"If there are any reinforcements, fight to the last man."
Just now, a war blockbuster was officially announced for the summer season, June 28.
The above is a line in the trailer.
The person who wrote this line was Liu Heping, a native of Hengyang, who always listened to the stories of the battle told by his elders when he was a child. The film also has a title, which is "The Battle of Hengyang".
This is also the first time that a Chinese film has a panoramic restoration of the Battle of Hengyang.
actors, including Yu Hewei, Yang Yang, Wan Qian, Wang Jinsong, Yin Fang, Li Guangjie, Tan Kai, Cao Lei and other powerful factions.
Liu Heping is not only a screenwriter, but also the chief producer and director.
Director Zhang Yang, whose representative works include "Falling Leaves Return to the Roots" and "Bathing". Qin Tianzhu is good at large-scale scene control, and has participated in the filming of "Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake" before.
Art director Huo Tingxiao has filmed Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine", "Jing Ke's Assassination of King Qin", Zhang Yimou's "Hero", "Ambush on All Sides", and the "Changjin Lake" series.
Directors of photography Li Yaohui and Wu Jingwen have participated in the filming of films such as "Infernal Affairs" and "Casting Names".
It is said that the investment in the film is as high as 500 million.
It can be said that it is impossible not to look forward to such a movie and not reverie.
The film dares to take the lead in setting the summer file, which is absolute confidence in the quality of the film, and it will of course be the king of the summer file.
And as the film was finalized, the first trailer was released.
The duration is 1 minute and 53 seconds, full of information, many scenes completely ignite the passion of the audience, and many lines are even more exciting.
What's so good about this new film? What are the big messages hidden in this trailer? Whose performance in the film is more worth looking forward to? Let's take a look at the three layers of mystery of "Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow" along with the trailer.
The first veil: the subject matter is touching.
The film trailer gave me the most direct impression in four words: tragic and magnificent.
This may also be the Battle of Hengyang, which gives the most intuitive impression to many ordinary people.
How tragic?
The Battle of Hengyang is known as the "Battle of Moscow in China".
The battle took place from June to August 1944 and was a battle to defend the city by the military and civilians of Hengyang, Hunan Province, against the surprise attack of the Japanese invaders. In that year, the Japanese army lost in the Pacific theater, and the supply lines of sea communication were almost paralyzed.
For this reason, the Japanese invaders formulated the "No. 1 Operational Plan" and launched the largest offensive on the Chinese battlefield with heavy troops and armored divisions. Hengyang, which is in a key position, aims to win it within 3 days.
The Nationalist Government ordered the defenders of Hengyang to hold on for 7 days and wait for rescue, and the task of guarding Hengyang was handed over to the 10th Army under the command of Fang Xianjue.
The strength of the 10th Army was only 17,000 people, plus more than 4,000 people in Hengyang, with a total strength of 18,000 people.
It is no wonder that at the beginning of the war, the Japanese boasted that they could take Hengyang in one day, the internal analysis of the national army could hold it for 3 days, and Lao Jiang ordered to hold it for 7 days.
However, a week after the agreement, the reinforcements "promised" by the Nationalist government did not arrive.
When reinforcements never arrived, Hengyang defended the city alone, causing three times the casualties of the Japanese army to our army, and it was blocked for 47 days.
What is magnificence?
In the past 47 days, the dignity and spirit of Chinese soldiers have been displayed.
Our soldiers and civilians fought bravely, ran out of ammunition and food, suffered more than 16,000 casualties, and only more than 1,000 people remained on the day of the city's destruction.
In the end, the Japanese army suffered 48,000 casualties, and this battle was the only time in the War of Resistance against Japan that the Japanese army had 6 times our strength and 3 times the casualty ratio of our troops, and it was also the only time in the history of Japanese war that the Japanese army suffered more casualties than the Chinese army. Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was blamed for this and stepped down.
The instructor wrote an article commenting on the battle: "The defenders who held Hengyang were heroic, and the people of Hengyang paid great sacrifices. “
This desolate defense battle, the lonely and courageous posture displayed by the soldiers and civilians of Hengyang, has become the eternal memory of the Chinese War of Resistance.
