Special feature of 1905 film network 　Jackie Chan International Action Film Week has been successfully held for five times. This year, the theme unit of "Women Heroes" was specially set up, and action films dominated by female characters such as,, and were intensively shown.

　

No matter Gong Er, the taciturn and affectionate Hidden Mother or Laura, they all conveyed the beauty of women’s strength to the audience in different ways on the big screen.

　

At the same time, female action actresses are in a relatively weak position in the film field, but we can’t ignore it: the 10 films shortlisted for Jackie Chan Film Week this year have not seen fierce competition in the single event of action actresses as in previous years; Looking at the whole movie market, there are only a handful of impressive action types and female roles.

Civil and military "difficult to complete"

Jackie Chan International Action Film Week has been held in Datong for two consecutive years. Interestingly, this ancient city happens to be the hometown of Mulan, a "heroine".

　

Jiang Luxia won the honor of Best Action Actress in Jackie Chan’s Film Week here last year with the role of the machine gunner Tong Li. Since then, she has successively won the Best Supporting Actress Award in Hundred Flowers Award and the Best Supporting Actress nomination in the Hong Kong Film Awards.

Such an opportunity, for an action filmmaker who has been dormant for ten years, not only gives her a compliment for all her past persistence, but also brings change and hope to the future of an actor.

　

Jiang Luxia was commended as the best action actress in the 4th Jackie Chan International Action Film Week.

After Operation Red Sea, Jiang Luxia bluntly said that he was "better than before". This kind of goodness not only gave him more choices at work, but also changed his mentality. In the past ten years, she has thought of "giving up" more than once, not because she is bitter or tired, but because she can’t see the opportunity.

　

Jiang Luxia still remembers that when he first made up his mind to learn martial arts, he was longing for it because he saw the dashing chivalrous men flying around in action movies. Since then, Yang Ziqiong and Kara Wai have become her idols. "They are good at martial arts and great at literary drama, which has always been my goal."

　

There used to be a few girls who had the same dream as her, but now, only two or three of the people Jiang Luxia knows are still in the industry. "To tell the truth, the situation is not very good." At first, everyone is holding a very good wish, hoping that one day they can go on as an action actress like Yang Ziqiong, but it is not until they really enter the business that they find that everything is not as simple as they thought.

　

Operation Red Sea Jiang Luxia stills

"I didn’t have a performance foundation at first, and everyone decided that you couldn’t act. Basically, the part of the above play won’t be given to me. The lines of a play may be a few words. But there is no work that can convince others that you can play and act. " Want to grow, want to go further, but always can’t get any space and opportunity to play, Jiang Luxia said, that unwilling to let oneself very uncomfortable.

　

This kind of "unwilling", her idol Kara Wai also suffered. Until now, her performance of Cheng Dainan () is still the only best actress born in a "pure kung fu film" in the history of the Academy Awards. Even with such achievements, Kara Wai had to face the situation that "there was only a supporting role to try" or even "there was no play to play" in the process of trying to expand more drama.

Kara Wai won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Elder.

　

In Kara Wai’s view, "valuing literature over martial arts" is an undeniable value orientation that has always existed in the global film industry — — Although many times, action movies are the most influential type in the market.

　

This point, Jiang Luxia may feel more real in the ever-changing film market. In the past, action movies focused on highlighting the characters’ tricks and styles, and focused more on the martial arts action design itself. Now, when the creation of movies tends to plot upwards, when the action exists functionally, it is even more necessary to support it with a standing role, which makes it more difficult for female action actors to open a breakthrough.

　

Kara Wai appeared in the 5th Jackie Chan International Action Film Week.

We might as well look at the movie market list in recent years. There are not a few action movies with outstanding word-of-mouth or box office performance, but what are the chances for female action actors to meet "Gong Er", "Laura" or even "Tong Li" again?

