Jimu News chief reporter Zhang Cong
Photojournalist Xiao Hao
Correspondent Wei Xia Chen Lijuan
"The rooster crows at the fifth watch of the day, the clouds are faint and the moon is crescent, the horse is faintly moving outside the village, and the husband is separated by several mountains..." Huangmei Opera classic character "Chen Saijin" The tenderness will soon be reappeared in front of the audience on the big screen.
"The Story of Luopa" tells the story of Wang Keju who went to Beijing to take the exam, and his wife Chen Saijin went to see her husband. Jiang Xiong, the scheming butler, stole Saijin's family heirloom Luopa and showed it off to others, which caused Wang Keju to suspect his wife. Unfaithful, he divorced his wife in anger and drove the pregnant Sai Jin out of the house. Chen Saijin was living abroad, but fortunately he was taken in by a warm-hearted shopkeeper. Eighteen years later, Saijin's son Wang Jinlong won the top prize in high school and served as the inspector of the Eight Prefectures. In court, in order to find out the unjust case of Ropa eighteen years ago, the son tried his father, the wife sued her husband, and the truth tortured people's hearts.
Although they are both among the "Three Wonders of Huangmei Opera", "The Legend of Luo Pa", which is called the "bone opera" of Huangmei Opera due to its extremely high difficulty, is only inferior to "The Fairy's Match" and "The Female Consort" which have been made into film and television works for a long time. It remains at the stage art display level, so its dissemination is limited. In 2017, the Hubei Provincial Opera Art Theater rearranged "The Story of Lopa" and made it a "Plum Blossom Award" winning play. In the past 7 years, the performance video of "The Story of Lopa" has been performed on national platforms many times, and has been broadcast on the CCTV Opera Channel more than 20 times. The audience's love made it become the digital film of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award of the Chinese Drama Association in 2023. One of two productions of the filming project.
Opera films have frequently produced high-quality films in recent years. In 2021, the Cantonese opera film "The Legend of White Snake·Love" jointly produced by Pearl River Film Group and Guangdong Cantonese Theater caused a sensation on the Internet. Many young people flocked to Douban to comment on the film. point. In an interview with a reporter from Jimu News on the morning of the 8th, he was the chief producer of the digital movie Huangmei Opera "The Legend of Lopa" and has worked on movies such as "The Founding of the Army", "Lan Xin Grand Theater", "The Best of Us", etc. Dong Peiwen, who serves as the producer and won the "Best Opera Film Award" at the 34th Golden Rooster Award for the Cantonese opera film "Nan Yue Gong Ci", mentioned that there may be some scenes in opera movies that are suitable for expression with special effects, but "The Story of Lopa" The story is precisely focused on the portrayal of characters and the exploration of emotions. "It may not have many dazzling scenes, but we will consider using the superposition of light and shadow to express the joy, anger and sorrow of the characters, and to reproduce Chen Saijin's hardship and tragedy."
She said that the charm of "The Story of Lopa" and Huangmei Opera lies in the rendition of the singing and the delicateness of the emotions, and that filming "The Story of Lopa" is a "sacred mission" for her. "I hope that through the movie record, leaving behind the most beautiful and moving look of this Huangmei opera."
(The picture is a still from the performance of "The Legend of Lopa")
(Source: Jimu News)
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