1937 was a special year.
All Chinese, no one will forget this year, no one will forget what happened this year.
In this year, the July 7 Incident opened the prelude to the national war of resistance against Japan;
In this year, Beiping, Tianjin and other places fell one after another;
In this year, the Battle of Songhu broke out;
In this year, the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and began a six-month-long massacre;
In This year's China, the mountains and rivers are fluttering and devastated.
The story of the movie "Survivor 1937" takes place in this year, in 1937.
On September 25, 1937, the Eighth Route Army set up an ambush at Pingxingguan and severely damaged the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of Itagaki Seishiro, known as the "Steel Army". This battle slowed down the speed of the Japanese army's offensive and completely disrupted the enemy's strategic deployment of circumventing north China along the right wing of the Pingsui Railway, and was the first major victory fought by the Eighth Route Army since its departure.
The movie "Survivor 1937" is set against the background of "Ping-type Guan Dajie" and tells the story of a 7-member detachment of the Eighth Route Army that rescued the Kuomintang cryptographers.
In terms of plot setting, "Survivor 1937" and the Hollywood war blockbuster "Saving Private Ryan" have many similarities, such as going deep behind enemy lines to save a very important person; for example, they all use the great war as the background of the story, the background of "Survivor 1937" is the flat Guan Dajie, and the background of "Saving Private Ryan" is the Normandy landing.
It is precisely because of these similarities between the two films that some viewers now call "Survivor 1937" the domestic version of "Saving Private Ryan".
Of course, if you look at the overall level of the film, there is still a very big gap between "Survivor 1937" and "Saving Private Ryan". The two films, whether from the overall intention or the war scenes, are not on a horizontal line, after all, one is a cinema film with a large investment by a large director, and the other is an online movie with a small investment and a small production.
Although there is a big gap with "Saving Private Ryan", it cannot be denied that "Survivor 1937" is indeed a good anti-war movie.
First of all, the movie "Survivor 1937" as a war movie, there is no problem in the general direction. This movie is not the kind of love movie under the guise of a war movie, the protagonist does not smoke a cigar, does not have a villa to live in, the soldiers will be afraid when they go to the battlefield, and they will bleed and die when the bullet hits them.
With this alone, this movie has distanced itself from other big online movies, and it is also much stronger than most anti-war dramas and anti-war movies.
In addition, the reason why "Survivor 1937" can surprise the whole network after it is launched, there are 3 plus points.
The first plus, the costumes of this movie are very well done, the protagonists do not have wax on their heads, their faces are dirty and gray, and the clothes on their bodies are dirty and torn.
In the second plus, the war scenes in this movie are very well done, realistic and large enough. Online movies generally don't invest much, so it's not easy for "Survivor 1937" to do this in the big scenes. In addition, in addition to the big scenes, the display of war details is also very good.
The third plus is that the portrayal of the characters in this film is very good, especially the two characters of Huan Wa and Zheng Zhong, which are particularly brilliant.
The role of Huan Wa, not easy to be difficult in this eighth route army soldier, is finally a person. In many previous mythological dramas, our warriors were god-like beings, and this time the baby is more real. The role of Zheng Zhong is more profound, and his ideological transformation represents the transformation of a type of person and represents a kind of spiritual sublimation.
Although the advantages of the movie "Survivor 1937" are many, there are also many disadvantages.
For example, although the overall plot is OK, but the specific details are too difficult to scrutinize, take the first big battle of the movie, the war scene is there, the costume is also in place, but when the Japanese army attacks, it is lined up in a long line to target the protagonists, which is a bit unreal. Such a drama weakened the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and at the same time weakened the hardships of our army during the War of Resistance. The fact is that in addition to the great superiority of equipment, the Japanese army at that time also had a more scientific and advanced strategy and tactics.
In fact, for a movie like "Survivor 1937", instead of investing all in the big scenes and special effects, it is better to spend more money to hire a few reliable screenwriters.
The logical problems of the plot are more important than the big scenes, because the big scenes serve the plot. If the plot is not done well, no matter how big the scenes, no matter how good the special effects, they will lose the meaning of existence. Just like the TV series "Bright Sword", there is no big scene, and there is no special effect, but everyone still watches it twice, and watches it twice and three times.
Overall, though, Survivor 1937 is a movie worth watching. The movie has been launched on Tencent Video on July 1, and now the number of plays has exceeded 100 million, and it can also be seen through this data that this movie is still very popular.
I hope that the future network movies will be better and better.