Text / Sun Haifan
Due to the cultural differences and the separation between China and the United States, both sides have prejudice. Take movies as an example. For a long time, especially in the early Hollywood movies, the images of Chinese people were relatively negative. The typical image was the sneaky and wretched Fu Manchu in the "Fu Manchu" series of movies. And in the more than 70 series "Charlie Chen", the short, smart, slanted-eyed Charlie Chen is submissive to white people. Later, in films such as "The World of Susie Huang" and " Luk Fook Inn ", although the protagonist's image is much more positive, most of the Chinese characters are played by Americans, such as Wang Lung in "The Earth" based on 's novel by Pearl Buck and , who won the Best Actress at the 10th Academy Awards, was originally an authentic Chinese, but a man who didn't look Chinese at all. The actor Paul · Mooney played, although his acting skills were praised, but it made the Chinese audience "very uncomfortable".
The Chinese peasant Wang Long played by Paul Mooney in "The Earth"
In 1951, in order to cooperate with the ongoing campaign to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, Shanghai Wenhua Films decided to make a film that "satirees the American emperor", with other direct performances The People's Liberation Army and the Volunteer Army are different from the movies in which the US imperialists and their "lacking dogs Chiang Kai-shek reactionaries" fought on the battlefield. The location of the film's story is in the United States, and the characters in the movie are all Americans, and the most The "point of view" is that the Americans in the film are all played by popular actors from Wenhua Company. This film is the only Chinese film "America's Window" in New China that "all Chinese play Americans". , and in a sense, Chinese filmmakers have also used the method of "returning their own way" to avenge the "one-shot revenge" of Hollywood movies for "defaming the Chinese".
The movie poster
"Window of America" is based on the novel of the same name by the Soviet writer Di Haolichna. It was previously put on the stage by Huang Zuolin . According to Ye Ming, one of the directors of the film, Wenhua Company happened to have two The studio was vacant, and they had the political task of cooperating with 's propaganda to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea and , so they made this one-act political satire into a movie. The film is directed by Huang Zuolin, Shi Hui , Ye Ming, and the eight Americans in the play are played by Fei, Shi Hui, Chen Chen, Lin Zhen , Hongxia , etc.
The story of this film is: During the Korean War, many American workers, including the film's hero Kanter (played by Yu Fei), were unemployed and had no hope of living.
One day, when Kanter finished cleaning the glass of a building and was about to jump from the window on the 42nd floor, the capitalist Batra (played by Shi Hui) found a huge business opportunity in him. , jumping off a building can also be an opportunity to get rich.
Bartra signed a contract with a group of companies, called a group of media, asked Kanter to help say goodbye on the radio, advertised a group of companies by the way, and then jumped off, so that Kanter could get no With little money left for his family, Bartra could actually make a fortune three times what Kanter earned from it.
Kanter was skeptical at first, and kept agreeing to Batra's conditions. It was not until a few American labor union workers who installed the equipment inspired him that Kanter saw through the sinister intentions of capitalists such as Batra step by step, and finally used wisdom and courage. thwarted their blood-sucking plan.
The labor of the union tells Canter that the problem can only be solved by returning to the peopleAt the end of the film, the union laborer and Kanter stand on top of the skyscraper, looking at the Soviet Union in the east, and say hopefully: "In the distance, we can see the dawn of another country, that is our The last hope of the American people."
After 70 years, revisiting "Window of America", a film based on the creation views and values of a socialist country, and expressed through the mouths of Americans played by Chinese, you can watch At that time, the filmmakers cooperated with the "innovative ideas" and good intentions in propaganda, and put aside the stigma of ideology , only from the technical level of the film, this is indeed a rare piece of Wenhua Pictures. excellent work.
First of all, it is surprising that Chinese film makeup technology 70 years ago is so good. In the film, makeup expert Chen Shaozhou used rubber products to make false noses and foreheads for actors, not to mention It is Yu Fei who is a bit like a foreigner in the first place, and even Shi Hui's pure Chinese face is made up without flaws, it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false, and it looks no different from the Americans. Secondly, from the lines of the script to the actors' shape and tone, Yu Fei, Shi Hui and other imitators of Hollywood actors are very "Americanized", which is obviously more "American" than the later " translation factory " which simply expresses the language of foreign films. "Foreign taste" is much more complicated, so, no matter how you say it, "Window on America" can be counted as a unique film among the new Chinese films.
Yu Fei (1922-1998)
made his debut on the screen in this film, and later became known in the film circle as "the director of enemy intelligence", while Yu Fei, a "professional" who played a foreigner, played the protagonist Kanter in the film. Yu Fei was born in 1922, formerly known as Yu Qichang, he is an authentic Chinese, but he looks more "foreign", so he played foreigners in Chinese movies for a long time. Foreigners are generally villains, so Yu Fei is also a "professional foreign villain performance", he has played priest , bishop, American soldier, Soviet spy, American consultant, etc. Yu Fei died in 1998 at the age of 76.
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