Cover news reporter Zeng Jie
On November 19, the movie "Railway Hero" was released nationwide, and the anti-Japanese squad composed of Zhang Hanyu, Fan Wei, Wei Chen, Zhou Ye, and Yu Haoming each took on a mission and resolutely rushed forward, facing the enemy's open gun and secret battle, the railway team soldiers never compromised, and threw themselves into this battle to block the invaders and defend the national honor. Close combat, street blasting, and fierce gun battles constitute a dramatic confrontation between good and evil, and the action scenes of flowing clouds and sparks splashing collide, allowing the audience to feel the epic of the War of Resistance composed by the Lunan Railway Team.
Prior to this, on November 14, the movie "Railway Hero" held a grand global premiere in Beijing, and director Yang Feng appeared with many main creators to chat about creative feelings. Zhang Hanyu re-molded the tough guy to show the true color of the hero, and he still insisted on filming after the recurrence of the waist injury on the set; Fan Wei and the "son" Zhou Zhengjie in the play connected in the air, full of warmth; Wei Chen and Yu Haoming, two good brothers, were in the same frame, not only sang "I Am the Brightest" on the spot, Wei Chen also intimately sent a birthday cake to the birthday star Yu Haoming, touching the audience.
Why spend 5 years to create a story of a railway hero? Zhang Hanyu and Fan Wei, the two major movie emperors, are there sparks behind the scenes? On the eve of the film's release, director Yang Feng gave a telephone interview to the cover reporter. During the interview, Yang Feng mentioned a word "real" many times, in order to restore a real railway hero, the crew 1:1 reproduced the train of the Japanese army invading China, using 150 tons of special effect snow to restore the weather of the Lunan area. Yang Feng said sincerely: "To create red classics, we must first be worthy of history, and secondly, we must be worthy of young audiences, so that they know what the real history and war are like." ”
【Origin】
Restore the real railway hero
The movie "Railway Hero" is based on the deeds of the "Lunan Railway Brigade" of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and tells the story of the heroic "Railway Team" of Lincheng Zaozhuang fighting wits and courage with the enemy during the critical period of the fall of mountains and rivers and the peril of the nation.
Yang Feng repeatedly stressed that "Railway Hero" is a legendary story based on serious research and historical facts. The Jinpu Railway was a major transportation artery built by British and German companies by the late Qing government. In 1937, the Japanese invading Japanese army occupied the Jinpu Railway, on the one hand, to transport the plundered materials, on the other hand, to transport a large number of weapons and troops into the battlefield.
In 2016, after learning about the Jinpu Railway and the Lunan Railway Team, Yang Feng hoped to create a new railway team story. To this end, the main creative team visited the descendants of many railway team members, consulted the history and history of the party, invited jinpu railway experts to discuss, and contacted the descendants of railway heroes.
"After truly understanding this period of history, we have seen the cruelty of war, the oppression of the army, we must fight to the death, but we can also fight to the death!" After years of collecting style and preparing, Yang Feng finally decided to put these railway heroes on the big screen.
In the movie, "Lao Hong" played by Zhang Hanyu and "Lao Wang" played by Fan Wei are sorted out and refined by the main creative team from hundreds of railway team members, and in Yang Feng's words, "it is two characters that are gradually pinched after hundreds of dictations by the Lunan Railway Team." "There were once railway team members who recalled that there was a railway worker who followed the German engineer Frank to learn to repair the railway, although he had no culture, he could read the drawings and was a technical master; some people recalled his grandfather, who liked to drink two or two liquors, seemed to be drunk, but the transmission of information was never wrong. These oral history materials eventually became flesh-and-blood railway heroes on the screen.
【Sincerity】
Zhang Hanyu fan wei mutual achievements
As soon as "Railway Hero" began to paint, in the Lunan area under the wind and snow, the invaders wantonly bullied the common people, and the arrogance was chilling. In order to crack down on the innocent Japanese Kou, the leader of the railway squad, Lao Hong, charged forward, armed with a gun, and used the ice pick as a weapon to eliminate the traitors; the scene of Lao Wang, played by Fan Wei, cleverly confused the Japanese army, the street annihilated the enemy by no means, and still maintained his composure when he was in danger, and the wind and bone of the Japanese Kou were denounced to tears. Qi Shun, Zhuang Yan, Lin Dong and other characters also flashed one by one, and the battle for the great righteousness of the family and the country was also related to their choice of personal future and destiny.
Zhang Hanyu, who has previously gathered the heroic roles in the field of "sea, land and air", showed his tough guy nature this time, playing an important core of the railway team and captain Lao Hong. Bearing many action scenes, he still insisted on filming after the recurrence of waist injuries on the set, and director Yang Feng also revealed that many close-up hand-to-hand combat scenes were completed by Zhang Hanyu himself. Talking about the performance of this old drama bone, Yang Feng praised it as "very exciting". During the filming process, he was deeply impressed by Zhang Hanyu's line skills, and the two often discussed how people of that era spoke. Zhang Hanyu mentioned the "old taste", that is, to integrate the Shandong slang of that era into Mandarin, so that the character image is closer to the times.
