"The Climber," which records china's Everest mountaineering team's two-time summit for the country, is the most underrated film in this year's National Day file. The Climber is expected to gross more than $1.1 billion, failing to meet expectations from the filmmakers and audiences before the film's release.
Because she liked and brushed "The Climber" twice, Shadow Sister recently watched a number of films with the theme of climbing Mount Everest.
The film Desperate Altitude, based on the documentary film Into the Thin Air, chronicles the tragic mountain disaster of a commercial mountaineering team in 1996. "Desperate Altitude" is not as wonderful as "The Climber", but the Douban score is 7.5, which makes The Shadow Sister regret that the "Climber" with a Douban score of only 6.6 is even more regrettable.
In "The Climber", Wu Jing, Hu Ge and other protagonists have paid tribute to the British mountaineer George Mallory many times, and the legend of Mallory has also been made by the BBC into a documentary "Wildest Dream: Conquering Mount Everest", which has a Douban score of 8.7.
Today, Ying Xiaomei would like to share with you "The Wildest Dream: Conquering Mount Everest", a documentary that is very similar to a suspense film, which shows in many ways how pure the BBC's approach to filming documentaries is.
In The Climber, When Wu Jing's Fang Wuzhou was teaching at school, he said that in 1924, George Mallory first challenged Mount Everest from the north slope, but failed when he was 800 feet (244 meters) away from the summit.
In Wildest Dreams: Conquering Everest, the documentary recreates the scene in 1999 when Conrad Anker led an expedition to find the body of George Mallory on Everest, lying at an altitude of 8,170 meters on the north slope of Mount Everest.
After 75 years of wind and snow, Mallory's clothes were in tatters, but it was confirmed through the collar embroidered with his name that it was him.
Anker found a fracture above Mallory's right leg ankle, which was fatal on everest in the snowy sky.
The documentary simulates a scene that might have happened in 1924 in a live-action way— Mallory was not wearing goggles at the time, so it can be inferred that it was night when he went down the mountain, and an accident may have occurred, so he fell and broke his leg. Mallory rested his left leg on his injured right leg to relieve the pain, after which he was likely to die of injury or lack of warmth within half an hour.
While sorting through Mallory's belongings, Anker discovers that a picture of Mallory's wife Ruth is not on him. 75 years ago, Mallory promised to leave Ruth's picture at the top of Mount Everest, does this mean that he succeeded in reaching the summit that year?
After the documentary opens with this question, the entire film revolves around this question.
George Mallory has loved climbing churches since he was a child, and he graduated from Cambridge University. The documentary shows many old photographs of Mallory, which show a personable and beautiful man in black and white.
In "The Climber", Fang Wuzhou, played by Wu Jing, intends to confess to Xu Miao, played by Zhang Ziyi, in the same way that Mallory used to do. Mallory climbed the roof of the church with his bare hands to let his sweetheart Ruth notice him, and Fang Wuzhou also climbed the abandoned factory with his bare hands.
The story is not told in Wildest Dreams: Conquering Everest, where Mallory and Ruth fell in love in 1914 and then married and had three lovely children.
Ruth worries about her husband's safety and opposes Mallory climbing Everest, and the relationship between Mallory, Ruth and Everest in the documentary is described as a "love triangle", which is still quite appropriate.
In 1921, Mallory went to Everest for the first time and spent several months exploring climbing routes.
In 1922, Mallory challenged Everest again, and this time he not only failed, but also took the lives of 7 porters. But this time, Mallory took an image of Mount Everest, giving the world a glimpse of the "Third Pole".
Later Mallory went to the United States to give a speech, and when a Reporter from The New York Times asked him why he climbed Everest, Mallory said the phrase "Because it's there."
In "The Climber", Yang Guang, played by Hu Ge, is full of admiration every time he says this famous sentence.
In 1924, George Mallory and his companion Andrew Owen decided to climb Everest again, this time prepared and set up multiple camps at different heights of Everest, a strategy that continues to this day nearly a hundred years later. The documentary uses special effects to simulate the terrain of Mount Everest and the location where the camp was built, visually presenting this information to the audience.
Before rushing to the top, Mallory wrote a letter to her daughter and met her at the end of August for a tea party and a cake. In fact, at that time, Mallory was suffering from coughing, Owen was suffering from diarrhea, and both were on the verge of collapse.
