Two days ago, an old movie from 28 years ago, "Inuyasha", was unexpectedly on the hot search.
However, it is not because the film is made of artistic standards, but because of the huge controversy behind the film.
As the name suggests, this is a dog-related animal movie, according to the synopsis of the story:
It tells the story of a military dog who has repeatedly made military achievements during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to complete his mission and defend his family and defend the country.
It is said that the story is very well intentioned, and the film also won the special award of the "Excellent Film Award" in 1993 and the best cinematography award of the 14th Golden Rooster Awards that year, and even was used as a primary and secondary school education film that year, which is a film and television work recommended by many schools for students to watch.
However, it is a well-intentioned film, but it has caused controversy due to the director's shooting method.
The reason is that the director revealed in a behind-the-scenes interview of a certain program: there is a plot in the film, the military dog was killed by the enemy's explosives in order to protect humans, and during the filming process, the director actually let a retired military dog with many achievements tie up the real bomb, so that it was blown into pieces in front of the camera.
This act is simply inhumane, let alone a military dog.
Even if it's just an ordinary dog, it's a life!
Obviously, it is so cruel and immoral (it may also be suspected of torturing and killing military dogs, which is already a crime), but the director is not ashamed at all, but he still shows it off. After the dog was blown up, the director was still laughing and said to the people next to him:
You see this dog is so stupid, he doesn't know to get rid of it. Good, good, great, that's exactly what I wanted!
Sadly, this incident was placed more than twenty years ago and did not attract much attention. Fortunately, in recent years, with the establishment and promotion of the public's awareness of protecting animals, after some netizens exposed this incident in the past few years, it immediately caused an uproar, and even many stars Zeng Baoyi, Sun Li, Guo Biting, Lan Yingying, director Chen Jiashang, etc. all spoke out on Weibo to condemn.
Recently, the film has been on the hot search again, and angry netizens have collectively gone to Douban to hit bad reviews, and the current movie rating is only 2.2 points.
It should be known that Bi Zhifei's "Pure Soul Dream Showbiz" currently has 2.4 points, and the annual bad film "Shanghai Fortress", which has been criticized by netizens, also has a score of 2.9 points, which shows the public's indignation and resistance to the movie "Dog King".
Netizens with fierce words even left a message saying: Such a bad film should really be banned!
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Dog King
Many people say that dogs are man's most loyal friend.
In the history of cinema, it is not uncommon for movies to use the emotional bondage between humans and dogs as the theme, and there is no shortage of classics, such as "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog", "Ten Engagements between the Dog and Me", "Guide Dog Little Q", "Antarctic Adventure" and more recently, "A Dog's Mission".
In these works, the theme of interpretation is not only the emotion and companionship between people and pets, but also the concept of dogs being the most loyal partners of human beings is conveyed, healing every pet-loving heart, thus touching many audiences.
This "Inuyasha" is based on real historical events during the War of Resistance.
According to records, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese Kou launched the so-called "mountain and forest sweeping war", the Japanese army used wolf and green dogs to search, and later in order to crack the Japanese Kou's military dog tactics, the state decided to prepare to make dogs with dogs, hired Mr. Dong Hanliang, the originator of China's modern military and police dogs, to study the strategy of breaking the enemy, and finally found a short-legged earth dog commonly known as a "bench dog" in zhejiang to fight against the wolf and green dog of the Japanese army.
The movie "InuYasha" relies on this historical fact to tell the legendary story of a military dog king who made great achievements during the War of Resistance.
It is said that in a mountain village during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the hunter Geng Erlin had a hound in his family, named Hailong, and the hound was raised by the Geng brothers since childhood, who was very intelligent and extremely humane, and also gave birth to two puppies, named Dalong and Xiaolong respectively.
On this day, the Geng brothers were hunting in the forest, and they encountered two uninvited guests.
Among them, the bearded man tried to steal two puppies of the Great Dragon Dragon, and was stopped by another person, but he was bitten back, claiming that the other party was a traitor, so the two sides were deadlocked, and finally found by the brothers of the Geng family.
The Geng brothers brought the two home, and happened to meet Dong Shaogu, a female officer of the Nearby Eighth Route Army, and she happened to know the person who was slandered as a "traitor", and the other party was not a traitor, but an anti-Japanese hero Guan Hanliang.
Guan Hanliang and Dong Shaogu were once classmates, and now serve as an instructor in the training of military dogs in the national army, because they are very good at taming military dogs, they have led their military dog teams to defeat the Japanese army many times, so they are known as the "Wolf Dog King".
