Nowadays, the anti-Japanese drama has long become synonymous with thunder drama.
Most of these themes are cloaked in anti-Japanese themes, and the essence is a funny thunder drama.
Not only does the plot not stand up to scrutiny, spoofing and scandalizing history, but also the design of many bridge sections is very thunderous.
Such as: slingshot hit the plane, hand tearing devil, bun mine, bicycle flying war, etc., and so on.
Only you can't think of it, there is no anti-Japanese thunder drama screenwriters dare not make it.
So much so that it was once ridiculed by netizens:
The anti-Japanese thunder drama has almost accumulated people with special abilities all over the world, and if you don't have a little skill, you are embarrassed to fight the devil.
However, the anti-Japanese drama that Fan Yingjun wants to recommend today is a veritable real anti-Japanese drama!
The film was filmed 26 years ago and won many awards such as the Huabiao Award and the Golden Rooster Award that year.
At a time when the domestic commercial film market was scarce, the film boldly combined the story of the war of resistance with comedic elements.
Created a Chinese version of "Tiger's Mouth Escape"!
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Narrow Escape
The director of the film is the fifth generation of famous director Zhang Jianya.
Unlike their contemporaries Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, who are based on literary and art films, Zhang Jianya has always loved commercial genre films.
In Zhang Jianya's works, most of them are comedies and disaster films, and most of the works pursue entertainment and have strong commercial attributes.
He once said:
No matter what movie you make, the key is to make it look good.
This is completely different from the literary and art film style advocated by the fifth generation of filmmakers represented by Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige at that time.
Therefore, Zhang Jianya became a representative figure in the exploration period of domestic commercial films in the 1990s.
In 1992, Zhang Jianya directed the comedy film "Sanmao From the Army" based on the comic book of the same name by writer Zhang Leping.
The film was all the rage at the time, becoming a classic childhood memory for many people, and was praised by critics as:
Pioneered the postmodern comedy style of Chinese cinema.
So far, Douban has maintained a high score of 8.3, which is better than 93% of comedies, which is a peak of domestic comedy.
After "Sanmao From the Army", this comic-style absurd comedy style became a feature of Zhang Jianya's works.
It is reflected in his other film works, such as "Kidnapping Karajan" and "Mr. Wang's Burning in the Fire".
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Zhang Jianya also directed an air disaster-themed "Emergency Rescue".
The film is the first time in the history of Chinese cinema to try to use computer special effects to show thrilling scenes, a full twenty years before last year's "Captain China".
Speaking of this "Desperate Situation", the film was a rare war comedy at that time.
The story is set in a certain sea area in southern China during World War II.
The film begins with a tense and oppressive submarine confrontation scene, showing the fierce confrontation between the American and Japanese forces in the Pacific at that time.
Late at night, a Japanese warship was quietly sailing on the dark ocean, and all the sonar soldiers were nervously searching for the whereabouts of an American submarine.
At sea level, an American submarine was lurking in the nearby reef, ready to move.
The American soldiers were drenched in sweat, and only Haruko, a mysterious Japanese woman dressed in American troops, was leisurely drinking coffee.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese warships discovered the whereabouts of the American troops and fought an ambush battle in advance.
The U.S. submarine was sunk by a Japanese depth charge bomb because of the plan, which led to the exposure of its whereabouts.
Then the picture turned and came to the waters of China.
The heroine, Lian Meizi, is a fisherwoman who is fishing in the sea at this time.
Suddenly, a black man emerged from the water and grabbed the boat to help him get on the boat, and then several more American troops appeared around the boat.
The two sides did not understand each other's languages, and Captain Ted even said that it was only by comparison that the other side understood that they were fighting the Japanese.
Therefore, Lian Meizi quietly took the group of victims to the fishing boat and then transported them back to the village.
At this time in a fishing village.
The fisherman Lao Wan (Wei Zongwan) is planning to attack the Japanese stronghold through a bomb hidden in a fish basket.
But he didn't think about it, but accidentally bumped into Chen Zheng (Pan Changjiang), a blacksmith who wanted to be in debt.
Chen Zheng was comparing axes for people, dragging Lao Wan's fish basket and not giving up, and had to ask Lao Wan to take fish to pay off the money he owed himself.
Seeing that the Japanese squad was getting closer and closer, Lao Wan was shocked and anxious.
At the critical moment, Lao Wan dragged Chen Zheng to the side, which killed the Japanese squad.
This bomb attack failed to achieve the expected purpose, and Lao Wan had to lead his men and horses to retreat in a hurry.
Soon after, several American soldiers who fled to the fishing village were captured by the Japanese army, but the mysterious Japanese woman Haruko escaped.
Nishihara, the Japanese wing commander in the stronghold, received an urgent telegram from Tokyo, ordering him to find Haruko's whereabouts.
It turned out that Haruko was a cryptographer who held high secrets on the Japanese side.
The mission of the U.S. submarine was to escort Haruko to a U.S. military base in the Pacific, where she accidentally collided with the Japanese.
Haruko arrives at the fishing village, but is accidentally caught in the cave by Lao Wan.
It was difficult to find the connectors, only to understand that they had a heavy responsibility and had to leave the fishing village quickly.
As everyone knows, this connector turned out to be a traitor disguised by a Japanese spy.
He wanted to wipe out the American soldiers, along with Lao Wan's guerrillas.
