1 .800 words

The original name of Eight Hundred is "Revelation of Eight Hundred", also called "Revelation of Eight Hundred War Heroes". The original intention may be to pay tribute to the anti-war classic Apocalypse Now directed by the great director Coppola.

Later it was changed to 800. The word "hundred" is actually very meaningful and has three meanings: first, it refers to the establishment of the ancient army, where ten people did not do it and a hundred people did not do it; Second, in ancient times, it specifically referred to the length of 100 people in the army; The third is the capitalization of the commonly used word "Bai". So here we use it to tell people's stories and praise these "800" soldiers, each of whom is a hundred warriors.

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The dragon label of 800 is actually very interesting, which happens to be 800 on 20 19. I don't know if it is a coincidence or the SARFT has customized a dragon logo for this film.

3. The subtitle "When I am dust, you will see my smile"

In the title of the film, there is a sentence: "When I am dust, you will see my smile". This sentence comes from Lu Xun's prose poem "The Story of the Grave" written in 1925.

The article is very short, just a few hundred words. With a dream, it describes the emptiness and gloom of the people in the tomb, and the anxiety and pain that can't get rid of this state of mind.

"When I am dust, you will see my smile" in the film means that even if I die for justice, I will still smile.

The revolutionary spirit will continue to spread in the form of dust, affecting more people, just like the awakening process of the patriotic consciousness of the characters in the film.

4. Disciple green gang sent a wire.

In the movie, a group of young people risked their lives to run across the bridge to send telephone lines to the defenders of the four-row warehouse. Finally, they succeeded with a punk knife in the casino.

These guys are probably from green gang. If I guess correctly, the man sitting there with almost no face is probably a big shot of Du and green gang.

Green gang has always been one of the main sources of revenue for the Kuomintang. Historically, Du did contribute to defending the warehouse behind the temple. There is a saying that he secretly sent 200,000 light cakes to the warehouse behind the temple in one day.

5. Shanghai Public Concession

Because of the special location of Hu Si warehouse, the Japanese army occupied the west and north sides of the warehouse, and the east and south sides were the British and American concessions at that time. Japan, which had not declared war on Britain and America at that time, did not use too many heavy weapons in the attack for fear of destroying the concession.

Shanghai Concession has a long history. After the defeat of the Opium War, the Qing government signed the treaty of nanking with Britain, opened Shanghai as a trading port, and then carved up the Shanghai Concession.

There are two major concessions in Shanghai, the French concession and the Anglo-American concession. It is an Anglo-American concession on the edge of the four-row warehouse, so the British flag appears many times in the film.

6. Licensed gas tanks

The film not only mentions the special position of the four rows of warehouses, but also emphasizes that the Japanese army dare not use heavy artillery because of the existence of gas tanks. These two gas tanks do exist in history and have a long history.

As early as 1865, Shanghai established the "British Fire Station" and later renamed it "Shanghai Yingshang Gas Company", making Shanghai the first city in Asia to use gas. At that time, gas was mainly used for gas lamps as lighting. Later, after the popularity of electric lights, they gradually turned to cooking and heating.

The existence of these two gas tanks provides a natural "protective barrier" for the defenders of the four rows of warehouses. Perhaps the battle between Shanghai and Shanghai was to show the morale of the people, and gas tanks rarely appeared in old photos. But because gas was a symbol of civilization at that time, these two gas tanks were painted on landscape postcards.

7. Billboards on Suzhou River

The Battle of Four Storehouses is the only battle watched by the people in history. There is only one river on both sides of Suzhou River, only 50 meters. On the one hand, it is a cruel battlefield full of artillery fire, a hell, and on the other hand, it is a colorful British and French concession, a paradise.

Cross-strait contrast is even more cruel. Therefore, the film also specially arranged many scenes where people on both sides of the strait looked at each other. Looking from the opposite side of the garrison, you can see countless billboards, which shows the crew's intentions on the set.

Vaguely visible are: Siemens, Siemens electric appliances; Camels, famous Camel brand cigarettes and so on, and many fictional billboards in bars and restaurants.

8. Movie eggs

The most special thing is that there are two movies hidden under the neon lights.

One is 42nd Street, translated into 42nd Street in Chinese, an American musical released on 1933, which was quite in line with the taste of watching movies in Shanghai Concession at that time.

The other is Hitchcock's famous Fascination, Dr. Edward. This is a film of 1945, which should be added by the director or production designer.

9. Coca Cola billboard

Speaking of the advertisements in the film, of course, the most conspicuous is the huge Coca-Cola advertisement on the west wall of the four-row warehouse, which reads "Please drink, Coca-Cola, Watsons soda".

