Jimu News Reporter Zhang Cong
The digital movie Huangmei Opera "The Legend of Luo Pa", jointly produced by the Chinese Dramatists Association, Hubei Provincial Performing Arts Group, Hubei Satellite TV and other units, was officially launched on July 8 at the Huairou Film and Television Base in Beijing.
The opening scene of "The Legend of Luopa"
"The Chronicles of Luopa" is a traditional classic drama of Huangmei Opera. It is also known as the "Three Wonders of Huangmei" together with "The Fairy Pairs" and "The Female Prince Consort". Because of its extremely high difficulty, it is called The "Gu Zi Opera" in Huangmei Opera. In 2017, the Hubei Provincial Opera Art Theater rearranged "The Story of Lopa" and made it a "Plum Blossom Award" winning play. Over the past seven 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, and is deeply loved by the audience. After expert evaluation and selection, "The Story of Ropa" was selected as one of the two works in the digital film shooting project of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award of the Chinese Drama Association in 2023.
It is reported that the film is produced by veteran filmmaker Dong Peiwen and directed by Ma Chongjie.
Dong Peiwen has been in the industry for more than 30 years, and her works have won numerous awards. The film " Founding the Army", for which she served as co-producer, won the National "Five One Project" Special Award, the 34th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award, etc.; she served as a producer Her Cantonese opera film "Nan Yue Gong Ci" won many awards such as the Best Opera Film Award at the 34th China Golden Rooster Awards and the Outstanding Opera Film at the 4th China Opera Film Exhibition. Her other two Cantonese opera films "Wang Rui and Zhuang" "Concubine" and "Wedding on the Execution Ground" were also nominated for the China Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Drama Film.
Ma Chongjie was born in a Liyuan family and graduated from the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy. He is now the director of the Art Creation Center of China Film Group. The Cantonese opera film "Nan Yue Gong Ci" directed by him won the Best Drama Film Award at the 34th China Film Golden Rooster Awards, and the other two Cantonese opera films "Prince Rui and Concubine Zhuang", "Wedding on the Execution Ground", Peking opera films "Meeting of Heroes: Borrowing the East Wind", "The Orphan of Zhao " and "Xie Yaohuan" have won the China Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Drama Film Nomination Award, China-U.S. International Film Festival Golden Angel Award for Best Opera Film, etc.
Cheng Cheng and producer Dong Peiwen together
At the opening ceremony, Dong Peiwen mentioned that the charm of "Luopa Ji" and Huangmei Opera lies in its singing and emotional delicacy, "Filming "Luopa Ji" is more important to me It is a glorious and sacred mission. I hope to leave the most beautiful and moving appearance of this Huangmei opera through the film record." Ma Chongjie said that opera movies must maintain the "original flavor" of opera, so this time. He will work with the team to use the wisdom of film re-creation to make the film "originate from the stage, be higher than the stage, and be sublimated on the screen."
Chen Yongquan, Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association, Ma Xiaoli, Director of the Social Activities Department of the Chinese Dramatists Association, Wen Xianhua, Deputy Director of the Propaganda Film Department of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, Zhou Gengen, Deputy General Manager of the Hubei Provincial Performing Arts Group, Li Shaohua, deputy general manager of Anhui Film Group, and Hu Guanfeng, secretary of the Party Committee of Hubei Opera Art Theater, attended the opening ceremony.
Chen Yongquan mentioned that opera movies are an important way to spread and promote the art of traditional Chinese opera. On the one hand, they should not be too realistic and lose the unique charm of opera itself; at the same time, the film's means of expression should not be ignored, and the understanding of opera must be realized on the big screen. The breakthrough and sublimation of art.
Zhou Genyuan said that "The Legend of Luo Pa", "The Fairy's Match" and "The Consort" are also known as the "Three Wonders of Huangmei Opera". The stage version and the movie version of "The Fairy's Match" and "The Consort" have firmly established Anhui's reputation as a "strong Huangmei Opera". "Province" status, and the filming of this movie version of "The Story of Lopa" is of great significance to Hubei, the birthplace of Huangmei Opera. He even used the poem by Zhang Ji, a poet from the Tang Dynasty, to describe the filming of this film, "Countless bells are heard far away from Qi, and Bai Lian should be carried to Anxi", and he wished everyone to produce a film that is "profound in thought, exquisite in art, and well-made." "Three Essences" works.
(The picture shows the launch scene of "Lopa")
(Source: Jimu News)
