User:Yiding wang/The Eight Hundred

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Chengzhen, LI

Zhihan, Li

Bruce, Yan

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The story takes place after the incident at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai, where the Japanese army had only about 3,000 regular troops, and "Chiang Kai-shek" thought that the Chinese army had a clear numerical advantage and he was very confident that he could repel the Japanese as soon as possible. Then both China and Japan started to reinforce their troops, and the total strength of Chinese troops in the Song-Shanghai battlefield reached 700,000, and the Japanese army reached 300,000, but the Japanese army suppressed the Chinese army's attack with advanced weapons. Until 1937, when the Battle of Songhu was nearing its end, Chiang Kai-shek decided to retreat his troops, but needed to leave a regiment to cover the retreat of the troops, and this regiment was the regiment led by Xie Jinyuan, the deputy chief of the film. Xie Jinyuan guarded the position is the four-line warehouse. The total number of troops in the four-line warehouse at that time was 420, Xie Jinyuan in order to confuse the enemy, the external claim that there are 800 people, the name of the eight hundred came from. "800 strong men" were ordered to stay in Zhabei, Shanghai, and fought fiercely in the Sixing warehouse on the Bank of Suzhou river for four days. They were not ordered to withdraw to the British concession until October 30.

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Introduction

A few lines of subtitles appeared at the beginning of the film, which wrote about the many revolutionary martyrs and heroes who emerged in the history of the Anti-Japanese War. It praised the heroic deeds of the revolutionary martyrs at that time and established a spiritual monument for us. What followed was an old lady's narration to tell the story of the Sixing Warehouse that she had heard at the time. Describes the historical background of the four-line warehouse defense battle. The Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937 led to a full-scale war between China and Japan. The Battle of Sihang Warehouse occurred during the Battle of Songhu. Because the Shanghai Concession was the territory of other countries at that time, and the relationship between Japan and other countries was relatively delicate, the concession was relatively safe, so Shanghai was bounded by the Suzhou River at that time. , half heaven and half hell.

Then a troop appeared in front of everyone. The Hubei security regiment was ordered to support Shanghai and had just arrived on the outskirts of Shanghai. But on the way into the city, the Japanese attacked and was broken up. Because of the massive defeat at the Battle of Songhu, the National Revolutionary Army retreated at night and executed deserters on the way. In Xiaohubei, the Dragon Boat Festival was incorporated into the 524th Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army on the way to the Sixing Warehouse. The 524th regiment was the troops that held the Sihang Warehouse. They were defined as deserters who came to the Sixing warehouse to dig trenches and build fortifications. Lao Hulu wanted to disguise and escape to the concession, but was discovered by the troops. A large number of Shanghai residents poured into the Shanghai Concession.

 Day one

The Japanese believed that the Sixing Warehouse was just some remnants of troops and deserters. The advance troop was first sent to approach the Sixing warehouse and encountered an attack from the 524th regiment. The Chinese garrison opened the door of the Sixing Warehouse to induce the Japanese army to enter, and then closed the door again, using flour explosions to confuse the Japanese army's sight. After a round of attacks by the 524 regiment garrison, the battlefield began to be cleaned and ammunition supplies were replenished. After that, the Chinese garrison was attacked by the Japanese army with poison gas bombs. The poison gas spread in the Sixing warehouse, and then spread to the concession on the other side of the Suzhou River. It caused people in the concession to panic. On the first day, at this time, in order to make the Chinese garrison in the warehouse surrender, the Japanese army would capture Chinese soldiers and hang them on the roof of the building for slaughter. The old gourd is also one of them. Afterwards, the Chinese garrison in the warehouse gathered their recruited soldiers together and asked them to shoot the captured Japanese soldiers. At night, the Japanese army entered from the drainage canal of the Sihang Warehouse and launched a second round of offensive against the Chinese garrison.

Day two

The Japanese army announced that they would take the Sihang warehouse within three hours. The Japanese then launched a fierce attack, using large excavators and armored vehicles to attack the Sixing warehouse. He also used an excavator to knock the walls of the Sixing Warehouse apart. The walls of the Sixing Warehouse were very strong and could not be knocked apart for a long time. The Japanese army sent soldiers each holding a steel plate to cover the sappers to the side of the wall, put in explosives, and blasted the wall. After the Chinese garrison found out that they wanted to blow up the wall, a soldier named Chen Shusheng handed his token to his companions, jumped from the upstairs with the explosive bag on his back, and perished with the enemy. After that, more soldiers lined up and jumped down with explosive packs on their backs, shouting their names and places of origin as they jumped down. The battle that day was very tragic and tragic. It attracted crowds in the concession on the other side of the river to watch, and the airships of military observers from Western countries were floating above, and they also witnessed all this. The next day, He Xiangning, who was watching the battle accompanied by Zhang Boting and Yu Hongjun on the south bank of the Suzhou River, sighed, "This is the case with all Chinese people, how dare Japanese pirates." In the end, the Japanese army did not take the Sixing warehouse within three hours and withdrew from the battle. The masses on the other side of the river cheered and shouted, cheering for the Chinese garrison. In the afternoon, the compatriots in the concession on the other side of the river wanted to send telephone lines for the garrison in the warehouse, hoping that the garrison in the warehouse could receive instructions from their superiors. They moved slowly across the bridge to the warehouse under the cover of Nazi flags, but the Japanese shot at them and failed to bring the telephone line to the warehouse. In the concession, compatriots signed up to send the phone line to the warehouse. After several rounds, the phone line was finally sent to a knife gang member, who unfortunately also died. In the evening, the head of Xie Jinyuan received Chiang Kai-shek's order to continue to stick to the Sixing Warehouse, in order to be able to express China's position at the subsequent Brussels meeting, thus obtaining assistance from Western countries.