　

Jiang Luxia gave a sad answer: "In the process of persistence, I have actually paid a lot of effort and physical strength, including (bearing) injuries. Accumulated, so that in the end, what you actually fight for is the only little hope left. "

The actress with the shortest "vitality"

If you just need opportunities, then there may be more girls who are willing to stay, but time will not leave them too much time to wait.

　

Jiang Luxia plays the gunner Tong Li in Operation Red Sea.

Age, for most women in the workplace, is an "unstable factor" that may affect their work. In recent years, the topic of "middle-aged crisis" of actresses has actually become a cliche. If they have at least the chance of "transformation", then for female action filmmakers, a series of physiological changes brought about by age will accelerate the process of their performance career.

　

"Literary actresses can play girls when they are young, and mothers when they are older. Roles in different fields and at different stages can be tried. But for actresses who are slapping and acting, if you only have an advantage in action and have to fight by yourself, your body will not allow you to continue doing it for a long time, and your physical fitness will last for eight years, and many of them may last for three to five years." Jiang Luxia spoke frankly about the reasons why many girls were forced to bid farewell to this profession.

Jiang Luxia won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Besides age, injuries are also a "time bomb" hanging over the heads of all action actresses.

　

Kara Wai, when she was young, was famous for her courage among actresses. She still remembers that she was asked to play by director Liu Jialiang, but she was "left behind" because the girl who was asked to play "Emerald Red" filmed for a day. In just one scene, she was punched more than 40 times in the stomach, and only a thin stack of scripts under her clothes could be used as protection.

　

Becoming a famous martial arts actress comes at the cost of being covered in injuries that are difficult to recover. In the golden age of the actress, Kara Wai, who suffered from capsulitis and peritonitis, began to transform.

　

Kara Wai in What’s Bad Head?

Jiang Luxia, who takes Kara Wai as an example, was also asked by the director to play from beginning to end when he filmed his first film "The Warriors". In the 50-day shooting cycle, Jiang Luxia played for 45 days, and sometimes even played for 24 hours. It has become a common practice to pull into the hospital for stitches.

　

On the second day of joining the group, Jiang Luxia filmed a highlight that needed to smash the glass against the explosion point. Because of this lens, she broke her waist, and now when the symptoms start, she often can’t sleep because of the pain.

　

Jiang Luxia in "The Warriors"

In the interview, we also learned that many female actors have to make greater sacrifices to balance their careers and lives after forming a family.

　

Xu Ke, the chairman of the jury of Jackie Chan International Action Film Week, said that the audience actually liked the performance of actresses in action movies, and the actions they could accomplish were often more dramatic and visual than the actors.

　

"In terms of action alone, I think there is no difference between men and women (in terms of ability). It’s just that female actors may have to make choices at different ages, whether to change the focus of their careers in order to return to a’ normal’ lifestyle. " Tsui Hark said.

　

Huang Xiaoxuan, an adult class member and action actress, is preparing for the closing ceremony of Jackie Chan Film Week.

Huang Xiaoxuan, a member of the adult class, was pregnant at the end of the filming. However, according to the arrangement of the scene, she still had to complete a dangerous fall to the ground.

After the child was born, Huang Xiaoxuan got the opportunity to join the group. Continuous shooting during the day, taking care of the children and nursing at night, she has not slept for two days.

　

Out of love for this job, and because I don’t want to be a full-time mother when I have children, Huang Xiaoxuan is still insisting as an activist.

Where is the breakthrough of female actors?

　

"It is very difficult to find a real female action actress now." Jackie Chan, who has made action movies for decades, has already noticed the problems in the industry. "No one to practice, most of them are body double. Girls know that the’ vitality’ of action movies is very short, and there is definitely no way to continue shooting for five or six years, so the number of people is getting less and less. "

Jackie Chan once admitted: "It is very difficult to find a real female action actress."

Is "transformation" the only way out for this industry? At least a girl like Jiang Luxia doesn’t want to accept her fate:

　

She doesn’t think that the lack of the opportunity of "the leading actress" is the biggest sticking point that hinders the development of female action filmmakers. "Like Jackie Chan and Mr. Jason Wu, they all really have the strength and are good enough to achieve today’s achievements, but we (female action filmmakers) are really weak in ability accumulation and talent reserve."

