I don't know how many readers like the author, now turn on the TV do not know what to watch film and television dramas, flip around and finally prefer to go to see a few old movies, maybe the old movies will have such and such contemporary problems, but one thing is certainly true, that is, the conscience of production.
If you are a military fan or a history buff, it will be more speechless to see the scenes of various film and television dramas everywhere now, in this case, the old movies with conscience become our comfort.
An old movie that this article wants to talk about may not be very famous, after all, the age is a bit long, the release time is short, and the number of replays is less, but the film is not inferior to the Sino-Japanese co-production blockbuster "Dunhuang" in terms of production conscience, especially in the degree of battlefield restoration.
The name of the film is "Song Jingshi".
First, the film that was born by chance
Song Jingshi was the leader of the peasant revolt in the late Qing Dynasty, and the unit he led was called the Black Flag Army, which was not the same as the Liu Yongfu Black Flag Army that we know. Although Song Jingshi was brave and good at war, due to the fact that there were too many famous rebel generals in his era, under the fame of Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng, Chen Yucheng, Zhang Luoxing, Zhang Zongyu, Lai Wenguang and others, Song Jingshi's Black Flag Army was indeed not famous enough, and the scope of activities was also very small, so it was really strange to make a biographical film for him alone.
In fact, the birth of "Song Jingshi" is also "thanks" to his neighbor Wuxun, who basically coincides with the age of Wuxun's survival, and the location is even more similar, Song Jingshi is now a native of Liuguanzhuang, Liaocheng Guan County, and Wuxun is a native of Liulin Town, GuanXian County.
In 1951, the Shanghai Film Studio filmed the "Biography of WuXun" was criticized, in order to collect information on wuxun, the working group entered Wuxun's hometown to visit the villagers and accidentally found a large number of heroic deeds of Song Jingshi, compared with wuxun's "kneeling", Song Jingshi's "rebellion" is more precious, and its contrast is stronger.
Therefore, after a long discussion, the Shanghai Film Studio, which was highly criticized at that time, decided to shoot "Song Jingshi" and prepare to fight a turnaround battle.
It is worth mentioning that in the "Biography of Wu Xun", Wu Xun had a friend named Zhou Da, who eventually embarked on the road of uprising, and this "Zhou Da" had the shadow of Song Jingshi. Therefore, the superiors proposed that Zhao Dan play Wuxun again in "Song Jingshi" and shoot a scene in which Wuxun expressed admiration and support for Song Jingshi. This proposal is very stressful for Zhao Dan, who is at a low ebb, so director Zheng Junli helped Zhao Dan push off this performance on the pretext that the screenwriter had completed inconvenient modifications.
Second, the elite out of the film studio
Because it is a turnaround battle, so the film studio in the "Song Jingshi" elite out, even the supporting roles and dragon sets are famous characters, such as the statement in the film as a notice of the dragon set, comfortable although played Lai Wenguang only one or two shots, Yu Fei, Li Paul, Gu Yelu and other people are also a few scenes.
In "The Legend of Martial Arts", he starred as the martial arts star Zhang Yi of the uprising general Zhou Da, and played the main general Zhang Chongde in "Song Jingshi", who is the best actor in the film to play equestrianism.
Wu Yin, who also starred in "The Legend of Martial Arts", was known as the "First Old Lady of the Far East" at the time, and he played Song Jingshi's mother in the film, and her performance of understanding the righteousness and not being alarmed was impressive.
The film's most noteworthy mention is the three main actors:
The famous director Cui Wei, who we are familiar with, has served as the director of the Central South China Cultural Bureau in 1953, in charge of the cultural work of six provinces, but the "Song Jingshi" crew still invited him to play the starring role, which has also become the performance masterpiece of Cui Wei, a big director, because Song Jingshi is called Song Dashuai in the film, so Cui Wei also has a nickname "Big Shuai" later.
Song Jingshi is tall and skilled, murderous on the battlefield, but in life is an extremely gentle person, and has been given a playful nickname "Song Yatou" by the hair boys, this contrasting image is very challenging to acting, and Cui Song's performance is very good.
Playing The Second Marshal of Song Jingshi's Black Flag Army, Yang Dianyi, is the famous Xiaosheng Tao Jin, who is handsome and handsome in appearance, and is a famous movie star in Shanghai Beach.
Yang Dianyi, played by Tao Jin, is very popular in the film, wearing a snow-white battle robe and taking the lead in every battle, which is really a rare fierce general.
The actors who are most praised by posterity in "Song Jingshi" are not two positive characters, but the villain monk Greenqin, who is played by the drama emperor Shi Hui.
In fact, "Song Jingshi" has three directors, in addition to the signed Sun Yu and Zheng Junli, Shi Hui has also served as the director of many scenes, in addition to the monk Greenqin he played has also been praised by the majority of fans.
The most impressive thing about Shi Hui's monk Gelinqin is his lines, whether it is laughter, anger, scolding or disdain, very flavorful, it can be called a classic.
There is also a special role in the film, the commander of the foreign gun team, this actor who is obviously a foreigner is actually a familiar person, he is the famous dubbing master Qiu Yuefeng.
However, Qiu Yuefeng, who was not yet famous at that time, could only play the advantage of his mixed-race appearance in various movies, often starring as foreigners, and it is interesting that in the film, Qiu Yuefeng did not have a line except for two laughs, which is really a small regret.
