In the 1950s, the films shot by the Bayi Film Studio were almost all black and white films, in order to present the 1959 National Day, they began to shoot the naval theme film "Sea Eagle", but they did not expect that after half of the shooting, the superiors decided that the film was changed to color, so the first color feature film of the Bayi Factory was born.
However, many half-shot shots can't be wasted, so we see that there is actually a part of the black-and-white shot in the finished film of "SeaHawk".
It doesn't matter, the author also found a more depressing thing, the current popular movie "Sea Eagle" is only 85 minutes, which deleted some details, especially Wang Xingang and Wang Xiaotang driving and rock snuggling between the two scenes, so that the movie is less colorful.
This article tells the story of the 1959 movie SeaHawk.
First, the background and prototype of the shooting of "Sea Hawk"
On August 23, 1958, the Kinmen Artillery Battle that shocked the world began, and everyone's eyes were focused on the dumbbell-shaped island, and as everyone knew, on the second day of the artillery battle, another equally wonderful naval battle broke out on the sea not far from Kinmen Island.
On August 24, six torpedo boats of our People's Navy, secretly transferred from Shanghai a month ago, suddenly appeared on the surface of the Kinmen Sea, and they rushed at high speed to two large tank landing ships hiding outside the range of the shore guns, and at a distance of five hundred meters, 11 torpedoes of the six torpedo boats were fired almost simultaneously, finally sinking a 4,000-ton tank landing ship and seriously damaging the other.
Of the six speedboats of triumph, 175 were forced to abandon their crew due to damage to their guns, and 13 crew members fell into the sea, five of whom were finally rescued after three days of drifting in the sea.
This battle example spread to the Bayi Film Studio, director Yan Jizhou believed that this operation could completely make a movie, his proposal was supported by the Bayi Factory, "Sea Eagle" was based on the Golden Gate Gun Battle, the 824 Naval Battle as the story model, with 175 boats as the prototype, filmed the bayi factory's first color feature film "Sea Eagle".
2. The characters and actors of "Sea Hawk's"
"Sea Hawk" has been greatly adapted on the basis of the story prototype, 175 boats to 909 command boats, 13 crew members to 9 people.
In order to reflect the unity of the military and the people, "Sea Hawks" added the plot of fishermen helping the speedboats to ambush, but this is not completely fictional, when the navy's speedboats were indeed hidden next to the fishing boats and camouflaged, even the deputy commander of the navy did not find the figure of his torpedo boat troops when he came to inspect, and the aircraft on the opposite shore failed several reconnaissances, reaching the suddenness of the battle.
However, to tell the truth, the militia company commander played by Wang Xiaotang is indeed fictional, and this militia company commander is also the wife of Wang Xingang, the captain of the torpedo boat in the film.
Wang Xingang and Wang Xiaotang had a very good cooperation in the 1963 movie "Wildfire Spring Wind Fighting Ancient City", so at that time there was a saying called "men look at Wang Xingang, women look at Wang Xiaotang".
In fact, the two of them have a very tacit understanding in "Sea Eagle", the film originally had Wang Xingang with Wang Xiaotang driving the jeep back to the base, the two whispered in the convertible jeep, which can be called the most popular shot of that era, but unfortunately in the later version, this shot was actually gone.
In addition, in the ghost island where the torpedo boats are ambushed, the two sit on the reef and also have a warm pulse scene, and now they can't see it, unfortunately.
Xing Jitian once again played the old man in the movie at the age of 33, Wang Xingang was six years younger than him, and Wang Xiaotang was eight years younger than him, but once he acted, he really looked like two generations. Wu Laohan, played by Xing Jitian, has a lot of scenes in the film, but unfortunately, the scene where he judged the direction of the speedboat cannot be found.
Daniel Zhang hand in this film to play the sailor captain Li Xiong, this role positioning is pistachio, but always feel that his jokes are a little cold, humorous way is a little stunned. Later, Daniel Zhang hand to solve the mystery, he said that he was originally a person without a sense of humor, but the role required a sense of humor, and he could only drive the ducks to the shelf and play it hard, but he left a few lines, such as "I said you were smart before and now you are confused." In addition, the scene where he tells the sailors the story of the tornado is not in the current version.
It is Lipo who plays the head of the Navy, and for the role of this kind of chief, Lipo is holding a handle. However, he also had a depressed place, other colleagues went to the location, because he was the chief, the scene was either in the war room or in the office, as a result, he filmed a scene reflecting the Navy, but he did not even go out of the gate of the Bayi Factory, and did not see the sea for a day.
It is worth mentioning that the operator played by Li Xiaoqing, although there is only one scene, has left a deep impression on everyone, and her voice is too good: "Sea Eagle, Sea Eagle, I am Tarzan, I am Tarzan, where are you, where are you." ”
The focus of the film is 175 boat warriors swimming back to the mainland, so there are not many naval battles, there are few scenes depicting the other side's warships, and there are not many natural villains, but Teacher Liu Jiang has left his mark on this movie in another way, that is, foul language.
