Hu Jiansheng, Longxi City, at the entrance of the Second Cadre Rest House, early in the morning, a few middle-aged men who looked like leaders seemed to be waiting for someone.
Followed by seven or eight young people, including a reporter holding a microphone and a photographer carrying a camera.
There was such a huge formation at the entrance of the sanatorium, and those who didn’t know it thought they were some kind of leader.
More than ten minutes later, an ordinary Toyota Coaster minibus stopped steadily at the door.
Seeing the waiting people coming, the people waiting at the door also came to greet them, and the photographer turned on the camera.
When the car door opened and Li Qian got out of the car, he was shocked by the scene.
Before Li Qian had time to react, one of the leaders took his hand affectionately and shook it gently and regularly.
"Hello Director Li, welcome to Longxi."
"You are Minister Zhang, I'm sorry to trouble you." Li Qian was still a little unsure. This time he came to Longxi to find a health worker who had been on the Beibei battlefield. Since he was in a sanatorium, he sent someone to contact the local area.
publicity department.
However, in this battle, with more than ten people and reporters, Li Qian almost thought that he was bumping into a big boss.
But if you think about it carefully, these days directors like Li Qian can definitely be said to be artists. If they reach such a high level in a certain artistic achievement, their social status is not low.
Looking at Zhang Yimou, Brother Cheng Kai knows that when he goes to film in a local area, the local government must cooperate.
Moreover, as soon as Future Pictures raised funds, its net worth was tens of billions instantly. If an entrepreneur with a net worth of tens of billions came to invest, the mayor would have to come forward.
This is still in this era. Twenty years earlier, if Li Qian had achieved such an achievement, he would have been able to enter Zhongnanhai to meet Chairman Guo Jia.
Film is the only art that can enter Zhongnanhai. It was no joke back then, that is, now that the market is commercialized, the economic income of directors and actors has increased, but their social status has continued to decrease. Every gain has a loss.
The deputy director of the Municipal Propaganda Department, the District Propaganda Director, and the Director of the Municipal Television Station shook hands one by one and declined the arrangement for a break and meal. Director Zhang smiled and led Li Qian into the second dormitory.
"It's really exciting that a great director like Director Li can make a movie about resisting the Japanese invaders and aiding Korea, so that we can remember history. We will definitely call on all departments to organize movie viewings when the time comes."
Li Qian quickly corrected him, "Director Zhang, actually this is a romance film."
Minister Zhang nodded, "The love between life and death during the war is even more touching."
"..."
Forget it, Li Qian won't say anything anymore. Anyway, this time I am here to listen to the old man talk about his experience as a health worker at the Beibang battlefield.
However, looking at the photographer who had been following him, Li Qian frowned and said, "Mr. Zhang, there is no need for the camera to follow him. Don't make such a big show and startle the old man."
Minister Zhang and the director of the city TV station looked at each other and didn't take it seriously. They still smiled and said, "Haha, Director Li is very thoughtful, so let's take a few photos."
Li Qian nodded, feeling a little helpless.
If I had known better, I would have gone straight to the rest house without saying hello to the local government.
Arriving at a courtyard, two young men were seen at the door accompanied by an old woman. This should be the purpose of the trip, old woman Sun Jixiang, who had participated in the North Korean War as a health worker.
"Hello, Grandma Sun." Li Qian walked over quickly.
Grandma Sun, who was already eighty years old, looked very energetic. Seeing so many people, she didn't mean to be disturbed at all, but seemed even more happy. She greeted Li Qian and the others, and walked slowly into the house without anyone's support.
"Hello, hello, come in and sit in the room."
Li Qian followed Grandma Sun into the small house with a single courtyard. Entering the living room, the old woman took out several large photo albums and a box of medals from the table. She handed them to Li Qian tremblingly and asked for more
Turn around and pour the water.
The two young men who were with Grandma Sun at the beginning quickly went to pour water.
After sitting down on the sofa, Grandma Sun asked Li Qian, "Young man, they said you make movies?"
"Grandma Sun, I'm filming a love movie, because there will be some plots about the health workers on the Beibei battlefield, so I want to tell you about that time." Li Qian looked at Grandma Sun and said truthfully, while opening the thick book.
Photo album, look down at it occasionally.
"Kacha!"
The photographer from the TV station next to him took a photo of Li Qian's head in front of the photo album, then "clicked" and took a photo on the side.
Li Qian frowned, listened to Grandma Sun's words, picked up the water glass, took a sip, and gently put it down on the table, making a sound that everyone could hear.
The photographer glanced at the director and stopped what he was doing.
When Grandma Sun heard Li Qian talk about what happened back then, the smile on her face suddenly disappeared and was replaced by deep sadness.