The performance of actor Fan Wei was commented by Yang Feng as "resistant and powerful". In the film, Fan Wei portrays the undercover lao wang who is deeply disguised and has a thousand faces, and the plot of the film that is not chaotic and angry with the Japanese Kou is impressive, and the alternative "father and son" scene with Xiao Shi is even more tear-inducing. Yang Feng revealed that in order to better fit the characteristics of the character, Fan Wei took the initiative to challenge speaking Shandong dialect. He specifically found a Zaozhuang man, recorded all the lines, and practiced every day. We colloquially spoken a lot of the language when we were testing, and incorporated some words that were closer to Zaozhuang dialect. In addition, Fan Wei also strictly controls the details, "seeking truth" when filming the scene where Lao Wang is beaten, and asking for "tighter" when he is tied up, which is very dedicated.
Although the anti-war heroes played by Zhang Hanyu and Fan Wei, one in the light and one in the dark, rarely intersect on weekdays, Yang Feng can't help but "spoilers", the two actually have two opponent scenes, sparks, you can see the mutual achievements of the two film emperors. Especially in the scene where Lao Wang risked passing on intelligence, Fan Wei pretended to chat with the Japanese army, and after seeing Zhang Hanyu, he handed a look, "Lao Hong brothers, borrow a fire" to pass on the information under the eyes of the Japanese army. Shooting on the set, everyone abandoned the script and used body movements and expressions to interpret. Recalling the set, Yang Feng still feels enjoyed: "They bring me surprises every day. ”
In addition to the two film emperors, young actors have also contributed good acting skills in "Railway Heroes", they "see the set as a battlefield", and they are fully committed and spare no effort when filming, which also makes Yang Feng praise one after another. When filming a scene of a lying track and raising a gun, Wei Chen, dressed in a thin costume, insisted on shooting from dark to dawn in an environment of minus 20 degrees; Yu Haoming, in order to make the plot of "pickpocketing the train" appear more realistic, repeatedly communicated details with the action guide, constantly groped and tried, and finally achieved satisfactory results; the little nurse played by Zhou Ye wore a torn cotton jacket, with a thin face and thin muscles, and cracked lips, trying to restore the feeling of malnutrition in the plot. Yang Feng laughed and said that at the beginning of filming, he said bluntly to the actors, "Shoot my scene, you don't want to look good", the sunburn on the face, frostbite, and even dirty hair, everyone tries to do a good job of details as much as possible, close to the role in the film.
【Rigorous】
The design of Fu hua dao is unique
From the early stage of creation, the main creative team has held a rigorous attitude and strived to truly reproduce the battle scenes of the heroes, whether it is a train spraying black smoke or a night scene of wind and snow raging, the texture and style of the film have won countless praise from the audience.
Yang Feng revealed that in fact, from the first and second drafts of the script, the style of the film has been determined, "The whole movie is 100% scene restoration. "From the steam train in the ninth year of Showa, to the platform of the railway station, and even the logo on the platform of a Japanese army, there are old photos of the old Hong family with the Germans hanging on the wall, all of which are based on evidence, and are restored according to history and old photos."
Adhering to the reverence for history and heroes, from the layout of large and small scenes to the character images, the main creative team has conducted all-round study and is committed to conforming to the characteristics of the times. The makeup of the period drama is more complex and requires higher requirements, and the main creative team has carefully studied and carefully designed each character. Lao Hong always has mud nail slits, Lao Wang's rosy nose formed by drinking often, and a black and white beard that confirms his age, and the details make the characters more convincing. In the clothing, in order to show the old texture, the staff specially put the stones and sand in the washing machine and washed the clothes together, and it takes several months to dye the finished product.
After the end of this heart-warming and thrilling battle, Andy Lau's classic and newly sung "Playing the Beloved Earth Pipa Again" slowly played at the end of the film, allowing everyone to relive the emotions in the story in the familiar melody. It is worth mentioning that Andy Lau, Zhang Hanyu and Fan Wei cooperated in the film "No Thief in the World" 17 years ago, and joined hands to provide the audience with a masterpiece on the screen, and this time Andy Lau sang the ending theme song of "Railway Hero", which also allowed the three to continue the "Railway Fate".
At the end of the interview, Yang Feng described this fate in poetic language: on a train 17 years ago, "No Thief in the World" told a story of thieves and a way; 17 years later, another train traveled through time and space back to the Anti-Japanese War period, Andy Lau used songs to talk with Lao Hong and Lao Wang, paying tribute to the heroes, quite a sense of stream of consciousness.
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