Plot introduction
War is like a feast of death. Once you step on the battlefield, you are ready to sacrifice your precious life at any time. However, for Gu Zidi, there is something more precious than life, and that is the high honor belonging to the 47 brothers of the Nine Company. He spent his whole life looking for his fallen comrades and returned the honor to these young heroes no matter what.
In the Battle of Huaihai in 1948, the battle between the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang army was unprecedentedly fierce. Gu Zidi, commander of the Ninth Company, accepted a mission to block the battle. He agreed with the regiment commander to use the assembly horn as the order to retreat. If the assembly horn did not sound, the entire company must persist until the last moment. In an abandoned old kiln, 47 soldiers fought bravely, but in the end they were outnumbered due to the disparity in firepower. Gu Zidi watched his comrades die one by one but was unable to do anything. Platoon leader Jiao Dapeng was Gu Zidi's right-hand man. Before he died, he said that he heard the rally call and asked Gu Zidi to retreat with the few remaining brothers. Some of the soldiers agreed and some objected, and everyone disagreed. At this time, Gu Zidi discovered that the neighboring troops had already retreated. He suspected that he had ignored the trumpet sound, causing his comrades to lose their lives in vain. Intense shock and guilt, he ran out of the kiln with a pack of explosives and headed for the enemy trenches alone. The rest of the soldiers were eventually killed.
After Gu ZiDe was injured, he was captured by the People's Liberation Army as an enemy soldier. In the hospital at the rear, he learned that his original unit designation had been cancelled. Not only was it difficult for him to prove his true identity, but the 46 brothers who died in the battle would be considered missing... Gu Zidi managed to join the People's Liberation Army Artillery Corps , following the pace of the team in the north and south, his only motivation for survival is to find due honor for his dead comrades. Even if time flies and things change, even if history has gradually been forgotten, the unforgettable brotherhood has not diminished at all. In Gu Zidi’s mind, the images of his brothers will always be fresh: Wang Jincun, Jiao Dapeng, Jiang Maocai, Lu Kuan Ditch...
The poor bones by the Wuding River are like those in a boudoir's dream. Also looking for Gu ZiDe is Sun Guiqin, the wife of instructor Wang Jincun. It wasn't until she met Gu ZiDe that she was convinced that her husband had died in battle. The two people who had been wronged had the same grief and belief, and they embarked on a journey to seek verification together. Gu ZiDe introduced Sun Guiqin to Zhao Erdou, his best friend in the artillery unit, and witnessed their marriage.
When they finally returned to the old kiln where the bloody battle took place, they found that the battlefield site had been changed beyond recognition due to coal mining. Except for Gu Zi Di, no one knew or even believed that just under the kiln lay dozens of warriors who had died heroically. Gu ZiDe frantically dug mountains of coal mines, and he wanted to let the truth come out no matter what.
Finally, after Gu ZiDe's frantic search, he finally found his 46 brothers. Gu ZiDe and his 46 comrades were awarded the honorary title of combat hero.
Origin of production
The director of this film, Feng Xiaogang, has always been good at showing the lives of little people. This time "Assembly" focuses on the little people in modern war and tells us about an ordinary person's life in the modern war. An immortal legend in war. "Assembly" is based on a novel "The Lawsuit" by Yang Jinyuan. He first read a news report about a man who was persistently looking for his old army. He spent a long time looking for evidence and restoring honor for his dead comrades. After reading it, he was deeply moved, which became his original intention in writing the novel "The Lawsuit".
"This story was recommended to me by Zhang Guoli two years ago." Director Feng Xiaogang said, "The story line of the original novel is also very simple. A company commander named Gu Zidi was ordered to lead the soldiers in a battle of four After hours of resistance, only the company commander survived. However, after the war, the army did not classify the fallen comrades as martyrs, so the surviving company commanders worked hard to find the remains of those fallen comrades and vindicate their comrades. I am the real one. I was moved by this story and this character. I feel particularly lucky that Huayi’s boss Wang Zhongjun was also moved by this story.”
Investor Wang Zhongjun still remembered that Feng Xiaogang handed over the original novel. To myself: "The original work was only three pages, but Director Feng Xiaogang thought that he could make a very good movie at that time. He told me his imagination of the story. My feeling is that this is definitely a good movie. A good movie. This script is the most detailed one I have ever read. Looking back now, some of the plots are still very moving.
Because of this, "Assembly" is Huayi's most important drama this year.
Producer Chen Guofu still has fresh memories of the planning stage of "Assembly Number", "Director Feng Xiaogang is very enthusiastic about this subject. As soon as I told him that this subject could be done, he immediately called and contacted me." The famous screenwriter Liu Heng asked him if he could write a script. On the one hand, this shows that Xiaogang is a man with swords and shoes, and it also means that he has a strong impulse to narrate this touching story. In my opinion this is an important factor in making great pictures. ”
As a well-known writer, Liu Heng’s film and television works, such as "Ju Dou", "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", "Pretty Mom", etc. are all well-known, and he has won the Feitian Award, etc. Liu Heng took over the screenwriting work of "Assembly Number" very easily and smoothly. He recalled: "I was having dinner with a friend when I received a call from director Feng Xiaogang, saying that there was such a story on the phone. After chatting for half an hour, the director’s enthusiasm and the moving parts of the story attracted me and made me very creative. Later, it was decided that I would complete the film script. ”
Director Feng Xiaogang and producer Huayi Brothers both hope to find a professional team to join in the production of the film. After Director Feng watched "The Flying Tai Chi Flag", he hoped to find the special effects production team of this film to join "Assembly" ", which paved the way for cooperation with the Korean company MK Pictures. The Korean executive producer of "Assembly", Lee Ji-yun, comes from MK pictures, and he is the key figure in promoting the cooperation between China and South Korea in this film. In May 2006, Li Zhiyun met with Feng Xiaogang and the person in charge of Huayi, and the intention to cooperate was determined at that time. Talking about the reasons that attracted MK Pictures to come to China to shoot this movie, Li Zhiyun said: "The first reason is director Feng Xiaogang. He is a big director in Asia and we have all known him for a long time. Then there is the script. Huayi Brothers sent me the script. We were very moved after reading it, so we are all looking forward to participating in this drama. I hope to work with Huayi Brothers and Director Feng to make an excellent movie. "
Since then, Huayi Brothers and director Feng Xiaogang have successively finalized other major behind-the-scenes creators. The sound engineer for "Assembly" is Wang Danrong, one of the best sound engineers in China, and his collaborator Jin Shiyuan He is Korea's top sound recordist. Domestic senior editor Liu Miaomiao collaborated with director Feng Xiaogang again after "The Night Banquet". With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, he is one of the strong guarantees for the final effect of the film's music director. I have previously collaborated with director Feng Xiaogang in "A World Without Thieves", and the music he created in "A World Without Thieves" is familiar and loved by the audience. At the same time, the crew's preparations have quietly begun in order to achieve a realistic reproduction of the war. The crew has carefully planned everything from the selection of location to the preparation of special effects for fireworks and explosions, to a piece of clothing or a prop. To this end, the staff also conducted a lot of historical research work to make it meet the requirements. The history is true, but it does not deviate from the audience's bottom line.
A strong production team has been assembled, and the intense filming is about to begin. Everything is just waiting for the call to be given by the chief producer of "Assembly" Wang Zhonglei. Wu expressed his joy that this film "gathered" a group of outstanding and creative filmmakers in the film industry. Their joint efforts will inevitably burst out dazzling creative sparks. With such a solid script and such an experienced team, there are With a production budget of tens of millions of dollars, "Assembly" has become an excellent war film.