Plot Introduction and Film Review of Wildfire and Spring Breeze Fighting the Ancient City

Produced by China Bayi Film Studio.

Director: Yan Jizhou Screenplay: Li Yingru Li Tian Yan Jizhou Cao Liang Dong Main Actors: Wang Xingang (Yang Xiaodong) Wang (Silver Ring and Gold Ring) Lidong Chen (Yang Mu) Wang Runshen (Guan) Li Renlin (Gao Dacheng)

Stills of "Wildfire Spring Fighting Ancient City"

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. A city in northern China occupied by Japanese imperialism.

Guerrilla political commissar under the instruction of China, under the escort of captain Liang of the armed forces, underground traffic policemen and sisters, secretly entered this big city, obtained documents through Gao Ziping, and lived in Han Yanlai's home in underground party member. The central task is to disintegrate and rebel the pseudo-security forces stationed in Japan with very few troops.

Guan Guan, the leader of the Puppet Manchu Security Forces, is a college student in Beijing. After the July 7th Incident, he defected to Qi and was admitted to Qinghe Military Academy. With the development of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the contradiction between Guan and the Japanese aggressors is getting deeper and deeper, and the Japanese aggressors are getting more and more depressed. Guan Tuan is the strongest fighting force among the puppet troops, and the uprising of Guan Tuan is a major blow to the Japanese aggressors. According to the action plan approved by the superior, on the one hand, underground workers were organized to fight for Guan, on the other hand, Han Yan was sent to infiltrate the security forces to inspire and educate the lower-level soldiers and wait for an opportunity to instigate the uprising.

Glaciers melt and tender willows face the wind. Yang Xiaodong's "two-pronged" work is progressing smoothly.

Guerrillas captured Guan and the secret service captain in an ambush. However, Mao Lanhua disguised himself, escaped by night, and joined hands with the Japanese aggressors to launch a big raid. The gold ring and Yang Xiaodong's mother fell into their hands one after another. Faced with the threat of the enemy, Gao Ziping degenerated into a traitor.

Guan Jing and others were released after education, which aroused many suspicions of the enemy. Japanese consultant Tada and commander Gao Chengan of the pseudo-security forces arranged a sinister confrontation. Guan, who was under house arrest, suddenly saw it and was secretly surprised, saying that he didn't know it. However, they followed suit and cursed the customs, subtly diverting the enemy's suspicion. After saving Shimonoseki, he died heroically under the loyal gun. His feat deeply touched Guan, prompting him to have a deeper understanding of * * * and the Japanese aggressors and Gao Dacheng. Because of the unclear understanding of the development of the anti-Japanese war situation, I dare not resolutely break through the darkness and lead the uprising.

Enduring the grief of her sister's sacrifice, she was eager to rescue Yang's mother. She accidentally exposed the joint location with Yang Xiaodong in front of the high sub-plane. When Yin Huan discovered Gao Ziping's rebellion and rushed to report it, Yang Xiaodong had been arrested by secret agents.

Caught Yang Xiaodong, Gao Dacheng was ecstatic. He tried to soften Yang Xiaodong with the love between mother and son, so this underground party organization fell into a trap. Yang was heartbroken when he saw his mother on the balcony in rags and bruises. Mother Yang went to her son and studied his haggard face when he was running for the revolution. How she expected to live a happy life after defeating the Japanese invaders! However, Yang Mu deeply understands the righteousness and sees through the enemy's plot. In order to make her son resolutely resist, she pushed him away and ran to the balcony to jump to his death. Yang Xiaodong tried to grab his mother's hand, but his hand was cut off by the mob and he couldn't get away. He was filled with indignation and held back his inner pain. When people went to the empty building, Gao Dacheng and all the thugs were frightened to disgrace, and Guan was strongly shocked again.

Yin Huan asked his superiors. With the cooperation of armed forces and underground organizations, Yang Xiaodong was rescued. In order to complete the disintegration of the pseudo-public security forces, while the armed forces rushed out of the city, Yang Xiaodong stayed and led the underground struggle.

