Chapter 661: A True Gift

Since you have promised something, you must do it.

Wu Yuan is still very responsible in this regard, although he really almost forgot about the gift film.

But there is still time!

Faced with Dong Han's eager eyes, Wu Yuan had to stop his plan to rest.

What else can be done?

Just be a cow and a horse!

Originally, he planned to take a complete break for the rest of this year, and wait until after the Chinese New Year next year, that is, after February, to start filming "Ready Player One", so that it should be completed before the summer next year.

But we can't be so leisurely now.

He must start the preparatory work for "Ready Player One" immediately, and strive to launch it immediately after the new year, and then wrap it up in May-June, and then launch the film non-stop during the summer, so that it can be completed in time for National Day next year.

It's stressful, but not too difficult.

The premise is that he must start preparing this tribute film immediately.

At least, we need to decide first what kind of tribute film we want to make.

To be honest, this kind of proposition composition is really troublesome.

If he remembered correctly, this gift film did not exist in the original time and space.

The National Day season in 2015 was dominated by "囧" and "The Nine-Story Demon Tower".

Between these two films, several cannon fodder films such as "Rescue Mr. My Life" and "The Third Love" were also inserted.

"The Third Kind of Love" may be gone in this life, or the heroine may be replaced, but "囧" and "The Nine-Story Demon Tower" should still be very powerful.

But there will definitely not be a tribute film.

This really made Wu Yuan a little confused.

It was also because there was no such thing in the original time and space, so Wu Yuancai never remembered that he had verbally promised Director Han.

There is no use saying any of this now.

The most important thing now is to decide what kind of movie you want to make and then start writing the script.

After returning home, Wu Yuan locked himself in the study, opened his laptop, and began to think about it.

"My Motherland and Me"?

No, this movie celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of the motherland, not the 70th anniversary of the victory of the war. The concept and plot content are conflicting.

"Changjin Lake"?

What's more, this is about the Peninsular War, which happened after the end of World War II, and it doesn't match the main tone.

Zhang Yimou's "Sniper" and "On the Cliff" are good, and they are related to the Anti-Japanese War, but the "main theme" of these two movies is not very colorful. They are more of a suspense, espionage, and war movie. It's wonderful, but it doesn't quite fit in with "gift".

Scratching his head, Wu Yuan looked at the blank document page in front of him, feeling a little sad.

Suddenly, he thought of a movie.

"My Fathers and Me"!

"It's not possible to shoot a whole movie, but it seems possible to expand the "Riding the Wind" unit and make it into a feature-length movie!"

"My Fathers and Me" has a total of four stories and four styles. The country is written about the family, and the family and the country are of the same structure. The film unfolds the struggle of the fathers in four different time coordinates in the past hundred years. It is a story in itself. This is a tribute film for the 70th anniversary of the motherland.

Moreover, "My Fathers and Me" draws on the creative experience of the first two films and is the most mature work in the "Me and Mine" series.

The first unit story "Riding the Wind" tells the story of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment during the "May Day" anti-"sweeping" period in 1942.

The cavalry regiment, which had successfully escaped from the enemy's encirclement during the counter-mopping up, took a short breather in order to contain the enemy and rescue the besieged cadres and masses, and was ordered to return to the hinterland of the base area to persist in the struggle.

For more than 60 days, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment fought desperately in the "iron wall encirclement" of tens of thousands of enemies, using traditional cavalry shock tactics to tear a bloody gap in the Japanese blockade, and heroically completed the mission.

However, after this battle, the team also suffered heavy casualties. Ma Chengfeng, the son of the regiment leader Ma Renxing, and Yang Jingguo, director of the political office, died heroically. Political Commissar Wang Nairong was seriously injured and committed suicide. In the end, only less than 400 people remained in the 1,200-man cavalry regiment.

The center of the story is the group leader Ma Renxing and his son Ma Chengfeng, so this unit is called "Chengfeng".

In the story, Ma Renxing faced a dilemma between his son, whom he cherished and was extremely proud of, and the safety of 52 villagers, including Dachunzi, the martyr's widow who was expecting to be pregnant.

As the commander of the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Regiment, Ma Renxing sacrificed his little love for righteousness, and finally gave up his own child in order to save the martyr's widow.

The film cuts Chengfeng's sacrifice in parallel with the scene of Da Chunzi giving birth on the boat. Through contrasting montage, it highlights the metaphorical meaning of "death-rebirth" to confirm the significance of Chengfeng's sacrifice.

At the end of the story, three years later, the Anti-Japanese War was victorious. When Ma Renxing met the martyr's orphan and asked what the child's name was, Dachunzi said it was "Chengfeng"...

There's no doubt that this story sticks closely to the anti-FXS theme, making it a fitting tribute to this holiday season.

Wu Yuan only needs to add some foreshadowing in the front, make the conflict scenes in the middle more intense, add some main theme colors, so that the character can shine more with the "red faith", and add more background at the end to set off the aftermath of the victory of the war. The people have hope and the country has strength.

Even at the end, a little bit of modern drama can be added. When facing his grandchildren, the orphan Chengfeng, who is already in his seventies, tells the story that happened before he was born, so that they know how hard it is to have peace and happiness.

With this sublimation, a tribute film is brand new, and it is definitely up to standard.

Not to mention, Yu Baimei, the screenwriter of the original story of "Chengfeng", is also quite good when writing serious dramas.

The story of "Chengfeng" itself is still very good. Later, after the release of "My Fathers and Me", it was also very tear-jerking and received very good reviews from fans.

I don't know why this guy became so outrageous when he met Deng Chao.

Whether it is "Breakup Master" or "Bad Guys", it is so hard to describe.

Oh, "Bad Guys" is not much better.

This is really not metaphysics.

The "Road to Hometown" unit in "My Hometown and Me" written by Yu Baimei himself is also pretty good.

As long as he leaves the spoof comedy, Yu Baimei's screenwriting level will immediately return to normal.

Including "Table Tennis", although the box office performance of "Table Tennis" is not good, the failure of this film is caused by many factors, but few people really blame the script for being poorly written.

It can only be said that the combination of Yu Baimei and Deng Chao will always have a different magic.

Putting aside these messy thoughts in his mind, Wu Yuan solemnly typed a few big words on the computer.

"Ride the Wind"!

"As Wish"!

The former is the name of his tribute film.

And the latter is the name of the theme song.

This movie must be paired with "As Wish"! (End of this chapter)