Chapter 1049 Universal Values
Before the Japanese army was about to siege the city, although the security zones established by Rabe, Weitlin and others did not receive a formal reply from the Japanese side from the beginning, which means that the Japanese side did not clearly express that they would accept such a safe zone. However, after Nanjing fell, these security zones became refuges for the people living in Nanjing, fleeing to Nanjing and the defeated soldiers.
Qiao Feng sets St. Mary's Church as a place similar to a safe area.
This is what people think of as a refuge, so there will be shelter from the elderly, weak, women and children.
But in fact, the so-called safe zone is not safe.
After the Japanese army captured the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, they gang raped the girl outside the Zhonghua Gate. They forced the passing monks to continue to commit traitors. The monk refused to obey and was even castrated and died.
All women in Nanjing were at risk and took refuge in the safe zones designated by the international committee organized by the foreigners.
But the army ignored international justice and even showed off its animal desires. They rode the dark night and crossed the walls, regardless of the age and the young, and groped for rape.
In the movie, the elderly, young, women and children in St. Mary's Church are naturally inevitable.
Therefore, Anne, who blocked the Japanese army's beastly nature, would be pushed down and slapped in the face.
Therefore, there will be students, women and children who are invaded by Japanese soldiers, die or crazy.
What Qiao Feng wanted to tell the audience was that St. Mary's Church is not a safe haven, it was just a straw shed that temporarily could cover people's wind and rain, and it would capsize at any time.
The original version of Jinling's Thirteen Flowers of War is not enough to show this.
Inside, the Qinhuai girl could laugh and play, drink red wine, and get a foreigner to have an ambiguous relationship, flirt, and finally give her a life.
That's bad, very unserious.
In such an environment, if the crisis may be damaged at any time and die, no one will feel that way.
Even though they really didn't know what was happening outside, there were dead people all over the streets, and they all escaped from the Qinhuai River, so they should have felt it.
How could it be so easy?
Although the Thirteen Flowers of Jinling is a commercial film, since you are shooting history, at least you must respect history.
So, Qiao Feng directly erased the American corpse collector and fake priest in the original version of the Flowers of Jinling.
There is no need for love here.
Also, the most criticized thing in the Thirteen Flowers of Jinling is that all the Qinhuai girls replaced the students and sang for the Yujun.
It’s not that the Qinhuai girl went for the students.
Instead, it is unacceptable to the starting point.
The original version says that because they are all in the Qinhuai River anyway, they are doing something to welcome and send money. Anyway, that's all, who they give it to is not.
There are also things like "I am not lucky enough to be a female student, pretend to be happy and enjoy it".
Of course, if you don’t have the blessing to pretend to be a student, it is definitely not from the heart, but it is just a reason to convince yourself in the movie.
But what is similar to that in real history is that the Qinhuai girl sang for the students because of their origins, they are sisters of kilns.
But in the movie, they decided to go there themselves. In history, they were forced to go there by helpless Weiterin and other good families, and they just accepted their fate.
In fact, in that era, if others were in Weiterin and others, they would probably have made such a decision.
But the movie is made for current audiences.
Not in that era, in that desperate situation, no one could really put himself in his shoes and recognize Weitlin and the others' desperate, helpless decisions.
The audience will only think that why is the kiln sister going to serve the students? Is it because they sell, they are not dealing with, they are not clean, and students are dealing with, are they clean?
Does Sister Kiln have no human rights?
Yes, the kiln sisters at that time had no human rights.
They were not willing to fall into the world, but were sold to the kiln.
There is no human right to a piece of goods.
Others are hostile to them, contempt, and look down on them from the bottom of their hearts, so they don’t care about their opinions.
If they have to sacrifice, they will sacrifice who they have to sacrifice.
Many people even think that they are not called sacrifice, that is their destiny.
But now audiences will definitely not be able to accept such concepts.
Just like when Spielberg listened to Qiao Feng’s diary about Weiterin, they encouraged and even forced the prostitutes hiding in the safe area to give them to the Japanese and said they were committing crimes.
No matter what reason, it is wrong for us to suffer for others and die for us, that is a crime.
Even if it is shown in the movie that the girl Qinhuai voluntarily goes for the students, that is not right.
Because of the bad background and a prostitute, I have to die for others and willingly die. The point of view expressed is wrong and the three views are not correct.
Forced to use different identities, using a prostitute is an original sin. Only when they sacrifice can they whiten themselves and atone for sins to sublimate the theme. The audience will feel disgusted when they watch it. Even if they can't tell why, they have an idea in their hearts, and this reason is untenable.
So Qiao Feng changed the situation and arranged for some other refugees from women and children in St. Mary's Church.
First, we must create a sense of sadness that the city is full of devastation and refugees everywhere after it is broken.
It cannot be said that it is like the original version, but it is like a deserted place where you can drink, laugh and play.
The second is to give a foreshadowing for the students later.
Thirteen female students were asked by Japanese military officers to sing, and Yumo, the eldest daughter of Qinhuai girls, suggested that they go instead of the students.
But except for the young follower Hongling, other girls are not willing.
"Okay, if you have a genital, you will hide it all here, occupy other people's territory, eat other people's rations, and watch the Japanese drag those little girls away to the disaster! Who are you hiding? Is there anyone who loves you? "
Yumo was like a shrew, and she was scolded several times with one sentence, but she couldn't be sure who she scolded. "Hide it, hide it until she reincarnates, reincarnates, and becomes a female student, let the cheapest ones come and give you the slap in your doggy life!"
Some people were scolded and accepted their fate, but some were still unwilling to do so.
This is human nature.
After all, it is related to life and death. Everyone can accept their fate if they say something, and all the girls agree to go to the wolf's nest. That's really fake.
There is a saying that if you don’t want to be punished by yourself, heaven and earth will kill you, and make everyone willing to go against others and give your life. Even if you are RMB, you can’t do it.
What's more, he is just a big sister in the kiln sister.
Thirteen students, the number of Qinhuai girls is not enough, and there are still people who are unwilling to live or die. What should I do if the number of people is not enough?
At this time, someone stood up among dozens of women and children.
Because after Yu Mo scolded other girls, some girls who changed their minds and agreed to go for the students said this why they changed. We were at least in their twenties and were only in their teens. I couldn't bear such a young child to face those tragic things.
I will let them live well for us.
This touched everyone, and many of the women and children expressed their willingness to go for the children for the sake of their children.
Look, the theme is very different from the original one.
They are also humiliating and dying for the children. Now there are girls from Qinhuai and ordinary women.
The girls refused at first because they had basic personal dignity.
Later, someone agreed, which also touched many people among women and children to stand up because adults protect children is a universal value that is always available.
Because of this reason, the audience will not feel unacceptable, especially because there are ordinary women inside, the audience will not subconsciously think that it is because of the different identities and because they are prostitutes, the movie will let these people sacrifice them.
The script has been greatly changed, and the unreasonable and criticized aspects of the original Jinling Thirteen Flowers of War have been changed and supplemented.
Chapter completed!