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Chapter 489: Sensational! A hot animation miracle!

If we say that all the leaders' previous evaluation of the plot of this movie is that it is an anti-war movie, an animated movie, or even a tribute movie.

But the last sentence shocked everyone in the room!
This sentence directly elevated the play to a higher level!
Fuck your anti-war movement, fuck your animation, fuck your Japan!

This is a response that has lasted for more than 60 years! It is a coming-of-age ceremony that crushes all the suffering in the animated film.

Everyone will remember the evidence of your invasion of China! Remember it for the rest of their lives!
Han Sanpin's breathing became rapid.

He knew that in this movie, Guan Ling used the most secretive things in Japan, thoroughly exposed them, and then nailed them to the pillar of shame!

Everyone's viewing of the movie this time was considered a review by their superiors, so no one expected that Guan Ling would actually plant such a bombshell in the movie.

"Will a certain place be destroyed?"

After the colleague asked this question, a faint smile appeared on Gu Er's face.

There is no answer and no ending.

Only in the endless sky, there was a strong wind.

No one knows what Gu Er is thinking right now. At least at the end of the movie, Gu Er did not give a yes or no answer.

But he dedicated his whole life to airplanes and lived in loneliness. After the girl died, he never married.

In front of my eyes and in my dreams, I often see broken arms and legs, and the bodies of airplanes.

They are all those who sacrificed.

They are all orphans who are crying out for food and waiting for airdrops to survive.

It was the scene of Shanghai South Railway Station that he would remember for the rest of his life and would never forget.

It was because of the war that he could not fulfill both his country and his family. It was because of the suffering that he was scolded by his own sister and labeled a scumbag. His wife passed away, and it only became the most painful memory in his heart.

He and his colleagues worked hard for decades to create some machines that embodied his dreams so that they could face the Japanese army's murderous Zero fighters.

He was fascinated by the advanced European designs.
He was deeply distressed by the brutal bombing by the Japanese army.

One's dreams can only gradually become distorted in order to deal with those dirty sins.

The transformation from building magnificent palaces to manufacturing fighter planes is concrete enough.

But Gu Er still couldn't cope with their advanced climax skills.

After he truly succeeded, all that remained in his heart was loneliness and a heart full of hatred that he could not vent.

Is that hate?

At least everyone present has their own answer in their hearts.

Career, conscience, love, dream,
Every dimension weighs on Gu Er, making him unable to control himself.

A gentle breeze of society can turn a small person into a huge storm. Even if the person wants to be calm, the wind will not stop.

A person can spend his whole life searching for his true love, but he cannot choose the era and background he lives in. The wind of the times always blows forward, but a person only has one life, and the time limit for realizing his dream is also only a few short decades.

But in the decades that belonged to Gu Er, he first lost his dream, then his love, and later it seemed that even fighting against those Japanese bombers had lost its meaning.

At that moment when he was crying with his hands on the pillow, it seemed to Gu Er that his life had no meaning at all.

This was a complete tragedy for Gu Er's life, but the times never cared.

But he did not live a decadent life.

He still has things to do.

I have to say that the last part of the whole movie makes the plainness and timelessness of the early stage of the movie, the warm love in the early stage, the hardship and difficulties in the early stage, and all the depressing background in the early stage,

In an instant, everything turned into the exhilarating feeling of an eagle soaring in the sky!
It became a display of achievements that made people feel emotional and almost cry. Starting with the J-8, countless fighter jets roared in the sky!

It all finally converges in the line "Somewhere, will be destroyed!"
Of course everyone knows what this sentence means.
Only in the movie plot,

Even people can understand the emotions behind this sentence.

Not to mention the content of this movie, which may just be a tiny memory of that era.
At the intersection of blood and fire, the memory of suffering left in everyone's heart by the times will be exaggerated.

The story in the plot will also gradually float into the minds of everyone in the screening room.

When he was a child, Gu Er flew across the sky in his dreams, and he shouted out the words "I was afraid of the beautiful buildings and jade palaces."

On the buzzing train to school, a gust of wind blew away the pages of Gu Er's book. He saw her for the first time, and the two looked at each other and said that they should live well.

The Japanese army bombed Shanghai South Station, and a little boy sat on the tracks, crying.

He held her hand and ran between heaven and earth, and among the terrified crowd in the war.

