Although the May Day holiday has passed, a series of movies in the May Day show are still competing for the box office!
From romance to suspense to spy movies, there are all kinds of movies, have you all seen a few new movies recently?
People who have not yet watched, afraid of stepping on the thunder but want to watch it, don't worry, Sister Rice is here to recommend a movie that is definitely worth the ticket price - Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff".
This is not completely recommended for the name of the national teacher, but this movie is indeed worth making "tap water" amway for it!
In the 8 days of release, with the fermentation of word-of-mouth, the box office exceeded 600 million, and soon came to the position of the first place in the real-time box office list.
As a spy war film with a poor pre-sale box office before its release, what charm does it have to complete such a counterattack? The answer is left to everyone to go into the cinema and find it for themselves.
Putting aside the movie itself, Sister Rice wants to tell the historical story behind this movie.
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Listening to the name "On the Cliff", do you feel very familiar?
Yes, 9 years ago, there was a TV series that was popular on David TV and the second round of CCTV bought out the copyright - also called "Cliff".
This is not a coincidence, but the screenwriter of this TV series and the screenwriter of the movie are the same person - the original author Quan Yongxian, and the protagonists of the two film and television dramas even have the same person - agent "Zhou Yi".
For many years, the writer Quan Yongxian has always been obsessed with his "Cliff" story, and in 2015, he couldn't help but publish an essay in the journal "Haiyan", "Talking about "Cliff".
This is a tragic ending, the protagonist Zhou Yi was finally shot to death, Quan Yong first wanted to continue to write Zhou Yi's story, so the prequel to "Cliff" "On the Cliff" was born.
Born out of the same era background, that is, in the 1930s, after the Japanese invasion of northeast China, the puppet puppet regime "puppet Manchukuo" territory, there is a group of anti-Japanese underground organizations are fighting with enemy agents.
The protagonists Zhang Yi, Qin Hailu, Zhu Yawen and Liu Haocun play 4 communist agents who have received special training, while "Zhou Yi", played by Yu Hewei, is a comrade lurking in the secret service section to help them act.
They formed an action group code-named "Utra", what exactly is this task, briefly mentioned in the film through the mouth of Zhang Yi's character "Zhang Xianchen" - to rescue Wang Ziyang, and the entire plot of the film revolves around this goal.
Who is this Prince Yang? Unlike other characters, he is not a fictional character in the movie, but a real hero and martyr in history.
No matter how ignorant of history, perhaps you are also very familiar with the term "Japanese Army Unit 731", in 1932, Unit 731 built a city in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, the back of the River, the Japanese army called it "Zhongma City".
Since then, it has become a secret base of isolation, and what the Japanese army has done in it - conducting inhumane human experiments, they have captured batches of young Chinese adults and tortured them to death.
A group of "prisoners" represented by Wang Ziyang are witnesses to these experiments, and also the victors of the stage of continuous resistance to the final successful escape, in 1934, Wang Ziyang and others who found the right time smashed the guards with wine bottles and escaped from the cage in Zhongma City.
The film begins here, although Wang Ziyang escaped from Zhongma City, he was still facing the search and pursuit of puppet Manchu agents, and the purpose of the "Utra" action team was to move Wang Ziyang out of the enemy-occupied area.
At the end of the movie, the protagonist group with heavy losses succeeded, and Xiaolan, played by Liu Haocun, successfully escorted Wang Ziyang away.
The movie stopped at this moment, but the wheel of history is still rolling, Wang Ziyang and others exposed the inhuman atrocities of Unit 731, and immediately joined the team of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army after recovering physically, and grew into the acting division commander of the Sixth Division of the Third Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Until 1937, he died honorably in the battle against the Japanese army, fighting until the last second of his life.
