Chapter 1147 The Touching Script Setting

Hearing that Spielberg had already selected a rough topic, Li Mu immediately became interested and blurted out, "Steven, I don't know which part of the history of the War of Resistance in China you selected?"

Spielberg said: "I think the story of General Chennault leading the American pilots to form the Flying Tigers in China is very touching, and not only the story of the American Flying Tigers fighting against the Japanese fascists in China, but also the heroic resistance of the Chinese Flying Tigers against the Japanese army. The story is also very touching, so my initial idea is that the film revolves around General Chennault, and the real historical events of the Flying Tigers of China and the United States fighting against Japanese fascism, as well as part of the film and television art processing of Romance, to create a 140-minute movie. Movie."

The story of the Flying Tigers, Li Mu, as a Chinese son and daughter, is naturally very clear, and he is very aware of the history of the Flying Tigers. The touching deeds of the local Flying Tigers also included many unknown national heroes, but he did not expect that Spielberg, an American, even knew about the deeds of the Chinese local Flying Tigers. He was very surprised. It seems that the director's ability to collect and discover clues is really different from ordinary people.

Li Mu said in amazement: "Steven, I personally like your selection of materials and the main story setting. I wonder if you can introduce it in more detail?"

Spielberg nodded and said: "First of all, the story should start from Chennault. In order to facilitate your substitution, you can imagine Tom Hanks as Chennault. If this movie is confirmed, we are not without The opportunity to cast Tom Hanks."

Li Mu smiled slightly: "Tom Hanks' image is really suitable for hard-line soldiers, especially those during World War II."

Spielberg said with a smile: "The story first tells how Chennault came to Huaxia. According to his personal experience, he first came to Huaxia after retiring and was employed as an instructor at an aviation school in Hangcheng. During this period, he trained There are quite a few ace pilots who will be famous among Chinese local pilots in the future, according to my understanding, among them there is a very famous ace pilot named Liu Zhesheng."

Li Mu nodded: "There is indeed such a hero. He should have been trained by Chennault in 1936."

Spielberg laughed: "Then the information I checked should be correct."

After speaking, he went on to say: "The story starts from Chennault's arrival in China, to when he became an instructor of China Aviation School and cultivated a group of local talents in China. In this part, we basically follow history completely, except for the second male. And the second male No. 2 appeared in this history, the No. 2 male is a local Chinese Flying Tigers player, he is Chennault’s favorite student and the strongest in the Chinese Flying Tigers;”

"Following the outbreak of the Lugouqiao Incident, Huaxia began the eight-year war of resistance. At this time, Chennault witnessed the crimes committed by the Japanese invaders against the Chinese people, and also witnessed the students including the second male and the Japanese army fighting in the sky again and again. The process, as well as their huge disadvantage in size and aircraft performance against the Japanese Air Force, has strengthened his determination to help Huaxia, whose air force is extremely weak, fight the Japanese invaders. The story here is the first big paragraph."

Li Mu was on the verge of hearing it, and couldn't help but ask, "What about the second big paragraph?"

Spielberg said with a smile: "There needs to be a transition between the first major paragraph and the second major paragraph, linking the previous and the next, and this part of the transitional plot is the process of Chennault returning to the United States in 1940 to recruit pilots for the Flying Tigers.

In this process, the plot advance will temporarily leave China, leave the battlefield, and jump to the continental United States, which has not been affected by the war. At this time, our male No. 3 is about to appear. "

Li Mu tentatively asked: "Male No. 1 is Chennault, and No. 2 is a member of the Chinese Flying Tigers, so No. 3 should be the American Flying Tigers, right?"

Spielberg smiled and said: "That's right! The character of the second male is extremely decent and patriotic. The hatred of the country and the family makes him put all his thoughts on fighting the Japanese invaders. In this case, the male third is There needs to be an opposite to him, so the male No. 3 I envisaged should be a young, unruly, young American who just wants to fly a plane, hunt for novelties, and pursue beautiful girls. This young man is completely undisciplined, and every day Cigarettes and scumbags, but the most talented and best pilot in a flying club."

Speaking of which, Spielberg added: "You can use the image of Leonardo in "Titanic" to replace the pilot."

Li Mu laughed and nodded again and again. Spielberg is worthy of being a great director. One sentence made the picture in his mind a lot more specific.

Spielberg went on to say: "Male No. 1 is interested in the strength of Male No. 3 and hopes to invite him to join his Flying Tigers team and go to China to fight against the Japanese invaders, but Male No. 3 is not interested at all. He said condescendingly, The war has nothing to do with him, there are only three things in his life: planes, cigarettes and women, so he will not accept the invitation of the male number one."

"In order to achieve this goal, the male number one asked for a flight contest with the male number three. If the male number one lost, he was willing to give the male number three thousand dollars; if the male number three lost, he would have to fight the male number one. I came to China to join the Flying Tigers until the end of World War II."

"Male No. 3 is extremely conceited. For the sake of money and face, he competed with Male No. 1, but he failed to win. In the end, he could only bet and lose. Together with nearly 100 other pilots, they followed Male No. 1 to Huaxia."

After saying this, Spielberg looked at Li Mu and said, "This is the transitional part I said."

Li Mu nodded: "Very good. The American Flying Tigers went to the battlefield, and I was a little excited when I heard that. After the first paragraph and the transition paragraph, it's time to talk about the second paragraph?"

