Chapter 1629 The Soul of a War Movie

? For powerful actors, the filming efficiency is much higher than that of ordinary actors. For example, Anne Hathaway, although she is young, captures the emotions and sense of substitution when acting. Therefore, this movie In the last few sets of shots, her performance was perfect, her emotions, expressions and even tears came as soon as she said it, and there was no delay at all.

In Li Mu's memory, in a documentary he once watched, he once mentioned that many more dedicated actresses, in order to be able to shed tears at any time during filming, would train alone for a long time, and find someone who could be ready at any time. The way to make oneself cry, so that when filming any scene that requires crying, the tears can open the valve at any time like a faucet, but for those actors who have no professionalism, when filming crying scenes, as long as a bottle of eye drops is enough .

These sets of shots shot by Anne Hathaway are the last shots in the whole film, but after this set of shots is finished, the movie has not been completed, and there are still some scenes to be completed in the airport scene. The sequence in which the shots were shot was completely different from the sequence in which they were finally edited.

After these sets of shots were filmed, Anne Hathaway's eyes were still red and tears were flowing.

Spielberg hurriedly stepped forward to comfort her and said, "Annie, don't cry, this scene was done very well. Until now, we have never completed so many scenes so smoothly at one time, beautiful work!"

Anne Hathaway wiped her tears carefully and said to Spielberg: "Director, your script is really unfair to the two of them. Even on the Titanic, Rose was found after Jack's death. A new lover, getting married and having children, why does she have to die alone after so many years of her lover's death when she is the character in your script?"

Spielberg smiled slightly and said indifferently: "I think people should remember history like they remember love, so you need this role to be a role model and foil. Since she is a role model, she must be better than the average person. Invest more, sacrifice more.”

After all, Spielberg added: "War must be cruel, but it is not absolutely cruel, and it is not absolutely complete, so a responsible war movie must have a heavy theme, heavy, and it is a The essential soul of a qualified war film! War films that are too bloody, too relaxed and even too consummate are irresponsible to history.”

"Huaxia suffered more than 30 million casualties in World War II. The war that took place on this land, and the various stories that happened in the war, are difficult to have a happy ending, so we let Liu Ye play the role of a hot-blooded young man. , died in the sky, because he was a soldier of this country. In the face of national disaster, he was the group of people who put his life and death aside. If his character finally survived, it would not be enough to show the audience the absolute strength of this country in resisting aggression. great effort;"

"And the reason why Du Wei, a peasant girl, should survive,

And harvest a complete love, because she represents the ordinary people of this country, after the war, she should enjoy the life that peace brought her, if she also died in the war, or she failed to harvest happiness in the end, Not enough to show the audience justice, and how precious peace is;"

"So, in view of these, soldiers died fighting to defend justice in a just war, and the people enjoyed a peaceful life under the sacrifice of these people. This is the final result of a war."

Anne Hathaway was silent for a while, nodded lightly, and whispered, "I understand what you mean, thank you."

Spielberg patted her on the shoulder lightly and said with a smile, "Go and remove your makeup, we have to go back to the airport."

Anne Hathaway nodded and returned to the tent in charge of make-up with Leonardo and Du Wei. Li Mu kept recalling what Spielberg said just now, and was very touched and agreed with it. .

The modern film and television industry has been showing wars in human history in various ways. Among them, the most popular theme is World War II, which has the greatest impact and harm on all mankind. However, many war-themed film and television dramas have not caught on Spielberg said the heavy point.

Since it is a war, no matter from any angle, it is an extremely heavy matter, whether it is for the righteous side, the evil side, the winner or the loser.

Therefore, an excellent war movie, while reproducing some scenes of the war, must make future generations feel the heaviness of the war, so it is full of awe, alertness and reflection on the war.

If a war movie is completely full of blood, people are full of blood, and they just want to take a gun and charge into battle, then this is by no means an excellent war movie, or even a qualified war movie, because it advocates war and War is wrapped in blood.

If a war movie is presented in a comedy and absurd way, and other people who watch it remove tears, then it is not a qualified war movie. War is the mutual killing of human beings. No matter from any angle, this Not a thing to make people laugh about.

