Chapter 19 Part 1: "Guangzhou's No. 1 Big Case" Bianzhai Expresses Revolutionary Family Love in Dangerous Situations

After "Pearl River Tears", colleagues in the Hong Kong film industry established a cooperative "Fifties Film Company". The film is starred by famous actors Liu Qiong, Comfort and Li Lihua. After the liberation of the whole country (except Tibet and Taiwan) in 1949, Wang Weiyi was ordered to come to Guangzhou. At the beginning of 1951, he participated in the preliminary work of the Guangzhou Film Studio, which was led by the Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles and jointly prepared by the Cultural Bureau of the Guangdong Military Region and the Guangdong Provincial Finance Committee.Considering comprehensive factors, the central government issued a notice not to set up local factories, and the preparatory work was suspended after one year.Subsequently, Wang Weiyi was transferred to the newly established Beijing Film Studio, where he filmed news documentaries such as "Qi Baishi" and "August 1st Games".In 1953, he was seconded to the Shanghai Film Studio, where he directed the children's feature film "The Field of Youth" adapted from a stage play performed by the Shanghai Children's Art Theatre.

In 1954, Wang Weiyi led a film crew to go deep into Yunnan to shoot the first feature film "The Bell Rings in the Mountains and the Caravan", which reflected the life, love and military-civilian joint suppression of bandits in New China. The first screenplay created by Wang Weiyi was put on the screen by Wang Weiyi, which was widely praised by the audience.This film not only integrates the magical and beautiful natural scenery and local folk customs, making the audience feel as refreshing and refreshing as the fresh morning breeze in the mountains, but also presents the love, life and life of young Miao people in Yunnan and their struggles in the battle against bandits. The growth is perfectly combined, and the style of the film adopts the tortuous, thrilling, and compact plot processing of anti-special films. The idealization and artistry are more harmoniously unified, coupled with the co-starring of famous actors Yu Yang, Sun Jinglu, Feng Qi, Liu Qiong, Zhong Xinghuo, Fang Hua, and Cheng Zhi, making this film a representative film of the new China. one of the works.

The time came to 1958, and the "Great Leap Forward" movement was vigorously carried out across the country. Under the flood of ultra-left thoughts at that time, Shanghai Film Studio competed to make films. In just two or three years, dozens of films reflecting the "Great Leap Forward" were released. An "artistic documentary" about new people and new things.At this time, Wang Weiyi, who always paid attention to artistic style and film quality, was not swayed by him. He neither followed the trend closely nor stagnated and fell behind. Story films on the theme of revolutionary struggle: "Coconut Grove" and "Fire Behind Bars".

Although the two films directed by Wang Weiyi during the "Great Leap Forward" era were not contemporary works that catered to the situation, they both advocated the theme of revolutionary struggle. Among the many mediocre films that seriously violate the laws of artistic creation, they seem to stand out from the crowd.This undoubtedly shows Wang Weiyi's steady and solid work style and superb talent. Wind and waves march forward "South China Sea Tide" During the "Great Leap Forward" movement in 1958, film studios were set up in various provinces across the country in order to cater to the so-called good situation and show their achievements.Guangzhou also rebuilt the "Pearl River Film Studio". After more than two years of preparation, it finally filmed the first children's feature film "Son of the Fishing Island" on the eve of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Day in 1959, and completed two feature films in the following year. Filming of "New Players" and "Wisdom Eyes".

Because of the "Southern features" of "Pearl River Tears", Wang Weiyi was transferred to Zhuying in the early 1960s. Together with Lu Jue, Simeng and Xu Yan who were transferred to Zhuying, he co-directed this film. This is an artistic documentary "Heroic Psalms", which was very popular at that time, which fully reproduces the fire at the Makou Paper Mill in Yingde, Guangdong, and the local police, soldiers and civilians struggled to save state property. "Heroic Psalms" was shot by each of the 4 directors at the time, working overtime and rushing to complete the filming. Because it was a political task, the directors' styles were not uniform.The film specially invited Li Changhua from the Guangzhou Military Region Repertory Theater, Zhang Zheng from the Guangdong Provincial Repertory Theater and Hong Bing from Zhuying Studio to participate in the performance.Due to the direct influence of its general situation, environment, and general direction, especially the serious interference of "Left" ideology and line, although the heroes in the film are real people, they do not dare to go further from the depth of the characters. Therefore, the shaping of the heroic characters on the screen is very formulaic and conceptual, and the image is thin, neither "poetic" nor "synthetic".

In 1962, the various malpractices brought about by the "Great Leap Forward" movement and the ensuing three-year natural disasters punished mankind mercilessly, making the central government more clearly aware of the mistakes brought about by the ultra-leftist policy. serious consequences, and thus caused a huge, irreparable disaster.Therefore, necessary adjustments have also begun to be made on the literary and artistic front. The local film studios established in many provinces and regions across the country have either been dismantled or merged, and the Pearl River Film Studio is located in the five southern provinces of this special and important geographical location. , and the achievement of shooting feature films, which was retained after merging with Wuhan Film Studio.Cai Chusheng and Wang Weiyi started filming the film "South China Sea Tide", which depicts the story of Guangdong fishermen resisting oppression and daring to fight before liberation.