In Yang Xiaodong's apartment, the silver ring just changed the gauze for Yang Xiaodong. Yang Xiaodong seems to have found something, his eyes fixed on the finger of the silver ring. Silver ring wrapped in gauze, wearing a red heart ring from Yang Mu. Yin Huan noticed that Yang Xiaodong looked at the ring, took it off restrictively, returned it to Yang Xiaodong, and told Yang Xiaodong, "This is from my aunt, she ... she gave it to you." Yang Xiaodong took the ring and closed her eyes uneasily. After a fierce struggle, Yang Xiaodong and Yin Huan fell in love, but no one knew whether the other loved themselves or not. ...

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door outside, and the door was kicked open. It turned out that the people who were locked up came to find the escaped ones. At this critical moment, Guan passed by the door, heard the bell ring, came in, pretended to check, and helped drive away the puppet troops. Seeing that the time is ripe, I will personally explain the truth of the anti-Japanese war and point out the bright future. The patient struggle of the Party, the sacrifices of Jin Huan and Yang Mu, the diabolical acts of the Japanese aggressors, Gao Dacheng and Mao Lan ... Many facts educated him and finally made him wake up. He is determined to follow * * to pull the team out.

When the opportunity came, Guan took the opportunity to command the pseudo-public security forces to go out of the city to grab food and pull the whole regiment out. However, the whereabouts of Gao Da in pairs are not at ease. He sent special agents to monitor Guan's every move. Gao Dacheng's sinister intentions have once again been educated from the opposite side. Guan shot and killed Smith and Hu Wei's spy lackeys, and the Wushu team also handed over the spies they brought.

In the gunfire, the tall man went out of the city with a large group of people. Minister Xiao of the Eighth Route Army also sent troops to meet the new revolutionary armed forces. Fierce gunfire echoed in Heitun Valley for a long time, like farewell firecrackers. ...

At sunset, a man and a woman are walking on the slope. The afterglow of the sunset stretched the figures of Yang Xiaodong and Yin Huan for a long time. Yang Xiaodong is going to a new job, and all the work here has to be handed over to Yin Huan. He felt relieved and attached to the silver ring, which gradually matured in a difficult struggle environment. He handed a small bag to Silver Ring and turned away. Silver ring reluctantly waved goodbye to him, suddenly realized the small bag in his hand and quickly opened it. A red heart ring glowed crimson. The seeds of love took root in their hearts, and the silver ring looked at Yang Xiaodong in the distance with nostalgia, looking, looking. ...

Yang Xiaodong's figure disappeared in the mist of rosy clouds.

This is a film based on a novel of the same name. The story of the film mainly describes that during the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, our underground party member broke into enemy-occupied areas, fought sharply and complicated with Japanese imperialism and pseudo-security forces, and finally won.

As a revolutionary traditional educational film with realism as its basic means of expression, it has achieved great success in story setting and characterization in typical environments.

Its plot set ups and downs, and gradually pushed to * * *.

The story begins with Yang Xiaodong's secret entry into a big city occupied by the enemy. Colonel Guan was captured by guerrillas and released after education. On the surface, this laid the groundwork for Guan's uprising, but the escape of the spy also created an excuse for being suspected after Guan returned to China. More importantly, the arrest of Jin Huan and Yang Mu made the situation that had just improved even more severe. Confrontation, Jin Huan counterplot, cleverly dismissed the suspicion of Gao Dacheng and as many as possible, but bravely sacrificed under as many guns, so that the plan to fight for the Guantuan uprising would not be aborted. However, the traitor Gao Ziping's betrayal has seriously damaged the improved situation. Caught with his mother, the enemy got carried away, thinking that Yang could be softened, so the underground party was arrested. However, Yang's mother jumped to her death, which made the enemy's tricks fail again. * * * The unyielding loyalty of the people and the brutality of the Japanese aggressors and traitors once again aroused Guan's deep thought. The revolutionary blood sobered Guan. In a sudden search, Guan was saved. The time is ripe for an uprising. And educate him with anti-Japanese truth and facts. He finally led the uprising. And Mao Lan rate spy broke into the pass, and latent crisis, to Gao Dacheng personally led a crusade against this "rebellious" troops, thus forming another * * * positive struggle between ourselves and the enemy.

