Chapter 54 Part Four: Film Regrets: A Glimpse at the Unfinished Films of Famous Actors

Regrets in the film world: In the 1960s and 1970s, the Chinese film industry was unpredictable, and brutal political struggles inevitably affected all film arts that served it.Therefore, many new films that have already started filming and are about to come out have been sentenced to death, leaving no regrets.It not only consumed a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, but also sacrificed the youth of the actors, and some of them ruined their life's supposedly brilliant acting career... As early as 1963, Yu Ling served as a historical consultant, Chen Baichen, Ye Yiqun, Ke Ling, Du Xuan, and Tang collectively wrote the screenplay, Chen Liting served as the director, Zhao Dan played Lu Xun, and the famous director Chen Liting of Shanghai Film Studio wrote and directed "The Legend of Lu Xun". ", after years of preparation, is about to start filming.The film will follow the footsteps of Mr. Lu Xun's struggle in Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou and other places, and reproduce the glorious and fighting life of this thinker, revolutionary, and writer.In order to create the image of Mr. Lu Xun, the famous actor Zhao Dan, in addition to having a deep understanding of the character, working hard to excavate and carve it meticulously, also specially performed facial "lifting" for the character's cool appearance. It is not only similar in shape but also in spirit to Lu Xun himself, it can be said that he has both spirit and form.The famous Beijing Film Academy actor Yu Lan was specially invited to play Mr. Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping, Sun Daolin to play Qu Qiubai, Lan Ma to play Li Dazhao, Shi Yu to play Hu Shi, Xie Tian to play Ah Q, Wei Yuping, Bai Mu , Han Fei, Liang Poluo, Ren Shen and other famous actors play various roles in it, which can be said to have gathered the elites of the film industry.Many well-known and well-known actors participated in the filming. This powerful cast is comparable to the film shot by Shanghai Film Studio in 1956.However, Ke Qingshi, who was the first secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and mayor at the time, and Zhang Chunqiao, director of the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, held the power and advocated "capitalizing 13 years" for the literature, art and film circles. The article written by Mr. Lu Xun was ruthlessly refuted by Mr. Lu Xun. Therefore, due to the entanglement of historical origins, the carefully planned "Biography of Lu Xun" was naturally exhausted and aborted.At this stage, "Li Bai and Du Fu" written by Bai Hua, directed by Zheng Junli, and co-starred by Zhao Dan and Xie Tian, ​​"Thunderstorm" directed by Zhao Dan and starring Shangguan Yunzhu and Wang Danfeng, starring Bai Yang "The Legend of Qiu Jin" by Zhang Ruifang, "July Fire" starring Zhang Ruifang, etc.

On the eve of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1964, Bayi Studios started shooting the feature film "The Great Wall of the South China Sea" adapted by famous playwrights Liang Xin and Dong Xiaohua based on Zhao Huan's play of the same name. At that time, the situation forced the script to be changed again and again in order to meet the political needs. With all the filming of the location has been completed, it was too late to complete the project on schedule. The actor has a deep-rooted resistance, so she criticized the script and sample for various reasons. The so-called "humanity" and "humanity" in a large number of plots and characters eventually led to the abortion of the film.In fact, Wang Bei only stepped into the Shanghai film industry on the eve of liberation, and only appeared on the screen after joining Kunlun Film Company in "The Legend of Wu Xun" and "The Crow and the Sparrow". It is not the same era as Jiang Qing's "Blue Ping" .The "Great Wall of the South China Sea" did not start shooting until 1976 when Bayi Factory formed another team. When the film was completed, it happened to smash the "Gang of Four". After the TV station hastily broadcasted it, it hastily withdrew, and in the end this ill-fated innocent film ended without any results.

Yang Yaqin, a famous actress from Bayi Factory, once starred in "Scout", "Youth Like Fire" and "Second Spring" in succession when she resumed the production of feature films in the late period of the "Cultural Revolution". It left a very deep impression on the audience. However, she played the role of Wang Xiaotang's militia captain in the remake of "Sea Eagle", but in the end she was "defeated in Maicheng". , Yang Yaqin has been busy for a while, and bids a helpless and painful farewell to the character who has worked hard for it.And her unfortunate marriage tragedy later made her spend 54 years prematurely, and bid farewell to the silver sea world that once flashed a short-lived glory forever.

"Eternal Life in Fire" was adapted from the famous novel "Red Rock". However, when the film started shooting in 1965, Xia Yan, the screenwriter of the film, had been knocked down, and the script's signature had to be changed to "Zhou Hao".According to the censorship requirements at the time, the film had to focus on and focus on the glorious image of the heroine Sister Jiang within a limited space. The other two protagonists, Xu Yunfeng and Cheng Gang, were both male, so they could only be combined into one. "Success", so Wang Xingang, the best candidate for the role of Cheng Gang, had to be reluctantly given up.Wang Xingang only played the secondary supporting role Liu Siyang in the film. After the film was completed, after several revisions, Wang Xingang's supporting role not only did not "survive", did not have an independent role, but eventually became an unknown friend in distress without any characteristics. One, "running" as an extra in the film for a "drama".

