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Chapter 39 Part Three: One Chant and Three Sighs "The Story of the Red Lantern" Crowd Effect Screen Freezing

It is precisely because this modern Peking opera "Red Lantern" was dubbed "Eight Revolutionary Model Operas" that Peking Opera troupes all over the country rehearsed one after another. Countless cousins", "Drink mother a bowl of wine before leaving", "Talk about the family history of revolutionaries", "Being a man like this", "Never leave the battlefield if you can't beat the wolves", "Hatred in the heart will germinate" The singing voices of Li Yuhe, Li Tiemei, and Grandma Li in the play, through stage performances and radio speakers, spread all over the streets and alleys, villages and border villages all over the country in a short time, ranging from seniors in their 70s and 80s to children in their 50s and 60s. , learned many of the singing styles in the play and was able to hum a few lines casually. Together with the singing styles of the other six modern Peking operas, "Red Lantern" became the most popular pop song at that time.

Since "Red Lantern" in 1963, from the budding of the film "Own Descendants", to the development of Peking Opera "Revolution has its own Descendants", and then to the growth of Peking Opera "Red Lantern", there is also "Red Lantern" , "Three Generations" and other drama titles, after several years of "threats" of modern Peking opera, among them, Luo Hongnian, Qian Haoliang, Zhang Yongmei, Yang Ming, Dai Hongwei, Zhang Jianmin, Cao Yunqing, Guo Ziqin, Li Jinquan, Gong Liang and Yu Hui Yong and others, respectively, refined the script, libretto, music, composition, and aria in the play again.

In 1968, the "Xinlian" film company of the leftist camp in Hong Kong shot the Cantonese black and white art film "Red Lantern" based on the domestic Peking Opera model script, directed by Huang Xiong, co-starred by Ding Liang, Wang Xiaoyan, Jiang Tao, and Lu Xigui. Hong Kong public screening. In May 1970, the latest performance of "The Tale of the Red Lantern" was publicly published in "Two Newspapers and One Magazine". First, Beijing TV was loyal to the stage and shot "The Tale of the Red Lantern" into a black-and-white TV screen copy.Then, when this modern Peking opera appeared, a special film crew was set up in Bayi Film Studio, and the lens of the movie camera was opened. On October 5, 1970, Jiang Qing issued an order to limit the filming of the modern Peking opera "Red Lantern" as soon as possible. In January 1971, the modern Peking opera color stage art film "Red Lantern Tale" directed by the famous film director Cheng Yin was officially screened nationwide. In 1972, the Central News Film Documentary Studio filmed the piano accompaniment "Red Lantern", which was "renovated" based on the famous singing voice in the modern Peking opera "Red Lantern", and selected "Ambition and Aspiration" sung by Li Yuhe. "Yuntian", Li Tiemei's "Hatred in the heart will sprout" and other 12 vocals, because this film has been filmed twice, so, after the final film, Gao Yuqian's grandma Li "Blood debt must be paid with blood" was deleted (However, the list of the film's publicity introduction still follows the original version of the three actors without exception), and the revolutionary symphony "Shajiabang" and the piano concerto "Yellow River" "Yellow River Boatman" " and other three paragraphs together to synthesize a unique stage art film.Among them, the famous pianist Yin Chengzong, the piano accompanist of "The Story of the Red Lantern" and "Yellow River", was changed by Jiang Qing to "Yin Chengzhong"; The original class partner, accompanied by the exciting piano sound, performed another style of Peking Opera singing.

In 1975, "Red Lantern", which was filmed by Bayi Film Studio and continued to be directed by Cheng Yin, and transplanted with Uyghur folk music as the material, was put on the screen again, becoming a success story film, modern Peking opera film, A continuation of the fourth artistic expression of the same theme besides the piano accompaniment film. "Shajiabang" with cadence The "Eight Model Operas" famous at home and abroad in the late period of the "Cultural Revolution" will be deeply remembered by people who came from that era.In particular, the arias in the Peking opera "Shajiabang" with the correct characters and the melodious music in the symphony "Shajiabang" are known as the "model works" of modern Chinese Peking opera and symphony, and they are still exuded today. Immortal magical charm.

Wiping away the dust of history and restoring its true colors, Jiang Qing, who calls herself the "standard bearer of revolutionary literature and art", has spent a lot of effort in grasping the "eight model operas", but her most fundamental The ulterior purpose is very despicable and disgusting.Therefore, before and after the "Eight Model Operas" stolen by Jiang Qing and others and the second batch of model operas "Six Capitals and Two Dances", every opera was selected from the date of its birth to the selection of "Model Operas". ", there is a little-known, tortuous and complicated behind-the-scenes story. Among them, the modern Peking Opera art film "Shajiabang", because it was in the mid-to-late 1990s, there were two follow-up new stories besides the plot. The story, therefore, the topic of "Shajiabang" has been extended from this, and it has become a hot topic of deep memory and mutual discussion among people who have accompanied "Shajiabang" all the way...

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