Lin Chaoyang watched his son walk into the examination room in disappointment from afar. It seemed that this unrequited love should have come to an end.

After going to college, aren’t there any good girls?

When Dongdong entered the examination room, the whole family was busy with their own affairs.

Lin Chaoyang got in the car and came to the film bureau. Today is the review meeting of "Rabe Diary". This movie, which has been investing hundreds of millions of dollars and has been preparing for production for nearly three years, was finally completed last month.

After the success of "Opium War", Xie Jin has become a real person and the film review meeting has been extremely high.

Not only was the director of the Film Bureau present, but a deputy from the cultural department also attended. Since the recovery of Sino-Japanese relations in the 1970s, what has been advocated at the official level has always been "China-Japan friendship".

Therefore, the official always takes extra caution when it comes to sensitive topics between the two countries.

If an ordinary director came to film the subject of "Rabe Diary", it would probably be a problem to pass the review, but this director is Xie Jin, and Lin Chaoyang's support is much less difficult.

The first scene of the film was the city of Nanjing, where cannon fodder was full of cannon fodder. The battle was extremely fierce. Every second, life was accompanied by the sound of guns and cannons.

For the first five minutes of battlefield shots, Xie Jinhua set up a Nanjing city wall in more than half a year, and then it was terrible in three months of shooting.

The Japanese army in the movie won and they occupied Nanjing, but street fighting continued, and the brave Chinese soldiers were still resisting, and gunfire sounds were sporadically sounding in Nanjing.

At this time, the voice of the protagonist John Rabe, the film's protagonist, appears in the form of a narration.

"On September 7, 1937, I received a letter from the German Embassy. The Japanese invading troops rushed straight from Northeast China, and Shanghai fell, and Nanjing might not be spared.

The embassy established a committee composed of Krummachel, Pinkneller and Hort, with the task of ensuring the safety of German citizens in Nanjing and advising German citizens to leave Nanjing as soon as possible.

I also want to leave here, but Siemens has too much property in Nanjing, so I can't do anything about it.

We have about 30 staff and servants here, all of whom are watching me, and if I stay, they will stand faithfully on their post until the last moment.

If I leave—””

The person who plays John Rabe is the Jewish American actor Adrian Brody. He is not the winner of the international awards in later generations. He can only play male supporting roles in various small and medium-sized movies in Hollywood.

At the beginning of the preparation of "Rabbe Diary", Xie Jin's idea was to find a more appealing star in Hollywood to play John Rabbe.

But the reality is that his idea simply doesn't work.

Nowadays, Japan is the second largest movie ticket store in the world. Starring in a work like "Rabe Diary" means that this actor is likely to lose the Japanese market in the future. Any famous star is unwilling to take such risks.

In addition, the investment in "Rabe Diary" itself is limited, so Xie Jin cannot offer actors too high a pay.

After choosing, Adrian Brody entered Xie Jin's sight.

This kid is a Jewish guy. His image is not very related to John Rabe, but his acting skills are very good.

When an actor creates characters, it is more important to resemble the spirit than to resemble the appearance.

Moreover, Adrian was not very famous, didn't care about the Japanese market, and the salary he wanted was not high, so he became the male lead in the movie.

Adrian, who appeared on the screen for the first time, was still thin, and tried to fit the characters as much as possible in his makeup, looking a little like John Rabe.

Later German director Flory Gallenberg made a version of "The Diary of Rabe". At that time, it received strong support from the Chinese government. The quality of the films presented was average and did not cause much sensation.

The later version of "Rabbe Diary" takes John Rabe as the absolute protagonist, and all plot developments revolve around watching John

Rabe unfolds, showing the cruelty of war and massacre is extremely limited, and handling it too warmly.

Because director Florey Gallenberg is a German, he does not have an empathy for the suffering of the Chinese, so his treatment is understandable.

With Florey Gallenberg, Xie Jin established the center of the film at the beginning of preparing for "Rabe's Diary".

John Rabe is nominally the protagonist, but his greater role is the recorder.

He is like a camera traveling through time and space. Xie Jin hopes to unfold the unbearable years of the Nanjing Massacre through his perspective.

Xie Jin also knew that there was a great risk for doing this, but he insisted on doing this.

Because compared with showing John Rabe's humanitarian spirit, he values ​​the tragic tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre and the cruel crimes of the Japanese reflected in the movies.

Among them, Xie Jin focused on portraying the "100-man killing" carried out by the Japanese lieutenant Toshiaki and Noda Yi.

On the wide screen, the butcher's knife was waving, and blood was sprayed. The heads of innocent people were either frightened or scattered on the mud, and the red blood was soaked in the mud.