"Second Spring" was released in 1975. Presumably, many viewers still have fresh memories of Yu Yang and Yang Yaqin, who played the male and female protagonists in the play, but they didn't know that the film had already started shooting as early as the "Cultural Revolution".However, because the film reflected the story of the "Sea Eagle" built at the naval construction site, it was criticized, and the script had to be revised several times, and the filming was continued.The actor Feng Tao is played by the famous actor Zhao Dan, and the heroine Liu Zhiyin is played by the famous actor Xie Fang.However, the "Cultural Revolution" storm hit relentlessly, and the film was ordered to be dismissed quickly because it was out of season.After 11 years, the flagpole was pulled again, and the re-shooting of the film of the same name was significantly different from the original script. The first draft was revised repeatedly, which made the director and the main creative staff miserable.

In 1964, the Chinese film industry was full of disasters. Zhuying Film Studio had already established a film crew for the feature film "Party Membership Registration Form" based on Jun Qing's novel, which was transferred from Shanghai Film Studio to Zhuying Film Studio. The famous actress Huang Wansu, starred in one of the heroines in the film, Huang Mama.However, with the deepening and development of the "Four Cleanups" movement, the film had to be forced to stop shooting because the cast and crew were disbanded and sent to the countryside. In 1969, Bayi Film Studio prepared "A Thousand Rivers and Thousand Mountains", which had been completed as early as 1959, for re-shooting.The famous "handsome little boy" Wang Xingang and Zhang Yongshou were assigned to the crew of "A Thousand Rivers and Mountains" at the same time, playing the main roles of instructor and battalion commander in the play respectively.The film crew went deep into the field of the Red Army's Long March itinerary, and carried out the filming work with difficulty, and successively completed the main scenes of the victory scene of the first, second and fourth victory of the Red Army in Zhiluo Town, Northern Shaanxi.However, this film was not in good luck. The film crew spent a lot of effort and completed two-thirds of the shots. They spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, but in the end Jiang Qing was reviewing the samples. At this time, one sentence was "shot"!

Huang Meiying, a well-known actress from Bayi Factory, has starred in many films, but she failed to leave a deep memory on the audience.This ill-fated actress has left a youthful image on the screen when she was young, such as "The Stars Want to Dawn" which reflected the innocent women involved in political struggles, and exposed Lin Biao's "May 1st" project and "Nine The inside story of the "1.3" incident, because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, has no chance to meet the audience.The former blocked the mirror halfway, and the latter fell into the limbo.There is also "Bitter Love", which describes the rough fate of a painter who returned from overseas, but because it concluded that it did not correctly reflect and highlight the protagonist's patriotic enthusiasm, it was criticized in the ensuing opposition to "bourgeois liberalization". Banned.Huang Meiying's heroine Lv Niang in this film is naturally "raised in a boudoir and unknown", and it became her "tragedy trilogy" at the beginning of her film career.Later, due to the shadow of "Bitter Love", the originally determined role of the heroine Lu Wenting also missed her.

Pan Hong, a famous actress who was once known as a "tragedy star", was selected to play Wu Zhen, one of the heroines in the feature film "Homeland" adapted from Su Shuyang's novel, as early as the mid-1980s. It had the upper hand, so "theme crash" was not allowed at that time, so it had to be shut down. Another unfinished film is "Children of Xisha", which was adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous writer Hao Ran, which started filming in 1976.The film stars famous actors Zhu Shimao, Li Xiuming and Zhang Lianwen.When more than half of the film was filmed in Hainan Island, the "Gang of Four" was being crushed. The film crew received a notice from the higher-level authority that the film must be re-examined before it could continue filming, because it was approved by the "Gang of Four" during its reign. of.The film crew had to be ordered to disband. With the deepening of exposing the crimes of the "Gang of Four" and the deep reflection on history, "Children of Xisha" was never able to reorganize the crew, so this half-progress film has since disappeared.

In addition, due to the sensitivity of the subject matter, diplomatic changes in international exchanges, and films that have some negative impact on social or ethnic policies, there are too many to be dismissed or "killed" during the shooting process or when they have been submitted for review. , there are many famous actors starring, so I won't list them one by one here. The fate of the main actors of "Sentinel in Neon" is different In the early 1960s, the front-line repertory troupe of the Nanjing Military Region rehearsed the drama "Sentry under the Neon Lights" written by Shen Ximeng, Mo Yan, and Lu Xingchen, and directed by Mo Yan, based on the advanced deeds of Shanghai's "Nanjing Road Good Eight Company" .This play is another work released by the troupe that reflects the theme of contemporary army life after "The Frontier of the East China Sea", "I am a Soldier", and "Eastern Advance Overture" have caused great repercussions and sensational effects across the country.Once the play was performed, it immediately created an unprecedented whirlwind in the whole country.