Wu Yigong was 40 years old when he actually directed the tube.
Therefore, he is not a prolific director, leaving no more than ten works.
However, it is these few works that not only tell us what kind of movies can become classics, but also leave behind the most moving screen moments in the history of Chinese film performance.
"Night Rain in Bashan Mountain"
Release time: 1980
Main actors: Li Zhiyu, Zhang Yu, Lin Bin, Mao Weihui, Ouyang Ruqiu
In the late 1970s, on a river vessel sailing from Chongqing to Wuhan, several people with different thoughts were together. Room: The poet Qiushi (Li Zhixing), who has been imprisoned for six years on unsuspecting charges, is secretly escorted by special personnel Liu Wenying (Zhang Yu) and Li Yan (Qiang Ming). The road ahead is more violent; the only child of the old lady (Ouyang Ruqiu) is here She was killed in the fighting. She boarded the ship to pay tribute to her son’s undead; the rural girl Xinghua was forced to "sell her to pay off her debts", tearfully thinking about her sweetheart; there was also a little girl who slipped on the boat to find her father...Story That's it. The general director of
was 75-year-old Wu Yonggang, and Wu Yigong was the executive director. The film won the Best Feature Film at the First Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards. Except for Li Zhiyu and Zhang Yu who were nominated for the best male and female leading actors, all other actors received supporting role awards (collective).
Zhang Yu had just finished filming "Ah! "The Cradle", Wu Yonggang is precisely because of the childishness in her, and he thinks it fits the temperament of Liu Wenying, who is not conscientious in "Night Rain in Bashan".
Mao Weihui (granddaughter of bridge master Mao Yisheng), who was only six at the time, starred in the film as Xiao Juanzi, a little girl looking for a father. At her young age, she accurately captured Xiao Juanzi's precocious but innocent temperament. In the film, the song "I am a dandelion seed" sung by her was spread all over the country with the film's screening.
I am a dandelion seed
No one knows my happiness and sadness
Father, my mother gave me a small umbrella
let me drift in the vast world, wandering
The small umbrella takes me to fly, fly, The flying
small umbrella took me to fly, flying, flying
and later Mao Weihui, became an accomplished pianist.
"Old Things in the South"
Main actors: Shen Jie, Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Min, Zheng Zhenyao, Yan Xiang, Yuan Jiayi The
film won the 3rd Golden Rooster Award for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Zheng Zhenyao). In fact, many of the characters in the film are wonderful.
"At one time, I didn't know if I still had a chance to make a movie, could only read constantly." Wu Yigong once said. However, God will not disappoint those who are prepared. In 1982, the then 42-year-old Wu Yigong ushered in the first opportunity to direct independently. This is "Old Things in the South" which was later included in the classic case of Chinese film history.
Shen Jie, who played Xiaoyingzi, was ten years old. At that time, she and her classmates went to another film in the Shanghai Film Studio to try a group show, but Wu Yigong was caught in a glance. The joys and sorrows of the adult world are reflected in her large eyes full of aura, and the parting time after time has slowly wiped away her purest smile in the world. Shen Jie not only became the English son of Wu Yigong and the audience, but also received the recognition of the original author Lin Haiying.
However, although she became a well-known child star in China because of "Old Things in the South", Shen Jie did not embark on the path of acting. Instead, she went to Japan to study law after graduating from high school and returned to China to start a cultural communication company after finishing her studies. An interesting episode is that, according to a report titled "Shen Jie: From "Xiaoyingzi" to Today's Big Boss" from "Old Things in the South", when she was studying in Japan, she once passed a classroom in the university she attended. Suddenly I heard my own voice in "Old Things in the South of the City" and the singing of "outside the long pavilion, by the old road". Later, she learned that there was a Chinese class there, and "Old Things in the South" was the content of the textbook.
"Old Things in the South" is a story about parting. Xiaoyingzi's world is very small, people walk into her world one by one, and leave one by one. Such as "crazy woman" Xiuzhen. Xiuzhen is a hard-working woman who has lost her child, and her inner pain can only be told to Xiaoyingzi.
The smart and kind little Yingzi helped her find her daughter. ShowZhen wanted to take her daughter to find her father, but both died on the rails.
played the role of Xiuzhen Zhang Min, who had just been assigned to the Shanghai Film Actors Troupe. Zhang Min had already cooperated with Wu Yigong before, and she played the role of Xinghua, the rural girl who was going to be cast into the river in "Bashan Night Rain". Among the Chinese actresses at the time, Zhang Min's appearance was not beautiful but very distinctive. Moreover, because she came from a family of performing arts, she has been intrigued since childhood, making her performances full of aura. Regrettably, her acting path lasted only ten years, and it was suspended as she went abroad to study.
