Last month, I watched a movie called "Red Baron" which also described air combat in World War I. It was taken from the perspective of a German pilot. At that time, my mentality was different from now. When I watched it, I was looking forward to the exciting scenes of air combat. And the grand scene of the war. After watching that movie, it seemed that there was only a vague impression of the character of the Red Baron. His unrestrainedness, his sense of honor, and the war ethics he has always insisted on. Almost none of the other characters described in the film are remembered. Maybe it was my mentality at the time. Watching a movie was just to pass the time.
This is a waste of the director's painstaking efforts.
Now, I think that a good movie has to reshape people first in terms of narrative. Novels are the same. A successful novel can be called a success because it has created many vivid characters.
For example, when we mentioned "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the first thing that came to mind should be Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Dongxiexidu and other vivid characters. As for what happened to these characters, the novel describes the thrilling scenes. Isn't it true that these characters are not fresh? Do you remember the stories written in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"?
Today, I tried to calm myself down and watched the movie "Air Combat Heroes". My focus has completely changed. I pay more attention to the characters that the film strives to portray. Only through the characters and the background of the film can the thoughts expressed by the director and screenwriter be expressed.
The character is the core!
What struck me most about the film was that at the end of the film, a real photo was released. And introduced the situation of several real people after the war. At that time, I was thinking that about 65 million people participated in the First World War, more than 10 million people were killed and 20 million people were injured. What makes people remember these characters?
After thinking about it carefully, it is a record!
Among a group of ordinary people, as long as there is an outstanding recorder, that group of people is very likely to become the representative of that era for future research.
It may be an old photo,
it
may be an archive, it may be a circulated story,
In short, there is such a record that allows future directors to find this photo and find this story. Then, in the future generations, through the film, a memorization was carried out.
More than 10 million people died in this war, not to mention the civilians who died in this war.
They are all people who have lived in this world, and they are all living souls.
And history always favors great men and strong men.
History always records those emperors, generals, ministers, heroes with outstanding meritorious service...
How many of these people are there?
Maybe a thin book can write down all the names of historical celebrities in the entire world.
But what about those countless ordinary people?
No one wants to record for them.
Because their life is ordinary, without twists and turns, without splendor.
But their souls are alive,
they just lack a recorder.
The following paragraph is the video material searched from the Internet.
The real-world "Lafitte Flying Group" is led by French Captain George Tynot. The team has 38 people. In the end, a total of 265 American youths joined the French Air Force. Therefore, the team was expanded to the "Lafitte Air Force". . The characters in "Air Combat Heroes" are drawn from the pilots of the Lafitte flight team, some of whom are still very famous legends.
One of the most legendary is Frank Luke, who was banned by the media as a "hot-air balloon nemesis" because he focused on attacking Germany's well-equipped military-observing hot air balloon. Luke was a young man from a ranch in Arizona. He joined the army just to make a living and became a top player after he volunteered in the air force. Brownie Rollins (James Frank) uses this man as a blueprint.
Reu Lubéry was also a celebrity back then, and Lubéry, who devotes himself to revenge for his friends, may be Lafitte's most famous pilot. It is said that the mascot of the team, "Whiskey", followed him like a puppy. He often flies alone and is known for his fearless courage. American and French newspapers often publish his heroic deeds, and many newborns are named after him. Reed Cassadi (Martin Henderson) is inspired by this person.
Eddie Big (David Ellison) is based on Kony Campbell. Campbell is famous for his flying skills. The most famous adventure is that after the plane's lower wing broke, he landed safely and magically. In addition, the part of Bigger was also inspired by Burt Hall. At that time, some people suspected that he was a German spy, but it turned out that he had just had a dark past.
Captain George Tynor, played by Jean Reynolds, is also the commander of the "Lafitte Flight Group". He is very much loved and respected by American pilots. Although he is also a pilot, he rarely has the opportunity to fly. This person is informal and extraordinary, and he loves his soldiers very much.
Norman Prince is the son of a Boston banker and a Harvard graduate. This pilot has done 122 missions and was one of the first members of Lafitte. This person is a millionaire and generously shares expensive interests with his compatriots. After Prince died in battle, he was buried in the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. The inspiration for the role of Bridges Laurie (Taylor Labao) was inspired by Prince and a wealthy pilot who was born at the time.
The corner of Eugene Skiner is almost a replica of Eugene Buhler. Buhler was born in Columbus, Georgia, and his father was a slave. In order to escape racial discrimination, he smuggled to Scotland by boat and became a boxer in Europe. Bühler joined the French Foreign Legion and was injured twice. He joined the Lafitte Air Force after being awarded the Courage Cross and became the first African-American combat pilot in history. However, the US Air Force later refused him to join because of his skin color.
The role of William Jensen is the epitome of a typical pilot at the time. Because of selfless fraternity, he voluntarily defended the freedom of other countries. After these righteous youths entered the battlefield, they discovered that the terrible air combat was beyond imagination. Some pilots also mentioned that after returning from a mission, they could not leave the cockpit... could not walk or even light a cigarette.
The lion "Whiskey" played by Sciacca is really a "lion". After Lafitte’s pilot arrived in Paris, he brought back a little lion, which has since become the mascot of the team, and named it "Whiskey", after which another "soda" was added.
Where did these materials come from?
In the era of shared knowledge on the Internet, we can search for it. But it always has a most primitive source. Perhaps it stems from an interview by a reporter, or the reports of countless newspapers in that era.
In short, it is a record that allows these people to survive in today's society.
I always lament the shortness of my life, always thinking that one day I will also die.
After I die, the world will soon forget me.
There is a saying that people will die three times. The
first time, in the hospital, the doctor declares you dead. You are dead in a biological sense.
The second time, after the burial, your hukou was cancelled and you died in a legal sense.
The third time, after the last person who remembered you died, you no longer have any contact with the world. You will completely disappear in this cosmic time and space.
I was thinking, if I was lucky, if I could have a son, he could live 80 years old, and if I was lucky, I would have a grandson, and he could live 80 years old, but when he was 30 years old, he forgot about me.
Then I might live in this world for about 110 years old. If I count my age, I can count as 150 years old.
But the history of mankind may be ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years...It's
cruel!
Who can remember that there was an ordinary farmer in remote ancient times, who worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, raising several children, and when he was in his forties, he died of illness on a stormy night? ?
Some people’s souls live for a long time because someone records him.
Some people's souls disappeared for a while, because no one came to record him.
And every moment of everyone has been alive.
In his own world...
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