China's first horror film with sound: it has been remade 3 times, and the soundtrack lineup surprises you?
Which countries come to mind when you think of horror movies? I believe that for most of my friends, Hollywood and Japanese horror movies are the countries that have left the most psychological shadows on everyone. However, what you may not know is that our movies started very early, and horror movies appeared a long time ago, and today we are going to review the history and talk about our own first horror movie with sound.
"Singing in the Midnight"
The film "Singing in the Midnight" released on February 20, 1937 is known as the first sound horror film we shot by ourselves. "The Phantom of the Opera", but Ma Xuweibang subtly increased our cultural background and social environment at that time, and finally presented a work that is no less than "The Phantom of the Opera", and even the pattern is much larger than "The Phantom of the Opera" , The story mainly tells that when a troupe is going to perform in a legendary "haunted" and dilapidated theater, the protagonist "Sun Xiaoou" always hears the voice of someone singing in the middle of the night.
Sun Xiaoou was very nervous at first, but gradually he realized that the song was actually instructing him how to sing. Under this opportunity, Sun Xiaoou met the disfigured "Song Danping" who was hiding here. , Song Danping also told his past. It turned out that ten years ago, he was not only an actor, but also a revolutionary in the old democratic period. He strongly opposed their being together, and even teamed up with the bully "Tang Jun" who had long coveted Li Xiaoxia's beauty to deal with Song Danping. In the end, Song Danping was disfigured and changed beyond recognition. He could only hide in the theater to save his life, while his lover Li Xiaoxia But from then on, he became mentally ill and was abandoned by his father and left to fend for himself.
That's it, Song Danping sings here every night, silently guarding Li Xiaoxia. Sun Xiaoou was greatly moved after hearing his story and hoped to help them. In order to help Sun Xiaoou's troupe through the crisis, Song Danping also used the new script he revised to help them perform. The final performance was a great success, but he never thought Tang Jun, the bully who killed them more than ten years ago, is also below. His nature does not change. He wants to occupy Sun Xiaoou's sweetheart. In the final fight, Sun Xiaoou's lover was killed by Tang Jun, but he was frightened after seeing Song Danping. He fell from the roof in a trance and died, and at this moment, the sound of gunfire attracted the crowd. After everyone saw Song Danping's hideous face, they burned him alive as a ghost. In the end, Song Danping had no choice but to throw herself into the river.
Ma Xuweibang's contribution to Hong Kong movies
It can be said that this plot is full of helplessness and accusations against the old society, and it was a great success at that time, which also resonated with everyone, and director Ma Xuweibang also ushered in his own career By the way, the reason why his name is so strange is because he is in love with Ma Suzhen, the young lady of the merchant family. The Ma family has no children and asked Xu Weibang to "enroll", so he added "Xu" in front of the surname. "Ma", changed his name to Ma Xu Weibang. In fact, his real name should be "Xu Weibang". Unfortunately, after moving to Hong Kong, due to changes in the environment, he was unable to exert his ability and could only shoot some shoddy films, which caused his career to plummet. , was reduced to living by receiving relief funds, and finally on February 14, 1961, Ma Xuweibang died in a car accident on the way to receiving relief funds, at the age of 60.
Ma Xuweibang has also injected fresh blood into the future of Hong Kong movies. For example, he has two apprentices, one named " Luo Zhen ", and " Li Hanxiang , Tao Qin , Yue Feng " Known as "The Four Aces of Shaw Brothers Movies", after that, Luo Zhen's apprentice Wu Siyuan became even more famous, with many famous Hong Kong stars we later knew, such as Jackie Chan , Leung Ka Fai , Maggie Cheung and so on , have cooperated with each other, and another "Yuan Qiufeng" has also become the director of Shaw , also heIn 1961, in order to commemorate his teacher, he remade the master's masterpiece "Singing at Midnight", which was also the first remake of "Singing at Midnight". In the following time, Shanghai Film Studio also remade it in 1985. But the most familiar to everyone should be "Singing at Midnight" starring Leslie Cheung and in 1995 because of Ren Tai's director.
The soundtrack of "Singing in the Midnight"
Finally, we have to talk about the soundtrack of the first horror movie with sound in the history of our country. Since this movie involves opera, music is naturally a very important part, so please ask Here comes " Tian Han ", writing lyrics for the movie, his name should be familiar to everyone, even if you don't know it, you don't care, we sing his works since we were young, because he wrote the lyrics of the song "The Great Wall" The first paragraph Later it became the lyrics of "March of the Volunteers", which is our national anthem, and he himself is one of the three founders of our modern drama.
Another master of film composition is "Xian Xinghai" who created the "Yellow River Cantata", "Production Cantata" and other immortal masterpieces. Is it unexpected? Okay! That's all for today's content. If you like it, I hope you can click three links and click a free like. Your support is my biggest motivation.
