Chapter 16 Part 1: The dangerous "Guangzhou No. 1 Case" is first involved in the screen of Yihai

"Southern Movies" are surging When mentioning "Southern Films" with rich regional and humanistic characteristics, one cannot fail to mention a famous director who is associated with and inseparable from "Southern Films"-Wang Weiyi.Although he is not the pioneer of "Southern Films", he has inherited and developed the distinctive narrative of "Southern Films" in such well-known films as "Tears from the Pearl River", "Coconut Grove", and "Seventy-two Tenants". style, and continued until the early 1980s "Three Houses Alley".Today, director Wang Weiyi, who is more than ninety years old, is still in good spirits and in good spirits.His image and qualifications are like a ballad of the past with rich records and profound artistic conception.

Beginner's Art Sea Screen Suozhu Wang Weiyi, whose ancestral home is Wu County, Suzhou, Jiangsu, was born in an ordinary family in Shanghai in 1912. Before joining the Shanghai Yihua Film Company to work in film in 1934, he studied Western painting at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. He was with his classmates Zhao Dan and Xu Tao. In the same group as the American Academy Theater Troupe, and participated in the Left-Wing Theater Alliance, actively engaged in underground theater activities, Due to his radical thinking, progressive tendencies, and opposition to the dark rule of the Kuomintang government, he was expelled from the "Meizhuan" and joined the "Sen Sen Guo Band" hosted by Nie Er to make a living. The band disbanded in eight months, and he recorded in "Yi Hua" Occupation began his career in art.In less than three months, he was hunted down and wanted by the Kuomintang, and the organization quickly transferred Wang Weiyi to Hong Kong Global Film Company.After the news subsided in 1936, the young and vigorous Wang Weiyi returned to Shanghai again, without changing his surname or name, and confidently joined the Amateur Dramatists Association to participate in the association's third drama extravaganza. "Thunderstorm", "Drunken Life, Dreams and Death", and other famous Chinese and foreign drama performances, and participated in the filming of the movie "Carnival Night" that year, which made him both live in theater and film, and broaden his artistic career.Wang Weiyi's filming by Xinhua Film Company is directed by famous director Shi Dongshan, famous photographer Yu Shengsan, Xue Boqing, famous theater artist Jin Shan, and famous film actors Zhou Xuan, Hu Ping and Gu Yeji. In the feature film adapted from "The Imperial Envoy" by the famous Soviet writer Gogol, he starred in the main supporting role.

In 1937, Wang Weiyi participated in the filming of a classic business card that occupied an important position in the Chinese film industry-"Midnight Singing" in Xinhua Film Company.The film is written and directed by the famous director Ma Xu Weibang, photographed by Yu Shengsan and Xue Boqing, and starring Jin Shan, Hu Ping, Shi Chao and Gu Menghe.Wang Weiyi played an old janitor in the film, which was his first new attempt at playing an old role when he was young.Because of the filming of "Carnival Night", Wang Weiyi was fortunate enough to get acquainted with the famous director Shi Dongshan, and was appreciated by the director for his tenacity in hard work. Therefore, Xinhua Company started filming in 1937. When Tian Han wrote the screenplay, Shi Dongshan directed, and Yu Shengsan photographed "March of Youth", Shi Dongshan promoted Wang Weiyi as the assistant director of the film. Wang Weiyi has lived up to the expectations of the audience and his mentor's support and expectations from scene recorder, actor to assistant director. In this progressive film that reflects current events and inspires the fighting spirit of the people, he has done an excellent job of cooperating with the director.The filming of this film also coincided with the "July 7th" Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, and the Chinese people's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression officially kicked off.Out of the national indignation of resisting foreign aggression, Wang Weiyi passionately assisted the director to shoot this epoch-making film.

However, shortly after Wang Weiyi became an assistant director, the Association of Amateur Dramatists decided to organize a professional theater troupe due to three successful public performances, hoping to have a relatively fixed organization for Chinese drama. , and achieve the purpose of publicizing the anti-Japanese national salvation and inspiring the fighting spirit of the people.The Amateur Playwrights Association actively agreed with it. For example, Zhao Dan decided to quit the film industry and join this amateur experimental theater troupe with a reduced salary to show his full support.Wang Weiyi also left his career as a film director to join this professional theater company.The troupe adopts an indirect form of expression, selecting symbolic, representative, and pertinent performances of ancient costume dramas and famous Chinese and foreign dramas to use the past to illustrate the present and criticize the current disadvantages.As a result, "Romeo and Juliet", "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", "The Wilderness" and other dramas appeared one after another.Wang Weiyi, Zhao Dan, and Xu Tao are classmates, colleagues, and friends who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Together, they specialize in multiple skills, not only directing but also acting, and also serving as art, design, and stage set. The energy was devoted to the raging torrent of the nationwide war of resistance.

In the summer of 1938, when Zhao Dan and Wang Weiyi co-directed the play "Imperial Envoy" was actively rehearsing, "August 13" broke out in Shanghai.Wang Weiyi had to go with the third and fourth teams, one of the 12 field performance teams organized by the government, to perform in different regions and regions across the country.Wang Weiyi walked along the Changjiang Shuo Parade with the performance team, ate and slept all the way, and came to Wuhan just as the "World Peace Conference" was being held in Wuhan. Battle" performance.This drama has greatly improved in terms of the theme, content, performance form, and requirements for the performance of the actors, so it is called "living newspaper drama".That is, the stage progresses with time and the plot, without opening the curtain or changing scenes, but instead using changes in props and sets, and the actors' performances are carried out coherently and in one go. The test and improvement of acting skills.

Wang Weiyi presided over the screenwriting and directing work. This was a very novel form of performance at the time and was very popular.Whether it is a drama story or an acting form, it gives the audience a refreshing feeling, and at the same time it has a good effect on mobilizing the people, invigorating their spirits, uniting and resisting aggression.For this reason, China Film Studio invited Wang Weiyi to perform in Chongqing and rehearse "Fight for Freedom and Peace" for the studio.