No spikes, no leash, wearing 7 layers of clothes that will still be frozen, artificial oxygen can only last for 8 to 10 hours at most, and it is likely that there will be no oxygen in the middle of the climb... In these harsh conditions, Mallory and Owen began to rush to the top.
Even if they already know their ending in history, the reproduction of this part of the old photos combined with the historical facts taken by real people is still thrilling, with the tragedy of "the wind is cold and the water is cold, and the heroes will not return once they are gone".
On June 8, teammates saw two "small black dots" at the bottom of the mountain for the last time, Mallory and Irving were 244 meters from the summit...
A few days later, the search and rescue team made a cross with blankets on the snow, and they could not find the bodies of Mallory and Owen, but confirmed that they had been killed. Because above 7925 meters above sea level, the extreme cold and lack of oxygen will make the human body gangrene, and no one can last that long.
The news reached Britain, the bell rang throughout Britain, the whole country mourned Mallory, and many people believed: Mallory had reached the summit of Mount Everest!
It wasn't until 2007 that Conrad Anker decided to retrace Mallory and Owen's path to the top with partner Leo Hoding. They copied the hiking suits and boots that Mallory used in those days, and as a result, they almost suffered frostbite on the way up the mountain and were forced to change back to modern equipment.
On June 14, 2007, Anker and Hodin went to the "Second Step" to confirm whether Mallory and Owen could climb the 6-meter-high "Second Step" with their bare hands. To this end, the Sherpas temporarily removed the "Chinese ladder".
In 1960, when the Chinese Everest mountaineering team crossed the "second step" by a ladder of 3 team members, Qu Yinhua took off his boots and climbed up, causing ten toes to be cut off. In "The Climber", the prototype of Qu Songlin played by Zhang Yi is Qu Yinhua.
In 1975, the Chinese Everest mountaineering team reached the top again, and the teammates used the steel cone that Qu Yinhua had laid 15 years ago to erect a metal ladder of nearly 6 meters on the "second step". To this day, the "China Ladder" is helping climbers reach the top of the earth.
Without the help of the "Chinese Ladder", Anker climbed the "second step" by climbing with his bare hands, and then Hodin also climbed up.
The wildest dream: Conquering Everest concludes that what Anker and Hodin could do in 2007, Mallory and Owen could do in 1924, when they were only 183 meters from the top of the world, and they would desperately climb to the top, even if there was no return! This should also coincide with the widespread belief among the British that Mallory once reached the summit of Mount Everest.
What Shadow Sister wants to say is that Anker and Hodin climbed to the "second step" in 2007, with the most advanced equipment, and the Sherpas and the shooting team escorted, they both strongly went to climb the "second step", and mallory, Owen frostbite, lack of oxygen, isolated climbing environment is not the same, still can not prove that Mallory and Owen once climbed to the top.
Even so, the documentary's presentation of Mallory and Owen's spirit of adventure is very moving. The 1920s were the golden age of adventure, and for explorers, Everest always exuded a fatal appeal.
For the various difficulties and obstacles and even fatal threats encountered in the Climbing Pearl Summit, "The Climber" has been vivid enough to show, the Chinese Everest Climbing Team of "The Climber" carries the mission of "climbing for the country", George Mallory dreams of becoming the first conqueror to climb Mount Everest, and now so many people who go to climb Everest are motivated by what is the motivation?
The passage from "Into the Thin Air Zone" is convincing: "The more seemingly impossible the situation, the higher the requirements for the climber, and when all the pressure is released, the flow of blood flows more freely." Those possible dangers are nothing more than a honing of man's perception and control. Perhaps this is the root cause of all high-risk sports: deliberately increasing the difficulty of effort and concentrating on it seems to drive away the annoying chores in your heart. This is the epitome of life, the difference is that the mistakes made in daily life still have a chance to be corrected and made up, but on the mountain, at that particular time, your every move is a matter of life and death. ”
Even if the motivation of modern mountaineers is understood, climbing Mount Everest is still something that only a small number of people dare to try, and this hard journey of giving up life and death is difficult for the public to empathize, which may be one of the reasons why the box office of "The Climber" is not as expected.
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