When preparing for the filming of "Wolf Warrior 2", there was a small story.
Because the military-themed action movies were not favored, no one invested in Wu Jing, so much so that he had to mortgage his property to make the movie.
Later, Guo Fan, the director of "The Wandering Earth", found Wu Jing, who was also a science fiction film that was not optimistic, but Wu Jing saw his former self in Guo Fan's body, so he took the initiative to reduce the film remuneration, and even after zero film remuneration, he also became an investor with money.
In the end, "The Wandering Earth" exploded and became the box office champion of the Spring Festival that year.
Wu Jing loves movies, and he also loves directors who have movie dreams.
From "Wolf Warrior" to "The Wandering Earth", in order to make the genre of Chinese films more abundant, let us have military action movies and science fiction films that we can get our hands on, and he has become a pathfinder for domestic films.
This time, he once again reached out to a photographer.
Ye Junce is the photographer of "Wandering Planet", and he spent a year and a half deleting the material of the old man Xia Boyu's climb to Mount Everest and cutting it into the volume of a movie.
He showed the edited video to Guo Fan, and Guo Fan called Wu Jing again, and the two of them watched the video, hit it off, and decided to make a documentary to be released in the cinema.
Documentaries are arguably the least profitable genre, and I was asked why I would invest in a film that I knew I was going to lose money on.
Wu Jing's answer is "touched", the story of the old man Xia Boyu has deeply touched him, he hopes that this movie can be seen by more people, and he believes that more people will be touched by the spirit of Xia Lao.
The film, titled Endless Climb, was released in cinemas on December 3.
Sure enough, as expected before, the box office of this movie can be described by the word "dismal", and the cumulative box office is only 2.06 million in 10 days of release.
But thankfully, 1354 people gave a high score of 9.5, and the audience who watched it was in tears, touched by the spirit of the elderly Xia Boyu.
The content of this movie is very simple, the old man Xia Boyu, who lost his legs, finally successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest for the fifth time at the age of 69 after experiencing 4 failures.
There are strange snow scenes in the movie, there are friends' righteousness, and there is the warmth of family, but the most moving thing is the unremitting struggle of the old man Xia Boyu for 44 years.
Xia Boyu and Mount Everest were formed in 1975, when the state organized a mountaineering team for the second time, with only one purpose - to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
The 25-year-old football player Xia Boyu, because of his excellent physical fitness, was successfully selected for the national mountaineering team.
But climbing Mount Everest was a million times more difficult than they thought, and even though they had made sufficient preparations before, they were still trapped because of the blizzard.
The mountaineering team had to spend the night on the snowy mountain, and one of the climbers accidentally lost his sleeping bag, and Xia Boyu, nicknamed "Vulcan", gave his sleeping bag to his teammates.
The next day, Xia Boyu's legs lost consciousness, from blue to purple to black, and finally had to be amputated.
In "The Climber", the mountaineer played by Hu Ge is based on the old man Xia Boyu.
In "The Climber", Hu Ge lies on his hospital bed and says, "I will not give up, I will come back to climb Everest." ”
This sentence, Old Man Xia Boyu said, he also did this.
If you don't have legs, you'll put on a prosthesis.
In order to make the foot grow flesh, he chose to scrape the bone, and when scraping the bone, he did not use anesthesia, and he directly endured it.
At the same time, he also began more than forty years of training, push-ups, squats, dumbbell training.
After successfully wearing the prosthesis, a number of sports such as cycling and mountain climbing were added.
Because of the perennial training, Xia Lao's physical fitness is stronger than that of many young people.
Seeing that everything was moving in a good direction, life made a huge joke to him, and Xia Lao was diagnosed with middle and advanced lymphoma.
From then on, he not only insisted on high-intensity training, but also fought against the disease.
Worried that the patients in the same ward were always crying and crying and being affected, Xia Lao rode his bicycle and turned back in the hospital and at home every day.
No one expected that Xia Lao finally created a miracle, and he once again defeated the disease.
At the same time, Xia Boyu began his mountaineering journeys again and again.
Unfortunately, the old lady seems to have deliberately tempered him and lost one problem after another to him, resulting in his 3 summits from 2014 to 2016.
In 2014, he had to retreat because of an avalanche.
In 2015, there was another major earthquake in Nepal, and Xia Lao had to return again.
The most regrettable thing is that in 2016, Xia Lao was only 94 meters away from the summit of Mount Everest, and it looked like it was about to arrive, but because of the sudden snowstorm, the visibility was less than one meter.
Elder Xia wanted to continue climbing, but he couldn't, he couldn't let the five twenty-something guides around him lose their lives.
In the end, he decided to give up the summit.
Everyone comforted him, only 94 meters away, no different from the summit, don't insist on it anymore, it's time to play with his grandson and enjoy his old age.
Elder Xia's mouth should be harmonious, but in his heart he was deeply unwilling, seeing that the dream of more than forty years was about to be realized, he was not willing.
And Xia Lao's biggest worry was nothing else, it was money.
In order to climb Mount Everest, he sold his house in 2008 when housing prices in Beijing soared, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every time he climbed Mount Everest, and now the family is stretched to the limit, and he can't make up the money to climb the mountain again.
Fortunately, the friends around him understood his persistence, and Ke Qingfeng helped Xia Lao to make up enough money for mountain climbing.
At 8:31 a.m. on May 14, 2018, Xia Boyu finally reached the top after many hardships!
At the top of Mount Everest, he used a walkie-talkie to tell Ke Qingfeng to help remember the time.
What Elder Xia didn't know was that there was still a surprise waiting for him.
Because of his worries about him, his son Xia Dengping waited in the base camp early.
After Xia Lao returned, the father and son took a rare photo to commemorate this special trip.
If elder Xia has been most sorry for more than forty years, it is probably for his family.
For so many years, the reason why he has been able to continue to pursue his dreams without distraction is inseparable from the understanding and support of his family.
Xia Lao's wife was an unusually sober and tolerant person, and she said that she could not persuade him, so she would support him.
There is no one man's heroism, behind the success of the hero, standing a group of people.
"Endless Climbing" was released, and many stars sent Weibo praise, including Wu Jing, Xu Zheng, Hu Ge, Jing Bairan, Zhang Yi, Xie Nan, Yu Kailei, Wei Chen, Zhang Tianai, Li Guangjie, Wang Zhi and many other stars, calling for the elderly Xia Boyu.
Realistically, it's a good movie worth watching.
Frustrated middle-aged people will see the courage to face difficulties in it; the troubled young people will see the persistence of dreams in it; the young children will plant a seed in their hearts; and the elderly will rekindle their enthusiasm for life.
Life is not afraid of late, just see if you dare to dare!