Graphic photography 1942

1942 A lot of important things happened. China, the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and other countries signed the United Nations Joint Declaration, Guo Moruo wrote the historical drama Qu Yuan, British physicist Stephen Hawking was born, and China woman writer Xiao Hong died in Hong Kong at the age of 3 1.

In the same year, a famine that shocked the world occurred in Henan, which was on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War. Tens of millions of people were displaced and nearly 3 million people starved to death.

This extremely tragic and important historical event is rarely recorded in China's history books, and people today know little about its truth.

In the end, Liu Zhenyun, a well-known writer, visited the survivors of the disaster in order to relive this history that was almost forgotten by this nation, and finally wrote an investigation novel named Wengu 1942, making him the only narrator of this disaster.

Director Xiaogang Feng felt deeply after reading it: "During World War II, the whole world knew about the massacre of Jews by Hitler and Nazis, but in 1942, 3 million people died in the drought in Henan, China, but few people knew about it, let alone foreigners and China people. Liu Zhenyun wrote a book about it. I saw it at 1993, which was very shocking. "

Later, Xiaogang Feng adapted Liu Zhenyun's novel "1942" into a historical film called "1942", and invited Li, Zhang Guoli, Chen and others to star in it.

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The film tells the story of his old boss who went to Shaanxi to avoid the disaster during the drought in Henan, but failed to reach his destination and became a refugee. He witnessed the tragic deaths of his son, daughter-in-law and wife, and the decadent rule of the government and the Japanese invasion made the disaster worse. In the end, only his boss was left. On his way back to Henan, he adopted a little girl who also lost her family.

Movies reflect life, but life is sometimes more cruel than movies. These are all stories that have been put on the screen. Can you describe the scene of "Ziyi eating food", "selling children and abandoning women", "wild dogs eating corpses" and "no one in a thousand miles, starving to death and catching Shan Ye" in just two hours?

In fact, from the autumn of 194 1, drought began to appear in Henan. In many places, there is no harvest. Farmers began to scrape bark and dig roots for food. By the autumn of 1942, the drought that lasted for one year was more serious. Bark and roots have been basically dug up, and victims began to die in large numbers. The photo shows Henan victims in famine at that time. Everyone is untidy, waiting for the government's relief.

Although the government at that time took disaster relief action, it neither planned nor tried its best. All localities are looking at each other, shirking their responsibilities and concealing the disaster.

War and famine led some women to sell themselves to traffickers in exchange for some food or a little money to keep their parents and children alive.

1943 In the spring, Henan was still dry, and many victims chose to flee with their families in order to survive. The worst-hit villages are basically empty, and thousands of people flock to Shaanxi. The number of people who starved to death, fell off the train and ran over on the way to escape is incalculable. At present, it is recognized that the death toll of this disaster is 3 million, but the real specific number has always been a mystery.

In the film, in order to present a real era, the hero of this refugee, represented by Zhang Guoli, not only began to practice Henan dialect six months before the filming. When filming, I also lost weight collectively and really experienced the feeling of long-term hunger. Zhang Guoli said that when you are really hungry and weak, you will find that many characters' lines are redundant.

After 78 years, most of the people who witnessed the famine in those years have passed away. Even if he is alive, he is at least eighty or ninety years old. There is only one short sentence in Gongxian Annals of Henan Province: "In the 31st year of the Republic of China, there was a drought and the Japanese invaders invaded, which caused great disaster. Farmers mostly use bark, wild goose dung and Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger. "

When we feel that the film atmosphere is too heavy, we should know that these bloody pictures did happen at some time in the past history.

From the beginning of the film, the tone of the whole film was laid. Most of the films were shot during the escape. On the way to escape, there are natural disasters on one side and wars on the other. There are broken limbs and arms everywhere, and there are wails everywhere, and the people are in dire straits.

In this process, the director often uses dark tones to express the dark life of the people at the bottom. Most of the pictures are dry land and a very small part is sky. This painting gives a depressing feeling, implying the tyrannical rule of the government.

At the same time, the director repeatedly used close-ups to reflect the tragic situation of refugees, such as the close-up of a group of wild dogs biting the dead bodies of refugees on the way to escape, which gave people great mental impact. At the same time, the number of refugees is represented by telephoto lens many times, which gives people a great visual impact.