Spielberg nodded and said: "The second major paragraph is that the male number three followed the male number one to China, officially joined the Flying Tigers, and met the male number two, and the two became comrades-in-arms. In this way, The second male and the third male can present a very strong contrast of personalities, for example: a Chinese face, an American face; an extremely decent, a bohemian; one has no time to take care of his children's love, while one thinks about pursuing beautiful girls all day long; one The purpose of flying a plane is to protect the family and the country, and the purpose of flying a plane is to make money from curiosity, and the opposition between people and people is almost everywhere."

"It was these two completely different people who became comrades-in-arms fighting side by side under Chennault's command. At the beginning, the character conflict would be very strong, but with the baptism of the war, the third male finally realized the Japanese invaders during the war. Crime, realizing that he is not fighting for curiosity and money, but for justice. During this period, male No. 2, who has been despised by male No. 3, saves the life of male No. 3 in an aerial battle. A completely different person, but the same goal, became the closest comrade-in-arms, fighting side by side."

Speaking of this, Spielberg added: "I'm also going to add two relatively weakened female characters to it. An American female nurse in the Flying Tigers fell in love with the unsmiling male No. 2, while the male No. 3 After a plane crash and parachuting, he fell in love with the Huaxia farm girl who hid him and helped him avoid the pursuit of the Japanese army. Then, the male No. 3 began to pursue the farm girl violently, and the American female nurse also began to show her admiration for the male No. 2. ."

"The shy Chinese girl does her best to avoid the enthusiastic male No. 3; the male No. 2, who takes national hatred and family hatred as everything, knows the love of American female nurses, and she is also tempted by it, but she takes the fight against Japan as her duty and dares not give anything. A positive response, until there was an air force fighting against the Japanese invaders, the second male and the third male fought side by side. At this time, the chest has been hit by the machine gun of the Japanese aircraft."

"On the verge of dying, the second male gave up skydiving, said goodbye to the third male through the radio, and asked him to help tell the American female nurse that he also liked her very much. It's a pity that the timing of the two people's acquaintance was too unfortunate. If in a peaceful age, I must marry her, and after saying this, the second male pulled up the injured plane and rushed towards the formation of the Japanese planes, before being shot down by the Japanese, and finally shot down a Japanese fighter."

"The heartbroken male No. 3 and other comrades fought back the Japanese army, but the plane of No. 2 male had crashed. He returned with tears in his eyes. The female nurse heard that the front line was tragic and rushed to the runway, expecting to see the plane of No. 2 male landing, but in the end The plane that landed was the plane of male No. 3. After he landed, he told the female nurse that male No. 2 had died, and the female nurse cried silently."

"At the end of the story, Chennault's Flying Tigers team was disbanded, and the male No. 3 was about to return to the United States. Before he left, he went to find the peasant girl who had rescued him but had been hiding from him, only to find that the entire village where her family was located had She was razed to rubble by the Japanese army, and the third male thought she was dead and cried bitterly in the rubble of her house, but he didn't expect that girl to suddenly appear in front of him alone;"

"Male No. 3 was so excited, he took the initiative to hug her and said I love you in English. The farm girl didn't understand, but instead of pushing him away, he kept tears in his arms and said in Chinese that her parents were all killed. The Japanese killed her, and she was the only one left in the family. The third male couldn't understand it. He just repeated in broken Chinese: "Follow me, follow me. The peasant girl understood what he said, and hesitated for a while. Still nodding."

"The male number three hugged her tightly, crying like a child with excitement, and then the second major episode ended."

Li Mu's eyes were a little sore when he heard this. He didn't expect that Spielberg just used words to describe a fictional story based on real history so touching. What was even more unexpected was that young Anne Hathaway had already His eyes were flushed red, and tears could even be seen swirling in his eyes.

Everyone did not speak, looking at Spielberg, he took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and then said: "The end of the story is divided into two acts, the first act: on the side of the ship returning to the United States, the camera swept over the male No. 1, as well as the faces of many American Flying Tigers, they lie on the side of the ship and look at the farther coast without saying a word, that is the Huaxia country they once fought bloodily to defend;"

"Then, when the camera swept across the American female nurse, she paused for a moment. The female nurse cried silently, and carefully took out a photo from her pocket. The photo was a photo of the male No. 2 on the honor roll of the aviation school. After the male No. 2 died, he was killed She took it with her;"

"Afterwards, the camera swept past her, and the third male had red eyes, looking at the land of China, as if he was cherishing the memory of his comrades who fought side by side. Then, the camera swept over him, and the one beside him was the one The farm girl who lost her parents, the girl with red eyes, slowly leaned on his shoulder, and then the camera shot up, getting further and further away..."

"Act 2: In the summer of 1999, an old American man, an old American lady, accompanied by an old Chinese lady and several mixed-race children, came to Huaxia, and they came to a martyr's cemetery in the suburbs of Southwest Spring City;"

"Standing in front of a tombstone, the American old man and the Chinese old lady intertwined their fingers, looking at the photo on the tombstone seriously, and the photo on the tombstone is the second man of the year, and even the photo was taken away by the American female nurse. That photo is exactly the same;"

"At this time, the lonely old American lady beside the two of them trembled but cautiously took out a yellowed black and white photo. Tears, tears slowly slipped down the old man's wrinkled face, and at the moment when the tears fell in front of the tombstone, the whole play ended...") !!