"I remember it was May 1949. I was 16 years old at the time, and I took my sister to sign up for the army. At that time, we were asked whether we wanted to join the art troupe or become nurses. My sister and I both said we would become nurses."
Qi Yukun, who came with Li Qian, was taking notes in his notebook. The reporter from the TV station was also recording something. Everyone was quietly listening to Grandma Sun's soft voice telling the past events.
"Later, my sister and I were assigned to the XX Army's XX Division Medical Team and participated in study and training. In October 1950, we suddenly received an order to follow the army and took a train to the Northeast. Each person was given a cotton-padded coat.
We trained on carrying wounded people and applying bandages, and then one day before dawn, we took a train across the Yalu River and entered Beibang.
When we first arrived, we were bombarded by enemy planes. We hid under an apple tree on the mountain and stayed there for five days. At that time, all the young comrades in the army returned to China, and my sister and I were also persuaded to return.
, but we still stayed.
After arriving in Beibang, the weather started to get colder, and we couldn't spend the night in the mountains. It was already extremely cold. When the squad leader saw it, he quickly found some leaves to cover us."
Grandma Sun sighed and lowered her eyebrows, "But it's still very cold. I'm cold and hungry. Sometimes I haven't eaten anything for a whole day, and I can't eat the dry food on my back. That's for the wounded."
As she spoke, Grandma Sun opened the photo album in Li Qian's hand and found a yellowed piece of paper.
It was a report from Xinhua News Agency about the front line. Although it was very old, Li Qian could still see it clearly. It wrote: "Sister Sun Jixiang, a female nurse from a certain unit, carried more than 30 kilograms of equipment on her back. The temperature was more than 30 below zero.
They marched with the soldiers on a freezing cold night. The troops climbed over a high mountain that was more than 50 miles away. The heavy snow reached their knees, and their shoes and feet were frozen together. However, they followed the troops and reached their destination, and immediately returned to their destination.
start working."
"Everyone doesn't take a shower, and they are covered in lice. If you just grab a handful of them in your armpits," Grandma Sun continued, "Female soldiers have it even worse. Every time they have their period, they can only take out a little cotton from their cotton-padded clothes."
Wrap it in leaves and use it."
Li Qian was stunned. He had imagined the hardships of war, carrying heavy loads, marching in the snow, and not eating. He had thought about all these, but he had never thought about the problems faced by female soldiers in that environment.
Generally in factories, people will say that women should be treated as men and men should be treated as animals.
But on the battlefield, women are no better than men.
Qi Yukun, who was writing furiously, suddenly stopped. After two seconds, he tightened his right hand on the pen and continued writing that period of past history.
It's just that his hands are getting harder and harder, and the writing on the paper rustles.
The female reporter from the TV station stopped and couldn't write any more.
Grandma Sun did not pay attention to their condition, and recalled to herself, "In November 1950, in Xinxingli, the XX Army participated in the second battle. After the battle, the wounded came down, and their hands and feet were blown to pieces.
, we were almost scared to death.”
Recalling this, Grandma Sun said with tears, "A soldier died, but his eyes were still open. The squad leader asked me to drag him out, but I always felt that he was not dead, he was not dead...
When I pulled the soldier's body out, I found that there were several corpses covered under a pile of straw nearby, so I and other comrades dug a hole to bury the fallen soldier, and everyone cried."
Li Qian quickly closed his eyes to suppress the tears that had just appeared.
Grandma Sun wiped her eyes, and then said with some emotion, "Once I got a pancake and prepared it for the wounded, but the wounded refused to eat it and said, "You should eat it. If you eat, you will have the strength to rescue other wounded."
"
...
The old man talked a lot intermittently. In addition to suffering and sadness, there were also things like during the fifth battle in the summer, when they ate captured sausages while marching in a hurry, and suffered collective diarrhea. They had diarrhea while marching in a hurry.
The bridge was blocked by the enemy, so she sneaked under the bridge at night and almost died, but the soldiers saved her.
Despite the hard work, there are also some happy times.
In that Beibei War, the old man won 1 second-class merit, 5 third-class merits, and was awarded the title of "Model Nurse" of the division medical team.
After speaking for more than an hour, the old man became a little weak and had almost finished speaking, so Li Qian took his leave.
Rejecting the invitation from the local government, Li Qian took Qi Yukun and Su Lun into the car and left.
In the modified commercial vehicle, the two of them still felt a little heavy.
Li Qian smiled and said, "Okay, our predecessors have gone through the sufferings in the past for us. Let us cherish the world created by our ancestors and let future generations remember it."
As directors, Qi Yukun and Su Lun have seen and heard countless various stories, but this time the old man opposite told them stories of personal experience, which made them deeply moved.
However, I quickly took this touch into my heart and adjusted.
