Li Mu has always believed that image is the best carrier to transmit ideas and thoughts. That's why he pays so much attention to the shooting and editing of this documentary. He knows that he can't take every Chinese to Chuncheng and the mountain village where sun Xiaozhong has lived for most of his life to see and listen with his own eyes. What he can do is to record everything with the image, and then Pass it on to the whole society.
The video, which Li Mu played at the conference, is the third version of the promotional film for the project of finding the surviving Flying Tigers.
The first version, just a rough cut of the shooting materials, was broadcast to hundreds of rich second generation people who only know how to spend money and find girls every day, which moved these people to tears, and then donated more than 80 million yuan;
the second version, added the relevant materials of the old American flying tiger team members, and the shocking footage of Air China shark mouth painting Boeing 747 takeoff and landing, which touched people the most Deep, it's the moment when the old Flying Tigers of China and the United States gather at the airport after 60 years. The last time they left, they were young people. This time, they were all old people. All the actors, including Mr. Li Xuejian, were also touched by the fact that they couldn't be attached.
the third version was more careful based on the second version From 1937 to 2003, the experience of the flying tigers and the Chinese air force for more than 60 years was concentrated in this edition.
It has cherished air battle pictures, clips of looking for old sun Xiaozhong in the mountains, oral history of the American Flying Tigers before they set off for the camera, close-up of the Flying Tigers' Shark beak fighter with the current Air China's shark beak 747, photos of the Chinese and American Flying Tigers in their high spirits, and old Flying Tigers of the two countries embracing and crying There are images of the hump route in the air, air combat over Chuncheng, and the prosperity and peace of Chuncheng airport.
At the beginning of the picture, the video shows the daily training video of Jianqiao central air school in that year. Because it's a precious historical record, all the reporters are attracted to the past;
then, the battle of Songhu started, and the whole air school began to move to the West;
then, the air force of the national army began to fight with the Japanese air force in various places The real image is all black-and-white. Although there is no color, it is a little more heroic than the color image;
when they saw sun Xiaozhong's old man in the dilapidated thatched cottage saying the famous sentence "die in the national calamity, see death as if returning", almost all of them have already wept.
To die in national calamity is like returning. All feelings of an old soldier towards this nation are highlighted in these ten words.
In the video, when the old man finished saying this, the picture gradually turned black, and then the picture of Chen Huaimin, the martyr who died together with the enemy in the air battle in Jiangcheng, appeared at the same time with the picture, is the background music carefully selected by Li Mu - "1492 conquering heaven".
After 19 seconds of prelude, this extremely majestic and tragic music suddenly appeared in the collective hum, which was like a tear jerking shell, bombing everyone's heart.
The reason why he chose this music is that Li Mu was completely tearful by this music.
When Zhang Yi's monitor Shi Jin, a former TV play called "soldiers' assault", was in front of Tian'anmen Gate in a car after retiring from the army and crying, the music made Li Mu cry in front of the TV set and become a fool.
From then on, whenever he heard the pure music, Li Mu couldn't help recalling the scene in the TV play.
At that time, the patriotic feeling of the modern soldiers was touched by this music in TV plays; today, the same music, in the real images of that year, shows the Veterans' blood sacrifice to this country and nation in the war years, which has become the best foil of these video images. The combination of notes and pictures has produced wonderful chemical effects, so that every A note, every picture, can go directly to the heart, let people feel the heart tremor.
When the music sounded, there was no other sound on the scene, and everyone was staring at the big screen. In front of this kind of image data full of shock, everyone could not hold their tear glands. At this moment, everyone realized that what they saw today is the most shocking and most impressive charity project they know It's the one that makes people feel sad, ashamed and guilty.
All previous charity projects, no matter how touching they are, can only arouse people's sympathy and desire for donation to a certain extent. People will sympathize with children who have not studied, disabled people who have lost their healthy bodies, and infants who have congenital diseases, but they will not feel any shame and guilt for these groups, because they feel that although they feel these The group is pitiful, but in essence they don't owe them anything.
But veterans are different.
