When the trailer for the movie Above the Cliff was first released, the name "outrat" was particularly eye-catching.
When I saw this name, I immediately asked my classmates studying in Russia, what does "outrat" mean? What's the special meaning?
He said that "outrat" is spelled утро in Russian, which means "morning" and "dawn".
This meaning is also explained in the movie. "outrat" is the dawn, which means looking forward to the dawn, pushing away the darkness and seeing the light as soon as possible.
After watching the movie, what impressed me the most was Gao Kechang played by Dahongni. In the film, he simply exists like Yi Lijing, and every line is a tense soul torture.
Therefore, this paper also answers various questions about the film background, perception and so on by asking questions, which is helpful to understand the film.
For example, how dark was the northeast under Japanese rule at that time? What is the situation of the enemy and me in the movie? Why is this spy film different from what we have seen before?
The first question is about the relationship between the original work, the drama The Cliff and the film On the Cliff.
Viewers who have seen the TV series Cliff should find that these two films and TV works are named after Cliff, and the enemy's Zhouyi (actually a hidden underground party), Gao Bin and Ming Road are also the protagonists in the TV series, and the story background takes place in the northeast under Japanese rule.
Teacher Yong Xianquan is also the screenwriter of these two films. At the movie premiere, Mr. Quan Yongxian stood on the far right next to the director Zhang Yimou.
The main story line of the film version and the drama version is different.
The main story line of the movie version is that four of our agents parachuted into the Northeast to complete the "Otto" operation, and Yu Hewei played the underground party Zhou Yi who was lurking inside the enemy to help secretly.
The main story line of the drama version mainly shows the danger when Zhouyi lurks. He and Song Jia's Gu pretend to be husband and wife. The main task of the first half is to send a batch of urgently needed drugs and materials to the comrades in the mountain area who are resisting the League. Being afraid every day is like walking on the edge of a cliff.
The Zhouyi played by Zhang Jiayi is so classic that it can definitely rank in the top 5 of domestic spy war dramas.
Yu Hewei's Zhouyi shows its own characteristics in the basic image of Zhouyi.
In the drama version, it is suspected that Zhouyi is Gao Bin, an old fox in the underground party, and Ming Lu, a colleague of Zhouyi, both of whom are important roles in the drama. In the movie version, the roles of Gao Bin and Ming Lu were retained, played by Dahong Ni and Li Naiwen respectively.
The two men looked at each other casually, and the casual sentence seemed to kill Zhouyi, which was very worrying.
To sum up, Above the Cliff and Cliff are two sets of stories in the same story world view. Those who like the TV series Cliff must not miss this movie.
It is said that the new drama "On the Cliff" based on the current movie version of "On the Cliff" is scheduled to be broadcast in 2022, and I am looking forward to it.
As mentioned earlier, Above the Cliff and Cliff * * use a set of world views, and many related expressions, such as "Japanese occupied area", are either inaccurate or shouting slogans.
So when and where did the story background of Above the Cliff take place?
Above the Cliff is based on the puppet regime "Manchukuo" established by Japanese invasion of northeast China.
The historical background of the establishment, rule and demise of Manchukuo is a huge topic, and only a brief introduction related to movies is made.
The Puppet Manchukuo is different from the areas occupied by China after the Japanese invaded other areas. But after the assassination of the northeast warlord leader Zhang, he conspired to provoke the September 18th Incident and used the deposed Qing emperor Puyi and many traitors to strive for an "independent country" belonging to Japan.
1932, 1 In March, the traitor Zhang Jinghui published the Declaration on the Establishment of Manchukuo, which marked the formation of this deformed regime. Until 1945, when Japan surrendered and perished, * * * existed for 14 years.
The subtitle at the beginning of the film also briefly mentions this background, telling the audience that Japan ruled Northeast China 14 years with a puppet regime.
Because both Japan and traitors know that the country established by their atrocities is unpopular, and the puppet Manchukuo relies on four violent teams: the army, the police, the constitution and the special forces.
Take the policeman in the film as an example. According to the New Compilation of the History of the Puppet Manchukuo written by historian Xie, when the Puppet Manchukuo was founded 1932, there were more than 65,438+million policemen in China, with an average of 1 person for every 300 people.
Even after the implementation of disarmament and army reduction in Manchukuo, the puppet police always maintained such a huge scale.
Lest the puppet regime be overthrown at any time, we can only rely on stick rule and bloody repression.
At that time, the police in Manchukuo were not only numerous, but also very complete, including water, forestry, anti-smuggling, mining, border defense, railway and so on.
The railway police, in particular, attached great importance to the rule of the railway system, because Manchuria was a power group that Japanese invaded northeast China.
In the film, Xiaolan, played by Liu Haocun, was inspected on the train, and a large number of military and police officers were inspected when they arrived at the station. This is also a portrayal of the puppet Manchukuo police all over the railway and putting eyeliner everywhere.
Because Japan has always regarded the Soviet Union as its greatest imaginary enemy, the intelligence secret service of the Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast is mainly aimed at the Soviet Union.
After the establishment of the Puppet Manchukuo, the contradiction between Japan and Russia became more and more complicated: the Kwantung Army, the Puppet Manchukuo, the Anti-Japanese Democratic Allied Forces, the Soviet Union, the underground party, the National Government, and even Britain and the United States all had their own spy intelligence networks here.
So like Zhouyi, there are four agents in the infiltrator, the core of the enemy, who want to go to the big city from the jungle to complete the task. The dangers and difficulties they face can be imagined, and they are surrounded by enemies.
In addition, after Zhang skillfully exchanged tickets with a couple on the train, the woman called her father, which was also a reflection of the Baojia system established by the puppet Manchukuo to rule the people at that time.
Among many enemies, which part of the film shows?
