Chapter 93 New Script
Li Chengfeng couldn't help but say, "You are jumping fast enough. You are still talking about fairy tale in the last second, but you will jump to science fiction in the next second."
Xu Zhengdao laughed and said, "It's all fantasy literature! The Citi Country's Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards are both awarded together with science fiction and fantasy, so we don't need to separate them. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. We should make a movie to show the fearless spirit of the Chinese military and civilians. But I chose not to choose a war movie, but to show it in the form of science fiction."
Fu Yan said curiously: "What kind of story is it?"
The others also looked at Xu Zhengdao with curiosity and waited for him to continue.
Xu Zhengdao said slowly: "In 1938, the Kuomintang sent two bombers to Japan, but they were not bombs, but one million leaflets. Do you know this?"
Seeing everyone nodding, he said, "This is quite sad. Why use leaflets instead of bombs? Because our plane is not in a good range, we can't bring too much fuel with bombs. The story I want to shoot evolved based on this incident and the story of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin interacting with eight pilots in Kunming. In 1939, the National Government discovered a wormhole in Wild Cat Mountain outside Kunming. This wormhole leads directly to Tokyo, so that we can have the ability to bomb Tokyo. So, the National Government carried out a secret operation in 1940, sending eight pilots through the wormhole to bomb the Emperor's Palace and behead the Emperor. The eight pilots flew into the wormhole with bombers in turn, but many of them were trapped in the wormhole."
Li Chengfeng said in surprise: "Trailed in a wormhole?"
Xu Zhengdao nodded with a serious expression: "They flew into the wormhole, and it was only a short moment inside, but the time outside was passing by rapidly. The first pilot flew out of the wormhole was already 1942, and the route was still deviating by more than 100 kilometers. The second pilot flew out was already 1945, and that day the Americans were bombing Tokyo; the third pilot flew out in 1951, and the subsequent pilots came out in 1959, 1970, 1984, and 2002. They didn't know that the time had already been
After a while, I didn't know that the war had ended, so I flew to Tokyo City resolutely. Some of these pilots died, some fled to live, waiting for news from others in Japan. They set out at the same age, but when they met again, they were a few dozen years apart. According to time, the last pilot would fly out of the wormhole in 2025. In other words, the last pilot is still in the wormhole and will fly out of the wormhole twenty years later to perform the mission eighty-five years ago!”
Jiang Tianxing and the others looked at Xu Zhengdao in amazement, not knowing what to say.
Li Chengfeng's mouth is so big that he can simply stuff a goose egg.
Although Xu Zhengdao's description was very simple, theirs were still deeply shocked. For most people, the war ended in 1945. But for these pilots, the battle had not ended, and they did not forget their mission to serve the country. After flying out of the wormhole, they resolutely flew to Tokyo City.
Li Chengfeng slapped his thigh: "This idea is so awesome! Chinese pilots traveled through wormholes to bomb Tokyo!"
Li Jie couldn't help but say, "Yes, Chinese pilots traveled through time and space to bomb Tokyo and behead the emperor. This idea is really awesome! Damn, it would be great if it was true!"
Even Huang Haoran, who was not very talkative, said with emotion: "I think the most touching thing is that they didn't know that the war had ended. They flew out of the wormhole and resolutely flew to Tokyo to carry out their original mission. The last pilot would not fly out twenty years later! I don't know what to say, I just wanted to cry!"
Jiang Tianxing said worriedly: "Can you pass the trial?"
Xu Zhengdao shook his head slightly: "I am not sure. It is really hard to say whether I can make a movie by combining anti-Japanese stories with science fiction. However, our theme is very positive. It is to show the War of Resistance and the heroic spirit of Chinese soldiers from another perspective. I don't think it's a big problem. At that time, China Film will be brought to China Film and Television to clear the relationship, and the risk of being stuck in the review will be much smaller."
"Wild Cat Mountain - Tokyo 1939" is a science fiction novel published by the writer Zhang Ran in 2013. Zhang Ran was originally an editor and reporter of the newspaper. He began to create science fiction novels in 2012. It is a science fiction star that Liu Cixin did not concentrate on writing and began to walk everywhere. She has published novels such as "Ether" and "The Year of the Great Hunger". "Wild Cat Mountain - Tokyo 1939" is not very famous among Zhang Ran's works, but it is the most suitable for making movies.
However, if "Wild Cat Mountain" wants to make a movie, it must be undergone surgery and made major modifications. Because the novel opens with the male protagonist being ordered to participate in a female prisoner who is believed to be suspected of treason in 1965, gradually revealing the truth 25 years ago. In addition to praising the sacrifice of Chinese soldiers, this story also darkens the movement period. The novel can write these things, but the movie cannot be made. As long as the movie involves that era, it will be difficult to pass the review and the relevant content must be removed.
In the following days, Xu Zhengdao started writing the script of "Wild Cat Mountain" while busy with the later period of "The Pancake Man". He took away the narrator "I" in the novel and opened the story in 1984. The Japanese 50-month Guan Nan and his team went to Haitang Kingdom to invest and exchange.
