Text/Swimming Circle, Naranze Self Media Editorial Department
Compared with the works that land on the big screen, the network movies are a bit unpopular in the eyes of many people. These films are either because the low cost cannot support the full idea of the director and screenwriter, or because the logic is not clear, the actors' acting skills are poor, the production is rough, and they are reduced to money-making works.
In short, the proportion of bad movies in the network movies is quite high. In particular, the content of military war themes, in the absence of high investment, often seems like a child's play and becomes the object of netizens' complaints.
However, just recently, a big online movie called "Survivor 1937" came out, which actually made the audience feel the cruelty of war on the computer and mobile phone screens, and its concise and powerful plot was even more enjoyed by the audience.
The crew of "Survivor 1937" can be said to be almost all small transparent in the entertainment industry. Director Wang Yanchuan entered the film and television circle as a photographer, and after being upgraded to director, he directed mostly online movies. In "Survivor 1937", Wang Yanchuan made a number of war-themed networks, but works such as "Fatal Sniper" and "Chaotic World" were placed in the domestic entertainment circle where the production of film and television dramas was rising, and even the water splashed.
The cast of Survivor 1937 is also quite plain. Although the lead actor Su Xin starred in the web drama "The Year of Hurry" in 2014, the "Song Ning" he played did not bring him much audience popularity. After that, the "Hero Nature 2018" and "Youth Fight" he participated in were not able to play popular roles, and these film and television dramas not only had poor traffic, but also had a poor reputation. The other lead actor, Sun Hao, is nearly thirty years old before he debuted, and the number of works is also very small.
In addition to them, the other actors are also unknown. It is hard to imagine that the reputation of "Survivor 1937" made by their crew is quite good, which is called strange in the network movie.
The plot of Survivor 1937 is not complicated. Set against the backdrop of The Pingshi Guan Dajie, the film tells the story of cryptographer Zheng Zhong, who was surrounded and killed by the Japanese army because of his key role in turning the tide of the war. In order to rescue the cryptographer, the Eighth Route Army sent an elite detachment deep behind the enemy, broke through the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, experienced nine deaths, and finally successfully escorted Zheng Zhong to the rear.
The combination of words "rescue", "deep behind enemy lines", "squad" and so on, movie lovers may be the first to think of Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". In fact, regardless of the circumstances of the times, "Survivor 1937" and "Saving Private Ryan" do have a lot of similarities, and even the character positioning of the team that eventually survived is considered to be incompetent and dragging its feet.
In addition, "Survivor 1937" also joined the scene of the alliance between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party during the japanese invasion, taking how the Eighth Route Army squad and cryptographer Zheng Zhong went from mutual distrust to embarking on the road of joint resistance to Japan as the main clue, which is just in line with the main theme, and is no less than "Saving Private Ryan" in terms of intention.
The young creative team of the film is undoubtedly better at filming the personal change of mind than the chaotic battlefield fighting scene. As we all know, after the failure of the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, a ten-year civil war began. During this period, those who survived had to endure the pain of the killing of their relatives and the sacrifice of their comrades-in-arms, but after the Japanese invasion of China, they had to endure the humiliation and burden, put aside their hatred and cooperate with the Kuomintang again.
Survivor 1937 embodies this pain. Jin Kaiqing's brother-in-law died at the hands of Zheng Zhong, but not only could he not take revenge, but he also had to risk his life to save the enemy. Zheng Zhong, the cipher expert rescued in the movie, initially had unrealistic illusions about the Kuomintang government, but on the way to the rear, he found that he would fight for the interests of the country to save himself and save the people, and only our party was the one who saved himself.
In the end, Zheng Zhong lost his way and abandoned the dark to cast light. From this point of view, how could he not be a survivor in the Kuomintang? The director has raised personal, family and partisan grievances to the level of national survival, forming a pattern of greater love.
In addition to the plot, the footage of "Survivor 1937" is also quite outstanding in many online movies. The crew adopted 4k high-width screen picture quality in image presentation, and it is said that it also used German imported vibration equipment that is rarely used by the University of China, trying to improve the picture quality and break the domestic conventional production level, which is in stark contrast with other domestic anti-war films, and the audiovisual experience is quite good.
However, it is a pity that after all, the team is inexperienced and the funds are too tight, resulting in the short-term military scene that should be tense and exciting, some extras frequently laugh, so that the audience has a not very good sense of drama.
In addition, "Survivor 1937" also has some inherent defects of anti-war dramas and network universities, that is, it is too demeaning to opponents, resulting in a certain sense of divine drama. All in all, "Survivor 1937" as a network big, in the case of low expectations, but made a little surprise, in this main theme of the theme of the film and television drama at the moment, to provide the audience with some new small experience, but also to some network big and another way.