"October Siege" is a historical era theme film worth watching many times, whether it is the fight scene in the film, or the adherence to faith in the play, the sacrifice of small people, will bring people some spiritual touch.
The movie "October Siege" brings together as many as 29 stars to star, but can make the stars do their best, the film through the complex story threads of the mixed, interlocking plot settings, completed the hong Kong revolution in the context of the late Qing Dynasty people's unhappy era.
But while lamenting the revolutionary martyrs in the play, the small people in the chaotic world, the peddlers and pawns, and using their lives to protect a strange revolutionary, do you know how many of them have the archetype of historical figures?
At the beginning of the film, Yang Quyun, played by Jacky Cheung, is shot and killed by the assassin Yan Xiaoguo, played by Hu Jun, who was the president of the Hong Kong Xingzhong Association at that time. According to historical records, Yang Quyun, born in 1861 in Dongguan, Guangdong, founded the Furen Cultural Society in 1890 and was the first president of the Hong Kong Xingzhong Association.
On January 10, 1901, Yang Quyun was shot and assassinated in his private school by Chen Lin, an assassin sent by the Qing court. Sun Yat-sen held a memorial service for him in Yokohama and raised a pension of 1,200 yuan for his wife and three daughters and one son.
The second character is Chen Shaobai, the president of China Daily in the play, in the film, Chen Shaobai actively advocates revolution and is a loyal follower of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and in this action to protect Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Chen Shaobai has always played the role of the general liaison.
In real history, Chen Shaobai was also the founder of China Daily, and Sun Yat-sen was not only an alumnus, but also supported Dr. Sun Yat-sen's ideas together with Yu Lie and Yang Heling, so he was called the "Four Great Kou" by the Qing government. Chen Shaobai is not only an excellent newspaper operator, but also a pioneer of the literary and artistic revolution. After the victory of the revolution, Chen Shaobai was reluctant to become an official, devoted himself to industry, and has been funding Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause.
There is another one, the rich Hong Kong businessman Li Yutang in the play, Li Yutang, as a businessman with conscience and a sense of justice, has been funding the publication of the revolutionary newspaper "China Daily", in that action, because his friend Chen Shaobai was suddenly arrested, he stood up and gathered all the righteous men to escort Sun Yat-sen, and his son Li Chongguang also died for playing a stand-in for Sun Yat-sen.
In real history, Li Yutang is based on Li Yutang, an industrialist in Guangdong, a wealthy Businessman in Hong Kong, and a director of Guangdong Industrial Group. In 1902, he founded a number of insurance companies, raised funds and repeatedly funded The China Daily to tide over the difficulties. Li Yutang did have a son, born in 1882, who went to Japan in 1900 to study. In 1903, he studied at the Revolutionary Military School founded by Sun Yat-sen and joined the League in 1904. However, the plot of sun yat-sen as a stand-in in the play is fictional in the film.
In the film, except for several protagonists and some characters who are prototypes of real people, most of the others are fictionalized according to the background of historical times, including dr. Sun Yat-sen's "October Siege" experience in Hong Kong, which is not recorded in history. Historically, in October 1905, there are indeed records of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's visit to Hong Kong, but there is no mention of Sun Yat-sen's assassination in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong at that time was still under the control of the British, and the Qing government was always afraid of foreigners, so they did not dare to act rashly in Hong Kong.
However, in the process of leading the revolution, Dr. Sun Yat-sen was indeed hunted down by the Qing court many times, and there were many people around him who protected him, and there were many rich businessmen who supported him, but all these characters and events were condensed into the film Hong Kong's day.
In the film, when many small characters of righteous deeds were sacrificed, subtitles were typed: for example, Fang Hong, played by Li Yuchun, was a Tianjin native and was less than 20 years old when he died; the big man played by Battle was from Henan, and the son of a wealthy businessman played by Wang Baijie was not yet 20 years old when he died because he was a stand-in for Sun Yat-sen.
But in fact, these characters are all fictionalized in the film, and there is no corresponding historical figure. Director Chen Desen said that the reason for such subtitles is to enhance the sense of history of the film. Finally, what do you think of this movie, and what else do you want to say about the movie "October Siege"?