Chapter 1294: Everything Makes Way for Veterans
The music of "1492 Conquering Heaven" sounded again, and everyone couldn't help being solemn.
Accompanied by more than 50 primary school students from Chuncheng Bayi Primary School, more than fifty old Flying Tigers walked onto the stage slowly. Bayi Primary School is a school for the children of the Spring City Military Region. The new generation of Miaohong.
Although the pace of the old people is very slow, it can still be seen from their upright stature and posture that they are very different from ordinary old people.
Li Mu had prepared so much for the appearance of these old people. When they actually appeared in front of hundreds of reporters, the scene was completely boiling.
At this moment, who is the actor of "Flying Tigers" is not important anymore, the object of everyone's real attention has shifted from the movie to these old Flying Tigers.
The thunderous applause kept echoing and superimposing on the scene. People seemed to have found new idols in this impetuous society, new idols that could make them fall in love with each other. The aura of these idols was stronger than that of any star. Shining, must be pure and supreme, and anyone with blood in their chests will have blood boiling because of their infection.
Over the years, no veteran of the Anti-Japanese War has ever received such a grand reception and such strong attention, whether it is these Chinese veterans or American veterans.
The members of the Chinese Flying Tigers are all from the national army. Because of their status, they have not only received courtesy and attention in the past few decades. In order to avoid criticism, they wish that people would forget their origins and let them hide their identities and be a man of the world. Wuzheng's farmers are already the greatest expectations, and they never thought that this society could remember them again, and remember them again with a grateful heart.
In contrast, the situation of the old Flying Tigers in the United States is not good. They came to China as volunteers to fight against the Japanese army. Although they were very respected in China, they did not attract much attention in the United States. , After the Vietnam War, American society began to be filled with anti-war sentiment, and this anti-war sentiment spread rapidly in the society, so that the whole society had a layer of hostility towards the veterans who participated in the war, and later, they became more Without the attention of the society, it has completely become a forgotten group.
But today, all of their past has been reawakened and known to the world again. For them, this has been a great comfort in their lives for decades.
Li Mu bowed to all the members of the Flying Tigers on the stage, and said from the bottom of his heart: "On behalf of all the staff and volunteers of the Veterans Never Die Charity Foundation, all the employees of Muye Technology, Taobao Technology, and all members of the CSC club, Thank you, and all World War II veterans around the world who stood up for justice, for your outstanding and indelible service to your country and the world."
Li Mu thinks that representation is a very noble word and a very sacred word. As an IT practitioner and a private entrepreneur, he can only represent those people who have devoted themselves to the Veterans' Undead Charity Project, and cannot represent more groups. If other groups want to pay tribute to these veterans, then they can use their own methods, applaud, support, donate, or actually do something for the veterans around them. If there is a day, the whole society will To be able to truly participate in this charity event without being represented by others is the situation he is most eager to see.
The reporters in the audience also spontaneously bowed to the old heroes together with Li Mu. Immediately, each old hero took turns to introduce his name, hometown, the time he joined the army, the number of the army, and the battles he participated in.
More than 20 Chinese pilots, all with the unit designation of the National Air Force, and more than 20 American pilots, with the official designation of the Huaxia Air Force American Volunteer Aid to China Air Force.
Including Elder Sun Xiaozhong, Elder Han Zili, and Elder Paul Crawford, after each elder had introduced himself, an hour and a half had passed.
This is comparable to the length of a movie that did not make anyone boring. They listened carefully to the self-introduction of each old man, and from their calm sentences, they felt the raging wars and even the bloody romance they experienced back then.
Among them, there is really an old American Flying Tigers member who married a Chinese girl who worked near the Flying Tigers' station. It is said that there were several American pilots in the Flying Tigers who fell in love with Huaxia girls and got married. It's just that it's been too long, and several other people have passed away, so they couldn't appear at today's press conference.
The only regret is that there were no American nurses in the real history of the Flying Tigers. Otherwise, there might really be a love story between a Chinese pilot and an American female nurse.
The love bred in the flames of war is comparable to Jin Jian, and Li Mu is also looking forward to the screen interpretation of Leonardo and Du Wei, Liu Ye and Anne Hathaway in the future. If the great love bred in the flames of war in that era can be interpreted Incisively and vividly, then the height of this movie in the field of romance movies in the future may not be worse than "Titanic", and it may even be higher than the latter in terms of level and background.
