The end of the annual college entrance examination will always cause continuous waves of discussion in the society. Going to college is, after all, a destination for the current youth education. No matter what the college entrance examination baton is, it still plays a powerful role in remote control and command at the end of education.
What is interesting is that a movie made by Liu Xiaoqing in 1978 was also related to college.
This movie is called "Comrades, Thank You". This is also the first movie in which Liu Xiaoqing plays the leading role.
This is certainly not Liu Xiaoqing's first film, the first film she appeared in the lens was "The Great Wall of the South China Sea". This is a movie shot by Bayi Factory.
Before that, her first audition for a movie was to play the role played by Wang Xiaotang in the old version of "Sea Eagle" in Bayi Factory's 1975 remake.
"Sea Eagle" stills
This is Liu Xiaoqing's first time to participate in filming, and it will have a profound significance for her to enter the film world.
However, it was announced that the filming was stopped before the movie started. The main reason is that at that time, some of the remakes of "Southern Expedition and Northern War" and "Plain Partisans" received fierce criticism from the audience. The director of the remake of "Sea Eagle" at the time was Jing Mukui of Bayi Factory, the father of singer Jing Gangshan. He later took charge of the shooting of the scenes of our military headquarters in the series "The Great Battle".
This is a huge blow to Liu Xiaoqing, because she is very eager to earn her foothold in the Chinese film scene through "Sea Eagle". The dawn has just dawned, but she did not expect the movie to die unexpectedly. The suspension of
"Sea Eagle" was related to the self-knowledge of directors Jing Mukui and Zhang Yongshou. They knew that they could not shoot the old version of "Sea Eagle". Later, the two of them filmed "Stories of the South China Sea" which reflected the battle of Xisha.
Hong Xuemin
in "Stories of the South China Sea" starred Tang Guoqiang. In the film, Tang Guoqiang has a younger sister who is going to invite Liu Xiaoqing to play it. If this is the case, then the chance that Liu Xiaoqing did not meet with Tang Guoqiang successfully in "Little Flower" may have to be several years in advance.
However, Liu Xiaoqing was first snatched by the crew of "The Great Wall of South China Sea", and played a female militia like an iron girl in the film. In this way, the younger sister of Tang Guoqiang in "Stories of the South China Sea" was obtained by the young Hong Xuemin and held it in her hands without any effort.
"The Great Wall of the South China Sea" is also a remake, but the film was not shown on a large scale. The reason for this is explained in detail in Zhai Jiannong's "The Red Past: Chinese Films from 1966 to 1976". The main reason is that when the film was released, the Gang of Four was crushed. The film director Li Jun, the starring Wang Xingang, and the photographer Zhang Dongliang The others were suspended for inspection and explained their so-called relationship with the Gang of Four. Therefore, Liu Xiaoqing did not arouse people's attention with this film.
Next, Liu Xiaoqing participated in the "Sidu Chishui" filming at Bayi Factory, playing a female warrior. Of course, this movie is not the movie starring Gu Yue in 1983, because at this time, the Gang of Four had just been crushed. , There is no precedent for a leader in Chinese movies. Because the script is still being revised, the movie has not been made.
"The Great Wall of the South China Sea", as Liu Xiaoqing's debut film, did not circulate in the market in the form of a disc until 1997. Only in this movie did people see Liu Xiaoqing's revolutionary performance style first on the screen.
However, a person who had watched the film at that time unintentionally continued to extend Liu Xiaoqing's life-hanging path from the shadows. This is Xing Jitian, the former director of Bayi Factory. He was at the Pearl River Film Studio at the time and was preparing to shoot a movie called "Comrades, Thank You". He felt that Liu Xiaoqing’s performance in "The Great Wall of the South China Sea" had great potential. She was seconded to the Pearl River Film Studio to film "Comrade, Thank You." The storyline of
"Comrades, Thank You" took place in 1973. In the film's lens, the context of this era is basically the same as that of Jiang Wen in the movie "Sunny Day", showing a thriving real society. The theme of the
film is that a group of cleaners face the places recommended by college, and they suddenly wrinkled a pool of spring water, creating a form of competitive motivation to pursue college. Here is the wife of a capitalist who wants to support herself. His daughter hitchhiked through the back door and squeezed into the university door; there were also the sons of veteran cadres who planned to use their power to allow their offspring to catch the university shuttle bus; and the heroine played by Liu Xiaoqing in the movieJiao chose to give up the opportunity to go to college and continue to take root in the queue of cleaners sweeping the streets. The film used to illustrate her "breaking with the old thinking tradition".
