One day in July 1991, after reviewing the "Armageddon" series of films that had just been completed, Yang Shangkun, the then leader of the country, was full of praise for this huge production that took nearly six years to complete the film, and he was happy to receive the main members of the crew at that time, such as the general director Li Jun, the late special actor Gu Yue who played Chairman Mao, the late special actor Su Lin who played Premier Zhou, the late special actor Zhao Hengduo who played Chiang Kai-shek, and the special actor Ma Shaoxin who played Lin Biao!
It was only because ma Shaoxin, the actor who played Lin Biao, was behind the crowd and did not come forward with the main actors, so Chairman Yang Shangkun did not see "Lin Biao" after shaking hands with several main actors, Chairman Yang may have remembered the past of the battlefield decades ago, and asked the staff next to him loudly: "What about Lin Biao?" What about Lin Biao? ”
The staff quickly led Ma Shaoxin to the front and said to Chairman Yang: "Lin Biao is here!" ”
The old man was already 84 years old at the time, but looking at the actor who looked very similar to "Lin Biao" who walked towards him, he still took the initiative to go forward and shake hands with "Lin Biao"!
Chairman Yang Shangkun held Ma Shaoxin's hand tightly, and his expression was somewhat complicated.
More than half a month later, the "Armageddon" series of movies on the screen to meet the people of the whole country, for a time thousands of people, the whole country is discussing this movie, people are full of curiosity about the events of decades ago, fortunately, there are many participants in the three major battles of that year are still alive, according to the memories of these veterans, combined with the film, many people are full of respect and reverence for the sacrifices made by their ancestors for the victory of the revolution.
This large-scale film, which lasted for nearly six years, has undoubtedly captured the hearts of the people of the whole country!
And about the filming of the "Armageddon" series of movies, it can be said that it is a twist and turn.....
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > years, why be afraid of the wind</h1>
Time seems to have returned to the passionate era of 1948, when the civil liberation war had entered a critical period, and in order to end the war at an early date, realize the liberation of the whole country, and bring a stable life to the people of the whole country, our party organized three decisive decisive battles: the Liaoshen Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign, and the Pingjin Campaign!
It is no exaggeration to say that these three great decisive battles played a decisive role in the future and destiny of China at that time; these were three decisive battles that were enough to change history, and at the same time, the victories of these three great battles also paved the way for the next victory of national liberation; it was the great victories of these three great decisive battles that allowed people to see the profound military-civilian water situation between our People's Liberation Army and the broad masses of working people, and at the same time once again proved a truth, that is, the people are the creators of history and the real heroes!
Years later, 1948 is gone, and the soldiers who fought in those three great battles have begun to fade slowly, and time can forget and eliminate many things, but about the three great battles of 1948, about those great people and spirits should not be forgotten.
Therefore, some film studios proposed to bring those years to the screen in the sixties, but because the technology at that time was too backward to reproduce the scene of the three Armageddons, the thick plans were all shelved.
"In 1979, it was a spring, and an old man drew a circle in the South China Sea..." The chief designer proposed reform and opening up at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, and after China flourished in the economic and other fields, and after the material life began to be enriched, the construction of the people's spiritual civilization was too delayed, and at this time, it was urgent to need a batch of high-quality and high-quality literary works to improve the people's spiritual living standards.
So "Armageddon" was put on the agenda in 1986, this time it was the Central Military Commission that took the lead in this project, and Comrade Yang Shangkun, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, also specially cared for the project team, so that many problems were successfully solved!
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the difficult birth of Armageddon</h1>
Filming the "Armageddon" series of movies, reviewing the great victories of the three major battles, and returning that unforgettable period of time to people's vision is the ardent expectation of the people of the whole country!
This arduous task was entrusted to the Bayi Film Studio to complete, and the Bayi Factory, which had just received the task, quickly set up a special group, in order to get closer to the historical facts of the three major battles, in terms of script creation, bayi Factory carefully selected a script creation team with absolutely excellent professional skills.
As we all know, if you want to make a good movie, you must have a good script that can withstand scrutiny, and if you want to make such an epic masterpiece as the three major battles, you must strive for excellence!
In order to better grasp the situation of the three major battles a few decades ago, the collection team began a period of more than three years, after more than half of the Chinese text interview work, they have summarized more than 60 million words of literature about the three major battles!
The head of the script creation team, the filming party also selected the front-line reporters who had personally participated in these three major battles to check the pass, and the script of "Armageddon" also set up three separate departments to be responsible for the script creation of the Liaoshen Campaign, the Huaihai Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign!
Since the establishment of the "Armageddon" project, Chairman Yang Shangkun has paid enough attention to this project, and his old man has interviewed the script creation team three times before and after, and the old man said straight to the point: If the script is not good, don't shoot it!
In addition to the attention of the central leadership, some of the generals and veteran marshals who were still alive at that time were also very concerned about the process of "Armageddon", and Marshal Nie Rongzhen, as the commander-in-chief and one of the witnesses of the Pingjin Campaign, was very familiar with the situation at that time.
