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As an executive director, it's okay to shoot a few shots and a few scenes. Let him direct a work independently, Yi Qing still has self-knowledge.

All right!

Now that there is a director, the next question is who will play the role one by one?

Chapter 8 Thirty Who Plays Guzidi

Who will play Gu Zidi?

The director has been found, but who will play Gu Zidi, the soul of the play?

In the original version, it was Zhang Hanyu who played Gu Zidi, but now this guy is still dubbing Donald Duck. Moreover, with that youthful face, it would take a lot of sandpaper to play Gu Zidi for him to play.

This is what bothers Yi Qing the most. He obviously has a lot of good stories in his head, but he can't shoot many of them now, because a certain character is too deep in his impression. Acting, he felt awkward.

"How is Chen Baoguo?"

Meng Shi proposed a person, but was immediately rejected by Yi Qing and Chen Kaige.

Chen Baoguo's image is too upright, he must have no problem playing a soldier, but he can't play Gu Zidi.

To choose an actor, you must first understand this character, Gu Zidi, according to the character’s own explanation in the script: “Chang Guzi’s cropland”, but there is a tragic story behind this name.

According to the introduction in the story, when Guzidi was three months old, his parents died of starvation while they were in exile. The three-month-old but anonymous Guzidi was found in Guzidi by a wandering shoemaker, so he was named Guzidi according to the land. land.

He made his debut during the War of Liberation in 1948. As the company commander, Gu Zidi led 47 soldiers from the Ninth Company to perform the task of covering the retreat of large troops in the old kiln on the south bank of the Wenhe River. When the trumpet sounds, retreat.

The tragic war started with the roar of shells, and the soldiers of the Ninth Company suffered heavy casualties. Before the platoon leader Jiao Dapeng died, he said that he heard the sound of the trumpet, but Gu Zidi himself did not hear it. He decided to stick to his position.

The Ninth Company repelled the enemy's three attacks, blew up three tanks, and wiped out countless enemies. All 47 people were killed in battle except for the company commander, Gu Zidi.

This war directly changed Gu Zidi's life. Due to the renumbering of the troops, Gu Zidi could not find an organization, and the martyrs who died in the Ninth Company were also considered missing.

In order to rectify the names of the martyrs, Gu Zidi began a difficult search. He wanted to seek an explanation for the brothers of Jiulian. His brothers obviously poured blood on the battlefield, so they were not martyrs.

This is the outline of the story. As far as Guzidi is concerned, you can actually see his personality traits from his attitude towards the enemy and his comrades on the battlefield.

The most obvious thing is a stubbornness. On the battlefield, facing an enemy dozens of times stronger than oneself, the disparity in strength is too great.However, Gu Zidi commanded the soldiers to persist in fighting the enemy and successfully completed the blocking mission, which was stubborn.

Faced with heavy casualties, knowing that the entire army would be wiped out if this continued, the few remaining brothers kindly lied to him that "the sound of the retreat call" was kindly lied to him. Being very principled, he felt that the call was not sounded, and led the soldiers to persevere until At the last moment of the war, this is the second stubbornness.

After the war, Gu Zidi, who escaped from the dead, hugged his comrades and died gloriously. Why is he not considered a martyr? For three stubborn.

War is cruel, and sacrifices are not spared.

But Gu Zidi's stubbornness, his overly serious stubbornness, while making people feel unreasonable, is also moving and admirable.

In the experience of rectifying the names of his comrades-in-arms, Gu Zidi also found troubles and encountered many obstacles.If he hadn't fulfilled his wish in the end, then he would have really become a fool and an idiot in the eyes of many people.

People who are too stubborn, in the eyes of ordinary people, are often isolated and often become a lonely alternative.

Gu Zidi's persistence makes people feel ashamed. His attitude is not so much persistence as piety. He sacrifices blood and sweat for the pure desire for victory in his heart. This almost crazy persistence and the self-confidence born from it, Let this warrior of godlike blood take a step further on the road to the temple, and what he is doing is closer to the essence of the task of war.

Gu Zidi is undoubtedly great and remarkable, but it is even more tragic. This kind of tragedy often has to pay a heavy price including life.

Although it wasn't his life that he paid in the end, in his heart, it was indeed more precious than his life, and more worthy of the lives of his comrades-in-arms.

"I should have died a long time ago, I should have died on the battlefield with my 47 brothers."

