The Bravest is based on real event, at about 18:00 on the evening of July 16, 2010, a CNPC oil pipeline near Dalian city harbor caught fire and exploded, and the event is called Xingang port Oil Spill. After more than 2,000 fire officers and soldiers struggled through the night, as of the morning of the 17th, the fire had basically been extinguished. One person was killed and one was seriously injured in the accident. At least 50 square kilometers of sea near Dalian was contaminated with crude oil.
The main scene in the movie is a few huge oil tanks, how big are they? It is 22 meters high and 80 meters in diameter, which is larger than a football field. Therefore, in the real fire, there are a total of 59 oil tanks as large as the football field, plus chemical tanks for high-risk goods such as toluene, xylene, cyanide, etc. The consequences will be tragic. According to the calculations of the relevant departments, the explosion equivalent of all oil tanks and chemical tanks in the fire was more than 2 million tons of TNT, while the explosion equivalent of the Hiroshima atomic bomb “Little Boy” was about 15,000 tons TNT. The explosive equivalent is 20,000 tons of TNT. So if you calculate the destructive power of the real events, it is 133 atomic bombs in terms of “little boy”, 100 atomic bombs in terms of “ fat man“, and 20 atomic bombs in terms of W78. In order to close the valve, one valve needs 80,000 revolutions, and they need to close four valves, which is 320,000. And in the movie, they changed as 8000 for each valve in order to reduce the difficulty but in fact it is 80000.
The main line of the film’s narrative is to put out the fire, and the plot shows the scene of the fire scene in a comprehensive and substantial way. The director is committed to let the audience participate in the entire process of putting out the fire, and truly feel that the work of fire fighting group is very difficult that requires bravery. Even if there are a lot of disaster relief scenes with a strong sense of oppression, the film does not make people tired in the sense of visual perception，the fine and tender emotional plot helps to neutraliz audience’s sensory stimulation by the fire scene.
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