Among all kinds of dark ruling institutions established by the Puppet Manchukuo, the most notorious is the Harbin Police Department under the "Harbin Special City".
Zhou Yi, Gao Bin, Minglu, Jin Zhide and others are the darkest secret service departments of Harbin Police Department.
The secret service also has special service unit, ideological unit, censorship unit and other functional departments, whose core task is to suppress all anti-Qing and anti-Japanese forces.
For example, in the film, Fan Fei plays the female spy of the Secret Service. The winter clothes of the puppet Manchukuo police are black, and the police rank is two plum blossom stars, which is the penultimate among the puppet Manchukuo police. The section chief Gao Bin is a police sergeant with three plum blossom stars on a golden line.
This also shows from one side that the film "Above the Cliff" is still very conscientious.
Although Harbin police station was only a municipal-level pseudo-police organization of the puppet Manchukuo at that time, Harbin was a special city and the largest city closest to the Soviet Union, so it played an important role in the bloody rule of the puppet Manchukuo. The famous hero Zhao Yiman was imprisoned and tortured here.
In memory of Zhao Yiman, the street in front of the former site of Harbin Police Station is now named Yiman Street.
Although the Harbin police station was done by traitors, their methods were even more cruel than the Japanese.
When it comes to the background of Manchukuo, many viewers may think of Kwantung Army's "73 1 Army".
The inhuman human experiment conducted by 73 1 troops in Northeast China is the darkest chapter of the puppet Manchukuo under Japanese rule.
This "above the cliff" is actually indirectly related to the history of 73 1 troops.
In the movie, Zhang Yi plays Zhang with a very important line. He said there was a prison break by the Yinbei River, and then the Japanese bombed there. "You said that they must have paid such a high price to hide something." These lines refer to the 73 1 unit escaping from the germ testing ground and successfully escaping.
In the play Cliff, a term called "special transfer" is mentioned, which means that the secret service of the Puppet Manchukuo will hand over some captured anti-Japanese volunteers or underground gangs to the Japanese gendarmerie, and then send them to the secret base of the 73 1 unit for human experiments.
Comrades who have been "specially transferred" are basically gone forever.
Operation Autrat is to meet Comrade Wang Ziyang who escaped from Yin Beihe River.
After Wang Ziyang and others escaped from Yin Beihe River, they exposed the crimes of 73 1 Army, joined the Anti-Union, served as the acting commander of the Sixth Division of the Third Army, and died in the battle of 1937.
You can learn more about this central figure in the action of outrat in the movie.
Wang Ziyang and others escaped from Yin Beihe River in 1934, so although the film on the cliff did not clearly indicate the time when the story happened, if this event is taken as the prototype, then the whole story happened in 1934, that is, the puppet Manchukuo was just established for more than two years.
This time, it may be that Zhou Yi has just sneaked into the Secret Service, and it is one of his early tasks to cover the comrades-in-arms of Outlat.
The time in the cliff in the drama version is a story that happened after 1937. It can be said that Above the Cliff is a prequel to Cliff Universe.
There is an important joint in the film, which is the Asian cinema.
As a sentimental filmmaker, Director Zhang Yimou has given many scenes to Asian cinemas, and also has his own "selfishness".
Asian cinema was established by Russians in Harbin, which was one of the best in China at that time, showing many movies imported from Europe and America and movies from Magic Capital Shanghai.
For example, Chaplin's The Gold Rush has always been in front of cinemas, which shows that the film market in Harbin is still very foreign.
Japan took over the cinema after the establishment of Manchukuo 1936.
Subsequently, in 1937, the Japanese rulers passed the "national film policy case" that infringed on the ideological field, and established the Manchu Painting Association in Changchun, the capital of the puppet Manchukuo.
On the one hand, Manying is a film company, but its films are divided into three categories: "entertaining people", "enlightening people" and "current affairs". In fact, they are all films that beautify Japanese aggression and whitewash the goodwill of Japan and Manchuria.
Masahiko Ganmu used to be a Japanese gendarme, and was imprisoned for murdering the Dashanrong family 10.
After he was released from prison, he was sent to the northeast of China, became a strong follower of the spy chief Kenji Toshihara, and was one of the most diligent senior agents and activists who instigated the establishment of Manchukuo.
After the founding of the Puppet Manchukuo, he served as the director of the police department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Puppet Manchukuo, and was actually the top leader of the police organization.
Forrest Gump had great power in the puppet Manchukuo, and was called the "Night Emperor" because it was said that "Manchuria was ruled by the Kwantung Army Command during the day and Forrest Gump was in charge at night", and he was the supreme commander of the secret service and the police. "The Night Emperor" explained the darkness and horror of his rule.
In the film The Last Emperor, the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto made a guest appearance.
It was such a big spy who also served as the head of the puppet Manchukuo film organization, trying to control the people's thoughts at that time through cultural soft aggression.
The film "Above the Cliff" chose the Asian cinema as the joint location, which also highlighted the importance of images in the historical environment at that time.
The invaders wanted to deceive people at that time through movies, so we had to fight back in front of the cinema.
The sense of the film can be summarized as "there are big surprises in stability".
Although this is the first time that director Zhang Yimou has made a commercial film about spy war, it is obvious that he has a good grasp of this film.
Every shot, every clip, scene scheduling, art props, including each actor's performance are handled very maturely.
Director Zhang Yimou is also a "real shooting madman". Most of the scenes in Above the Cliff were shot in real snow.
The visual elements of snow add tension to the plot.
It is generally believed that rain in movies will be associated with sadness, while heavy snow will make people feel anxious.
The film "Above the Cliff" makes good use of the elements of snow and brings the audience into the tense "outrat" action.
Please correct me if there are any mistakes or omissions in the above information, thank you ~
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