　

In Jiang Luxia’s view, Jackie Chan can hardly be surpassed in the field of action for many years because he constantly challenges himself with his works. If female action filmmakers can also gather strength and make a work to the extreme, instead of simply and mechanically completing invalid repetitive actions in the film as functional roles, then one day, they will certainly create their own opportunities.

　

Kara Wai and Jiang Luxia.

At Jackie Chan International Action Film Week a year ago, it was Fatima Sana Shaikh who shared the honor of best action actress with Jiang Luxia.

　

The affection and female power in this film infected countless audiences, which made Jiang Luxia feel very excited: "We girls in China are also very powerful in many aspects. If we can also find such a breakthrough and create works with the theme of female power in China, a good team and a good script, I believe it will make people shine and complete a stand-up work."

　　　　　　 CCTV News:In recent years, the People’s Navy has had hundreds of sub-ships and more than 100 sorties of aircraft for offshore training on the island chain. Further test the offshore combat plan and tactics training method of the main warships, and enhance the joint combat capability of the troops in the offshore.

　　　　　　 At the beginning of this year, a long-distance training formation consisting of naval ships Hefei, Yuncheng, Changbai Mountain and Honghu conducted long-distance joint training in the South China Sea, the Western Pacific Ocean and the Central Pacific Ocean for 34 days with a track of 10,000 nautical miles.

　　　　　　 Yin Zhuo, a military expert: "Because the waters we cover are getting wider and wider, it should be said that our generation of captains are very familiar with the waters we will fight in the future, and we are gradually expanding our training waters, which will cover all our future possible combat waters."

　　　　　　 Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the construction and development of the navy has entered a golden age. In 2018 alone, the navy organized more than ten batches of dozens of sub-ships and dozens of aircraft to go out to the island chain for offshore training. On April 20, 2018, a sea area in the western Pacific surged, and a J -15 carrier-based fighter jet rushed out of the bow of the Liaoning ship and flew into the blue sky. On the vast ocean, an aircraft carrier formation consisting of a Liaoning ship and several escort ships launched a "back-to-back" comprehensive offensive and defensive confrontation exercise with the blue missile destroyers Jinan and Changchun.

　　　　　　 Hujie, the captain of the Navy Changchun Ship, said: "I participated in this offshore combat training with the formation of the aircraft carrier, providing air defense tasks for the aircraft carrier, and also undertaking the tasks of anti-submarine and anti-ship operations. Our current actual combat training should be said to have shifted from offshore defense to offshore defense, and the biggest change is that the region has changed, the strength has also changed, the training content has also changed, and the training methods have also changed. "

　　　　　　 Lu Qiangqiang, deputy captain of the Liaoning Navy, said: "In the past few years, we have achieved many firsts, including taking off and landing at night, including the long voyage out of the island chain, including the actual use of weapons. At present, I think there should be a big breakthrough in the training of carrier-based aircraft, formation cooperation training and so on. I believe that in the near future, we can see that a relatively mature aircraft carrier formation can complete various tasks entrusted by superiors. "

　　　　　　 At the end of 2017, the navy organized live-fire confrontation exercises in the relevant sea and airspace of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea. The participating forces were mainly navies in various theaters, including some forces of the Air Force, covering various combat platforms of aviation, submarines, surface ships and coastal defense forces.

　　　　　　 Ai Peng, captain of the Navy Huangshan Ship: "Winning or losing is not a key point we should consider now. The real key point is what our actual combat capability can achieve, which is the most concerned by each of our commanders. So how do we improve, that is, think through each exercise. How do we solidify or upgrade this ability? This is to be improved in the subsequent specialization and refinement. "

　　Maotanchang Middle School, located in Maotanchang Town, jin an district, Lu ‘an City, is known as "the largest college entrance examination factory in Asia" because tens of thousands of students take the college entrance examination every year, and even attracts foreign attention. Some people say that this is a paradise for repeat students, which allows many people to be admitted to undergraduate courses and fulfill their college dreams; Some people say that this is a prison, and its militarized management has destroyed many people’s youth. After all, it is inevitable to fall into emotional judgment, and it is impossible to outline the true appearance of this school.