"I want to make airplanes, and I want to make fighter jets even more."

Study and work hard.

Job hunting, hard work.

Failure, failure, failure, and failure.

Gu Er was in the French Concession, watching the news about the Japanese army bombing the Sichuan Air Force for three months, killing people in several places.

Someone flew a plane and gave his life just to leave behind a blood enemy.

The mountains and fields of Kunming were covered with camellia flowers. In Southwest Associated University, some students were sitting quietly listening to the rain. Suddenly, a bomber flew across the sky. They had to hide in the air-raid shelter, but they were still singing and shouting uplifting songs.

While sketching on the top of the mountain, the girl's umbrella was blown away, and the two met again.

She looked at the mountains and forests and made a wish that Gu Er would come to find her.

In love, they hugged each other tightly.

Weddings, illness, separation.

Traveling between Kunming and Yunnan, Gu Er was trapped between his responsibility to the country and his love for his wife, but he had no chance as his wife had passed away.

Is he a hero?

At least in the first part of the movie, he is an ordinary person working hard for his dream. Then he starts to have some goals to work towards, but under the overall situation, he can only go with the flow and seek survival in the troubled times.

In love, he gained the most precious thing, but he could not embrace her completely and forever in his arms.

At work, he kept failing, and the only few planes he succeeded in flying were only helicopters. They seemed to have satisfied his childhood dream, but there was still a gap between them and his own expectations.

The whole movie shows this helplessness and sadness, the cruelty of war, and the powerlessness of human beings.

The whole of China was boiling with fire, explosions, blood, fighting, and all kinds of high-spirited shouts always appearing in the newspapers. Countless people were running around, piling up manpower, and the years were full of ups and downs. It was only because China had no air force capability and could not suppress the other side in this world.

That sentence, more than sixty years before the plot of the movie, was a conversation between the colleague and Gu Er in the long night of Guiyang.

"The Japanese army went crazy. After the United States entered the war, they began to get anxious, first invading Vietnam, then Burma, and then Yunnan, driving us here.

The Japanese troops in North China and other places also began to massacre people in large numbers and seek ways to evacuate. They were anxious. "

"Evil cannot defeat justice." said Gu Er.

"Japan will be destroyed, right?"

Gu Er did not answer at that time. He just put a cigarette in his mouth, lowered his eyes slightly, smiled self-deprecatingly at his colleagues and at himself.

The cigarette butt showed a scarlet dot, flickering with Gu Er's breathing.

This question was not answered by Gu Er until the very end of the movie.

——It was a plain smile.

——It is an endless array of bombers, soaring high between heaven and earth!

And it was this smile that struck everyone's heart hard!
Do you still dare to come?!

We really want to go!
That smile makes people involuntarily come up with this answer in their minds!
…………

"This movie..." A publicity director suddenly stood up!

He clenched his fists, as if he had let out a breath of anger, and took a deep breath.

"Hard!"

His lips moved slightly a few times, and he just gave this comment.

Guan Ling brings together all the emotions from the previous part of the entire film into this final scene, as if telling everyone of that era, we succeeded.

You no longer have to experience the fall of dreams, the passing of love, the endless darkness, and the crying of loneliness.

There will be no more long winds in the long dark nights,

There will no longer be the anxiety of moving from place to place,

There will be no more lonely graves,

Never again will I sacrifice my life, the limbs of countless planes, and countless sacrifices, just to leave behind an enemy!
For a moment, everyone was silent.

"I finally understand why you said this movie is worth 1 billion."

Director Li finally understood what Ren Zhonglun had said before.

If you were watching a documentary, these stories might make you cry.

If you were watching a cartoon, perhaps these soul-touching things wouldn't be involved.

But Guan Ling incorporated all of this into the animated film so smoothly, gently, and cleverly. He used the animation film, which is what the Japanese are best at, to completely incorporate their cruelty, the memory they least want to mention, and the memory that they would rather revise history than play ostrich.

Boundless suffering is the foreground of this movie.

The green grass, blue sky and white clouds, and various fighter planes in the last ten minutes turned into one sentence: Try it again!

The regret of Gu Er, who had white hair and beard, never getting married in his life cannot be made up, but he stood up straight for the country.

This movie never claims to be a tribute film.

But if this isn't a tribute, then nothing is...

