Chapter 48 Part Four: Regrets in the Film Industry: A Glimpse of the Unfinished Films of Famous Actors

At the end of July of that year, Jiang Qing, who was then the deputy head of the "Cultural Revolution", together with members of the "Gang of Four" Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and relevant leaders of the cultural team, reviewed the film in a small screening room where she lived in Diaoyutai Building 17. It is her prerogative to command the literary and artistic circles.On this day, "Song of the Gardener" began to be screened quietly. Jiang Qing, who has always been fond of picking his nose and eyes, was furious and scolded constantly after watching this film, which only lasted about an hour.From the gardener metaphor in the title to the appearance of the characters, from the color matching to the singing design, she was extremely dissatisfied and furious.The gardener in the film was originally a metaphor for a hardworking teacher, but Jiang Qing insisted that the comparison was the wrong "object", because the gardener can only be compared to the Communist Party, not the "stinky old nine", because the Hunan opera actor Zuo Da in the film The heroine played by Fing, whose appearance, singing voice and movements, was extremely disgusted by Jiang Qing, who has always emphasized the positive heroes and tried to erect the "Gaoquan" model. She ridiculed that the female teacher in the film was simply a "Cultural Revolution". The former Huadan in Tsing Yi who has returned from the ashes; her makeup looks like a young lady, without any revolutionary atmosphere; and the appearance of the male teacher in the film is even ridiculed by her as "like a bum with oily hair and noodles".Others, such as shooting angles and lighting angles, were criticized by Jiang Qing, who always thought of himself as an expert and authoritative, to be useless and bruised.The most intolerable thing for her is that Jiang Qing, who has been completely assimilated by political struggle and used political struggle to climb up, became even more furious when he sang a line in the play: "How can we take up the burden of revolution without culture".At the same time, this sentence touched her very sensitive nerves. This play, this singing, is simply defying the world's dissatisfaction. It is against the current central policy. challenge.Nowadays, the "theory that reading is useless" is advocated, and the more knowledge the more reactionary, but this play dares to openly shout about "how can one not provoke the burden of revolution without education", its intentions are very sinister.

Therefore, Jiang Qing seemed like Columbus had discovered the New World. She wanted to follow the clues and uncover a group of behind-the-scenes manipulators in order to consolidate her position, expand her achievements, and highlight her achievements.Zhang Chunqiao followed suit and criticized this little play, saying that students are at the mercy of teachers, which is a typical example of "teacher's dignity"; completely deny it. Four days later, Jiang Qing, who couldn't bear the loneliness, couldn't wait to start recruiting people to carry out a large-scale investigation, encirclement, and attack on "Song of the Gardener".A series of questions with a strong smell of gunpowder came up one after another: ""The Song of the Gardener" involves the issue of the educational revolution. Who is the gardener, the teacher or the Communist Party? The two teachers in the play, a man and a woman , What is your background? Do you have a firm revolutionary stand? Why do you deliberately conceal your personal identity?" "Do you rely on the Communist Party or teachers to train the young generation? What do you want to train young people to look like? Is it to let them obey the teacher in a proper manner?" Or let them follow the Communist Party firmly? Who said that without culture, you can’t provoke the burden of revolution? Now, reading is useless, rebellion is justified, and revolution is innocent. The theme in the play is completely contrary to the Party Central Committee!"

These out-of-the-box and unreasonable accusations made the culture team member Zhanger monk puzzled.Jiang Qing seized Yu Huiyong, the vice minister of the Ministry of Culture who had been promoted and used by her, and asked him to organize an article that comprehensively criticized "Song of the Gardener".