In addition to Xiuzhen, played by Zhang Min, Xiaoyingzi also has a friend, a thief, a thief without a name. The thief is Zhang Fengyi, who has just graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and was assigned to the Emei Film Studio and has become a hit with "Camel Xiangzi".
He is a thief for his brother to study. Although there are not many scenes, Zhang Fengyi fully interprets the helplessness of the characters.
"Young Master's Tribulation"
Main actors: Chen Peisi, Zhao Jialing, and Li Wei
"Young Master's Tribulation" is adapted from Jules Verne's novel "The Tribulation of a Chinese Gentleman", which is a special one on the list of Wu Yigong's works The movie, or rather, is a not so Wu Yigong movie. In fact, Wu Yigong’s thoughts can be seen from the film’s director setting: he himself serves as the chief director, and Zhang Jianya serves as the director. Zhang Jianya is one of the directors of the same generation who was born earlier and has always implemented the consciousness of commercial films. At that time, Wu Yigong had already served as the director of the Shanghai Film Studio, and he keenly felt the influence of the market economy on the Chinese film industry. The so-called so-called melons, melons and beans, after the release of "Young Master's Tribulation", it really brought a lot of income to the Shanghai Film Studio, which was on the verge of loss at the time.
played the young master Chen Peisi. At that time, he had already accumulated rich experience in comedy films through films such as "Look at This Family", "Xizhao Street", and "Two Sons Open a Shop". At the same time, he became a well-known comedy nationwide because of the Spring Festival Gala. But filming "The Tribulation of the Young Master" still taught him a lesson.
has a self-report in a report titled "Chen Peisi as a Teacher Opens a "Front Shop and Back Factory" Business Model" in the "Beijing Youth Daily":
In 1986, when I filmed "The Tribulation of the Young Master", he was in a rural village in Henan. I ran barefoot on the road, the dirt on the ground made me grin, but the tens of thousands of people who watched the lively scene were amused by my image of embarrassment. At that time, I felt very uncomfortable, but it was from this detail that I understood. Laughter is to use my low profile to trigger your superiority.
"People in Queli"
Main actors: Zhu Xu, Zhao Erkang, Zhang Wenrong, Wei Zongwan
Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, the Spring Festival is approaching, and the family of Kong Dexian, who is a family of five generations on Queli Street, is extremely lively. Make the 90th birthday. However, a conflict is also brewing... The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor at the 1993 Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards.
This is Wu Yigong's return to work. The so-called "return" refers to returning to the style of "Old Things in the South" after "Young Master's Tribulation". The critics spoke highly of the film. The famous film critic Mei Duo once wrote an article commenting that the film "faces real life and has an artist's unique historical entry point". But Wu Yigong himself has regrets about this film, because it did not bring financial returns to Shanghai Film Studio.
From Wu Yigong's regret, we can feel the contradiction and struggle between an artist and the head of a company in the pursuit of art and corporate responsibility.
This movie is still a classic when viewed today. Many performing artists contributed their wonderful performances in the film.
was 62 years old when he played the role of grandfather Kong Lingtan Zhu Xu-
, an outstanding actor of Beijing People's Arts, has been active on the stage before, and just won the second Chinese drama Golden Lion Award in the previous year. Lion Award. He once said: “people” who can act, and “dramas” who can’t act. And he himself is undoubtedly the one who can act best. Although he was “electrically shocked” for the first time at the age of 54 and he has always played the roles of father and grandfather, he has managed to make every role unique. On September 15 last year, 88-year-old Zhu Xu died of illness.
is Zhao Erkang who plays the role of his father Kong Dexian. Many people may be unfamiliar with this name. He has a very famous masterpiece, which is related toSiqin Gaowa's "Homecoming Like an Arrow"——
, like "Little Flower", is a rare show of the tenderness of the war period, and a very classic movie episode "Goose Nanfei" was born— -
Goose flies south, Goose flies south,
geese cry heartbreaking,
does not wait for today,
is looking forward to spring,
is looking forward to spring.
is going today,
is willing to return for spring,
is looking forward to returning,
don't break your heart,
don't break your heart,
and wait for spring to return.
Now, Wu Yi is heading west. We can only recall over and over again the prose poems he wrote on the screen and the most sincere performance moments that were fixed by his lens.
Life is rare to be together, only parting.