Director Kong Sheng once filmed "Battle of Changsha" with the history of the Battle of Changsha, the Battle of Changde and the Battle of Hengyang, with a Douban score of 9.1 points.
Now, finally, there is a film that shows this history.
The second veil: the war scene is moving.
I don't have to say the subject matter, so what story does "Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow" tell?
Through this 1 minute and 56 seconds trailer, we can sketch the general outline of the story.
At the beginning of the trailer, the tragedy and oppression of the war suddenly came to my face.
Outside the city of Hengyang, the Japanese army was like a wolf and a tiger, and the whole line opened fire, and the Japanese army attacked the old city wall of Hengyang like a tide.
Japanese fighters, covering the sky and the sun.
The person in charge of the script is Liu Heping, a native of Hengyang.
Liu Heping has written many high-scoring historical dramas such as "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Ming Dynasty 1566", "No War in Beiping", etc., but it is conceivable that as a Hengyang person who has heard the story of the defense of Hengyang since childhood, this story must be a heavy pen.
Liu Heping spent 4 years.
How did Liu Heping end up presenting this story?
Combined with the trailer, two characteristics can be seen,
First, the film directly depicts the cruelty of the war without concealment.
For example: One of the scenes that impressed me the most, the Japanese army attacked on a large scale, and the officers and soldiers defending the city of Hengyang fought bloodily.
One soldier pounced directly on the besieging Japanese and died with the Japanese army.
In the picture, the flesh and blood exploded directly in the air, which made people can't help but cry.
But this is the most real side of the war, watching the soldiers and civilians defending the city resist the Japanese attack with flesh and blood, and feeling the pain through the screen.
Another example: frontal hand-to-hand combat scenes.
In the trailer, many scenes are close to the enemy between our army and the enemy, the camera scheduling and editing are very good, and many hand-to-hand combat scenes are close-up, which makes people feel suffocated when they look at it.
However, only a positive close-up of the sacrifices of the soldiers and civilians in Hengyang is the greatest respect for the epic of the Anti-Japanese War.
The second is to restore the details of the original history, and there is no simple picture to stimulate and look good
In this film, many historical details can be seen, such as the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties after a long attack, did not hesitate to carry out poison gas warfare in order to win, and dispatched a large number of planes to carry out continuous and indiscriminate bombardment of Hengyang.
In the trailer, there is a scene where the Japanese army launched a poison gas war, and our soldiers continued the bloody battle with simple scarves covering their mouths.
Our troops shouted: gas bombs. It seems that he is accustomed to the despicable tricks of the Japanese army.
And the extreme severity of the battle.
For example, the veteran played by Wang Jinsong seems to be a transport soldier, but he also fights with the Japanese army.
Even in the battle reports of the Japanese army, you can feel the heroic tenacity of our army's resistance. In the "Final Battle of the Imperial Japanese Army", it is recorded that our army "all have the determination to die, resist stubbornly, and defend every inch of land, and their spirit of fighting in a lonely city is really admirable." In more than 40 days of fierce fighting, not a single enemy surrendered to us. ”
In the trailer, the audience's emotions are pushed to a climax layer by layer.
It's hard to imagine that a trailer can condense such a thick emotional density and make the audience's emotions go through a rollercoaster of ups and downs.
Whether it is the blood of the warrior, Yang Yang's last monologue or Wang Jinsong's angry shot, it makes people instantly enter the play, and such touching details are destined to cause a crying storm.
It can be said that the 1 minute and 56 second trailer is not an understatement, but flesh and bones, and the trailers are so moving, it is hard to imagine how moving the feature film will be.
The third veil: a feast of acting.
The choice of actors in the film can be described as "extremely neat in lineup".
The powerful factions include Yu Hewei, Wang Jinsong, Li Guangjie, Tan Kai, Cao Lei, etc.
Young actors include Yang Yang and Yin Fang. The actress has Wan Qian.
The first is Yu Hewei.
