" Climber " shows the real incident of Chinese mountaineering team climbing Mount Everest twice in 1960 and 1975. This movie is also called by some media the first mountaineering movie in China.
In fact, as early as 1982, a movie "The Third Goddess" filmed by Changchun Film Studio was released. This movie also shows the feat of the Chinese mountaineering team climbing Mount Everest in 1975.
Strictly speaking, "The Third Goddess" is the first mountaineering movie in China.
If we compare carefully, "The Climber" and "The Third Goddess" have a vague correspondence between the plot and the structure of the characters.
"The Third Goddess" screenwriter is Lu Guang. The reportage "Chinese Girl" he wrote about the Chinese women's volleyball team that described the Chinese women's volleyball team once caused the popularity of paper in Luoyang. At that time, the Japanese TV series "Female Volleyball Player" was also popular all over the country, and there was an urgent need for a TV series that reflected the Chinese women's volleyball team to be released. Taking advantage of his familiarity with the inside story of the women's volleyball team, Lu Guang collaborated with Sha Yexin to write the TV series "Chinese Girl", which was filmed into a TV series in 1985, and Ni Ping participated in the starring role, but what disappointed the audience was that the TV series was too rigid and did not have the legendary flavor of the Japanese TV series "Female Volleyball Player".
Ni Ping in "Chinese Girl"
and the script creation of "The Third Goddess" must be traced back to the Cultural Revolution.
After the Chinese mountaineering team reached the world's highest peak in 1975, the People's Literature Press organized a manuscript to the State Sports Commission to prepare to write a reportage to reflect this exciting feat.
At that time, Lu Guang worked in the publicity department of the State Sports Commission and was pulled into the writing team.
At that time, the "three-in-one" writing model was popular, and the reportage "Step on the Top of the Earth" was later written, which was published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1978. The author once bought this book in an old bookstore, but has been put in the pile of books and has not read it carefully. I always feel that such a mountain climbing story is no longer fresh when the difficulty of climbing Mount Everest has been greatly reduced today. In fact, climbing Mount Everest can only give people a shocking power when it is linked to national honor.
At that time, there were six people in this writing team. In addition to Lu Guang, there were Tu Guangqun from the supplementary group of the Sports News, Zeng Shusheng and Kuangshuqi from the Chinese Mountaineering Team, and Zhou Ming and Yang Kuangman from the People's Literature Publishing House.
At that time, they ate and lived with mountaineers recuperating on a peninsula in Huairou Reservoir. For nearly a year, they learned about the details of mountaineering in detail. While
was assigned to Lu Guang's task, he also took on the task of writing a movie script.
Therefore, this script should have been born before 1976, and was still during the Cultural Revolution, so the movie also has a specific way of thinking and atmosphere from that era.
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For example, the protagonist in "The Third Goddess" is a white-haired female character. She was forced to flee into the mountains and forests because of persecution by the local lord. The mountaineering team mistakenly regarded her as a snowman. After a conflict, they learned the truth and brought her back to normal life. Because she has had the talent to be with the harshest environment of the snowy plateau since she was a child, she became the main force of the mountaineering team. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, it was difficult for the theme of the times to adapt to the theme of the times. Therefore, according to the editor's requirements, Lu Guang added love clues to the script, and this love line could not exist in the original script determined during the Cultural Revolution. For this reason, Lu Guang racked his brains for this, and then he forced to insert a very unnatural love description into the movie.
In this way, the script was finally finalized at the end of 1979, then invested in 1981 and released in 1982.
As China's first mountaineering film, this movie did not respond much when it was released. In addition to the old content of the film script, there is another reason, that is, the director's skills are also a problem. The entire movie lacks a sense of life and the character creation is very rigid and single. However, the starring Zhang Xiaomin's wild eyes and strong youthful atmosphere in the film leave a deep impression on people.
The heroine Zhuoma in "The Third Goddess" is based on the only female Pando who climbed Mount Everest in 1975. However, the climbing process shown in the entire movie combines the real events of climbing Mount Everest in 1960 and 1975. Therefore, the process of climbing Mount Everest in 1975 described in the movie is specious but not completely historical reality, which is the same as the concept of "The Climber".
0 The summit scene in "The Third Goddess"
But "The Climber" also shows the fact that nine people have reached the top in the movie, and in "The Third Goddess", only three people have successfully reached the top in "The Third Goddess". This is the number of people who climbed Mount Everest in 1960. And in "The Third Goddess", one of the three people who climbed Mount Everest is Zhuoma and the other is Zhuoma's boyfriend.
This time "The Climber" was released, and some viewers said they could be called "The Love of Mount Everest". If this joking film title is more in line with, it should be given to "The Third Goddess".
