This was 38 hours before Li Dazhao's execution. Mr. Shou Chang, played by Zhang Songwen, raised his hands above his head in the dark purgatory and made a bird spread his wings to the only glimmer of light. The opening scene of the movie "Revolutionary" is heart-wrenching and moving, indicating the power of faith contained in the whole film. "Zhang Songwen acted well, down-to-earth and affectionately." On a rating site, this comment was highly praised. Since the film was released on July 1, Zhang Songwen's acting skills have been unanimously recognized by the audience - he has created a flesh-and-blood Li Dazhao, and really played this revolutionary martyr "alive".
Before death comes, the film looks back at Li Dazhao's less than 40 years of life, those little pictures of fighting for ideals and faith. "The Revolutionary" uses a multi-perspective parallel structure to connect the relationship and influence between Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong, Chen Duxiu, Zhang Xueliang and other characters, outlining his major contributions to the Chinese revolution and history. Not only this, but also the pictures of him with his wife, his children, his comrades-in-arms, his students, and with thousands of workers and peasants, and every ordinary face who sacrificed his life and forgot his death was infected by Mr. Shouchang, which in turn affected his revolutionary path. Thus, a multi-faceted, plump, human-temperature image of Li Dazhao was born.
More than 20 time-space transformations, using details to outline the image of Li Dazhao who is both great and warm
The movie "Revolutionary" delicately presents the whole process of Li Dazhao from arrest to righteousness, involving more than 20 time and space, including many important figures and important events in the history of the party. Touching details, romantic audio-visual expressions and actors' performances make these party history stories vividly reflected on the screen, or tragic, or exciting, or warm, one by one stirring the hearts of fans.
The film begins with a scene of the Kailuan coal mine strike led by Li Dazhao. Workers lined up like dominoes, lying down on the tracks. The illuminated hats on their heads are as bright as the stars, showing the momentum and strength of the workers, indicating that the spark of the stars can finally burn. The camera turns to the Shanghai Concession, where foreigners were singing and Chinese discriminated against, and the newsboy Ah Chen was unfortunately shot and killed by a rude Russian, and Li Dazhao defended his grievances, clearly showing how he led and organized the early workers' movement.
When "Revolutionary" presents the meeting of Southern Chen and Northern Li to establish the party, through a seemingly idle chat on the issue of eating tastes, the friendship between the two revolutionary pioneers is restored, and the ideological confrontation between the two is also shown in a lifely way. Li Dazhao invited Chen Duxiu to eat small dumplings in Beijing, and he said that Chen Duxiu, as a southerner, could not eat small steamed buns in Beijing, and in the same way, as a northerner, Shanghai's fried sauce noodles must not have Beijing authenticity. Although the two had been friends for so many years and "could not eat together", they "talked together" because of their lofty revolutionary ideals. Southern Chen Bei Li met to establish the party, and with the hot pot in the film emitting a thick pyrotechnic atmosphere, so close and so warm.
He caressed the white flowers under the trees, he looked in the iron prison into the light of the skylight, he shouted "Believe in you" before his execution... These artistically processed shots are either poetic or bloody, showing the romance of a traditional Chinese literati, the firm faith of an intellectual, and the most fiery feelings and hopes of a revolutionary.
Really go into the heart of the character, fade the original I play a mr. Shouchang who has both the form and the god
Netizens who have read "Revolutionary" have left messages, and in the past, the impression of Li Dazhao was mainly through articles such as "My Father" and "Memories of Sixteen Years Ago" in the textbooks of the student era. However, this movie makes the image of Mr. Shou chang in his heart more vivid. "He would teach the newsboy gently, never dislike beggars, mingle with his students, and joke with his friends." He is like the people around us on the screen. Many fans praised Zhang Songwen's acting skills, "Very restorative, the demeanor and action are particularly in place!" It's really good at acting! ”
In order to create a Li Dazhao with both form and god, Zhang Songwen read a lot of literature and materials, and also repeatedly pondered a video of Li Dazhao's speech at the Moscow National Theater, hoping to truly enter his heart. In the film, in addition to the appearance of Li Dazhao created by the eight-character beard and glasses, Zhang Songwen did leave a lot of highlight moments that made film critics and audiences unforgettable.
The hoarse speech was a cry to the people to save their lives; he and Mao Zedong, his teachers and friends, climbed the building side by side to overlook the country they loved; the streets of Beijing and the students held hands, in order to oppose the aggression of the great powers, they roared as they advanced; when the patriotic students were bloodied by the warlord Duan Qirui, he was covered with blood, and with tears in his eyes, he said the phrase "They have guns" to his wife in the hospital; he did not change his face in the face of death, and after listening to the verdict, he could also stomp on Erlang's legs and say "Zhong" in the Words of Hebei Leting. He took the last picture before the sacrifice, took off his glasses, and there was indifference, certainty, and lightness in his eyes...
According to director Xu Zhanxiong, in order to truly restore a scene that was knocked down, Zhang Songwen rolled on the ground, leaving stones and dust on his face and clothes; when Li Dazhao was shot in one leg, behind the limp figure and pace, Zhang Songwen put small pebbles in his shoes, so that the audience in front of the screen experienced the "truth" and the "pain". Try to fade the original self, use the rhythm of the role itself to convey everything, a Li Dazhao who moved Zhang Songwen himself and moved the audience, acted out.
Author: Jiang Fang
Editor: Wang Xiaoli