"This battle lasted for almost two hours, and our regiment Wang Ziyang was seriously wounded. At about two o'clock in the afternoon, we carried Wang Ziyang to the Guo Family Fanfang, and Wang Ziyang died after living for most of the day because of his serious stomach injury, and everyone held a memorial service and carried him to the east of the Sixth Division's secret camp and the west slope of the indiscriminate firewood roof on the second forest hill at the foot of the second road for burial. ”
Like the protagonists in the movie, Wang Ziyang exchanged blood and death for the hard-won peace and stability that is now hard-won.
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The heroic prince Yang who strings together the story plot is worth remembering, and the historical prototypes of other people in the movie are also worth recalling.
Zhang Yi played the role of "Zhang Xianchen", one of the prototypes is Zhang Yixian, who abandoned his pen to engage in business and then joined the army.
Zhang Yixian, who had been a primary school teacher and a middle school principal, suddenly decided to go to Harbin to do business in middle age, and after the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army occupied Harbin, and he joined the anti-Japanese armed organization, selling all his family property to buy guns and ammunition in order to support the anti-Japanese resistance, and single-handedly supported a whole anti-Japanese team.
Unfortunately, the strength of the Japanese army was too disparity, and Zhang Yat-sen's armed action did not last for two years before it failed, but during this time he met Yang Diankun (later renamed Yang Zuoqing), a communist, so he continued to follow the communists to resist Japan after the failure.
In 1933, he was sent to the Soviet Union to study, and after returning to China, he engaged in intelligence work, and was secretly sent to Tianjin, Dalian and other places to carry out missions, he also recruited his wife Zhang Qinling into the organization, and took her from his hometown to take charge of the communication work of the intelligence group.
This is very similar to zhang Xianchen's mode of getting along with his wife Wang Yu (Qin Hailu), and the same is true of Zhang Yixian's communist friend Yang Diankun, an international agent, because of his mission, which is also in line with the relationship between Zhu Yawen and Liu Haocun in the movie.
In 1942, his wife suffering from tuberculosis and his yin and yang were separated, Zhang Yixian returned to his hometown in Shandong to become a middle school teacher again, and finally quietly passed away in 1958, leaving an autobiography to witness his revolutionary career.
Another prototype of Zhang Xianchen was Fu Lie, one of the founders of the "Young Communist Party in Europe", who also went to the Soviet Union to study for a year, and after returning to China, led the intelligence team, and in 1928, he was detained and interrogated by the enemy and tortured inhumanely.
The enemy first poured kerosene into his mouth, then hung him up with two thumbs in a wire, and the thumb joint was broken, and he was hung on the splint. Tortured, he was tortured to death, but when the enemy pressed for a confession, he insisted: "Cut off my head, and don't want to get from me the words you need!" ”
Fu Lie sent two family letters through the underground party members who visited the prison, one of which read: "My sacrifice was not accidental, my father did not have to be too sad, I asked myself if there was anything sorry for the family... In a few years, you will understand [me]. ”
Another letter to his wife, Chen Caiyong, read: "You know how and why I died!" You must avenge me, inherit my legacy, and fight to the end for the cause of the party. ”
This can't help but remind people of the picture of Zhang Yi being tortured in the movie, and in the end, The 29-year-old Fu Lie heroically took revenge outside the Chaotianmen Gate in Chongqing, leaving two poems on his deathbed: "Fight for the blood of a seven-foot boy, and win the red of Shenzhou!" ”
Qin Hailu, who was also tortured to confess in the movie, can also remind people of the deeds of the anti-Japanese hero Zhao Yiman, after a series of cruel methods such as going to the tiger stool, filling pepper water, and electrocution, Zhao Yiman, who is only 31 years old, only left a note to her son.
Too many such revolutionary martyrs have been lost in the long river of history where blood has flowed, some have left their names, and some have left an unnamed grave.
Through the movie "On the Cliff", we get a glimpse of the real and cruel life corner of their experience, which makes people cherish everything they have now.
At the end of the movie, Xiaolan cried and asked Zhou Yi "Can we see the dawn", what a shocking scene that hit the tears, we only have to silently answer "yes" in front of the screen, but those heroes who fell before the dawn will never have the opportunity to see this peaceful and prosperous world.
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