Forty-Nine Days: Sacrifice - Showing the portrayal of human nature
Directed by Zhang Li, written by Yan Geling, and starring Zhang Jiayi, Song Jia, Hu Ge, Huang Zhizhong, Zhang Xinyi, Ma Haobo, etc.
Zhang Li, born in Hebei Province in 1957, is a male director and photographer in Chinese mainland, graduated from the photography department of Beijing Film Academy. In 1974, Zhang Li joined the queue in Pingjiang County, Hunan, and went to Xiaoxiang Film Studio to work as a handyman in order to fill his stomach, and he became obsessed with movies. In 1978, with the encouragement of the studio photographer, Zhang Li was admitted to the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy, and Zhang Yimou, Gu Changwei, Chen Kaige, Li Shaohong, Hu Mei, Tian Zhuangzhuang, etc. were also admitted to Beijing Film that year. After graduating in 1982, he worked in Xiaoxiang Film Studio.
Yan Geling, female, born in December 1958, is a Chinese-American, a famous writer and screenwriter.
He has been engaged in bilingual writing in Chinese and English for many years, and his works focus on the life and fate of several generations of Chinese immigrants in the United States, as well as women, war and other themes, and have been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese and other languages. His works "Little Aunt Duohe" and "Lu Prisoner's Knowledge" won the first place in the 2006 and 2011 Chinese Novel Association Novel Awards respectively, and "The Banquet Attendee" won the "Novel Gold Award" awarded by the Chinese American Library Association. He has cooperated with famous directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige for a long time, and his works "Mei Lanfang", "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins", "Dangerous Relationship", "Happiness Knocks on the Door", "Tie Pear Flower", "A Woman's Epic" and so on have been put on the film and TV screens, which have had a great impact.
Zhang Jiayi, formerly known as Zhang Xiaotong, formerly known as Zhang Jiayi, was born on April 8, 1970 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, ancestral home in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, Chinese mainland actor, graduated from Beijing Film Academy.
Song Jia, born on November 13, 1980 in Nangang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, is a film and television actress and singer in Chinese mainland, an actor of the National Theater, and graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy.
The play is adapted from Yan Geling's novel "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling", with the theme of the Nanjing Massacre, telling the human tragedy that occurred in the next 49 days before and after Nanjing was occupied by the Japanese army in 1937, reflecting the meaning of life and the redemption of human nature in a desperate situation.
Hu Ge, born on September 20, 1982 in Xuhui District, Shanghai, is a film and television actor, pop singer in Chinese mainland, a member of the Democratic League, and graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy.
Huang Zhizhong, born on March 5, 1969 in Heping District, Tianjin, is a former basketball player of the youth team of Tianjin Sports Team, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, and is an actor in Chinese mainland.
Zhang Xinyi was born on May 29, 1998 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, since childhood has a dream of performance, from the age of 4 began to learn guzheng performance, during primary school to participate in the school's Peking Opera club, in the fifth or sixth grade participated in the performance of the English drama club. In 2010, he enrolled in the Secondary Art School affiliated to Nanjing University of the Arts, majoring in instrumental music.
Ma Haobo, born on April 6, 1994 in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, is an actor from Chinese mainland and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
The drama premiered on December 1, 2014 at the Golden Eagle Solo Theater of Hunan Satellite TV, but the ratings of the series were not good, and the ratings after 3 days of broadcasting only ranked 10th in the same period with a score of 0.693. In 2015, the drama series was selected into the "Chinese TV Drama Anthology" of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China. In 2017, the show won the "Outstanding TV Drama Award" of the 11th National Top Ten TV Producers.
In 1937, Japanese troops entered the fallen city of Nanjing and were ordered to bury the bodies of Chinese soldiers and prisoners of war. At the same time, the church of St. Madelean in the center of the city welcomed a group of uninvited guests, a dozen schoolgirls and Qinhuaihe women, who all came to the same goal for the same thing - to escape.
Soon after, many men also entered the church for various reasons. The Japanese troops outside the walls looked for all kinds of excuses to enter the church, the backyard of the church of St. Madelean became the target of their burial of corpses to cover up the evidence of the crime, and the organizers of the international security zone tried various plans to rescue the trapped people in the church, but repeatedly failed.
The men of the church gave their lives to protect the women hidden in the attic and cellar of the church, and the women either chose to die with dignity or put up the most violent resistance. In these forty-nine days and nights, they and them, in the process of survival, resistance, destruction, and resurrection, forged love, affection, and friendship, and the once cowardly became warriors; Those who were lost have found their way; What was once empty has been reaped; The redeemer of the sinful is accomplished.
Zhang Li completely relied on his own solid steps to pursue his film dream, step by step to today, Zhang Yimou has completed his dream of being a national teacher with the help of relationships and ingenious help every step, both of them are artists of the same era, and they have their own great achievements; But how to evaluate and look at it is a problem for each Hamlet.
The biggest bottom line of this drama is to use the strong strength of the United States as a guarantee to obtain the so-called safety zone, and the Japanese army recognized this security zone, although it is often provoked and destroyed, but it still ensures the safety of most people. Of course, we still want to condemn Japan's relentless aggression and trampling on China. At the same time, it is also necessary to realize that the essence of Japan's invasion of China is the manifestation of the disorder and disorder of Western culture's invasion of China. In other words, Japan's fear of Western civilization and its stress response to China's weakness. From the current point of view, Western culture is still an advanced culture in the world, and a strong culture needs to be digested and absorbed by a big country like China, otherwise we will still pay the same price.