　　The reporter of Jinling Evening News interviewed a "witness" who re-read in Maotanchang Middle School in 2006. Trying to restore a more real Maotan factory middle school from his self-report. In the eyes of this "witness", it is neither heaven nor hell, but a large-scale and efficient high school under the current education system. Respect for the wishes of the interviewee, his name is hidden in this article, and the reporter recorded the following content from his perspective. After several years, the "witness" said that some details may be slightly different from the present, so I hereby explain.

　　□ Jinling Evening News reporter Pan Dong

　　My story

　　Repeat for one year, from junior college to "211" university.

　　In 2006, I graduated from a third-rate high school in a town in Lu ‘an City. The teaching in this school was extremely average, and I didn’t work hard enough myself. Of course, my score in the college entrance examination was a mess. I remember that the total score was more than 450 points, while the admission line for this year was 493 points. That is to say, I can only go to a junior college, and I may not be able to fill in a good major. At that time, there were two roads in front of me. One was to stop studying, get a job in the society, and then get married and have children. The other was to repeat studies and go to Maotan Factory Middle School, which has a good reputation.

　　Although I was hesitant, my father insisted on sending me, and finally went to Maotan Factory Middle School in July of that year. One year’s hard work, the content is far more than the past three years, of course, the results are gradually improving. According to my own judgment, it is no problem to be admitted to this second school, and at most it is a university that is behind this one.

　　In June 2007, I took the college entrance examination for the second time, and the result was very ideal, even exceeding expectations — — The total score is 582 points, which is more than 30 points more than that of the previous year. There is no problem in getting into a better university. I applied to many universities in Jiangsu, including a "985" university and a "211" university in Nanjing, and was finally admitted to this "211" university.

　　"College Entrance Examination Factory" in My Eyes

　　A small town in the mountains around the school

　　When it comes to Maotanchang Middle School, we have to mention Maotanchang Town where it is located. It is reported that the school is the heart of the town, which is not an exaggeration. Soon after I entered the school, I found that this small town in the mountain is running around the school, in all aspects.

　　Because of the large number of students, school dormitories are far from enough, students, especially repeat students, choose to rent houses outside the school, which has become the biggest means for small town residents to make a living. Originally, they have been farming for generations, or they have gone to work in cities with the tide of work. Although the income is brought by the students, the local residents know that it is the credit of the school, so all aspects cooperate with the school’s work. The landlords of each family have close ties with the school, and sometimes students stay out at night, which can be reflected to the class teacher that night.

　　In addition to renting houses, small restaurants, shops, food markets, barbershops, stationery stores, etc. in the town all revolve around the school, so that in many detailed reports, there is such a scene. During class, the town is empty and there are not many pedestrians on the street, but at lunch or dinner, the town becomes buzzing almost instantly, and the school gate can be described as jostling with each other. The restaurant sells the prepared food to the door, and the students are choosing meals.

　　The most interesting thing is that there are also several Internet cafes in the town, but people who look like students are never allowed to go in. Perhaps this is also a "tacit understanding" between schools and businesses.

　　The gathering of repeat students with moderate grades

　　In 2007, more than 10,000 students from Maotanchang Middle School took part in the college entrance examination. Many people who don’t know the situation are wondering how this high school can recruit so many people. In fact, the main body of the school is not the freshmen, but the repeat students who come from all over the world.

　　I can’t prove it. In the end, from which year, the reputation of Maotan Factory Middle School’s good repetition effect began to spread in the local area. However, judging from the usual monthly exam and the final college entrance examination results, both the number and high scores of repeat students accounted for a large proportion.