Fortunately, the blacksmith Chen Zheng's nonsense finally exposed the identity of the Japanese spy.
On the other side, Lian Meizi took the American troops who had been rescued by herself and joined Lao Wan's guerrillas.
After some deliberation, Lao Wan's fishermen's guerrillas decided to help them.
At this time, the Japanese troops in the town had found the American troops hiding in the fishing village and sent aircraft to reconnoiter over the fishing village.
The guerrillas did not dare to act rashly, but that night, Haruko suddenly disappeared, and everyone was looking around.
In order to find haruko's whereabouts, the Japanese army began to sweep the fishing village.
The American troops and Lao Wan, who were hidden in the mountains, could not contain their anger and rushed into the village to repulse the Japanese army.
As a result, the Americans were ambushed by the Japanese at night and all were captured.
Only Haruko and the blacksmith Chen Zheng escaped the Japanese by hiding among the rock walls, and finally escaped to the vicinity of the airport.
Haruko asks the blacksmith Chen to blow up the airport oil depot, divert the attention of the Japanese army, and start the plane herself.
In the village, Lao Wan led the death squad straight to the stronghold where the American troops and Lian Meizi were being held, and fought fiercely with the Japanese army.
At the critical moment, Haruko flew a plane to strafe the Japanese army, Nishihara was killed, and the Japanese army was destroyed.
Finally, Haruko flew away, rescuers from the U.S. military base arrived, and a submarine rose from the sea.
The film was shot in 1994, and although it has been more than two decades, the baggage and jokes in it are not outdated.
As an alternative war film, the film boldly imitated the exaggerated elements of many European and American comedies, the plot was imaginative, the story was funny, and the comedy style of Chinese and American humor was integrated, which made the audience at that time shine.
There are many bridges in the film that still seem to be hilarious to this day, lamenting the creativity of the writers and directors.
Like what:
As a Sino-US co-production war film, there is no shortage of humorous displays of Western culture in the film.
The scene of the protagonist against the Japanese devil was directly turned into a boxing ring, and after winning, there was a cheer from the whole audience.
On the way to escape, the black soldier directly grabbed his helmet and played the ghost as a basketball.
When the Japanese grenades were thrown, the Americans shot back with the hilt of the gun as a baseball.
At this point, the two sides completely turned into a baseball game, and began to throw grenades at each other, as if competing for two, three or four bases.
Eventually, the grenade was passed to Taijun.
After the explosion, the soot on Taijun's belly was impressively written "4:3", which was simply hilarious.
At the end of the movie, the scene of American soldiers riding sidecar motorcycles rushing into the Japanese camp to save people clearly has the meaning of paying tribute to the Western.
Although riding a motorcycle, the U.S. military grabbed a cowboy hat, tied a red scarf, and used a rope to trap the devil.
What impressed the author the most was Lao Wan and the blacksmith Chen Zheng, in order to avoid the passage where the Japanese army installed a statue of the god in the temple.
The bridge design of foreign American soldiers incarnating as Chinese native gods is full of creativity.
On the other hand, the film was shot more than twenty years ago.
However, in the overall production, it is much more attentive than the current anti-Japanese drama.
Although the opening submarine scene is obviously a miniature model, the scheduling and editing are excellent, and it does shoot the visual sense of a war blockbuster.
In addition, there is the end of the movie, the passage of Pan Changjiang picking up the plane.
Although limited by the era, the special effects are slightly fifty cents, but in the domestic films at that time, it is definitely a rare action thrilling scene.
In terms of actors, Pan Changjiang, who is a sketch actor, needless to say, his performance is a highlight of the film.
The performance of the old drama bone Wei Zongwan is particularly wonderful, and the simple and grounded performance does not even contradict the film's nonsense style, but complements each other.
Looking at the role of Lao Wan alone, who would have thought that he was the black and cunning Sima Yi in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?
In addition, director Zhang Jianya is good at adding humanistic care to his works, and contains many profound bitterness and serious thoughts that are inconvenient to express in the laughter.
Although "Desperate Circumstances" is a relatively popular commercial comedy, there is no shortage of directors' reflections and criticisms on the war in the film.
At the end of the film, the blacksmith Chen Zheng and the female spy Haruko said something next to the Japanese military base, which explained the theme of the movie.
Haruko believes that in order to complete the task, she can do whatever it takes, and everything else can be sacrificed.
Because that's the cruelty of war.
It is worth mentioning that although the film is a comedy, it is actually an adaptation of real historical events.
During World War II, four U.S. pilots accidentally landed on an island in Xiangshan, Zhejiang Province, on their way back after a bombing mission in Tokyo, and finally managed to get out of danger with the help of local fishermen.
In the World War II-themed film "Decisive Battle of Midway", which was released last year, this history was mentioned.
Regarding this "Desperate Situation", many people will compare it with another "Smart Escape".
Both films are starred by Wei Zongwan, and both use sketch actors as the main characters (the main actor of "Qiao Ben Miao" is Huang Hong), and the themes are also anti-Japanese comedies, but in fact, there is no connection between the two.
However, the interlude "Playing Cotton" sung by Huang Hong in the movie has become a childhood memory of many people.
Speaking of this "Desperate Situation", the film is an active exploration of domestic comedy films.
Although it can't reach the height of the classic comedy like "Tiger's Mouth", the black humor and funny baggage in the film are worthy of recognition.
Unfortunately -
More than twenty years on, we have never made such an exploratory genre comedy again!