The story has ups and downs, and it is quite exciting when it is urgent and slow. Compared with the original, the film highlights the main line of fighting for Guan, and at the same time prunes the minor points that have little to do with this main line: for example, the original novel writes more about the entanglements between Han Yanlai, Xiaoyan and Zhou; In order to describe the contradiction and fierceness of enemy agents, the infighting between the pseudo-governor and Gao Dacheng was also written. In this way, the theme of the film is prominent, the context is clear, and the plot is compact, which fully reflects the director's ability to control the development and changes of the film plot.

The location of the movie story is in a city in North China occupied by Japanese invaders. However, on the one hand, due to the growing international anti-fascist forces, the Soviet Red Army began a big counterattack; On the other hand, because Japan launched the Pacific War and the front line was too long, the enemy occupied very few troops in the city. Under this international and domestic background, it is reasonable for one party to go to a big city to disintegrate the anti-counterfeiting security forces, and the contradictions and struggles within the enemy undoubtedly increased Yang's success in accomplishing this mission. Of course, this city is still dominated by Japanese puppet troops with live ammunition. Although Guan has a sense of justice, he will not easily turn the gun before the situation is clear. Therefore, the road to the uprising was full of difficulties and obstacles, so that he fell into the predicament of no end for several times.

The * * * people, represented by Yang Xiaodong, are playing their roles in such a typical environment, and the enemy has fully demonstrated himself on this stage. Fortunately, according to the characters' own personality characteristics, the director allows the characters to show themselves truly, naturally and incisively under the influence of typical environment. This is the era when the whole country began to "apply what they have learned". Compared with other literary and artistic works, the characters in this film are very kind.

Yang Xiaodong is a young guerrilla political commissar. In order to resist Japan, he was led by the party to the provincial capital occupied by the Japanese aggressors. This role is played by Wang Xingang, a film performance artist familiar to movie audiences. Wang Xingang is young and natural, acting naturally, which is a very proper limit. He portrayed Yang Xiaodong's wit and courage, fearless in times of crisis, and good at doing ideological and political work. He also combined Yang Xiaodong's virtues of attaching importance to the country's national righteousness, showing personal kindness, filial piety to the elderly and loyalty to love, and created an image of a flesh-and-blood underground leader of the party.

In the scene where Yang's mother committed suicide by jumping off a building, she was righteous in front of the enemy, but she looked so warm and kind and attached like a calf in front of her mother who raised her. * * * Members are ordinary people. They also have yearning for life and attachment to their loved ones. However, for the revolutionary cause, they did not hesitate to die. This episode not only describes the lofty revolutionary integrity of Yang Xiaodong and Yang Mu, but also exposes the ugly faces of traitors such as Gao Dacheng and Mao Lan. Facing the test of life and death, Yang Muhe shocked the enemy with his own merits and educated Guan. It can be said that killing two birds with one stone, all kinds of characters have been fully displayed.

Silver rings are also rich characters. She is a traffic policeman in the underground party and a nurse in the provincial hospital. Because of her naivety and lack of struggle experience, she inadvertently revealed the secrets of the Party to the traitor Gao Ziping, which led to Yang Xiaodong's arrest and almost caused great disaster. With the help of Yang Xiaodong, she finally grew into a strong underground party cadre. In the process of falling in love with Yang Xiaodong (mainly through a red heart ring as a medium), the shyness, happiness and persistence of the silver ring also conform to the trajectory of the development of the character, without any affectation. This is due to Wang, who has been re-elected for two terms. The two sisters she plays, the Golden Ring and the Silver Ring, are different in education, experience, environment and tasks, but apart from their similar looks, they are far apart. It was not easy to maximize the ferocity of the gold ring and the gentleness of the silver ring, but Wang did it.

The film Wildfire and Spring Breeze Against the Ancient City is a realistic film with the theme of portraying and shaping characters and truly reflecting the underground struggle life of our party. Apart from an actor playing two different roles and using some special effects design and trick photography, there is no innovation in the use of film language. However, the director's creative principle of striving for the real development of characters based on his own foundation brought some new ideas to the artistic treatment of similar themes at that time, thus occupying a certain position in the film art of expressing the revolutionary historical tradition.