very suitable for playing the mountain of women dressed as men.
In order to make time for director Wang Yan, director Wang Jiayi worked overtime to shoot the scene of the iron smelting golden flower, leaving director Wang Yan with three months to shoot "Youth in the Fire of War".
Interestingly, Wang Suya's object in "Five Golden Flowers" "Wang Chunying" has come again, and he plays an ordinary warrior in "Youth in the Fire of War".
Wang Suya looks good, the facial features are heroic, put on the military uniform and then a flat head, it is no different from a handsome male soldier, the key is that her temperament is also very good, coupled with many years of experience in military life, so her "Mulan" is particularly convincing, called a textbook for women dressed as men.
Four or three touching scenes
After Gao Gao was injured, Lei Zhenlin carried him on his back, feeling very remorseful in his heart, and blamed himself while walking. Gao Gao, who was lying on his back, comforted the platoon leader and twice covered Lei Zhenlin's mouth with his hand to prevent him from saying these words in front of the soldiers.
A distressed deputy platoon leader, a distressed platoon leader, Gao Shan has not yet revealed his identity at this time, and the audience is still moved by a strong sense of comradeship.
This shot was not directed by Wang Yan, he shot several scenes that did not feel good, and experienced lin farmers completed the scene for him.
The biggest attraction of the film is the truth about The identity of the mountain, when the film was first released, although some viewers may have guessed the identity of the mountain in advance, most of the audience was blinded by Lei Zhenlin. Therefore, when the doctor changed takayama's gender to "female", there was an uproar in the cinema, and many viewers were surprised, huh? Takayama is a woman?
On the one hand, this is the success of the director's plot, on the other hand, it is also the success of Wang Suya's female dress as a man.
Although director Wang Yan said that the film cannot have any scenes that hint at feelings, at the end of the film, when Lei Zhenlin, who is about to go south, and Gao Gao, who has restored his daughter's body, meet again, the dialogue between them is still full of different feelings.
Lei Zhenlin presented the knife, hoping that Takayama would remember their fighting life together. Takayama responded: "Have I forgotten?" Pun intended.
The last sentence, often written to me, I am waiting for news of your victory. This sentence undoubtedly leaves room for the audience to imagine, perhaps in the future, when Lei Zhenlin returns triumphantly or when Gao Gao is transferred south, the two can be happily married, and the comrades who have fought together and are born into death become husband and wife, which is how romantic it is.
Unfortunately, "Youth in Battle" gives the audience a beautiful reverie, and the real Lei Zhenlin and Gao Shan do not have such a fate.
Fifth, the tragic fate of the prototypes
In "Youth in The Fire of War", Lei Zhenlin and Gao Gao are based on real people, of which the prototype of Lei Zhenlin is very clear, but there are two prototypes of Gao Shan, one is the prototype of the writer's writing, and the other is the nationally recognized prototype.
Lei Zhenlin's prototype is the former East China Navy's first group of speedboats 101 captain Gao Dongya, the writer Lu Zhuguo once went to the brigade to interview, Gao Dongya as an excellent captain and Lu Zhuguo talked a lot, the two have a good relationship, he told the writer about a legendary experience when he was fifteen years old.
Gao Dongya joined the army to the troupe at the age of 10, became a guerrilla scout at the age of 13, and at the age of 15 he was a platoon leader in the guerrilla group, and the deputy platoon leader at the time was a "Mulan" who dressed as a woman dressed as a man, but Gao Dongya never realized it. It wasn't until the deputy platoon leader was injured once and the secret was discovered by the doctor in the hospital, and this deputy platoon leader was also the archetype of the mountain in "Youth in The Fire".
Unlike the movie, Gao Dongya and the deputy platoon leader still have feelings later, but soon Gao Dongya was also injured, and the two lost contact. A few years later, Gao Dongya met the deputy platoon leader on the street, and both of them were very excited, and just when Gao Dongya wanted to reveal his feelings, the deputy platoon leader told him that he was married. This incident became a regrettable memory of Gao Dongya, so he couldn't help but tell it to Lu Zhuguo.
Based on Gao Dongya and the deputy platoon leader, Lu Zhuguo created Lei Zhenlin and Gao Gao in the novel, which were later adapted into Lei Zhenlin and Gao Gao in "Youth in The Fire of War".
The name of the deputy platoon leader is no longer available, and after the release of "Youth in The Fire", including the media and most viewers, believe that the prototype of Takayama should be the combat hero Guo Junqing of that year. When Guo Junqing was 15 years old, he used his pseudonym Guo Fu to falsely report that he joined the Eighth Route Army at the age of 17, and fought on the front line from 1945 to 1950, during which he hid his true identity, climbed the ice and slept in the snow and wind like a male fighter, and even participated in white-knife fighting.
After years of irregular life and fighting, Guo Junqing fell ill and was only discovered by doctors in 1950 when he had to go to the hospital to see a doctor. Since then, the title of contemporary Mulan has not gone away, and she has also become a famous combat hero in the country. Therefore, when "Youth in the Fire" was released, many people first thought of Guo Junqing.
Guo Junqing also likes the artistic image of the mountain, and when she died, she once asked people to bring a photo to Wang Suya to thank her for shaping the mountain.
It is quite regrettable that the later fate of the two prototypes of "Youth in the Fire of War" is more tragic.
Guo Junqing was unable to have children in her life due to overwork, she did not marry for life, and died of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 52.
Gao Dongya was injured twice in his life, once to both eyes and optic nerves, he joined the navy with 0.3 vision, and in his later years he was close to blindness in both eyes. Another injury was to injure his lower body, causing him to be unable to have children and had to rely on hormones to maintain his physical condition in his later years.
Gao Dongya's name is not as loud as Guo Junqing's, and many people do not know who Lei Zhenlin's prototype really is, but fortunately he also has a nationally famous comrade-in-arms, the combat hero Zhang Yimin. In his memoirs in his later years, he repeatedly mentioned the deeds of Gao Dongya and the story of Gao Dongya and the deputy platoon leader of "Mulan".
It is worth mentioning that Gao Dongya and Zhang Yimin, the two torpedo captains who have fought side by side, have a famous movie, Gao Dongya is the prototype of Lei Zhenlin in "Youth in The Fire", and Zhang Yimin is the prototype of Zhang Min, the captain of the torpedo boat in "SeaHawk".
Fate, remembrance, legend.