Chapter 36 The third part: One chants and three sighs "The Story of the Red Lantern" and one ode to "Revolution has its own successors"

After Mr. Silence came to Changchun Film Studio to report, with the talent of a playwright, through four years of exile in the Great Northern Wilderness and six months of professional creation in Harbin, in many places in the Northeast, he collected a lot of stories reflecting the anti-Japanese coalition forces and revolutionary people in the Northeast. The story of a heroic struggle against the enemy. Mr. Mo Mo kept him awake for several days and nights after listening to the story of a traffic worker during the Anti-Japanese War told by an old "Northern Manchurian Anti-Japanese Alliance".The real story at that time was that during the most brutal Anti-Japanese War in Northeast China, a traffic officer of the "Northern Manchurian Anti-Japanese Alliance" traveled thousands of miles, ate and slept in the open, and stepped on the snow all the way, from the remote Heihe to Harbin to send intelligence. Arranged to live in a small inn in Daowai District. However, when the specified time came, the person who came to pick up the connection did not come. For three days in a row, the person who received the information was still missing. It has been spent, but the strict organizational discipline and sacred mission prevent him from leaving the meeting place without authorization.Therefore, this venerable trafficman had to starve and sleep on the kang of the small inn for 4 days. The person who received the information late.Such a short story left a deep mark on Shen Mojun's heart. He was not only moved by the heroic deeds of the "Northern Manchurian Anti-Union" heroes, but also determined to resume his old career and create a passionate novel. This is a script that extols the heroic deeds of the "Northern Manchurian Anti-Union Alliance".

At that time, the famous film director Su Li of Changying Film Studio, who was famous for his director, "Young People in Our Village" and "Liu Sanjie", was a veteran cadre who participated in the revolution in his early years, so he was very impressed with the theme and style of Mr. Mo Mo's creation. Appreciation, he also really wants Mr. Mo Mo to write a literary script for film and shoot it himself.So, Su Lila went to the factory to work with Yin Yiqing, and the two directors were paired with a screenwriter, Mr. Mo Mo. The three of them met together every day for almost a long time, thinking about the book. The topic of the revolutionary struggle of the heroes of the "Manchurian Anti-Union" is endless and eloquent. However, among the vast number of revolutionary struggle themes, it is not possible to find the most attractive entry point immediately.Director Yin Yiqing was very distressed, he was thinking hard on the sidelines, thinking alone while talking to himself.He said that if one could imagine a family not related by blood, but formed into a family due to the needs of the struggle, it would be a good combination of family ties and the interests of the revolution.Unexpectedly, Director Yin's blurted random thoughts seemed to suddenly enlighten Mr. Mo Mo. The true story of the underground traffic officers of the "Northern Manchurian Anti-Union" who was loyal to the revolution and secretly sent intelligence remained in his heart, and the anti-Japanese coalition forces. The bloody battle between the deep mountains and old forests and the Japanese army suddenly formed a very clear creative thinking in Shen Mojun's mind.The prototype of the hero Li Yuhe in the play was based on the experience of Zhang Zongwei, an underground member of the Communist International who actually lived there. Even the Longtan Station in the film has its place.However, as the "secret code" surrounding the development of the whole play, it depends entirely on the rich imagination of the author, because the real Li Yuhe appeared as the most representative railway worker in the local area at that time, carrying a leather bag all day long.Mr. Mo Mo once again sorted out his thoughts and his ideas were flying. He decided to work hard to complete the glorious task of praising the "revolutionary struggle theme" as the main line at that time.Mr. Mo Mo listed the personalities of the characters and the development of the storyline one by one, combined with the specific chapters in the famous classical traditional opera "The Orphan of Zhao". In less than two months, Mr. Mo Mo and Luo Jing completed the "Revolutionary Self". There is a movie literary script of "The Later People", and another play "Red Lantern Chronicle", which uses the red light of the railway as a communication signal and metaphorizes the red light as illuminating the road of revolution, and "Three Generations" for backup.After another two months of additional data collection, Mr. Mo Mo personally interviewed the surviving old anti-Japanese coalition soldiers and old workers. After the second draft was revised, the literary script of the film signed by Chi Yu and Luo Jing was published in Changying It was published in the 9th issue of the "Film Literature" magazine sponsored by the factory.

Since Mr. Mo Mo had just taken off his "rightist" hat at that time, he was cautious everywhere, knowing that it would be impossible for him to create a movie literary script and put it into shooting smoothly, so he didn't call out the scriptwriter's signature as he did in the past. Instead, he used "Chi Yu" as his pseudonym for the first time, and deliberately concealed his real name as a "rightist".This newly written script fully meets the political needs and requirements of the times at that time. The story is set in a certain place in Northeast China. Through a family of three generations, in order to protect the task of passing the "secret code" assigned by the superiors, they struggled bravely and fought one after another. It praises the heroic deeds of countless communists and revolutionary masses who sacrificed their lives for the revolutionary cause during the War of Resistance Against Japan in exchange for the final victory of the Chinese revolutionary struggle.