Nie Shuai in order to "Armageddon" can more realistically restore the scenes he has experienced in his mind, and he has told Li Jun, the general director of "Armageddon", all his experiences at that time, the words spoken by comrades-in-arms, the jokes and jokes that the old people are like a family treasure, even if it is a small thing, they are not willing to fall behind.
With the participation of those who have personal experience in creating the script, coupled with the explanation of Nie Shuai who personally participated in the command, the creation process of "Armageddon" has undoubtedly accelerated!
However, there is a problem that lies in the minds of the Liaoshen Campaign Script Creation Team, making them waver!
That is, regarding Lin Biao, the main commander of the Liaoshen Campaign, the script team members did not know how to describe Lin Biao, and there were also great differences in the scale, some of them insisted on not writing Lin Biao at all, some comrades chose to give Lin Biao a silhouette after a stroke, and some even said that Lin Biao was directly written as a "bad person", and only a very small number of comrades felt that they should write how to write!
In fact, this kind of problem was not uncommon in that era, and several similar things happened to Lin Biao in those years!
On August 9, 1983, Comrade Chen Yun highlighted in his "Opinions on the Compilation of the Book (Liaoshen Campaign)", saying: "The role of the participants in the campaign, the organization and command of the campaign, these are undoubtedly very important for the victory of the Liaoshen Campaign. Lin Biao, as the commander of the four fields, was in the right place at that time, and we did not have to deny it. ”
Comrade Chen Yun can say with such certainty that it is because what he once managed in the Northeast Bureau is the economy, the war is fought in logistics, how lin Biao and Siye really are, how can they escape the eyes of the "iron abacus"!
As for lin biao, the old general Huang Kecheng once talked to the comrades of the editorial team of the military volume of the "Chinese Encyclopedia" in March 1985, and the old general Geng Zhi said bitterly to the comrades: "Since you comrades represent the official writing of history books, then you should study and write character history like Ma Qian of the Taishi Company, then you must use the viewpoint of historical materialism and the attitude that an objective historian should have, as a bystander to evaluate historical figures without any personal prejudice!" Good, bad, you should write both sides, not one-sided. ”
Therefore, everyone has seen that Lin Biao cannot blame the comrades in the script group of the "Liaoshen Campaign" for intending this, but this was the situation at that time!
The Liaoshen Campaign Script Group, which was still arguing endlessly, quarreled and quarreled, and in the end several comrades did not know what to do, and it seemed that there were problems with writing or not writing. Grasp what scale to write?
Without writing, the Liaoshen Campaign could not bypass Lin Biao at all, nor did it conform to the view of historical materialism.
In the end, the comrades who could not make up their minds sent the problem to Chairman Yang Shangkun, who directly set the tone and gave the script team a reassurance pill!
"There must be Lin Biao in the play, if you don't write Lin Biao, then who fought the battle in the northeast battlefield that year?" Moreover, lin biao must be realistic in writing, and he cannot write this person as bad from beginning to end because he is not good later. ”
With Chairman Yang Shangkun's hammer and finalization, the comrades of the script group have no shackles, they divergent thinking, and each of them has opened a brainstorm, so that a lively and existing flesh-and-blood Lin Biao has entered people's vision!
In terms of the final actor selection, the whole crew also made a lot of efforts, such as Chiang Kai-shek's actor selection, at the beginning someone recommended Sun Feihu, a professional household of Chiang Kai-shek, to play, but the general director Li Jun thought that Sun Feihu's Chiang Kai-shek who had been staged on the screen was the kind of person who was facialized and bad, so he felt inappropriate.
In the end, after careful selection, the classic Chiang Kai-shek actor, Zhao Hengduo, the Chiang Kai-shek he portrayed this time is also very real, especially the classic line: "800,000 to 600,000, it's me again!" ”
Many people have heard of Chiang Kai-shek, and the first time they almost blurted out this sentence!
In terms of actors, the crew also has a small detail that is also handled very carefully, that is, Chairman Mao's actor Gu Yue, in 1948, Chairman Mao was fifty-five years old, and when filming "Armageddon", Gu Yue, who played Chairman Mao, was fifty-four years old, almost the same age, which is very careful, and generally does not know if you pay close attention to it.
Finally, there was the choice of Lin Biao's actor, at that time, there were more than thirty "Lin Biao" participating in the election, and finally Ma Shaoxin was suddenly selected by the director group because of his resemblance and the appearance when he auditioned!
The "Armageddon" series of movies has been on the screen for more than thirty years since 1991, and many of the special actors in it have passed away, but even if they are repeatedly re-screened now, it is still acclaimed, thirty years, two generations, but there is no young man who understands history who does not like it!
The reason why this is so is because Comrade Yang Shangkun's attitude toward history in seeking truth from facts has allowed those real historical figures to walk onto the screen without any deviation, into thousands of households, into the hearts of generations of young people, and take root!
Greetings to Comrade Yang Shangkun!