Look at "Thirty-Nine Steps" again

At 10:00 a.m. on May 23, CCTV's "Action Movie" channel "Foreign Business Card" theater "Thirty-Nine Steps", re-watched forty years later, very impressive: "These two Germans are not only heroic (dare), dedicated, but also quite dangerous" (film line). The film ends with a thrilling showdown between the two sides on Big Ben, the British Parliament building in London.

This color film produced by the well-known British film company Rank and directed by Sharp is different from Hitchcock's previous black-and-white film of the same name, "Thirty-Nine Steps", although the protagonists of both films are "confused" involved in the spy war.

In this color film, the protagonist Hannei "accidentally" "accidentally" "bumped" into the Anglo-German spy contest when he returned from South Africa on vacation, and with his experience working for the British mining company in the German African colonies, he was quite confident in fighting wits with the two Germans who were hunting him down: they wanted to kill me, and they did not think. I've been in Africa for 20 years and haven't seen anything. So much so that the enemy chief reprimanded the two Germans and said, "Don't think that people are unprofessional."

The film does not directly review Hannei's life in Africa, and the two Germans as "The Assassin Hunt" indirectly reflect his experience in Africa. "Where you learned German, right in Africa". Regarding German spies, "they have become involved in our society and do not 'shoot' easily."

"Think back to that year", male old colleagues can be called "African Pass", in the 1970s, because of their work traveled all over Africa. During the same period, in his hometown of Changchun, "Reference News", "African Night Talk"; Beijing worked, face to face. From the Amin family of Ugandan Presidents in East Africa, to the Emperor Bossaka of Central Africa, from the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), the "economic window" of West Africa, to the Katanga Copper Mine in Zaire. "Talk on paper", "sublimation", "second-hand materials", the leap from quantity to quality.

"Revolution "Self-Descendants"", young female colleagues engaged in foreign affairs work in the 21st century, re-embarked on the "Long March" (Africa). So much so that in the eyes of her youngest daughter, her mother's experience of frequent traveling to and from Africa proves that going abroad is Africa.

African experience, life experience. If China's "going to the mountains and going to the countryside" is promoted worldwide, the intercontinental destination seems to be to the African continent. The environment of wild animals in Africa shows that human living conditions may decline due to adaptation to the survival and development of plants and animals, especially animals. vice versa. "Acura Life, Pay Attention to the Environment, and Build a Community of Human and Natural Life" (CCTV's "Man and Nature" program ending words).

Hannei's double harvest in Africa, experienced and honed and learned about Germany. The "unspoken rules" of running for the president of the United States are that one has served in the military and the other has served as governor.

(May 27, 2021 Ma Xiushan)

Related: American Academy Award-winning film Out of Africa (starring Streep).

Comparison of old and new geographical names on the African continent:

Namibia-South West Africa;Mozambique-Mozambique-Mosan Nasal;Maputo-Lawrence. Maguis, Harare-Salisbury, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)-Zaire, Burkina Faso-Upper Volta, Côte d'Ivoire-Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone-Sierra Leone-Sierra Leone-Sierra Leone, Eritrea (formerly part of Ethiopia).