Therefore, Spielberg is reluctant to present a war film with a perfect ending, a war with 30 million casualties. If all five leading actors survive and are happy, it seems that the war is like playing a family. If all die Now, it looks extraordinarily dark again. If the world after sacrifice is still so desperate, what is the point of sacrifice.

Thinking about it carefully, Li Mu thinks that a big guy like Spielberg really is like a top chef, and he is very precise about the heat. Li Mu carefully recalls several of his classic war movies, and they are indeed on the heavy main tone. , and bring hope.

For example, "Saving Private Ryan", the opening of the Normandy landing is extremely cruel, and then the special team headed by Tom Hanks goes deep into the battlefield to save Ryan, and finally pays huge sacrifices, so much that even the starring Tom Hanks All sacrificed, just in exchange for the name of a private Ryan, is it heavy? Although heavy, but still hopeful and warm, especially after Ryan returned to the United States as the only surviving one of the four sons in the family, people realized that this is the purpose of Tom Hanks' sacrifice, so that Ryan can return. Home, let him return to his parents, let him pass on his blood in the peaceful times, let him bring his family to the grave of Tom Hanks when he is old and old.

Another example is "Schindler's List", where countless Jews were brutally and cold-bloodedly slaughtered by the Germans, making the whole film full of despair and darkness, like a long night that will never light up, but even so, There are still Schindler trying his best to save the Jews who were facing the massacre, and finally succeeded in bringing some of them out of the devil's lair, so when a large number of Jewish descendants go to Schindler's grave to mourn, people will understand The cruelty of war will also understand the meaning of saving others and the importance of peace.

Looking back at the play "Flying Tigers", there are five leading actors in the play. Except for Chennault played by Tom Hanks, the remaining four are in the play, just two pairs of Huaxia and the United States. The transnational lovers, American pilots and Chinese farm girls, Chinese pilots and American female nurses.

One of the lovers became Zhengguo, that is, the roles played by Leonardo and Du Wei, while the two lovers played by Liu Ye and Anne Hathaway are the two most tragic in the film Role.

The character played by Liu Ye drove a fighter jet to defend the airspace of the motherland in his youth, and finally died heroically. The character played by Anne Hathaway died alone with that affectionate and only photo of Liu Ye. The two of them are Let the audience understand the cruelty of war and the sacrifice and price that war needs to pay.

When Li Mujing thought about what Spielberg had said, Mr. Han Zili's son came to Li Mu and said nervously, "Mr. Li, I'm Han Zili's son, and some old people have a request, but I'm sorry. I came to tell you in person, so I want to pass it on to you..."

Li Mu hurriedly said: "You said, we will try our best to achieve what we can achieve, and we will never let the old gentlemen down."

Han Zili's son, who is over fifty years old, said: "That's right, didn't our crew restore a wartime airport? When the construction started and when it was just built, my father and Uncle Sun both visited, but at that time. The plane hasn't arrived yet. Later, I heard that the crew brought some old planes from the United States. My father and the others are still guessing whether it is a P-40C. It happened that your Weibo post was reported on TV yesterday. My father and them all I was so excited when I saw the shark painted P-40Cs behind you when you were taking pictures, I was looking forward to seeing and touching it, because they were in the Flying Tigers and they were all driving this model. , so I want to ask you if it is convenient and will it disturb the normal shooting of the crew..."

Several old people really have a dream about the car of the year. The old-fashioned fighter jets with cartoon big sharks carry their memories, their blood, their youth, and all their feelings for their home and country. In the greatest and brightest moments of their lives, they dreamed of touching the riveted skin, the big, heavy propeller, and the scarlet mouth of the shark.

As soon as Li Mu heard this, he said without hesitation: "This is no problem, I will arrange it immediately, and let the Toyota Coaster directly bring a few old gentlemen with you, and the other ones from the United States. The members of the Flying Tigers and their families are also invited."

Han Zili's son immediately nodded excitedly and said, "Thank you so much, Mr. Li, I'll go and tell them!"

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