After the 50-State Guan Nan and her troop arrived in Peking, in addition to discussing investment, they also asked the Chinese representative to find a woman named Liang Shaobing, hoping to meet her. Liang Shaobing was originally an engineer, but now she has retired. She didn't know why the Japanese people wanted to meet her, but after all, they were international friends, so she still agreed to meet her. Unexpectedly, after the meeting, Guan Nan in the 50-State Guan Nan actually called out Liang Shaobing's nickname. Then, he told Liang Shaobing that he was Chen Guimin, an air force pilot who was declared dead forty-five years ago.
Liang Shaobing fell into memories. In 1938, Liang Shaobing and his family fled to Kunming. Here they strengthened eight pilots from the aviation school. Because the parents of the eight pilots and their families were in the occupied areas, no one in Kunming was in the school. When they graduated, they invited Liang Shaobing's parents to be their honorary parents and attend their graduation ceremony. After graduation, the eight pilots quickly joined the battlefield and fought fiercely with the Japanese invaders in the air. However, what Liang Shaobing and his family were waiting for was not the victory, but the death notices one after another, and in the end, all eight people were killed.
Liang Shaobing's memories ended, and Chen Guimin began to tell the truth. In 1939, the National Government discovered a mysterious wormhole near Wildmao Mountain outside Kunming City. As long as you enter this wormhole, you can go directly to Tokyo. Therefore, the senior officials of the National Government planned a top-secret plan, sending eight pilots to fly the modified Hawk 3 fighter jet to bomb the Emperor's Palace and carry out beheading the Emperor.
But the actual situation is different from what was expected. When Chen Guisheng came out of the wormhole, the route deviated more than 100 kilometers. The plane finally crashed 20 kilometers away from Tokyo. He was thrown out of the plane by the explosion air waves and rescued by nearby Japanese people as his own. When he woke up, he discovered an amazing fact. It was not in 1940, but in 1942. He hid his identity and pretended to be Japanese people and survived. Three years later, the day when the Americans burned Tokyo, he saw a Hawk 3 flying into the burning city of Tokyo without hesitation...
After Chen Guimin and the others said goodbye to Liang Shaobing, they boarded the plane back to Japan. When the plane was more than 20 kilometers away from Tokyo, they saw a Hawk 3 outside. They shouted like madmen, but the other party couldn't hear it at all. The bomber didn't fly far, so they fell head-on and turned into a ball of fire on the ground.
Chen Guimin, who was almost 100 years old in 2009, watched the 60th anniversary parade with his brothers who were much younger than him. When he saw Dongfeng appear, he couldn't help but burst into tears. He told two brothers who were much younger than him that it would be great if we had such advanced weapons at the beginning, many of the brothers would not have died. He also said that according to time, Lin Yao should have flew out of the wormhole in 2025, but I can't wait for that day.
At the end of the story, time came to 2025, and the last pilot, Lin Yao, finally flew out of the wormhole. After determining the location, he flew in the plane and resolutely flew to Tokyo.
The theme of the novel "Wild Cat Mountain" is to praise the sacrifice of soldiers and call for peace. The theme of the script adapted by Xu Zhengdao is a bit different from the original novel. In the script, Chen Guimin died after reading the National Day parade in 2009. The reason for adding this part is mainly to show that the reason why we can be peaceful this year is because the country is strong because we use awesome weapons like Dongfeng Express. Peace is based on strength, and Xianglin Sao-style peace does not exist.
Around 2005, there was a voice on the Internet that was very loud, and China and Japan would have a battle. By 2020, basically no one shouted that. In fact, it can be seen from Qidian Novels that there were many novels that destroyed the United States and Turis around 2005, and there were still novels that competed with the United States in 2020, but Turis basically disappeared, but there were more novels that reflected the Japanese culture. The root of this change is that the economy of the Haitang Kingdom has risen and its military strength has completely crushed Japan, and everyone no longer regards Japan as an important threat.
In addition to adjusting the plot and theme of the novel, Xu Zhengdao also adjusted the name of the movie.
The name of a movie is a very important part of film marketing, and it is the starting point and origin of film marketing. The name of a movie should be easy to understand and attractive. If the audience needs two or three interpretations to understand, it will definitely be a failed title.
This is the name "Wild Cat Mountain - Tokyo 1939". If you don't know the content of the novel and only look at the name, the audience will be confused. You don't know what it is talking about, and you can't see the type of the movie.
If you don’t even know what type of movie it is, how can the audience be interested?
In order to make it clear to the audience, Xu Zhengdao changed the name of the movie to the very simple "Bombing Tokyo".
By the end of October, the soundtrack and mixing work of "The Pancake Man" had been completed, and subtitles were started. At this moment, Xu Zhengdao received a call from Jiang Zhiqiang, asking him and the movie starring Zhu Yawen and Tong Yao to go to Xiangjiang to promote "No. 32 in Area B". Xu Zhengdao could only put down his work and asked Zhu Yawen and Tong Yao to go to Xiangjiang to promote.
Sitting on the plane and looking at the clouds outside the window that looked like a sea of snow, Xu Zhengdao couldn't help but think of the story of "Bombing Tokyo". In 1984, when Chen Guimin and his friends returned to Tokyo, they also looked out the window like this; but as they watched, a Hawke 3 fighter plane flew out. What was their mood at that time? In addition to shouting, did they slap the window with their hands? Thinking of this, Xu Zhengdao couldn't help but pat the window with his hands.
At this moment, a sweet voice came from behind: "Sir, do you need help?"
Chapter completed!