……

"This movie is very good, but I wonder if the last sentence should be deleted as it may cause controversy in foreign communication."

The propaganda director thought a lot and turned to look at a certain ministry.

“Why delete it?”

He was answered with a decisive answer.

The energetic leader was now wearing a straight suit. He tugged at his tie and then stood up.

"For more than 60 years, they have been adhering to a wrong view of history, refusing to admit their crimes, showing no genuine remorse, repeatedly visiting certain symbolic sites, revising history textbooks, whitewashing their own acts of aggression, and constantly creating friction with neighboring countries. During this period, they have also continued to have friction with us in the southeast over the ownership of our islands. Revisionism is rampant. This spirit is distorted and has been denounced by countless people!
Xiaoguan, this movie is very good!

We want to send it out! We want to send it to the Annie Awards, to the Oscars, to Berlin, to our global animation exhibition next year, and to all the places we can send it to.

And don’t cut a single bit!

Not even a single cut!"

The leader looked at the two people behind him, especially the propaganda minister and Director Li of Optoelectronics, "If you two can't make this decision, I will ask your senior leader. If that doesn't work, I will ask my senior leader directly. This play must be released like this!"

The two leaders in the rear were embarrassed and did not dare to question.

Director Li of Optoelectronics nodded quickly. Now that things had come to this, no matter what he said, it would not be of much use.

Then, the leader came over and stood beside Guan Ling, extending his hand.

"We should work hard to make Chinese films, pass on Chinese culture, and not be stingy in spreading the suffering that China suffered in the past. This era has been blinded by Western media for too long."

"I understand, leader."

Guan Ling reached out and held it, nodding heavily.

He cannot fight against that huge force, but at least he can use his influence as a spiritual leader to let more people around the world know the truth of what happened back then!

This is enough!

……

In the following time, after the leaders left.

Han Sanpin, Xu Ke, Ren Zhonglun and others all sat on the sofa in a daze.

"You're amazing. You've reviewed the script. You're going to add a scene for me later, right? That line wasn't in the original script."

Han Sanpin looked at Guan Ling and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

"Without that sentence, the emotions wouldn't be aroused." Guan Ling said, "This connection is the best summary of the first part of the movie."

"So will it be destroyed or not?"

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that if we need to destroy them, we can really destroy them." Guan Ling said.

The most powerful aspect of strategic nuclear weapons lies in their strategic deterrent power.

Just like Schrödinger's cat, if weapons are delivered, they may just be blind boxes. It is impossible to judge how many miles and cities they will reach. After all, no one except Japan has enjoyed such a thing.

When everyone heard Guan Ling's words, they were thoughtful.

Xu Ke spoke hesitantly.

"Boss Han, 'Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate' is going to be released ahead of schedule, and I don't want to run into Guan Ling for even a day."

Han Sanpin smiled and said, "You can change it just like that? Do you know how much manpower it takes to adjust this for you?"

Then, he turned to look at Guan Ling.
"When will this play be released? You can choose a date."

"October 1th?"

Guan Ling said, "New Year, new atmosphere. How about giving Japan some eye drops?"

"Full support! From today on, the promotion of this animation is the most important thing for China Film Group."

“Same thing with Shangying.”

Ren Zhonglun also made a guarantee.

Tsui Hark narrowed his eyes and his brain froze a little.

"You don't have time to adjust it for me, saying it will waste manpower. If you put all your efforts into promoting Guan Ling's movie, it won't be a waste of manpower? Are you a human being?"

Tsui Hark felt a little numb from the criticism.

But he also knew very well in his heart that this movie might indeed cause a sensation in the Chinese film industry, because this animated film was not just an animation, but also a hot and sizzling animation miracle!

Early the next morning.

"Even If the Wind Rises" was officially announced on multiple platforms and the release date was finally confirmed.

It attracted the attention of the entire industry.

For a time, all the movies released during the Lunar New Year holiday felt the tremendous pressure.

Because the news was overwhelming, sweeping across every province, every city, and even every town.

Completely surrounded China.

At this time, the Japanese media also announced that Hayao Miyazaki's son Goro Miyazaki's "On Poppy Hill" will be released on January 1st.

Suddenly, the wave of enthusiasm that had lasted for a year and a half before last year’s Venice Film Festival started to boil again!!

Is this a dispute between Chinese and Japanese animated films?!

(End of this chapter)