Horse leather shroud, very lucky!

Gu Zidi longed to be able to shroud the corpse with horse leather, but he failed to kill himself and achieve righteous results.

Therefore, Gu Zidi, who felt that he was supposed to die, was even more difficult to let go of his stubbornness when he survived. Therefore, he desperately wanted to rectify the names of his comrades and martyrs.

This stubbornness is Yi Qing's character design for Gu Zidi. It can be said that this kind of character creation has basically completely subverted the character Zhang Hanyu created in the original movie.

Even if Zhang Hanyu can really grow up to ten years old now, Yi Qing will definitely not choose if his image is not suitable.

So what kind of image did Feng Pants design for Gu Zidi in his works in the previous life?

It's the same word—reckless!

First of all, at the beginning of the movie, the old instructor died in the street battle, and Gu Zi ordered the shooting of the prisoners.

Analyzing this scene from the perspective of the director Feng Pants, it should be to portray Gu Zidi's blood and friendship in battle.

But looking at it from another perspective, Gu Zidi, as an officer from the teaching team, is basically unlikely to make such a political mistake, and it is still possible if it is changed to the anti-Japanese period.

At the same time, Gu Zidi gave the order to the platoon leader to "let them pick up the guns". Judging from this order, Gu Zidi became a cunning soldier.

If the national army took up guns, it would not be regarded as a surrender, and even if they were shot, they would not be guilty.

When Feng Pants arranged this scene, he probably didn't think too much about it. It was to draw out the appearance of the trainer Wang Jincun later on. It was a scene that couldn't stand scrutiny. .

The second is a scene in which Comrade Gu pressed on a landmine to seek death on the Korean battlefield.

Before that, Comrade Gu Zidi couldn't find any troops and couldn't justify his name. Not one of his brothers who were born and died died.

Considering Comrade Gu's psychology at this time, he should be quite depressed, and he almost committed suicide by drinking a bullet. Voluntarily applying to participate in the mission of leading soldiers is an act of seeking death.

When the scouts locked on the target of the coalition forces and the rear artillery began to cover fire, Comrade Gu Zidi pressed the mines and listened to the sound of the artillery, what should his mental state be like?

Feng Pants spares ink like gold in this contrast montage, probably only giving Comrade Gu Zidi a close-up of less than a second before the mine explodes.

This scene itself can present more things to the audience, but it was wasted by the laughter of a few American soldiers.

Then there is the scene of the anti-rebellion. In this scene, Comrade Gu Zidi, who has been struggling in pain, is investigated by the working group sent by the county. The questions asked by the working group are the most painful places in Gu Zidi's heart. It is also his biggest knot.

For a fighting hero living in pain, this incident is undoubtedly exposing the scars and sprinkling salt. Therefore, from the perspective of plot setting, it is understandable that Gu Zidi yelled at the working group, slapped the table and smashed the chairs.

But in the film, this scene does not portray the painful side of Gu Zidi, on the contrary, it feels that Gu Zi is angry from embarrassment, which does not conform to the image of a forbearing hero.

Finally, there is the scene at the Revolutionary Cemetery. When Gu Zidi heard that the assembly call had not sounded at all, this should be the climax of the story.

From a common sense analysis, as a revolutionary soldier, it is impossible for Gu Zidi not to know the strategy of sacrificing a small number of people for the benefit of the whole, and to make such a radical move is undoubtedly an act without revolutionary belief at all, and it can even be said that he did not act for the sake of the whole. Awareness of revolutionary sacrifice.

Although it can be explained here that Gu Zidi suddenly realized the cruelty of the truth during the long process of self-salvation, it cannot be regarded as reasonable in any case.

In the original book, the author only used one sentence: After all, Lao Gu calmed down quickly... Facing the sacrificed regiment leader, he forgave everything, and the grievances and resentments accumulated in his heart for decades It also turned into a cloud of smoke and flew to the sky.

This is justified.

From the analysis of the above several places, it can be seen that in this movie, in order to cater to the audience's preferences, or due to his own defects, Feng Kui made a huge mistake in shaping the character of Gu Zidi.

These mistakes make the character of Gu Zidi not only not clear and prominent, but also fail to portray Gu Zidi's psychology well. On the contrary, it makes Gu Zidi similarly become a mediocre clue character.

Although these mistakes and problems have approximately reasonable explanations, the problem is a problem after all, and it can only be attributed to the director's ability.