 Day three

In the early morning of the third day, the Chinese garrison held a flag-raising ceremony on the roof of the Sixing Warehouse. It is shown to the outside world that the Chinese soldiers' courage and determination to resist have inspired people's hearts. After the flag was hoisted, soldiers fired their guns to salute the fallen soldiers. At this time, the Japanese army dispatched two planes to attack the roof of the building, shooting wildly at the flag-raising flag. Soldiers fought desperately to defend the flag, defending the flag with their flesh and blood. In the end, the Japanese plane accidentally injured the people in the settlement, and the British side put pressure on the Japanese army to force the Japanese plane to withdraw from the battle.

 Day four

In the morning, the Japanese commander contacted Xie Jinyuan, stating that he knew that the Chinese army had received an order to withdraw into the concession, and that he had received an order to use heavy artillery and other heavy firepower to seize the Sihang warehouse; Fight to the death with Xie Jinyuan for their respective honors. The Nationalist government commissioner, escorted by the British garrison in the concession, entered the Sixing warehouse and met with Xie Jinyuan. The commissioner expounded the government's position on the defense of the Sixing Warehouse, and hoped that Xie Jinyuan could withdraw his troops and not affect the entire war due to his own temporary honor. If the ignorant battle continues, it will affect the concession. In addition, the Brussels meeting was ended prematurely due to the corruption case of Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zelen. The Chinese delegation headed by Gu Weijun has proved the reluctance of Western countries to come forward. In the absence of the possibility of international assistance, Chiang Kai-shek issued a hand letter, ordering Xie Jinyuan to lead his troops to withdraw into the concession; During the dialogue with Xie Jinyuan, the commissioner said that the Battle of Songhu had completely destroyed the German gunners equipped with German equipment, and hoped that the Xie family could save seeds for the "ace army" and arrange for the miscellaneous army and deserters to carry out cover and retreat. In the evening, Xie Jinyuan issued an evacuation order. Except for a small number of death squads and deserters who volunteered to participate in the assault mission to assist the evacuation of the troops, the 524th Regiment of the National Army began to form a line in the south of the Sixing Warehouse, ready to evacuate. After the British troops stationed in the concession turned off the searchlights, the Japanese troops turned on the searchlights aimed at the bridge deck in the distance. Knowing that the Japanese army had already set up an ambush, Xie Jinyuan led people to the bridge deck to expose the firepower of the Japanese army, and then the two sides exchanged fire around the northern end of the garbage bridge, and finally Xie Jinyuan ordered all the troops to evacuate.

Finally

At the end of the movie, the panoramic view of the four-row warehouse is presented to us. And the lens gradually presents the panorama of the current Sixing warehouse eighty years later. It is not difficult for us to see from the current panorama how tragic the battle was at that time. It also presents the real battle scenes and photos and profiles of some national heroes in the defense of the Sixing Warehouse at that time.

Review

Positive review："Eight Hundred" is a movie with a very aesthetic sense. Its special effects and various control of details are also very attentive. The production of war scenes is also relatively grand and magnificent. So just from the war scene, many viewers will praise its realistic and intense depiction of war, especially the so-called "German Armament" troops in the play embody the texture of a kind of high-quality soldiers, and even this film also represents a Chinese war movie High level of industry. From this perspective, there are highlights in the fragmented text of "Eight Hundred", which are shown through the hard work of the actors. And the reason why the audience will be moved by the plot of the fragmented text of "Eight Hundred" is that most of them are because of their simple patriotic enthusiasm. Seeing the martyrs dying one by one, and seeing the tragic and solemn soldiers, I was moved to tears.

Negative review：Many viewers gave negative comments to the film's fighting plot, the kind of Japanese soldiers who secretly climbed up the building from the drainage canals, and the defenders didn't even have a peripheral observation post; mustard gas bombs can be detoxified with urine; there are only a few battles a day, other There is no pressure to gather time to play, pull, play and sing; human bombs are feasible, but can not be replaced by sandbag bombs, but have to line up human bombs; use submachine guns to shoot down fighter jets; pile up soldiers' bodies to raise flags, and so on. The plot feels unreasonable. Therefore, many viewers also think that this is a hardcover version of the anti-Japanese drama. The story of "Eight Hundred" has three most important narrative points in history. One is the persistence after the Battle of Songhu, the second is being forced to evacuate from the battlefield and disarm and enter the concession by "Shangfeng", and the third is to persist in the struggle in the concession until General Xie was killed. Assassination, other sergeants were captured and enslaved by the Japanese army, and only a hundred people survived after the war. "Eight Hundred" mainly exaggerates the story of "persistence", and seriously violates history and fictionalizes many fierce but illogical battles. Let's accept this "artistic processing" for the time being. But on the last two points, a very essential directional error has been made.

Cast

publisher: Wang Zhongjun, Liang Jing

producer: Wang Zhonglei (chief producer), Liang Jing (chief producer), Zhu Wenjiu, Zhang Siyang (co filmmaker), Liu qiongfang (co filmmaker), Yu Liang (co filmmaker), Li Xiangchun (co filmmaker), Zeng Yingxue (co filmmaker)

Supervised production: Ye Ning, Zhang Dajun

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