In "The Third Goddess", it also describes that the captain of the mountaineering team is willing to be a ladder on the second step and pushes his teammates to the cliff, but because he is exhausted, he is sleeping one step away from the top of the world. This plot directly uses the deeds of Liu Lianman when he climbed Mount Everest in 1960, but Liu Lianman did not sacrifice, so "The Third Goddess" did not faithfully reflect the truth about the Chinese mountaineering team climbing Mount Everest in 1975, making the whole movie inconsistent.
Despite this, we can still find that "Climber" has used the character structure in "The Third Goddess".
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"The Third Goddess" has a historical depth. This is when Zhuoma in the movie first appeared. According to the explanation in the movie, it was in the late 1950s, and she was about 8 or 9 years old. At this time, she was a serf. Later, she was forced to flee into the snow field until she met a mountaineering team. She probably survived in the wild for about 14 or 5 years, and was about 24 or 5 years old.
A young girl, according to the movie, can survive in the wild by killing birds for 14 or 5 years. It is simply unimaginable. Therefore, after the movie was released, it was questioned by the audience. The 6th issue of "New Movie Works" published a commentary article "The Third Goddess" in 1982, "The Third Goddess" was believed that the first "god" of the movie lies in "the mountains are covered with snow, and Zhuoma survived."
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But the difficulty of the movie screenwriter is that it takes into account two historical periods, namely the end of the serfdom to the top of the world in 1975. Only by crossing the characters through this hard history can the Chinese mountaineering team have when climbing Mount Everest, which is set in the film. The prototype Pando in the movie was 36 years old in 1975 and is already a mother of two children. Her husband is a leader in the mountaineering team and has not reached the top. However, at this age, it obviously does not have the love romance that screenwriters need. Therefore, Zhuoma in the movie was reduced to a younger age, and her boyfriend also witnessed their love at the highest peak of the world.
This historical depth also exists in "The Climber". It has the same length as "The Third Goddess" and must reach fifteen years. This fifteen years will inevitably cause "The Climber" to encounter the same dilemma as "The Third Goddess", that is, how to maintain the integrity and rationality of the main line of the character in these fifteen years. Now it seems that "The Climber" has not come up with a better solution than "The Third Goddess".The love line between Fang Wuzhou and Xu Ying started in 1960, and by 1975, if this line still had to continue, how would their marriage life be resolved?
Of course, in Alai's original script, Fang Wuzhou and Xu Ying married and had a son, but this setting seemed dull and could not achieve the sensational effect needed in the movie.
The contradiction of age is obviously felt by every party involved in the film crew.
So Wu Jing hopes to propose changing Xu Ying into Fang Wuzhou's ex-wife from a reasonable perspective, which can effectively avoid the embarrassment of not having marriages at age. However, the director of the film obviously did not want to cause trouble, and still adopted a setting method of age that no one cares about, and passed it all in a hurry.
The method of hiding the world through the whole past also exists in "The Third Goddess". "The Third Goddess" directly blurs the concept of time, making people unaware that Zhuoma has been wandering in the mountains for more than ten years, and the movie does not directly point to the meaning and point out the time of the story.
Although the Climber points out the background of the times in 1975, it does not mention the political atmosphere at that time.
From this, it can be seen that the love clues in "The Climber" have some similarities with the hard insertion in "The Third Goddess". It is hard to say that "The Climber" was not inspired by "The Third Goddess".
In addition, we also noticed that "The Third Goddess" describes the relationship between a girl at a weather station and a mountaineer who also developed a love affair during contact. In "The Climber", we can also see the relationship between Fang Wuzhou and Xu Ying. It is the relationship between a mountaineer and a meteorator. It is just that this secondary relationship in "The Third Goddess" is regarded as the main clue in the movie.
And "The Third Goddess" also writes about the existence of a female doctor. The existence of this character, we see that it has also been continued in "The Climber" and has developed into another love clue by "The Climber".
In this sense, the character relationships set in "The Third Goddess" are all rendered and used in "The Climber". Of course, some people will say that both movies are adapted from real events, so there will naturally be similarities and similarities in character settings. However, in "The Third Goddess", the meteorist is set as a woman and creates a criminal record of love, but it cannot help but make people feel that paving the way for the love setting of "The Climber".
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We know that climbing is only on the shoulders of others to be able to overcome the past transcendence. We do not need to confirm whether "The Climber" has inherited and inherited from "The Third Goddess", but at least we can see that the unsuccessful "The Third Goddess" has the experience and lessons to allow latecomers to achieve more transcendence and leap. In this sense, "The Third Goddess" should not be hidden. As the first Chinese mountaineering film, it has its value that we remember and care about.
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