Judging from this plot, the film has an obvious theme of literary and artistic works during the Cultural Revolution. In fact, this film is adapted from the one-act drama "Welcome to the Sun" created in 1973. The play script of
was co-written by Li Bing of Wuhan Repertory Company and Hu Qingshu and his wife. Hu Qingshu is a well-known drama actor. He was once known as the three superstars in the field of Chinese drama with Sozhi and Li Moran.
However, this play script is full of the typical stereotypes of the Cultural Revolution. It is used to illustrate that the descendants of capitalists are still doing everything possible in modern society to seek provocations in order to change their own destiny, and these frozen poisons are like The old thoughts still invade the body of society quietly. The intention of the drama in its theme to correspond to the prevailing social theme is very obvious. A script like
could be adapted into a movie in 1978, which was obviously not suitable for the social trend of the time. In 1977, the college entrance examination system was restored, and a wave of advocating knowledge has already begun in society, and "Comrade, Thank You" is still preaching the cliché that being a cleaner is more valuable than going to college, which is clearly out of the social context of the time.
Therefore, it is inevitable that "Comrade, Thank You" will encounter audience backlash.
just published Liu Xiaoqing’s huge stills in "Comrades, Thank You" on the cover of "People's Film" in the 5th issue of 1978, and immediately after the 8th issue of the same magazine, the reader’s letter "" Comrades, thank you for the problem", which pointed to the improper relationship between being a cleaner and going to college in the movie, and the heroine has no complaints about the "recommended" enrollment method promoted by the Gang of Four. Consciously did so, the entire movie did not ideologically eliminate the poison and influence of the "Gang of Four", with obvious traces of "three prominent".
readers' criticism is not unfair. In the film, Liu Xiaoqing is also an image of an iron girl with a red root. When she speaks, she must wave her hands in a decisive manner. The performance also has very obvious drama procedures. When she sees negative characters, the whole becomes an angry revolution. When the petty bourgeoisie meets the middle character, he makes a heartfelt and heartfelt head. Once he shows his lofty ideals, the whole character is shining with bright sunshine. Liu Xiaoqing’s iconic smile provides the role’s sunny mind. The most external persuasive proof.
In fact, Liu Xiaoqing at that time tried her best to start her climbing process of emigrating to Beijing. After the filming of this film, she soon married her first husband who worked in Beijing, in her own words. , I just hope to stay in Beijing.
It can be said that there is a concept of complete contrast between actors and characters. Liu Xiaoqing has been working hard to change her own destiny, using all means to achieve the change of her own destiny and status, and she is in "Comrade, thank you In ", the interpretation is a person who is completely opposite to his own inner motivation, who is selfless and willing to stay at the bottom. This may reveal the false content of "Comrade, Thank You" in another sense.
Therefore, it is not surprising that "Comrade, Thank You" has been criticized. Including Xia Yan's name in a speech at that time, "Comrade, thank you" has serious problems.
However, if we look at "Comrades, Thank You" from the perspective of a cultural specimen, we will find that in fact, this movie, including the dramas adapted from the previous drama, has faithful to the hidden social thoughts and social sentient beings at that time. And the various social realities reflected in the film can let us touch the value demands of that era. We can roughly see: First, going to university has received a strong response from society. The widows of the capitalists in the film have never allowed their daughters to enter society, but once they see that there are also college places in the cleaner group, they immediately let their daughters out. The second is that the recommendation to go to college is the sequelae of going through the back door. The characters in the play said: "Going to university is not just a word from a big cadre", "Do not go on the big road, do not go through the front door and go through the back door" all reflect that there are many hidden dangers in the road to college determined by recommendation. The third is that artificial job distribution brings a lot of extra trouble. As you can see in the movie,It took a lot of effort to work as a cleaning worker, including using various methods such as remembering bitterness, thinking about sweetness, ideological advocacy, and eloquence. On the contrary, it consumes more social forces. In the future, the market will decide these occupations. After choosing, everything will be solved.
"Comrade, Thank You" can be said to still have cognitive value. Although there are false elements in the film, it still cherishes the potential thinking code of the society at that time, which allows us to interpret the value orientation and trend of thought at that time . This just reflects the special laws of a society’s holographic code contained in the artwork. Therefore, Liu Xiaoqing’s passionate performance in her first film featuring the protagonist is not a meaningless cutscene of a waste of expression, but a kind of The reflection and reflection of the force field of the times on her face.