It seemed like the bloody lake, which reflected the grim face of the Japanese lieutenant.

"Oh! Noda, you're slow!" Xiang Bingmin Aki found that his progress had surpassed Noda Shin and shouted proudly at him.

Noda Yi was calm and calm. He raised his knife and fell, his head rolled to the ground, and his feet stepped on it, as if it was not a human head, but a stone.

He leaned on the ground with one hand and put his hips with the other.

"The heads of these Chinese pigs are really hard to cut. I have to change my knife!"

The conversation came from the sound, and all the viewers were staring at the sight of the movie, with hatred in their eyes.

At the same time, in the crowd, several people had a strong physical discomfort with the overly tragic scenes on the screen. Some people couldn't help but cover their mouths and ventilate to see them.

This caused a chain reaction, and several people ran out of the screening room in succession.

Faced with this situation, the screening could only be temporarily interrupted, and everyone came to the outdoors to take a breath.

"Is the scene in this plot a little too bloody? It's not easy for the audience to accept." Liu Jianzhong, director of the Film Bureau, said to Xie Jin tactfully.

He is the director of the Film Bureau and holds the power of life and death for domestic films to pass the trial, but Xie Jin is not an ordinary director after all.

He has many titles such as member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

"The picture must be a little bolder, but this reflects the cold-blooded cruelty of the Japanese invaders. In fact, what the movie shows is far less than the real cruelty of history."

"We should still worry about the impact of release. After all, this movie will be released nationwide."

The two of them had aroused the participation of everyone, and everyone had their own opinions, and the cultural leaders still prefer to modify or delete a few shots.

Seeing that Xie Jin was a little bit alone, Lin Chaoyang spoke.

"A few leaders, Mr. John Rabe's righteous deeds are worth remembering by all Chinese people, but if it is just to commemorate his righteous deeds, I don't think it must be used in the form of a movie.

The reason why Director Xie wanted to film "Rabe's Diary" was to commemorate Mr. John Rabe's righteous act, but the fundamental purpose was to reflect the history of the Nanjing Massacre and the beastly behavior of reprimanding Japanese militarism.

From the perspective of watching the movie, the scene just now is indeed very bloody and violent, but it is undeniable that it will inevitably leave a deep impression on the viewers.

Isn’t letting Chinese people remember history and the atrocities of the invaders through watching movies?

If we try it lightly on key issues, what is the significance of making this movie?"

Lin Chaoyang's rhetorical question made everyone present silent. He was not a person on the official side, and he spoke without any politeness and tactfulness, pointing directly to the core of the problem.

In China, there has never been a fixed standard for film review.

The punishment is unknown and the power is unpredictable, so the auditor has the supreme power.

Lin Chaoyang has to do something special. The problem is that even the movie "Nanjing! Nanjing!" with its butt tilted across the sea can be released. Why should Xie Jin's "Rabe Diary" be revised?

Seeing Lin Chaoyang's words froze the atmosphere, Xie Jin quickly said a few more words in a gentle tone to ease the atmosphere.

"Please be careful, after all, they have the power to review." On the way back to the screening room, Xie Jin advised Lin Chaoyang.

"I asked you to take pictures so bloody and violently? Who am I doing? Don't be unaware of the good people's hearts!"

Back to the screening room, the screening continues.

After the three-hour movie ended, the film review meeting ushered in a heated discussion moment.

The most intense discussion is whether some of the too bloody and violent shots in the movie need to be deleted and modified, and whether they will cause pressure from international public opinion. The pressure from "international public opinion" naturally refers to the Japanese side.

Under the heavy pressure from the official staff, Xie Jin, who had originally advised Lin Chaoyang to pay attention to his attitude, became impatient.

"How do you change it? How do you ask me to change it? The movie has been finished, and there is no money to change it again!"

Liu Jianzhong advised: "Mr. Xie, look at what you are doing. Everyone has made suggestions out of their duties."

"You don't want to mention it. You can mention it, but the investment has been spent, and I can't change it even if I want to."

Xie Jin played a rogue. He was old and had a lot of titles on him. The leaders present had no choice but to do anything to him.

But his face is not good-looking.

"Old Xie, what's your attitude?"

Lin Chaoyang changed roles with Xie Jin now, became a peacemaker, pulled him aside, and asked in a low voice: "Don't you say you should pay attention to your attitude? Why are you still having sex?"

"No, it's not OK. Look at them, can we easily let it go?"

Xie Jin was a mature man. Seeing that he could not pass the test easily, he immediately tore off his disguise.

Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but sigh that ginger is still so spicy!

But don’t look at Xie Jin’s confidence when he cheated, he actually scratched his head.

"What's going on now!"
Chapter completed!