Su Lun said, "Boss, the part where Grandma Sun talked about using cotton from cotton-padded clothes and wrapping leaves to make sanitary pounds is very necessary to film. Not only men, but also female soldiers suffered various kinds of pain during the war, and their own physical
Not as good as a man."
"This plot insertion is too strange." Qi Yukun shook his head, "There is actually not much useful information on this trip. Grandma Sun works in the division-level health team, or more broadly, in a field hospital, and in the movie
The male protagonist is a health worker at the lowest level in the company below. The environment he is in is completely different, and it is more of a scene that needs to be shown on the battlefield."
Su Lun glared at Qi Yukun, "What's weird? The wounded must be transported to the hospital in the rear. Health workers will follow during the transportation. The hero escorted the wounded to the field hospital, but didn't he meet a nurse from the field hospital?"
"But in our movie, we mainly show the cruelty on the battlefield and the spirit and will of the volunteer soldiers. The hero's identity as a health worker is just an excuse to join the army."
"On the battlefield, hospitals are also part of the war. Doctors and nurses are also members of the soldiers, and they should be displayed in all aspects."
"But......"
The two actually got into a fight over this matter.
Li Qian shook his head and quickly stopped, "Okay, okay, remember it first, we will decide according to the situation when we summarize later, let's go to the next place."
Li Qian had to visit a lot of places, mainly things related to the Changjin Lake Ice Sculpture Company and the two bloody battles of Songgu Peak, the veterans who survived the war, and a trip to the military area.
After all, to restore these two battles in the movie, even if the time is short, it must be done properly, and the support of the military is definitely indispensable.
Of course, it’s not just these. For the events that are currently confirmed to appear in the movie, we will interview as many people as possible.
Teacher Liu, Director Yang Jie, and Li Qian also want to meet. After all, "Journey to the West" is indispensable in the history of the 1980s. It is a classic TV series for two generations. Maybe there will be a leading actor.
Act as a bit player inside or something like that.
Follow the Republic and go back through history. I don’t know if it can be filmed on the political side. There is the Beibei War, and the rest is left to culture, sports, entertainment, science and technology, and business.
Of the four great classics, "Journey to the West" is a sufficient representative.
Li Qian's journey of exploring history is still going on, but the next day, Longxi TV and Longxi Daily reported that Li Qian came to the dry rest house to interview veterans of the Anti-Japanese War and Aid Korea. Hu Jian TV and local media also followed up.
Report.
"The famous director Li Qian visited Yongxi Dry Rest House and listened to the stories of the veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea about the Beibang battlefield. He will make a war movie!"
When the news came out, it became like this. Li Qian obviously told the deputy director of the Propaganda Department and the station director that this was a romance film.
Nowadays, there are not many good films in the movie and TV drama market, and there are no hot topics in entertainment news. The news of Li Qian's new film was widely reported by the media and immediately spread on the Internet.
"I'll go, it's not a romance movie, why did Li Qian go to make a war movie again?"
"Is it true? If it were a war movie, it would be interesting!"
"It's still the war to resist the United States and aid Korea. Although "Assembly" was filmed, there were too few war scenes, and they were not mainly focused on the war. If Li Qian filmed it, it would definitely be very shocking!"
"Ahhhhhh!!! I want a romance movie, a war movie, especially one that resists the Japanese aggression and aids Korea. The environment is harsh, the firepower between the enemy and the enemy is very different, and it takes human lives. It's so tragic, I'm afraid I'll cry to death.
In the cinema.”
"Indeed, the resistance to the United States and the aid to Korea were entirely based on the human sea tactic and were accomplished with human lives!"
"The stupid guy upstairs knows that there are so many lives lost. Please stop reading news about retarded people. No matter how many people have a numerical advantage in modern warfare, it's useless. You asked Asan to pull 10 million people to go to the Beibang battlefield and try it. Don't say Ten million, even 100 million Asan soldiers, are not enough to feed Mi Lijian people."
"There is no way. People nowadays believe something they see on the Internet and believe it to be true. They don't even know how the Volunteer Army defeated the coalition forces of more than ten countries, which has made the Western world feel extremely insecure about our military. Learn more about history. Bar."
"Even with backward equipment, the Volunteer Army was the most powerful army on earth at that time. In many aspects, it was ahead of the entire era."
"That's nonsense. Bragging should be done in a certain way. You've already boasted to the sky!"
"What are you bragging about? Everyone who has a certain understanding of modern military knows this!"
"That's too far off the mark. Didn't Li Qian himself say he would make a romance movie? How could he have gone on to make a war movie in the middle? Isn't this a lie?"
"The TV stations all have photos of Li Qian visiting veterans. Or is it love in war?"
"Love in a war movie? Isn't that still a war movie?"