(Movie Stills)
Title: Wings
Country: United States
Language of the film: No dialogue
Film color: black and white
Genre: War Romance
(Stills from the film: Jack looking up at the sky)
In 1917, in a small village in the United States, young Jack was smiling, his eyes full of innocence and hope, lying on the grass with his hands on pillows, dreaming of being free to listen to the sound of turbines in his ears soaring in the boundless sky.
(Stills from the film: Mary and Jack)
Jack is modifying a dilapidated car. Mary, the girl next door to the green plum bamboo horse, found him and climbed over the fence excitedly, eager to stay with her beloved.
"With a new engine, she can run as fast as a meteor." Jack said.
"Meteor! What a great name. Mary replied, and deftly, drew the flying star on the car. Jack is surprised by Mary's drawing skills, and Mary is slightly embarrassed:
"Do you know what to do when you see a meteor?"
"What to do?"
"You can kiss the girl you like."
"Maybe I will"
Mary closed her eyes and waited, but Jack started the car with the earth-shaking sound of a tractor and left.
Because he never discovered Mary's love, and thought that his love was someone else.
(Stills from the film: Sylvia and David)
The city girl Sylvia is beautiful and talented, and loves the quiet and introverted family man David, in the peaceful life, the swing is slightly shaking, the piano is haunted, the two are intertwined, and this beauty is broken by the sound of the tractor.
"Sylvia, I'll take you in my car first." Jack said excitedly and carried her to the car, and before Sylvia could react, she was pushed away and sat in the car.
With the beauty on his side, Jack could hardly say how happy he was, taking Sylvia for a ride on the road, and when he met Mary on the side of the road, he waved and said hello, unaware of the loss in the corner of Mary's eyes.
The young days were thus accompanied by joy and sorrow, and flew away.
Movie Stills: Sylvia comforts David
As the war expands, David and Jack sign up for Air Force training, and as they part, Jack goes to look for Sylvia, hoping to get a picture of her to take with him. However, he mistakenly thought that the photo that Sylvia had prepared for David was for himself, and took the photo as his lucky object.
David goes to say goodbye to Sylvia:
"If you see his expression, you'll know why I can't get the picture back," Sylvia comforted David. "All he has is a picture of me, and you have my heart."
Movie Stills: David says goodbye to the family dog
David went home to say goodbye, accepted his mother's advice, and got his mother's favorite toy as a child: a bear cub.
Take it as a lucky item and head to the training base.
Movie Stills: Duo Turn "Enemy" into Friend
In the boxing training class of the base, Jack and David "fake the real thing", a fight, David was knocked down, but still difficult to stand up and continue to fight, Jack was touched by it, the two shook hands, turned "love enemy" into friends.
Movie Stills: Pilot White
Officially entering flight training, David and Jack are in the same tent, where they meet another cadet, White. Getting closer to the battlefield, David pulled out his bear, and White saw it, "You think that will bring you luck, don't you?" ”
"A lot of people have lucky things, right?" Jack touched the picture on his chest and asked.
"Yes! But I never. White said as he picked up his hat, "I have to go to the sky to fly out of the figure of 8 before I can come down to eat." "Whether there are lucky things or not, when it's your turn, you can't hide." As he walked to the door of the tent, he turned and said.
A few minutes later, there was a violent explosion in the sky. The ambulance then headed in the direction of the sound.
An officer came in, "Put away the white cadet's luggage at once, and I'll send it to headquarters in a moment." ”
Jack and David looked at each other, and it was the first time they had seen how easy it was for war to take lives.
Movie Stills: Moments of Glory
As her flight training became increasingly skilled, Mary volunteered with the U.S. Women's Car Service, transporting supplies to the supply villages.
During this period, Jack has realized his dream of "flying an airplane in the early morning", although the first flight encountered enemy aircraft, the wing was damaged and dive, fortunately rescued by the British army; David encountered the enemy flying circus team leader Kellerman chased, the other side found that his machine gun was stuck, showing noble chivalry to leave, David was able to save his life.
One day, German Gotha bombers launched a surprise attack on the supply village, Mary delivered medicine to the village, the bombs fell one after another, Jack and David received orders to quickly fly into the battlefield to engage the enemy, and finally destroy the enemy's destructive bombers, with heroism and wit to reap the glory.
Movie Stills: Sylvia's note to David's picture
The General Offensive is about to begin, and both David and Jack are returning to the army from their sabbaticals.
Jack, however, saw the news of Mary's resignation in the newspaper and realized that Mary was not a half-hearted person. The comrade next to him said that "the resignation of the women in the army may also be expelled, after all, the country girls come to a city like Paris ..." And smiled evilly.
Jack angrily theorizes with his comrades-in-arms in order to defend Mary, scaring the other side away.
"You're in love with Mary, aren't you?" David smiled and asked, holding Sylvia's loving letter in his hand.
"I love Sylvia", saying that he took out the photo of himself as a lucky object and showed it to David, accidentally separating the photo from the necklace, Jack went to look for the necklace, David picked up the photo and found Sylvia's message.
The kind David did not want to hurt Jack, insisted on putting the photo back on his own, Jack did not want to, the two argued, David had to tear up the photo.
"There's no time to play games anymore," the officer came in.
Jack walks toward the plane in anger, and David forgets to take the bear away in the midst of the hectics.
The war ends, but David does not return to the base, and Jack thinks that the other side is dead and vows to avenge him.
Movie Stills: David dies
It turned out that David was pursued by enemy forces in the war, the plane crashed, and David escaped to the enemy camp.
In the decisive battle, Jack defeated most of the enemy troops, on the way back, found an enemy plane flying towards the US military base, mistakenly thinking that it was the enemy army, and rose up to pursue, who had thought that the enemy plane sitting in the enemy plane was David who escaped from the enemy base and stole the enemy plane to try to go home.
"You didn't shoot me, you shot another enemy plane, you know?" David said with difficulty.
"You're not seriously injured, I'll go get you a doctor," Jack said, looking up at the doctor.
"I've done what I can do, and that's the war." The doctor answered.
David died in Jack's arms.
Movie Stills: Mary and Jack
Jack pieced together a torn photo of David and saw Sylvia's letter to David.
He brought David's medal and bear to his family and returned home.
In the yard was his modified Meteor car, and on the other side of the fence, Mary's eyes were full of tenderness.
"One night in Paris, I lost consciousness and there was a man by my side, I don't know who it was." Jack confesses that he was fired because he didn't know that Mary was mistaken for him.
"I've seen wars too, and I don't blame anyone in wars, and the rest of my life is the most important thing." Mary replied.
At this time, the meteor in the sky crossed, "Do you know what to do when you see a meteor?" Jack asked.
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The title of the film is "Wing", which refers to both the pilot and the heroic warrior who dreamed in war.
Just a few shots must be difficult to show the full soul of the film, the film is the best film of the first Academy Awards, although there is no dialogue, but interspersed with narration, as well as the large-scale action of the characters, so that the shaping of the characters and the expression of the theme are not blurred.
At the same time, the film was shot nearly 100 years ago, and the technical level cannot support the colorful picture, and the clarity is not satisfactory, but its composition and artistic conception are remarkable.
As a war film, it is difficult to avoid the theme of the harm caused by war to people, giving people reflection and warning; but it takes the love of children as the main line, and is interspersed with clues such as friendship, family affection, and glory, making the theme of the film more rich and warm.
The first half of the soundtrack is mostly a bright-paced joyful tune, and in the second half, there are many tensions in the war and the sadness of life disasters, which brings people a multi-dimensional artistic enjoyment.
recommend!