　　According to my observation, the school has its own set of standards for repeat students. When I entered school that year, because the first year’s college entrance examination was more than 450 points, I only paid a symbolic fee of several hundred yuan (based on the second score line, five yuan less). If I didn’t meet the minimum score line required by the school, I needed to pay ten thousand yuan for the entrance fee, which was actually to set a threshold for students with low scores.

　　Therefore, the main body of repeat students is a group of students with medium grades. They either have poor foundation or one or two weak subjects. The main reason is poor study habits, and most of them have no self-control, but overall, their talents are not bad.

　　Efficient Training and Saved Mathematics

　　Perhaps readers are curious, how can this school improve the grades of repeat students so much in just one year? At that time, I didn’t know much about its teaching methods. I still remember the words of the head teacher in that year, "Our method is two horizontal and one vertical, dry!" Looking back now, I find that it is an efficient training under the simple truth.

　　In the students’ view, as soon as they entered the middle school, they began to review high school knowledge from the beginning, and a large number of test papers were synchronized. At first, they were extremely uncomfortable, but such training gradually showed results. Take my weakest math as an example. In 2006, I only got more than 80 points in the college entrance examination. I didn’t even pass the exam with a perfect score of 150 points, but I got 121 points in 2007, which has achieved my best level. Careful investigation, in fact, benefited from the full training of each chapter, although only more than 90 points or more than 100 points can be scored, but in the college entrance examination, which attaches importance to the foundation and has a comprehensive assessment, once the foundation of each chapter is integrated, you can get a good total score.

　　Behind the efficient training is the study of the college entrance examination questions. I found that no matter which subject teachers are very familiar with the college entrance examination questions, it should be the result of the joint study of the teaching and research group. It is worth mentioning that although the school has more training than other schools, students are never advised to do difficult problems except for particularly excellent students. Instead, they are trained repeatedly around the basic knowledge of the college entrance examination. A teacher once said, "The college entrance examination is a basic examination, and the topic should be done by most people, so it should be targeted."

　　Militarized management with only half a day off every week

　　Matching with efficient training is militarized management, which is mainly reflected in time management and discipline management. In 2007, when I was at school, I usually began to study by myself at 6:00 in the morning, and had a normal rest during recess, noon and evening. However, most students and children chose to study, some even asked others to buy meals for them, and studied at night until 10:50. Some students had to study a little longer until the classroom was turned off, and after returning to the rented room off campus, the more diligent students had to study for a while.

　　Not only the daily time is strictly managed, but also the weekly and monthly time. When I was at school, I only had a rest on Sunday afternoon for half a day. Most students used it for laundry, shopping and sleeping. At first, I took a monthly exam, and later, I took a weekly exam every Saturday. As for holidays, the school also took a day or two off at most. In short, we should squeeze out as much time as possible to study.

　　Discipline management is also very strict. It is common for the class teacher to find out about the decline in weekly and monthly exam results. If the behavior is not good for a period of time, it will inevitably be found to talk. If it is more serious, parents will be called and students will be expelled under special circumstances. Like many other high schools, the head teacher often looks inside the classroom during self-study. The most memorable thing is that there is a monitor on the roof above the podium of each classroom, which the head teacher occasionally uses. Love can’t be absolutely absent, but it’s really difficult in practice. I stay at school most of the time and have no time and space.

　　Teachers with high pay and return.

　　When it comes to Maotan Factory Middle School, I have to mention the teachers of the school. To be honest, compared with the teachers in the city, they are not particularly excellent. As far as I know, the way for schools to recruit teachers is usually a written test plus an interview. The written test is the college entrance examination paper of that year, and the interview is to have a class in the classroom. The final selection is all adapted to the school teaching model, which also explains why many former students return to school to teach after graduating from college. My head teacher was that year.

　　But the efforts of this group of teachers are absolutely incomparable to those of many teachers in the city. Students usually get up at 5:30 and read early at 6: 00, so the teacher must get to the classroom earlier and get up earlier. Students study by themselves at night until 10:50, and the teacher must wait for all the students to leave, which means going to bed later. In addition, students’ high-intensity test paper training also brings more correction work and explanation tasks to teachers.

