In order to welcome the centenary of the founding of the party, the movie "Shoudao People", based on the deeds of Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua, who are "national models of the times", is officially scheduled for release nationwide on June 18.
"ShouDaoRen" is produced by Bayi Film Studio, Jiangsu Happiness Blue Ocean Film Co., Ltd., directed by Chen Li, written by Ding Han and Zhao Zheen, and famous actors Liu Ye and Gong Zhe as male and female protagonists respectively, and Hou Yong, Zhang Yishan, Chen Chuang, etc. have participated.
The main poster of "The Island Keeper"
The small island in this movie witnesses the five-flavored life of the island keepers who promise the country with their bodies, and also witness every thrilling moment of the "Flag People" on the island.
Liu Ye plays Wang Jicai
Drawing on real stories to demonstrate the power of example
A flag, a watchtower. The prototype of the story of "Island Keeper" Wang Jicai was the director of the militia post on Kaishan Island in Guanyun County, Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, and his wife Wang Shihua took the island as their home, accompanied by loneliness, and dedicated their beautiful youth to the cause of coastal defense of the motherland.
Wang Jicai's Kaishan Island is located in the outpost of China's Yellow Sea, with an area of only 0.013 square kilometers, equivalent to the size of two football fields. Kaishan Island is a stone mountain with no water, no electricity, no food, and only a few broken barracks. Locals say it's hard to live on it, let alone keep it. Here, the smuggler offers to divide the illegal profits equally with Wang Jicai, and the snakehead threatens and seduces him, and he does not waver; here, the wind roars, the wife in labor cannot leave the island, and he delivers her in the storm... For 32 years, he has faced temptations and threats, because Morishima missed his daughter's wedding, missed the birth of his grandson, missed the last side with his old father, until 2018, when he died on the island he guarded all his life.
The prototype of "Island Keeper": Wang Jicai and his wife
The film selects the classic fragments and flashing moments of Wang Jicai and his wife's shoudao career, and shows the dramatic conflict, conveys the emotional spirit, and portrays the character in the contradictions and entanglements of keeping and walking, gaining and losing, and suffering and happiness. A group of textured shots is used to carefully express the love of husband and wife, father and son, and comradeship, showing the rich inner world of Wang Jicai and his wife from different aspects and the home and country feelings of "guarding the island is defending the country". The film not only restores the experience of Wang Jicai and his wife in their 32 years of tenacious struggle against the harsh natural environment, but also runs the protagonist's patriotic and dedicated value pursuit throughout the film, which is deeply contemplated and spiritually nourished for inspiring all walks of life to adhere to the ordinary and create extraordinary.
It took seven years to carve out and show the original intention of the filmmakers
It is understood that since 2009, the Jiangsu Provincial Radio and Television Station has reported on Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua who insisted on staying in Guanyun County, Lianyungang through various forms of media integration. While witnessing them defending the island and defending the country, Jiangsu Radio and Television's Happy Blue Ocean Pictures has also strengthened its determination to put this heroic story on the big screen.
At the end of 2014, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, Happy Blue Ocean opened the creation of the movie "Island Keeper", deeply excavated the advanced deeds of Comrade Wang Jicai, successively landed on the island 14 times to collect style, created 7 scripts, and told the hero story with heart and soul. The project team overcame great difficulties such as severe cold and heat, epidemic and typhoon, and kept improving and cooperating sincerely, which lasted nearly seven years and finally completed the movie "Island Keeper".
In January 2020, the cast team of the movie "Shoudao Man" went to Kaishan Island to collect style
"The Island Keeper" will hold premieres in Beijing, Jiangsu and other places from June 8, and will be officially released on June 18. At that time, the Happy Blue Ocean Cinema across the country will also hold various forms of movie watching activities, listen to the heroic stories with the audience, and feel the faith and watchful eye of Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua.
Source: Jiangsu Satellite TV