In the film, the victims who fled the desert were in rags and lacked food, while the government officials had no worries about food and clothing, which formed a sharp contrast.

At the beginning of the film, it is mentioned that "Jiang Zemin deliberately reduced two dishes because of the famine to show its support for disaster relief." This sentence implies the end of the deviation of the people behind. When filming this content, the director skillfully used warm colors mainly yellow to highlight the comfortable life of the rulers.

I. Landlord Fan Dianyuan (Zhang Guoli)

Fan Dianyuan was originally a landlord in Henan, with two children and a well-off family. His son was killed in a scuffle between the hungry and the villagers, because the hungry were "the king of big stomachs". In order to ensure the safety of his family, when the famine came, his old boss drove a carriage, took his wife and pulled food to join the ranks of refugees.

On the way to escape, his daughter-in-law was exhausted and starved to death shortly after giving birth to her grandson. There is a very worrying scene in the movie. After the daughter-in-law starved to death, her mother-in-law quickly opened her clothes with her grandson who had just been born for a few days, saying that she had a few mouthfuls of milk while it was hot, and her dead daughter-in-law had no milk.

Later, his wife starved to death, and his daughter was sold to a brothel for 5 liters of millet.

On the way to avoid enemy bombing, Fan Dianyuan held his grandson on the ground for a long time, afraid to get up. Then his little grandson was suffocated by him.

Then his long-term worker was stabbed in the throat by the Japanese and died.

His carriage, grain and silver dollar were forcibly "expropriated" by the local police on the way, but they were actually taken away.

The purpose of escaping from the desert is to keep the family alive, but when Fan Dianyuan arrived in Shaanxi, he was left alone. As a rich man, he became a refugee like a tenant, which shows that all refugees are equal in the face of disaster.

Fan Dianyuan, who had nothing, didn't want to escape and began to walk back against the fleeing crowd. On the way, someone told him, "Going back now is death." He said silently, "I just want to die near my home."

Fan Dianyuan's desperate mentality and tired wandering spirit have made his hopes as precarious as his body.

However, when he turned the hillside, he met a little girl who also lost her loved ones. She cried. The little girl told Fan Dianyuan that she was not crying about her father's death, but that everyone she knew had died.

Fan Dianyuan asked the little girl to call herself Ye. The little girl looked up and shouted "Ye". So he took the little girl by the hand and walked down the hill. There are dead bodies everywhere, and the snow is swaying.

Second, Fan Dianyuan's daughter-star (Prince Wen)

When a star appears in the camera, he always holds a black cat in his arms, preferring to take it with him without taking a few bites. After avoiding the enemy bombing, she ran out to look for the cat without fear.

However, after her sister-in-law gave birth to the baby, she told her family to kill the cat. With a piercing meow, the cat was slaughtered and stewed. Fan Dianyuan sat beside her daughter and cried, Star, dad is sorry for you! However, the star looked at the skinned cat without any expression, and finally said, I want to drink cat soup, too. At that time, she was already hungry.

When a brothel disguised as a clothing factory came to buy girls, Xing Xing suggested that his father sell himself, but Fan Dianyuan refused. The star advised dad: I can't stand it. I can't even eat firewood. Please let me escape! You can also change five liters of millet. She also deliberately emphasized to that person that being able to read books was an "advantage", and finally she was bought off. When she was serving others, she was too full to squat down.

The ending of the stars is inevitable, and people have no bottom line in the face of disaster. The course of a little person reflects the experiences of many people in the environment at that time, which is really sad.

Third, the tenant is a blind deer (Feng)

The tenant's blind deer is the most cowardly and pathetic character in the film. He can ignore his wife being teased for a few barrels of millet, or he can reward his mother by selling his daughter for a few barrels of rice.

Although he has lived without a lower limit, he still failed to survive this disaster. Finally, he couldn't steal the donkey, so he plunged into a pot with boiling water, leaving two children and his wife.

The blind deer played by Feng is the real victim in the film. He lives to eat, as long as he can survive.

1942, Xiaogang Feng didn't have his own attitude and let the audience decide everything. "You are what you see." .

There is no rendering or retouching, and the most realistic scene is restored to the audience by sketching, in which a lot of details are described, which seems to be black humor, but in fact it is deeply sad.