Generally speaking, both the positive characters and the villains in the movie will avoid using too many foul lines, and most of them will throw a national curse when the scene needs to: "tmd".
Teacher Liu Jiang is not the case, he can be called a foul mouth in "Sea Eagle", except for the first sentence of national scolding is cursing the torpedo boat that suddenly appears, the other more cruel swear words are all insulting americans.
They are "*child-raised Yankees", "*mother-raised", "bastards", "king * eggs", which sound really "insulting to Sven", and his straight naval uniform and slightly elegant demeanor do not match, but this also reflects his mood and anger, after all, it is a scolding of foreigners, so these foul words are actually unchanged and not deleted.
Interestingly, Liu Jiang also frightened the director when filming, and the enemy captain she played was pressed into the sea by our soldiers to fill the water, and the sound of swallowing seawater was clearly audible.
By the time the warrior pulled the enemy captain to the shore, the enemy captain was already dead, and the warrior kicked and muttered, "Dead." Then director Yan Jizhou shouted 'Stop! ’
The other actors all walked away, Liu Jiang was still lying upright on the beach without moving, Yan Jizhou panicked, "Really drowned?!" He quickly ran over, and Liu Jiang sat up: "This is over?" I thought I had to shoot it. ”
3. Bayi Factory kills two birds with one stone
We look at the speedboat from the movie, but people who have sat on the speedboat know that people who don't often ride that thing are very easy to get seasick when they get to sea, not to mention the directors, actors and videographers who are still riding torpedo boats for war, there is no comfort at all, so seasickness and vomiting have become commonplace.
However, the film still has to be filmed, in addition to some necessary sea shots, Yan Jizhou has thought of a lot of local methods.
For example, when Wang Xin just drove the speedboat, the waves kept hitting his face, in fact, it was taken on the shore, Yan Jizhou held a basin of water, and used a spoon to pour water on Wang Xingang's face, forming the effect of the waves splashing his face.
Ghost Island reconnaissance, soldiers abandoning boats and swimming back to the mainland these shots do not have the conditions for on-location shooting, mainly for safety reasons, after all, the sea is ruthless, so Yan Jizhou thought of a good way to kill two birds with one stone for the Bayi Factory.
A large pit was dug in the Bayi Factory, and after filming, it was changed into a swimming pool for the whole factory.
The pool was dug up and filled with water, and then the props made a boat with the same shape as the torpedo boat and put it inside, so most of the shots that were inconvenient to shoot in the sea were filmed here.
After all, it was a swimming pool, and at that time, the wave-making technology was still poor, so the shot like the left and right swing of the torpedo boat was actually the camera swinging.
Yan Jizhou also thought of a brilliant idea, digging a hole in the corner of the swimming pool and installing thick glass, through which the camera could shoot underwater scenes.
Don't you say that when the author watched Wang Xiaotang's diving footage, he was really surprised, we can actually shoot a movie underwater?
Since it was already cold when the film was filmed, and there were still many scenes that had to be filmed at night, the actors were very hard, and they immediately took off all their clothes after shooting a scene and went to the fire next to the prepared brazier, drank a few sips of wine and ate some beef jerky, and prepared to go down to the next scene.
But compared to the fate of the 175 boat warriors in the prototype of the "Sea Hawk" story, they are not hard.
The fate of the prototype of "SeaHawk"
In the movie, in addition to the sacrificial captain Liu Tao, Wang Xingang led other fighters to return to the mainland in victory, but in fact, only 5 of the 13 fighters of the 175 boats returned.
Among the 8 people who did not return, 3 of the crew members were captured and defected, and the captain Xu Fengming swam with the engineer Huang Zhongyi after falling into the water, the enemy's gunboat drove over, Xu Fengming pushed Huang Zhongyi away, and he was caught in the propeller and sacrificed.
It is worth mentioning that before entering the war, Xu Fengming was approved to return to his hometown in the northeast to visit his relatives, and as a result, others were still on the road, and the telegram urging him to return to the army to participate in the war had been sent to his home, and the first thing he saw when he returned home was the telegram handed to him by his wife.
In the movie, the engineer commander Liu Tao, who died in the movie, is the prototype, that is, You Zhimin, the deputy chief of the torpedo operation on the boat, he fell seriously ill in the process of swimming back to the mainland, in order not to drag his comrades-in-arms, he took the initiative to untie his life jacket and sink into the sea, at the last moment, the last words he left for his comrades-in-arms were: The secrecy officer has 240 yuan for me, 40 yuan to pay the tour fee, 200 yuan to send my mother a mail, please don't be sad.
There were also 3 warriors, Chen Jialin, Qiu Yuhuang and Zhu Taoran, who disappeared into the sea forever.
In conclusion, the sea breeze has blown through the strait for more than sixty years, and the people's navy that was poor and white can only use torpedo boats to make small and large, is now no longer what it used to be, and the soldiers who have passed away can rest in peace.