　　High pay also has high return. As far as I know, the salary of school teachers is much higher than that of teachers in similar schools. As early as 2007, the income of ordinary teachers was six or seven thousand yuan, and the head teacher may be higher. After the college entrance examination, the school will also give bonuses to teachers according to the results of the class college entrance examination. For example, there are clear regulations on how much a book costs and how much a book costs.

　　In addition, the welfare is also quite good. In the mountains deep in the school, teachers are provided with housing, clothes will be distributed every year, free meals will be eaten in the school cafeteria, and teachers will be organized to travel abroad after the college entrance examination. I heard privately in 2007 that teachers have found it boring to go to Xinmatai and want to go to Europe.

　　Difficulties and superstitions of accompanying parents

　　Finally, I have to talk about a unique phenomenon in this school — — Accompany reading. Like Mao Zhong, it is suitable for repeating classes. Somehow, parents feel that accompanying students is beneficial for their children to achieve better grades. Objectively speaking, children can really save more time to study when parents accompany them to do laundry and cook for them, but parents accompanying them also bring invisible pressure to their children.

　　On the other hand, it is still very difficult for most parents to accompany them. Most of them come from the surrounding towns and villages. Originally, the husband and wife worked together to earn money. In order to accompany their children, the financial burden of the whole family fell on one person. It is not cheap to rent a small house in Maotan Factory. It used to be hundreds of yuan to more than a thousand yuan a month, but now it is rising even higher, and there are rising prices every year. The accompanying party has to arrange the children’s lives with limited money and bear great psychological pressure. Of course, with the expansion of the school’s reputation, more and more urban children come to repeat their studies, and parents come to accompany them, followed by the square dance and mahjong room.

　　In external reports, it is often mentioned that the so-called sacred tree in the school is "worshipped" by accompanying parents. This kind of superstition does exist. This tree is near the right wall in the school. Two years ago, I saw with my own eyes that there was a pile of ash more than one meter high on the wall outside the school, all of which were accumulated by superstitious parents burning incense. Behind it, it was just a psychological comfort.

　　The Future of "College Entrance Examination Factory"

　　Extend downward and run a branch school … … Copy the mode of running a school

　　In recent years, every time the media reports on Maotan Factory Middle School, they pay attention to its grand entrance examination, and sometimes look back on its college entrance examination resume, with little or no mention of where such a huge school will go.

　　I think that as long as the current examination system continues, this school, which can enable more students to realize their college dreams, will have the soil for existence. What has to be considered is that in recent years, the only-child generation has been attending high school, and the number of students is indeed decreasing. Moreover, because of the current situation of difficult employment, parents are no longer satisfied with the result of spending money and time to finally enter a second-year college.

　　The number of repeat students is shrinking, and the school has not only discovered it, but also begun to plan the future. As far as I know, in recent years, what Maotan Factory Middle School is doing is to copy its own school-running model. There are probably two ways. One is to extend to junior high schools and primary schools. For example, a private school from primary school to high school in another county was successfully acquired by it and sent management to settle in; The second is to run a branch school. Like the third-rate high school where I am located, the brand of Maotanchang Middle School Branch has been hung up, and the results of the college entrance examination have been getting better and better in recent years.

　　Some people applaud this kind of replication, thinking that it is to let more students enjoy high-quality educational resources, while others worry that it may lead to the homogenization of schools in the region. However, under the background of exam-taking, this is probably a false proposition, and no one can come up with a convincing conclusion.

　　In short, Mao Zhong was "demonized" by many people outside. It’s really hard to study there, but it’s not "abused" to the point of abnormal condition. Maozhong is just a place where the "routine" of the college entrance examination is thoroughly understood. Therefore, instead of saying "magic" in Mao, it is better to reflect on the college entrance examination system, which can be dismantled one by one by people and dealt with in a modular way.