Unfortunately, the focus of the film is wrong. The focus should have been on how Hogg became a saint and struggled to achieve what he believed. However, the film focuses on the love triangle between Chen Hansheng, He Ke and Li, and even the fourth corner of Michelle Yeoh. This is really not enough drama to get together.
In addition, the flaws of the film also reduce the credibility of the film. The Chinese background subtitles at the beginning of the opening clearly read "...the Japanese army invaded China and quickly occupied most of the country". It's a joke. The little Japan failed to occupy most of China's territory until it surrendered. Three northeastern provinces and China's coastal areas and a small part of inland areas.
The characters in the story originally migrated from Shuangshi in Shaanxi to Shandan in Gansu, and could not fight with Huangshi Baganzi, but the screenwriter mistaken "shuang" for "huang" because of the English pronunciation when creating the script. Not only was this unintentional mistake not corrected, but it happened to be seized by the city of Yellowstone, which was regarded as a good opportunity to promote Yellowstone. However, the distance of migration has been extended so many times. Is it convincing for 60 children to complete such a long journey?
How credible is it that the Communist Party member New Fourth Army guerrilla played by Chow Yun-fat rescued He Ke from the Japanese butcher knife in Nanjing city? Were there Communist forces operating in Nanjing before and after the fall of Nanjing? Friends who know relevant information are welcome to inform them below.
In fact, the real history of Hok is wonderful in its own right, even more so than this crappy polyamorous made up.
"George Hogg was born into a middle-class family in England in 1915. After graduating from Oxford University, he went to Japan with his aunt. In Japan, he found that the common people believed in the government's propaganda and believed that the Japanese army was helping China. Soon after, he came to China and was shocked to see the tragic scene of the war with his own eyes, and decided to stay in China. As an American reporter, he went to Yan'an, Northwest Shanxi, and Southeast Shanxi to conduct interviews, during which time, Zhu De and Nie Rongzhen met him and wrote the book "I Saw New China". American journalists Edgar Snow and Rewi Alley launched a China Industrial Cooperation Association, referred to as "Gonghe", which was engaged in arranging refugees, producing military and civilian supplies, and raising funds for transfer to Yan'an, to support China's war of resistance. American journalist Smedley recommended Hogg to Rewi Alley, who was short on staff. Hogg never left China, and Gung Ho also established "Pei Li Schools" in various places to train technical talents for the association's enterprises. In 1942, Gonghe founded a Peili Craft School in Shuangshipu, Shaanxi, with Hogg serving as the principal of Peili. In 1944, when the school moved, Hogg took many children through a long journey and finally arrived in Shandan, Gansu. In the summer of 1945, Hogg suffered a toe injury while playing basketball and contracted tetanus. On July 22, the 30-year-old Hogg stopped breathing. Before his death, he wrote "Dedicate my everything to the Peili School". Hogg was buried on July 22, 1945, and the cemetery is by the creek outside the south gate of the county seat. There was also a school flag in the coffin, and everyone at Peili School signed it. During the burial, the students lined up, each putting a handful of soil on the coffin. Hogg's tombstone is engraved with a poem by his favorite British military poet Julian Grenfell.
The colorful life is
radiant and warm,
and people have been striving forward for it.
He has passed away, and
he will no longer fight. In the battle,
the life of the deceased is
more brilliant.
Hogg's tombstone and bust were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, and what we can see now is a new build in the 1980s.
His deeds were written by Rewi Alley, who has been living in China, in "The Fruit of Hope, The Story of George Alvin Hooke", also translated as "From Oxford to Shandan - The Story of George Hooke". In the book, Rewi Alley died in Beijing in 1987, and his last words were buried with Hogg. In 1988, Rewi Alley also returned to him, and Rewi Alley's grave was ten meters away from Hogg.
"The Children of Yellowstone" was filmed under the name "Escape from the Sea of Bitterness" (or "Rescue the Orphan from the Sea of Bitterness"), which was later changed to its current name. "Escape from the Bitter Sea" was once the name of a British screenplay based on the legendary experience of George Hogg. The film is not based on Rewi Alley's writings, but a novel called "The Children of Yellowstone". The author of the novel, James (blog) Mike Mayners, is currently a director of British News Corporation International. He was working in Shanghai in the 1980s. I learned about the deeds of George Hogg, and after years of collecting and sorting, I wrote the story of George Hogg into a novel. In addition, the novel of the same name rewritten from the movie script has also been launched by Qixinran, the mainland producer of the film. From reality to fiction, Hogg's experience inevitably undergoes a certain "deformation". At a seminar in February, Nie Guangchun, who was adopted by Hogg as his adopted son, pointed out that Hogg did not set out from Huangshi in Hubei, but from Shuangshipu in Shaanxi, and finally arrived at Shandan. Not exact.
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