The male protagonist he played, General Fang Xianjue, I was worried at first, of course, Yu Hewei's acting skills are undoubted, but Yu Hewei's image and temperament are still relatively elegant, I am worried that he will not be able to play the momentum of General Fang in a desperate situation.
It wasn't until the trailer that I saw how amazing the emotional explosion in Yu Hewei's film was. Too much to worry about, too much to worry about.
In the trailer, General Fang played by Yu Hewei has a dialogue scene with all the soldiers, the bloody battle in the lonely city, the sound of Xiaoxiao rain, Fang Xianjue asked the soldiers again and again: Can any brother tell me that we have been guarding for a few days?
How many days have we been on guard?
Although the camera gives a panoramic view and does not cut to Hewei's close-up, I can fully feel that the character has tears on the corners of his eyebrows at the moment, fire in his eyes, and under the powerful power output, my heart was poked all of a sudden, and I instantly got goosebumps.
And this question got a response from the soldiers "It's raining", a few days, it doesn't matter, it will be played until the last moment.
As soon as this line came out, there was no need to say much about the bloody nature of the whole army swearing to defend the city and coexist with Hengyang City.
There is also Wang Jinsong, in the past, he participated in the theme of the Anti-Japanese War, most of them were virtuous literati, this time he played the role of the soldiers and civilians defending the city, fighting bloody battles with crane guns, and the national integrity in his bones is unforgettable.
Wan Qian's eyes in a desperate situation are equally moving.
It can be seen that what Liu Heping created must be a group portrait.
Traditional war movies will condense all the character characteristics into the protagonist alone, but this film must focus on the unsung heroes of Hengyang City.
Maybe many characters will have their own famous scenes.
Because this is the Hengyang Defense Battle of the Tenth Army, the Hengyang Defense Battle of Hengyang people, and the Hengyang Defense Battle of the Chinese military and civilians.
In the Memorial Hall of the Hengyang Defense, there is a photo called "One of the Loyal Remains of the Fallen Soldiers of the Tenth Army of the Hengyang Defense". This photograph taken in 1946 shows the remains of more than 3,000 soldiers collected on the battlefield after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, with the skull in the middle and the other skeletons placed on the sides.
The soldiers are bloody, and only then can there be this magnificent battle.
Write at the end
As the above three layers of mystery are gradually revealed, the outline of "Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow" is gradually becoming clear.
In recent years, domestic theaters and war blockbusters have become a box office basic.
"Changjin Lake" and "Watergate Bridge" topped the annual box office list with a box office of 5.7 billion and 4 billion respectively.
Behind the box office, in addition to the wonderful war scenes, what moves the audience is more important is the deep feelings of family and country.
For example, "The Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang", an epic that objectively and positively describes the bloody resistance of the soldiers of the national army against Japan, is still unforgettable.
In "Eight Hundred", the battle scene of 800 heroes guarding the Sixing warehouse, the soldiers are dying, and the mountains and rivers are magnificent.
"Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow", there are too many moving historical details.
Let's just say General Fang Xianjue's last telegram.
When the town was running out of ammunition and food for 47 days, Fang Xianjue's last telegram touched people's hearts word by word: "The enemy broke into from Beicheng this morning, and street battles broke out in the city, our officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and there were no more soldiers to block, and the rank swore to serve the country with death, and did his duty as a soldier, this telegram is probably the last telegram, and I will see you in the next life......
In the end, how much box office volume can "Reinforcements Arrive Tomorrow" reach?
In my opinion, there is no doubt that the box office record of the summer war film is at least 3 billion. Whether it can reach 5 billion or even 6 billion is the box office ceiling of domestic war films, depending on word of mouth.
Why do you say box office? Because the higher the box office, the more audiences it proves that there will be, and the more people will see Liu Heping's Hengyang defense battle.
In that war, the Chinese military and civilians shaped the backbone of China with flesh and blood, and history should be remembered by everyone.
That battle was worthy of the country.
And the ancestors threw their heads and spilled their blood, and our generations dare not forget!