This wall is also the main direction of the Japanese attack. In the film, the siege equipment, the steel plate array bombing the wall, the mortar heavy artillery attack, and the scholar Chen tied a bomb to jump off a building all ended in the Japanese army. In reality, this wall is also the top priority of the four-row warehouse exhibition hall. The whole wall is well preserved, even with bullet holes and gun holes.

Although it looks like a romantic novel in a movie, it is not impossible. Coca-Cola entered China as early as 1927, and set up a factory in Shanghai for production. Watsons Mineral Water Company is responsible for bottling. By 1933, the Shanghai factory is already the largest bottling plant for Coca-Cola outside the United States.

In the old photos of the battle of Songhu, you can really see the position set by the Japanese army under the Coca-Cola billboard.

10. The ending song Suzhou Creek

The ending song Suzhou Creek, adapted from Air in Delhi, London, was sung by singer Na Ying and Italian blind tenor andrea bocelli.

London Delhi Minor is an Irish folk song with a long history. Written in 1600, it has been circulated for more than 400 years. Its melody is beautiful, simple and gentle.

Its most famous lyric is "Danny Boy", which is also a song about war and farewell between father and son, much like Suzhou Creek in the movie.

1 1. Military uniforms and various weapons of China and Japan.

As a war movie, "800" has certainly made great efforts in weapons and equipment.

Among them are the Showa Five-style military uniforms worn by the Japanese army. This uniform has been used for 30 to 38 years, and its iconic feature is the stand-up collar design with rank badges on both sides of the epaulettes.

At that time, it was the Third Division of Japan's Shanghai Dispatching Army that attacked Sihangcang, which was the most elite unit in the Japanese imperial army. It is more reasonable to wear this uniform.

And the military uniforms of China's defenders are equally reasonable. As one of the three instructors of the Central Army, the 88th Division is a well-known ordnance division. It is fully armed with German equipment, and its military uniform is also a light green ordnance division uniform.

Czech light machine gun, Suluotong 20mm cannon, etc. Also appeared in the film, all in line with the historical details at that time. Among them, the defenders also used a hundred-style flame thrower that actually belonged to the Japanese army. At that time, the national army did not have it, which can be understood as a captured trophy.

The mouse and the white horse

The first scene of the film is a mouse and the last scene is a white horse. Mice and white horses also appear repeatedly in the middle of the film. For the 800-dollar movie Time is Money, I hope it can be compressed for a long time. It is obviously meaningful to spend so much ink to express these two animals.

It is also very simple to understand. Rats, instinct is to live, not to hide. At first, in the "miscellaneous army" gathered by the defenders of warehouses along the road, many people just wanted to live and didn't want to fight, which obviously corresponded to them.

Some of them are farmers who can only farm, some are civil servants who can only use abacus, and some are even teenagers. At the beginning of the battle, all they can think about is hiding or running away.

As for the white horse, it is hope and the future. The pure white horse surrounds Xiao July and Xiao Hubei from beginning to end, which should represent "hope belongs to teenagers, and the future belongs to teenagers".

13. Zhao Zilong in Changbanpo, Dingjun Mountain and Maicheng in Huangzhong.

Elements of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms have appeared in movies more than once.

Shangguan Zhibiao said that the national army was defeated in the Battle of Shanghai and Shanghai, just like "all the way to Maicheng", which is the allusion of Guan Yunchang's defeat in Maicheng.

The drama sung by the troupe opposite is "Zhao Zilong of Changbanpo, and then kill him seven times in and seven times out". The role played by Shandong soldiers carries a set of Zhao Yun's shadow play with him, because he thinks: "Master Guan is talking about brotherhood, not the same. He protects the country. "

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Shandong soldiers picked up a shadow play and played Zhao Zilong. They shed tears when they sang the last sentence. The lyrics are "The Han Dynasty waits for posterity", echoing Shandong soldiers' habit of calling the Dragon Boat Festival "Zi". And Zhao Zilong imagined by Xiao E has also become what it looks like after the Dragon Boat Festival.

The role of Zhao Yun just corresponds to the four-line warehouse, which is unique and fearless in the face of hordes.

Finally, Wujiang's character Lao Tie plays broadsword on the roof, which is also the bridge section of "Huangzhong Dingjun Mountain". The play tells the story of veteran Huang Zhongli beheading Xia. It is a portrayal of the long-term ambition of the old horse, and it is also the ambition of the four guards to serve the country when they are at the end of the road.

14. peacekeeping forces in Hubei province

There is a line at the beginning of the film: "We are the faces of Hubei Peacekeeping Corps", and we can also speak Hubei dialect. In the picture, an army is wearing a hemp fiber hat and marching among the reeds in Pudong. Obviously, this unit is from Hubei Peacekeeping Force.

