What are the differences between the images from the movie "The Eight Hundred" and the historical pictures?

The movie "The Eight Hundred" is currently in theaters and currently has a score of 7.9 on Douban. While most viewers approve of the film, the score on Zhihu among "knowledge elite users" in first- and second-tier cities is 5.9. Reason: Historical works using real names cannot deny basic historical facts. "The Eight Hundred" is too unserious. ?

Indeed, the film may have added too many arbitrary fabricated plots for effect and excitement. Here I would like to share my thoughts on several flaws in the film.

1. The Japanese army dropped poison gas bombs when they attacked the warehouse. In the video, foreigners watching the battle in the concession said: "Mustard gas!" ?This does not exist at all in historical facts. Mixing falsehood and truth so casually severely weakens the real power of the story, which is really a big failure. Whenever it comes to historical facts, you must believe: the power of truth! Because the historical facts are the logical integration of all the details at that time. Anyone who does not respect history will definitely have his or her works deducted.

2. In the video, Chinese officers and soldiers come from multiple units, but they are all wearing woolen uniforms. This couldn't be further from the truth. Judging from the existing photos of the Nationalist officers and soldiers in Sihang Warehouse (note: they were all taken after the withdrawal to the concession): they were all wearing cotton military uniforms. Although the uniforms are more beautiful, it is the first time that all officers and soldiers of the Nationalist Army have been allowed to wear uniforms in a film and television work. Even the Anti-Japanese War drama has not dared to do so. This is an exception in "Eight Hundred" .

3 The film has a nondescript news reporter thrust into it, which is very unreliable. Anyone who is familiar with this period of war history knows that when reporting on the war at Sihang Warehouse, there were neither news pictures nor battlefield video records of the war in the warehouse, nor were there any historical facts about reporters using film cameras and cameras to conduct on-the-spot interviews in the warehouse. The fact is: the Songhu Anti-Japanese War aroused patriotic enthusiasm in the press circles across the country.

On November 8 of that year, at the Nanjing Hotel just a stone’s throw away from Sihang Warehouse, the famous journalist Fan Changjiang convened a meeting of left-wing journalists across the country and established the China Young Journalists Association. One of its main purposes was to Strengthen battlefield reporting after the comprehensive war of resistance! However, in the film, a reporter with an unclear face was fabricated, which really insulted the conscience of the journalists at that time.

Four. In the movie "Eight Hundred", it was wrong to shoot out a searchlight with one shot. At that time, searchlights used electrodes burning charcoal rods for illumination, rather than light bulbs, so it was almost impossible to extinguish them with one shot. The internal reflector of the searchlight was a combination of multiple pieces. Although it could be broken, the light would not go out and could only reduce the illumination intensity. . Similar technical errors limit the space, so we will not announce them one by one

Now we might as well look at a set of documentary photos of the Chinese army's recovery of Guilin City in July 1945 to illustrate the problem. The captions accompanying this set of pictures read: "Draft from the Photography Department of the U.S. News Service", calling the Chinese army "Hua Army", and judging from the presence of U.S. soldiers in the pictures, this set of pictures should be from the U.S. military professionals who were in China at that time. Photographed by staff.

Regarding this set of pictures, the focus of controversy that some online military fans have launched based on relevant historical data is: the one in the picture who recaptured Guilin is either the Central Army? the 94th Army? Li Shilin's 43rd Division; or the Sichuan Army ?20th Army? Zhou Hanxi's 133rd Division.

From this set of pictures, we can feel how difficult our war of resistance was due to the backward economy and poverty of the country in the past! When faced with these real historical pictures and looking at so many "anti-Japanese dramas" now, what kind of thoughts will you have? !

After years of arduous war of resistance, all kinds of materials needed by the army were in very short supply. From this set of pictures, you can read various information related to this.

The man carrying the document bag should be an officer. Like everyone else, he also wore a pair of straw sandals. There is an armed belt around his waist that no other warrior has. But this armed belt is not standard. The horse next to him should be the one assigned to him. Comes with pretty good harness. This must have been very expensive at the time. Perhaps this object is a trophy?

Please note: This officer also took a teapot to fill the water during the march, and did not even have a kettle? You must know that among the personal equipment issued by the military at that time, the kettle was by no means standard, but the teapot was.

After reading this group of photos, perhaps we can gain a lot more perceptual and rational understanding of the arduous war of resistance in the past, and have more discernment and critical spirit towards various historical dramas, so that we can communicate with the creators Let’s work together to promote the continuous improvement and progress of our literary and artistic works. At the same time, we hope that film and television creators will respect history more and pay more attention to details. As the saying goes: the devil is in the details.