III. The Confusion of the Revised Script of "Song Jingshi"
The plot of "Song Jingshi" is not complicated, that is, the process of his rebellion and war, there are not too many twists and turns and suspense, but realistically speaking, the plot of the first half of the rebellion stage of "Song Jingshi" is still relatively smooth, but the plot of the second half will give people a slight sense of chaos in the narrative and character lines, and it is reasonable to say that a film that the studio attaches so much importance to should not have such a problem.
The reasons are somewhat complex and somewhat simple, the key problem is that the script and shooting process of "Song Jingshi" are very tangled, and the reason for the entanglement is that Song Jingshi has a "stain" in history.
After Song Jingshi's first uprising, the thirteen cities of Lianke shook the capital, and the Qing court sent Shengbao to suppress the uprising, but due to the heavy casualties of the rebellious Black Flag Army of the landlord armed Liulin Regiment, Song Jingshi led the crowd to surrender in the face of harsh reality.
Later, Song Jingshi followed Shengbao to Henan and Shaanxi to attack other rebel armies, until Shengbao was arrested by the Qing court and forced to commit suicide, Song Jingshi returned to his hometown in Shandong, and then led the second uprising.
If Song Jingshi surrendered to Shengbao, if it is replaced by the current film and television drama, it can simply not be filmed, but under the strict artistic standards of that year, this history cannot be filmed, but this "stain" must also have a reliable statement.
Screenwriter Chen Baichen visited historical celebrities and local elderly people, and after research, he concluded that Song Jingshi was a "fake surrender", and made some changes in the film, which finally made the film dangerous.
Therefore, we see that some of the plots in the film are a little confusing, and some of the lines are fragmented, which is the result of too many post-editing and editing.
Fourth, the highly restored Fuhua Road and the battlefield
"Song Jingshi" is a film that is highly praised by military fans, and even praised by military fans on the altar, praising it as the most restorative war film in the history of China's film, which is certainly not too prestigious, "Song Jingshi" can bear this title.
We first look at the costume road, the black flag soldiers in the film, the clothes worn are very simple, black and white, plus torn clothes and rotten houses in the background, at a glance it feels like a documentary.
Among them, it is worth mentioning that the costumes of the empress dowager of the two palaces seem to be somewhat contrary to the current eyes, but they are designed by the crew after rigorous study, and some historical photos are also more consistent, of which Cixi's Beijing flag accent is even more authentic.
The weapons and equipment used by the rebel army and the Qing soldiers and the foreign gun team in the movie are even more fascinating to the military fans.
The spears used by the Black Flag Army cavalry were visually at least four meters long, which was the length of the real riding gun of that year.
The cavalry's gripping action was even more standard when charging.
When Song Jingshi and Yang Dianyi met Shengbao, they had to cross the sword mountain, and saw that the long knife held by the soldiers was the standard size of the battle knife of that year.
The infantry of the Black Flag Army used the Crescent Moon Knife.
The muskets used by the Yankees were obviously the muzzles of that era, rather than taking Hanyang to create an impersonation.
The author believes that the most satisfactory thing is the column array before the black flag cavalry charge, which is the three standard wedge arrays, the usual array of cavalry assault, and later the German tank army in World War II also used a wedge array or diamond array when charging.
The formation of the monk Greenqin against the Black Flag Army is a hollow square array, Song Jingshi called it the "Fangcheng Sub-Array", this formation is wonderful on both sides of the infantry is cavalry, frontal blocking of the two sides of the enveloping play, the film of the second marshal Yang Dianyi three times all failed, Song Jingshi personally on the fourth impact to break up the monk Greenqin's phalanx.
Also, pay attention to the nearby gun head, which also has a barb on it, and it is not confused at all.
The soldiers in the monastic army's formation, the gesture of holding a shield and raising a knife is professionally pointed.
According to the records, in order to shoot "Song Jingshi", the Inner Mongolia side provided a whole cavalry regiment, and some key details were that the screenwriter Chen Baichen visited more than 700 elderly people in Song Jingshi's hometown, plus went through relevant historical records, this kind of meticulous professionalism is now rare.
V. The Ending of "Song Jing Poems" and Song Jing Poems
In the movie, Song Jingshi personally hacked the monk Greenqin to death, and in history, it was the young general Zhang Pixiu who killed the monk king, but Song Jingshi did participate in this battle and played a great role.
After the successive defeats of the Taiping Army and the Twist Army, Song Jingshi's whereabouts are unknown, and some people say that he was arrested and then Ling Chi for vomiting truth after drinking, in fact, this legend may be confused with Zhang Pixiu. More people think that Song Jingshi should be anonymous but survived.
The movie "Song Jingshi" was also almost hidden because of the surrender stain of Song Jingshi, after argumentation, the film was still released, but it was only released for a short time, until it reappeared in the jianghu, and in recent years, with the development of the Internet, the film has been sought after by the majority of netizens, especially military fans, because of the conscientious obedience and highly restored military equipment and battlefield.
Interestingly, there is a villain Liulin Regiment throughout the film in "Song Jingshi", this landlord regiment from Liulin Town and the Black Flag Army from Liu Guanzhuang are intolerable feuds, according to CCTV documentaries, although people in these two places belong to the same county, but until now they have rarely come and gone, and they have not intermarried, even if they pass by, they have to take a detour.
If what CCTV said is not false, then this is also an influence left by Song Jingshi.