In the picture, the pilots who fight against the aggressors in the long air of the motherland regardless of their lives and deaths, bleed and die for the country and the nation. In order to protect their families and future generations, some of them have already died, some of them have passed away in a long time. Most of the remaining people live so hard, but none of them have Reach out to this society.There are no veterans who say the country owes them, let alone the nation owes them and the people owes them. Without exception, they regard the sacrifice of that year as an unshirkable responsibility and obligation. They shed their blood in the war years, and then spent their whole lives in the peace years. Even if they didn't eat well or dress badly, they never asked for a dime or a grain of rice from this society Journalists who were born in the age of peace didn't pay attention to this group before. Now they finally know their stories, their sacrifices for this country and nation, and their peace and development are completely based on their bloodshed. As a result, they are the real old heroes who are living such a poor but not humble life How can we not be ashamed of them?
It turns out that although society is indifferent, most people's blood is still hot.
Every reporter at the scene was deeply touched by this video. They were red eyed and tearful, but they couldn't even see their tears. They had forgotten that they were here to attend a press conference. They had forgotten the cast they had been waiting for. They had forgotten the gossip related to Li Mu and the release At the meeting, Li Mu was made difficult and ran to get the original idea of news topic.
In fact, the last two points that journalists have been thinking about before have had a vague but very clear response in the video.
In the video, Li Mu's pictures are flashed several times. There is him on the deep mountain and cliff of yunprovince, on the steel cable crossing the river above Nujiang River, in sun Xiaozhong's dilapidated thatched house, in the ward of yunprovince military region hospital, when he is greeting Air China 747, and when the old people spend the Lantern Festival together in the wine shop.
Now the reporters finally know what Li Mu is doing these days when he disappeared in front of the media. In fact, he built such a significant charity foundation, and personally initiated and participated in the first public welfare project of the charity foundation, which is now what we see, let everyone tear down to find the surviving flying tigers!
Through this video, Li Mu makes the whole society realize the importance and urgency of caring for veterans. At the same time, he also uses practical actions to tell the whole society that the veterans immortal charity foundation is not only the founder, initiator and Funder, but also a personal participant in it, a internet tycoon worth more than 10 billion dollars Plunge into the deep mountains of cloud Province, how many rich people of the same level can do it? Even the rich who are several grades lower than Li Mu can't do it, can they?
At a time when everyone's soul is being greatly shocked, the video is close to the end.
The background music gradually faded out of the picture, and only old sun Xiaozhong was left in the picture. He was still sitting in his dilapidated thatched house, facing the camera, smiling on his old face, and said, "the society owes nothing to me. Those brothers of paoze who fought together in those years were all devoted to fighting against Japan and serving the country, serving the country and serving the country, It's like filial piety to our parents. It's the responsibility and obligation we were born with. It's because we didn't fulfill our responsibilities that we let the Japanese come in and run rampant for so many years. If we owe it, it's also because we owe it to the country and the common people who died in the hands of the Japanese... "
When the old man finished saying this, his smiling face suddenly showed two more tears. The picture of the old man wiping away tears was slowed down to 0.2 times by the editor. The slow camera let people see the flash of sadness in the old man's face when he wiped away tears.
In the middle of the picture, there are:
"in the summer of 1937, old Sun Xiaozhong followed the central Aviation School of Jianqiao to move westward to Chuncheng. In the autumn of the same year, the father of old Sun Xiaozhong moved from Hangcheng to Jinling with his family of seven to avoid the war;
in December of the same year, Jinling fell Since then, the whole family has heard nothing for more than 60 years. After verification by volunteers, the names of the parents, brothers and sisters, and six elder sisters and sisters in law of the old man were found in the list of victims of the Jinling massacre. The nephew of the old man was three years old. The volunteers did not find his name in the list of victims, but they believe that he also died in the massacre.
19 In 52 years, during the labor reform of Sun Xiaozhong, his wife, Chen Jinyu, left his hometown with his only son, Lian Li, because he was unable to make a living. His whereabouts are still unknown. Entrusted by Sun Xiaozhong, the veteran immortal charity foundation is asking the whole society for help to find out the whereabouts of his wife and his only son. It is hoped that any kind-hearted person who knows the relevant clues can take the initiative to stay alive with the veteran Charitable foundation contact. "
At the end of the video, ten words reappear on the big screen: "veterans never die, just fade..."