Guan Hanliang now pretends to be a farmer to come to the mountains, just to find a good dog for the training of the national army.
The crowd did not fight and did not know each other, and the bearded man did not expect to hit the muzzle of the gun, quickly lied that it was a misunderstanding, and took the opportunity to sneak away.
Unexpectedly, the bearded man with the thief's heart and immortal heart saw that there was no hope of stealing the dog, so when he left, he quietly threw a grenade with the fuse pulled out of the yard.
At the moment of crisis, the female dog Sea Dragon found the smoking grenade, so she picked up the grenade and ran towards the mountain forest.
As a result, the grenade exploded, killing the sea dragon.
It turned out that this bearded man was disguised by the Japanese army Shosa Yagizawa, who also came to the local area to find a good dog breed, originally targeted two puppies of the Geng family, but ended up meeting Guan Hanliang with the same purpose.
Since you can't get it, you can only get rid of the Inuyasha.
After the death of the divine dog Sea Dragon, the Geng family brothers took two puppies, the Great Dragon and the Little Dragon, and joined Guan Hanliang's military dog commando team.
The Great Dragon and the Little Dragon inherited the excellent genes of the Sea Dragon, and not only showed great talent in training, but also knew very well, so they cooperated with their masters Erlin and Dashan tacitly.
Fast forward a year, after intensive training, the great dragon and the little dragon became the leading dogs of the military dog team and were about to go to the battlefield.
At this time, the Japanese army was sweeping in the nearby mountains and forests, and Dong Shaogu of the Eighth Route Army took the initiative to find Guan Hanliang, the instructor of the Nationalist Army Dog Team, hoping to join forces and give the Japanese army a head-on attack.
The ambush was very successful, the Eighth Route Army and the Army Dog Team successfully ambushed the Japanese convoy carrying the medicine,
Under the attack of the brave and fierce military dogs, the leader of the team, Yagizawa, fled into the wilderness.
After that, the military dog team once again went out on horseback and ambushed the transport team led by the Japanese army Daisa, and the well-trained military dogs could even climb on the Japanese vehicle with explosive packs, and then bite open the explosive lead, and finally blew the Japanese army to collapse.
The two ambushes in succession caused the Japanese to carry out even more frantic retaliation and began to burn and loot everywhere in several nearby counties.
At this time, the young and vigorous Geng Erlin heard about the tragedy of the nearby village, so he secretly took the little dragon and a few military dogs to the vicinity of the river where Japanese soldiers often haunted.
The Japanese army was taking a bath by the river, and when Erlin gave an order, the god dog Xiaolong took the other military dogs and pounced on the Japanese army.
The unsuspecting Japanese soldiers were frightened and fled under the bite of the dragon and other military dogs, but the brave and unusually brave military dogs did not let go of the bite of the Japanese Kou, and focused on the fatal part of the bite.
When Erlin returned, he was proud and proud, thinking that he had taught the devils a harsh lesson, but the instructor Guan Hanliang severely criticized him, believing that he acted privately and could easily expose the military dog training base, which would only be exchanged for the crazy counterattack of the Japanese army.
The Japanese side was very jealous of the military dog team, and the commander ordered Yagi Toki to find out the location of the military dog training base.
To this end, the Japanese sent a small team, secretly disguised as the national army, claiming to strengthen the protection of the military dog base.
Geng Dashan, along with the military dog Dalong, was ordered to lead this fake escort to the military dog training base hidden in the mountain.
On the way, the accompanying Deputy Xu recognized the identity of the Japanese army and ordered Dashan to quickly return to the base to report the news.
However, before it could make a move, it was detected by the Japanese army, and Oyama ventured to stuff the note into the collar of the dragon and ordered it to return to the base to report the news, while Oyama died with the enemy to save the dragon.
However, although dalong risked death to pass the note back, the military dog training base was still discovered by the Japanese army.
Under the large-scale bombardment of the Japanese army, almost all the military dogs in the military dog base were killed, and the great dragon was eventually killed.
After this attack, only the divine dog Xiaolong was lucky to escape the disaster, but he was separated from the large troops of the Nationalist army.
Since then, Xiaolong has been looking for lonely Japanese soldiers in the nearby prefectures and counties where the Japanese army is active, and has completed his revenge in his own way, so that the people have begun to rumor that this divine dog that kills the Japanese is the heavenly dog Xiafan.
The Japanese army Shōsa Yagi loves and hates the shinigami dragon and is bent on taking the shinuu for himself.
