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Since he promised something, he had to do it.

Wu Yuan was still very responsible in this regard, although he had almost forgotten about the tribute film.

But there was still time!

Facing Mr. Han's eager eyes, Wu Yuan had to stop his plan to rest.

What else could he do?

Just work like a cow and a horse!

Originally, he planned to take a complete rest for the rest of this year, and wait until the end of the Chinese New Year next year, that is, after February, to start shooting "Ready Player One", so that it should be finished before next summer vacation.

But now he can't be so leisurely.

He must start the preparations for "Ready Player One" immediately, strive to start shooting immediately after the Chinese New Year, and then finish shooting in May-June, and start shooting the tribute film non-stop during the summer vacation, so that it can be completed in time for next year's National Day.

The pressure is not small, but it is not very difficult.

The premise is that he must start preparing for this tribute film right now.

At least, he must first determine what kind of tribute film to make.

To be honest, this kind of composition is really troublesome.

If he remembers correctly, there was no such tribute film in the original time and space.

The National Day file in 2015 was dominated by "Lost in Hong Kong" and "Nine-story Demon Tower".

In between these two films, there were also several cannon fodder films such as "Saving Mr. Wu" and "The Third Way of Love".

"The Third Way of Love" is probably gone in this life, or the heroine will be changed, but "Lost in Hong Kong" and "Nine-story Demon Tower" should still be powerful.

But there will definitely not be a tribute film.

This really made Wu Yuan a little confused.

It was also because there was no such thing in the original time and space, so Wu Yuan never remembered that he had verbally agreed to this with Mr. Han.

It's useless to say all this now.

The most important thing now is to determine what kind of movie to make, and then start writing the script.

After returning home, Wu Yuan locked himself in the study, turned on his laptop, and started thinking.

"My Motherland and Me"?

No, this movie is to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the motherland, not the 70th anniversary of the victory of the war. The idea and the plot are in conflict.

"Changjin Lake"?

Even worse, this is about the Peninsula War, which happened after the end of World War II, and it doesn't match the main theme.

Zhang Yimou's "Sniper" and "On the Cliff" are good, and they are related to the anti-Japanese war, but the "main theme" of these two movies is not enough. They are more of a suspense, spy war, and war movie. It's very exciting, but it doesn't match the "tribute".

Scratching his head, Wu Yuan looked at the blank document page in front of him, feeling a little worried.

Suddenly, he thought of a movie.

"My Fathers and Me"!

"It's not possible to film a whole movie, but it seems possible to expand the "Riding the Wind" unit and make it into a feature-length movie!"

"My Fathers and I" has a total of four stories and four styles. It uses the family to write about the country, and the family and the country are the same. The movie unfolds the struggle of the fathers in four different time coordinates in the past hundred years. It is itself a tribute to the 70th anniversary of the motherland.

Moreover, "My Fathers and I" draws on the creative experience of the first two films and is the most mature work in the "My Fathers and I" series.

The first unit story "Riding the Wind" tells the story of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment during the "May 1st" anti-"mopping up" in 1942.

In the anti-mopping up, the cavalry regiment had successfully jumped out of the enemy's encirclement. In order to contain the enemy and rescue the besieged cadres and the masses, after a short breath, it was ordered to return to the hinterland of the base area to persist in the struggle.

For more than 60 days, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment fought desperately in the "iron wall encirclement" of tens of thousands of enemies, and used traditional cavalry assault tactics to tear a bloody gap in the Japanese blockade line, and bravely completed the task.

However, after this battle, the team suffered heavy casualties. Ma Chengfeng, the son of the regiment commander Ma Renxing, and Yang Jingguo, the director of the political department, died heroically. The political commissar Wang Nairong was seriously injured and committed suicide. The 1,200-man cavalry regiment was left with less than 400 people.

The center of the story is the regiment commander Ma Renxing and his son Ma Chengfeng, so this unit is called "Chengfeng".

In the story, Ma Renxing encountered a dilemma. On one side was his son, whom he loved and was proud of, and on the other side was the safety of 52 villagers, including Da Chunzi, a pregnant widow of a martyr.

As the commander of the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Regiment, Ma Renxing gave up his love for the greater good, and finally gave up his child to save the widow of the martyr.

The film parallels Chengfeng's sacrifice with Dachunzi's birth on the boat, and through contrasting montage, highlights the metaphorical meaning of "death-rebirth" to confirm the significance of Chengfeng's sacrifice.

At the end of the story, three years later, the war of resistance against Japan was won, and Ma Renxing met the orphan of the martyr. When he asked what the child's name was, Dachunzi said it was "Chengfeng"...

There is no doubt that this story is closely related to the theme of anti-FXS, and it is very suitable as a tribute to this festival.

Wu Yuan only needs to add some foreshadowing in the front, make the conflict scenes in the middle more intense, add some main theme colors, let the characters play more of the light of "red faith", and at the end, set off the hope of the people and the strength of the country after the victory of the war.

Even at the end, a little modern drama can be added. Chengfeng, an orphan in his seventies, tells his grandchildren about the story that happened before he was born, so that they know that peace and happiness are hard-won.

With such a sublimation, a tribute film is freshly produced, and it is definitely up to standard.

Not to mention, Yu Baimei, the screenwriter of the original story of "Chengfeng", is also quite good when writing serious dramas.

The story of "Chengfeng" itself is still great. Later, after "My Fathers and Me" was released, it was also very tear-jerking and received good reviews from fans.

I don't know why this guy became so outrageous when he met Deng Chao.

Whether it is "Breakup Master" or "Bad Angels", it is so hard to describe.

Oh, "Bad Angels" is not much better.

This is really not metaphysics.

The "Road to Hometown" unit in "My Hometown and Me" written by Yu Baimei himself is also pretty good.

As long as he leaves the spoof comedy, Yu Baimei's screenwriting level will immediately return to normal.

Including "Ping Pong", although the box office performance of "Ping Pong" is not good, the failure of this film is caused by many factors, but few people really criticize the script for being poorly written.

It can only be said that the combination of Yu Baimei and Deng Chao will always have a different magic.

Putting aside these messy thoughts in his mind, Wu Yuan solemnly typed a few big words on the computer.

"Ride the Wind"!

"As Wish"!

The former is the name of his tribute film.

And the latter is the name of the theme song.

This movie must be paired with "As Wish"! (End of this chapter)