In 1963, after Changchun Film Studio released the second draft, many enthusiastic readers wrote to request Li Tiemei not to die in the ending, but to fight bravely against the Japanese invaders as a descendant of the revolution. There are posterity" title.Afterwards, the third and fourth drafts were carried out. After the fourth draft changed the ending to a happy ending in which Li Tiemei joined the guerrillas in Baishan and completely wiped out the Japanese invaders who came to pursue them, it was submitted to the Ministry of Culture for review before it was approved. shoot.Director Su Li was already very fond of this theme, but in the same year he was ordered to shoot the sequel of "Young People in Our Village", which had caused a sensation in the society as early as 4 years ago, so he changed it to our factory. Another well-known film director, Yu Yanfu, studied Jinshan’s drama "Red Storm" and deliberately removed the word "red" after adapting it into a movie, which was also too explicit in the script. The word "revolution" in the film was filmed as a feature film under the title of "My Own Descendants".

After the fourth draft of the original script, the film, through the unique artistic expression of the film, vividly describes the secret underground Communist Party members Li Yuhe, Li NaiNai and Li Tiemei under the cover of railway workers during the Anti-Japanese War in a certain area in Northeast China. There are three generations of a family. Although there is no blood relationship between them, they come together because of their common belief in revolutionary struggle.Li Yuhe accepted the task of delivering the "secret code" by the Baishan guerrillas. However, he was arrested due to the betrayal and betrayal of the traitor Wang Jincai. Shaking Li Yuhe's strong revolutionary will, Li Yuhe and Li's grandmother were brutally killed by the Japanese invaders.Li Tiemei inherited the will of the martyrs, and finally went through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, and sent the "secret code" to the Baishan guerrillas.The film uses a red light commonly used by railway workers when patrolling the road as a signal of secret contact, and combines the metaphor of the revolutionary struggle with the red light to illuminate the way forward.The launch of the opening subtitles is also based on the light of the red light to overlay the title and credits of the film, which is enough to show the director's good intentions.

The young actress Qi Guirong played Li Tiemei on the screen at the beginning, and later she was loaned to Zhujiang Film Studio to star in Huang Shuying in "Party Membership Registration Form". Zhao Lian, who has starred in films such as "Summer Story", "Tracking the Tiger's Nest", "A Friend in Need" and "National Day at Ten O'Clock", played Li Yuhe in Changying Film Studio. One of the gift films is the film "Song of Youth" adapted from the famous book, who played the traitor Dai Yu; the role of Grandma Li was played by Che Yi, a well-known actor who joined the Northeast Film Studio in 1949. "Home", "Defending the Fruits of Victory", "Harvest", "Locust Tree Village"; in Changying and Beijing Film Studio, he has starred and participated in "Mysterious Traveling Companion", "National Day Ten O'Clock", " Yin Zhiming, a well-known actor in many films such as "Railway Guard", "Tiger's Den Tracking", "Spring Thunder", "Dongmei", "Youth on the Construction Site", and "Spray of Life", opened up his acting career and changed his brave image of often playing public security officers , and played the villain role for the first time - the traitor Wang Jincai inspector; Han Yan, an old actor who was engaged in theater performances in Shanghai in his early years, played the role of the Japanese spy leader Hatoyama.

In the film, the legendary story of a family of three who were not a family first attracted the attention of the audience. Although Mr. Mo Mo did not have a blueprint of real life when he wrote the script, the inspiration produced after the hard work in the Great Northern Wilderness made this An almost fictitious script not only glows with exuberant vitality, but also the twists and turns of the moving story, coupled with the description of family affection, blended into the great torrent of revolutionary struggle, which had a huge influence on people's emotions at that time. , It quickly aroused great repercussions and strong resonance among the audience.

What is commendable is that neither the screenwriter nor the director deliberately described the feat of the Communist Party member Li Yuhe who did not eat the fireworks of the world and was only dedicated to the revolution when dealing with the image of the hero. Covering, secretly engaged in underground work experience, especially using certain details to describe his addiction to drinking, and the habit of drinking secretly. However, at Hatoyama's banquet, he did not drink at all, and refused to corrode and win over, thus deeply showing a glorious image of a Communist Party member with flesh and blood, full of flesh and blood, outstanding personality, clear love and hatred, and authentic and credible. This has invisibly laid a solid foundation for his heroic and unyielding struggle words and deeds before his sacrifice.