Chapter 27 Part Two: The Human Tragedy in "A Thousand Miles Against the Wind" Is a Threat to Life

However, bloody tragedies continued to be staged during the "Cultural Revolution" without stopping.Yao Shiquan, a senior photographer, was engaged in film photography in the late 1940s. Because of his "special suspicion", "counter-revolutionary element", and "black-line characters in the 1930s and 1940s" in "A Thousand Miles Against the Wind", he felt completely hopeless and finally criticized him. After another meeting, he secretly ran to a dense sugarcane forest outside the factory, cut open an artery with a knife and cut his wrist to commit suicide.

In 1962, after returning to the factory, five excellent students Ding Tiebao, Lin Shujin, Du Xiongwen, Fang Wenwen and Huang Wuzhong recruited by Zhuying Film Studio were transferred by Hong Kong Great Wall Company to Zhuying Film Studio as the deputy director of business Hong Kong. Qiu focuses on cultivating top-notch talents, aiming at cultivating our own actor team.However, this most avant-garde "star-making" consciousness was completely shattered by the "Cultural Revolution" movement not long after.Huang Wuzhong, a young overseas Chinese who returned from Indonesia with patriotic enthusiasm, is handsome and looks exactly like the hero Liao Youliang in "The Story of Liubao" and "The Sentinel Under the Neon Light". However, the clutches of the "Cultural Revolution" firmly grasped this little person and refused to let him go. This simple, naive, and just set foot in a new society was ruthlessly impacted by the sudden political movement in front of him. A young man who graduated from a junior college and returned to the factory with his newlywed wife to make a revolution, was accused of being a "spy" or "secret agent" and was brutally criticized and censored.Soon after, Huang Wuzhong jumped off the third floor of the factory's administrative office building and died, becoming another innocent sacrificial object of countless wronged souls during the "Cultural Revolution".His sudden death has also become an unsolved "headless" historical case.

Today, "Thousands of Miles Against the Wind" has long been rehabilitated, and the film has been re-screened many times, but the actors Zhang Ziliang and Fu Botang have passed away due to the numerous scars on their bodies; , but it is like soaking into the bone marrow, and the pain is endless... Stormy "Big Wave Washing the Sand" Great river goes east, The waves are exhausted, A romantic figure through the ages. Whenever I read this passionate poem "Chibi Nostalgia" written by Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, I will naturally think of a movie that can also arouse passion-"Da Lang Tao Sha".Most of the films seen by the general audience were after the fundamental changes in China's political situation in the late 1970s.As everyone knows, the shooting of this film was completed 12 years earlier than the release time.The film caused a great sensation in mainland China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and as a classic name card of Chinese film, it went to the world's international film circle.At the same time, it also created the history of Zhuying Film Studio's excellent story films entering the international film festival.

At the beginning of filming, all the generals will be in command The film "Big Waves Washing the Sand" is based on the first draft of the novel "The Torrent of the Great Revolution" jointly created by Zhu Daonan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Housing Management Bureau, and his secretary Yu Bingkun, together with Yi Lin, the old director of the Pearl River Film Studio, and three people. Adapted into a film literary script. Yilin, as the old eighth road who started from performing street dramas to the revolutionary road in 1938, once worked in the Northeast Film Studio (namely "Changying Studio") in the early days of liberation, and directed "Leave him to fight Lao Jiang", "Defending Victory" "Fruit", "Inextinguishable Flame", "Liu Qiaoer" and other famous films in the early days of New China. Later, he served as the director of the Art Department of the Central Film Bureau. He once went to Vietnam to guide film creation and assisted in the shooting of the Vietnamese film A River of Water". He was recalled during the "Anti-Rightist" movement in 1957 and transferred to Guangzhou Film Studio ("Pearl Film Studio"). In 1958, he filmed "Successor of the Revolution", and in 1960, he filmed "Wisdom Eyes and Hearts". It was criticized as soon as it was finished, and was denounced as "petty bourgeois sentiment".After a few years, Yilin had no films to shoot, until 1963, when Director Wang Lanxi put forward that "all production-oriented views must be further improved", "vigorously advocate the study of business, strive to be proficient in business, and become an expert", "we must Cultivate a group of artists and technical talents who serve the people and are recognized by the workers and peasants". This is the right move for the country to adjust policies and guidelines in a timely manner after the country has learned and summed up experience and lessons. The troubled Yilin saw again. A silver lining.At that time, Director Wang Lanxi and Deputy Minister Duai came to Ershatou, Guangzhou in person, and held a "fairy meeting" for the leaders and main creative personnel of Zhuying Studio, and clearly stated: "Zhuying is currently in a good situation, with great achievements, both internally and externally. There is improvement, and we must continue to cheer up." Encouraging the director to put forward his own ideas and plans, Yilin was greatly encouraged, and "Big Waves Washing Sands" was conceived from this.

The original title of "Big Waves Washing the Sands" is "The Torrent of the Great Revolution", which reflects the period of the first domestic revolutionary war, when intellectual youths from four different classes, including Jin Gongshou, Gu Daming, Yu Hongkui, and Yang Rukuan, endured the hardships of the revolutionary struggle. ordeal.When the Great Revolution suffered serious setbacks, their thoughts and understandings were sharply divided. Some resolutely revolutionized, some defected to the enemy, and some gave up on themselves. Finally, they each embarked on different paths in life.Yilin knew Yu Yang, an actor from the same factory as early as when she was working in the East Film Studio in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. After many years, he thought that Yu Yang’s image and temperament were very suitable for the protagonist Jin Gongshou of the film. It is Wang Bei, a famous actor from Shanghai Film Studio.Yu Yang is well-known for famous domestic films such as "The Bell Rings in the Mountain", "The Caravan", "The Hero", "Song of Youth", "Spring and Autumn on the Water", and "The Storm".And Wang Bei is in "The Crow and the Sparrow", "The Legend of Wu Xun", "Harvest", "The Giant Palm of the People", "Spinning Flowers", "Huaishang Family", "Two Little Football Players", "Nie Nie". "Ear", "Flying Daohua", "Malanhua", "Evergreen", "Happiness", "Ordinary Career" and other films, he played the main role.In the film "Big Waves Washing the Sands", this typical intellectual woman is very close to Wang Bei's own temperament. From awakening to awakening, from innocence to maturity, through the baptism of blood and fire, and finally growing up in the storm, the image of a generation of revolutionary heroines is portrayed in distinct layers and full of passion.For the other main actors, Yilin invited actors from Zhuying Studio, such as Jian Ruichao as the loyal big brother (Big Brother Gu Daming), Shi Jin as the revolutionary Zhao Jinzhang, Lin Lan as the right-winger Xue Jianbai who is a representative of Chen Duxiu, Du Xiongwen played the role of the weak and perverted fourth child Yang Rukuan, Guo Yiwen transferred from Changying Studio played another revolutionary Song Zhuping, and Yu Hongkui, the third child who became a counter-revolutionary, specially invited Liu Guanxiong from the Hunan Provincial Repertory Theater.