So he led a team to arrest Grandma Geng's grandson and announced to the outside world that he would let the Geng family use Xiaolong as a quid pro quo.
Reluctantly, Dong Shaogu of the Eighth Route Army retrieved Xiaolong and took Xiaolong to exchange for Grandma Geng's grandson.
Yagi Shosa finally got the little dragon dog and trained it in a hurry, trying to domesticate it into a Japanese military dog.
Curiously, Xiaolong was very cooperative with the training of the Japanese shosa, which made Yagi very happy, believing that he had successfully domesticated the god dog.
Soon, the Eighth Route Army launched a night attack on the county seat where the Japanese army was stationed, and Shaosaki Yagi hurriedly decided to withdraw.
However, the little dragon fled with Yagi all the way to the forest in the nearby mountains, and Yagi followed the little dragon to a forest, only to see the grave of the female dog Sea Dragon.
It turns out that the divine dog Xiaolong has never forgotten the death of his mother, and he discovers that Yagi is the murderer of his mother Sea Dragon, so he pretends to be domesticated, lures Yagi to the sea dragon tomb step by step, and finally kills Yagi, completing his revenge.
At the end of the story, the freed Little Dragon reunites with Erlin, who has become a soldier of the Eighth Wheel Army.
Frankly speaking, this "Dog King" is not a very good movie.
As a film filmed nearly thirty years ago, the film in the entire story expression, almost the same as the later anti-Japanese drama, although it is based on real historical events, but the screenwriter obviously did a lot of fiction and artistic exaggeration, whether it is the plot or characters are very rigid and thin, the story is relatively low,
The biggest advantage may be that the portrayal of military dogs and the human dog love conveyed in the story are quite touching.
But the problem is that as a main theme work, the director's practice of blowing up the military dogs for filming is really disgusting.
I still remember when I saw the opening scene of the film, the scene where the sea dragon was killed in order to protect the owner's family and desperately took the grenade, at that time I just felt shocked, touched by the spirit of the god dog's loyalty to the lord, and at that time, like many people's ideas, I thought that the crew must have used props to shoot. After all, most movies will end with a line of subtitles "No animals were harmed during the filming" as a disclaimer.
However, many years later, I learned that the director of this film, Yao Shougang, actually let the dog shoot with explosives in order to pursue the sense of reality, and finally blew up the military dog used for filming on the spot, which is why the film is now encountering such a big controversy.
Director Yao Shougang is an old director, has been shooting the main theme of the work, the debut work "Outpost in the Birch Forest" is a military theme film related to military dogs, and has also been selected into the 29 domestic excellent films of the year, and the later work "Wild Mother" also won the Silver Peacock Award at the 11th International Film Festival, which can be regarded as a senior director.
"The Dog King" is Yao Shougang's work in his later years, many years later, when he participated in a program on the movie channel, he told the story of the explosion of the military dog during filming as a "behind-the-scenes fun", Yao said: In order to make the performance more realistic, we tied a real bomb to a well-trained and meritorious police dog; in front of the camera, it ran and was blown to pieces... The warrior who had trained and trained the dog for years, after seeing such a real shot, cried to death and came back to life....
Subsequently, he added that "in order to alleviate the pain of the dog, it is necessary to blow it up at once." After the director finished speaking this passage, the program team at the time repeated the scene of the military dog being blown up many times.
According to the account at the time, the reason why director Yao Shougang chose to shoot with this cruel practice was that "there were no economic and technical conditions to do stunts at that time, and it was necessary to achieve artistic effects", so he selected a retired military dog and called it "euthanasia".
Later, Yao Shougang was pressured to come out and apologize, but only a fluttering sentence: "For art." ”
Everyone and every industry should have their own bottom line and conscience. Every director hopes to convey some values to the public through their own films, so that the audience can be touched in their hearts after watching the film.
The director of this film, with his own behavior and attitude, let us feel his disrespect and disregard for life. In my opinion, life has never been high or low, and every life deserves our respect, let alone a military dog with great achievements.
Writing this, the author is reminded of another story:
The white dragon horse of the 86th edition of "Journey to the West" was also a military horse in the compilation, and in order to shoot "Journey to the West", the warrior endured pain and cut love. It accompanied the crew to the wind and the sun, fell an injury, after the broadcast of "Journey to the West" six young children they achieved fame, originally Director Yang Jie wanted to raise a white dragon horse but did not succeed, the white dragon horse was sent to an amusement park for tourists to play, and finally the white dragon horse died miserably with an injury...