During the Battle of Shanghai and Songsong, the National Army lost a large number of soldiers who had received German training. Basically, it will have to replenish its troops in about 20 days. On the eve of guarding the four-row warehouse, the 88th Division has just made the fifth supplement, which is the soldiers of Hubei Peacekeeping Corps, especially Tongcheng Security Brigade. Therefore, in history, the vast majority of the fourth-line warehouse defense wars were also Hubei soldiers.

15. Scouts send flags to Yang Huimin.

In the movie, a girl scout sent flags to the defenders of the four-row warehouse. The female student's name is Yang Huimin, which does exist in history.

There is a saying in history that she wore a 12-foot-long flag under her children's clothes and swam across the Suzhou River at the risk of war. This is used in the movie.

Yang Huimin's sending the flag to the defenders greatly inspired the morale of the defenders and the people watching the war on the other side, and was praised by the media in various countries stationed in the concession at that time.

16. The Japanese army executed these prisoners this year.

There is a scene in the movie in which the Japanese army publicly executed a group of prisoners, including the old gourd played by Huang Zhizhong, in order to force the defenders of the four-row warehouse to surrender as soon as possible. This has happened in history.

Jiang Jing, the squad leader, led nine soldiers to stand guard in the dry bridge area of Mongolian Road in the battle to defend the four-row warehouse. Unfortunately, they were all captured because they failed to retreat in time. Subsequently, they were taken to Suzhou Creek and stabbed to death by Japanese military bayonets.

17. Letter from Colonel Xie Jinyuan.

In the movie, after Xie Jinyuan served as an orderly, Xiao Hubei saw a letter in the reception room with the name "Zhang Pingzhou" written on the envelope. The same is true in history. This letter is written by Xie Jinyuan to his brother-in-law Zhang Pingzhou.

The letter wrote: "I have long known the training of Tai Shan Dayu, so I often stay calm in times of crisis and feel too peaceful." -enough to see Xie Jinyuan as cool as a cucumber and the will to serve the country.

Because of Xie Jinyuan's heroic deeds of defending the four-line warehouse alone, the Shanghai Municipal Government renamed Manchuria Road next to the four-line warehouse as Jinyuan Road, and even renamed Jiaozhou Park, which is separated from the lonely camp, as Jinyuan Park, and established Jinyuan Middle School as a memorial.

18. General Song Xilian, Eagle Dog

Wang Qianyuan plays the role of Yang Guai. Although he is also on the run in the Corps, he is a battle-hardened veteran. His only concern in the movie is his old mother. He unbuttoned his clothes when he was injured and lost a lot of money. It can be seen that he has been saving money to send to his mother.

In the second half of the film, he only announced that he belonged to the 33rd Division, not the 36th Division. Zhu said, "The soldiers of the Song leaders are not timid." This Song officer refers to Song Xilian, the 36th division commander.

Song Xilian Whampoa Military Academy, born in the first period, is brave and good at fighting. In the battles of Songhu, Wuhan and preventing the Japanese invaders from attacking western Yunnan, they all dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army. They were awarded the Right Day and White Day Medal and the Palm Leaf Freedom Medal by the US government, and were called "the Light of Huangpu" and "General Eagle Dog".

19. The first film in Asia that has been using IMAX cameras.

There are also many places worth mentioning behind the scenes of 800 miles, such as the four-row warehouse and the night view of Suzhou Creek, and a lot of effort has been spent on the setting.

Among them, the most powerful is the first movie in Asia that uses IMAX cameras all the time, and there are only two precedents in the world: Avengers 3 and Avengers 4.

IMAX camera is famous for its wide dynamic range and extremely delicate lens capture, which plays an extremely important role in the telepresence display of war scenes and the performance of Shanghai Shili Ocean Field.

20. Lonely tragic ending

At the end of the film, four lines of warehouse defenders retreated into the concession, leaving only one death squad to attract Japanese fire. The film does not describe the ending of the death squads in detail, but their tragic ending seems to be everyone's guess. There is no need for a big scene at this time, but leaving a blank space will make people sad.

In real history, it is equally tragic to retreat into the concession alone. As soon as they entered the concession, they were immediately disarmed and put into a shelter. Three hundred and fifty-eight people were banned from Jiaozhou Road, which was known as the "solitary military camp" in history. Xie Jinyuan, the head of the regiment, was assassinated by mutinous soldiers. Subsequently, the Japanese army invaded the concession and became a prisoner of war alone. They were assigned to concentration camps in various places and even transported to Papua New Guinea south of the equator as laborers.

As the song "My Cousin Left Papua New Guinea" sang: My head fell on the playground of the concession/My cousin stayed in Papua New Guinea/He and his violin never returned to their hometown.

Soldiers buried their bones in other places, and 800 people brought their souls back.