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The press conference for the selection of Chinese actors for "Flying Tigers" was agreed, but in the end, no one paid any attention to this matter. Everyone's attention was focused on Li Mu's Veteran's Undead Charity Foundation, and these surviving old flying tigers. As for the team members, it wasn't until all the old people finished introducing themselves, and when the representatives of the veterans expressed their deep expectations for the movie "Flying Tigers" in front of all the media, that everyone suddenly remembered: By the way, the cast has not yet been announced. Woolen cloth……
Everyone has forgotten the original intention and ignored the original intention. Although some put the cart before the horse, this also proves the story of the veteran from one aspect, which can attract enough attention from the society.
The children from the primary school in the military area accompanied the veterans off the stage. Li Mu then stood back on the stage and said calmly, "Next, we will invite the Chinese actors from "Flying Tigers" to enter the stage!"
Li Mu had just finished speaking, and when everyone hadn't reacted, Mr. Li Xuejian took the lead, and all the actors, sorted by age, lined up from the side of the stage and stood beside Li Mu.
The reporters were all taken aback.
What are you doing? Called out all the actors at once? A big event that the whole society is paying attention to, a milestone super production in the Chinese film industry, shouldn't there be some suspense when it comes to the announcement of the cast?
Even if there is no suspense, at least it should be a little more grand, right? There is no background music, no short film to set it off, but with a word from Li Mu, everyone will line up? At least call your name before you appear on the stage, this... This is really different from the formation when the veterans entered the stage just now...
The reporters didn't react immediately, Li Mu had already started to introduce to everyone: "Let me introduce our cast, first of all is the famous performing artist, Teacher Li Xuejian!"
The reporters who reacted gave applause one after another. Teacher Li Xuejian bowed deeply to the audience. Then Li Mu introduced Teacher Chen Daoming and Teacher Chen Baoguo, followed by Huang Bo, Liu Ye, Tang Wei, Du Wei and Wang Xinran.
When introducing each actor, Li Mu just gave a brief introduction and introduced the names of each of them. Apart from that, he didn’t introduce any more content, let alone introduce them this time in "Flying Tigers". The actors who are about to play the roles in "Flying Tigers" did not speak. They are very clear that the social attention of the movie "Flying Tigers" is already high enough that they don't need their own hype and publicity. The whole society will spontaneously pay attention. So the real protagonists today are not them, but the veterans who were on stage just now, everyone including Li Mu, everyone is setting up a stage for the Veterans Undying Charity Foundation, to make this charity foundation famous in the whole society 1. Let the whole society voluntarily participate in the charity project that the veterans will not die.
After introducing all the actors, Li Mu invited each actor to give a short speech. Starting from Teacher Li Xuejian, each of them only took a minute or two to introduce themselves briefly, and then most of the time , They are all promoting the Veterans Undead Charity Foundation. Everyone is very honored to have the opportunity to listen to the oral histories of these veterans, know their real stories, and understand the raging wars of the year. Opportunity to star in their story in a movie.
These celebrities, big names, and veteran actors are all willing to do green leaves for the veterans right now, adhering to one purpose: make way for the veterans.
Li Mu didn't waste time on the cast either. After introducing the actors, he invited Director Spielberg, the representative of DreamWorks, to appear on the stage. The movie itself, just said a few words, everyone is maintaining a tacit understanding, today, the movie is not important, and I am not important, the veteran is the most important!
Regarding the joint establishment of a film academy with Hollywood, Li Mu only briefly mentioned it in front of the media, and did not focus on writing. Although the reporters were very curious, their focus of thinking was also changing with Li Mu's deliberate arrangements. , At the scene, everyone's main focus was on the veterans and the Veterans Undead Charity Foundation.
In the subsequent question-and-answer session with reporters, Li Mu, Spielberg and other actors also maintained such a tacit understanding. Questions related to movies should be answered briefly; questions related to charitable foundations should be answered emphatically; questions related to the two All irrelevant questions, refused to answer.
This press conference did not authorize any TV station to broadcast live, so people across the country who are concerned about Li Mu and this movie are waiting for relevant reports from the media. They can't wait to know who will star in this movie , What kind of response will Li Mu make to those remarks on the Internet?
After nine o'clock in the evening, the major media and TV stations had already started the first round of large-scale reports, and YY.com also pushed the news including video through YY nationwide at ten o'clock in the evening.
A large number of curious people clicked to check it at the first time, but they never dreamed that what awaited them was not an answer to gossip, but a spiritual baptism and shock!