It is said that when Xiaogang Feng approached Liu Zhenyun and said that he wanted to make this film, even Liu Zhenyun was shocked: he thought that no one wanted to see such a tragic story.

The film was brewed on 1993 and started shooting on 20110. Finally, Xiaogang Feng finished shooting in the coldest five months. Because of the theme of escape, the whole crew performed as many as 600 people at the most, and as many as 300 or 400 people at the least, including more than 200 transfer vans, which were completely training.

However, it is such a huge team that their efforts in details are very touching.

For example, the shooting part of Chongqing is mainly about the activities of the Kuomintang and religious figures. This street was designed by the film crew and funded by the Chongqing Municipal Government. After the construction was completed, the film crew was shocked when they went to the scene. These buildings are built according to permanent buildings, and everything sold in the shops is in kind.

Later, this street became a famous scenic spot in Chongqing: Guo Min Street.

What impressed the film crew most was the scene where the refugees picked up the train. In order to have a good shooting effect, the film crew moved from Shanxi to the northeast, and finally found an American-made motorcycle with 1942, which can still drive.

But it is not enough to have a locomotive without a carriage, so the production department made a flatbed car for pulling goods when fleeing according to the historical photos of refugees at that time.

The shooting was at MINUS 20 degrees in the northeast, and the locals kindly reminded the crew not to touch the iron piece with their hands, otherwise it would be impossible to tear it off. But in order to present the real effect, not everyone can wear gloves, so those who wear gloves touch iron and those who don't wear gloves touch wood.

In the heavy snow of minus 20 degrees, hundreds of extras were photographed at the top of the train during its operation. Lv Le, the director of photography, said that this may be the only chance in his life, which is also his harvest.

About the train, it was used for a month around six minutes, and it was worthwhile from the final effect.

Xiaogang Feng, who is good at comedy, wants to make a movie most in his life, which is this extremely heavy disaster film-1942.

This film can be said to be a masterpiece of Xiaogang Feng's feelings. He tried to reflect on the humanity and redemption of China people through a human disaster 70 years ago.

However, after the film was released, the box office was a fiasco, which was nearly four times worse than the box office of Sorry Thailand released in the same period. Finally, Xiaogang Feng made a desperate advertisement to pay his debts.

The success of a movie cannot be measured by the box office, but the box office can reflect the public's acceptance and recognition of the content and feelings expressed in the movie.

Many netizens bombarded Xiaogang Feng after watching the trailer, accusing him of "getting rich", which resonated with people in China and earned them tears. Sure enough, Liu Zhenyun's worry was answered: no one wants to read such a tragic story. In this happy age, people have long been used to avoiding suffering.

Zhang Guoli recalled that Xiaogang Feng even shed tears because of the box office fiasco of 1942. When he asked Xiaogang Feng if it was because he was promoted that the box office was a fiasco, Xiaogang Feng's answer was very touching, not for this reason. On the contrary, because of the box office failure, the audience was far away from suffering, and he felt that such a film should be made.

Xiaogang Feng's love for 1942, though not comparable to history, has its unique artistic value. It is the memory of a generation, and it is the bitter memory of a generation. Everyone who has seen it says yes, but they dare not watch it again.

At the end of the film, the narrator read: "Fifteen years later, this little girl became my mother. I haven't seen her cry or eat meat since I can remember ... "

The words "don't eat meat" can profoundly reflect people's meditation on disaster at that time.

It is said that heroes are born in troubled times, and more depends on the loss of life.

What is profound about Xiaogang Feng is that it did not make 1942 a natural disaster, but introduced the audience's perspective into a man-made disaster. Although the Great Famine is a natural disaster, there are also considerable human factors.

"1942" is not an immediate disaster, but it always repeats itself in the environment we live in. Human nature is always striving for it, but it can't spur everyone.

The Chinese nation is a disaster-ridden nation. Since modern times, countless tragedies have been staged in China, some for the country and some for the family.

Nowadays, the era of tramps and bandits, right and wrong reversed, has passed. In front of us is the prosperity of the new era, and the country and people are safe.

But we should not forget the disaster, we should face it squarely, face it squarely and reflect on it, so as to avoid it.