Chapter 13 Part 1: The dangerous "No. 1 case in Guangzhou" where I searched thousands of miles to find Jin Xi

The film also took great pains in choosing the leading actor. Although it is not difficult to find all kinds of "handsome young men" from major domestic film studios and many literary and artistic groups, they do not meet the requirements of the play. With the simplicity of a fisherman and a strong physique, Cai Chusheng and Wang Weiyi are really anxious for the upcoming film. At that time, Cai Chusheng came to Guangzhou from Beijing and lived in the Provincial Party Committee Guest House on Jiefang North Road. Wang Weiyi often went to him to report work progress.The Provincial Party Committee Guest House where Cai Chusheng works shows Chinese and foreign movies every night to entertain the guests with status.Cai Chusheng and Wang Weiyi sometimes sit down and watch movies to rest and adjust their nerves.One night, when the two were watching a Hong Kong feature film, they suddenly discovered that the actor in the film was strong, rough, simple in appearance, and very masculine, which was very suitable for the image requirements of the leading actor Jin Xi who was about to start filming.The two of them were overjoyed, feeling that there was nowhere to find it, and it took no effort to get it.Therefore, through organizational relationships, Cai Chusheng and Wang Weiyi found the "Great Wall Film Company" that produced this film with a tendency to be progressive, and then asked the actor Zhang Zheng of this film to report to the crew.

Zhang Zheng's original name was Zhang Qiaofu, and he was born in Shanghai. His father, Zhang Desheng, was a famous Peking opera actor. As a mechanic, he once participated in the uprising with the Central Airlines in the early days of liberation. His debut work was in 1951, starring Zhou Xuan, who participated in Shanghai Daguangming Film The movie "Peace Dove" joined the Hong Kong Great Wall Film Company in the same year. Before "The Tide of the South China Sea", he was already a veteran actor who starred in 30 films. The crews of "Bloodland" and "Pink Dream" were extremely busy.After that, Zhang Zheng successively appeared in films such as "Five Tiger Generals", "Golden Eagle", "Affair", "Yuanyangpa", "A Scholar's Adventure", "A Love Song for Two Women", "Qu Yuan" and other films. In the 1960s, he participated in the choreography and director work of the Great Wall Film Company, co-directed "The Charming Vortex" with Wu Jingping, and co-directed "Azalea" with Huang Yu.After that, he independently directed the documentaries "Xinjiang Strange Interest Record", "Yunnan Strange Interest Record", "China's Self-Defense Counterattack" and other films; ", "When IQ Mature" and other TV series, and author of novels, reportage collections, memoirs, etc.Mainland audiences have gradually become familiar with Zhang Zheng's cute image of the witty and humorous teacher and father he played in his middle age from the Hong Kong films "A Busy Adventure" and "Happy To In-Laws" screened in the Mainland.

After the film had finished the double-dialogue film, it hadn't been mixed-recorded yet, so Wang Weiyi couldn't wait to bring the film to Beijing in person, and asked Cai Chusheng to have a look.Cai Chusheng first invited his friend Minister Zhou Yang to watch it alone. After watching the film, Zhou Yang clapped his hands happily and said: "This drama is very good. The story is tortuous and complicated. I just feel that there is not enough opportunity to fully express it in just one drama. More fully, can it be divided into two episodes, so that there will be more room for development." Cai Chusheng fell into deep thought, and after careful consideration, he decided to adopt Zhou Yang's opinion.Zhou Yang discussed with the leaders of Zhuying Studio, and asked Cai Chusheng to put down the work at hand and go to Zhuying to concentrate on editing the film and directing the reshoots.Cai Chusheng came to Zhuying Film Studio again, set up camp, took command, re-"decomposed" and "operated" the completed samples, enriched the details, interspersed new content, added coherent plots, and began to shoot many re-imagined shots.

In the second filming, Cai Chusheng visited old revolutionaries in many areas of Guangdong while filming, and reproduced the real plots of their battles and lives in the film in a literary and artistic manner.Among them, the underground party old horse played by the actor Lin Lan who was transferred from the Cantonese Drama Troupe to Zhuying for the first time on the screen, was rescued by Jin Xi and others on the execution ground at the end of the film. Cai Chusheng transferred to the beginning of the second part of the film in order to extend the characters, events, and time further, longer, and more complicated.

In this way, Cai Chusheng messed up many plots of the completed film, and added many new scenes. Sometimes he made sufficient desk preparations on the first night, and after the shots were divided, he would shoot on the spot the next day. Sudden inspiration, impromptu reshoots.Cai Chusheng decided to recombine the film into two episodes after the editing of the whole film is completed. He deliberately wanted to make the film into an epic film spanning different eras, so he added A poem corresponding to the plot, with a chorus of male and female voices, official script fonts, and images of calm sea water at the beginning and rolling waves at the end correspond to the entire film.The seven-verse poem is divided into two sections: "Preface" and "End": "The tide of the East China Sea meets the sky, and the grievances and enemies will never forget the past; the history of the struggle of the children of the fishing village, the good stories flow into the poems." Then, from a Japanese on the beach, The steel helmet left by someone made the old A Cai moved with emotion, and began to tell the children the tortuous stories she experienced in her youth.At the end of the film, when Ah Cai's family met Uncle Zhang and defected to the guerrillas at sea after the catastrophe, the singing sounded again amidst the huge waves higher and higher: "The sea is vast and the boat is hidden, and the fisherman weeps blood." The tide is red; the country is ruined and the family is destroyed, there is infinite hatred, and the dragons and tigers are waiting for the spring breeze."

Therefore, the overall title is still the original "South China Sea Tide", the first episode is named "The History of the Struggle of the Sons and Daughters of the Fishing Village", and the second episode is named "The End of the World".The first episode was officially shut down on April 25, 1962, and was re-edited and edited on the basis of the original completed film, and was quickly released nationwide in the second half of that year.