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On September 26th, the movie "My Father and I" held a special viewing event in Beijing, and director and actor Wu Jing brought a clip of "Riding the Wind", telling the story of the heroic resistance of the cavalry regiment in Jizhong during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
At the post-screening meeting, some viewers questioned the clip of "soldiers shooting down planes with rifles" in the film, and Wu Jing said that the story told in the film was adapted from real history, and he and his team specifically verified the history of the war of "shooting planes with guns", and watched many historical video materials.
Wu Jing said, "During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army shot down 14 enemy planes with light weapons, which were all the wisdom and courage of the Chinese, and I felt that it should be restored and shown, and the rest should be judged by the audience." ”
"Riding the Wind" of "My Father and Me" is based on a team of iron horsemen who made outstanding achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, who desperately resisted the Japanese army in order to protect the evacuation of the masses, and the film depicts a group of cavalry regiments and the people of Jizhong who jointly resisted the Japanese invasion.
The film's story takes place during the May Day anti-"sweep" in 1942, when Wu Jing and popular young actor Wu Lei play ma Renxing, the leader of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, and Ma Chengfeng, a correspondent.
The film tells the story of 1942 from Ma Chengfeng's communication telegram that the cavalry regiment was in danger of being exposed because of the defection of traitors to the enemy. In order to cover the organs of the Jizhong District and safely transfer the old, young, women and children left in the village, the cavalry regiment rushed to the death with one enemy and a hundred, under the disparity of firepower, and pinned down the enemy's attack, and used traditional cavalry tactics to tear a gap.
Behind the scenes of the film revealed that Wu Jing challenged the magnificent horse battle scene for the first time, and through the study of a large number of historical materials, he opened up trenches and built battlefields 1:1, and used more than 200 war horses.
The actors also played with real knives and guns, restoring the cavalry combat scenes during the War of Resistance, which also pulled the audience's expectations for this film to the highest.
Wu Lei was injured in the face caused by a gun explosion during a circus
Tonight (26th), "My Father and I" held a special viewing event in Beijing, and after the "Riding the Wind" clip was broadcast, some viewers questioned the clip of "soldiers shooting down the plane with rifles" in the film.
In this regard, Wu Jing admitted that in fact, as early as the release of the trailer of the film, this shot was questioned by the "anti-Japanese drama", but he and the team specially verified the history of the war of "shooting the plane with guns", and watched many historical video materials, which showed that it was adapted from the real history, including the cavalry regiment standing on the horse, letting the war horse lie down, the layout of the battlefield, etc., all of which tried to be consistent with the historical records.
Wu Jing said, "In fact, when we filmed this section, we were very nervous, very stressed, worried about whether it would be like a 'divine drama', but we collected all the information. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army shot down 14 enemy aircraft with light weapons, a tactic called 'block shooting' to divert the aircraft from its bombing target and prevent it from dropping bombs. ”
Wu Jing believes that this tactic should be shown in the movie, because it reflects the wisdom of the soldiers, full of the wisdom and courage of the Chinese, "When we were able to shoot 14 planes with small arms, the wisdom of the Chinese was all in it, so I boldly took a step forward, and I did not know whether it could be achieved or not, but I felt that as long as we showed the wisdom and courage of our Eighth Route Army, as for others to believe it or not, it was left to the audience to judge." ”
Casually check, there are really a lot of "machine gun hit the plane" related information:
In February 1940, the anti-Japanese hero Bai Yihua ordered the soldiers to shoot at the air, while asking for a three-eight rifle from the guard's hand, kneeling on one leg, aiming at the plane and firing several shots, the bullet hit the Japanese fighter pilot, and the plane shook and crashed into the mountain.
In August 1938, after the Japanese army took Guangji (present-day Anlu, Hubei), it directly attacked Tianjia Town, the last fortress in Wuhan. Zheng Zuomin, commander of the main division of the 2nd Army, wrote a suicide note and led his troops to meet the enemy at Songshan Pass on the outskirts of Tianjia Town, and more than 17,000 anti-Japanese heroes spilled blood on the battlefield, and also created a miracle of machine guns hitting planes.
Also in January 1932, the Japanese Jiacun Brigade personally commanded the 3-county joint defense team, under the cover of several aircraft, to surround the 25th Road Volunteer Army under the command of Zhao Dazhong, stationed in the eastern foothills of Lu Mountain. Every day, the enemy dispatched aircraft to indiscriminately bombard the positions of the Volunteer Army. When an enemy plane swooped down to drop a bomb, soldier Han Rongjiu disregarded the danger and hit a Japanese plane with a rifle. This is also confirmed in the "Manchurian Chronicle" published in Japan: on January 24, 1932, "My fighter jet crashed near The Great Tiger Mountain, and Lieutenant Hanazawa and Tanaka Cao were killed in battle." ”
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Therefore, for Wu Jing's statement, many netizens support it, agreeing that there is no shortage of "open and hanging" heroes in China who dare not make up TV dramas, and after verification, these heroic legends should be put on the big screen.
During the exchange session, some viewers asked what obstacles Wu Jing had in shooting war themes, and Wu Jing said freely: There is no obstacle, and the "flowing" past has passed. And confessed that every time directing a movie is an exam, "I believe that I will see a different war movie in the near future."
At the same time, he also revealed that there may be long works on the theme of cavalry. Wu Jing said that he originally prepared two cavalry stories for the film, one long and one short, but this time due to space limitations, he only shot short stories, and looked forward to bringing long works to the audience in the future.
Interestingly, just when Wu Jing was looking forward to the military-themed movies to be filmed in the future, he did not expect to be urged by the audience to "look forward to your "Wolf Warrior 3"", Wu Jing looked "unable to hide" and smiled: "I remember you!" ”
The movie "My Father and Me" is co-directed by Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi, Xu Zheng and Shen Teng. Similar to the previous two films, "My Father and I" also selects several themes to connect the whole film, the film takes revolution, construction, reform and opening up and the new era as the historical coordinates, depicts the struggle experience of several generations of fathers through the perspective of "home and country", tells the blood connection and spiritual inheritance of the Chinese, and reproduces the memory of the times when Chinese worked hard, and the film will be released on October 1 " National Day File".
Source | Observer Network